"There are a lot of parts of life in our city that we have just come to accept as if it's the cost of being a New Yorker, when in fact, these are political decisions and political choices" is the most succinct summary of the governance crisis plaguing Democrats in large cities I've ever heard

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jackson telling an interviewer his new album is all about fucking "because i really like sex" never stop my guy. and hey if you're ever in my neck of the woods,

Niche YouTuber video essayists should be more often eligible for public arts grants.

More people should be over-serious about horoscopes because pretending they are cringe produced a decade of interminable Buzzfeed Disney Princess personality quizzes and also undergirds the attachment people have to the fucking Hogarth Houses (barf).

TV show too short, movie too long.

YA book drama is no more or less immature than book drama in genre fiction. People just like to act like it is because it’s a lot of young women are doing it.

Whoever pioneered the way people market books by just a list of tropes, I should be allowed to hunt them for sport.

Fellas, is it gay to be employed?

My current understanding of private equity is that it’s nothing more than a support group for Daddy’s Special Little Boys, except instead of processing their feelings they buy up companies that they don’t understand and then work together to do everything they can to actively make them worse.

being a guy in a mostly woman office environment is the greatest gig in human history if they can just get over the "treat them like people" hurdle

remembered a good tweet

I love that the word "they" replaced could refer to either a woman or multiple people. People who can get pregnant ARE plural sometimes! And it's often long before you, an observer, can tell!

I am looking to hire an artist for my next project. It's a comedy game about playing the lackeys of a supervillain. Looking for a comics style with slightly exaggerated character design. If you're available for work, feel free to comment or DM a link to your portfolio.

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

Shopify has forced me to remove Chole's pack from our site. We will have to wait until the TrueRef web app we're working on launches late this year to publish any more full-nude packs. I'm angry, but unsurprised. (1/3)

"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."

the actual eroticism of hurt/comfort is that the comfort is an element of the hurt. it is painful for those wounds to be tended to, it is humiliating to be vulnerable in that way, and they are forced to bear it. THAT is what’s horny about it

when we say that censorship is coming for everyone, we mean *everyone*

Most schools are more direct about it. They call it "Gender balancing," but it's a fancy way of saying that if they made it fair and equal, most colleges would be over 70% women. As it is, most US colleges are already over 60% women, mostly white.

Race is a stronger predictor of Trump support than gender. The only two demographics that majority support this far right masculinity, are white men, and white women. The growing skew between genders' political views, is extreme in "white countries and Korea." That's not the whole world.

This video has the correct concepts, but unfortunately pointed in the wrong direction. The perceived status loss isn't gender. It's whiteness. Again, the majority of white women voters, voted for Trump, 3 times in a row. Black men see themselves as more masculine, and 9/10 vote against Trump. 🙂🙃

That's part of it. The other part of it is that once you control for detrimental sexism, women perform better at higher education than men.🤷🏿‍♂️ This is true across races, and across countries. This isn't gender essentialism. This is sexism making women into better students. Applied effort over time.

Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.

when i was 12 i had this crush on this girl and didnt knoq how to deal with it so i wrote her a letter that just said "get out of my atelier"

When I was thirty and working retail with 18-22 year olds they would be like “there’s not that much difference between us!” But there was. They didn’t understand. There was

much has been said about the "old man" trope and the warped perception of age in tales rpgs but being in your thirties and acting like a senior citizen around 16-year-olds goes crazy sometimes

oh, this is very important to know!!

Bari Weiss’s CBS News? Hegseth is toast lol

the prophecy....

When I denounce genocide or make a joke about overly sensitive conservatives on my stream, 50% of my audience doesn't cry foul. Maybe 0.1% does, and I never recognize their username. These people are saying "your audience" when in reality they mean "50% of the population" which is different. LOL.

People keep telling me that Instagram is designed to keep me on the app and addicted to scrolling but I literally cannot spend more than 70 seconds there, its the digital equivalent of the stuff you used to put on a kids thumb so stop them sucking it

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

seems p. clear that Pierre called his boss the minute he got out of that Pentagon meeting and Leo DID NOT TAKE IT WELL because he - the only Pope in history who has ever been to a Fourth of July barbecue!!! - declined a direct invite from the White House to be a VIP guest at the America250 shindig

okay so Lampedusa was Pope Francis' first official papal trip outside Rome on July 8, 2013. it's a small island in the Mediterranean that is a landing point for migrant crossings to Europe. Pope Leo is doing a bunch of Italian pastoral visits in July and COULD have gone here on the 8th, but did not

it's like VERBATIM that meme about adult Catholic converts except they're doing it completely without irony

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Until I heard about Robin McKinley in a Babysitter’s Club Book (really) every single fantasy novel I picked up until the age of 14 was about some teen boy finding out he had a destiny. Every single one!

Oh yeah definitely the one thing sci fi and fantasy has been missing is the male gaze

did a little poster for Nosferatu, please like and subscribe

All-new Taskmaster is BACK! Hooray! Tune in from 9pm TONIGHT on Channel 4 to witness the excellent class of Series 21. Also available around the world on YouTube! Phwoar!

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You gotta scroll past that google AI answer, always. Click the “web“ search or whatever other tricks you use to avoid the AI overview. Don’t believe it even when you’re sure it’s right. Find what you’re looking for for real

Genuinely will never in my life get past Zoro saying the phrase “Funky bar? Mirror Ball Island?” when trying to establish if he’s seen the arc’s queer-coded villain before. Funniest, gayest string of words in the english language

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Local TV leads its Iran coverage by saying the "deal" includes "reopening" the Strait of Hormuz, but then adds that Iran will manage the Strait and charge fees. So, the Strait is *less* accessible than before the war. Media outlets don't need to accept the administration's framing of this ceasefire.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.