Julie Beck

Nicole put so much work, thought, care, generosity and deep empathy into this piece and it shows! a must-read

Lower Than Cowards The surrender of America’s elites

as usual @adamserwer.bsky.social says it best: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

you do owe people things

It’s Fun to Be a Board-Game Sociopath What can I say? I love to betray my friends.

don't read this if you play games with me I'M SERIOUS

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that can’t be right, because my handwriting doesn’t look like that

I did it…..I turned in a draft of this dang book to my editor. now my reward: to purchase sid meier’s civilization 7 and play it til my eyes bleed

the song of the summer is the entirety of the goo goo dolls’ 1998 album dizzy up the girl, you either get it or you don’t

tiktok keeps showing me these journal girls with washi tapes & popular girl handwriting & adorable illustrated spreads

am I jealous, yes, but I also feel compelled to say that a true journal freak opens that notebook and it’s wall to wall black ink text, just pure uncut unhinged internal dialogue

I’ve ended up on the side of tiktok where people have special surgical tweezers to peel stickers of smiling bears from their film and put them in their planners

and they said my encyclopedic knowledge of taylor swift lyrics would never be professionally lucrative

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big plans for my vacation? you bet—I’m going to purchase books at the local bookstore of a DIFFERENT city, instead of my own

The Logic of the ‘9 to 5’ Is Creeping Into the Rest of the Day How free time gets conscripted into the service of work

I watched way too many "5 to 9 after 9 to 5" videos and became convinced that whether you "make the most" of your free time by being super productive or just try to relax and recover from your job, the ghost of work haunts most of our leisure
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Not only are Palestinians starving to death, they are being killed as they try to access food.

nothing like coming up with a crackpot theory based purely on vibes, then digging into the research and discovering…you may be right

to my fellow lifters looking to improve grip strength, just buy this conditioner

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I miss when I could google something and find information from sources other than “Catholic MatchPlus,” “StyleGirlfriend.com, someone’s 10-year-old personal blog, and Quora

The Feminine Pursuit of Swoleness Casey Johnston’s new book, "A Physical Education," considers how weight lifting can help you unlearn diet culture.

I wrote about @caseyjohnston.bsky.social 's weightlifting memoir, the perks of getting jacked, and why I eat candy at the gym

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I just realized, just now, at age 34, in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty five, in THIS economy... that the Playstation logo is made up of a P and an S

This Pride Month, the Backlash Has Officially Arrived Young LGBTQ people are facing the prospect of losing rights they thought they’d never have to worry about.

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A Wedding Reveals How Much Help Is Really Available to You Big life moments offer permission to ask for assistance. You should seize it.

real thank you notes ARE coming but until then let this serve as a token of gratitude for everyone who helped with our wedding, and a plea to others to let your friends help you!!

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I know I’m washed up because the girlies are now wearing leggings with sewn in artificial ass crack…I can’t get behind it and I won’t get it on my behind

why didn't anyone tell me that evernote rules

The New Singlehood Stigma Society tells us we should have a partner—but we shouldn’t want one.

no one is reporting on modern romance and singlehood quite like @faith-hill.bsky.social. she’s an astute observer of the vibes and distills them so clearly, I always learn something!

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In Defense of the ‘Wife Guy’ The phrase has become a pejorative. Why?

let @jeremygordon.bsky.social love his wife you cowards

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two white cats are snuggling on a pile of blankets. one is laying down with one paw extended, the other is curled up like a powdered donut. I’m laying down next to them with my face on one cat and my arm around another

the art is awesome but it would have been better illustrated with a picture of cherry and ginkgo:

You Don’t Know Yourself As Well as You Think You Do And that’s okay.

this is the story of how I shocked myself by transforming into a cat person, and how, despite the cultural premium on finding yourself, we don’t know ourselves as well as we might think

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Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Food for Gaza decays in Jordan warehouses as Israel restricts aid Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

It should not need to be said, and it should not be controversial to say it, but: Starving children is wrong.

I wrote for @theatlantic.com about the horror of the Palestinian people needlessly starving while food is within reach:

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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues: