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8 months

The early internet tumblr era was crucial for millennials in forming communities and romantic connections but it quickly also became its own form of self-mythologizing giving rise to the “tumblr art hoe” and the infinite genz variations. For people like me at the time, the

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It’s pretty funny to me that tumblr art hoe is a desirable type of girl in 2023 bc the whole reason we ended up Like That on the Internet as teens was bc boys irl hated us lol Bigger ew to cool arc than anime

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Me at 19 yo

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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. My GF is super private but let me post one photo of us a year. 💜

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I’m gay

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1 year

The first poem about gender dysphoria was from a Jewish man who desired to be a woman, written in 1322 by Kalonymus Ben Kalonymus for Even Boḥan, a Jewish ethical treatise.

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1 year

some of you are so corny doing your right wing larp like cool you went from genx nihlist to boomer. can't wait for you to be a cautionary tale in a decade.

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1 year

I'm happy I was interviewed as a person who has both experienced and is currently researching detransition by @RobinRespaut for this article by @Reuters . the numbers cited in this for US trans people are up 30% detrans rates.

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1 year

I'm crying seeing this post about my detransition six years later just like when I talked to the Reuters reporter. I'm still mourning what it means to be Teaadora. I made one of the first detransition posts ever on social media it seems in 2017, before I

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1 year

This was fun.

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The “Neoliberal Hell” podcast co-host @matthdonovan took us to clown town 🤡 aka Trump’s arraignment.

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Hm… 🤔

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the way id have sex with like three of my gay guy friends

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8 months

it would be cool if people online could interact with each other on an interpersonal level embodying the uncertainty and complexity we all acknowledge at a cultural and societal level

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1 year

I have a stupid homesickness of central Illinois at times, finding myself turning to Google Maps. We all have our pixelated chestnuts that we turn to for solace until they reveal a new layer of alienation and bitterness. What childhood isn't a junkyard of reverie and nightmare?

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1 year

I liked your tweet but you deleted it and then I was going to write you about it but then I lost interest and moved on. It made me wonder why I ever cared in the first place, not about you, but about the tangential nature of anything written here. It's all barely relevant to me.

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1 year

If we're going to ban gender-affirming care for trans people, then let's ban all gender-affirming care. No more hair plugs, Viagra, hormones, protein powder, or supplements. And why stop there? Let's also ban haircuts. Because equal rights means everyone suffers equally, right?

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1 year

babe—culture is incomprehensibly double time, we are barely processing anything anymore, it was a simulation until you leaned on me, and i finally feel alive and speeding toward annihilation.

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Tag yourself or anyone who fits these descriptions!

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When @libsoftiktok hasn’t heard of a rare and hardly used literary strategy called “satire” —perfected by the nations greatest they/them bathroom expert @dorianselectra

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This genderfluid singer installed litter boxes in the bathrooms at her concerts for people who identify as animals

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9 months

the most metrosexual thing you can do is to get into skincare so you get that la roche pusay

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10 months

Last week I took the stage with Chris Smalls @Shut_downAmazon and @SDonziger in NYC to talk about how corporate power tries to destroy activists who truly challenge their power, how media enables this, and now we repeat in LA joined by Hasan Piker @hasanthehun , Jamel Johnson

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1 year

if you were of the victim of the metrosexual to homosexual to transfemale to detransitioned NB pansexual pipeline you may be entitled to compensation--and everyone who had to listen to you explain this as well

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1 year

Went to Central Park for the first time as a New Yorker today.

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I hate that I'm actually a deeply romantic person

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1 year

deep down every e-girl wants to grow up to be a psyop

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8 months

Quit calling your friend group as a "scene," and silence the inner narrator in your head if it's just your own auto-fiction. Pass it on.

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1 year

From socializing more in NYC, I've found there are two types of hypersocial people: 'interluctors' who know everyone and connect everyone and 'nodes' (like group chats, parties, etc.) who create spaces for people to meet. Some people like @dagsen somehow do both.

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im a student

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Happy birthday @neoliberalhell . You are the star and the reason our podcast is #2 in the Cayman Islands.

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I'm still trying to understand what it means to be a detransitioner that is being researched, often not considered legitimate among news outlets wanting more sensationalized subjects, a detransition researcher, and someone who considers the study and term useless to a certain

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1 year

yeah sex is great but have you ever decided to just not have causal sex with crazy people

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10 months

I’m a detransition researcher and am not being driven off campus :) conservative media won’t talk to me though.

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Transactivists : Detransition rates are low. Also Transactivists : try to academically research detransition rates and we will drive you off campus.

