This is my thought as well. Maybe the price of most consumer goods has not increased faster than wage growth, but the cost of housing definitely has, and the niceness and affordability of your home probably has a greater impact on your sense of financial wellness than that of your TV.

You cannot make me hand it to the Catholic Church, one of the most destructive and vicious organizations in world history, but if this is what turns Christians against him, fine

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

If Pope Leo personally excommunicates JD Vance, I will take a 48 hour break from bringing up how he has an entire section of his Wikipedia devoted to all the child molesters he protected.

Ahh, lookit Bezos got a shill to write his sour grapes because his billionaire butt is never going further than LEO. (LEO is playing on easy mode. Deep space is hard.) Julia Cartwright, how does it feel to be his discarded kleenex? Because, babe, he used you like a Fleshlight.

it's amazing how far this total myth that real rednecks are somehow all communists has spread. i've lived in the south my entire life and there is just absolutely no proof of this at all

If you were wondering if actually being a therapist with identical credentials to your own therapist would prevent your therapist from assuming she knows more about your mental illness than you do... I'm afraid the answer is no.

All my friends are recommending it but I saw an episode summary about a kid having an asthma attack because his family lost Medicaid... I already work in a Medicaid clinic. I don't watch TV to be reminded of the failures of the American healthcare system.

why did Melania say this at her press conference?

you ever notice how media uses this weird framing when talking about men and boys? it's always, "hmm, women are doing better according to this specific metric. how do we help men get back on top?"

If you’re not describing the job categories with the growth, you’re obscuring something. And the most likely factor worth hiding? That the growth is low-pay, low-respect service industries like childcare, elder care, low skill health & cleaning. Desperation jobs, taken because her kids must be fed.

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

I don't think it's a "problem" that there are fewer teen pregnancies. I think fewer teen pregnancies is a good thing, actually,

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

John Cena is a master of defusing questions designed to get celebrities to say controversial things. Truly, a master of the craft.

When I was in high school I built a huge amount of my personality around hating Twilight (in a fun-hating feminist way, not in a not like other girls way) and now whenever it comes up I feel extraordinary fondness. Thank you Stephenie Meyer for teaching me the forbidden pleasures of being a hater.

People often preface posts with “not to be a Reddit atheist but—“ and I really don’t think that’s necessary. This country absolutely needs a militant “get religion out of government” movement right now. Any person of sincere religious conviction should 100% agree with that and be a part of it

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

this waiter is currently in your Bluesky mentions

One of my tiniest pet peeves as a therapist is how often people say "you need therapy" when what they mean is "you need a better way to manage your mental health." There are MANY effective ways to manage your mental health, and therapy is only one of them!

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

can't believe I have to say this, but PSA, the tortoise is not dead, I repeat, the tortoise is not dead

christ millennials we have got to let the younger generations break our balls about our dumb bullshit. epic bacon garbage and so forth. did none of you learn the golden rule of ballbreaking: the more you gripe about it the more of it you bring rightly down on yourself

This still makes no sense to me. What you say as a therapist to a client isn't just "speech," it's medical treatment.

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

The data is really clear: the foundational mechanism of change in psychotherapy is the therapeutic relationship itself. You cannot have a relationship with an app. You can only have a delusion about having a relationship with an app. This shit is criminally negligent malpractice.

If you can’t afford a therapist, please just buy a workbook or idk smoke weed like a normal person. At least no one ever died from doing that.

I cannot tell you how facile the argument is that therapists have "freedom of speech" to practice conversion therapy on our clients. Therapists do not have "freedom of speech" within our therapy sessions. There are MANY things I cannot say to my patients without being disciplined by my board.

Just to share something that's helping me combat that "no one is doing anything" feeling: Veterans for Peace and the Center on Conscience & War have been putting up billboards outside military bases offering free legal and logistical support to servicemembers who want tf out.

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

All I'm going to say that: If I had never done a thing, I wouldn't be so quick to jump into discussions about whether "AI" can do the thing.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

"These women might be afraid that a man will one day ask them to be polyamorous ... but I think there’s a crueler mental jockey wielding the whip. Women fear being publicly humiliated by their male partners, whatever form that humiliation takes." <3 @charoshane.bsky.social

The weird frustrating thing about writing and editing a book just for you is that you have no idea when you're done. I keep announcing that my first major revision is finished and I'm ready for people to read it, then going "wait, never mind, found another thing I need to fix" the next day.

Zooming out, looking at the discourse of the last six months between the release of West End Girl and now Adult Braces, the broader cultural obsession with poly under duress narratives probably IS part of the wider conservative backlash.

Watching that Inside the Manosphere documentary and so far my favorite part is the first big alpha male dude admitting he would not say this shit in front of his mother

Evergreen reminder that having a Harry Potter tattoo is cringe, but having had a Harry Potter tattoo that you spent blood and money to cover up because you love trans people is sexy and cool! Cover up your Harry Potter tattoo! It will bring you so much relief! DM me &I'll help you workshop a design!

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

in 2026 harry potter fandom is sort of like refusing to tip your cashier. no one can stop you from doing this modestly antisocial thing. but seems to me like no one is making you publicly defend it either

Having finished Adult Braces now, I think herein lies the primary failure of the narrative. West reckons with a number of ways her husband hurt her and how they dealt with them, but this sort of original sin of the whole poly negotiation is left unaddressed and looms heavily over the whole story.

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Honestly it feels unkind to even weigh in on the Discourse but maybe we could consider that individual women's relationships are not the make-or-break test for Feminism.

I will probably have more to say after I actually read Adult Braces, but when you have publicly promoted your own marriage as proof that fat women are lovable, it is obviously going to be catastrophic to your brand to write a memoir about your husband acting like he hates you.

This is completely unbearable. But also like… why are his insane ramblings never summarized like this in the media? We gotta wait for a substack guy to put it together like this?

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Universities have been turning discretionary spending over to people with mostly Events backgrounds to enhance “student experience” and now that choice has inevitably come for the curriculum.

Breaking: 100% of self-identified Beliebers approve of Justin Bieber

I think a lot about the impact of my screen time on my mental health, being that I historically have quite high screen time and quite low mental health. But I seem to have stumbled on a method for making my life feel more offline and fulfilling without actually reducing my screentime much at all.