I am once again renewing my plea for a show about public defenders.

OK here's the thing. Nosferatu traditionally does have a rapey element to it, of course. But afaik it's only in Eggers' 2024 version that Ellen gets raped by Orlok as a child, making the whole story about a woman trying and failing to escape her childhood rapist.

I'm loving the hater energy in the quotes, maybe especially for movies that I really liked ?? I get mad at a lot of movies, but Deadpool's the only one I've walked out of.

If AOC runs for president I don't think I be able to handle the psychic damage of seeing all the media portray her as stupid or naive.

... as it moves PREPOSTEROUSLY under the water to find food: mostly invertebrates, tiny fish. It's like a robin raised by ducks. At some points, it's 'flying' underwater or swimming. At other times, it just *walks along the bottom*. That's not how it's supposed to work, water ouzel!

in 2023 when I was organizing parents against our archbishop’s transphobic new school guidelines, one dad asked how loud I thought it was prudent for us to be, given how punitive the Archbishop is. I was like “loud enough that all the trans/nb kids at your parish see it” and he was like “…. oh”

Cop: Can you describe the man who stabbed you? Me: He kept going like this [stabbing motion]

“previn has been in the news since her emails with jeffrey epstein were unearthed along with the rest of his files. i felt strange reading their warm correspondence with each other and couldn’t put my finger on why until i realized this was the first time i had ever seen a shred of her personality.”

in other news, please post about something else than dem primary discourse. we cannot do 2028 dem primary discourse this early. dear lord.

"I still haven’t been able to find out who made it—there’s no record of it anywhere as a listed artwork" I like the idea that these words burned themselves up from inside of the rock itself, using its last remaining orogenic energy to memorialise lost immensities.

I know I'm old because I'm not going to call it "socials." It's social media.

When we talk about the ~ozempic discourse~ it's easy to think about that as a kind of broad social or marketing pressure that's applied equally to everyone with a body. It's worth noting that it shows up in more acute & targeted ways, too. I'm getting more emails like this one than I have in years.

Crazy that they're still doing the style hacks from when I was a teenager reading Seventeen magazine. "You can wear a scarf as a shirt" "Turn your longsleeve button-down into a strapless top" No. No, that's not real life.

Don't be mean

What I wouldn't give to run around like a dog... they're so capable and happy. I'm slow and heavy and my lungs hurt. 😔

I love how many "innovations in weird shapes" 3d printing has catalyzed.

Fantastic play-by-play thread of Bad Bunny's halftime show, including awesome alt text. I learned a lot.

Yayyyy

i like all the different types of helmets they have now. every few seconds a guy will cross the screen who looks like he asked his mom who doesn't watch football to make him a helmet for christmas

Tuning into the non-woke alternative Puppy Bowl (it’s 3 lizards in a toilet)

Never thought I'd become such a big Green Day fan

These Claude ads owe Black Mirror a check. It’s beat for beat that episode with Rashida Jones.

I drove past a high school this afternoon and some of the kids pointed and laughed at me ? Am I cringe?? Am I chopped??

And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

May I simply suggest that anyone who finds any part of feeding themselves "easy" count their lucky stars?

I'm really not into the "you're an idiot and a freak if you don't like cooking" discourse. But do I really wanna mute "food" and "cooking" and "grocery shopping"?

We need to rehabilitate the "girlboss" as a concept, seeing how it took approximately 2.5 seconds for us to go from deciding they were cringe to a rapeboss taking over the world.

Nothing makes me feel Doomed like this kind of refusal to engage with women's oppression without finding some subcategory of women to blame. The only context for this post is someone saying patriarchy is a problem, and the immediate response is that it's women's fault for allowing it.

Thinking about becoming a Houseplant Person

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Pretty sure being a billionaire would also drive me insane/depressed but I think I'd have the strength of character to solve that by giving most of it away.

Made a few more today and learning you can make pretty much any stick into a whistle. This one works. 🌱

Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.

Has anybody written/talked about how the skills needed most in organizing/activism are often the biggest weaknesses or insecurities for people with ADHD? Being consistent, planning, making decisions in ambiguous situations, being motivated by larger/distant goals, building relationships?

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

I need to read more real news, bc I'm not naive enough to 100% believe what I read on here, but not discerning enough to filter out what's bullshit. So I'm just running around with beliefs that I'm like 70-80% sure are true.

Foskeia pelendonum is a newly discovered dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous (120 million years ago). This chicken-sized herbivore has unique cranial and dental morphology that changes the current understanding of ornithischian phylogeny! 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Mfers be like "hand wash only." Brother, you are going in the Machine.

i was raised on liberal democracy so all that "vote-scolding" shit never hit for me, i believe in begging for the vote. outside in the rain, crying, throwing up, just for a ballot. thats your role as a citizen

There's also something about all the people insisting "they're CHILDREN" and "it's literal pedophilia" that makes me wonder why *teen* girls aren't worthy enough victims to care about. Teenagers aren't children but they still deserve protecting.

Like I almost feel gaslit by some of you who seem to want to convince me that I did not grow up in a culture that openly celebrated teenage girls as the peak of female sexual attractiveness and talked about them as the forbidden fruit that all men secretly list after.

GIRLS ONLY WANT ONE THING

You can't even say "women" anymore

you ever choke up at predictive text

This whole thread is so upsetting. I guess I thought our city/county leaders were better than this.

Canonically in the multiverse a bad timeline splits off when something that obviously was the proper thing to happen is wrongfully prevented from happening, so the only hope is to go back and do it right, oh, I see the Seahawks will be meeting the Patriots in the Super Bowl

This conversation with Ashley St Clair (MAGA influencer who had a baby with Elon Musk) is worth a listen. It is very good of Matt Bernstein and June, who was a target of Ashley's, to be generous enough to faciliate this and allow her to take accountablity publicly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-p...

from The Everything App...Marshawn Lynch riding a bike to Lumen

There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start

No, people just need to stop universalizing risk profiles.