Nick S

If you enjoyed YOU CAN SEE EVEREYTHING then I recommend The Fable of the Bees to fans of brilliant terrible frauds.

This is actually a thing that is quite hard to communicate in 2026 in English-language domains (though true in other-language domains): your father was absent but working somewhere shitty that was either enough to pay the bills or enough to get you fancy stuff that will get you into trouble.

I realize that "if you make the best choice available given the circumstances you were living under" actually means empowering the people who chose grifts and fraud over the past decade so I'll revise to "if you make the best moral choice available"

Once again: how the NYT finds these people is its most closely-held internal secret and not even Margaret Sullivan could pierce the veil.

1824: Recievd a letter from Allan Cunningham - looked into Pope I know not how it is but I cannot take him up often or read him long together the uninterrupted flow of the verses wearys the ear there are some fine passages in the 'Essay on Man' the Pastorals are nicknamed so for daffodils...

To elaborate a little more: around 2000 I went into the Smythson shop on New Bond Street to order some letter-writing paper and envelopes and was initially treated like a vagrant until I hit all the class-based button sequences in order. American mostbrow retail is mostly not like that.

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Probably the guy who's going to come out of this one looking like a hero is André Janones, a deputy (congressman) from Minas Gerais who just kind of... decided to take the reins of the situation, more or less, and people were feeling so aimless after the first round that they went along with it.

I have been in a WhatsApp group with 50 Brazilians and that was a lot. (As best I can tell Brazilians seem to prefer WA over Discord because Discord is associated there with CSAM.)

there's a whole essay in my book about the cheesecake factory everyone needs to read it before attempting to discourse further. you ride the bike with training wheels first! bookshop.org/p/books/tack...

This is 110% correct and accounts for why the Cheesecake Factory's Charlotte location is the same upscale mall (SouthPark) as the Apple store, Neiman Marcus, Balenciaga etc.

founder ideology is built out from the notion that business owners are the only people who are actually alive and you should be allowed to do or say anything to non-founders without consequences. elizabeth holmes and her husband are, first and foremost, Founders

I have been to the Cheesecake Factory once and that was in Charlotte and I have been to an Old Spaghetti Factory once before in Louisville and we all know what these things are, nobody has to be a twat about it.

You Can See Everything is the definitive portrayal of whiteness: the bullshit, the alexithymia, the ever-present threat of litigation, guns, the reptiles, the codependency without intimacy, the horses, the dry lips.

An archive of Omni magazine (1978-1995), courtesy of the Internet Archive. “Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published in the US and the UK. It contained articles on science, parapsychology, and short works of science fiction and fantasy.” [archive.org]

During his years on that small island my dad met Billy Connolly when he was just a folk banjo player and Sandy Denny and also ate Chinese food for the first time, I am determined to talk to him tomorrow about whether it was the Mandarin where he said he got the duck starter and then the duck again.