Beth

This election in a nutshell

Bill C-39: Scientists warn Mark Carney of environmental risks www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Completely agree, it’s objectively a perfect nickname

Speaking of single-point origin cliches, did the current usage of “glaze” (to mean flatter) not emerge entirely from Sliwa saying it in a NYC mayoral debate?

When I wrote Killing Stays in 2024, I think a public execution was beyond my imaginings (though what happened to Christa Pike was, sadly, not). @stevevladeck.bsky.social's latest One First on this captures a lot of what I'm thinking as I watch our grotesque killing state: tinyurl.com/5kd42xh4

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham says it is clear that Russia interfered with Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, adding it was important to put Moscow’s tampering on the record because countries across Europe are facing the same threat.

This is one of the top 3 things I miss from the US (Trader Joe’s; my friends and loved ones)

The women in "Musk" are extraordinarily impressive.

I marvel at how Jim Henson’s brain worked. This was a presentation piece to the executives at CBS when he was trying to get them, ultimately unsuccessfully, to pick up THE MUPPET SHOW... But if you’re a TV executive sitting in a boardroom watching this, there’s no way it’s not leaving an impression.

emulsions… very “enemies-to-lovers”

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

Agreed, and on top of that, I actually cherish my agency even for shit like what to eat

The underappreciated point here is that taking the messy, contingent nature of scheduling, communication, and navigating social relationships is something that AI people think these tools can do. When in fact it is quite difficult and takes a lot of social skill.

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

Did you know there's a butterfly motif in 9 to 5? Or that the 3 leads subtly influence each other's costumes over time? Or that you could read a queer romantic obsession in the costumes? Or what Lily Tomlin's nameplate necklace really says? tomandlorenzo.com/2026/09/bitt...

Today I had the thought “is it worth googling what to do with leftover glass jars that are perfectly intact? Nah I’ll just add this one to the pile”

If you were asked to consider the biggest threat to humanity in the next ten years, you might choose the worsening climate disasters or ever-growing number of wars. But tech oligarchs want us to believe it’s chatbots that can’t even tell truth from bullshit. disconnect.blog/the-media-ha...

NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Voltaire absolutely skewering a lot of people on the internet (1759)

For the NYT I wrote about Ed Sheeran, the fantasy of political neutrality and the politics of self-interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

Vital piece here from Martin McNair, father of Jordan McNair, and @traumacode.bsky.social on the dangers of heat for athletes and the need to be able to execute an emergency response plan—something Maryland and Arizona St completely failed, to devastating effect. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. Why is she kissing up to Chris Brown? To (rightfully) lambast your colleagues for supporting a sexual abuser, only to have those politics fly out the window for something so inconsequential, is, on its face, a baffling choice.

Nothing left now but for Ed Sheeran to drop out of the Ed Sheeran tour

pleasant surprise. i would like to read whatever deranged dissent alito and thomas have written. i’m sure it will be some version of “MAIL FRAUD IS REAL AND I SAW IT IN THE CLOSET MAKING A BABY AND THE BABY LOOKED AT ME”

Macklemore is right once again

The elementary school limbo champion to Ehlers Danlos diagnosis pipeline

Imagine how much this shit slapped in 1892

Yes thanks, I will truly watch any and all feature-length examinations of our worst people released in theaters this Fall

We forget that things used to be better, and we forget how things were made better, and we forget how they got worse. Like vaccines, antitrust worked *too* well.

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Batshittification

This Day in Labor History: September 7, 1933. Cranberry workers on Cape Cod went on strike to protest their terrible wages and working conditions, threatening the ability of Americans to have some taste to their bland, mushy, dry, and overcooked Thanksgiving dinner. Happy Labor Day!

they've got a pre-write for your obit, bro. they're saying your legacy is complicated. they used the word complicit, bro

The GOP's biggest donor is relentlessly tweeting anti-semitic race science, but Democrats have to disavow a streamer. Do I have that right?

This is what we mean when we say AI is destroying the Earth.