No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”
WHEW.
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I don't really see it as work, so idk, it's just how my mind goes
07.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Both, but what I don't like is if the other party changes their mind or there's some info I didn't know about. Then I get mad, bc my over planning was for nothing!!! I'm a Virgo rising but Aquarius Sun/Mercury. I can be accommodating and flexible, but I resent when other people aren't
07.10.2025 19:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I have never seen such a clutter! It's aesthetically awful! I think their engagement must be tanking hard for them to engage these features to pad the real numbers
07.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very much time for a different app that is just photos
07.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Complaint warning. What is up with all of this mini icon nonsense on IG?! I don't want to see a little circle and a heart bc some else liked a post?! I can't see shit over your recycling button and when I swipe it away, it asks if I want to block them?! This is all your fault, I don't need this!
07.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Listening to a lecture that shouted out Council of Trent dot com, is how I'm doing
07.10.2025 14:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The alt text didn't come thru! Alt text: A road and beyond it a sidewalk where a toilet covered in a black plastic bag is waiting to be taken to the dump
06.10.2025 21:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Full Moon in Aries when Mars is in Scorpio sextiling Venus in Virgo. Can't see it, but you know it smells like shit
06.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It happens, my favorite dumpling place for years and years went down like this 😭
06.10.2025 19:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“You’re liberal bashing!”
Actually people are being bashed in the head right now. Do you hear how you sound?
06.10.2025 14:55 — 👍 137 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations!!!
05.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️
05.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 78 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 0
Solidarity! There's usually almond in the wedding cake and no one around to say how or if it's the whole thing. I rarely get to eat wedding cake
05.10.2025 02:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Omg I forgot about the 2022 disaster! 1995 with Ciaran Hines and Amanda Root
05.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I love how Wentworth is a sulky bitch when he sees Anne w her cousin Mr Elliot
04.10.2025 23:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anne Elliot telling Captain Benwick that "uh, too much poetry may be...unsafe" in mourning the loss of his fiancee
04.10.2025 23:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm watching Persuasion, it is a perfect adaptation
04.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
This is very funny in the context of NORWAC
04.10.2025 18:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm not particularly enamoured with songs about dicks, but I've been pondering and the best songs are generally about community dick, not your fiance's specific appendage. "Put it Down" by Jazmine Sullivan is a great example! In fact, just go listen to Heaux Tales
04.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is why I took Victorian Lit pass/fail
04.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That's what I'm gathering! They seem to be getting along, at least
04.10.2025 00:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm sitting next to a date at this restaurant and telling myself everyone sounds this dumb on first dates.
03.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Think of all the berries and honey you will eat!!!
03.10.2025 18:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mario has been practicing journalism in this country for 19 years.
03.10.2025 00:39 — 👍 57 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1
i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked
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the person who published this is about to run CBS
02.10.2025 23:06 — 👍 1014 🔁 147 💬 16 📌 2
Thank you for this tidbit, love a good grudge!! I'm sure his students are absolutely behaving normally about this too
02.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Padme turned towards Anakin Skywalker as he says the dumbest line that also makes sense, "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere."
I've decided it is written in the spirit of Anakin
02.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
People really have this warped idea that there's only a monolith of experience for everyone, it's so strange to me!
02.10.2025 20:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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