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props to the girlboss in a product standup call on this flight to san jose I could never be you

actually I love it (because the swifties hate it). it's totally unflattering in a much more interesting way than usual.

in spite of all this.... I don't hate it. I was baffled upon first listen. I appreciate that (save for 1-2 tracks) it is not written for a general audience (at least not as much as midnights). it's cringey in a way that only she is 💕 and I think it will be a bit polarizing

there's one song about Travis vs. like 5 very blatantly about Matty and it's SO BAD like far and away worst on album. i thought they were cute and made sense together and now I actively believe they are a PR couple. because of this track.

so much of it is so explicitly about her public-personal life that I suspect it will have limited relistening value. and I can't tell if I think it's good or not. features a lot of her worst lyrical impulses but she commits hard enough to them that they loop back to being maybe good.

new Taylor is so weird??? she references a boyfriend killing her with a gun (specifically) three separate times

my roommate (who does not take any drugs and was truly tipsy after her glass of chardonnay last night) asked me for an adderall and i gave her a 20 without thinking and poor girl is bouncing off the walls

today is officially the first day of spring in Portland - the temp stayed above 60 for most of the day, not a cloud in the sky, and the ex-flings are hitting me up

cleaning out my aunt's house (still), she'd saved letters my dad sent her in 1981. reading them is fun and surreal. we are so many people.

another major departmental restructuring at work that has huge implications for my job, i think i need to GTFO ASAP

The AI-generated "script" the actors were given for the Glasgow Wonka event is.. something. Aside from featuring staging and effects that would be impressive for a moderately-sized West End spectacular, its stage directions also dictate, in detail, precisely how delighted the audience will be.

my doc is prescribing me an ativan for a gynecological procedure on saturday and the nurse who called to go over it with me told me i would be "nice and zooted" afterwards, gotta love a millennial medical professional

yeah I would get the argument if she was truly a random rising anon but she already has a massive following to whom she spews libelous hatred unchallenged + has an outsized influence on state politics. she's already been "platformed" and is beloved by freaks so ignoring her will not be effective.

truuuuue especially if they're watching TikTok or YouTube

is there a more annoying sound than that of tinny music leaking out of someone else's headphones

VPR this week: James' sobriety seems to hang from a piece of dental floss, Katie has said 5 sentences in 4 episodes but I love that EZ paycheck for her, wish we were watching Ariana on DWTS instead of Tom crying in a cold plunge

this site lacks much of a deranged Bravo stan community but don't worry I'll try my best to be a vanguard

chaya raichik has now killed multiple people and is 100% going to hell but that day can't come soon enough

DHS spent millions on surveillance of anarchists in Portland to "only amass a giant file of who's canceling whom on Twitter"

I take it back, maybe endless leftist infighting is good

it doesn’t scare me when men get into the ugh ‘manosphere.’ it scares me when men who AREN’T in that world, who present themselves as being on my side, act like the andrew tate worship is both totally sympathetic and a problem women should take it on themselves to solve

first time logging in for months and I gotta say that the feed experience has really improved! that was the biggest turnoff at the outset

I could do without the intergenerational mental illness + enmeshment + lack of accountability so common among Irish Catholics but idk if it would be worth losing the gab + unflinching support

families are all so different. my roommate's dad is visiting, they have a super civilized and healthy relationship that I could only dream of, but he got in around 5 + has already gone back to his hotel for the night. if this was my dad one of us would cry and then we'd watch multiple Austin Powers.

after a few bureaucratic hurdles i was accepted!!

we all have issues with it bc its functionality is also shit and when we complained to our boss about it he was like "you're overthinking it!" but we just had to write self-reflections ENTIRELY based around how can improve our metrics related to it so it seems p fucking important to corporate!

but the actual work i do is not counted or reviewed... just time spent in this window... if I'm working on s/t more important outside of this window i get dinged... if i spent as much time in the window as I'm supposed to, i'd be doing way more "work" than everyone else.... does this make sense?

this will be obnoxious but we have an monitoring tool at work that tracks our time spent in a specific window and i feel like it it's unfair to me because I'm SO good at my job and efficient and productive that i can complete a "day's" worth of work within a few hours

didn't use my credit cards for anything in july which i know should be normal adult behavior but is actually a pretty big win for me 😳

ignore crap on floor but whatta baby

i do think oppenheimer is worth seeing on a big screen, even w/o imax, it's just well-shot with some big cool explosions + lot of fast cuts. but i am also keenly aware that i don't have the focus it takes to watch a 3-hour movie at home, i really need to be in a space w/o distractions. so YMMV!