Charlie Warzel

one of the coolest things that’s happened in the last few years is @annehelen.bsky.social starting a little
dahlia farm and watching it grow (and helping haul things). but the best part is the farmers market Saturdays and the bouquet hauls

tale as old as time!

this was great. helpful, fun, causing me to stare into the middle distance for a while — all the things

how dare u

if a random video of a zoomer being like 'bin laden was cool' or 'this jeans ad is hitler' reaches 222 million views in 5 days then we should all probably talk a lot about what's goin on with that. but we need a virality threshold here

not to harp on this more but: given that the 'let's take a few rando tiktok videos and suggest its indicative of a political movement' is an actual issue, i think news outlets should adopt the AI bunny trampoline gauge to determine TikTok virality. the video has 222 million views in 5 days.

not feeling great about this one!

...did...you read the piece?

hey be nice that’s the 49th president you’re talkin about

the part i don't fully believe yet but could be convinced of is that social media so favors this reactionary style of movement that there's really like almost no incentive to post anywhere. this is like half of my reason to leave twitter. deprive them of context they can collapse lol

twitchy became state tv!

anyhow it seems extremely telling that these folks lose their minds when somebody attempts to explain how all this discourse stuff only emboldens the most reactionary and shameless actors.

these ppl are furious—FURIOUS—that others can point out how the rage cycle is wildly out of proportion/benefits their cause. im not losing sleep over american eagle but the angry right wingers are *actually* frothing about an imagined audience being triggered by this ad. they appear VERY triggered!

i've gotten like 700 emails about my column since i wrote it. 20% are people being like 'who's sydney sweeney?' 10% are people being like 'why is everyone so mad?' and 70% are angry right-wingers asking me why im crying over boobs.

the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.

the next step is we get an apartment together

this rules! honored!

the great @davejorgenson.bsky.social did his thing w/ my column. rad!

lolol

sorry but cleveland almost won the world series this year so you are incorrect it was perfect retvrn

don't u dare

just got a PR email that opens with an *extremely* disturbing phrase

(also i really enjoy your work so thank you for that!!)

i actually know next to nothing about the arguments for or against. i do adore these courses and imagine even haters might find a lot to love if they showed up there. mostly i was just having fun with what i imagine is a more golf hostile audience

agreed. short courses for all!

that too. extremely fraught sport (that tbh takes more much time than it needs). at warzelcorp
we can only speak for the childless men raised with no hobbies and anxiety for whom this outside time has been a positive development

hell yeah brother

municipal golf or joe rogan YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE

well...yes...and no. its not talk as defined by well adjusted humans. but it's very important discourse nonetheless