Alex Blasdel

i wrote many many words about pooping and it was a total joy and i hope you dig it theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/…

@davidedgarwolf bruh, i've been thinking about a piece for 2020 since 2018

Can't believe I'm thinking about pieces for the year 2020. Feels like that should be a decade away or something

i think what some people are missing about this ancient rome thing is that it's a trope among white nationalists pages.vassar.edu/pharos/2018/06…

an nyt article on women pooping at work linked to my @gdnlongread on the squatty potty. i am truly arriving 💩

@ImogenWK dork helmets tend to have way more ventilation, so dork on the bike or sweaty mess off of it?

are there any bike helmets that don’t make you look like a massive dork? sincerely asking, I hate running into people and having to stand there looking like a moon with a peanut on top

@AE_Robbert where can one waste the best time on this?

I'm a little disappointed in myself over how much I've indulged in this circuitous Taleb-Lehman-Graeber three-way feud, but only a little.

by listening to uber/lyft drivers, @veenadubal's ethnographic work challenges many academic and popular ideas about the political economy of gig work. see e.g.: lpeblog.org/2018/06/28/rul…

@Samanth_S Masochist.

@unkowthe Sadist.

just wrote a 500-word memo on a single graf and it felt . . . really good

KFC chicken and 3D-printed tourniquets in gaza. this @trklou interview by @_jenkagan in the latest logic is sort of amazing logicmag.io/bodies/tarek-l…

@bentarnoff "memos for unwritten pieces", a chapbook

wonderful opening to this new @Samanth_S @gdnlongread. was not expecting to be so drawn in to a piece about . . . bananas: theguardian.com/business/2019/…

Issue 8: Bodies is coming! Today we're dropping the cover, by @xrw. Stay tuned for the table of contents and excerpts from the issue. And subscribe to receive Bodies when it lands in August: logicmag.io/subscribe/

omg i'm in a cafe in san francisco and a man in his 60s is showing his octogenarian mother photos on his phone and saying, "he's a bear. he's a bear. he's not a bear." she says, "he's a bear." and the guy replies, "yer learning." #Pride

in desperate need of a theory

@unkowthe I read your article, and while it was quite an interesting read on the history of pooping, I'm disappointed that you failed to mention the option of simply squatting on the rim of your toilet, as I have been doing since the squatting craze began.

i wrote many many words about pooping and it was a total joy and i hope you dig it theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/…

In 1986 the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was murdered. The killer has never been found. Did Andrei Tarkovsky do it? Has Stieg Larsson solved the case from beyond the grave? What have South African spies got to do with it? This story is insane theguardian.com/news/2019/may/…

@gasnerpants missed you at bolerium the other day

SF progressives: a fake-woke, automobile-obsessed, white, propertied gerontocracy in coalition with a dwindling rump of confused rent-controlled boomer burnouts and a hundred thousand socially conservative landlords in the western neighborhoods

important extract from @logic_magazine by @dtbyler, drawing on his own fieldwork & reporting by @wang_maya, @XLHawkins, @teamlipei, @catecadell, @meghara & others

The thing I wrote for this issue is one of my favorite things I've ever written--an ode to 弹幕 / bullet comments.

Issue 7 of @logic_magazine, 中国 (China), is almost here and it's . . . 🤯 logicmag.io/07-china/ 🇨🇳