the Christian-devens-Emily-aubry axis is truly something
I don't know how to get on SurvivorSky, or where my Survivorheads are at, but let me just say I am having the BEST time with season 50 and I am all-in on Christian, my pants-pooping king.
"All she could afford to be was grateful." a heartbreaking, personal look at what happens when you're uninsured, by @jenishawo.bsky.social
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
the new snail mail songs are that rare and precious genre of “makes me believe spring will actually come”
they are vitamin d, they are an ssri, they are fixing my brain chemistry
I really enjoyed Stephen Fishbach’s novel Escape!—as a Survivor fan, and as someone who thinks way too much about how the desire for narrative shapes our lives
www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
a tribute to everyone who hasn’t forgotten how to love their neighbors 💙
www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
two journalists arrested for practicing journalism—Don Lemon and independent journalist Georgia Fort
essential essential essential life-giving, hopeful piece of writing
the funny thing about everyone memorializing 2016 on social media is that at the time, people famously hated that year, to the point that everyone was constantly posting "Fuck you 2016" on social media and John Oliver burned the numerals in effigy on TV
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
We are not letting this go
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
by @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social
how your email has been finding much of the staff of the atlantic dot com this week
thank GOD @faith-hill.bsky.social wrote about heated rivalry www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Renee Nicole Good was killed by an ICE officer in Minneapolis—now her family has to cope not only with their loss “but with a campaign designed to justify her killing,” Adam Serwer argues:
I just verbally said "all the best, Julie" while leaving a voicemail for my pharmacy.... send help
first of all being a hater has gotten me so many friends. secondly, the newly common idea that venting means one friend bellyaching and the other being drained of their life force ignores the ideal, superior form of venting: mutual venting! sometimes we are mad together, nothing more energizing <3
when did people become so weird about friends venting to each other?
www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...
You alright man? I keep seeing small damage numbers coming off you
She’s taken physical form for edits
Caught Stealing is A Simple Favor for men
seeing a few fashion diapers on this list, I'm just saying... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/s...
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
waxahatchee
the mountain goats
bleachers
death cab for cutie
taylor swift
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
How do you cheat at a conversation? That is the question behind a new AI tool called Cluely, which promises to augment all kinds of communication. But when @julieebeck tried it out, she found that it just makes interactions worse:
sometimes I think about the day Apple announced the iPad, and everyone in my college dorm laughed and laughed, and said things like "what's next, iTampon?", certain this waystation between phone and computer with a silly name would never be a meaningful cultural force
anyway now we have iPad kids
tough to live to see such times, but at least we still have @sophiegilbert.bsky.social to say the plain simple truth so I feel slightly less insane
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
TLDR:
I tried out AI that augments conversation, whose founders want you to "cheat on everything." (If this takes off, one expert told me, "everyone who we meet could be a kind of deepfake")
I can confidently say: when it comes to connection, effort is all there is.
www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/...
ginkgo on ginkgo
