I found a book I want to translate and I haven’t felt like this since before my PhD program tried to murder me (only a slight exaggeration) I live!

My county is auctioning off a 10ft long taxidermied alligator hope it finds a forever home

Hilarious to me that the instructions on churu packet tell me I should “not allow cat to bite or chew packaging”

What a great day this is

The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.

Sending out an Xmas wish that everyone furious about this story will remember that the things they’re mad about (controlling behavior, financial manipulation, narcissism, general toxicity) are extremely present in marriage under patriarchy

There are forms of engagement that are not debate and we should all give them a try

If this is the state of things then I should be allowed, as a treat, to pretend I completed my PhD and refer to myself as Dr in non professional settings, such as when talking to my dogs

Imagine being attacked in court, more than once, by a sitting president, and then almost immediately going back to court to help other people. I admire this woman so much!

Have you no decency sir? *Has a panic attack*

Gingerbread data center

I’m going to live long enough that we can joke about all of this, explain it to people who are infants now

We have oil tankers at home

So America what’s new

Happy for Letitia James, an honest to god hero

This isn’t a ghost story, it’s a story about political violence. Which is a ghost story in the sense that it’s almost never over

I’m glad we hope that by appealing to sympathy (it is a human rights abuse to murder people in cold blood in international waters) but I have to say yet again, the problem with the appeal to sympathy is that people have an extremely limited ability

I get wildly anxious about my written work and I’m genuinely feeling empathy for Olivia Nuzzi, who has written a terrible book and published it, my worst nightmare

I once attended a talk on this subject and they said in Roman times there was suspicion about whether 'blind beggars' were faking it and getting stuff 'they didn't deserve'. A toxic anxiety as old as time.

Please stop emailing me now, brands

There’s nothing that can beat learning another language. Travel and reading come close, but hearing your own voice form new sentences is a voyage all its own

I have a cure for the male loneliness epidemic Barbershop quartet You’re welcome

I have ordered churu for the outdoor cats that I keep insisting are not my cats

Happy thanksgiving everybody!

I have a weird hope that this administration will simply become unfashionable like lo rise jeans

Looking forward to all your thanksgiving content

I think music has had enough men with guitars. Let's try other combinations of genders and instruments.

#bird lovers: can someone help me ID this raptor visitor to my yard? Is it a type of falcon? I only caught a few pics from this angle.

Walked out my front door and immediately saw two corgies - a blessing

Beanie (below) semi feral cat who herds me to the garage every morning and gives me head bonks in return for crunchies, has a kitten intern now

Manufacturing consent lol

So anytime there is mild complaint, if society deigns to notice ongoing violent crimes, it’s a personal attack on this one guy. Seems weird right

lol the bank we just HAD to save during the financial crisis our special golden boy our pet bank

More buildings should looks like cakes and fewer cakes should look like other things

Dreamed I had not paid the rent on a vacation house I do not have

Ever feel like we are all stuck in the last 20-30 seconds of Texas chainsaw massacre

Not the point but 15k at Cartier is uh nothing at all

You’re not allowed to do anything about it either, but it’s deeper than that. We have so far to go to actually get accountability and change. For now they don’t even want us to register our discontent with abuse and rape

And, reminder, if ANYONE tries to excuse underage rape or sexual assault, you can just straight up say to their face "it's rape of a child" and let them sit with that discomfort. There are no excuses. And underage is NOT "barely legal".

This piggy thing is just making me think about the shining what a great film

Even w its non stop presence on social media this week I haven’t seen anyone offer a good piece on what sexual abuse / rape really is. Short answer, it’s torture. Intentionally inflicted politically motivated torture in service of a power structure

Sometimes when I get stressed out to an existential degree my brain tells me wildly stupid jokes and man do we laugh

Honestly surprised at this point they’re not giving Epstein the Charlie Kirk treatment. The NYT gave it the ol college try

Thinking about Larry Summers and then thinking again about Claudine Gay.

Also I just wanna say that the idea that me too was a walk in the park and it could happen to anyone at random... Literally go fuck yourself.

The last thing I’m gonna say about the current news cycle is that there are people all around you carrying the enormous pain of having been abused underneath the brave face they had to learn to wear. Listen to survivors who are ready to talk. Do not press those who are not. And step gently.

One thing I’ll say about the NYT, it really has its finger on the pulse of a certain type of guy

I was in a fury for 36 hours but have now (yet again) accepted that this country will never love me & I’m only here to look at dogs and eat cake until I slip my mortal coil

A man has just said something outrageous to me about the Epstein story and I am not kicking him please reward this adult behavior

Many people are asking!