mel thomas

no, I actually don't want to read your thinkpiece about a TV show you haven't watched based on books you haven't read where you delude yourself into thinking you're the first person to observe that women have sex drives

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

Mel Thomas is currently reading Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase

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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Teen girl in hospital bed reading from her little clam shell

Is there a technology the left is excited about?" It's called the clamshell e-reader from It Follows, and I've been waiting for it since 2014

Right there with u buddy 😩

ahhhh tysm. AND you're writing for heated rivalry now???? i've got your hayden-finds-out-about-boston-lily fic queued up as i type this. our paths are intersecting yet again 😌😌😌😌

whenever I feel like I'm at the end of my rope, the universe has a way of reaching out a hand... 😌🕊️

Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.

this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

LOL SKEET STRONG BAYBBEEE

attention!!! you can find me at the intersection of Progressive American Writers and Irreverent Internet Comedians. sorry if u were mistakenly looking for me at the Pizza Hut Taco Bell

retweet if you think trans people deserve a pack of cigarettes, six passports, nine flip phones, a pistol, a set of handcuffs, plane tickets, the key to a storage locker in ulaanbaatar, and $20,000 in cash

Trulyyyyyyyyy

ahhhh tysm!! 🥰🥰

for images, yes, and i'm also using duckduckgo. (and am also being a bit hyperbolic for the bit)

man i miss when i could google image search "cerberus" and get ancient greek pottery instead of thousands of AI-generated boss battle rejects. now it's just pages and pages thomas-kincaide-in-his-mall-goth-phase type shit. hashtag not MY hound of hades

AO3 additional tags: a fix-it fic but instead of a singular event i am trying to fix an entire guy, the guy is Hayden Pike, a doofus who is definitely in love with his wife but also his best friend a lil bit , it's important to me for Shane's best friend to See and Understand him so I guess I'm just gonna have to make it happen myself, I saw an edit set to Silver Springs and it changed me

i have plans that i cannot share with you right now because the haters will sabotage me

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

love when there’s a newspaper profile of some psychopath that points out they allow themselves “a lone vice, like a single cup of black coffee in the morning.” personally I am a bundle of trash glued together by vices. they’re all load-bearing

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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’? The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.

@jamellebouie.net has an excellent video opinion today: this isn't immigration enforcement, it's ethnic cleansing.

www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

photo of a dairy queen cake with illustration of sleeping beauty dancing with prince charming and "FUCK THE POLICE" written in icing on it. sale price 20.99

sometimes i worry the algo knows way too much about me and then other times i get ads from chewy for injectable horse drugs

The hardest part about reading short fiction is the part where you have to stop every couple of paragraphs and stare into space and think “holy shit, I love short fiction.”