Cute_Fuzzy

Describe your cat’s personality with one photo

a theory of politics that begins and ends with "I deserve to be important"

not sure this is quite what you mean, but I had two conferences this month and got energy from both of them. Some combination of intellectual exchange and hearing my (imposter syndrome) self sound smart in conversation? Being exposed to new ideas is fun!

I was tired the next day and had a lymph node under my arm swell up but no major knockouts

I think they must get an email at 6:00 AM that tells them what to be mad about that day

I love to get mad when people answer my questions

Harrow the Ninth, but for nonfiction I’m thinking I’ll finally get back into These Truths by Jill Lepore (tried to read it for a work book club but only got through the first third)

Regrettably we must now call him the even later Trump bsky.app/profile/alor...

I know this is a pun but I did hope for just a second

“Trump will make IVF free” syndrome rears its ugly head again

The outside of the tiny museum

an interior shot, showing tiny paintings

an interior shot, showing tiny paintings

an interior shot, showing tiny paintings

There is a tiny art gallery on Putnam in Somerville

#SomervilleMA

Great piece, thanks for sharing! As a fellow MN I felt Marge leaving the eggs was a commentary on the care we deny ourselves, but your read helps me understand why her character is pregnant during the movie—she’s in a liminal state re: motherhood and her future likewise could go a different way

My #1 crank opinion is that Lyndale should be a light rail corridor from 494 to downtown

Howl’s Moving Castle is so, so good; it stands on its own as source material but also helps you understand and appreciate the movie better, including the choices the filmmakers made to simplify the story. The rare case where the movie and the book makes you like each of them more

remembering when conservatives lost their fucking minds because Obama bowed to Akihito

It feels like “Trump will make IVF free” levels of feigned credulousness. A tossed-off comment that everyone knows isn’t serious and won’t happen, which the media nevertheless elevates to make someone everyone hates appear reasonable

Ilhan Omar if memory serves

and somehow I didn't realize you were also the author of the original, I am going to go to bed now

so happy to see this as the first quote, I love this scene and you are so right about it being the best

I feel like a lot of it is about performing masculinity for men and creating anxiety around masculinity in men. My wife was telling me about a study where they had men and women look at before/after pictures of guys who got ripped--men preferred the ripped "after" and women preferred the "before"

the Wellesley campus after Pronouns

1920s speedrun continues with a self-inflicted depression to follow our horribly-managed pandemic

Definitely sounds like something I'd read on Defector, I think it would be a great piece!

No need, and it was lovely as always to have you in game tonight! I especially appreciate how closely you track the little worldbuilding details

Thanks--I've been thinking of doing the same thing but haven't gone ahead and done it yet

what did you do? Reallocate towards bonds or towards foreign stocks?

confusion that only gets worse as you try to explain what an "MTS" degree is

The American Airlines plane that caught fire in Denver. There are people standing on the wing. There’s smoke everywhere. There’s a mobile stair in the runway, helping nobody.

I realize memes are supposed to be figurative, but this image could not be more literal.

my favorite genres are:

5. attractive, well-dressed people do a heist

4. bzzzzzt kapow pew pew pew

3. absurdist nonsequitor humor

2. punching, but Sophisticated and Intellectual

1. this lil weirdo had the gift we all needed all along

Absolutely stunning directorial debut by Jessica Lee Gagne in the new SEVERANCE episode. One of the series' best episodes and definitely the best looking.