Meghan McCarron

Reading news and found a new favorite example of false nostalgia

This books are incredible. I wish I could read them again for the first time

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

“At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome”

apnews.com/article/suic...

The chef René Redzepi in an apron and white shirt. A headline reads: "Dozens of Former Noma Employees Allege Abuse." Photo by Erik Refner for The New York Times

Under the chef René Redzepi in Copenhagen, Noma became one of the world’s most famous restaurants. Former workers told The New York Times that its reputation was built on abusive working conditions that he inflicted on his staff, including violent punishments and psychological abuse. trib.al/rz2E9Nj

Love to be idly scrolling though some mcm porn and then come across the Tunnels Beneath

Ooo nice

RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

Have you seen the movie La Cocina? Seems to be engaged with some similar themes

I'd say this sounds also like a useful corrective to the TV series set in more high end restaurants, which grapple with some of the brutality of restaurant work but also feature a lot of glossy food porn. Putting a hold on this (via @attackerman.bsky.social)

the hot dog will be a dollar fifty until the heat death of the universe

A picture of a stopwatch that shows 8 minutes and 7 seconds

One fun thing to do at AWP is to start a timer at the beginning of the Q&A section and stop it the first time someone has “more of a comment than a question”

(using the end slices of a loaf of bread) i'm so brave

Uh-oh! Worst person you know learned therapy words

I have never played Dwarf Fortress and I probably will never play Dwarf Fortress but I love every single thing I've ever read about Dwarf Fortress

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.

Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/

Arizona numbers show massive decline in SNAP enrollment SNAP enrollment has fallen dramatically in Arizona in just three months, according to the latest state numbers.

“‘The caseload decline is driven in large part by the requirements in H.R.1, passed in July 2025, that changed SNAP eligibility and imposed new quality review requirements on states,’ Brett Bezio, a DES spokesperson, told ABC15 in a statement.”

If you freeze buildings from changing, rich people just take up more space.

An extreme version of what is happening across wealthy cities

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I interviewed Roblox's head of parental advocacy for Vulture about safety on the platform 👀

Chris!!! The hits keep coming!

Cucumber Melon

Post from twitter on our @clarkesworld account from 11:48AM on Feb 20, 2023. "Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why."

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.