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It's good to have dreams.

I am now deep in the C&C Music Factory lore. www.vice.com/en/article/c...

Fired 60 Minutes-er Cecilia Vega put out this statement: "In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories. Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions."

I keep getting ads for this deeply upsetting Applebee's monstrosity and I just keep thinking "THIS is the place that fired me for cracking up when they demanded I remove my headband as it could be 'interpreted as a gang symbol'?" It's almost more insulting now.

I don't actually know what it means when they say to use a facial mist to refresh your makeup during the day. Like, in what capacity?

Life-loving NC Republicans Want To Make It Legal To Kill Anyone Providing Or Seeking An Abortion. www.wonkette.com/p/life-lovin... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

Actually not appreciating Lisa Rinna's apparent quest to get me to unhate her.

The absolute fucking genius of this man.

Finally caught up on RHORI, and the thing that made me the most homesick, swear to God, is how proactive Liz is about nausea prevention. The emergency saltines are so real.

Was gonna try to do something responsible today like clean or something, but there's also a big vintage/flea market thing I could do instead of that.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

MORE REALISTIC DEPICTIONS OF LADIES WHO HATCHED FROM LEGS AS THE PROGENY OF A SPARTAN QUEEN AND THE KING OF THE GODS BUT IN DISGUISE AS A SWAN PLEASE.

Gonna start an internet trend called TJMaxxing that involves walking aimlessly around a discount store for three hours and coming out with only a candle. (your mom gets it)

Seriously though. If only so you people don't have to pretend to care about my hot takes on sartorial matters.

Not afraid to be servicey.

*Wilhelm scream, extended cut*

I have never believed any celebrity endorsements less than I believe Winona Ryder and Iman for Pandora.

Me, way too late last night to have been doing any online shopping: This dress seems cute, but I don't recognize the print and it seems like it could be some kind of cultural appropriation type deal. Me, this morning: Oh shit, it's just smiley faces.

Learning some cool California facts

Well, right up until they get to the "And then he went on to be the deciding vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr" part. Then, much like the elimination status for a variety of vaccine-preventable diseases ... it's going to take a turn for the worse.

MAY I JUST NOTE that even if we are talking straight mythology here, there was at least one African army on the Trojan side, led by Memnon, an African king who was the son of the Goddess Eos/nephew of King Priam, and who was later killed by Achilles & then turned into a flock of birds by Zeus.

yeah boss i generated that space alien picture for you, real buff and sexy like you wanted

I'm going to need to point out that the alien's left hand is shackled to his thigh and that his right hand is free, which seems like an inefficient use of shackling imo.

god forbid women have hobbies

the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine, didn't speak a word of French when in 1792 in France he was elected as a deputy to the National Convention during the French Revolution

You know, for as much as I write about these kinds of men ... I do not actually meet them in real life? Like, the article highlights men who claim that women only like men who have "six-pack abs, are over 6ft tall and make six figures" and I don't know ONE dude like that.

I think one of the weirdest things, among many, about Republicans, is their insistence upon needing outside forces to motivate them/discourage them. Like, absolutely nothing about the existence of billionaires makes me think "Oh boy, I should work real hard so someday I can be a billionaire!"

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

I really do feel very importantly about telling people, especially other women, when they have an exceptionally good outfit.

Nirvanessa Carlton?

It feels really hard to, like, do things the right way in this moment. Why follow any rules or social norms when a bunch of fucking racist weirdos are gonna take your basic rights and give you the measles or whatever.

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

I found an old post I wrote in 2021 about "Dominion Dating" (now Helpmeet Singles), a dating site for misogynists hoping to meet the tradwife of their dreams. The website is still up, though it clearly never actually launched. But just look at the last stock photo dating profile "preview."

OK, watching the Betty Broderick movie with Meredith Baxter (formerly Meredith Baxter-Birney). The husband is played by the, uh, dad from Seventh Heaven. Also, he just said, to cub scouts "This is a stake, not the kind of steak you put ketchup on." So many things!

See, this is why I hate therapy-speak. It will always ultimately be used for evil. Really, really fucking annoying evil.

Betty Broderick died in prison on Friday. I think about her a lot lately, given all the tradwife nonsense and the spate of right-wing men demanding that women give up their jobs in order to find "true fulfillment" as wives and mothers, the only profession we are cut out for.

I feel pretty certain that all the Harry Potter "butterbeer" flavored stuff probably tastes like butter rum Lifesavers and it's just rude that I can't consume that without supporting a transphobic fascist. Or at least be able to find the lifesavers in a store sometimes.

Not the hentai virus ...

Welp, there goes someone's dream of a "Never Been Kissed" remake. apnews.com/article/stud...

Happy May Day! Here is the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, the resting place of five men who in 1887 died at the hands of the state for advocating for workers' rights. A thread of a few other Labor-related graves I have visited follows.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Just coming back from this (well, went to drinks after, but still). Possibly the best thing I have seen at the Lyric all year, and I went to every single show at least once, and that's saying a lot, because Cav/Pag, Salomé and The Last Dream of Frida and Diego were all good as hell.

You know, for all these weirdos talk about "80 percent of women are competing for the top 20 percent of men!" I honestly cannot think of a single heterosexual couple I know in which the man is the better looking one.

Well, he walked off after he was asked about Andrew Tate. He also walked off *another* interview, with Andrew Callaghan recently after Callaghan asked him about some controversies instead of asking him for his scientific opinion on looksmaxxing techniques (possibly because he's not a scientist).

The background image here is killing me.

I realize I shouldn't torture myself by going to over to Not Twitter, but I am honestly simultaneously fascinated and horrified by how obsessed these people are with misery. Like, it's endless prattling (from men) on about how women will be MISERABLE if they put off getting married & having kids.

an aspiring cryptkeeper currently working as a federal judge said two Texas prosecutors and a sheriff can't be sued for charging a woman who had an abortion for murder, even though such a charge is explicitly forbidden in state law. me in @ballsandstrikes.org

Except we literally know that this happens, because processing trauma is hard and people try to convince themselves that everything is fine.

Weird thing I really appreciate — I just got a Mother's Day marketing message from InKind (don't mind their messages because I like discounts), but they offered an option to opt out of Mother's Day marketing messages specifically.