Elena Saavedra Buckley

The Musician Bringing the Bagpipes Into the Avant-Garde Brìghde Chaimbeul frees her instrument from the confines of kitsch.

I've been totally captivated by a bagpiper named Brìghde Chaimbeul for years, and I got to profile her in
@newyorker.com. "The drone is the first sound," La Monte Young wrote... so true!!! www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

Their Mass Rape Went Unpunished. Four Decades Later, They Fought Back. Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.

Grateful that I got to work on this piece by Victor J. Blue and Annie Correal for the magazine: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How 36 Mayan Women in Guatemala Came Together to Prosecute Their Attackers Systematically assaulted during Guatemala’s civil war, 36 Mayan women made a final bid for justice.

How 36 women got justice decades later in Guatemala
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Does the US have Dutch disease? The exorbitant burden of exporting dollars makes it hard for America to govern at home

"if we pay attention not to what Americans say, but to what they do, then the US is a country that discovered debt as a natural resource around 2000, and has been exporting it ever since." www.ft.com/content/95a7... so good @bhgreeley.bsky.social

Didn’t get a ticket to our sold-out twitter panel? You can still hear from @elenamsb.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Delia Cai, and Sam Adler-Bell by tuning in to the livestream at the link below:

nyu.zoom.us/j/98727685171

Twitter has been declared dead many times over — and yet it’s stuck around. On April 16, join The Drift, @edwardongwesojr.com, Willy Staley, Sam Adler-Bell, and Delia Cai in considering the site’s lasting impact. Moderated by @elenamsb.bsky.social. RSVP below!

events.nyu.edu/event/359260...

@carlos-barragan.bsky.social hi carlos! hoping to reach you via email—happy to DM here or you can email me at elena@harpers.org. thank you!

Cover of the january 2025 issue of Harper's magazine. A black background with the words GHOST MUSIC written largely in green, tangled with wired headphones. underneath in small text it says "INSIDE SPOTIFY'S FAKE-ARTIST SCHEME"

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...

A Pottery Barn Teen ad for a Simple Cozy Sherpa Blush Lapdesk that shows a small notebook atop an issue of The Drift magazine.

my wife has informed me that @thedrift-mag.bsky.social has made it into the potter barn teen display

Does Bluesky like food pics?? Here’s my pumpkin mousse in particularly Shaker-esque lighting

After you invest in Dan's bar invest in mine: a normal bar but with a bunch of flight simulators stalls, and you get drunk while flight simulating. It's called: Flight Simulator

Once Bluesky plugs in all its new servers I'm going to rip a portal in the feed's continuum and teleport to the "hill" Jay Leno "fell down" near the Hampton Inn 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh—to see what really happened.

need to wait for Bluesky to receive ~2,000 more servers in the mail first

Feel like she was writing the Bruno Lacombe cave scenes from CREATION LAKE while she wrote that

(Professional bsky post) Erik will discuss his Harper's piece at this tn <3 harpers.org/archive/2024...

Feeding my Bsky algorithm: does anyone want to watch "LOGISTICS" (2012), the 857-hours-long documentary about a pedometer manufactured in Shenzhen and being shipped to Stockholm (in reverse) with me?

The Cormac McCarthy VF piece taught me that there is always at least one more guy that looks like Jack Schlossberg than you realized

typing more nouns so the butterfly understands me

this is from zork...

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.