Gabrielle Hecht • 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella

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An 8th grade English teacher called my treatment of Robert Frost's Mending Wall "whimsical." Have hated the word in reference to writing ever since. Also, I never read another line of Frost. She sure showed me. Bitch.

Yes, 48 years later I still hate her. I'm allowed.

La stratégie du chaos : comment la pression impérialiste sur l’Iran redéfinit la sécurité énergétique chinoise - Clarté Jad KabbanjiClarté - Mars 2026 La guerre asymétrique que mènent les États-Unis à la Chine a depuis longtemps dépassé le stade des seules guerres commerciales pour s'ancrer dans le contrôle physique de...

check out this piece for a really useful take:

journalclarte.ca/la-strategie...

*n't. isn't. in case that wasn't already obvious

you know what, that was indeed good for me!

but widdy politics prof wants to score points with fellow cons, so here we are. ofc the paper itself is worth anything anymore, so i guess he found his people.

This does exhibit particular stupidity.

Like dude, if you just want plaine coffee, there are places that do that. Lots of them. You have chosen to go to evil empire for crappy coffee (can't resist inserting my feelings). Just shut TF up and go somewhere else! This is not hard.

La stratégie du chaos : comment la pression impérialiste sur l’Iran redéfinit la sécurité énergétique chinoise - Clarté Jad KabbanjiClarté - Mars 2026 La guerre asymétrique que mènent les États-Unis à la Chine a depuis longtemps dépassé le stade des seules guerres commerciales pour s'ancrer dans le contrôle physique de...

A lire absolument: comment la logique de l'impérialisme américain façonne les actions autrement incompréhensibles dans cette nouvelle guerre.

whaaaa?

I mean, it IS called empire for a reason. The usual reason. Said as someone born in one of the colonies.

Vassal states have more power tho? yeah, no.

I want yall to know that everything happening in the Epstein files is as American as Apple Pie.

What I mean is literally everything those affluent white men and women are doing to children is the same exact thing they did to slaves during the American Slave Trade. Welcome to my TedTalk.

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Yeah, do NOT fuck with us. We bite. Hard. Not in a fun way.

Alt for meme below:

Painting of a woman in a 17th (?) century blue dress, leaning on a window and pointing her arm straight out. She’s saying: I should warn you. I identify as a post menopausal woman. My pronouns are Try/Me

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I F with this

Speak for yourself!! 😊 I definitely have some remarkably specific revenge fantasies

If you’re reading this and you’re scared, that’s understandable. And I can’t tell you that you’ll be able to pass as cis. But just to give you a single data point, I didn’t come out at work until I was 34. You can be alright, and you do have a future. People know what trans people are. It’s fine.

*closet

😂😂

Wow. Impressed that you & your sweetie share a home office! (or so i assume from the picture)

My sweetie and I would kill each other under those conditions! TBF, I would kill him first. Even if it’s a closer, I have to be able to shut the world out with a door.

🤣🤣Thanks! It’s an amazing story, & of course the PR 🇵🇷 angle gave it extra oomph for me, as you knew it would😊

I also find the art moving. May she exit this life in a blaze of glory!

And may her daughter shed her guilt, doubtless the product of being raised by a Latina mom, don’t ask me how I know

I am awake. It didn’t happen.

Maybe today

Main exception to that is Francophone Africa, where the last thing I want is to be taken for French!!!

What gave it away…when she said, with shock, that she was asked the question, I suspected how the rest would go.

Her admitting she was Amurcan was also a giveaway. When sweetie & I travel we keep our voices waaaay down in public (or speak French even when not in France) bc we’re ashamed.

Um, it’s not at all clever, that’s the point of the entire thread. Weizenbaum was shocked that his secretary treated it as tho it was, and that changed everything for him. He saw the danger immediately

I got the ELIZA Vx in 1985, before I was even aware of internet, when I interviewed Joseph Weizenbaum for a term paper.

Getting it from the OG was especially effective. I remember that bit as though it were yesterday & not 41 years ago.

My 2 cents, based on nothing but vibes and having been around for previous iterations of the internet: all platforms decay. These apps all face the same trolley problem of ubiquity vs profit. To be ubiquitous you have to give the product away for free; to monetize a free app you have to enshittify.

Yo perreo sola

I’m thrilled! And inspired.

Spiders actually have 11 legs but 3 of them are invisible

The Roman-African borderlands and expeditions south of the Sahara. After the fall of Carthage in 146 BC, the Roman Empire came into direct contact with a number of African states with whom it shared a long and open frontier extending from the northwestern tip of the ...

The Roman-African borderlands and expeditions south of the Sahara.

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-roman-...