from THE CUT FIRST PERSON Losing My Friend Over Wegovy She hid her semaglutide use, knowing that I would spiral. She was right; we haven't spoken since. By Sophia Ortega

I don't fault my friend for any of this. Of course I don't. We live in a world replete with signals that thin is good and fat is bad; if soci- ety — if your doctor — offers a silver bullet, why wouldn't you take it? No one is immune, especially me. I miss her. But of all my breakups, this has been the least painful - not because our love was platonic, but because it was an act of self- protection. My boundaries are unforgiving because they have to be.

This essay is deranged. This author is deranged.

Expecting everyone in your life to live their lives according to the severe precepts of your own eating-disordered experience—while projecting your own rationales onto everything they do—is deranged.

Being polite to folks at the airport is very important.

One time, I showed up to IAH and check-in wasn't working for me. I go to the desk and was told my ticket was for Hobby.

I looked very sad and apologetic, and not only did I get put on a flight out of IAH, they kept my first class ticket.

In the worst moments, where I hadn't seen people in person for a month, I understood why someone might want to end it all, but obviously didn't, because I knew this was just temporary.

I am not sorry I need people to survive.

I love working in lounges. I'll show up 2-3 hours beforehand to chill.

The big problem for Pete is that he will have to survive some rough, heavily black primaries.

To all who celebrate

He only covered for sexual assault, he didn't commit them (to my knowledge!).

It’s because no one gets a cool countercultural anti-institutionalist thrill protesting Donald Trump for being bad, something that your grandmother probably does. Only ranting about Democrats gives you that. Sorry but that’s largely the answer

As President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war on Iran with Israel entered into its second month, some Democratic officials were looking around and wondering: Where are the anti-war protests this time around? And why are college campuses so quiet?

@lauren-egan.bsky.social takes a look.

the hype around Mythos feels a lot like this to me

if it is true that they've invented an infinite zero day machine then yeah that sucks but it's not like i can actually do anything about it

i can't tell the bank "hey stop keeping my money on a computer"

The hell, University of New Haven has a ME campus?

I will say, in retrospect, the YPU as an org had fewer of the 'oh shit, you are stupid wealthy' types. It was a lot of kids of UMC types, plus a fair amount of striver types.

I never taught using Pageant, always used the Henrettta "America's History", though honestly, I wish I had used Foner's "Give me Liberty"

I always thought it as like, Fascism has these distinct characteristics that are shareable across Italy and Germany, but Nazism has antisemitism embedded into it right from the start and that it is a part of what's powering the movement.

Huh, I've never heard of this.

The number of broke ass gay men I know who get Prep for free...thank whatever deity you believe in.

It's really depressing.

They go on this dumb crusade to control. They'll even do a sop to 'sure we should build more housing', but when you ask them how, they shrug and go 'public housing'.

We are not a serious country.

The non-YIMBY left that dominates the Northeast cities is just depressing. Providence City council voted for rent control at a time they are facing a demand spike from a housing constraint from Boston! Rather than see this is as an opportunity to build to pick up tax revenue...

“The economy is bad” is an ideological belief that spreads through social networks the way ideology does, not a descriptive belief that spreads because people are individually observing the economy and coming to conclusions about it.

I don't want to buy a home! I like the flexible that renting gives me in being able to change my living situation as my life requires it!

Homeownership superiority as a mindset is a mind killer.

We have the same thing in Boston often. Folks go "but we built so much housing in Seaport" and like, sure, in a decade you turned own about 15k units in that area...250k people moved in to the Boston metro in the 2010s, most of them for high-income industries.

I personally find Platner offensive in his previous statements, and his slopulism strikes me as a bad direction for the left to go. Others are welcomed to disagree and defend Platner on the particular merits! I just find disgeneous the idea that him winning a primary is a defense against his critics

Folks are more than welcomed to make the arguments for Platter - but using 'the voters' as a reason a critique isn't valid doesn't make it true. I personally don't care that much to haggle about the electability of Platner vs. Mills. I will not actually presume to know either way who would win.

My comparison is that large parts of the left wouldn't accept that as a defense of Cuellar either. "You may have critiques about his conservative Dem qualities, but you don't understand what the voters in Laredo are seeing" isn't a defense!

That's not actually the point I was making. Folks are defending Plattner largely by saying "well, your critiques are what they are, but you don't understand what voters in Maine are seeing". Which, isn't actually a respond to the critique as using primary voters as a shield to addressing them.

To give a less toxic example, those same people continue to support Henry Cuellar! No one on this site would say 'but aha, you are not seeing something the good people of Laredo and Zapata, TX see and understand' as a rejoiner to criticism of Cuellar.

So if there is little, if any profit in building affordable housing, how does banning other more profitable housing change the math for them?

Banning institutional entities from building rental housing doesn't change this!

And they might! And voters in my hometown liked Trump! I don't adjudicate my beliefs on someone based on them having a majority of people pull a lever with their name on it.

That's fine, I think the Democratic voters of Maine are making a bad choice! The fact that a majority in an election think something or someone is a good idea doesn't make it true!