men are not inherently anything. women are not inherently anything. divine feminine woo woo bullshit and masculine energy psychobabble does nothing for anyone!

a lot of people are saying that pointing out this discrepancy makes you akin to a rapist and well...that's a bad opinion. it's an opinion, but it's a bad one. heteropessimism and heterofatalism are bad for everyone. bioessentialism is bad for everyone.

elizabeth warren wants life to be more affordable for all americans except sex workers because she doesn't believe sex workers should be allowed to have bank accounts

me, a jamaican, watching people pay $20+ for a 10 oz jar of sea moss

everyone loves pop princess marilyn monroe tether sabrina carpenter but yall weren't there with me for r&b diva christina aguilera tether sabrina carpenter

playing the long game and weakening the joint chiefs through repeated viral infection to make them docile and pliable when the military coup comes

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this actually makes a lot of sense if you consider that a) pope leo is pope leo, b) antagonising donald trump and jd vance is a national pasttime, and c) spike lee is incredibly annoying

i love every editor i've ever had, even when my sensitive brain is telling me they're mean, and wrong, and don't GET IT. i respect them for doing the unseen work of wrangling my stream of consciousness into something accessible and understandable to an audience that won't get it.

substack, i think, has helped accelerate the devaluing of journalism in a disturbingly anti intellectual kind of way. no, your 2 am, notes app ramblings put to digital paper are not equivalent to pulitzer winning reporting. and i'm not going to pretend they are.

artists, even journalists (maybe especially journalists), are real sensitive about their shit. i'm sensitive about my shit. i also welcome the critical input of someone with no real emotional investment in my work. i gleefully open my arms to the gimlet eye and ink of an over-caffeinated red pen.

i don't like substack for a lot of reasons, but top of mind for me right now — bc i spend so much time reading independent media — is the almost glorification of eschewing the editorial process. editors are important, especially in journalism, and especially in opinion masquerading as journalism.

Everyone Wants To Be a Ho, No One Wants To Be a Whore Above all else, to be a sex worker is to gamble with, and often lose, the ability to become someone, and something, else after leaving the industry.

i have hated her for years and i will not stop until she apologises to me specifically and publicly

one of those black academic types that everyone else loves and adores because she drops pithy feminist sounding soundbytes but i know she's undeservedly antagonistic towards sex workers and i'll never forget it

i have a pair of dress pants from old navy that i LOVE but they've always been weird and saggy in the butt area. $15 at the dry cleaners and now they fit like they were custom made for me. i love tailors and seamstresses and garment workers.

someone hire adrie or I'll curse your bloodlines

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i used to date someone who who refused to use a cane for their crippling foot pain because they didn't want to look old. i say used to because hearing that triggered a primal ick in me that i haven't ever felt before or since. the concept of further injuring yourself to look "young" and "cool."

A new TikTok AI toggle is causing panic among creators TikTok creators say a new AI remix setting is enabled on videos by default, forcing users to manually review and change permissions.

Larry Ellison’s TikTok forcing “AI Remixing” onto their entire user base without their knowledge or consent is a really great microcosm of what US tech overlordship looks like — and why the backlash against this technology is only growing.

i have no one in my life to share this with

jd vance, the convert catholic who spent most of his adult life as an atheist, told me the former augustinian prior general — with a doctorate in canon law — who became pope doesn't understand st. augustine's just war doctrine and i thought that seemed reasonable

eating an entire 2lb bag of grapes in one sitting because it's healthy

yes

sorry, no, i'm not going to sit outside at a restaurant because you and your poorly socialised corgi both have separation anxiety

i think it should be socially acceptable to refuse to be seen in public with people that take their dog everywhere

unfortunately an ai blog bot thing unleashed a screed in reply to this thread so i'm probably just going to self destruct

seems to be a reoccurring theme on this app

nothing works better for a politician's chances than calling potential voters stupid over and over and over and ov

you're ai. i'm ai. we're all consumed and subsumed by ai in the end.