I think about Seal and the wolves more often than one would imagine.

You will not be surprised to learn that I own a copy of that movie.

I've made a sandwich.

Overall, I am glad to have the kind of neurodivergence that results in hyperfocus. However, it is absolutely infuriating when you are hyperfocusing and the demands of your annoying body interrupt. What do you mean you'll shut down if we don't eat? What the fuck? I'm busy?

The best contemporary music biopic is Walk Hard specifically because it's not about a real person.

It's this thing you're supposed to figure out ahead of time but it always goes off and does its own thing no matter how cleverly you've planned it.

None of the good ones are strictly accurate, but I liked or loved Malcolm X, The Last King of Scotland, Amadeus, Capote, and Ed Wood.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

This is one of the most dystopian things I've ever read.

Negative eugenics. They’ve been all in (publicly) on positive eugenics for a while and passive negative eugenics, but this isn’t passive.

This is very context dependent, but we once went to see free opera at the baseball stadium and learned that while we do not like opera (sorry) the garlic fries were incredible and helped with the opera part.

My other answer is my first Dodger dog when I was a little kid.

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the "mystery probably cotton" is especially beautiful and it's only $45 for 12 2oz skeins and one 1 oz ball (shipping included)!

Step 1: invent a past
Step 2: return to the invented past
Step 3: ?????
Step 4: utopia

I think one of the most confusing aspects of a lot of historical moments is that people are often inspired by wildly incorrect ideas about the past, so it feels like we’re going backward when we’re going forward in ways that are intended to be regressive. The Victorian medieval, etc.

Truly

Read a post that said “the Cardinals take the lead” and thought it was about the Catholic Church for a hot second

If individuals spew racist eugenic talking points in public, something has gone very wrong if they feel like they can do so without social consequence. When companies feel safe positioning their entire org that way, things are catastrophically wrong on purpose.

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.

My latest.

I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.

One way media can fight back against male violence:

If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.

You’re her killer.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

The thing about “viewpoint diversity” is it’s an affront to legitimate scholarship. What counts as knowledge should have to earn that status - but right-wingers want cheat codes so their shoddy “research” will get as much hearing as serious peer-reviewed work.

Pretty sure I saw a variant of this guy propose on stage at an all-ages show in Long Beach with Save Ferris and the Aquabats and Let's Go Bowling

Yeah, she’s not real, but it’ll feel real for a minute when you berate her.

Eye-raising sub copy about how “she’ll” never require HR seems like a nod to the fact that people sexually harass female-coded bots

They haven't stopped hating teen or single moms, either. The call is really for trapping young people, especially young women, in gender roles they find appropriate. The call is for positive eugenics among young white people, in particular.

Incredibly dark that "more teen moms" is now a normal talking point on the right. As a reminder, most children who have babies are impregnated by adult men.

Since I posted a link to the article, I'm sharing this. I deleted my previous post. Confirmation bias in action on my end.

sorry

Shit, not that Jerry!

You can argue with people about many things, but if you're a politician or you advise politicians and you're arguing with people about their lived experiences, they will dismiss you out of hand. Even if they're wrong about the cause, you don't know more about their lives than they do.

Rich people want more money to buy more politicians, to remain unaccountable, to beat that asshole Jerry on a scoreboard that exists in their mind or in Forbes. Normal people want to go to the grocery store and buy whatever they want without worrying about whether that will be an overdraft.