thank you- but tbh this friendship had a rapidly approaching expiration date and this interaction just expedited it

sure isn't! and sure maybe he didn't know what it meant when he got it...but maybe he did!

had a falling out w/ a friend over graham platner. she tried to convince me that i'm wrong to be concerned about his nazi tattoo, and when i said i'm not interested in having non-jews educate me on what is and isn't anti-semitic, she said i'm insufficiently devoted to fighting systemic inequality 🙃

finally watched THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. not very good!

i did and tbh, i wasn’t thrilled with it. but honey don’t really scratched the itch. maybe I’ll rewatch the other one, drive away dolls, to see if i like it more in light of honey don’t.

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My name is Batty!!

it was a good week at the movies! i wish HONEY DON'T was like 20 minutes longer, but otherwise loved it. #filmsky #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

you're "not blaming him whatsoever?" he's the one who issued the policy! it was an executive order! if it's not his fault, whose fault could it conceivably be?!?!

caitlyn jenner's cognitive dissonance is almost impressive

not too proud of this but i got chills watching the new street fighter trailer

gotcha

i wasn't trying to make a point. i was just asking for clarification on your comment "I feel like Americans need to just sit this discussion out," as that phrasing would seem to include American Jews and I didn't know if you intended to or not.

do you think american jews should sit the discussion out?

yeah, i think people were way too hard on it. very glad they're making a third one though, and apparently margaret qualley is in it too which is great!!

yes, it is not a very well-liked movie! i'm actually pretty meh on drive away dolls, but i loved honey don't. absolutely need more crime comedies with lesbian leads! i could watch 10 more movies in the honeyverse.

haven't been following the california governor's race too closely, but by default i'll be supporting steyer, because climate change is the most important issue on the planet and that's his signature issue.

so i logged out of facebook today, and i'm not sure when i'll log back in. i'm keeping this account because i have very few IRL friends on here and i generally don't talk about anything too contentious in the first place. but my days of posting diatribes on facebook are, at least for now, OVER.

and so i zoom out, and i ask: what am i doing here? i'm putting my digital double out there and having him argue with the digital double of a friend, and it makes me distressed, maybe makes them distressed, tests our friendship and doesn't accomplish a fucking thing. why am i doing this to myself?

this isn't true about everyone. some people are exactly the same online as in person. but it's true enough to be concerning to me. i don't think it would matter quite so much to me if the online interactions i had with friends were mostly productive, but they're not. they're often quite bad.

he's not the only one. there are lots of people like that. and if i feel that way about them, surely some of them feel that way about me. surely, in some folks' eyes, there's a sizable gap between seth IRL and facebook seth. so when we talk on FB, it's just two doubles talking to each other.

what's dawning on me is how enormous the gap can be between my friends IRL and their digital doubles. i've got one friend, let's call him john, who i absolutely love and respect IRL. he's a smart, respectful, kind man. but the john i talk to on public facebook threads is none of those things.

in DOPPLEGANGER, naomi klein talks about the various ways in which "doubles" of ourselves manifest. one way is online communication and social media. when i talk to someone online, it's not exactly me talking to them. it's a digital double of myself talking to a digital double of them. 1/?

i've officially joined the very small island of HONEY DON'T defenders. i thought it was great!! #filmsky

i. fucking. love. MARZIPAN!!!!!!!!

i'm coming over you better not be a skeleton waiter who throws a food tray, misses, then dives to the ground and explodes instantly

imagining him pointing at the menu and angrily telling the cashier that "a real breakfast burrito has meat" in his stupid accent

apparently the guy who won divorced orban's minister of justice. so this would be like if pam bondi's husband divorced her and then ran against trump.

holy shit, orban lost