topher

it's a distraction in the sense that it's a distraction if you're about to find my erotic fanfic collection so I kill you

how many miles of road in America have a 25 mph limit and also are only two lanes and allow passing? if you're only going 25 and the oncoming car is also only going 25, how did you not see them until you were already passing the slow car? how many people would drive 19 in a 25 ever?

we cannot settle for a leftism that kicks out subject matter experts just because a handful of libertarian freaks in San Francisco happen to agree with them about one thing

a problem with leftist housing discourse is that the leftists who care abt housing the most spend years studying it, and invariably that leads them to the empirically correct conclusion that the most urgent problem is supply...

which causes the rest of the leftists to stop listening and mock them

conservation of convenience and avoidance of rejection are maybe the two most powerful motivators there are. when they are mutually exclusive it makes us very stupid (myself included)

Drivers always react like this to obvious policy wins bc if they can't justify this extremely convenient thing that makes their lives easier (that they know is essentially unjustifiable), the alternative is to face the possibility that they might be seen as a bad person.

adult Bobby Hill please text me.....

the Nebraskans at this town hall are doing more to pull this country back from the black hole we're barreling toward than most Californians will do in their lives

just because this is always worth pointing out:

this kind of thing happens at town halls in places like Nebraska all the time, and it's so exciting to see, but there's STILL this stubborn narrative that people like this woman don't exist in "red states," or that they're hopelessly outnumbered

I learned a while ago that the Hamlet I saw at the Guthrie in 2006 was in fact a 23-year-old Santino Fontana

Wayzata, MN
Minnetonka, MN
Eden Prairie, MN
New York City, NY

the only thing you really need to know is LCMS is republicans and ELCA is democrats

I went to Joburg for a few days too, it was very nice! Dusty Chicago

central Cape Town urban fabric spread out at the base of Table Mountain

just for a summer (i.e. a winter), teaching at an after school music program, mostly with township kids. this was the view from my apartment lol

Google maps screenshot of a bus route connecting Cape Town to Hout Bay along the Atlantic coast

when I was interning Cape Town this was my bus commute every day

24 - That said I did not care for Midland, Texas.

23 - If you don't have anything nice to say about a particular city or region, hold your damn tongue. Good people are everywhere, people are fighting for good things everywhere, because every place in the world is worth loving.

22 - Hating cold weather is a boring opinion to have.

21 - Parkitect, not Planet Coaster, is the best modern-day RCT game.

20 - "Astrology is just fun to think about" No. Too many people literally believe it. Astrology is bad.

19 - I deeply believe I'm a better person because I went to a public high school in a city.

18 - I think a big underdiscussed problem in video games is that even the most straightforward games assume players know a kind of gameplay shorthand that isn't explained well and isn't easy to learn. It's too difficult to onboard people who didn't grow up playing video games.

17 - I like being an only child and I like finding out that other people are only children. #relatable

Contemporary Islamic Movements! I also took Bowling!

of course he did

The intersection of Bryant Ave and Lake St in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood of Minneapolis

16 - I'm really sorry for this one but I actually don't mind when people call Lyn-Lake "Uptown." I'm an Uptown expansionist! [hold for boos]

humiliating

we have completely fucking failed as a culture that we let a narcissism-of-small-differences hatred of other progressive young people turn them into a scapegoat for high housing costs rather than racist millionaire homeowners blocking housing construction

15 - Speaking of which, Grey Gardens is a criminally underrated musical, and if there is any justice in the world, Jinkx Monsoon will play Edith/Edie in a revival in like 20 years and by god she will win a Tony for it.

14 - Spring Awakening won Best Score at the 2007 Tonys, but it has by far the worst score of the four that were nominated (Grey Gardens, Curtains, Legally Blonde)