Mapwitch

My (Jewish) sister in law asked me whether I’d (patrilineal) marry a non-Jewish person and I laughed as if my entire family history in America isn’t them falling in love with interesting gentiles and being fine about secularizing themselves …

I want to cry every time I think of the famous animators who helped share the load for Miyazaki as he started to slow down

Fabelmans!

why would i EVER want to open a Word document directly in Teams.

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

god i hate those signs so much

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

All good movies include All Star by Smashmouth

Every rich person gambling on random shit in this is just polymarket in 2025

I can’t stop thinking of Twin Peaks: The Return

Watching Rat Race and holy shit this movie is insane?

Plate of sashimi, avocado and cucumber

Salmon handroll

You can simply have an hand roll night and I think that’s beautiful

Corn and Miso Pasta Salad Recipe The interplay between the crunch of the celery, the chew of the pasta and the pop of the corn kernels makes this (potentially vegan) pasta salad a textural pleasure to eat Pasta salads that you can ea...

I have to bring a pasta salad to a cookout on sunday and it's taking every inch of willpower to not make this for the fourth time this summer ... a perfect recipe cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

It's so fun, but has delayed my entry into the Master & Commander series for a few years because I can't think about sailing THAT much

Have you read the Temeraire series?

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

Late night Wikipedia sleuthing taught me that Andy Samberg and Tammy Baldwin are … third cousins???

We have so many examples of positive masculinity for young men to model, what the fuck are people even talking about anymore

I've started to double check about discourse around transplants against 'what 19th century political ideology does this represent' because my god are there a lot of 'Know Nothings but trendy' out there

the overwhelming desire to take a holiday crushing up against the reality of being in important meetings daily

*cough* anti-sunset dunes folks *cough*

Minnesota in the Civil War 🤝 Canada in WWI

As someone from WI, it gives me no pleasure to compliment MN but their proud Union history is based.

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common

new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

i like to say 'imagine chaotic good tyrion lannister doing sci-fi nonsense' but yeah, i usually just throw my copy of Cordelia's Honor and say 'imagine a meet-cute with the two most competent people and it happens to be sci-fi'

I'm finishing this series and holy shit is this series so good. The Memory/Komarr arc made me cry and cause an existential crisis. Bujold is so deeply underrated and my life has been made better by finding the Vorkosigan Saga

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

finishing up the Vorkosigan saga and needed a new series, this is a great list

Shosh 100% canvassed for Zohran because she thinks he's cute and Cuomo likely harassed one of her NYU friends

how else will he capture the crucial 'thinks they're a jessa, but really just a marnie' Park Slope vote?