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Thank you!!! Also it’s great you did this because a bunch of my subscriptions lapsed bc a credit card expired and I need to make sure yours wasn’t one of them

Also I think it autocorrected to Dave instead of David lol

Actually they mostly still do, unfortunately

I don’t know whether MySpace is still alive but I learned how to torrent in order to get a Remioromen song bc back then Japan refused to export their culture except Sanrio

(I only allow myself to have penguins to keep myself under control)

Do you do penguins at all by some chance? Especially if the wave at me??!?!?!?

Former UK ambassador to US Peter Mandelson arrested Former British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson has been arrested by London police on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

Breaking: Former British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson has been arrested amid investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

One of the best things about Dave’s really interesting podcast is that he also provides text versions which I super appreciate for those times when I don’t feel up to or don’t have time for listening

I also **love** that things get explained without getting dumbed down

A weird thing has happened as I’m starting to enter middle age - I’m a lot more sensitive to sensory input, I like it a lot less

I feel like getting old, with the accompanying brain changes is part but also I chose Pickwick Papers for a sophomore book report so I’ve always loved words let’s be real

Temp agencies were great for me for that very reason

A screenshot of Apple messenger with a group of small pop-up boxes circled in red

In case anyone else has been extremely annoyed by the latest iOS changes and would like to complain to Apple, this particular annoyance is called the “Shelf” and you cannot make it go away, it will constantly get in your way and use up your screen real estate no matter how much you cry

They talk about audience capture, but there is also such a thing as *medium capture*. I have watched people whose work I've followed for years transition to video, and it absolutely affects the way they think & talk. It is a medium that rewards flash & charisma but has no time for real *argument*.

The "pro-trans" side on sports has never been "Literally anyone should be allowed to enter a women's elite-level competition simply by declaring that they are a woman five minutes before the start." Never. Ever.

The "nuance" that Newsom's describing is what trans people have been ok with all along.

BREAKING

Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

four little 3d printed yeti guys in 4 color schemes: a green/gold/orange gradient, a blue/green/pink/purple gradient, a rainbow gradient, and a snowy yeti with white fur and a blue face

Sometimes you just need a little guy to sit on your desk (or by your keys) and wave to you, because this yeti loves you.

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Just reread a reply and realized that I might??!! be super gently hypomanic so I’m gonna try to stop replying

Saying this out loud to help me stick to it

Conventional wisdom would say no, but if he whines enough about how unfairly he’s being treated he just might win over all of his detractors

Taught a class on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion today, and every one of my students said they've seen content on TikTok that comes directly from it, without knowing before today what the source was.

Sort of a critical moment for written public comments as a thing. Indiscriminate clicktivism was bad enough, but slop is going to kill them off once and for all.

Elon Musk responding “Precisely” to an image asking why people aren’t protesting Epstein, saying “Because the people who pay for protests would be the ones getting protested."

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk’s right-wing populist politics, because he wants to brand himself as a populist insurgent against the “elites,” but as the world’s wealthiest person, he needs a definition of elite not rooted in actual material wealth.

My husband is so freaking good at that. 🥰

That’s what has been so striking lately is how vehemently he just seems to hate so many American people in all kinds of ways and barely performs any pretense of caring about anyone anymore

Stay safe!!!!! 😢

This is correct, Crystal’s is theeeeee best

I got a few “fancy” sauces to try from the farmer’s market last year - jalapeño, mango habanero, garlic ghost - I don’t end up using them much bc Crystal’s is just so perfectly balanced flavor

I'm sorry but I can't help myself: the best fruit discourse is poisoned by conflating "average one you get at the grocery store" with "best you've ever had.". The classic example is peach, the average grocery store peach is dogshit and the best you've ever had is a transcendent experience

Before the vaccine, 10% of measles infections resulted in deafness. Measles currently causes 100K children/yr to become blind. Even those who recover completely can later develop the fatal encephalitis. Every infection disrupts the immune system and can cause loss of all immunity to other infections

I fucking loved it, also, is it true it’s the first of a trilogy of noir lesbian movies?

HONEY, DON’T (2025) Does no one have any taste? You people didn’t like a cartoon pulp neo-noir were everyone is queer, horny, violent, and a fast talking dame regardless of gender? Chris Evans is a corrupt preacher who is naked a lot! Do you even know what you want?!

but it's not coming back soon, i don't think. Even if we create an infrastructure that can't be controlled by one dude on ketamine, audience behaviors have changed too. very prone to polarizing around brands and online spaces in a way that is challenging to centralized message delivery

the numbers they feed you to keep you posting are mirages made up of bots, juicing things with algorithms just enough, and inflating what counts as a "view," because they WANT you to feel like we're back in that 15 minutes when everyone had Facebook and Facebook let your followers see everything

personally, i think whether they know it or not, people who rely on social media for publicity are mourning how easy it used to be before things fractured