You say I have an anxiety disorder, I say I'm a skilled practitioner in the arts of self-offense

The easiest option for decades has been to recognize Israel's real sovereignty over Palestine & hold them accountable for that. The second-easiest has been to recognize Palestine's legal sovereignty & hold Israel accountable for breaching it. But Israel doesn't want to be accountable to anyone.

Without being able to rebuild a high density urban landscape, Gazans will have to leave or die. You simply can’t support a population that size in tents

I feel like nobody ever talks about the Manhattan Core Parking Regulations

Will you all shut up about that mostly-debunked (if once sincerely believed) "Palestina was invented as erasure of Judea by Hadrian" nonsense? It's really embarrassing to see otherwise intelligent people still repeating this line.

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

“oh that's what you call anyone who calls out the genocide in Gaza” No, we actually have memories and can recall what she said about us before, idiots

"Tits or ass?" bro her fricatives

Oh Lord the Sadness is here

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

There is nobody I enjoy remembering exists every few years more than Mike Posner. Everyone else it's like "ugh, that guy is still alive?" But with Mike Posner it's like "hey Mike is still alive! What's he up to?"

Do we think if I fast on Tuesday I will be zoicha to a shidduch

english degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you coding degree: good luck getting a job, buddy! AI can replace you film degree: your deep knowledge of behind the scenes stories from Who Framed Roger Rabbit will delight and entertain coworkers in any field for decades to come

Gen Z are romantacizing 2008 - 2011 on tiktok and while I look back at those years as pretty bad, I do wish to relive 2008 once more just to appreciate Obamamania as an adult. I only got to experience it as a kid and in otherwise dark times it seemed so enthralling.

you should only have to consult a map to navigate by bus, not a schedule too. transfers should be simple: get off at one stop and wait 5ish minutes for the connecting bus

A pop song for the evening

I shall not make a snow man, nor a snow angel, nor even a snow djinn

IMO a massive impact of the suburban shift is that the center of gravity of the GOP has moved from the suburb to the exurb

I do think probably the most influential demographic/cultural shift of the last decade or two is that rural America has become culturally and political homogenous practically overnight

Daddy Yankee Candle

This little tiff reminded me of this great piece about why political parties are illegal in the United States. We don't have parties like they exist elsewhere in the world, & so our expectations about them are all screwed up. Which is too bad, because democracy is unthinkable without parties.

talking to my mom who is a pediatrician in a rural area and… the whole antivaxx thing is so much worse than you can imagine RFK Jr. should be sent to The Hague

It just bothers me when people talk about LLMs have like, some inherent drive to help people to self harm No they don't this was a choice made by a company to not put guardrails on their tools

For example Google is ALSO a tool to carry out certain administrative functions and if you try to use Google for self harm it's difficult to do, Google's search engine will direct you to real people who will give you therapy first

Got some bad news for everyone invested in my love life

“I feel like butter scraped over too much bread” is the most hobbity way to describe being corrupted by an ancient artifact of evil.

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

Imagine how many lives could've been saved if Djordje Martinović had been that comfortable.

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I’m Italian(-American) and one of our cultural traditions is making several different kinds of fish (7) on Christmas Eve, and a couple years ago we started outsourcing part of this to the local Japanese restaurant because some of the fish we bought had gone bad and a sushi platter is fun. (1/2)

This is the US government implying that my family is not truly American despite my father's family coming over 100 years ago

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I'm...gay?

WOMEN

Who is Rama Duwaji's hair stylist

had a fascinating exchange about immigration with an Englishman who seemed rather taken aback that my response to "so you don't think England should be able to maintain its own borders" was "correct", when you spend half a millennium not respecting anyone else's border you don't get to have one

The thing about having a crush on your eye doctor is that it really makes you aware of how intimate an experience the eye exam is: you're in a dark room with the doctor and they get up super close to you and look deeply into your eyes.

What if we had a nebula subscription...

there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food

Just a reminder that Trump has, on camera, bragged about walking in on Miss Teen USA contestants changing and explained his 17-year-old daughter asked him not to “date” girls younger than her. I’m not sure what’s true in the Epstein Files, but when you recall those facts it all seems plausible

In the last two weeks he's put his name on the Kennedy Centre, pushed "Trump accounts" for every kid and just announced a new Golden Fleet of Trump Battleships. And we're still in the first year of his term! This time next year, will the date be Trumpday the 23rd of Trump, twenty-twenty-trump?

"Any Catholics on the production team were the kind that don't wash the ashes off their forehead on Ash Wednesday."--my sister

My New Year menu has gotten unexpectedly Latino somehow. Which is fine, I just need to decide on a suitable salad

Also it’s not a story about the courts hashing out what is exactly kosher and what isn’t (which hasn’t gone well at all for the administration). It’s a story about migrants claiming asylum being brutalized at a prison in a third country where we shipped them.

As for the legal theory, they're facing contempt hearings for flying people to El Salvador after judges told them to knock it off. It's not 60 Minutes job to make the legal case the administration has failed to make, that's the administration's job.

Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

I wanna kiss this woman's face

He says this in spite of the non-Christian Americans our democracy is supposed to represent, in spite of his American wife and their children, and in spite of the Constitution he swore to uphold

Got this pet peeve of when people say things like "it's almost the holidays," "the holidays are coming up" in the middle of Channukah. Like bro just say it's almost Christmas it's fine we won't judge you for thinking more about the holiday you actually celebrate