Alissa.

"some people need conspiracies, finding the simple horror of the truth too brutal."

I call it sluttering, it means as little as your little test. you are your worst revenge, your very means, they have no end. this is the story you won't tell the kids we'll never have. if you hear this song a hundred times, it still won't be enough.

Tom Hanks announced five years ago today that he and wife Rita Wilson had the coronavirus, and that famously was the end of it.

the way you can tell AOC is the only one who plays video games because she's the only one who understood the correct stance for this meme. 😂

look, if they let Conan riff for half an hour but then play people off when they're having a lifetime achievement, I will be screaming.

time to wipe the cheetos dust off my sweatpants and judge some celebrities

I also still am all those things.

I was Greek mythology, Titanic, dinosaurs, maudlin poetry, and also Henry VIII/the Tudors.

I thought Super Sad True Love Story was an interesting but flawed book when I read it back in college, but I think about it regularly now. it's the modern 1984.

watching the actors react to the photos and videos of them starting out was really deeply charming, I loved that bit.

aaaand the telethon vibes of the evening have started.

to die. to sleep. to sleep, perchance to dream. ay, there's the rub.

this is how you know that despite being "in tech" Elon is just a rich guy, not an actual tech savvy person.

in all honesty, given all of the nonsense about Selena and Hailey and Justin... it was very stupid of her to release a song called call me when you break up.

even dumber for her to claim it's about a best friend and not a partner lol. we can read lyrics!

beneath the good and the kind and the stupid and the cruel, there's a fire just waiting for fuel.

I'm just a little bit heiress, a little bit Irish, a little bit Tower of Pisa whenever I see ya. so please be kind, if I'm a mess.

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

sic semper tyrannis.

"sometimes when I think you're the shallowest man in the world, you somehow manage to drain a little more from the pool."

this really fucked up my day lol

the hot stone massage that I'd been so excited about and was deeply looking forward to all week just got cancelled because the therapist is sick.

and the next opening they have on a Saturday again is in a month.

😖😖😖

"I'm not happy, I'm not lucky, I don't go. if anything, I'm sad-stop-unlucky."

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my bookstagram was selected to be a monetized account for a trial period? 👀👀

So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly.

[The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it.]

And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine.

It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.

I remember having arguments--even with fellow Arab Americans--about their reticence to vote for Harris because of Biden's policies in Gaza. Joe was def terrible for Gaza but it was abundantly clear that Muslim-banning Trump would be worse in the long run. And here we are. No one should be surprised.

three months ago I booked a two hour hot stone massage, and then rescheduled it for a date way out, not knowing I would have surgery two weeks earlier and that my massage therapist would cancel our appointment right before it. I have never been happier with my last self. it's this Saturday.

this whole "make Canada the 51st state" is ridiculous for a variety of reasons, including the fact that 1) Quebec would never and 2) why would you not split up the territories as states, but beyond that - does he really think the Canadian people would vote for him?