4) Ages ago I noted there's just a vast gap in experience, in language, in the very ideas between the very rich, the techbros, and the rest of us, as deep as, say, THE ARRIVAL aliens. We do not use words with the same meaning. Don't even have the same value in and from the human experience

This interview with the intimacy coordinator for Heated Rivalry is super interesting and thoughtful www.elle.com/culture/movi...

Yay!

My favorite part lol #heatedrivalry

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Scott Hunter ♥️ #heatedrivalry great episode to mirror his journey with Kip against Shane and Ilya.

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

This is rude.

"Defund the Police" became a rallying cry simply because the national Democratic Party had zero policy around law-enforcement reform, so activists filled the vacuum. If the party doesn't want fringe groups speaking for them, it should start speaking for itself.

Everytime they mention JJ in Heated Rivalry, I’m like JJ STYLE

Okay!! This is our final restock of the sale (which ends tomorrow!) Even if I reprint them as fast as possible they won't be back in stock before midweek! So. I mean. Go get your gingerbread cookie dragon keychain/ornament. 💓 thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4411...

Okay I acquired access to HBO Max therefore I watched the first two episodes of heated rivalry and I am having a lot of emotions right now

We are the 4 percent

This shop is awesome www.etsy.com/listing/4414...

I enjoyed Heated Rivalry when I read it, but I have to ask myself if I enjoyed it enough to renew my HBO Max subscription to watch the series and I'm not sure the answer is yes. I'm going to see what my friends have to say about the series first.

Instead of shopping we went out for a little dog training on black friday. Spotted this sign at the training center we were working at, deep in the woods, in farm country. Welcome to Northeastern Pennsylvania I guess.

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen— REM Green Day Matchbox 20 Keane Billy Joel & Elton John

“What I loved about the story and why I did ultimately think it was adaptable is because sex is the language of their love. Sex is how you tell the story because their sex changes as they get to know each other, as they get to know themselves,” Tierney says.

Oh, this is P E R F E C T. youtu.be/RZlsqrltVmk?...

NEW STARGATE SERIES???

Mandatory to share not only the performance but also discussion of said performance

Also recently finished reading and very much loved this book!

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi

I don't know why this made me laugh. Then again there's something like 3,000 unread messages in all my discords that I never open

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Happy November 13th

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Yes thank you #chriswu

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

What’s especially frustrating to me is that the team response seems to be “no, you want this you just don’t understand.” But…..we are not noobs. We have been on social for decades. We understand how social works. We’re not a bunch of ignorant normies to talk down to. We know what we want.

This is not even close to what I signed up for when I came here. I did not come to @bsky.app so that you could decide FOR ME what I want my social media to be like. Control over my own experience was the whole entire draw.

The most completely mundane replies being hid in my mentions without my consent or control is absolutely ridiculous and outrageous. @pfrazee.com y’all gotta give us back control of our own accounts this is out of hand. Literally hid a cat picture someone sent me.

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That pizza is a travesty

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

The tale of the #puppyexpress concludes even better than I could ever have hoped. On Patreon & Substack: www.patreon.com/posts/142745... catvalente.substack.com/p/the-glorio...

Gathered up two middle-aged friends and went to the Kpop demon Hunters sing-along showing at the local cinema. We were the only people there without the requisite children, but we sat in the back so no one noticed.

everyone's always writing about assassins wracked with guilt and more people should write about assassins who treat it like a 9-5

Get you a woman who spontaneously looks up academic interpretations of your Yuletide canon.

I am dying laughing as one kid, who took a little longer to pick bc he didn’t want candy (braces), saw the Declaration of Independence and then had to run to catch up w/ his friends, unsuccessfully yelling over their howls and hoots “Guys - guys, guys - GUYS! I GOT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE!!!”

A true horror story 🧛

My fave small tie dye shop in the US is having a clearout sale.

It's spooky time of year, so here's a reminder that there's both a story AND a podfic now for your consuming pleasure archiveofourown.org/works/52652392