Adam Sternbergh

me: my landlord forbids me from painting this apartment any shade but off-white

the president: yes I am paving over this garden and also building an addition that dwarfs the main structure

Experts Raise Concerns Over Trump’s White House Ballroom Renovation Plans

it is objectively bonkers that any president can apparently make any alteration or addition to the White House that they choose, a national monument in which they definitionally stay for a short time and which does not belong to them

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

Roses are red

Allstate puts you in good hands

finally an answer to the question "what if THE WIZARD OF OZ but 1500% more sky"

Me three months ago:

orange cat lying on floor with square lights reflected on his flank that resembles lit windows

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

a bar graph illustrates that recent job data in May and later was revised down to what visually appears to be about 15 percent of the previous numbers

not really a jobs data guy so it wasn't until I saw this NY Times graphic that I realized how dramatic the revisions of the recent jobs data are

Two Riveting Performances Make She Rides Shotgun Unforgettable Taron Egerton has never been this raw or dangerous — while newcomer Ana Sophia Heger steals the show — as he is in the brutal, exciting thriller ‘She Rides Shotgun,’ based on Jordan Harper’s 2017 novel.

Taron Egerton has never been this raw or dangerous — while newcomer Ana Sophia Heger steals the show — as he is in the brutal, exciting thriller ‘She Rides Shotgun,’ based on Jordan Harper’s 2017 novel.

yes exactly

this is the wait-whatiest fact I've ever encountered

i've read this 150 times and I still have not processed it

quick question how did it take this long to discover an insect that's 15 inches long

Deadwood, Succession, Severance

Foo Fighters also included a bassist to be named later

A photo of a baseball player for the New York Yankees, accompanied by his “it’s obviously frustrating but it’s not discouraging.

me, reading my second draft that’s still not working

you have a talent for this

my t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt etc

screenshot of a headline reading: Everyone Has Hemorrhoids Now: Countless aspects of modern life can cause a painful, bleeding anu

Roses are red

And some shades of grayness

who among us hasn't written a manifesto memoir with a title that could also double as the hed on a magazine profile piece eviscerating us

coming up with a phrase that could plausibly be both is actually kind of a fun parlor game

this is like if a middling civil rights lawyer wrote a memoir titled DEAD TO RIGHTS. Like, it sort of sounds okay... if you only say it once and don't think too hard about it

DEAD CENTER is a perfect example of an overly workshopped title. Like, it makes some sense if you parse it—the center is dead, or imperiled—but evoking that idea if you're also self-branding as a centrist is self-defeating.

also DEAD CENTER sounds like the title of a generic airport thriller

Meeting you with a view to a kill

what really stands out about these players is the reflex

I’ve never seen two egrets. Je ne regret rien

Fascinating 100% hallucination — claims, numbers, references, everything…. [Followed by a Grok post which purports to cite demographic figures from various sources, including one supposedly by Scheidel himself.]

Meanwhile over on the other site:

old rascally Gerrymander Smurf

did the Smurfs movie talk about voting rights

Looks like they were gut shot by Rick Deckard

when I ask for a tray to carry my coffees

me on the dancefloor, during the second last song at the wedding