i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

cavs just ruined my whole fuckin night dude

worth scanning the whole 50-page document here, but even this topline is stunning. imagine if, say, the fbi had a crime rate like this.

i think about this all the time as though it would ever happen to me

this reads like the first paragraph of a terrible 10th grade social studies reading response

Meanwhile in the actual historical documents…

Shrek 2 okay cmon baby this is gonna be my freaking renaissance

kinda giving

apropos of nothing: they should sell bound versions of nora ephron’s screenplays, i want to be able to reference that dialogue in a paper version

cloud dancer: brought to you by corporate downsizing

Too bad my dissertation has already been submitted because this list truly deserves some critical analysis.

take it from someone on the job market: they’re bad!

Mixed feelings on this. I hate seeing these numbers — but as someone on the academic job market right now, it’s also hard to justify cohort sizes when the jobs we’re training PhDs for just do not exist.

wow this explains so much about the manosphere www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

free idea: a satirically pro-tory drag queen named lauren order

chick fil a better be catering ALL the cbs events from here on out

ngl, continually getting rejected from jobs paying like $60k despite my phd is uhhhhh devastating

I’ll never forgive Netflix for what they did to Teenage Bounty Hunters

The people elected to serve DO have input! They nominate the Fed Board! Trump appointees already control the Fed! Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.

me every time baltimore gets mentioned these days

in college there were guys who would meanly say a kenyon 10 was an ohio state 6 as though every girl on campus didn’t know THIS was the true male kenyon 10

PhD stands for “posting here daily”

imagine having so few problems in life that you write a letter to the editor of the washington post arguing that the city where the anthem was written should stop doing its anthem-specific ballgame tradition

xanax sounds like the name of a male hero in a romantasy novel

me playing barbie pet rescue on the family desktop at age 7:

there’s something so enchantingly beautiful about one man saying “i’m going to throw this ball as hard as i can” and another guy with a bat saying “the fuck you are”

Minding the Gap (2018):

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

I could just keep reposting this daily.

is this good

maybe my thoughts are just no longer worth putting on social media and that would be a blessing

inspired by recent events