crazy that in the 1800s platonic friends used to write letters to each other like โhow i long to feel your warmth by my side and kiss your darling cheeksโฆโ and now everybody wants to talk to the person theyโre going to marry like theyโre doing a parent teacher conference
in the span of maybe 2 minutes i wrote and deleted so many sentences about this song snippet that taught me more than i ever wanted to know about my own capacity for cruelty
The blast killing hundreds at a hospital in Gaza is deeply wrong. I grieve for each person lost.ย Thereโs no excuse for the deaths of people seeking care and those who treated them.ย International law is clear:ย Innocent civilians must be protected & have access to humanitarian aid.
a lot of you have made yourselves so hypersensitive to Cringe that you basically have 0 discernible personality beyond blasรฉ nastiness, and are totally unfit for company
ever since i learned โthe eagle always faces forwardโ is an official USPS slogan itโs been a near-constant struggle not to mutter it like a cryptic greeting to every mail carrier i see
when i was a kid i went to a clothing-optional swimming hole and seeing all the naked people of many ages and sizes was amazing. enlightening. i observed them and for the first time understood in a beautiful and profound way that humans are really stupid-looking animals
just had another amazing experience of an unleashed rottweiler running at me full speed baring its teeth on a trail while the owner yelled โheโs friendlyโ
if you and your friends all have the kind of jobs that need to be explained with a powerpoint then you are probably part of societyโs least productive and most annoying demographic
I love this idea & am planning one:
A night where all of your friends make a presentation on what they do at work and answer questions.
I don't know much about what many of my friends do for a living.
the obsession with travel and people talking about how important it is to them (esp on dating apps) is usually just covert class signaling and a way to put a virtuous, worldly spin on the less glamorous โi like to go on vacationโ
canโt remember if i already posted this but there was a guy on the arrowheads reddit who was constantly posting pictures of regular rocks (โjust a rockโ aka JAR) clearly thinking each time it would be the one
If you see this tweet, you have to mention one of your favorite paintings.
I saw Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Itโs huge and fucked me up.
people with dogs are feeling way too empoweredโฆ. a couple just came to view my apartment (so they can potentially buy the building and kick me out lol) and got pissed when i told them they couldnโt bring their yorkie into my unit to disturb my elderly cat
percy shelley was obsessed with going out in lil boats despite not knowing how to swim, and needed to be rescued a number of times (including by lord byron) until he drowned for good at age 29. this is the kind of shit i am up to
Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, the "year without a summer," when volcanic ash from the eruption of Mt. Tabora in Indonesia blocked out sunlight in Europe. What have you been doing today?
i mean i dont think anybody would claim this genuinely probably tastes bad unless you dont like meat but it's incredibly funny to show a plate with three different processed red meats on it centering a hashbrown and be like "yall arent used to healthy food"
my mom asked me โwhy does anyone hate globalism?โ and she seemed so distraught so i asked what she thinks people mean when they say globalism and she said, โthe belief that we are all citizens of the world โค๏ธโ
posting something totally tangential to insert yourself in the narrative AND finding an opportunity to scold everybody about itโฆ the annoying twitter rosetta stone ๐คฒ
There are specific submarine crews and pilots who get flown in from around the world for rescue operations if a submersible goes missing, hereโs me with one of them, so if people could not assume everyone on the Titanic expedition is dead just yet, that would be great.
in baltimore when i got tired of the bar or a party before everybody else iโd walk miles home alone in the middle of the night, totally fucked up, and nothing bad ever happened to me. which is how i learned that danger is a fake concept
we are never getting stylish avant-garde public architecture and design again because everybody is a reddit brain midwit who wants all cities to look like a paddington bear lives there, in pastiche hell
the next zuckerberg is up all night, coding up an AI girlfriend/boyfriend.
Steve Jobs fixed boredom (phone)
Zuck fixed people watching (FB/IG)
Speigel fixed flirting (Snap)
The next one will fix loneliness.
people will mock it, use it, then be addicted to it.
Hot take: the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not only *absolutely* justified, but the fact that many people today think they weren't was a result of U.S. postwar propaganda downplaying the war crimes Japan committed so we could ally with them in the Korean War.
โdonโt film random people in publicโ is a good general rule but it has its limits. for example when a lady in miami beach is seen running like a dog on all her fours
truly wish the pop culture writer Girlies would finally stop and ask themselves if itโs going to be worth it in the long run to constantly + aggressively associate women and womanhood with shit like taylor swift and a toy company fashion doll movie
sorry but we need to keep mask mandates in place because iโve taken to baring my teeth under my mask at people i hate and donโt think i can give it up
finding out those people who think taylor sw**t is a closet lesbian call people who think sheโs straight โhetlorsโ has me laughing so hard i canโt breathe
for almost a decade now women have been talking (ad nauseam, at this point) about the creepy exchanges they have with weird guys on the street and itโs truly jarring to realize this is what a lot of men still think itโs like lol
at walmart they were playing that radio country cover of โfast carโ and i got mad but was soothed when the guy sang the โi work in the market as a checkout girlโ lyrics unchanged
looking at an 80s tuscan kitchen and screaming as i watch people cart away the home goods statue of a merry pig chef holding a sign that says โmangiamo!โ
iโll be honest: i donโt think twitter is going away. i donโt know how websites work, however. here are only some of the many hexagonal tiles iโve found in my nearby river
now this dumb meme has me thinking, โwhy was dr. han fired for a sensible administrative decision?โ and โdid the surgeon learn a valuable lesson about treating his patients with respect?โ which is why i can never watch these shows. iโll get sucked in like a minnesota mother of 3
In 2010, Australian teenager Sam Ballard was drinking with his friends when they saw a slug crawl across the floor.
Samโs friends dared him to eat the slug and after some debate he decided it would be funny, so he did.
A few days later Sam became weak and complained of severe
in college a film student sent an unhinged ~4k word email to a professor and CCd the entire film department. he included the line โi was made for war, and i excel at it.โ i have never forgotten that
hey all ๐ just got back from my cape cod trip. spent a beautiful day paddling out into the surf on a boogie board with my tin drum, which i banged rhythmically every 30 minutes or so for quite a while
tweeted a picture of my parentsโ cat, who has an extremely unusual genetic abnormality that gives him funny ears, and someone said the post would encourage unethical cat breeding practices