Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
"Judging by the evidence, it might appear that people who transition are happier, but what's important is that we don't want them to be."
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
Every review of youth gender medicine is just, "there's evidence that this helps and no evidence that this causes harm, but here's why that doesn't count."
As the Met Gala approaches, I want to remind people that the Gala is the primary source of funding for the Met’s Costume Institute. The Costume Institute, despite being a major draw for the museum, is not funded from the same big kitty due to misogyny (fashion is for girls).
Multiple articles have been written about Bluesky being a dangerous echo chamber while the world’s richest and influential men are having their brains cooked in increasingly extremist group chats
We talk a lot about social media radicalizing the population but it's been far more efficient at radicalizing public figures.
degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall
1) This bullshit is *costing* us a ridiculous amount of money.
2) It never was about "cutting costs;" it was always about control.
…I said "THIS WAS ALWAYS ABOUT USING THE RHETORIC OF EFFICIENCY & BUDGET TO GAIN ACCESS & LAY CLAIM TO SENSITIVE DATA & WEAPONIZE IT AGAINST PEOPLE THEY DON'T LIKE."
The Venn Diagram of Americans who say the government should be run by a business and who also complain bitterly about how every time they call customer service they get put on hold for an hour and then have to talk with "some foreigner who can't speak proper English," is a circle.
lol
The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
80+% of both Democrats and Republicans believe America would be better off if more Americans worked in manufacturing, but < 30% say that about themselves.
The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory.
www.ft.com/content/8459...
It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”
If men are depressed and broken because they "have nothing to do", they could try cooking, cleaning, and doing laundry. They could spend more time with their children. They could even buy their own mother a birthday present, instead of expecting their wife, girlfriend or sister to do it for them.
DO NOT MISTAKE EARNESTNESS FOR A THING TO BE AFRAID OF. “Cringe” or s too often simply just the word used to mask the discomfort that comes with being vulnerable! It’s okay to feel vulnerable about being earnest about important issues in the world!
A glorious winery Saturday in the Willamette Valley
Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life! Because you'll procrastinate to avoid doing that thing you used to love before you made it your career!
Nobody knew how bad this would be, except for the many people whose warnings I dismissed, but they don’t count.
Actually a good distillation of the mindset. Having already unpersoned everyone who understood what was happening, there’s no need to reconsider the belief in one’s inherent superiority.
When did we all just agree that the federal government is bloated and could benefit from cuts?
I keep seeing this as a throwaway statement before media outlets criticize Trump, Musk, and DOGE. But it’s transparently false.
Many government offices are actually severely understaffed.
A bell pepper in the fetal position
Same, little pepper, same
God, I feel old.
I just told some young 'uns that Bruce Willis was cast against type in Die Hard.
They found this unbelievable, but their phones told them otherwise.
Kids, I am older than your phones and possess knowledge that is not on your newfangled Interwebs. Believe me.
Little brown Nubian goat jumping through a field of wildflowers. Her ears are flying behind her
More babies in wildflowers. Because I love you.
It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide
After Trump sent a lynch mob after Congress, not
only did the GOP not impeach him, they drove the Members who tried out of the caucus. But a black Dem who stood up, we can’t have that.
The Dems don’t lose because they’re too far left, they lose because they stink of weakness.
I'm not doomscrolling, I'm just sampling a buffet of farm-to-table panic attacks
INTERVIEWER: You have billions of dollars, and apparently nothing but time on your hands. What's next for you? Philanthropy?
BILLIONAIRE: Great question. I am going to devote most of my time to eliminating vaccines and vaccine research.