kate wagner @mcmansionhell Twitter profile

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 months

HELLO EVERYONE! I AM WRITING A BOOK!

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

my credit score tanked because i paid off my credit card debt. normal country.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

5 years

dude we get it you own a thesaurus

International Film Critique

@IntFilmCritique

5 years

#JokerMovie is an efficacious & disturbing film that's equally meritorious & tragic. Phoenix's roaring, monstrous performance as the Clown of Crime is so immaculate, so maestoso, it's a prodigious accomplishment, and marks the apex of his already superlative career. #Venezia76

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

i explained the karen meme to my mom (named karen) and she unexpectedly replied "oh, i think of those 'id like to speak to a manager' type folks as janets." she then specified that "janets" did not include janet jackson who should have slapped justin timberlake in superbowl 2005

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

has anybody written a piece about how Etsy is no longer really about selling handmade crafts and has instead become a mere middleman for AliExpress?

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

ADHD ruins my life. I don’t think it’s cute or quirky. Sorry if this offends.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

11 months

Imagine living like this

Mike Sington

@MikeSington

11 months

Google celebrates Pride Month. Conservatives- you need to stop using Google now.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

Ok we are at the airport (I know I hate it) and my husband’s bag got flagged and I was like “did you pack any liquids” and on god the TSA guy pulls out a can and like is dying laughing and said “this mfer packing pumpkin purée”

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

ok so i am extremely pro lab-grown gemstones. they are actually molecularly identical to the stuff you dig out of the ground without the exploitation. yet somehow (like lab grown meat) it's not "real" unless suffering is involved in its production. (very burkean)

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

8 months

this is the playlist someone makes after frantically googling 'music'

Populism Updates

@PopulismUpdates

8 months

Politico asked Vivek Ramaswamy to make a playlist:

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

fascinated by every single choice made here

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

I have never seen twitter as immediately mad as it is rn about the NYT wordle buyout. the NYT took one nice and simple thing that a lot of people really liked, a dumb bit of fun in our exhaustingly dark times, and implied that they’ll stick it behind a paywall. exhausting.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

we can cyberbully them into deleting the loans. we can do this.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

literally everyone loves that silly building. people crowd on the streets just to take pics of it.

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

1 year

We live in a Hell of our own making.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

20 days

elon's twitter is like a human zoo full of guys you'd never want to make direct eye contact with

Hagaz Nebulazungōz (Ice Age Autist) -Writing Books

@Airmanareiks

21 days

Why you SHOULD inbreed with a relative, a 🧵 Inbreeding is a taboo worldwide, but there is another reason for it than what you think. Inbreeding is taboo because Everyone, Everywhere, (and animals too) wants and does it for "some reasons", the healthy ones seen below 1/6

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

mocktails are so important. half of my alcohol consumption was just wanting a special sippy drink

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

dude Hillary praising Mussolini 2 for being a woman has got to be the most unreal PR own goal I’ve ever witnessed

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

Most of us are far closer to having a public mental breakdown or being homeless than we are to amassing money and power in this society. The fact that we have lost all empathy for people in distress and have replaced it with groundless fear and disgust is unbelievably dark

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

sadly we have run out of old growth forests. wonder whose fault that is

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

why is the trump "obamna" / biden "SODA" clip so funny

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

I am a victim of assault. I'll never in my entire life vote for a rapist.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

what if this is actually the end of crypto

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

ok y'all you have to see this image from a texas house that was submitted on the mcmansion hell live stream. you are simply unprepared for this.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 months

the eradication of soft surfaces from restaurants for both stylistic and efficiency reasons created acoustic environments that are inherently reflective and inchoate and so people talk louder to hear each other and owners jack up the music as a response and a feedback loop begins

Guillaume Duteaud

@g_duteaud

3 months

Cranky old guy moment: why is the music in restaurants so FUCKING loud these days???

