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Name developer, writer, lapsed journalist, bay swimmer. Born in Los Angeles, semi-rooted in Oakland, California. “Queen of retail rabbit holes.” https://fritinancy.substack.com/
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Rest Of Party Thanks Fucking God 2 Guys Who Like Etymology Found Each Other theonion.com/rest-of-part...

submitted 12 hours ago • 33 comments

This is on the opinion side. On the news side, we will continue rigorous reporting. Send secure tips on Pentagon contracting — including Blue Origin, AWS, SpaceX and others — on Signal at alexhorton.85 or [email protected]

submitted 13 hours ago • 65 comments

When the guy who owns your media outlet doesn’t let the editors edit it, it’s time to worry.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Just a sitting President of the United States applying to register the name of the President of the United States as a trademark for, among other things, "creating an on-line virtual environment for exchange of digital collectibles featuring images, sound, videos and texts of Donald J Trump"

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Thinking about eggs (price, scarcity) got me thinking about Hangtown Fry, the famous California Gold Rush dish. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangtow...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

What's happening with San Francisco retail? Urban strategist Diana Lind has some good insights. open.substack.com/pub/thenewur...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Love this story about Bandaloop, the Oakland dance company that specializes in “vertical choreography.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

DEAR FEDERAL EMPLOYEE, I AM WELL KNOWN LEADER OF DOGE ELONK MUSK. FOR THE PROSPERING OF AMERICA AND PER THE REQUEST OF PRESIDENT TRUMP PLEASE TO BE RESPONDING THIS EMAIL WITH YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND THE PASSWORD TO YOUR GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS ACCOUNT, OTHERWISE YOU MAY BE FIRED

submitted 2 days ago • 135 comments

Speaking of incorrect possessives, how many Trumps are presidents now?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Adding insult to injury, they misspelled Abrams's name.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to this! I visited the MoF in Los Angeles in December 2017. 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

“Trump Take Egg is an organic, free-range rallying cry”

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 2 days ago • 2158 comments

“Patrimonialism” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Doom loop? What doom loop? fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Stop reposting this. It's wrong. The news out of Yosemite is horrific, but this is incorrect. (Former Yosemite ranger here, still connected to folks in the park.) About a dozen employees in Yosemite have lost their jobs. There are still approximately 400 employees in Yosemite.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

"Back in 2009, I’d never heard the term 'active shooter.' Now I hear it far too often." - @tedgioia.bsky.social www.honest-broker.com/p/the-death-...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

OMG. If you, like my husband, don’t get it, because you are not a musical theater person, let me explain: This is an anti-royalist call to arms (set in 1830s France). Sung by the US Army Choir a day after Trump declared himself king.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

You really can just email Elon Musk at [email protected]

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Bzzz! Club members Pia Hinckle (left) and Elaine Van Vleck took top honors in the hat contest at yesterday's Lake Memphremagog (VT) winter festival. Water 30.5°F/-0.8°C, air 8°F/-13°C "with a stiff breeze," Pia reports.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

View of Oracle Park and San Francisco skyline from the roof of the new Verde apartments, built by Jeanne Gang's firm.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"San Francisco's right-wing tech bros have been openly pining over the possibility of taking control over the Presidio, carving it out from the city of San Francisco, and converting it into one of their dystopian nightmare territories." - @gilduran.com www.thenerdreich.com/trump-target...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 130 comments

Looking forward to this! Come for the slang, stay for the unsolicited etymology facts.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The funny thing is that "cafe Americano" was coined as something of an insult—a term for watered-down coffee

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

Will AS EVER be a forever brand for Meghan Markle, or will it collapse under trademark scrutiny like her previous choice? fritinancy.substack.com/p/naming-bri...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“Doom spending” www.creditcards.com/statistics/1... | ht @taylorlorenz.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

lmfao holy shit we're reaching new levels of "fuck the yanks"

submitted 7 days ago • 342 comments

the only monarch I want is like a billion butterflies

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Well, this looks like fun.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Beside the point, but for those keeping track here's another AmE "in hospital." @byagoda.bsky.social wrote about the usage last month: notoneoffbritishisms.com/2025/01/31/i... #britishisms

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

@govpritzker.illinois.gov is using his "state of the state" speech today to bring the fight straight to Trump/Musk/MAGA. "My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one."

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) is "a mild form of euphoria." Sadists are in charge.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

There are two things crushed in journalism by the collapse of the industry's economic model: 1) A labor-intensive system of checks that insured several eyes saw an idea, read and edited the resulting piece, sent it to a copy desk of trained wordsmiths read it again and ensure presentation matched;

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

We are approaching a time of testing--not just for the country but for each and every one of us. That's the subject of my latest "Need to Know" Substack. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Of course there are “journey mats.”

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I have never sat down with a federal-tax worksheet so filled with fury and resentment.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I kind of wish they'd get around to the TSA.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments