Joe Berkowitz

They may look innocent but these two pulled off an Oceans 11-style kitchen focaccia heist while we were out.

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?

Let’s be honest: nothing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have done in the last 56 years justifies the tremendous cost of bringing them back from the moon. NASA should’ve spared the long-suffering taxpayer and left them up there

Graffiti of a happy looking little dog face

More graffiti should just be like “dogs—ever heard of them?”

A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

It would also give *Ryan Lizza*—who could, in theory, have leaked this info at any point over the last 12-16 months—a role in both RFK’s appointment and the untold preventable deaths. But Lizza either isn’t self aware enough to realize that or is too busy selling Substack subscriptions to care

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

So glad to have that... ... ... ... ... behind me.

Since it's a big day for tmi I'll disclose that I had my first colonoscopy this week and here's what I texted my friend who asked how it went.

The way he pronounces it like “ore”

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

He’s surrounded by such wormy little losers at the White House that I think he was like wow a cool guy

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

Normalize admitting you don’t know what some shit means!

A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Tangentially related, I finally splurged on a vinyl for Dewdrops in the Garden and I'm so happy to have it.

I felt what you were going for and it happened just the way it was meant to.

Just wrote "This smacks of Woke" on slack and now mortified at the thought someone might not realize it's a joke. Probably a lesson there.

Could def make a case for many others but that's a strong four, each load-bearing in a different way.

firing 58% of the bridge troll workforce and upping the riddle quotient to four for all remaining bridge trolls to maximize return

I am so obsessed with what every other country packages as "American," which seems to be classified by a sense of ostentatiousness more than anything

Observing this is low-key one of my favorite parts about traveling.

I have highlighted the following sentence from the paragraph that I will paste below the sentence, from a Semafor newsletter today: "They decided to intensify their message, and Slotkin’s office released it to more than 12 million views on X, hoping to get the president’s attention and be ready with a response when he attacked." "Trump’s increasingly aggressive rhetoric is far overshadowing his affordability message. The president accused six congressional Democrats of “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH” for appearing in a dramatic video that urged military service members not to obey “illegal orders” from him. Those Democrats responded with a coordinated response, defending the video. “I am here because I’m an American, and [this country] gave me everything, and I’m not going to shut up because Donald Trump is threatened,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said at the NewDEAL conference in DC. Slotkin, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly, and four House members with military or intelligence backgrounds released a video together for last month’s No Kings rallies. They decided to intensify their message, and Slotkin’s office released it to more than 12 million views on X, hoping to get the president’s attention and be ready with a response when he attacked."

The dems who cut that video probably didn't expect Trump would *call for their execution* over it but if we're glad they provoked such a negative headline-grabbing reaction, we kinda have to acknowledge: some dems actually Did Something.

This is like someone asking you or me for twenty bucks and they’re going to act like it is Armageddon

First day of the season cold enough to put on Olive’s little jacket.

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games Amazon.com: Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games: 9781335012692: Drucker, Mike: Books

My book Good Game No Rematch is now more than half-off with Amazon’s Black Friday sale!

If you’re looking for the perfect gift for the video game fan in your life (and/or you have no idea what to get them) this silly book fits the bill quite nicely!

a lot of u owe the president an apology

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A friend of mine has early access to cutting edge corporate jargon, I heard the phrase "let's double-click on that" from him long before anywhere else. I asked him what's new these days and he says it's "the shark closest to your body" for the most urgent issue.