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11 months

Going on a date to see Asteroid City and the egirl pulls out bread and a knife from her bag. Stabs your heart. Pulls it from your chest and says “David Lynch is so much better.” Plays Twin Peaks theme from her phone as everyone in the theatre watches in shock as she leaves.

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Going on a date to see Asteroid City and the egirl pulls out bread and a knife from her bag

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i still got it! @alicelongyugao pulled me on the stage during her song about white boy princesses. im blessed for the spring season now.

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This is proof of my thesis that after the pandemic everything online just feels like bait

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Sam Smith walks the runway at the Vivienne Westwood Fall 2024 show.

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The Great White Women Debate

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RTVRN to public debates

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Got to enjoy many conversations and a platonic sunset with @TaylorLorenz at FWB Fest @FWBtweets

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10 months

where to even begin with the chris smalls x steven donzinger x ion pack x perfectly imperfect x wetakamhattan x neoliwbralhell x baby’s all right x joshua Citarella x forever mag x yung chomsky x x dagsen x saltychat x event?

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7 months

A tense day on Columbia University campus: The first slide features students from Jewish Voices For Peace, including a passionate speech by a Palestinian student about her own alongside her family friends' long-standing survival fears. The second slide shows Pro-Israel students

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1 year

I’m not a girlboss I’m just drawn that way

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1 year

desire on the internet is weird and maybe harder to understand, in some cases you might have a random crush for years with a person you have never talked to, or you might have a deeper connection w/ an internet friend than you do with IRL friends.

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1 year

i called this cloutmaxxing on our pod a month ago in relation to the party posters where they try to put as many names on the list as possible

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sometimes i get sad that i lost a lot of male relationships after my girlfriend and i broke up because they were only friends with me to sleep with her

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The highest form of clout is people assuming you are a nepo baby

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All these nerds arguing on this website lol

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1 year

I’m getting a sociology degree at Columbia but my real focus is on the “vibe gap” discourse

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1 year

looking for an excuse to say “I love you”

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1 year

i sometimes wonder if anyone will love me as much as the parasocially obsessed person who hacked my geolocation

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1 year

Low-key flirting with girl for a while but starting to question if she even exists. She's gorgeous, but can't tell if it's just extreme Facetuned or some kind of deep fake savant who slaps her face on strangers' pics. It's simultaneously the hottest & creepiest thing ever.

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My friend @mcrumps and I were featured in this @papermagazine article yesterday. Photo taken by the great Matt Weinberger.

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1 year

you can’t run a lit mag in nyc unless you are an alcoholic

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10 months

retweet this if you like wikipedia more than anything crypto blockchain or whatever that tech is has ever done!

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1 year

Sending your friends “Happy New Years” really often means “I love you”

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8 months

post left lolcow is next door for people who would literally give a kidney to fit into 2020 dimes square

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1 year

Anna Delvey, Teddy Quinlivan, and I for @enews

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1 year

people are always talking about how nyc is where everything is happening in the world. however, the closest i get to that in nyc is im always meeting funny people at parties who are randomly huge on twitter. so, logical deduction is that i could really meet them on twitter.

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1 year

get into another group chat suckers, we can only build the culture together, and we are only one of many nodes in the circuitry. someone has to host the group chat but they can't run the culture, we are all individuals and a multiplicity with a thousand plateaus.

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1 year

I have terrible facial blindness/recognition. so, when i see people on Twitter who randomly add me i send them messages like this if they happen to look like someone from a recent party i went to. the last one was like I asked “are you a landlord?” both times they said, “no, i

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1 year

Someone in my ethnography class asked if they can say slurs in the field. If you have to ask this, you are never going to make it as a sociologist.

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1 year

Watching The End of The Tour only to get laid and then this quote comes on

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1 year

There isn't a film that capture the collapse of reality we are once again experiencing than the 1994 film 'Reality Bites,' listen to the answer to all of our problems from Winona Ryder's character. It's the answer to all of our problems of right now.

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1 year

I’ve never met a girl in a theory reading group I didn’t want to marry.

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1 year

It’s funny I remet a person this weekend i don’t remember from LA who moved to NYC and was kind of mean to me for no reason and had unfollowed me on Instagram. It proves karma is real bc im really nice, make friends easily, and forget people like this just as easily. 💖

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1 year

I only got cancelled once for meme’ing about girlbosses. I’ve escaped my reactionary period scot free.

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1 year

it's funny when people say dumb things like balenciaga is art

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1 year

George Clanton, Ana, and I on the @neoliberalhell podcast have massive @RICKOWENSONLINE , Michelle, and @TOMMYCASHWORLD energy. Thanks

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@abbydream13 @verge I worked for Instacart for on and off for a year and they fired me over a false report of non-delivery after I made a sexual harassment complaint against a support agent. There are alternatives for him but don’t think fir a second it’s secure work.

