A woman at Subway just asked the sandwich artist to give her "as many pickles as you can without getting fired" in her 6-inch tuna sub

Every time JFK comes up I think about how if Harold Holt was US President there would be 10,000 conspiracy theories about what happened to him each with its own book, documentary series, podcast, and vibrant online community. Instead we're like, yeh nah probably the rip ay

“The contrived goofiness distracts from the troubling reality that, as Musk grew more deranged, his power increased.” Read oscar schwartz on Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk: thedriftmag.com/a-bullshit-gen…

Wrote about open mic comedy for The Paris End

There is no epidemic of male loneliness but why do I spend my afternoons lurking in food courts waiting till someone stands up and then quickly sitting in their seat to feel a brief moment residual human warmth

The mark of a great writer is developing a style so distinctive and uniquely you that it can be accurately replicated by a large language model with career-ending accuracy

How do we know yoda is Jewish He looks Jewish

It should be obvious to anyone even the slightest bit creative that this is something that simply can't be taken from us

A close reading of the room

our planet doesn't get heavier with buildings because all the materials used to build them were already here.

(Wakes up in cold sweat) Julia Gillard misogyny speech studio Ghibli version

Remember there was that one kid at school who was a really good drawer and you could ask him to draw things like Pikachu with a huge ass and tits, now an AI can do that

Australian Election going well

Idiot

Pulitzer prize winning email

For The Paris End I wrote about regional newspapers, hippy revivalism, and the failed Greens campaign in the Northern Rivers. Good vibes only theparisend.substack.com/p/out-of-the-e…

Mums love going out to a restaurant and having "the salmon"

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TPE weighs in on mushroom discourse

I wrote about Airbnb's pivot into "Experiences" for The Paris End. They are trying to become the Amazon of Time