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

5 years

Hi everyone. I would like to share with you all the single worst plumbing fixture in the history of the world. I apologize in advance for what you are about to see.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

I think it’s worth using my big account to clarify that these people aren’t normal car people mad about urbanism. They are insane Q level conspiracy theorists who think the 15 minute city means you are not allowed to leave the 15 minute perimeter police state style

Mr Demos of Pnyx

@gem_ste

1 year

A real human being, a living, breathing, sentient human being has got so angry about the possibility of being able to nip out and back to the post office and the butchers in 10 minutes that they have painted this placard.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 months

one time in high school I won the opportunity to go to a writing camp and I swear to god half of the “advice” led to exactly this kind of writing. The adages “don’t use the verb to be” or “use other words besides ‘said’” etc.

Adam O'Fallon Price

@AdamOPrice

4 months

One the best kinds of bad writing is Coffee Synonym Syndrome, e.g. "She poured a cup of coffee and sat at her desk. The steaming java burned her tongue, so she blew on the dark liquid. Now the obsidian fluid—made from the ground beans of plants in the Rubiaceae family—was perfect

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

they banned cars in the city center of Ljubljana and lots of people bitched and moaned about it but the mayor did it anyway and guess what? everyone’s happier. it’s nice.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

can i tell my american flag story? i swear to christ this is entirely true and my mother can vouch for it. it goes like this: it's 2002. i was enrolled in girl scout camp in north carolina. at this camp, we all were assigned different chores every day like a little commune. 1/

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

Can we talk about how everything infrastructural in America is fucking broken — transportation, healthcare, education, social services, everything — but snap of a finger and suddenly we can bail out some fucking sniveling tech dipshits for some reason

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

6 months

having to start paying back my student loans at the same time the government spends my tax money on bombs to drop on children is just an insane and jarring juxtaposition that sitting and thinking about it for more than 3 seconds makes me want to black out

Adam Johnson

@adamjohnsonCHI

6 months

People say it’s foreign trolls or tiktok that sows cynicism and maybe a bit, but I think watching 4 wks of kids being pulled out of rubble then reading your govt magically found $14B extra to do more of that and also your schools and roads are falling apart may contribute as well

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

Who’s the funniest guy that could have possibly touched them? I vote kid rock

Brian McBride

@BrianDMcBride

2 years

CNN analyst says the intel Trump stole are so sensitive that FBI agents will begin FINGER PRINTING each document to find out who actually touched them.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

6 months

I’m gonna be real with you: there is a bad way to be into the Middle Ages and this is it

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

not to be a huge Luddite but I think we should pull the plug on this whole ai thing until we are able to build, like, a society with a modicum of ethics lol

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

what the hell can one even say at this point

NBC News

@NBCNews

2 years

President Biden will urge states and cities to use unspent money from last year’s $1.9T Covid relief package to fund crime prevention programs and hire police officers.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

like, I’m sorry but the sheer range of this guy

Curbed

@Curbed

2 years

. @mcmansionhell remembers architect Ricardo Bofill, who shifted the idea of public housing away from bleak tower blocks towards vivid, otherworldly spaces of discovery

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

yall need to see this building

Peter Cossins

@petercossins

1 year

Some arms might have helped

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

isn't the point to get out of debt? isn't debt bad? pick one assholes

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

me being fiscally responsible: im going to pay my debts :) equifax: hey asshole what the FUCK do you think you're doing

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

i've def seen my mom go full karen, but only once: when my slumlord from sophomore year of college wouldn't let me out of my lease 1 mo early and she basically gave him the what for. i guess my point is we need to recruit the karens to tenant advocacy

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

6 months

business and it’s not close

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@focusfronting

6 months

What is the most fake academic discipline? I’m tired of seeing fights about electrons, let’s have a fun one

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

8 months

a thing that bothers me about the kind of folks that believe all green space is a waste and could be housing instead (true, for example, of most golf courses) is that they don't understand the importance of green space for, like, absorbing excess water

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

7 months

my hot take is that America's cities should raid insurance companies for their climate maps

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

“$250k isn’t rich” mfer I am going to yeet you into the sun

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

If you still call any sport “sportsball,” I hate you. this isn’t le 2012 Reddit

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

I don’t know how else to say this but normal people are allowed to have a handful of nice things without having to explain away their every decision and personal agony to some shapeless online tribunal. I find this to be a very weird part of online left culture honestly

