if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble

Can someone who knows explain the reason Brits seem SO much more willing to give ongoing Harry Potter projects a pass or even happily participate? Is it national pride? Or is it that TERFS are just seen as less hateful there than the average progressive American finds them to be?

Something I heard from editors when pitching my memoir was that they didn’t feel emotionally “hooked” by the material. To be fair, this can be hard w/a proposal format, but it’s ALSO hard b/c writing about yourself is scary & self-protective mechanisms work counter to the goal of bearing hard truths

The way people’s logistical brains (I’m sure I’m guilty of it too) break on airplanes due to manufactured scarcity of space & resources is really something. If you need to get something BEHIND me & you step in FRONT of me, you have now blocked YOURSELF from the item. But you ARE “in front,” I guess!

This was something I worried about when the Covid shutdowns narrative was a generalized panic of “Kids are ‘falling behind’!” w/out a robust pedagogical convo about how to ACTUALLY support learning. Like so many Covid “opportunities” to change systems for the better, we let this one get away from us

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

There is a vast chasm btwn the assumed norms of someone who thinks it’s fine to bring a “surprise friend” to an intimate get together/outing & someone who thinks this is a fundamental breach of trust & it would save everyone SO much time if these two types of people just steered clear of each other.

Btw, being open re:your personal beliefs AND making it clear to your students that you’ll always grade them on the merit of their arguments even when their beliefs differ from yours is actually the ONLY way to win any respect/trust from conservative students, it’s just that it doesn’t always work.

The thing about the Oklahoma University student's shitty paper that I keep thinking about is how much it reminds me of when Bari Weiss's sister got national media attention for writing an open letter to all the schools she didn't get into.

Every one of these kids thinks they’re William Jennings Bryan in the Scopes fucking Monkey Trial but they don’t know that even HE knew his biblical premise was shit but he did it anyway b/c he was worried about the (very real) threats that SOCIAL Darwinism posed for mainstreaming eugenics¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Welp, I can cross “flight cancelled because the fuel truck busted a hole in the plane” off my bingo card apparently

I named my fists Kamtza and Bar Kamtza cuz they’re the reason you’re gonna get destroyed.

This specific three paragraph AI slop format insta account shit is fucking everywhere now. I keep blocking on site but it’s a scourge.

Watching The Rock for the first time. Already losing my mind.

My favorite fact about Tom Stoppard is that he uncreditedly punched up the script to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and if you rewatch it it is extremely obvious where he laid his hands on it & that he undoubtedly made it at least 2x better than whatever they started with.

Listen…

So glad all the level heads that told us we were being hysterical to sound the alarm on maga fascism way back in 2015 prevailed.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

He’d be a tragic figure if he was actually capable of learning anything from his own suffering.

My father-in-law’s reactions watching When Harry Met Sally for the first time are priceless lol

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

Who can play the most ethnicities without people getting offended and why is it Tony Shalhoub?

Happy Thanksgiving

We should be treating this exactly like the lady who fell in love with Martin Shkreli if Martin Shkreli had also become the Secretary of Health and Human Services in part because of her coverage.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’

Based Chicago Pope.

Child abuse.

Just because Trump brought RFK Jr. aboard to firm up the kook vote doesn't mean health writers have to keep looking for some kernel of truth in there somewhere.

Something about me: I LOVE diaspora Judaism. I PREFER it to a Judaism that privileges a specific ethnic homeland. I think the diaspora is a large part of what makes our culture so rich & resilient, & what has kept it vibrant & relevant for thousands of years. I’m a Jewish Diaspora Apologist¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Can Jews Save the West?” is the most pick-me shit I’ve ever fucking seen, get a fucking ethos that’s not just riding white supremacy’s coattails you fucking losers.

It’s really disturbing to see a leader of a Jewish organization say that recruiting Americans to become favored-race settlers in an apartheid state is “who [Jews] are as a people”

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Sean Evans is so hot I’m sick about it.

It’s giving Mrs. Reed.

Citizens United was fuckin’ NUTS, man.

Another day, another fantastic tiktok restaurant advertisement

I just watched a 70 year old Yo Yo Ma play the cello, alone, for three hours straight. Some people really are built different.

Look, he loves a winner!

Listen, I don’t have Mamdani-level rizz, and I CERTAINLY don’t have Mamdani political aspirations, but I’m good with people, and something I’ve always said, and has borne out well for me as a strategy throughout my life, is “just get me in the room.”

Ahahahahahahaha when the rizz is off the charts

A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer. Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Something that is NOT her (or any woman in this position’s) fault (& I have seen 1st hand in the comedy world) is that often when there is a woman lots of men are sexually obsessed with, they convince themselves that it is her “talent” they are compelled by so they don’t feel like a stupid horndog.

Diaspora Zionist Jews: These are your Christian “allies”. They want a Jewish ethnostate to exist because they want us OUT of “their” countries.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

These same folks extremely committed to fighting antisemitism in universities