my favorite thing about Boston is boys on tinder trying to soften up their defense contractor jobs as "i always wanted to be an astronaut and now i'm a space engineer"

i once again cannot recommend keeping your phone on grayscale enough. it really works as a defense against the brain hacking and now every time i turn it off to prep an image or something i'm horrified. the shade of red instagram uses for likes feels like an actual hook in my actual eye

this are grim on my side of the anglosphere but i gotta tell ya the grass does not look greener

donation is a wonderful name for a beautiful baby xe/xir

setting my phone to grayscale has done wonders for cutting back my screen time but sometimes turning off the brain-hacking colors allows algo-bait dreck to fly under my radar so who's to say if it's good or bad

i think adhd people could really stand to re-evaluate the concept of salad. it takes less waittime than ordering out and it's about as expensive. it's food that we can't forget about making. to prepare a salad requires hyperfixation, turns it to a skill even & the texture can be exactly what u want

that bit about salt losing its saltiness is the funniest thing jesus ever said, the most obvious clue in four books full of them that he was mainly a guy who enjoyed Saying Shit

glenn close 2 for 2 betting the farm on the lib cause celebree's memoir

it's important for your second major work to be a little bit scary

goddammit i didn't want to be part of the Mitski generation

marzipan mascarpone meringue madness would be an absolute textural nightmare. i for one thing it's appalling to see even literal mom & pop bakers like sugarcube corner resort to gimmick recipes with clickable names

you know these people had main character syndrome long before steve apple invented the front facing camera but i gotta hand it to the moral majority psychos of yesteryear, sublimating it into rigorous emotional self-deprivation was at least marginally more tasteful

millennial: iykyk plato: NOT SO FAST

the biggest permanent change to my soul was the first time I was unsure of my next meal. I feel separated from people who've never felt that, even if they recognize its significance. I dread the days when people in my life will feel it for the first time, what it will do to them

i went full King James Only in picking out a tarot manual. i don't want any 21st century postmodern guides for the aspiring influencer. i want the most insane person in all late '70s LA to tell me that i need to sleep with my deck under my pillow to maximally infuse it with my personal vibrations

on independent, values-driven labels like Vernon Yard and Mo' Wax

i'm big on this artist-audience dynamic more broadly. i adore a painting that's like "check it out, it's a shape" and you're like "oh my god, it's a shape." ditto music that's like "this note goes on for a really long time." don't get me started on movies that are like "have you considered: movies"

60°F and overcast in east boston is the exact color palette and skin feel of the shop floor at a costco

this is the 2001 ensemble crime hit should that have gotten a trillion increasingly fantastical sequels instead of Fast and Furious. Clooney and Pitt should be knocking over the world's first space casino. Eddie Jemison should be parleying his fame into a WWE career

the show house transbian either remembered glimpsing me in passing at dyke night or tried to invoke dyke night to "i know you from somewhere" me. i went one time last august and the unrequited thirst is somehow still stuck to me. i hope she follows through on that trad blues project

they had "cellophane" at the karaoke bar and i very nearly chose violence

The Firm style 90s corporate conspiracy thriller about the guy who architects nonstandard storefronts for legally distinct McDonald's when a new location is required to blend in with a town square or w/e

the biggest hurdle to adding baking to my kitchen skillset is not that it's technical or exact, but that it's optimized for producing a huge amount stuff meant to be eaten soon. i literally don't see my friends or even my roommates often enough to offload it all. it's like an endless tomato harvest

eventually Mr. Beast's gladiatorial shows will scale until they market themselves because everyone knows a participant. then it will only a matter of time until governments buy in for gaming tax, welfare distro, and/or carceral purposes, at which point we will actually have squid game in real life

massive surge in the transgender population when a bunch of people try to game the BRICS tribunal's carveout for domestic dissidents only to realize they're not faking it

i love how every movie from like 1930 to 1970 is mostly about people going into and out of doors

just mistyped "Chris Pratt" as "Christ Pratt" and i think i will be continuing to use this term going forward

I worked at a firm that "preserved" obsolete home media by digitizing it. Yet digital archives are fragile & most clients destroyed the hard copies that lasted decades - I came to think of it more like easing the memories into the process of being lost. I feel similarly about bluesky & microblogging

a hyperpop classic youtu.be/I6O2F2DsYmI

it really does speak to how pervasive and extreme transphobia has gotten in this country that i have to go to work

really feeling the love on trans day of visibility, being the entire anglosphere's most sympathetic villain rules

[MI6 offices] MY BOSS: no ARIADNE BLACK: [me] why not MY BOSS: cover names are supposed to be inconspicuous SAMANTHA SHARP: [also me] are these not MY BOSS: you’re just picking names you think sound sexy and intriguing ALEXA STRAP-ON: [still me] no I’m not

the shit you see in instagram ads is all overpriced scams

starting an onlyfans that's all photos of me bedrotting so chasers can jack themselves off on their yearning to fix me

he was right and he should have said it

all that is solid melts into pup cups

George C. Scott at the Doctor Strangelove premiere, realizing Kubrick only used the goofy takes.

you tell a boy you like to cook and then he lights up and says "so do i!" and then excitedly relates that he's just discovered that he can use multiple aromatics in one dish

bees made honey in the lion's skull is better than earth 2 and we all know it i am just stating the truth so you're not allowed to be mad at me :)))

if these people had gotten their llm priesthood their first big schism moment would have been a theological disagreement about how to edit pdf

The Angel of History is trapped in Israel - could not have written a better headline myself

a few months ago i posited that taylor swift makes music for people who don't want to listen to music and i don't think it's a coincidence that there's a significant demo overlap here

what is it about fascism that makes people's voices sound Like That