Posts on Unimportant Bird

770 words about All the President's Men

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:59:20 -0500

It’s Robert Redford’s fault.

Journalistic losers

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:44:47 +0000

To succeed in this industry, first delete your higher cortical functions.

Unimportant Bird: Year One

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 09:29:00 -0500

Some lessons learned.

Wikipedia is a lifeboat in a sea of garbage

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:23:00 -0500

I’m happy it survives. But its existence increasingly feels like anomaly.

A quick note about this site's RSS feed

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:31:00 -0500

It’s been updated.

Monday links

Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:20:00 -0500

Letter from an ICE jail. Inside DHS. Awash in images of violence.

Saturday links

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:10:00 -0500

Let’s not emulate Charlie Kirk, thanks.

Friday links

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:45:00 -0500

AI as a failed technology. The right’s war on wikipedia. Corn.

Hey let's review a comic about a bird getting existential

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:50:00 -0500

bird comic by Ruby Carter is quite good.

Wednesday links

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:50:00 -0500

Ta-Nehisi Coates. Odessa. AI slop podcasts.

Tuesday links

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:59:00 -0500

Far-right moral panics. New Age fantasies.

Tuesday links

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:40:00 -0500

The political emptiness of abundance. Delayed disaster aid. The kids can’t read.

Monday links

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:38:00 -0500

A must-read interview with Mahmoud Khalil.

'A man for whom historical truth had all his life run at twenty-four frames a second'

Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:47:00 -0500

More notes on Joan Didion’s Political Fictions (2001)

Thursday links

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:10:00 -0500

Buc-ee’s. Bari Weiss. Google’s monopoly.

Wednesday links

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:46:00 -0500

Hotel workers strike. Proud AI haters. No zines in museums please.

I love to hate on Ross Douthat

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:15:00 -0500

He’s a conservative intellectual trapped in an enemies-to-lovers arc with liberalism.

Tuesday links

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:30:00 -0500

Gilding the White House. Wishcasting Trump’s death.

The critic is dead

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:17:00 -0500

But criticism is alive? Maybe?

A few scattered thoughts about cheap art

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:10:00 -0500

I can’t tell if this is coherent but it’s been on my mind.

How do you grieve for a pet?

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:10:00 -0500

Someone please let me know.

Another marginal note on Joan Didion

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:38:14 -0500

Political Fictions (2001)

The internet is ugly when it falls apart

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:02:29 -0500

On the perceptual experience of link rot.

Comics won't just break your heart

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:40:00 -0500

On the unforgiving economics of making comics—and cartoonists’ efforts to change them—in the wake of #ComicsBrokeMe

I leave pieces of myself behind

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:42:00 -0500

It’s difficult to articulate what gets lost.

A marginal note on Joan Didion

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:45:00 -0500

Political Fictions (2001)

'Raid of the Rainbow Lounge' is still relevant

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:34:00 -0500

This is kind of a film review but also just a rant.

What use is obsessive journaling?

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:10:00 -0500

It’s pointless. I love it and can’t live without it.

Kamala Harris and the burden of Fortnite

Wed, 28 May 2025 09:21:08 -0500

I’m not sure it’s possible to come up with a worse idea.

Sometimes I turn incoherent thoughts into something like gold

Wed, 21 May 2025 08:42:35 -0500

A few notes on writing good.

Five hundred years of bureaucratic violence

Thu, 01 May 2025 22:59:08 -0500

The methods have changed. The cruel essence remains.

This comic is a glorious mess

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:20:18 -0500

A review of Do a Powerbomb! by Daniel Warren Johnson.

Who gets to decide what 'real democracy' is?

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:14:46 -0500

Anyone, as long as they don’t work at Politico.

Write about whatever you want

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 23:12:45 -0500

I know there’s a lot going on but there always is.

I can’t stop thinking about how vapid this comic was

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:44:16 -0500

No one needed to see Art Spiegelman step on a rake.

A short history of fast food brands posting on Twitter

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:36:54 -0600

Welcome to the nightmare realm.

POV: Your future landlord is a robot

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:45:00 -0600

Searching for a new house causes enough psychic damage already thank you.

Do you have more of a comment than a question?

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:11:02 -0600

Kindly shut the fuck up.

It feels strange to review something that destroys you

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:41:53 -0600

Some notes about two films: One earnest, one cynical.

What could be more post-truth than this?

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:42:03 -0600

I think we’re about to find out.

She is only capable of writing strawmen

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:40:13 -0600

The Fountainhead is silly.

Are we cooked? Opposition and kayfabe

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:48:17 -0600

At the end of the day, reporters need to file stories.

The internet does not have to suck

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:28:54 -0600

Please make your own website!