internet is crazy

Studying for and passing (first time tyvm) the California bar is the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life. Three days of hell preceded by two months of anxiety. I had a menty b that summer. Kim Kardashian thinking she could astral project her way through that process is hilarious to me.

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

the guardian have rewritten entire stories bcos jk rowling threw a hissy on twitter.

he’s a provider of access to money, connections and beautiful women and girls — everything that these people need to affirm their own status. being rich and powerful is a grift which requires other to bolster & buy in. That’s the service Epstein provided.

jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane

I mean dark, but yeah. It is a bonafide conspiracy, but the ‘coverup’ is just having a media pliant enough to drop it when you tell them to and an electorate who are about 30% brainwashed.

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

When you actually think about how many issues are tied to disability you never think about, it’s intentional. crutchesandspice.com/2025/11/11/c...

"Democrats will never fully support disabled people because disability is the antithesis of capitalism. It requires we take a step back from always making a profit when it comes to the lives of people who can produce no profit outside of extraction from our for-profit healthcare system." 100% this.

I still have not processed what I just read.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

The irony is that I would far rather go and see a play/watch a movie about a young and interesting person coming on board as the director of a 73 year old production (and the Robin Williams comedy-drama about ‘creativity vs authority/tradition that ensues), than go and see The Mousetrap.

so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway

It would never occur to Emily that she is at all ideological, or that she and her crank pals were imposing their views and desires upon others. What do you mean, ideology! We’re doing Science

forever will remember him for this

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Gender is a performance and I'm that one scene in THE NICE GUYS where Ryan Gosling is in the toilet stall and fumbles with a lit cigarette

The makeup line is insane but we should talk about how the cartilage in his ear magically grew back

He just got a trillion dollar package, and sure it's bullshit and imaginary but still, imagine inking a deal where you get a trillion dollars, more than anyone has ever had, and then going to your little computer and asking it to make a fake woman who pretends to like you. Weapons-grade cringe.

Elon Musk has been having an existential crisis wrapped in a panic attack uninterrupted for multiple years. It's crazy how money can insulate you from meaningful criticism and consequences, but also from anyone caring about or helping you. This is the loneliest man alive. Ha ha. The little bitch.

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.” That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.” @jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Hahahah. It is such a scam.

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

The world's largest Pentecostal denomination has been covering up the sexual abuse of children for at least 50 years. Where is the national outrage?

Rosalind Franklin was only 37 when she died of ovarian cancer and she had ALREADY discovered the shape of DNA. She did not live to see her erasure by the Nobel committee in 1962. Anyway, fuck this guy and restore funding to the cancer moonshot, so the next Rosalind Franklin can live.

That clip of Bannon circulating rn where he admits he's going to prison if Dems ever regain power should actually be DEEPLY ALARMING bc it outlines stakes & desperation that will likely *escalate* regime lawlessness & violence. Taking action now could help prevent that.

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

This is a cult of personality. Even if all you cared about is shareholder value, Musk spent last 3 yrs torpedoing Tesla car sales, spurring lawsuits, pivoting to pipedream technologies, & ignoring all succession planning. Hero-worship is not a viable corporate strategy. www.ft.com/content/1062...

if only Silicon Valley and its financiers could put half the thought and resources into *anything* that they put into “come up with new ways to be racist while pretending not to be”

The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

The trope in an IP revival where the beloved couple are now estranged but get back together in the end is so overdone. And I DEMAND they do it again anyway here. I will fall for it like a cartoon coyote.

I’ve heard some who went to harsh boarding and day schools argue that the trauma British ruling classes imposed on their children every generation was part of what produced many of the problems with that class. Obviously, if you systematically brutalise children, you will end up with damaged adults.

Whenever I read a story about one of these hard-discipline schools, I shudder, thinking about the horrifying stories of abuse and trauma we’re going to hear in the future from kids who went through them.

well I wasn't expecting people magazine to be the one to step up to the plate bsky.app/profile/gold...

Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you Me: I didn't call you Demon: I did

Can’t imagine what could be worse than what’s already out there but something ugly ugly must be coming

sobbing as mom makes me smoke a whole pack of baseball in one sitting

I don’t watch baseball but watching y’all watch baseball makes me wanna watch baseball

Why is everyone watching baseball

do you ever have things that someone has said to you that live forever in your head (non-serious edition)? some older boomer hippie guy said “hahmmus gives you fahts” to me 26 years ago at a free fridge and i think of it every fucking single time i buy hummus to this day.

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

Private rent in UK now swallows 44% of the average wage. Monthly cost jumps to record £1,385 outside London, £2,736 in the capital. Lack of social and affordable housing, no rent controls, as govts appease corporations and the rich. Profiteering creating poverty/despair, stifling economic growth.