Brooke Harrington

Elect a rapist, get a government that welcomes more rapists.

Ham radio! Go-karts! Garage bands!

Another unexpected death in the family. People and things are continually being born: their disappearance is the great mystery.

I'm sorry. It sucks. Following for updates on your journey, hoping it contains some pleasant surprises as well.

Coworkers? I'm not an employee of the Atlantic and never have been. I've never been to their offices--couldn't tell you where those offices might be--nor have I met anyone in person there. I have no "coworkers" at the Atlantic.

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You're trying to portray "puzzled & curious" as "bothered."

I can see why you'd want to do that: it elevates weird behavior into something of significance. Exactly the way MAGAs like to think their bizarre outbursts "trigger the libs."

But it isn't significant. It's just weird.

That's such a common rhetorical gambit of the leftbro misogynist that someone actually memed it.

I have yet to see anyone come to terms with this in print, perhaps because of the vastness of the problem: is there ANYWHERE a woman can go in the United States where she isn't forced to interact with rapists, rape apologists, or systems created by rapists (e.g., Microsoft products)?

Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

Yes. The mere whisper of the Baba Yaga's name brings all the butthurt misogynists to the yard...

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I'm confident that in your mind, that comment makes perfect sense and is an absolutely devastating takedown.

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Also "I was at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Ohio Streets, where ICE recently walked, so clearly that means I am on the side of the fascists."

me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall

tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get

…

tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Please save your prayers for someone who needs them. 😘

MEA MAXIMA CULPA

The message discipline cracks me up: once a month, like clockwork, some leftist drops this sentiment on me using identical phrasing, as if they're passing around a list of Sick Burns. And it's not really a burn. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes for the Atlantic: I'm cool with that association!

The Bat Signal has been received!

Best part is the message discipline: always identical comments, no variation in phrasing & a clear expectation that "You write for the Atlantic" is a devastating takedown. Maybe they're all huddling in a hovel in Moldova typing from a tattered index card of rage-bait phrases they're passing around.

Listen up: I have been busted. Geniuses of the Left post this exact statement as a gotcha every month, so I must confess: I wrote for @theatlantic.com, making me responsible for every word the magazine ever published. I'm also a mammal & thus responsible for the Late Pleistocene Extinctions. Sorry.

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Uh huh. And Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Ergo, they could not have been right about anything.

Hey @thedesertginger.bsky.social: you follow this person.

That has always seemed self-evident to me.

TO THIS DAY they will invoke the name of HRC the way children invoke Baba Yaga. The unexamined yet seething misogyny is just bizarre. Same with their loathing and scapegoating of Elizabeth Warren. Raging mommy issues.

The White House is just another public good--like the Washington Post and Twitter--that the Broligarchs purchased solely to destroy. To show us they own US.

Men of the left are just as misogynist as men of the right. (Cf: Chomsky in the Epstein files.) Feminist writer Andrea Dworkin was calling out leftbros for this 50yrs ago: ready to go to the barricades for the liberation of everyone EXCEPT the gals who washes bros' socks & made bros' sandwiches.

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NOT a Bragodochio! Bring me my smelling salts!

Use of the term "wine mom" should immediately raise suspicion of bad faith and ratfuckery on the part of whomever is using it.

The project of discrediting and delegitimizing women as political actors is ALWAYS a huge red flag, and is essential to the project that is fascism.

The project is NEVER finished...it's always a work in progress. That's what jorbo and I were taught in public school. That means that the bad guys come and go, but we--and people like us--keep working on making the dream real, always.

I am all at a loose end since you left; I feel as if I haven't seen you for ten years. Every conversation that I have with my mother is about you. Everyone here loves you dearly. Under what constellation were you born then, to be blessed with such qualities, so diverse and so rare? I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone. We got on well together, didn't we? It was very agreeable. It was so good that I do not want to share the pleasure with anyone else. If you happen to use Croisset in one of your books, do disguise it so that nobody recognizes it. I would appreciate it. The memory of your visit is just for the two of us, for me. That is how selfish I am. I particularly missed you last night, at ten o'clock. There was a fire, over at my wood-merchant's. The sky was pink and the Seine was the colour of red-currant syrup. I worked at the pumps for three hours and I came home as weary as the Turk with the giraffe? [...] One of the Rouen newspapers (Le Nouvelliste) reported your visit to Rouen, so that on Saturday after I had left you I met several bourgeois in a state of indignation over the fact that I had not put you on display. A former magistrate took the prize: 'If we had known that she was here... we would have... we would have ..? - five-minute pause, he's looking for the word - We would have... smiled at her.' That would have been rather meagre, don't you think? [...] To love you 'more' is difficult for me. But I do embrace you most tenderly. Your letter this morning, so melancholy, stirred me. We parted company just at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words. All of the doors between the two of us are not yet open. You inspire a great respect in me and I do not have the courage to ask you questions, Farewell, I kiss your sweet and lovely countenance, and I am Your Gve Flaubert

“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”

Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.