Hard agree.
Being wrong-half (Jewish enough for Hitler, but not for the Jews!) is a superpower because you get to give up on pursuing approval very, very early in life. Then you just get to be yourself.
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If you REALLY want to feel dirty...all women carry their DAD'S DNA!!!!
EEEEEEEWWWWWWWW
Ryan Murphy shows used to be like being served amazing gourmet mac n cheese at fancy party and you'd say "wait, are these RITZ CRACKERS on the top? Delightful!" Now they are like a bowl of stale crumbled Ritz crackers with maybe a sprinkle of Gruyere and you're like "wait, is this...gross?"
💯 and the most unhinged part (to me) is that almost all my connections there are people I see elsewhere (IRL or online) so the code-switching between "business" and "casual" is completely transparent. But whilst actually on LinkedIn, everyone behaves like it isn't.
Can someone find a way to get the phrase "Deep Throat Boat Hoax" into this conversation.
I am not taking Miles.
Yes! Who better than/for the Frozen Chosen?
Not sure what this means, but I never would have read it had multiple people not shared it with commentary about how outrageous it was. So the outrage-provoking header got them clicks, as I'm sure it often does.
On Facebook if I actually want people to read an article, I can't post the link. Lately I can't even say "link in comments" and put the link in the comments.🤷♀️
Sondheim.
Company.
Specifically Being Alive, spe-CIFIC-ally specifically the Raul Esparza version.
Enjoy!
Happy 5th anniversary to this @sarajbenincasa.bsky.social joke.
Taco Bell has nuggets, KFC has nachos...up is down, down is up, the Yum! plan for totalitarian global rule via brand integration is APACE.
Now we've got a dozen baby hackers hard patching their homebrew laptops into the national intelligence database. They can't clutch their pearls about it and still feign any kind of authority. I mean...can they? I can't see it.
But...there is no way the NYT can acknowledge that this is the world they explicitly ushered in, can they?
We all knew who he was in 2015, but they still saw fit to hemorrhage thousands of words on Hillary Clinton using the wrong email address. Because "national security." (cont.)
Wharton erasure!
You are a wonderful writer but I can't think of anything I want less than understanding him more.
The direness of our situation often tracks with how deep our American Menfolk need to go into their sports analogies, so..
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This is what I have been doing since 2015 and it works! Godspeed and good luck.
This actually literally brought bile to my throat. And here I didn't think I could still react emotionally to these people.
Spoiler alert: it's not!
I mean....honestly, no, I don't remember that, and it feels amazing.
One time at a toddler birthday party I watched a kid grab a toy from another kid, and then the first kid’s Dad swooped in and grabbed the toy out of his kid’s hand and screamed “WE DON’T GRAB!” in the kid’s face.
So far, Bluesky seems like that.
Please bring this to Minneapolis!
I worked on the Time Life CD collections, and we called them soft rock.
And really, that's all that matters now: knowing what and who to blame.
My entire account here is going to be my coverage of the media coverage, by which I mean the headlines I don't click on, and my angle is "nope".
My entire account here is going to be my coverage of the media coverage, by which I mean the headlines I don't click on, and my angle is "nope".
I know I am supposed to be cool about what older actresses do to their faces because Jesus what choice do we give them, but STILL.