Eric Roston

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Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.

"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.

Bloomberg Green journalist.

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😂 Just came across the phrase "Be Kind. Rewind" for the first time since the 14th century.

When were the good old days?

Your honor, with all due respect, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are.

well, enough of that, let's see what's going on in today's seventh-tier also-ran stories... 😳

would it kill the internet to source something?

I've had Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" in my head continuously for two weeks. Help

Turn "hard" books into "easy" books by reading more.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

Except for an anomaly in the 1920s, people generally thought everything was real until Sgt. Pepper's seeped deeper into the English-speaking cultural mainstream.

wasn't aware there was any other option

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[Vomiting from unregulated tainted meat while unregulated airplane is in free fall] haha supreme court you said N2O when it's actually NOx, send post

I am working on a story that I've been working on for a long time. It'll come out soon, but not imminently. Just want to let you know.

Not gonna lie. I didn't watch the debate because I went to bed early, but here are my thoughts:

Normalize "presumptive" in contexts other than presumptive presidential nominees, ie: - ...the presumptive adulterer Firstname Lastname - ...in a shocking new article by the presumptive plagiarist TK TK. - XYZ, the presumptive entree I ordered...

Write a newspaper headline for last night's debate as if it had happened in 1986.

The big American political TV show starts at 9 pm Eastern time and runs 90m. What will you be doing during that time? (Wrong answers only 🙏)

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Do Something About Climate Change Starter Pack go.bsky.app/Aa1sErQ

Psyched about these new matte black Teslas that must have been designed to look just like early 90s stereo components #ThrowbackThursday

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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

This to me is the height of human ambition and accomplishment. Sure, she’s won gold medals. Others do all the time. But how many can do this? At least as good as the bottle dance in Fiddler on the Roof. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzh...

Katie Ledecky balances chocolate milk on her head while swimming!www.youtube.com This video of Katie Ledecky will ALWAYS be impressive 😱

The two best subtweeters on the internet are @shakespeare.bsky.social and @mobydickatsea.bsky.social

shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

Worst-ever wildfire. Cyclone-strength winds on land. Hail the size of softballs. Flooding. Heat. Sound like global warming? Nope! It's just Texas. Our latest feature (🎁🔗): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Texas’ Extreme Weather Pileups Point to World’s Climate Futurewww.bloomberg.com The state is reeling from multiple, back-to-back natural disasters. “Compound events” like these are set to become more common across a warming world.

True at the hardware store. True about life... itself!

I'm speechless. nymag.com/intelligence...

Melting Abe Lincoln: ‘People Like Sex Jokes’nymag.com Sandy Williams IV, the artist behind the melting wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln, grapples with the unexpected viral reception of the work online.

CAR: [Front right wheel squeaks] ME: I gotta take it back in, I guess. KID: Why'd you have to take it in in the first place? ME: Oil change. And he rotated the tires. KID: [Legit puzzled] Why did he have rotate the tires? THAT'S WHAT TIRES DO FIN

Update: Extending my already sizable lead in the finals of the left-spoons-on-my-desk Olympics.

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What a better time to launch a series of 10 posts on the history of the formula economists use to model to future (based on a paper with Pedro Garcia Duarte)? #econsky theundercoverhistorian.substack.com/p/how-econom...

How economists model the future, Season 1, Episode 1theundercoverhistorian.substack.com The uncertain origins of the Ramsey Formula for discounting

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This post below brings me more joy than I could ever express with words of my own.

My wife: please don’t talk about mushroom stuff at dinner Me: okay *one ice water later* Me: did you know oyster mushrooms are partly carnivorous

furthest I've ever been N: Kiruna, Sweden E: Singapore S: Hyderabad, India W: San Francisco, California

cat in box