Kristin | First Impressions Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins: Something so poignant about "remember me on this device"

DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device

People don't explore art because they've been taught to dominate it vis-a-vis their relationship to it. They buy it or own it or beat it via critique or click like. It's all impositional. It's all imperial. Just a billion little empires.

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

CHOTINER: And when was that?
MY CAT: I mean at least 14 hours ago
CHOTINER: Well hold on. You're telling me you haven't been fed at all today but if I look in your bowl here I see a-
MY CAT: An untouched serving, I know, but if you'd let me finish-
CHOTINER: Yeah, of course.

Half-baked but: I keep thinking about shame, and how in the past people in government might have had a sort of built in firewall against doing the most egregious shit we’re seeing. But now the info environments are so separate that they get *positive* reinforcement for just absurd action.

chotiner: u always order "...and fries for the table"

me: sometimes people's meals do not come with fries

chotiner: does your meal always come with fries

me: ...yes

chotiner: is there anyone else at the table

me:

chotiner: we can revisit this later

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

i've been studying the right-wing for over a decade

what is happening now in online right-wing spaces is fucking me up in ways that i'm currently unprepared for and don't know how to cope with

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

I think two (2) of the things people are really responding to when they watch @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social are 1. Sincerity and 2. Fearlessness and the Democratic party, as it currently stands, is afraid of sincerity.

Both of these traits are free and anyone can start right now. Post something true.

I just made a soup consisting only of green cabbage, potatoes, 1 tsp onion powder, and vegetable broth and it was the best goddamn soup I ever made

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation.

i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

you can't force me out of my epistemic bubble. i have rent control

As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall chuse to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.
#JaneAusten #PrideAndPrejudice
Jane Austen

*inventing Bluetooth* Well, it works about 60% of the time. That’ll probably be good enough forever.

Good piece here; still feel like this should be refrain from Dems every single day. Literally no one would be honestly for it if they could be convinced its happening.

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A red aminita mushroom with a white stalk on a forest floor

Here is a nice mushroom

I was just there a few days ago! #denali

Told you so.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Oh that’s so wonderful to hear. It’s been too long since I’ve read MP. I have to revisit… sometimes it’s infuriating (Maria and Edmund’s behavior) and sometimes it’s soothing to me and I can never predict which! But it’s always brilliant and I always feel so connected to Austen.

Wow, thank you so much for sharing and your kind words! 🥰 We’re honored to be your favorite podcast - I’m sorry for the long hiatus, but we’re hoping to get back onto a more regular schedule!! Thanks for listening :)

POV: you've just been thrown off a balcony by the beatles (Beatles are looking down and delighted that you are splat on the ground)

lots of stuff! but most notably,

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

this is the hot celeb couple everybody’s talking about, every man wants to be the bird and every woman wants to be the buffalo that’s got the pointy bird

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

tweet from Andrew Nadeau on January 23, 2019: [After leaving Willy Wonka’s factory] ME: WIFE: ME: WIFE: ME: WIFE: Lot of deaths for a to— ME: A LOT of deaths for a tour!

this but for Dodgers birthdays in the last few days

Hey ABBA? Fun song. It’s a real bop. Uh, a lot of people died at Waterloo. Just thought you should know. Anyway enjoy your blood money

This was fun, as always, and it tickles me to be called a friend of the pod! Available where you get podcasts (and I don’t go the full 1 hr and 45 minutes without mentioning Miss Scarlet at the end lol)

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.