“Austin Spears, 29, a land surveyor, also found Mr. Phillips’s story to be dubious. But he also acknowledged that all human lives are studded with little mysteries.
‘I can say I’ve been drunk and ended up in a Waffle House,’ Mr. Spears said. ‘Don’t know how I got there. But I was there.’”
What are we doing @nytimes.com
No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...
Just thinking about the expression "petty tyrant" for no particular reason at all.
Bluesky Elder This user has been here since before the media tab (August 2023). This label is not a label of honor—no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Appeal This label is meant in jest and dates to early experiments in labeling. It is applied to the first 800,000 Bluesky accounts. Appeals honored.
I feel attacked/honored
skills >>> agents
There is nothing more relatable to a slightly introverted adult than a child being told they have to do a social thing and saying "NO! BORING!"
To whoever @ Apple made “announcement notifications” the default for every Apple device: who hurt you? Why are you like this?
“Gone are the top prosecutors who had overseen a sprawling, yearslong investigation into fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs, which the White House months ago cited as a reason for the immigration crackdown in the state.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
I've been saying this for a few years now, the extreme shift to video podcasts (and even Netflix embracing them) is kind of the final domino to fall. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Years of therapy hasn't fixed me yet, but maybe, just maybe, Fantastical might.
“We’re all working hard to try to make sure the internet is not just full of pranks and dance videos and AI.” — @geodesaurus.bsky.social
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Um yes hello, it’s the relentlessly Wisconsin content I crave! #spookylakes www.wpr.org/news/meet-wi...
“What do you do when someone who used to be your donor becomes a client?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/b...
Them: need help doing things?
Me: yes
Them: we have a doing things medication
Me: ooh
Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?
Me: oh no
Them: things.
“Let’s not let political polarization blind us to the end game: a reduction in the use of animals in research.” - Deb Blum
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Man with caption that says “we still have to produce the milk”
Me when everything is on fire but there’s still content to post
Anne and Steve have exciting things coming. Stay tuned (and keep TTBOOK in your podcast app, their new thing will drop there in 2026!)
wondercabinetproductions.com
And finally, Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson. I can't believe I got to work with such brilliant and decorated interviewers and producers. I didn't just learn how to produce better audio from them — I learned how to be a better listener, and a better human being. madison.com/life-enterta...
I always said working with Charles Monroe-Kane is like working with a live flame — raw, powerful, fast-moving, brilliant. A bright creative light to keep you on your toes.
More on his latest here: www.charlesmonroekane.com
Shannon Henry Kleiber was my partner in newsletter crime when I was on the show, and she made our partnership with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting a reality. americanarchive.org/special_coll...
She's got a new newsletter that you should definitely subscribe to: cadence.ghost.io
On top of being an exceptional producer, @angelobautista.bsky.social took on everything I handled in my former role on the show, and eventually handled a serious amount of engineering as well.
Highly adaptable, whip-smart, and hilarious.
More awesome work from him: authory.com/AngeloBautista
Signal boosting my @ttbook.bsky.social pals, who just released their final episode. www.ttbook.org/show/farewel...
Now do gameboy camera
“In time, US citizens may find themselves trapped in a diminished, nightmare America—like a post-Musk Twitter at scale—where everything works badly, everything can be turned against you, and everyone else has fled.” apple.news/AkXgyDqu1QtG...
Get vaccinated.