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 months

Ohhhh so when Sou Fujimoto does this it’s a “model” but when little kate wagner did it they said it was “adhd” and “a distraction in the classroom”

Architext

@architext14

3 months

Sou fujimoto staple model.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

i think sex scenes in movies are cool because there’s sex in them and I like that stuff

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

8 months

damn this is fr the funniest possible answer to this question

Polling USA

@USA_Polling

8 months

Reporter: 'Did you see Donald Trump's mugshot yet?' Biden: 'I did see it on television, handsome guy, we're rooting for ya'

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

10 months

Everyone should have a borderline Sisyphean hobby that keeps them fussily engaged for the rest of their days, like tinkering on a project car, doing photorealistic cross stitch, tending a vegetable garden in an area prone to deer, viticulture, learning the Slovenian language,

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

Italy winning Eurovision and Straight Eurovision…you love to see it

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

5 months

this site is cooked this should be one of the greatest days of all time on here

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 months

big tech is so cooked. it's so over. three years of insipid gimmicks no one wants that also look like shit.

iJustine

@ijustine

3 months

Vision Pro Persona FaceTime call with @mkbhd and @briantong ! I was actually more impressed with it the longer we were on the call because you kinda got used to seeing each other in our new virtual look. It's still in beta so it's only going to get better!

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

i fully expected my mom to get offended by the karen thing but instead this has confirmed my belief that the karen meme is not offensive to anyone who has worked extensively in a service industry (and that includes white boomers named karen like my mom)

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

“It was for pie purposes! Purée isn’t a liquid it’s a semi solid!” bro

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

just walked by a woman screaming on her phone bc she parked her open top Porsche convertible under a mulberry tree and came back to disaster

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

5 months

this was one of the better uses of an architecture degree during the Trump years sorry

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@LePapillonBlu2

5 months

Retweet if you’re grateful that Melania Trump can’t ruin the White House Christmas decorations with her distasteful abominations. ✋🏽

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

6 years

This website has broken me, like I saw someone in my mentions with a 🐸 in their handle agreeing with me and was agonized at how pepelords could even possibly enjoy my content and it turns out the person in question was a biologist who studies frogs.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

8 months

by this logic wendy's spicy chicken nuggets are art

Grace Freud

@GraceGFreud

8 months

“Good art improves mood” is one of the most vile sentences I’ve ever read.

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@mcmansionhell

1 year

i should say now, in retrospect, i almost cry laughing thinking about it. THEY MADE ME BURN THREE FLAGS. the girl scout camp had a whole ass cabinet of spare flags!!!

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

5 months

the Rothkos are some of the most crowded paintings at every museum they’re in because they are quite simply mesmerizing and transcendent. they are popular for a reason. If you want to shit on modernism don’t pick one of its most beloved practitioners.

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

5 months

Explain what this painting means and why it is good.

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@mcmansionhell

1 year

13/ anyway, every time, and i mean every time, i see someone raise the american flag i think about this. i can still smell that burning plastic-y, canvas-y smell. i think i burned more american flags that summer than the most committed anarchist. so there. that's my flag story.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

you have got to be fucking kidding me

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

this man…has a phd…in mathematics…

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

anyways my original tweet is going viral so im here to say i stan my mom

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

No one is mad that that guy got his bag for his good work, they’re mad that something they loved that was free and accessible will likely go behind a paywall

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

i'd post "what's your controversial take about architecture" but i already know the replies will be a combination of "brutalism rules" and "brutalism sucks"

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@mcmansionhell

2 years

get in folks we’re gentrifying window units

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

Idk how else to voice this but I think it’s possible to live a consciously ethical life without everything becoming a public morality play

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

I don’t think it makes me unique or a better writer or anything like that. It has made my life difficult.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

oh??? they're not real bc small south american children weren't required to dig them out of the ground for pennies??? tell me more!!!!!

