Julia Is Moisturized, Unbothered, Not Asking for Money

it wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual!

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This is also a magnificently strange statement to make when our primary partner in the illegal war is Israel!

a groper says what?

habibis stay in Dubai

it would not be judicious regarding either legality or terms of service on this platform for me to discuss what the most narratively satisfying outcome of this venture will be

I do hope that the two of them will get all that they deserve, and more

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

it’s one of the things I bang on and on about 🫠

“we all agreed rape jokes are bad” was about lazy men using rape as a shocking punchline to dehumanize women in like tweets and standup routines

don’t use that same maxim to run around demanding survivors of abuse discuss what happened to them only in somber, sad reverence.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

are we supposed to believe he just stepped out of the kitchen to attend the meeting, or does he always wear the full drag just in case?

all of Matthew’s food posts are enticing, but I just finished a pretty good dinner and yet I would grab a bowl of this in a hot second

this is part of why his cookbook is so great! he is a Michelangelo of food

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704923...

Jimmy Carter?

then of course I went wayyyy down the rabbit hole

poor Cuba, it has deserved so much better than to be exploited by one empire after another

I was probably in my 50s before I knew that the South Africa concentration camps weren’t the first formally designed and named as such

see also Andersonville in the US Civil War

after about a year, Weyler thought it was such a great side benefit that so many Cubans were dying in camps; it made managing the country much easier

Cuba, South Africa, Philippines

it was not part of Weyler’s original strategy in Cuba in 1896, but by 1897 he was considering it a side benefit of the reconcentratión policy

neither of those couples is a mixed marriage, it’s just political opportunists of different flavors

He’s literally trying to use this war to *checks notes*...

Make us forget about the Epstein files, bait us into funding DHS without any guardrails on ICE’s lawless behavior...and now let Netanyahu off the hook.

No, no, and no.

you have some treats coming

“there has only been one protest” that’s not at all true, there are so many protests every day and other acts of resistance

the Marine who was assaulted was protesting!

interesting temperature check

2026 is shaping up to be a bad year for cowards, bigots, and hypocrites

American will? American WON’T

I’m overflowing with American WON’T at the present moment

also, “my briefing about how we’re totally not running out of missiles is raising questions that should have been answered by my briefing about how we’re totally not running out of missiles”

glass cliff is real and much more slippery the more conservative the environment

exactly, they’re handling her carefully with a golden parachute

you are one of the few people I don’t know personally whom I would trust with the lathe of heaven

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