Julia Carrie Wong

A series of replies: Her son, Boulevard Her son, Roundabout. Her son, Northtown Mall Her son, Turnpike Her son, Unpaved Zero-Maintenance Road.

a lot of people hate bluesky and a lot of them have good points but every one of these made me chuckle so thank you

normally I would take that as a compliment but I don’t want this

My tweet from earlier: “let's have a crisis of femininity, as a treat”

WSJ push alert: The conservative women who are "having it all”

WSJ article illustrated by photo of sen Katie Britt The Conservative Women Who Are 'Having It All' Politicians and other prominent women on the right are juggling work and family on their own terms. They credit grit, religious faith, family support and a laser-like focus on priorities.

By Pamela Paul Aug. 1, 2025 11:04 am ET

omfg

(He said something along the lines of it’s difficult but that good people tend to recognize that it makes him happy and that makes them happy which seems fair enough but also makes me question whether I am a good person)

BBC Newshour on a Sunday in August is a lowkey delight. Today they had rapping Catholic priest influencers, am adult Thomas the Tank Engine obsessive who was asked, “How do you break the news to people you meet?” and a dance club in Caracas for over 60s. Also volcanos.

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yeah I mean I’m kind of broadly sketching a circle of sanity that excludes reactionary nonsense when I say we but certainly Terfism is a crisis rooted in essentialist nonsense

what I’m saying is that the defense of traditional“femininity” is broadly understood to be a reactionary project based on essentialist notions of sex and gender, but that there is a disconnect in how otherwise center left people fail to recognize the same dynamic with regards to “masculinity”

a thousand doves erupt from a volcano of fireworks and confetti, lightly singed, they fly up, up, and disappear into the glare of the sun

thank you I’m very smart

yea the uk media is unmatched in its ability to repackage unadulterated sexism as “discourse on femininity”

Drunk girl yelling at nonplussed guy meme

the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis

let’s have a crisis of femininity, as a treat

the reactionary centrist grift is imo a blight on society and ideas that is making the world dumber, meaner, and more susceptible to fascism but oh, it has produced some fun fodder for book reviews

(the way she does it is by dramatically throwing herself to the ground in front of the cheesemonger stall and desperately licking the pavement for cheese particles while I try to get her to stand up and move along; it takes maybe one minute for the cheesemonger to surrender to these tactics)

why yes I did casually use cheesemonger in a sentence thank you for noticing

It took a couple weeks but Georgie has successfully trained the new cheesemonger at the farmers market to give her free cheese

It’s large and has been known to hiss at her but has never actually touched her

There is a very large dog in our building that has tried to kill Georgie twice and seems to have left no psychic scar to speak of. Meanwhile The Cat She Fears has never so much as touched her but any appearance in the hallway triggers weeks of trepidation.

I’ve been working with Georgie to build back up her confidence to ~exit the apartment without fear~ and it all went out the window today due to an unexpected around-the-corner appearance by The Cat She Fears

yes but also fyi: many people, myself included, take off wedding rings before throwing, so don't make assumptions! just stick to the don't be a dick rule

A demonstrable commitment to improving non-verbal communication seems like a win-win for any couple! Also… fun?

even if you strike out on a gf you will learn some skills and create at least one wobbly object that will outlast you on this earth for literally thousands of years and depending on your personality that thought will either haunt or please you

lonely queer men seeking female friendship are of course also very welcome, don’t be a dick rule still applies

ok I am going to break every rule in my nonexistent book and offer lonely straight men a straightforward solution to meeting women: take an intro to pottery class. ratio will be about 9:1. don’t be a dick.

Oh ok so you’re fully aware that Jason does not control everything the guardian publishes and using the occasion of him publishing a good article to hold him preemptively accountable for someone else at the guardian who isn’t under his control hypothetically publishing a bad article. Productive!

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is such horseshit. Jason exposed an anonymous neo-Nazi, removed his ability to monetize his hate, revealed that his wife is an elected official who was aware of his content, and did it all without “promoting” the fascist in any way that could benefit him. It’s a model for anti-fascist reporting

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I would very much be interested to hear what’s on the set list