I was talking with the fam this week about how extra celeb culture and fandom has gotten. I appreciate Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for demonstrating this so clearly. Almost on command.

I worked in ebooks and we loved making them as accessible as possible. We would often think about how to ensure every part of the book was available to the readers. Genuinely joyful.

So many movies of the 80s and 90s that I loved are hard to rewatch. Fun times, shenanigans, *a racism happens*, silliness, *hey, misogyny!*, cute animals, *annnnd racism happening*. Scene.

We have so much in common. We could talk or not talk for hours and still have things to…not talk about.

Also, ALSO, Mitch McConnell received at most 1.2 million votes and then wielded untold power. Fuck him and his arrogance, cruelty, and complicity.

This is an evergreen tweet that is both specifically true and generally true when anyone shitty dies. (Hey there, Henry Kissinger...)

Watching "Moneyball" and I am reminded that Philip Seymour Hoffman never gave anything but a perfect performance no matter how quiet the role.

I need someone to explain to me (and I'm a VO artist, so I shouldn't need this) why I LOVE the Minion language. The sound of it makes my ears happier than I can describe.

There are too too many people in the US who think the government should be made so small as to be functionally useless. Despite how many of said people partake of government services. Racism plays a huge role. As does the bullshit Individualistic mindset. It’s toxic and ruining our country.

These reporters writing books instead of reporting the news as it happens are really something.

🎵 Come with me and you’ll be in a woooooorld of pure unimagination 🎵

I need people to hear me (and the brilliant MZS). Summer should not be interminable and yet. INTERMINABLE.

I saw a t-shirt at Pride this weekend: "You are never too much and always enough" and I need more people to believe that. Cause the shitheads are out here acting like they hung the fucking moon and the best folks are worried that their voices are too loud. They are not. BE LOUDER.

*loud fart noise*

Random travel tip: Tape all your bottles shut. No more shampoo or moisturizer all over your suitcase even if things get a little squooshed.

The number of people who squawk, “I would never live in New York!“ My ugly duckling, no one is asking you to! New York does not need your bullshit!

He is cartoonishly villainous. If you saw him in a movie, you’d scoff at the cliche. And yet.

It felt so lovely to vote for him tonight!

I am overwhelmed by how many companies are shoving AI down our throats while their products get more and more unusable. And yes, I am talking about Adobe.

Welp, A24 was nice while it lasted.

Y'all, perimenopause is no joke. And to be going through it while *waves hands* all this is happening? Come ON now.

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Gross.

*clears throat* *taps microphone* Billionaires aren’t sexy and shouldn’t exist. Stop making them your heroes, romance authors. *turns off microphone*

I cannot explain how much I love trains.

Fascinated by such broad statements when mainstream feminism has always prioritized straight women.

I am a feminist and in a long-term relationship with a dude and those two things do not feel at odds. Perhaps because I can hold two thoughts at the same time without fainting.

A group of children’s authors and illustrators have launched the “We Are Better Than This” campaign, described as a “creative uprising” against AI. 👇

Ran into him and his wife Katherine Borowitz at a Brooklyn farmers market years ago and they are exactly as they seem, chill New Yorkers who are lovely and easygoing. Weirdly unsurprised he likes to bop.

I am a fan of many a podcast, but a lot of listeners (and I was one of em) confuse “we did thorough research“ with “we are experts on this topic.” Becoming an expert on any topic, especially within a health or scientific field takes years, not weeks.

This man is evil. Like, literally evil.

Even if this were true (it is not), imagine thinking comedy shouldn’t evolve. It’s not magically exempt from doing better as times change. For heaven’s sake, the best comedy has been an agent for progress.

This is why I’m so snotty about AI. Yes, it’s theft. Yes, it’s terrible for the environment. Yes, it’s enriching some of the shittiest people in the world. But more importantly, it’s BAD. That copy sucks! Terrible wordplay, no symmetry, and grammatically incoherent. Bad.

The Knicks losing once and only when Trump was in attendance fucking up the vibes makes this even more fantastic.

All the mustaches of my childhood are passing on.

My question isn't why they used AI. These dumbass companies are determined to be dumbasses. But how did no one check the design or get a sample before making them at scale?

New episode of B*tch, Listen is out. Roe was never enough. Reproductive justice advocates have been saying that for decades. So why did the reproductive rights movement build itself around Roe? I've been wrestling with that question for years. Watch below. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

I woke up, checked the final score, and shouted WHAT? Trump may have ruined Monday but New York got it back. Well done, basketball.

I remember when enthusiastic consent was gaining traction. How good it felt that we were teaching folks to listen to a no. To care about an enthusiastic and joyful yes. In more than just sexual situations. Didn‘t take long for that to disappear into the maw of capitalism.

Someone pointed out in a response how rape-y this sounds and I’ve noticed that too. So much of the rhetoric around AI has a ”we do what we want no matter how much you say no” tone and it’s fucking gross.

There’s gall, there’s nerve, there’s temerity, there’s absolute brazen grasping shameless bald-faced hypocrisy, and then there’s AppleTV congratulating SCHMIGADOON! on its Tony win.

I know this is a “why not both?” situation, but my contempt for the normalizers is immeasurable. Trump is a selfish shithead and that has been true for decades. But woof, journalists and politicians who continue to cover for him? The worst.

I try not to care about celebrity couples anymore (I used to be into all the gossip) but wowza the Katy Perry/Justin Trudeau pairing is so weird. Maybe random more than weird? Anyway, I don’t get it.

Everything is the worst. Lookit this brave lil toaster in the water. The best 😍

I have loathed Gwyneth Paltrow for some time now. She is a charlatan and an opportunist. No wonder her husband thought she was a Republican. (Which she is. Just doesn't want to admit it, I suppose.)

My dad was a dairy farmer. He would have put himself in jail if he was responsible for making kids sick. This guy should be stuck on an island so he can pioneer all alone.

I've never heard this described as intimacy before, and I adore it.

I'm only kind of watching/interested because my bf is a sports dude, and Knicks fans are gracious about THAT. There's a real "room on the boat for everyone! (except Trump)" vibe about the playoffs.

Dems who won’t stop chasing the mythical working class white voter are terrible for the party and need to quit this bullshit. Throwing trans people under the bus is weak sauce. Oh! And it doesn’t work. It NEVER works.

Cats and dogs being friends is my Roman Empire.