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"Which brands are high quality, so I can look for them in thrift stores?" I will give you three answers to this: a bad answer, a good answer, and an answer that tries to make compromises given reality. 🧵

Meant to tweet this two days ago. But it has been a year (and two days) since JD Vance said, after a mass shooting, that it's ridiculous to think that calls for prayer are a way to deflect responsibility for taking action against gun violence. Maybe action will come next year.

It's hard to believe, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some men played lawn tennis in a tailored jacket (such as a blazer) paired with light-colored flannel trousers. Today, such a uniform would be considered slightly formal, perhaps something reserved for special summer functions. Over time, this uniform gave way to the button-front shirt worn without a jacket, and after that, the knitted polo. Tailored jackets were kept for wearing around the court. From about the 1890s to 1940s, Brooks Brothers — then considered the premier American clothier, who dressed that upwardly mobile class of Americans whose fortunes rose with industrial capitalism — produced a set of brochures advising their customers on how to dress for sport. Included were ideas on how to dress for playing lawn tennis in the summer. They advised wearing a button-front shirt with cream flannel trousers while on court, but putting on a triple-patched pocket blazer, jaunty scarf, and belted overcoat while resting from play. Spectators could wear three-piece suits. Mamdani, of course, is wearing a dark worsted business suit, which would not be appropriate at the time. But the general form is arguably closer to that early-20th-century sensibility than the synthetic stretch sportswear some wear today.

this is what happens when you take dating advice from male influencers

i have faith because i know literacy is on the rise and people read substantive, challenging books all the time, which will serve as a bulwark against whatever misinformation and ignorance the internet can generate

i'm sure the ability to fabricate convincing historical footage that eventually drifts across the internet, where it's picked up by people who present them as real, at a time when trust in educational and media institutions is already eroding, will prove to be a net positive

christopher nolan should cast unaffordable housing in his next film so some of you get mad about that for two weeks