Alex Blasdel

regular @gdnlongread, editorial @logic_magazine, sometimes @GuardianUS, @GuardianBooks, @Lit_Review, @TheTLS

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

i wrote many many words about pooping and it was a total joy and i hope you dig it https://t.co/oW8SZCP2d5

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

i think what some people are missing about this ancient rome thing is that it's a trope among white nationalists https://t.co/jnkFXfTpC6

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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.: https://t.co/QgixfnXg2p

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

@Samanth_S Masochist.

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

KFC chicken and 3D-printed tourniquets in gaza. this @trklou interview by @_jenkagan in the latest logic is sort of amazing https://t.co/7lM0Q4LZzP

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

@bentarnoff "memos for unwritten pieces", a chapbook

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

wonderful opening to this new @Samanth_S @gdnlongread. was not expecting to be so drawn in to a piece about . . . bananas: https://t.co/RUe0JxEJVj

[Logic(s) @logic_magazine]

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: https://t.co/VjklhVVdoH

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

in desperate need of a theory

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

@jahnnyg

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

i wrote many many words about pooping and it was a total joy and i hope you dig it https://t.co/oW8SZCP2d5

[David Wolf @davidedgarwolf]

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 https://t.co/gBdchc0zdM

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

@gasnerpants missed you at bolerium the other day

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

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

[The Guardian Long Read @gdnlongread]

Smartphones and the internet gave the Uighurs a sense of their own identity – but now the Chinese state is using technology to strip them of it https://t.co/sOtsoLlQEU

[chris xu @xuhulk]

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

[Alex Blasdel @unkowthe]

Issue 7 of @logic_magazine, 中国 (China), is almost here and it's . . . 🤯 https://t.co/XRnSC9kFHr 🇨🇳