try not to use the word "sincerely" when you apologize reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuri…

“Tessa Hadley’s greatest subject is the unfulfilled promise of womanhood, how youthful conviction is rooted out by the stark realities of adulthood.” —Hillary Kelly go.nybooks.com/4o7COyT

very good book cover

Zelle will allow users to start making international payments using stablecoins

Perhaps writing was on the wall for this since the Trump settlement, but still a big loss for CBS. Dickerson a first-class political journalist and more thoughtful than your average TV anchor hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/joh…

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will issue guidance tomorrow blocking states from wiping medical debt off credit reports — siding with Wall Street and debt collectors over patients. The move could keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’

Solar is set to become the largest green energy source globally, the question now for Europe is whether it can revamp its grid fast enough to prevent another dramatic blackout. bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-…

When SNAP stops, families suffer. You can help. Read a letter from City Harvest CEO Jilly Stephens in response to the halt of SNAP benefits due to the shutdown and support our work: cityharvest.org/2025/10/28/a-l…

Wednesday

I often talk about what I call the “Schreck 12 Problem” in entertainment. It applies to film, but also to books. Franchises, sequels, grinding culture to the bone!

Unbothered, moisturized, in their lane

a relationship is a very long conversation henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/looking-for-…

LOL

Obesity Drug Wars would make a good Bravo TV show 🎥🍿

🦁 "[Alexander Calder]'s wonderful miniature rendering of a circus is getting an outing at the Whitney Museum on its 100th year."—Artnet news.artnet.com/art-world/alex…

Boomer vibes

OMG

Monday

shout out ProPublica who is doing more investigative journalism than anyone out there and with a fraction of the resources of the NY Times, WaPo, WSJ, etc. Exposing stuff that should be "-gate" level scandals regularly.