Elaine Atwell
@elaineatwell
i believe that i am the biggest bonnie raitt fan of my generation. she/her
i talk to writers i edit a lot about the dangers of overusing the “rule of three,” and now i have the perfect example to point to.
my father is currently in duke hospital, waiting on a heart transplant, and this abomination is roaming the halls. not sure which is the richer text, its heart eyes or the message written on its screen.
@parkermolloy.com this…this broke me a little bit. (for reference, this is senator john kennedy describing the president like an affluent mother making excuses for her disruptive pre-schooler.)
picked up an old copy of the odyssey we had lying around and discovered this delightful artifact of Discourse.
call him whatever you want, but this is clearly mr clean in witness protection.
this is going to stay with me for a long while, though it’s hard not to imagine it in sweaty black and white, as directed by kubrick.
hold up is that motherfucker wearing those meta ray-ban sunglasses?
i have not jumped on the “any day now” bandwagon thus far, but he legitimately looks near death in this photo.
happy holiday season to my favorite bit of corporate copy: the imaginary conversation on the back of the bailey’s bottle.
at this point, most people are familiar with the “paperclip problem” of AI, but something about it always bothered me, and it’s the main thing i hope people take away from this essay. www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...
i must insist on reading all excerpts of olivia nuzzi’s book in her voice.
i was reading reviews of marie callender’s pot pies (which apparently are terrible now) and i found the smallest, saddest review of anything on the internet.
so much to be infuriated at in this paragraph and yet the thing that really gets my blood boiling is the new yorker’s insistence on using an umlaut on the word reelection.
unbeknownst to me, there was a hole in the garbage bag of cat litter when I took it outside, and the resulting trail offers a brutally revealing look at the ADHD mind.
executive: you write that product description for the paddleboard air pump yet? copywriter: sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
i don’t know that it would be “astounding,” he is 82 years old after all.
just thinking about how laura loomer is 31 but has had plastic surgery to look like MAGA women two decades older, and how in that circle, surgery is less about age and more about signifying your infinite malleability to the tastes of the crudest men alive, whose only aesthetic preference is “more.”
lmao at wapo and nyt SPRINTING to take advantage of the brief upward swing spawned by a false rumor to describe this as anything other than a “crash.”
something has got to give here and i can’t wait to see which happens first: 1. fox news withdraws support for the president for crashing the economy. 2. one single fox news viewer walks by a TV playing any other channel and says “huh.”
this was the first time i’ve found one of these egregious AI summaries myself in the wild. thank god i’m a certified sound-head and caught it. (and then my buddy tried to show that the original answer was just a fluke, but his version had *even more mistakes.*)