Hotels > Airbnb, a horror story 🫠 It’s 2:30am in London. Flight delayed 3 hours. Raining. I message our host that we’re going to miss the check in window. There’s a fee. Weird since it’s self check in, but ok We get to the airbnb and the lockbox doesn’t work. Rain, rain..

YESSSSSSSSSSSS thank you kind listener for solving my Endless Thread mystery with just a little terrible singing!!!

Places on Earth that look too magical to be real A Thread 🧵 1. Giant Groundsels plants found on top of Mt Kilimanjaro

I hope you already know what a DELIGHT jamie loftus 🌭 is, but jusssssst in case, here’s the latest Endless_Thread, in which she talks to Ben Brock Johnson and me about her new podcast, “Sixteenth Minute of Fame,” 🌭, 💻, and other stuff! wbur.org/endlessthread/…

Sometimes you have to see it yourself to believe it. Thank you Amazon Music & Podcasts on Amazon Music for featuring Beyond All Repair! Listen here if you haven’t already: music.amazon.com/podcasts/d9fea…

Some are angry about the "anti-Christian depiction of the last supper" at the Olympic Opening ceremony. (Elon Musk and Donald J. Trump among others) A Dutch art historian explains it's not the last supper but a Dutch painting of the Olympic gods. And I explain what I loved. 🧵

Recently a video claimed that modern pixel artists are misguided - mimicking sprites as they appear on modern screens, instead of how pixel artists from the 80s and 90s “intended” them to look on hazy CRT televisions. Not exactly. Let’s discuss. A thread 1/🧵

Thank you Dean Russell, Endless_Thread, Amory Sivertson, Ben Brock Johnson & WBUR for telling Hashim's story so powerfully, for reading my law review article about Digital Cages & reporting on the horror and violence of immigration detention & surveillance. wbur.org/endlessthread/…

Do I have to though

illegal transgender alien

Women being able to cut the mics of men is... chef's kiss

This is the way

The most grim plankton compilation video I've made. This should only be a beautiful world of microlife. Instead it's a microplastic-polluted, horror movie. Beauty and the beast. ZEISS Microscopy

A very small number of people ruin it for everyone else: the problem with unmoderated social media sites in a nutshell. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Just catching up on a lot of this. But "Timhouthi Chalamet" story, whichever part is true, is pretty wild.

Local man who should know how newspapers work is confused about the difference between reporting and editorial sections.

You simply can’t make this up. When asked about the Wharton analysis of Trump’s economic plans, Dave McCormick tells UPenn students to “be skeptical of the experts” because they got us into the Iraq War. #pasen

can we get a professional lip reader on Obama real quick here

😲 This kayaker was swallowed by a whale & wanted to keep going! This incredible moment from Endless_Thread with @thebrockjohnson & Amory Sivertson explores the story of Adrían Simancas, who escaped from the mouth of a whale unscathed. Listen on Hark Daily: share.harkaudio.com/SGZcYgCB8SnoQs…

We just wrapped up another Transom Traveling Workshop over in Amherst, MA. It was taught by David Weinberg and Isabel Hibbard, and Ben Brock Johnson helped organize it. Special appearance from Julie Shapiro, too! What fun to collaborate and learn from each other.