Day two of mamdani new york and I’m hearing reports that they’re forcing everyone - kids, dogs, hedgefund daddies - to do mutual aids. Mutual aids everywhere, clip boards, soup cans, clothing drives everywhere, people are being aided, suits are openly weeping in the streets

Sometimes I just want to have a word with people who design things. I would ask them if they’ve ever experienced a thing ever in their lives

me as the Bachelorette: "family is the third most important thing to me ☺️ first is my cat, and next is a really good tiramisu"

My review of one battle after another: doing revolutionary vigilante crimes CAN be quite horny yes!

now that we've had some time to reflect on the Me Too movement - for what was an important moment for mostly women victims to regain their power has also become the groundswell for men to judge their actions and morality. and not for who they hurt but how they're perceived

Shoutout to everyone online who’s had good home training at home - it shows and I appreciate you

(Talking to my young daughter this christmas) now don’t be alarmed if santa looks a little bit different this year - he’s on a glp 1

i'm sorry the hill i guess i will die on is that Girls *was* revolutionary (in the way that I Love LA isn't - as much as i'm enjoying it) Lena did something groundbreaking in her writing & portrayal of young women at the time, and how they/we were coping, how bodies and sex were represented

The human condition is vast and complex — it’s produced the likes of both Erica Kirk and Ned Fulmer

We talk a lot about emotional safe spaces online but some days it feels like there is a lack of INTELLECTUAL SAFETY when u enter some corners of the internet do you know what I mean that buffoon 1+1=3 logic that makes pretty stupid shit spiral into ginormous discourses every day

I, the owner of a privatized prison, am looking for a successful draconian private equity firm to seize control of our facilities so that we can maximize profits while maintaining our usual barbaric and punitive standards on ppl we no longer deem to be full ppl. Can you help?

the rise of Klarna and buy now pay later programs is a huge recession indicator and also a good time to remind us of a simple piece of financial advice i heard when i was younger: buy into what you can sustainably afford these programs will suck you DRY for a moment of instant gratification

i do believe to a real extent that you can find most answers you're asking chatgpt by just adding "reddit" to the google search bar. good reddit threads have never disappointed me

with our communication and mediation continuing to skew to tech and immediacy, some friends (who don't live near me) and I have started to try writing to each other via email and physical mail 🥰 it's been so lovely in contrast

something weird and random is popping up on tiktok videos, especially mundane "DIML" ones geolocated in nyc — it's a banner link to a third party vendor called Viator that does diff tour guides around the city

Anyone who currently uses aave or drag derived lingo needs to watch paris is burning or any earlier educational texts

The only good algorithm hole on most visual platforms is when u like one shrimp meme or image ur page is blasted with like a million shrimps

the reason we're not in a recession officially is because billionaires are passing around their billions toward AI to inflate its value while we're all scrambling underneath their games and losing work (and our minds!!!) to it

It is absolutely psycho when execs of social services or the arts make crazy cuts to “optimize” and expect the result or product to remain good

Can I be vulnerable. After hearing about the successful heist all I can think about is stealing whenever I step foot in a museum or gallery now (in a purely curious and imaginative and logistical way lol I am not planning to steal, maybe ever)

Not to take the hones off taylor swift directly but bc she is more of a corporation today than she’s artistry i do wonder how much her stockbroker dad and her team out for domination influence how she sees/steers her career and how much she connects commercial success with art in general because

Los Angeles is the first place i've ever been or lived where people as a practice and/or culture actively forage and harvest aura

I would pay real money to watch someone who's very in touch with their blackness talk to candace owens about her relationship to hers

sometimes the NYT editorial strategy (especially its op-eds) is how do we create rage bait dressed in something pseudointellectual that we'll defend with after it gets people properly angry and does absolutely nothing to push the issues discussed in the article further

y'all my teen friend/a darling girl i mentor/a very talented baker in long beach made a "bake stand" for her goods - it's an honor system where apparently people pay on their own (though she has cameras on it) and she says she's been getting some good honest customers and no theft so far !!!!

Somewhere between heaven and hell is the internet

i hope we can all realize one day that MrBeast stunt philanthropy — albeit very "giving" in one singular moment — ultimately benefits the giver, in tax write-offs, and building good pr, in reinstating the top-down infrastructure that relies on "benevolent" rich people to trickle assets down from

this is an incredible and thorough and important anthro history of hollywood — and what drying up money means for the future of an industry that's been built off of the funding of rich people who don't know how the creative process works harpers.org/archive/2024...

it's amazing and tragic to see how tech has pushed and then completely cut the limbs off of the creative and art industry

all traditional old guard publications have the opportunity right now to become a trusted source for the younger, less passive/centrist/neutered generation, and no one is taking it

with more job cuts and inflation it feels like americans are forced into a second pandemic in some ways — though this time a willful one, or from unfortunate circumstances, and where this government will blame you for being in the situation you're in

Britney eats away at us because I think we know she was born a talented pure person but in the wrong family and with the wrong guidance. And now we see what happens

I am so not interested in my spotify wrapped this year (recession indicator!!!!!!!!)

(Influencerly) anyone who knows me knows that I love food and LITERALLY NEED the air around me to breathe

good on countries that are putting profit over people by passing legislation to safeguard our privacies and emotional wellbeings (and those of teens and kids) and may this country feel a tinge of shame for passively admitting that they/we simply don't care

I think a brand or company’s public proclamation to be 100% anti AI is going to be the new DEI lip servicey thing to curry favor with customers to push sales but I can’t trust those companies actually internalize what being “anti AI” means and how they’ll push policies within

mitski's "Living For The Knife" is one of my all time faves - just a song that is beautifully written and constructed with her usual brutal truths and brave poetry. it always instantly puts me in a place. comfortable but challenging

Things that build character and perspective: -working in any public-facing job and/or customer service -adversity (financially, or any systemic intergenerational oppression, mental illness, etc) -a really good family who teaches u without having to undergo life's hazing rituals

TW: extreme earnestness online On a day like today, I’m compelled to be thankful for my family and friends, in all their/our shared imperfectness and quirks, and the comforts and access I have that we now see can be so easily taken away. I’m also thinking of people who are without family, or who…

I’m watching movies from the 90s and 00s and you can tell some of the asian side characters were played by asian americans that had to put on cartoony accents 😭 my poor brothers and sisters

very much appreciate this framework/definition of "capitalism" that has become a throwaround word for maybe "oppression" wherein i have even forgotten its roots and original design www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I swear if your human goldendoodle dares try to look me in the eyes again

Lizza and Nuzzi — too many z’s in one couple name!!!!!

The biggest takeaway so far from the nuzzi/lizza chronicles is how hard it is to do sexting that isn’t gross or embarrassing

Imagining mamdani getting a text from his wife that’s like “how did it go” and he goes “dude” (that would be me)

Oh, reader, it gets much worse

In all seriousness, mamdani probably used the same tactics that newsom and smarter dems have to charm and appeal to trump’s ego but mamdani is smarter to know he needs that man on his side than his enemy to get anything done

So I opened ryan lizza’s latest blog, and then I closed ryan lizza’s latest blog

He’s never looked at his spouse or any of his children that way

If I were a serious political journalist I would absolutely use “rizzed up” in a headline about mamdani’s meeting (effect) with (on) trump