Saltwater
@suziek.bsky.social
xennial, tech exec; retail, fashion history and textiles nerd; tsundoku enthusiast, scuba diver, writer, numismatist.
go blue, go big red
go blue, go big red
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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What’s fascinating about Manet vs. Degas is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
The Dance Between Manet and Degas
What’s fascinating about Manet/Degas at The Met is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
hyperallergic.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 PM
What’s fascinating about Manet vs. Degas is the degree to which the work of each artist seemed to possess whatever the other lacked.
Would love for Hoosiers to win the national championship 🏈
January 2, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Would love for Hoosiers to win the national championship 🏈
Unfair to blame decision paralysis culture on private equity. The company was like this when it was public.
C-suite didn’t reinvest in innovation when profits peaked because they were more incentivized to immediately gratify shareholders.
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
C-suite didn’t reinvest in innovation when profits peaked because they were more incentivized to immediately gratify shareholders.
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
How Kraft Heinz Lost Its Lock on Mac and Cheese—and American Shoppers
Buzzy upstarts and supermarket knockoffs have eaten into the market share of the leading brand. Years of cost cutting, underinvestment and corporate chaos preceded a planned company split.
www.wsj.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Unfair to blame decision paralysis culture on private equity. The company was like this when it was public.
C-suite didn’t reinvest in innovation when profits peaked because they were more incentivized to immediately gratify shareholders.
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
C-suite didn’t reinvest in innovation when profits peaked because they were more incentivized to immediately gratify shareholders.
www.wsj.com/business/ret...
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Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
This courageous, personal piece by art critic and writer Patrick Fealey is a brilliant, eye-opening, and moving firsthand account of the reality of being homeless.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This courageous, personal piece by art critic and writer Patrick Fealey is a brilliant, eye-opening, and moving firsthand account of the reality of being homeless.
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
We can hold people accountable for their actions without broadcasting images of their worst mental breakdown on social. Accountability is not antithetical to decency, empathy, and grace. SMH at the Michigan situation.
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We can hold people accountable for their actions without broadcasting images of their worst mental breakdown on social. Accountability is not antithetical to decency, empathy, and grace. SMH at the Michigan situation.
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The data Big Tech holds about you is not safe:
"All I need is an IP address and next thing you know I have names, addresses, emails, and cell numbers...I can access DMs, texts, call logs. That’s someone’s full life in my hands in the space of hours.”
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
"All I need is an IP address and next thing you know I have names, addresses, emails, and cell numbers...I can access DMs, texts, call logs. That’s someone’s full life in my hands in the space of hours.”
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
www.wired.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The data Big Tech holds about you is not safe:
"All I need is an IP address and next thing you know I have names, addresses, emails, and cell numbers...I can access DMs, texts, call logs. That’s someone’s full life in my hands in the space of hours.”
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
"All I need is an IP address and next thing you know I have names, addresses, emails, and cell numbers...I can access DMs, texts, call logs. That’s someone’s full life in my hands in the space of hours.”
www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Christ this is a nightmare at U of M. The hottest of hot messes, precisely what we claim to be ethically above. My hope is we go tabula rasa and rise from the ashes.
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Christ this is a nightmare at U of M. The hottest of hot messes, precisely what we claim to be ethically above. My hope is we go tabula rasa and rise from the ashes.
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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"Before You" is a short film (15 mins, available at link) that follows a couple dealing with the grief of ending a complicated planned pregnancy. The film has been selected by several Oscar-qualifying festivals.
‘Before You’ Filmmaker Lauren Melinda Talks The Importance Of Destigmatizing Women’s Healthcare & Collaborating With Planned Parenthood
Flimmaker Lauren Melinda talks to Deadline about Simbelle Productions and her latest short film 'Before You'
deadline.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"Before You" is a short film (15 mins, available at link) that follows a couple dealing with the grief of ending a complicated planned pregnancy. The film has been selected by several Oscar-qualifying festivals.
Another good one from Slate. For a restaurateur, owning this type of establishment would be great because it’d have predictable, steady revenue.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
slate.com/life/2025/09...
Diners Are Starving for This Rare Kind of Restaurant. So Why Are They So Hard to Find?
If you’re gonna go out for dinner, don’t waste your time anywhere else.
slate.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Another good one from Slate. For a restaurateur, owning this type of establishment would be great because it’d have predictable, steady revenue.
slate.com/life/2025/09...
slate.com/life/2025/09...
Really great read on how Vegas has changed in the last few years. Spoiler: Follows the same theme as everything else American - the middle class is no longer a target segment because the math favors the affluent (and gambling addicts, natch)
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
Everyone Inside America’s Most Flailing Destination City Has a Theory for What’s Wrong. Now I Have My Own.
It defines the American experience like no other. People are no longer buying.
slate.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Really great read on how Vegas has changed in the last few years. Spoiler: Follows the same theme as everything else American - the middle class is no longer a target segment because the math favors the affluent (and gambling addicts, natch)
slate.com/business/202...
slate.com/business/202...
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
This interview between Amy Odell and Rachel Tashjian on the current transitory phase for fashion and fashion media is good…asking the real questions
open.substack.com/pub/amyodell...
open.substack.com/pub/amyodell...
Is Vogue Still Relevant? Rachel Tashjian on Fashion’s Power Shift
"Anytime a Vogue cover comes out, there’s such a strong reaction to whether or not this is 'Vogue' or not," says Tashjian.
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This interview between Amy Odell and Rachel Tashjian on the current transitory phase for fashion and fashion media is good…asking the real questions
open.substack.com/pub/amyodell...
open.substack.com/pub/amyodell...
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Sept jobs report two months late, partial Oct jobs data coming in mid-Dec. Unemployment claims highest since Nov 2021. Target and HD earnings sucked. Time to short this mess.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Sept jobs report two months late, partial Oct jobs data coming in mid-Dec. Unemployment claims highest since Nov 2021. Target and HD earnings sucked. Time to short this mess.
This is beautiful
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This is beautiful
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An Art Nouveau Gem in Douai
The pictured, artistic shop window is a real Art Nouveau gem in Douai, France. Designed around 1904 by architect Albert Pèpe and known as "La maison Tournesol," it is today a protected historical monument.
The pictured, artistic shop window is a real Art Nouveau gem in Douai, France. Designed around 1904 by architect Albert Pèpe and known as "La maison Tournesol," it is today a protected historical monument.
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
An Art Nouveau Gem in Douai
The pictured, artistic shop window is a real Art Nouveau gem in Douai, France. Designed around 1904 by architect Albert Pèpe and known as "La maison Tournesol," it is today a protected historical monument.
The pictured, artistic shop window is a real Art Nouveau gem in Douai, France. Designed around 1904 by architect Albert Pèpe and known as "La maison Tournesol," it is today a protected historical monument.
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Hey, NYC! I’m on this New York Comedy Festival show TOMORROW! Check it out! (Caveat, NYC, 9:30 pm)
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey, NYC! I’m on this New York Comedy Festival show TOMORROW! Check it out! (Caveat, NYC, 9:30 pm)
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I was so happy to capture this today.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I was so happy to capture this today.
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UMICH: “.. This month’s decline in sentiment was widespread throughout the population.”
@cnbc.com #UMich
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
@cnbc.com #UMich
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
November 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
UMICH: “.. This month’s decline in sentiment was widespread throughout the population.”
@cnbc.com #UMich
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...
@cnbc.com #UMich
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/c...