Brigid Delaney

👀@NYCMayor is searching for a new speechwriter

Latte art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable

it's kinda funny when people who were exclusively audio or print/digital journalists get thrown into video podcasting and have to have a glow up at, like, 42

Substack has the 10th most visits for a US news site in April, ahead of NBC news and just behind google. Pretty wild for an 8 (!) year old company.

The odds of having dementia at age 85 were close to 1 in 3 in the 80s; now they are 1 in 10. I don’t think we have a great explanation: better cardiovascular health, diet, and education are often mentioned. Good news nonetheless. Carnall Farrar. (2025, March 27). Dementia trends.

JUST IN: Anthropic rolls out new Claude tools aimed at automating legal work for lawyers & law firms.

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: x.com/nycmayor/statu…

.@hrw is seeking an Asia media director to maximize strategic coverage of HRW’s research on traditional & emerging media platforms across the region. Would suit a journalist working in the region looking for a change & passionate about human rights.👇 job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightswat…

Bloomberg interviewed a bunch of people named Claude to figure out how their lives are going Really funny story by @MADarbyshire

"There are about 70% more bookstores now than there were six years ago in the United States. After 20 years of declining numbers, they’re coming roaring back." "Since 2020,... American Booksellers Association membership has grown from 1,900 to 3,200." fastcompany.com/91529634/indep…

walking around outside is like scrolling with your body

Nice article that I missed when it came out. One writer, Luke Buckmaster’s opinion, but, he does give some solid reasoning. As I get older, I am humbled that someone would even think to write an article like this. Russell Crowe’s 20 best roles – sorted! theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/…

GARRON TOWER, c. 1939, in Double Bay, Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 It is a landmark waterfront residence and a striking example of late Art Deco architecture. Designed by J. E. Justelius and N. D. Federick (Photos: @millymead)

Apply for the Frank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young Writers writerscentre.com.au/blog/apply-for…

twitter is cigarette for the eyes

“First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor. And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.” nytimes.com/2026/04/26/us/…

when you hate on the smiths it's probably because morrissey reminds you of something within yourself you haven't dealt with

Mark Fisher was a really nice bloke and the Academic world of middle class gatekeepers treated him very badly and when he started writing about the problems with the contemporary left they attacked him. Read 'Exiting the Vampires Castle' an essay he wrote about the left. theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/…

mamdani’s team got in touch with me this morning to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with an extra 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.