I feel like the only real Chabad conspiracy is the one where they're trying to get every Jew to join Chabad

Evergreen

One of you told me that your conclusion after finishing Stranger Things S5 was that the Duffer Brothers hate children and I gotta say... I think you were on to something

Everything I need to know about American politics I learned by being in an abusive relationship 🙃

I'm reading a book and it's technically a fantasy (and possibly even romantasy) because the main character is a descendant of dragons and a magic user *but* she uses her magic to do time travel and there's a lot of talk about keep the timelines sorted correctly so I'm like "technically scifi"

Periodically I am reminded that there is a whole group of people who are hardcore fans of Eddie Munson and I can only conclude that they all spent the entirety of their high school years huffing glue

MARTY SUPREME would have been a better movie if at the end of it Marty had looked directly into the camera and said, "Your dad loves you now. You don't have to go to therapy anymore."

The number of people who are like "Ah the end of MARTY SUPREME is Marty turning into a completely different person because he held a baby he has spent the entire movie denying he is the father of" is really blowing my mind

I have a permanent scar on my left shin because I hit it on the edge of a platform that I was trying to jump up on to to stand next to a crush of mine when I was 13 years old

Can't quite believe we get to say Mayor Mamdani now

So it looks like I'm going to be doing a book event in LA on Valentine's Day so if you're in LA on Valentine's Day you will be able to confirm that I am indeed a person!

You're never going to be able to stop people from being assholes on social media but you can limit the influence and impact of assholes and I think Bluesky does a reasonably okay job at that, all things considered

I mentioned the other day that a distant relative of mine died recently; what I didn't mention was that he was a child survivor of the Holocaust. Seeing this obit so shortly after he died really drives home that the last of the survivors are rapidly disappearing from this plane.

Every time I try to remember Eddie from Stranger Things I just wind up thinking about Chris Fleming

Why is it always men who write me “I just read a piece you wrote, here’s how I think you should help my career” emails?

vouch for Orion

Elevating this out of my Stranger Things thread to say that one of the things that always guts me about the Simon-Alisha storyline is how they each manage to spark the other to become their best selves, but in an asynchronous time shifted manner

My big plan for the afternoon is waiting to see if anyone emails me back so I guess I might as well watch another ep of Stranger Things

When you work as a writer you are constantly made to feel as though you are a replaceable cog and total worthless scum so it's always nice when my friends in other artistic fields think my writing skills have value

Would eat there

I saw someone say that Pluribus is a white savior narrative and like… do people not realize that Carol sucks and the show knows she sucks

The funny thing for me about the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is that the term was coined to refer to female characters who appear to have absolutely no inner lives of their own but I am exclusively interested in them *because* of their interiority

Today’s swim! Apple probably shorted me about 25 YD. I did some dives off the starting block and learned that I’m very bad at that because I’m used to diving off a board and going deep which is… not the goal here!

Sometimes my brain mashes up two songs — Jessie’s Girl/Stacy’s Mom is a good one — and right now it’s back to: Night swimming Deserves a quiet I know who I want to take me home (Sing it yourself, it works)

The other day I was trying to get my niece to put her socks on so I said, “Put your socks on, mama” and then I played her this song and anyway I think I lost some cool points

Hebrew is such a gendered language that even the word non-binary is gendered

I have seen Misfits in full at least three times if not more and yet EVERY TIME Super Hoodie bites it I cry

סיימנו, מקווה שהפאזל הבא יהיה יותר טוב ולא ai #פידפאזל

Friend of Garak patches are restocked! I haven't had these in about a year and a half. It's hard to photograph but the thread has a subtle shimmer I'm really pleased with. willburrows.art/shop

Okay I just checked and in S1 the *longest* episode of Stranger Things was 55 minutes. In S5 the *shortest* episode is 57 minutes. I feel like this is a problem!

Sudan medics warn of looming humanitarian disaster in South Kordofan amid the RSF siege Sudan Doctors Network says that the intense bombardment of Dalang has continued daily, killing and wounding civilians. #KeepEyesOnSudan www.trtworld.com/article/157f...

There has only been one hot guy in all of Stranger Things and it's Dacre Montgomery

Every time Brett Gelman is onscreen I remember that he and Noah Schnapp got flack for being aggressively loud Zionists and anyway, I googled and *yes* there have been calls to boycott Stranger Things because of Palestine

I’m really curious to know how Gen X queers feel about the Robyn/Vicki/Will stuff; as a Millennial queer it feels off but what do I know

Okay so we all know about the GOTs and Stranger Things of the world that this horse meme illustrates, but what are your favorite perfectly plotted shows that hold it together from start to finish without fucking up? I’ll start with The Good Place as an example.

Worthwhile thread

The cool thing about having Hebrew subtitles on my Netflix shows is even the worst programs are made more interesting by being Hebrew practice

Stranger Things, or The Duffer Brothers Explore Anemoia

Okay today *is* the day I start Stranger Things S5 I guess

Not sure why people are reluctant to admit this but the fact is that any discussion of Zionism/anti-Zionism involves multiple stakeholders who have their own relationships to and understandings of these terms. At a minimum: - Israeli Jews - Palestinians - Israeli Druze - Diaspora Jews

Also I gotta say one of the reasons why I find “no Zionists” exhausting as a stance is because it really suggests that people don’t feel that their arguments are strong enough to persuade people away from Zionism

I keep seeing people say “no Zios” on Feeld and I really wish I could just message them to tell them they’re using one of David Duke’s favorite slurs

It’s bleakly funny that after all of Trump’s arguably correct criticisms of W plunging the US into untenable chaos by “bringing democracy to Iraq” he’s just gone and done the same thing in Venezuela.

Fucking hell www.haaretz.com/world-news/2...

I think independent of whether various Trump actions are *actually* intended as a “distraction from the Epstein files” the Dems feel compelled to keep saying that because it’s a topic that is red meat for a certain type of voter that they are trying to engage

Just realized a woman I thought was cute is 25

Friendly reminder that W's Iraq invasion had 65% bipartisan approval when it started, even with debate about whether or not Saddam Hussein actually had WMDs. So the fact that this can't even crack 60% within the GOP is telling. 60% own-party support would typically kill a policy immediately.

In my heart of hearts I believe that there are good, decent MF couples who want nothing more than to show an enthusiastically consenting lady a good time but my god something sucks the humanity out of them every time they create a dating app profile together

Tried to teach my 7yo niece to play Scrabble today. We played about half a game — open rack so we could collaboratively come up with words — before she quit and *yes* I came up with most of the words and also won but hopefully this is the start of something nice.

WLW Feeld is so funny because it’s just a bunch of women going “I’m too poor to pay for Feeld, you have to spend money if you want to connect with me” to each other