Emily L

Me Four

Cannibalistic Oreos?!?

The Economist's ick-based policy analysis, ladies and gentlemen. They're looking out for you and your experiences on Parisian cafe terraces and Alpine chairlifts.

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it's pretty funny how peppers produce capsaicin so they get eaten and dispersed long distance by birds instead of puny walking mammals, but then some apes decided "oh hey pain is fun actually" and now the plants made it to every part of the planet

I guess my point is emailing yourself absurd shit that you are convinced, at one point in time, is brilliant is a fun and harmless activity and actually the most human-seeming thing about him; it's all the rest of it that sucks.

Ok, Epstein is a certified sex pest and all around bad dude but like...whomst among us hasn't taken drugs and written down Thoughts?

But I know what I know, and even if I do master the art of being persuasive-yet-easy enough that I succeed in clawing back something like justice, I'm going to die mad about it.

Truth above all else. h₂ŕ̥tḱos, motherfuckers.

And then I'm inconvenient for them, and the easy thing to do, that anyone would, is to punish me for being hard to deal with. And then, aggrieved, I wonder whether really *I* am the abuser, the narcissist, the aggressor, the delusional one, the danger. The cycle of abuse, made institutional.

I usually fail in one direction or another, or something that I actually feel — fear, rage, grief, frustration, just fucking indignation that I have to keep beating my head against this same wall over and over and over again — is legible to the people making decisions about me and my child.

The emotional cost to me is huge. I strategize ahead of every mediation session, and then debrief in detail, trying to learn how to seem credible but not aggressive; powerful but not threatening; valuable in the eyes of the law, but never, ever a victim.

Calmly tell the truth about how your co-parent made his home unsafe for you and your child? Well, you seem fine, so no one believes you. Get mad about it and be unpleasant in public? Well, gosh, you seem really irrational, so no one believes you.

The intense social pressure that women face to be convenient above all else has always been a little bit abstract to me, for Reasons, but lemme tell ya, a hostile custody negotiation will make it Crystal Fucking Clear.

I just bought a nice big computer monitor, but I still prefer to work from bed, so I think what I really need is a giant monitor mounted on the ceiling so that I can work while lying down, I can't see a single thing wrong with this plan

Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.

sitting in the lotus position, hovering 3 feet above the ground, eyes rolled back in my head, an electric thrumming fills the room: the pee tape is real

X.com post from @theoluminati "Picturing Andreessen thinking every woman he sees is ugly his whole life until he finally sees a woman with a pointy cone head like his own and getting heart eyes and thinking she’s the most beautiful woman in the world"

Marc Andreesen

"too much of animals is worms" - @isaacs.bsky.social

A few questions:

Why am I so bad at going to bed?

Do you think my adversaries are spying on me?

Which of [sunday-saturday] has more of the letter a?

More than what?

In how many ways can soap hurt? Do you like soap that hurts?

Could you stop talking to me? Would you, if you could?

Why am I lik

Didn’t you also tell me that “Laskin” means calculator in Finnish? And yay I’m glad it made it out of the US, enjoy!

Currently doing this so that I can make sick data visualizations to deploy against my co-parent in school choice disputes. Also so that I can make a nice looking TikTok about how “pull all the way forward” signs are ruining society, ask me later

Toddler dinner trynna tell me something

Current research ☭

Anyone know where I can get a copy of Bizkim — Kompyuterlar in Uzbek?

the two genders: tech bro and computerboy

Never have I felt so seen

and a "morally bankrupt" establishment party that yelled at voters for being "woke" while, you know, being literal fascists; wants us to be amazed that the "two sides" came together to make sure we can continue military development and do air travel on Thanksgiving.

when people got somewhat predictably upset, launched scapegoat campaigns against [checks notes] oh, immigrants and trans people, right, I could see how this could all be their fault; clung to a "morally upstanding" establishment party that yelled at voters for being "woke" while licking fasist boot;

Cool let's see: the US yoked healthcare access to employment at a corporation; relaxed labor regulations so that corporations could enshittify all jobs and force people into the gig economy, cuz y'know, freedom!; whittled away protections allowing gig workers to buy access to healthcare;

Call your Senators no matter how they voted but especially if they are one of the 8 turncoats

And stay on the line to tell the turncoat staff that they should stop working for someone who would sell out the people