Both ayahuasca and motorcycles are sounding "interesting" to me.

Why did I think my midlife crisis would be better than this?

Why Catholicism is drawing in Gen Z men Young men in their 20s and 30s are increasingly drawn to the Catholic church as they seek truth, beauty and, yes, girlfriends.

Is Gen Z Catholic-maxxing?

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This is a great educational video sharing stories and the history of the Stonewall Uprising.

Mr. Z??!? HI!!!

One that I MIIIIGHT stick to.

Post reporters called the White House. Some saw ‘Epstein Island’ on the screen. Washington Post journalists who called the White House switchboard using Google Pixel Android phones saw “Epstein Island” on their screens Thursday.

I called the White House.

My phone read "Epstein Island."

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The Stonewall You Know Is a Myth. And That’s O.K. | NYT Celebrating Pride YouTube video by The New York Times

I just learned that Agosto Machado died.

A warm, funny, brilliant and irreverent artist.

I met him making this video, in which he generously shared his experience attending Judy Garland's funeral *AND* the Stonewall Rebellion on the same day.

Rest in Power.

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Google is mocking me.

Who else is ready to watch several seasons of "Mrs. Hat"?

A luau’s last night shows Hawaii’s changing tourist tastes Paradise Cove was an anomaly when it brought tourist-friendly luaus to then-rural Kapolei, Hawaii, 47 years ago. But the nature of tourism there has changed.

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Why can't I profile Justin Vivian Bond every day of my life?

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Analysis | How the Gen Z pout became armor against millennial cringe The so-called Gen Z pout blends the allure of the millennial duck face with the disaffection of the Gen Z stare.

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Today is a great day to listen to the cranberries' "no need to argue" the whole way through. ☘️

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I'm ready to do a reverse of Barbara Ehernreich’s “Nickel and Dimed” where i spend a year on a billionaire's assets and find out whether or not it corrupts me.

Iranians mourn children, teachers killed in school strike Iran buries children killed in missile strike on girls’ school

At least 175 people, many of them children, were killed in an airstrike Saturday on a girls' elementary school in Iran www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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“But functionally, there’s no real difference between myself and Zara Larsson.”

-Every gay man’s brain

Analysis | The best, worst and weirdest looks at the Actor Awards Kate Hudson and Michael B. Jordan were among the best-dressed celebrities on SAG’s 2026 Actor Awards red carpet.

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My review of the Gucci show:

I’m just glad that Demna is fucking with the legacy of a house I don’t particularly care about.

Do whatever you want to Gucci!

Maxie's World INTRO! YouTube video by _NilsHaxard

Maxie-Maxxing.

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Hey, with all the bad news in the world, at least most online video platforms can handle a variety of aspect ratios these days. I’m taking the good news wherever I can.

Omg

I can tell it's time for me to get a cat because I'm in a car that smells like a litterbox and all I feel is jealousy.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

AND only has EIGHT out of TWELVE zodiacs available???

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And on top of EVERYTHING else, the Crayola adult coloring pages website is just DREADFULLY slow.

I am absolutely at my limit for the least cool people in the world trying to tell me how to remain relevant in my profession.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power