You know, not to harp on this, but something's been bugging me about the reactions to Lindsey Graham's death, and I didn't know how to put it into words until this morning. It suddenly hit me not long after I woke up. (thread)

“What’s menopause brain really like?” I just texted my bestie that I couldn’t locate my cell phone… 🙄

Folks, I am a positive person who is happy in my life and who tries to see people’s good side wherever possible and I cannot explain to you how much I fucking hate JKR’s loathsome guts.

As a teen, I threw a few parties at my parents house (billiard ball through the tv comes to mind) and mostly didn’t get caught. Now I have a teen and there is no way they would get away with that. 😂 Too many cameras and I’d see the evidence on insta or some shit.

✍️ Megan Rapinoe, writing for Marie Claire “No girl deserves to be discriminated against. That’s why all girls, including trans girls, should be able to play with their classmates in the sports they love… girls who don’t fit someone else’s expectation of femininity, will face further harassment.”

Pregnancy brain was temporary, menopause brain is worse. I think? Honestly I can't remember. 🤔

Siouxsie of the day 🖤

Meta Glasses: • expensive • impractical • people may judge telling your peers you have visited The Museum of English Rural Life: • free • highly ergonomic • people will instantly fall in love with you

Awww not Sam Neill ☹️ Sam Neill, "One of the secrets of life is to take what you do seriously. But never, never, take yourself seriously, and I never have"

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

We could have always had nice things.

It was an honor to join a home-based providers round-table at Xiomara Family Day Care in the Bronx.   While Wall Street execs make $1,796/hr, child care workers earn a median of $6/hr — a reflection not of their value, but of a system that has failed to value care itself. We're changing that system.

yeah man that guy got canceled. his life got ruined. he has an army of guys that defend him and makes a few grand every month because of them. the woman who canceled him? yeah she did it for the clout only. she's famous. she's known as "the woman who can't go anywhere without immediate harassment"

My body is in July, my brain is somewhere between May 20th and June 6th.

Lest anyone accuse me of bargaining in bad faith here, let me start with this admission: I don't think AI is intelligent; nor do I think that the current (admittedly impressive) statistical techniques will lead to intelligence. 1/

Happy Thick Thighs Thursday to those who celebrate. #crt #retrograming #fgc

Words matter. Precision matters. “Child marriage” is the accepted legal and human rights term, but it is gender neutral. The reality is that the overwhelming majority of child marriages involve girls. We should be careful that our language doesn’t obscure who is most at risk.

One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.

We have 2 more eps of Pluribus to go, and like others, I've been wondering why this one has become such a cultural touchstone NOW (like Widows Bay) and as someone deep in the LLM mines, I think it's def in conversation w/this wave of revulsion for humans from tech bros locusmag.com/feature/comm...

I’m not even ON threads but I’ve seen this more than once, and this is exactly it

It’s 43 minutes past midnight. This is downtown Oslo.

There’s no difference between men marching in white masks and men marching in white hoods. None.

My bestie flew in Sunday (leaving today 😢) so we could bond and decompress after some truly awful months. Sometimes you just need a hug and someone to say "It's going to be ok". Then watch a bad movie and cackle. There was good food, good fun, lots of laughs and some tears. A great visit. 💜

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Had a rather disappointing dinner last night in downtown but my bestie was here visiting so we laughed through the absurdity of it and made it fun anyway. 😆 Getting a week of hugs and support, much needed and just in time for corn sweat weather... feh 🥵

I hate seeing men get scammed like this. Put that money towards therapy and getting a hobby. Therapy will help you be more at peace and the hobby will bring you friends.

A friend texted me to be like "I think Mamdani just froze my rent" They aren't economically precarious, but knowing you won't have to move if you don't want to move is genuinely liberating.

Very proud of @trunkmanuk.bsky.social ‘s incredible work with @cosmicshambles.com and creating this amazing documentary series www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

After 16 months of delays, finally was in court all day Monday. Didn't finish and now have to go back in July. My kid had 2 cavities filled today (after braces wire and brackets off from the ortho, which have to go back on). 7am MRI tmw for suspected herniated disc in my back. Fuck this week.

The women have won four World Cups, but absolutely congratulations to the men for making it to the knockout round. Yes, this is a reminder that the USA has, in fact, won a World Cup — four of them. In case you heard otherwise.

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Not me but my mom once tried to make chocolate cups: you dip balloons into melted chocolate, let harden, pop the balloon, remove it. She got the wrong type of balloons and they all exploded shortly after being dipped. Ceiling to floor, every nook in between, splattered in chocolate.

I'm giving away a signed (and if you want, personalized) advance reader copy of Monsters of Ohio, and you can win it! Go to the link below to find out how to enter the contest, and then leave your entry (there, not here)! You have two days to enter! Good luck! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/19/w...

Spacex is just a continuation of the logic of crypto, in which something is valuable because some people think other people will pay more for it in the future, and *not* because it does useful things: johnquiggin.com/2018/02/09/b... 8/

June 18, 2026

The 17yr-old is talking about his favourite band. "And sometimes they release singles that aren't quite as good, and they call them B-sides, I didn't know why. Have you heard of that? 'B-sides'. Weird." I'm just crumbling away to ancient dust over here.

One bright spot is the knowledge that so MANY people are now seeing that there was ALWAYS money to fix things, improve things, research things. We all could be living better under the taxes we pay. Corps need to be paying more too. We could have clean energy. We KNOW.

Can somebody explain to me why the rule is "if you can't make rent, cut out the streaming apps, lattes, and avocado toasts" but it's never "if you can't afford your workers a living wage, cut out the mega-yachts, rockets, and spaceships."

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the Knicks have not declined a White House visit - despite a meme going around. As of today, they haven’t yet been invited. I hope they do decline, but remember to check for sources before sharing unsubstantiated claims.

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Boss asked me to learn to use Claude, and I've figured out why women aren't adopting AI at the same rate as men: it takes my instructions, uses "logic" to determine that I'm wrong, and give me an incorrect answer to a question I didn't ask. And I don't need machines to replace human male colleagues.

What Ivanka & Jared are doing is worse than I thought they are destroying natural wetlands of Albania. The corruption is unpalatable. Ariel Brunner is fighting them tooth & nail and boy oh boy is he angry. As he should be. Ariel Brunner is Europe & Central Asia Director of BirdLife International.

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

Imagine getting mad about women in video games when you could just shut the fuck up 🥲

Hot take, I think that the “bumbling, incompetent dad” trope is outdated and no longer funny.   Like if you’re an adult man who can’t cook a basic meal or doesn't know how to do laundry, then that’s not funny. That’s pathetic.

Pride

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Happy Pride Month!! 🏳️‍🌈

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