C. E. Aubin

I actually wrote about this on Substack a while ago - I no longer use the platform, but the post is still up and publicly available should anyone want to read it.

culturebound.substack.com/p/on-tradwif...

We really have to resist even the most seemingly benign and whimsical versions of this tbh. “Girl math” and “girl dinner” strike me as particularly ubiquitous examples.

Ohhhh I thought you meant it was targeted at my interests! Yeah I’m somehow included in the demographics that this stuff is aimed at

It did not. I got locked out of my account and when I recovered it the algorithm was completely different and not even remotely attuned to my interests - but it was absolutely full of this stuff

Screenshot of a tiktok video featuring in a backwards baseball cap with the text ‘maybe you’re always stressed because you don’t have a 6’2 tatted brunette paying the bills while you focus on your little hobbies and mental health’ over it. The hashtag is #stayathomegirlfriend

I’m so serious and I’m so worried

Every other video is like “here’s how my bf pays for my life and gives me princess treatment and I don’t ever have to worry about breaking a nail at a silly job and I don’t even know how to make a car payment teehee”

My tiktok algorithm got reset somehow and now it is just straight-up tradwife propaganda aimed at women in their early 20s and I feel VERY WORRIED about that

This is cataclysmic in just about every imaginable way.

Omg! Every time someone tells me this my brain short circuits a little bit

Just want to shout out @ceaubin.bsky.social, @imanimosley.bsky.social, and This Guy Sucks' Perry Grainger Episode for #1 being excellent listening during my media history archival spreadsheet work, but also as a really good episode for talking about race and media forms.

Also DA RAUNCH on this man

Extremely freaking weird dude!!!!!!

Thanks so much for listening!

Can’t wait!!!

Now that I’m officially one year into them I can confirm that your 30s are a bajillion times better than your 20s and any argument to the contrary is fully a psyop

Text exchange: List of national ‘days.’ Underneath, “wow but the most important is Claire’s birthday!” “and NOT JD VANCES”

Just making sure we’re all on the same page

The Left Isn’t the Right. Here’s Why That’s Bad News for the Left

By A. Centrist

and if it's in the files I have then that means it was in *this guy's* file, which means they definitely did know and have access to this information in 1995 and I'm gonna freak out

anyone who has ever worked with intelligence files knows my pain and it is so real and so maddening

What do you mean the CIA said in an internal memo in 1995 that they didn't know their former asset was a Nazi? I am CURRENTLY LOOKING AT another internal memo from 1953 that says 'yep this guy was definitely a Nazi'

Every time I have to go back into the CIA files to confirm evidence for the book I end up reading something so egregiously infuriating that it makes me want to scream.

it's a real problem!!!

'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025)

Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI

NEW EPISODE: Anabel Maler @amaler.bsky.social tells me about Alexander Graham Bell! It turns out the phone guy was a huge eugenicist who married his student, which reminds us once again that inventors are all untrustworthy unless proven otherwise.

A banner week in fascism (and this is like a tenth of it)

we spent soooo long cackling over it

Look at this useless machine

thank you so much!

He had actually never heard it before, which is crazy since he’s such a jazz nerd! We listened to it last night and he was like 🤯

Jazz impressions of Japan by Dave Brubeck & eastern sounds by yusef lateef

My dad got me two of my holy grail albums for my birthday 🥹