What five items would you place in a time capsule?
Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.
"I’m against the 'one thing' framework. I’m a braid of a thousand threads of ideas and experiences and oppressions and opportunities and transformations."
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social answers the latest @longreads.com questionnaire: longreads.com/2026/03/04/q...
For years I've been reading @mariapopova.bsky.social Back in the day she wrote as Brain Pickings. An extraordinary amount of work goes into her posts, which highlight culture and writers.
#ff
"Out of 365 days, why this one? I was afraid Tomm would’ve resented sharing the day with his nephew, or, worse, that I’d collapse their souls into one."
A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love. A new essay by Maria Zorn: longreads.com/2026/02/24/m...
20 years ago, when I started thinking about *how* I wanted to create and write online, I looked to Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian) for inspiration.
Thrilled to have Maria kick off our new @longreads.com questionnaire series:
longreads.com/2026/02/17/q...
"The American tourist is curious about your gelato and is disappointed you can’t give him cold brew."
Francesco Pacifico for @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
again, i loved this! was great to flip through the latest Orion issue and see it.
huge thanks to @cherilucasrowlands.com for citing my essay in this week's Longreads Top 5: "Like the fish, it seems to emerge from nothing."
omg that's my face 🫣 ⬇️
if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name
"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle."
Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
The internet is loud. In a world of endless feeds and content that fades, our stories matter more than ever. Help us publish writing that outlasts the noise—stories that linger and pair well with your morning cup of coffee.
More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...
For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss
longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy:
"After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities"
longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
GBBO, my 9-year-old would like a word
I've moving from 900 to 2,400 square feet, which means: MORE WALL SPACE FOR ARTWORK!
Stoked to decorate my new house with more art, cat wall furniture, handwoven wall hangings, a living wall . . .
I welcome recs of your favorite artists, literary pubs with merch stores, and small businesses.
"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture."
Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.
BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.
Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.
So, so, so thrilled about this, Jordan. Proud to have worked on this piece with you!
Some exciting personal news:
Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
Pondering life’s important questions in the latest @pioneerwork.bsky.social issue
#caturday
I recently introduced my 6 yr old to my favorite snack as a kid: a plate of wheat thins, with melted bits of string cheese on each
Hot take: Wheat Thins are a seriously underrated cracker
"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain."
A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:
Your gummy thought of the evening: So much of life is just showing up, and the internet allows too many people to not show up anymore. The rest of the world is just some shit that’s happening on television
I don’t read things written on substack if I can at all help it, this is true of many folks who are too polite to say it for fear of putting off those who write there, but you should know if you’re still on that platform!
why is everyone mad at me
I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.
