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Autumn Owes No Apologies - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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“Think about what resonates in the swing areas of North Carolina. College-educated whites told us with their ballots that they wanted the United States to mu...
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“I know she seems composed—the very picture of emotional stability and grace. But trust me, thirty seconds before your session, she was lying face down on th...
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Fuck Off, Dad! We’re Eating Apple Jacks - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Carlos Greaves - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Carlos is an Afro-Latino engineer, writer, and filmmaker. He writes the weekly humor newsletter Shades of Greaves if you’re into that sort of thing. His firs...
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Excerpts from The Believer: The USA Ultimate Masters Championships - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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All right, if we can just get the people in the back to bunch up a bit so I don’t have to shout. That’s better. Welcome, everyone. First up on our tour is sc...
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An Open Letter to the New York Times Style Section Photo Retoucher - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Dear sir or madam, I realize your job is not an easy one. You’ve been asked to take the pictures of the couples who have recently been married, and somehow e...
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Dan Caprera is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, Vulture, Slackjaw, Mic, Weekly Humorist, Funny or Die, and T...
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Is Your Child Suffering from Brain Rot or Quoting Finnegans Wake? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
1. “She’s lowkenuinely sheesh.” 2. “Relaxmaxxing in languidoily.” 3. “Twosday to Whensday, I’m mogging moids.”
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What’s Happened to the Party of Lincoln? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Today’s Republicans don’t tell folksy, long-winded stories to make a wise point to their assembled Cabinet members. They give weird evasive answers to repor...
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Underground Artists - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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The Original Selfie - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
After the Lord God had placed Adam in the Garden of Eden, He formed out of the ground wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man t...
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Well, Now I Don’t Even Know if I Want This Kidney Anymore - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Dear HR: What Skin Color Emoji Am I Supposed to Use? - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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The following is a list of titles of memoirs about writers and reporters at The New York Times. - - -To Sleep With Angier: Under the Covers with Natalie Angi...
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How to Create Your Very Own Crossword Puzzle - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Recently, I got my very first crossword puzzle accepted by a real-life newspaper. Since this basically means that I’m a puzzle-making genius (and not, you kn...
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Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
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“You may have read on our website that we prioritize diversity in our hiring practices, and that is 100% something that we would like you to believe.”
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Pumpkin carving is a simple, festive way to celebrate the arrival of autumn. And with only a handful of tools, you and your family can easily enjoy the thril...
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Journal Of A Seasoned Cobra Veteran - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
June 6, 1987 My transfer came through today; boy, what a relief. I felt bad leaving the platoon behind, but morale was mighty low up there, and it was really...
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Since 1979 the writer Philip Graham and his wife, the cultural anthropologist Alma Gottlieb, have lived off and on in small villages among the Beng people of...
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Our Loyalty Program Is Now a Fealty Program - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“It is no longer about transactional points where you get a birthday keychain in the form of a tiny little puffer coat… It is a relationship based on a moral...
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Our 25 Most-Read Pieces of 2025 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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For fifteen years or so, I’d been kicking around the idea of resurrecting the artist-apprentice model that reigned in the art world for hundreds of years. Ag...
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Kanye West Album Reviews Updated for 2018 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Short Imagined Monologues
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An Open Letter to Shrink-Wrap - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Dear Shrink-Wrap, It is so hard, in today’s instant-gratification society, to find a product that simply wants to do a job and do it well. At a time when peo...
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I, Don Quixote, Vow to Conquer Greenland - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“My detractors insist that all of my enemies are imaginary and that I am picking fights with bogeymen simply to satisfy my own deluded fantasies. That just s...
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Matzah’s Daily Affirmations - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“I am proud of how far I’ve come. I started as a Passover food, but now grocery stores display me for all Jewish holidays, even the ones where people fast al...
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The Convergences Contest: Carnival of Convergences No. 7 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
George Madoffton Submitted by Errol Morris1 - - - - - -Barack O’Zimmerman Submitted by Leon Hilton2 - - -Locked Up in the Hotel California Submitted by Jenn...
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Bits of Conversation Overheard at My Neighborhood’s Swimming Pool - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
You have two lungs. TWO lungs. Yes, she’s Jewish. You didn’t know that? You should hear what she says about your dog when you’re not here. Antichrist! Rob Zo...
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We Went Ahead and Made an AI Olympian - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“Finally, something to take sports off our hands. Just think, what if Simone Biles didn’t have to do gymnastics and could instead spend her time being a mark...
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Letters That Have Never Brought You an Episode of Sesame Street - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
W, M, and D S, T, and D T and A F and U
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The Quotable Bazooka Joe - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
On cheapskates: A penny for your thoughts, but I expect change. On misguided ambition: The early bird gets the worm. Some reward! On slacking: Your homework ...
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Letters to Moms - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
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Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Signs - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“I’ve rewatched this horror movie, about a family dealing with lost faith and unwanted aliens, several times since I first saw it as an eleven-year-old throu...
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Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Michael Smith - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
“At some point you see somebody do a lot of the same thing and call them a hack. And then I thought, How do you become a hack? At least hacks make a living.”
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Swamp Dreams - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
A new installment of our weekly comic about woodland creatures creating art and searching out whimsy in a bleak forest.
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An Open Letter to Global Warming - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Dear Global Warming, I know I’m not supposed to like you. I’ve heard about your grandiose plans to melt the polar icecaps and flood coastal cities, your aspi...
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Quasimodo’s “To-Do” List for Nov. 15, 1482 - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
1. Ring bells 2. Take calcium 3. Save Gypsy girl from gallows 4. Ring bells more
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