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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

whenever I feel like I'm at the end of my rope, the universe has a way of reaching out a hand... 😌🕊️

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

attention!!! you can find me at the intersection of Progressive American Writers and Irreverent Internet Comedians. sorry if u were mistakenly looking for me at the Pizza Hut Taco Bell

retweet if you think trans people deserve a pack of cigarettes, six passports, nine flip phones, a pistol, a set of handcuffs, plane tickets, the key to a storage locker in ulaanbaatar, and $20,000 in cash

man i miss when i could google image search "cerberus" and get ancient greek pottery instead of thousands of AI-generated boss battle rejects. now it's just pages and pages thomas-kincaide-in-his-mall-goth-phase type shit. hashtag not MY hound of hades

i have plans that i cannot share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing

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@jamellebouie.net has an excellent video opinion today: this isn't immigration enforcement, it's ethnic cleansing. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

sometimes i worry the algo knows way too much about me and then other times i get ads from chewy for injectable horse drugs

The hardest part about reading short fiction is the part where you have to stop every couple of paragraphs and stare into space and think “holy shit, I love short fiction.”

well, it finally happened, they hit the pentagon (someone made an ilya edit set to "the boxer" by simon & garfunkel)

A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) 🥂🥂

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

what's my most millennial trait, do u think? my aversion to low rise jeans? how I can't run an errand without getting an iced coffee? or is it how much I love The National??

the "I stubbed my toe 😠" ➡️ "I HeARD yOuR HEARtS DANCING!!!!😩👹👹🔪👹" pipeline

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

had a nightmare that I made tini's mac and cheese for thanksgiving but I forgot to bloom the spices before I made the roux ❌😩

oh hell yeah 🔥

forgot the wifi password for my crude tunnel system

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i'm sure there's a joke to make about how ryan lizza's newsletter has the same name as infamous ex-youtuber james somerton's fake crowdfunded production company, but it's been 8 hours of brainstorming and at this point i've gotta admit that i'm not gonna be the one to make it

what line from the book do you most want to hear in the show and why is it "okay mr. lots of sex"

official member of the pocket spiral notebook defense squad!!!!! 😤😤 i like em. i think they're cute

me at the pinball bar 2nite

I stopped scrolling before bed and started playing wordle and connections instead, and I think it's actually making me angrier

cloudflare outages are a big turn-on for me

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

me and ur girl this holiday season

enough productivity for today 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️. it's time to look up people i don't like to see if they've posted anything annoying recently

99% of memoirs should have been or remained essays. like what do you mean you're a 29-year-old brooklyn transplant and you wrote 70k words about your life. you better have been a war correspondent before you picked up that podcast mic. you better have been raised in a fundamentalist cult

currently self-flagellating by reading substack articles called "the over-consumption of girlhood" and "joan didion (and other writers you've probably never heard of)" and "the proliferation of degeneracy in contemporary romance: a leftist analysis"

[me, yesterday, watching the Arabic Zohran ad] dick cheney would die if he saw this

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

pumping my fist in the air like my team just scored

look at him. his bandana has skulls