Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they)

Ok if you succeed can I have the recipe? I love that stuff so much I could eat it multiple times a day.

I might get my Taiwanese citizenship revoked for this, but I can’t stand pineapples. If I wanted to chew needles coated in sugar, I would just do that.

Pope Leo is JD Vance’s Joyce Carol Oates.

Black folks have a right to go into public spaces and not have slurs hurled at them. Two things can be true. You can be empathetic to this person and their Tourette’s, but also be empathetic to Michael B Jordan, and Delroy Lindo.

Boosting this!! There are still a couple weeks to apply. It will be very fun

Anyone else buy fancy lotions from places like Lush and then forget to moisturize or am I the only one with this personality defect

Niche complaint: why do the fake session transcripts in psychotherapy manuals always sound like they were written by people who haven’t actually talked to anyone in thirty years? A bunch of “I sure am!”s and “Gee, I never thought of it that way”s.

American individualism meant people could not conceive of committing to an incredibly small sacrifice, wearing a mask, for their good & the communal good. Capitalism meant the wheels had to keep going & no one could stop to contain a virus, & people had to or chose work sick. Societal choices.

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her ChatGPT sent screenwriter Micky Small down a fantastical rabbit hole. Now, she's finding her way out.

I initially had sympathy but then theres the bit about how she started with using ChatGPT to outline screenplays and I guess I'm into personal responsibility now

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A meme of the boy in the brown hoodie who fist booped the obnoxious MAGA spawn with the word “OKAY” under the image. The background is yellow and the image is black.

He’s already earned legend status.

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.

This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.

They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

i get a lot of publicity emails about books, and the biggest difference between books that lean literary and books that are firmly genre is that the literary emails lead with praise & blurbs, sometimes there isn't even a summary included. what is the book about??? who cares. it is ~illuminating~

Learning that James Van Der Beek’s wife is extremely anti-science and was against him doing chemotherapy in favor of holistic nonsense is so sad. Colon cancer is one of the most survivable cancers. It has a 90% 5-year survival rate when treated early. He could have lived to see his 6 children go on

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6 takeaways from Star investigation of immigration detention of elderly, disabled people More elderly and disabled people are being held in U.S. immigration detention. Here's what to know.

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Aahhh, sorry! I meant Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice …

One of my pet peeves is when readers assume that a character who uses “like” or uptalk (or any kind of non-mainstream English) is automatically unintelligent or when authors feel the need to make a character sound like Frasier to imply intelligence. I thought we fixed this with Legally Blonde.

All those people who were super into the Dave Matthews Band in the 90s and 00s, what happened to them?

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

By the way good white people, it's y'alls own people, your friends, your family members, the people your work with, people who are in your phone, people you go out to meals with, people you have cherished memories with, who are racist trolls online. They get online to let out their racism.

Korean actor Park Bo Gum wearing dark suit and gray overcoat with hands in his pockets

Korean actor Park Bo Gum wearing black leather jacket and white shirt with a cyan sweatshirt thrown over his back. His arms are up for some reason.

Korean actor Park Bo Gum in profile wearing tan suit and brown tie

I don’t think Park Bo-Gum is the same species as the rest of us. Every time I see a pic of him I feel mildly offended because I wasn’t emotionally prepared for his hotness. Like, excuse you, sir.

who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice

A lot of "golden age" science fiction has interesting ideas and workman-like-at-best prose, and Asimov was no exception to this. He and many other GA SF writers benefitted from "first-mover" status, and also, editors who preferred neat SF concepts (and men) over exceptional prose (and women).

LOL some acknowledgments sections are spicier than the book itself 💅

*zoomies

Everything is terrible but here's a kitten with the zooms

Not to be that guy, but: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup

Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up.

That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.

We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

Anyone who thinks that human beings are always consistent … has not met many human beings