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3 years

Why use @Instacart when cheaper & ethical alternatives @dumplingUS exist? They are union busters, up charge for every item, hostile toward their employees, no support phone number, fired me after reporting queer-phobic support agent, and using this will drive up grocery prices.

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I have a very reckless Uber driver driving in the rain. If this is my last Tweet know I was always a fake gay loser!

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When you are typically reserved and don’t tell people you are close to how you feel often, when you drink you might over compensate, and thus, leading you to have an alcohol and vulnerability hang over the next day.

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I never feel lonely so when I miss someone it really hits

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I hate when white people post pics

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1 year

Plays and podcasts are the lowest form of art, only because it’s just basically “porch culture” for the culture class. AKA it’s like my neighbors fighting on their front lawn like “Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolfe” in a trailer park or me talking shit with my friends over beers

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I wish people valued me for who I am, not just as an extremely well-connected account close to every major New York twitter-adjacent micro-celebrity

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1 year

You can look psycho but if they love you they will say you have a "deer face." The AI obviously has a crush on me.

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2 years

Being trans online should make sense to everyone esp if bodies are seen as analog technology and it is largely in the digital era that they have been free to explore themselves in public.

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Name all this girls red flags

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InfoWars Reporter: So you want to have socialism even though they are eating rats in Venezuela Me (Socialist Sailor Girl): I hardly eat. I just want to be able to drive my Citibike over the Williamsburg bridge to my autofiction reading where I am going to do K with my friends.

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Those who happen to be sick today from this random, end of year flu/covid wave are in solidarity with all of us hungover people today. Put your glasses together everyone so we can take some Tylenol! 🥂

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If I die, I likely appreciated you no matter what. 💜

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9/11 was an inside job so they could build another mall in nyc

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Morgan Maher sighting

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Ahem, in the boring golf world, this is probably funny. But IMO what's more funny is Murakami's "Drive My Car," where a girl sneaks into her BFs place just to leave a tampon. We need more girls who commit to the bit that it's real love.

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Fifteen-time Major champion Tiger Woods apologized after handing fellow golfer Justin Thomas a tampon during the first round of the Genesis Invitational

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Golden Rule for Professors: the more a professor cares about grades the more boring the class typically is, assuming it's because of their dedication to formalism.

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time for the silent majority to admit the barbenheimer moment was mid all along

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omg curtis yavin is here who cares bro

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Durkheim on the “unhealthy forms of social life” and the dwindling strength of this theories as you move further into his thesis (pg 277 from “Divisions of Labor in Society”)

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It seems intelligence, depth, nuance, etc. are based on the will/patience to suspend knowing/deciding. If we sit with it longer, get more perspectives, and grow adept in confusion and contradiction may we resolve black and white thinking.

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Every time I sit down to write I'm always vexed with the central question, should I write a scathing critique or should I try to convert feelings into an easily consumable piece that is neutral, academic, and analytical?

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OnlyFans E-girls copying message formats from the context of an intimate relationship to ease your mind into a para-erotic/para-social intimacy can only thrive in the age of loneliness.

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The age of loneliness is killing us | George Monbiot

George Monbiot: For the most social of creatures, the mammalian bee, there’s no such thing now as society. This will be our downfall

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Abortion is safer than ever. Safer than giving birth. Don’t let anyone say this is about safety. They want to criminalize safety.

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i saw matthew donovan tweet in the middle of the night that hot girls wore sambas but then when i woke up …the tweet was gone 💔

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1 year

Trans Jordan Peterson (AI generated)

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In: headphones Out: world

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True Life: I’m addicted to Twitter, hate myself for it, and can’t wait for Musk to sink this ship

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I’m discussing my recent @____zine____ @ourzora article with a Louisville, KY at based reading group lead by Jackson Kinkead and Ella Rennekamp at 7:30pm EST today virtual and in person at The Chapel of St. Phillip Neri . Article linked below. Join here:

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Revenge is not the sweetest. What is the sweetest is knowing that no matter what your haters said about you along the way that you always believed in yourself & knew you would come out on top.

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GenZ Spirituality: “I understand all ancient religious & spiritual texts already without reading them because I am based”

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@foxnewstalk and @Politics_Polls calls #NVCaucus saying @BernieSanders but I’m still waiting for @PeteButtigieg to declare himself the winner.

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Reddit makes me gayer than Grindr does any day of the week.

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Chris Smalls, Steven Donziger, Jamel Johnson, and others came together with Hasan Piker tot all about way a social movement can be saved from the throes of nihilism, organizing for labor, against corporation, etc. @Shut_downAmazon @DORIANELECTRA @westonallen64 @namasteathomeda

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