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Wait Charlie Jane I just realized you could also do a double feature of LIMAD with Jamie Hood's memoir TRAUMA PLOT: Two books about depressed trans grad students named Jamie in the greater Boston area. 😂

Yeah I am in NC and keep tabs on Cooper and have heard literally zero of this before this moment.

Beating the Slump Reading as much as I do requires a certain amount of magical thinking. It's very easy for me to feel like I'm in a slump. Two or three books in a row that are just fine is enough to do it. Even a book...

Newsletter out today! On why being unemployed isn't all that different from being in a reading slump. Also my favorite new books for August, including releases from @charliejane.bsky.social and @haileypiperfights.bsky.social
jess-of-the-durbervilles.ghost.io/beating-the-...

If I was a world leader I would have a 1000% tariff because I would not be able to pretend that the US is run by a competent, rational person. I feel sympathetic towards these world leaders who sit there fake smiling because all the other world leaders have decided this is their best approach.

Yay!

Absolutely bet they changed that title last minute on purpose.

Feels like an easy hobby to start back up!

"Excuse me, I'm at the Sheetz," as if you need to be excused!

Fucking terrible lol. This summer sucks. How have you been?????

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That scene in the new Final Destination where she's walking down the street pointing out all the things that can kill you is just how I live my life every day. These movies are just morbid anxiety, are there people that don't have that??

Watched this with my kids recently and they spent half the movie convinced she was the titular psycho and she really does give you the opportunity to read it that way plus like three other ways! Movie can't work without her.

Go EoE I would say. You might love LD or you might find it just fine, but the other almost everyone has a really strong experience.

First read or reread?

If it's a color you hate (black, for me) then no. If it's a color that just isn't your preference I think you do it.

That's a great question, I'll do some research!

To do list could work! I just... have done so many things for so many months there is not much left, you know?

My key coping strategy during unemployment is to stay as busy as possible but I have absolutely no plans for Saturday and I'm nervous that just one empty day could fuck up weeks of work to stay okay.

Artists getting into a contract that would ruin their lives used to be an established beat in episodes of Behind the Music! I think it'd be really interesting to consider how this happens, how it's changed, etc.

This is sharp and personal and hilarious, diving into celebrity and capitalism and relatability. Best thing I've read in weeks.

@alexanderchee.bsky.social Just read your newsletter and I have this same experience in my Prius all the time! I think some people get offended when they see I'm driving faster than they are, as if I am doing it to hurt them individually. Mine is green and 10 years old which probably doesn't help 😂

I've been using Firefox and searching with DuckDuckGo for a few months now. Today for a project I had to replicate a search in Google and it is BANANAS how much worse the results were in Google. I know it but it really is something to see it so starkly.

Thanks. On the bright side the shitty market means I don't have to feel like it's a personal failing.

I don't post about it much on here but I've passed 4 months unemployed and it's clear it'll be at least 6. And once you hit 6 in a market like this you start to consider if it's forever.

Applied to a bunch of jobs over the last week or two. Which means it's now time for the parade of rejection emails to start arriving.

hey yall, does anybody know of a trustworthy expert who researches right-wing social media imagery and memes? it's for comment on a story

I would be mad but this directly benefits me.

I had a drink at FOUR different places which might be a new record. I went to a religious college, bar crawls were not my forte. And I must remind you it is WEDNESDAY.

Guys. I stayed out late and drank a lot on a weeknight. This is a real achievement at 45! I'm very proud of myself.

And, of course, the Nazis.