Lauren Sarner

"It'll be fine," I said. "I only need to know enough about these people to make jokes," I said.

Meme: Straight ahead: Pausing to consider the meaning of Cohen's lyrics Everyone, for some reason, takes the exit towards Singing "Hallelujah" again in religious contexts

hey guys i made a seasonal meme

Christine Baranski on THE GILDED AGE. She’s sitting next to Cynthia Nixon and saying, “as you may know, things could not be worse with us.

Anyone: How are you?
Me, waking up every day in 2025:

Even in nyc, a dog will always find a comically large stick

I long for a world where I am not *constantly* reminded, entirely and utterly against my will, of the icky sex proclivities of random mediocrities with money.

This is pervasive over the last ten years, and I think it's genuinely really bad for all of us! It feels shitty to be angry & anxious and to also feel like other people aren't. But in reality most people are just taking turns with it, and it's unhelpful & unkind to interrupt someone's joy.

Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.

Writing a whole book about how you, ostensibly a human, fell in love with a sentient charbroiled baseball mitt, technically counts as romantasy.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

seeing how many people show up in jeffery epstein's emails makes me happy i never reply to anyone's email

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Michael Shannon has a couple "funniest things he's ever done" contenders. Impossible not to conjure this up when I think of him.

This means WAR

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

i am so ready for the eight-part docuseries about all of this

“in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light”

in my heart I know that Lin-Manuel Miranda wants to play Zohran Mamdani on SNL so bad it physically hurts him

Farewell sweet Prince

[Exit Clown.]

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

3 rows with each NYC mayoral candidate: (blue bar) Zohran Mamdani (yellow bar) Andrew M. Cuomo (red bar) Curtis Sliwa (wearing a red had)

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

regular reminder that when i say something is my *favorite* that is distinct from saying it is *the best*.

But Netflix are real dum dums for not letting a Frankenstein movie in OCTOBER have a nice wide release, our show was nearly a full house.

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread