I want free computer

Ideally a sapphic who wants to marry me

Not to do a Girl Boss but when will a woman run Apple

Ugh

32 The King November 1814 Early in November 1814 Mr Norrell was honoured by a visit from some very noble gentlemen - an earl, a duke and two baronets - who came, they said, to speak to him upon a matter of the utmost delicacy and were so discreet themselves that half an hour after they had begun talking Mr Norrell was still entirely ignorant of what they wished him to do. It emerged that, elevated as these gentlemen were, they were the representatives of one still greater - the Duke of York - and they had come to speak to Mr Norrell about the madness of the King. The King's sons had recently paid a visit to their father and had been very shocked by his sad condition; and, though all of them were selfish and some of them were dissolute and none of them were much given to making sacrifices of any sort, they had all told each other how they would give any amount of money and cut off any number of limbs to make the King a little more comfortable. But, just as the King's children quarrelled amongst themselves as to which doctor their father should have, so they now quarrelled as to whether or not a magician should attend the King. Chief in opposition to the idea was the Prince Regent. Many years before, during the life of the great Mr Pitt, the King had suffered a severe bout of madness and the Prince had ruled in his place, but then the King had recovered and the Prince had found his powers and privileges stripped away from him. Of all the tiresome situations in the world,

Visions of Hugh Laurie dancing in my head

Israel nominally “won” the war that initially inspired that flag so… is it about Iran now? What is happening.

There’s someone on my block who still has an Israeli flag declaring ביחד ננצח (Together we will win) and I just don’t even know what that means in April 2026

Yeah the more I think through this the more I'm realizing that when people talk about "vulnerability" I hear "giving other people the power to hurt me" and I have been so severely fucked over by so many people that I simply have no interest in doing that, lol

And, IDK, maybe other people define vulnerability differently? But to me it is definitionally a matter of making myself less safe, and I simply will not do that in most spaces anymore. It doesn't go well!

... when I saw Louis CK at my gym ... I wanna say eight years ago? — were moments I deeply regretted later on because of the ways they put me at risk. When I disclose personal stuff these days, it's usually after a lot of consideration as to how it impacts my safety.

That may sound weird coming from someone who openly talks about mental illness and sexuality and whatever, but I'm actually way more guarded than you probably realize! Some of the rare times I have actually gotten publicly vulnerable in recent memory — like live tweeting the anxiety I had...

I used to make myself extremely vulnerable as a matter of course and it got weaponized against me and now I simply do not do that shit anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️

Been finding myself in spaces where people talk about vulnerability with an almost religious fervor and I'm not really sure what to make of it

People get deeply offended by the idea that someone might make a statement in public and choose to limit how they engage with others about that statement which... IDK man, people are weird.

I think it's a modified version of 1, and that people feel an entitlement to posters in a way that's not unlike the entitlement they feel to celebrities. There's this idea that if you put yourself out in the public in any way you have suddenly voided your boundaries and it is... pretty gross!

Exactly

I don't even know that one, I'm pissy because I used to hang out with OG Onion people who were actually funny

“They” is really the author but then also the people who chose to adapt the work into a show

Oh I know

I recognize that other LGBTQ+ people like it, let me remind you that

A) as a community we are not a monolith

B) I am the number one Tim Onion hater

Feels disrespectful to the people who were held back by insurmountable oppression to make it seem like they just didn’t try hard enough

I mean the show is good but I always find stuff like that weird

I’m very belatedly watching Queen’s Gambit and I feel weird about the fact that they just made up a gender swapped Bobby Fischer character, it feels like it weirdly ignores *why* you didn’t see women prevailing in chess back then even as it tries to tell a story about sexism?

But I guess one way of thinking it is, how would we feel if someone bought, IDK, Nick Fuentes’s website and redid the logo with Jewish symbols? I would not feel like that was some big win against antisemitism myself.

I mean whether or not it’s problematic it’s fucking stupid

It’s just yet another stupid stunt and I don’t think “we made the homophobe’s logo gay” is funny or particularly helpful to queer people

The text “Infowars, now 110% more gay.” above a new logo for Infowars with rainbow text and an onion instead of an O

I hate this

Embroidered flowers and faces

Finally got more 817 red so the flowers are done. I’m thinking olive branches on the sides and then that will inform if I need to put something in the center.

Like there's a line you have to walk between charming bitch and narcissistic abuser and I think they've repeatedly crossed it without realizing it and I find that weird