don’t talk to me after i’ve had my sleepytime tea

this passage from "they call it love" by alva gotby is so good and i would read the heck out of an account of the way attachment theory is weaponized by anti-feminists these days

gen x was a mistake

i’m always seeing the dumbest shit on fb marketplace and thinking omg i neeeeeed it

millay said it best

so many people think that the common cold is caused by cold weather and not a literal viral infection and it’s making me crazy

good lordt

nyc’s ginkgos are at peak yellow

perfect illustration of the homeowner/renter voting split lol

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

becoming anti-immigrant because their food too good their portion sizes too generous my stomach too full

i’m about to load up my worksgiving plate with naan, curry, rice and peas, lumpia, mashed potatoes, knishes, butter chicken, chinese barbecue skewers, idk probably some other things too

someone give me permission to buy the bonne maman advent calendar

human beings are both dependent (or interdependent) and autonomous. this seems pretty obvious to me. human systems (social systems and built environments) can promote autonomy or circumscribe it. it’s a matter of values and priorities

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

HELEN ANDREWS And so what the statistics show, Ross, when you look at it ROSS DOUTHAT Yeah, let’s dig in ANDREWS What they show is that, okay, 98% of boys go to college to get more knowledge DOUTHAT Wow. ANDREWS And almost 97% of girls, in contrast, they go to Jupiter to get more stupider

boys and girls always remember that the best mashed potatoes are the mashed potatoes made with garlic confit

as a woman i have ruined many workplaces

An essential @philipchristman.bsky.social contribution to the Gender Discourse philipchristman.substack.com/p/the-stupid...

all we hear of Women is puritanical & punitive; is there nothing celebratory & joyous? Or is query naive?

“they’re treating the dogs” - helen andrews

“are they doing a bad job at treating the pets” lmaooooo

apparently these are going for over a hundred bucks on ebay now?

got a copy of today’s ny post hehe

lol

it’s a beautiful beautiful morning in new york the greatest city on earth

🥹🥹🥹

it’s good cheney already died because this would have almost certainly killed him

I mean this is so far pretty close to a 10 out of 10 night for Democrats. Winning everywhere! Statewide in PA and GA, huge margin in VA gov race. Sherrill tracking double digits as well! Mamdani above 50% in a the highest turnout in NYC since 1969. Big pick ups in VA House of Delegates.

AND FURTHERMORE … THE MAYOR IS MAMDANI

the half salute emoji was made for the way i feel every time i pass a sliwa poster

election night jitters. pacing around.

tell you what: black bean and butternut squash soup. over rice. hefty squeeze of lime. significant amount of cilantro.

omg zohran quoted dorothy day in one of his campaign videos

post photo editor secretly a mamdani supporter?

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

prayers up for our beautiful boy 🙏🙏🙏

if nothing else will save you a yellow curry might

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

the mayor who never sleeps

jesus

body shaming on fb marketplace

we depressive morning people also hate daylight savings because we savor beginning the day in the dark.

“women’s hotel” is such a wonderful book and i cannot wait for the sequel

people like to say “nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there” about nyc but i think the opposite is true

kind of obsessed with this twitter trad who does not try to hide how much trad life sucks

i’m gonna double vote just to get that sticker

they give you sara teasdale poems as a kid and then expect you to exist under fluorescent lights for the rest of your life

why are the kids saying “uncomfortability”

leeks are so pretty 🥹