Tim Carvell
@timcarvell.bsky.social
Executive Producer, Last Week Tonight. Friend to nearly all the animals.
I missed this story when it first came out, and hoo boy.
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I missed this story when it first came out, and hoo boy.
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football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
November 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
football’s all like gimme that coconut i want it it’s beautiful but tennis is all like fuck this stupid lemon i hate it
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
The thing I like best about “Pluribus” is that it’s like “make the whole plane out of the black box”, but for “the ‘Better Call Saul’ scenes where Kim Wexler has no patience for this bullshit”.
November 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The thing I like best about “Pluribus” is that it’s like “make the whole plane out of the black box”, but for “the ‘Better Call Saul’ scenes where Kim Wexler has no patience for this bullshit”.
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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”
It’s nice to watch Jeff Bezos’s Charles Foster Kane fantasy of directing the tide of public opinion run aground on the fact none of his existing readers want this, and the massive, well-funded right-wing media complex means the only writers he can hire are sub-Free Beacon level.
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It’s nice to watch Jeff Bezos’s Charles Foster Kane fantasy of directing the tide of public opinion run aground on the fact none of his existing readers want this, and the massive, well-funded right-wing media complex means the only writers he can hire are sub-Free Beacon level.
I assume someone has done it but —
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I assume someone has done it but —
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
All else aside, this in-store "Pluribus" experience sounds creepy as hell.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
All else aside, this in-store "Pluribus" experience sounds creepy as hell.
Uncritically publishing an article like this is like a bat-signal summoning @poetofcode.bsky.social and @timnitgebru.bsky.social to set things straight.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Uncritically publishing an article like this is like a bat-signal summoning @poetofcode.bsky.social and @timnitgebru.bsky.social to set things straight.
The fine print at the top of this chart is so small that for a brief moment I just thought to myself, “Wow, good news for Fred!”
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The fine print at the top of this chart is so small that for a brief moment I just thought to myself, “Wow, good news for Fred!”
Maybe this was obvious to everyone but I’ve spent the day thinking “don’t they have someone there who can make a nicer sign?” And it only just hit me: They absolutely do, and that person deliberately chose to tell the President, “This is the best I can do.”
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Maybe this was obvious to everyone but I’ve spent the day thinking “don’t they have someone there who can make a nicer sign?” And it only just hit me: They absolutely do, and that person deliberately chose to tell the President, “This is the best I can do.”
I'm not sure why the sandwich jury is still deliberating but if they wait till after lunch tomorrow to deliver their verdict they have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I'm not sure why the sandwich jury is still deliberating but if they wait till after lunch tomorrow to deliver their verdict they have the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
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I’m looking for folks with IDD and their families who rely on SNAP and want to talk to a journalist about it. DM me here, email me at sluterman dot 19thnews dot org, or hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I’m looking for folks with IDD and their families who rely on SNAP and want to talk to a journalist about it. DM me here, email me at sluterman dot 19thnews dot org, or hit me up on Signal at slooterman.18.
“The future of finance is here, and it’s the Smart Con wait shit have the signs already been printed? They have?”
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“The future of finance is here, and it’s the Smart Con wait shit have the signs already been printed? They have?”
“Oh wow, how bad could a rebranding be?”
[two paragraphs into the story]
“Oh.”
[two paragraphs into the story]
“Oh.”
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Oh wow, how bad could a rebranding be?”
[two paragraphs into the story]
“Oh.”
[two paragraphs into the story]
“Oh.”
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And it shouldn’t be at all unusual to hear a campaign suggest that the quality of life in your city/state/country is something you should ascribe to the choices of people *more* powerful than you rather than the failings of people *less* powerful than you. But it felt unusual to me. (3/3)
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
And it shouldn’t be at all unusual to hear a campaign suggest that the quality of life in your city/state/country is something you should ascribe to the choices of people *more* powerful than you rather than the failings of people *less* powerful than you. But it felt unusual to me. (3/3)
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In light of the stunning size of the blue wave, I’m also thinking of all the important races that Dems left on the table by not running a candidate:
Now 8 days to go before the deadline fully passes for local candidates to run in Virginia — and there still only are Republican candidates running for sheriff in the state's two biggest cities, as sheriffs ramp up their cooperation with ICE and federal immigration authorities.
Background:
Background:
“It Blows My Mind That There’s No Opposition”: When ICE Allies Run Unchallenged - Bolts
In a populous city in southeast Virginia, a Republican sheriff who calls himself “Detain ’Em Dave” faces a race to the right against a GOP challenger who wants more immigration enforcement. No Democra...
boltsmag.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
In light of the stunning size of the blue wave, I’m also thinking of all the important races that Dems left on the table by not running a candidate:
The story I want to read more than any other right now — and that I’m assuming a lot of people are working on — is the inside story of Cuomo’s campaign. The good news for reporters is, no one in that campaign seems capable of either discretion or good judgment.
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The story I want to read more than any other right now — and that I’m assuming a lot of people are working on — is the inside story of Cuomo’s campaign. The good news for reporters is, no one in that campaign seems capable of either discretion or good judgment.
It's very odd to frame this as ranked-choice voting unseating "a popular incumbent" in favor of "a pol most voters didn't choose" when that "popular incumbent" has just 34% of the first-choice votes. Like, by their own definition, even if Frey wins, he'll be someone "most voters didn't choose."
The Minneapolis Mayoral Race Is the One to Watch. Really.
A three-candidate alliance could unseat a popular incumbent and hand City Hall to a pol most voters didn’t choose.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/04/m...
A three-candidate alliance could unseat a popular incumbent and hand City Hall to a pol most voters didn’t choose.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/04/m...
The Minneapolis Mayoral Race Is the One to Watch. Really
The 2025 Minneapolis mayoral race shows how ranked-choice voting can upend politics, as a three-way alliance looks to unseat the incumbent.
washingtonmonthly.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It's very odd to frame this as ranked-choice voting unseating "a popular incumbent" in favor of "a pol most voters didn't choose" when that "popular incumbent" has just 34% of the first-choice votes. Like, by their own definition, even if Frey wins, he'll be someone "most voters didn't choose."
A thing I’d be curious for New York election writers to answer is — given I’m guessing there are a lot of first-time voters today — what happens to a ballot where someone fills in both ovals for a candidate who appears twice? Does the machine reject it? Does the vote not count?
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A thing I’d be curious for New York election writers to answer is — given I’m guessing there are a lot of first-time voters today — what happens to a ballot where someone fills in both ovals for a candidate who appears twice? Does the machine reject it? Does the vote not count?
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You can tell the campaign staff is good because you don't know any of their names.
watching the Mamdani campaign from afar during the primary, so many things were impressive, among them the incredible work his online video team was doing to spread the message in fun, creative, educational, invigorating ways that spoke to people
this is my story about how they did it
this is my story about how they did it
Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
defector.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You can tell the campaign staff is good because you don't know any of their names.