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

4 years

mentally im here

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

congrats to pete buttigieg on facing four years of being cyberbullied by urbanism twitter

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

i'm calling my emeralds "ethical emeralds" fuck this "lab-created" shit

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

9/ and guess what? they really did make me burn this flag again. (I was learning an important lesson about patriotism.) By this point I was like the al qaeda of girl scout camp and no one wanted to talk to me. i was deeply mortified. but they gave me one last chance.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

how is every minor trip to the grocery store $50 now

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

This tweet is inspired by me buying “handmade” jewelry only for it to arrive broken and then looking for the same item on AliExpress and finding it there lol

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

lol it’s an exurb of single family homes sitting on an artificially irrigated desert. if that’s the future we’re fucked

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@thehill

3 years

America's first 3D-printed neighborhood is "the future of housing"

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

I told him this took off and he insists that you don’t make fun of him as his intents were sincere

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

finally beauty standards are changing in my favor

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@_dusty_bawls_

3 years

no way ppl are putting fake dark circles under their eyes 😭😭

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

6 years

in order to earn money to pay off my $42k of student loan debt, I roasted Betsy DeVos' house:

Betsy DeVos’s summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell

Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of the education secretary.

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@mcmansionhell

1 month

Probably the worst essay I’ve ever read. Embracing the rot of internalized misogyny and patriarchy and then saying, over and over, but if I can see it and choose to partake, I am therefore above it. Necrotic and mean to the core. A miserable and ugly life.

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@a_h_reaume

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I’m horrified (and delighted) to report that the writer of that viral The Cut age gap article’s other writing is just as bad. Omg. “I pursue beautiful friends like some women do men who will strike them in bed at night.”

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

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cannot wrap my mind around how someone can fuck up understanding 4’33” like this and be a university professor

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@bo_austin_

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‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

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@mcmansionhell

4 years

my man did not have to go so hard

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

1 year

12/ this time i burst into tears and ran into the woods. the councilor had to call my mom to come pick me up. also i had to burn the flag again. this was my first taste of real, true, public humiliation. in retrospect it was deeply surreal, a true post-9/11 experience

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@mcmansionhell

3 years

my contribution to gifted kid discourse is that I deeply needed a psychologist and they gave me brain puzzles instead

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@mcmansionhell

4 years

my mom also said that the karen meme gave her flashbacks to both her time working at the Harris Teeter deli and going to PTA meetings when we were in middle school

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

by 30 you should have done at least 3 career pivots and alienated everyone with your increasingly arcane obsessions

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@mcmansionhell

4 months

I married a mathematician and let me tell you that too belongs in the secret third thing category (liberal arts of stem)

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@tonyhawktruther

4 months

People tend to think of “STEM careers” as good money but the vast majority of people I know working in wildlife/the environmental field are making about the same as fast food workers for jobs that require a master’s degree. No joke in this one sorry

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@mcmansionhell

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Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

9 months

Dubai Unveils Plans for Gold-Plated, Diamond-Encrusted Skyscraper 🧐 🤔 🤨

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@mcmansionhell

1 year

@seanrichardryan they accidentally made me a communist

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@mcmansionhell

4 years

ladies, if you're tired of dating men, you can always try

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 years

Poor rail infrastructure in my country

Dr. Ajayita

@DoctorAjayita

3 years

What's stopping you from doing this?

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

PUMPKIN PURÉE???????

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@mcmansionhell

3 years

damn, guess the Biden dog account got ol’ yellered

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@mcmansionhell

2 months

mom come pick me up they are using the coolest architecture on earth to sell real estate in a basement

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

we the proles simply cannot have even one nice little word game

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

3 months

as an architecture critic, this, from the Verge AI writing piece, makes me so sad :(

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@mcmansionhell

4 years

im crows

Quite Interesting

@qikipedia

4 years

Crows not only hold grudges, they tell their friends and family about them.

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11/ i will give you one guess what happened. i swear God himself was looking down on me and saying 'kate wagner it is your fate to be an enemy of the state' or something because while i was making the fold, the flag slipped worse than it had ever slipped. it was a full drop.

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kate wagner

@mcmansionhell

2 years

you KNOW I would’ve taken a pic for posterity but tragically for my most important role as a wife (teasing my husband) they don’t let you do that in airport security

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