Mme. Fragonard @useful_emetic Twitter profile

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Mme. Fragonard

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2 months

@feelsdesperate it’s so true and it’s frustrated me to no end. “The authority/source you’re relying on is not reliable, you have to do some of your own work to figure this out” is a more terrible, destabilizing thing for them to grapple w than whatever subject were arguing about

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@feelsdesperate to your point: a polyamorous coastal elite PhD in an interview once said she and her friends sometimes liked to lurk in regional polyamorous online forums in places like small-town Arkansas and gawk at the trainwreck.

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@useful_emetic

4 months

@feelsdesperate i guess it's all fun and entertainment to see the real-world effects of your utterly unscalable recreational lifestyle on the masses!

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

in retrospect, undergrad humanities was wild bc you could either take a course doing close readings of the Canterbury Tales & the Faerie Queene OR one where you filled your head with jargony post-truth garbage from World Renowned Scholar. "Your choice, young person!" they said.

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@mmjukic you have no idea what you're talking about, most people in the US have absolutely no desire to live in manhattan..

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@whstancil i... i don't think i've ever really seen what Racist Twitter looked like. hoooo boy.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

@MsMelChen i've heard "my adderall journey" used without any irony :(

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@77_steeze honestly i've had some private conversations with people who say "I don't want to know about this topic."

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

@feelsdesperate i'm never getting over this. when i saw w/ my own eyes that the institutions had ceased to orient me toward sense i made a u-turn to self-correct & watched w/ horror as most of my friends marched merrily off a cliff off those printed directions

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@feelsdesperate has anyone seen how woke black activist twitter talks about asians when they think no one is looking 👀

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

@StrangelEdweird I'm so flabbergasted at how awful this is. even at the musicality level, the main escalating cry of Jolene repeated 4x conveys desperation, not empowerment and confidence.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

due to my experience door knocking for dems, i was invited to canvas for bernie w/ brooklyn leftist friends. they made a detour to a legal weed shop hours away & by the time we got back, the canvassing had ended. ending this with a joke would be putting a hat on a hat.

Jacob Shell

@JacobAShell

2 months

I wouldn't say the Bernie people were more naive. I think they lacked "moral weaponry." In the end, they could be intimidated with standard liberal moral weaponry -- through accusations of the usual isms -- and lost a lot of ground in this way.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@tracewoodgrains a dark horse pick from me: pirates of the dark water.

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@useful_emetic

4 months

absolutely wild this topic was untouched by mainstream press until recently and that the journos brave enough to cover it were vehemently maligned. the deranged, light-sucking aura around it was one of the final straws that made me lose faith in..a whole constellation of things

Eliza Mondegreen

@elizamondegreen

4 months

Doctors, activists, and reporters alike have treated the subject of gender as an utter exception. In journalism, there has been far too much fear and far too many favours to activists, who never should have been allowed to control the narrative. @unherd

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@comfysarah I always liked this meme

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

@feelsdesperate I'll never forget that fateful day years ago when I liked a Jesse Singal tweet on my old account and a RL friend Dm'd me 45 seconds later with, "Why the FUCK are you following that transphobic monster's account? He's obsessed with children's genitals."

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

speaking of which, another dystopian phrase just dropped, o no "fearlessly nourishing" anti-diet dietician paid to say this about general mills

white girl magic

@misslivejournal

2 months

“Joyous” is the new stunning and brave - see “trans joy” and Beyoncé’s new album being heralded as “joyously weird” by npr. Basically “this sucks but you better like it”

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

1 month

These types can’t stop themselves from playing constant disingenuous semantic games casting themselves as the real underdogs. “I’m a union worker!” [media/grad school union] “I’m in the bottom quintile of earners!” [editorial assistant for a lit press w/a masters degree]

Jesse Singal

@jessesingal

1 month

wait hold on

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@feelsdesperate crazy question: is a PMC AGP caste advantageous for ruling class? -deeply embedded in Blob apparatus -realistically, hard ceiling on public-office ambitions beyond appointments/favors -The Lie an easy test to sniff out insufficient loyalty -bodies proof of ideological enthusiasm

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

@BriannaWu in all seriousness, do you not think this was precipitated by the activists' all-encompassed shunning & bad treatment of people like jesse singal?

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

I need to be careful bc this subject upsets me so much. I don't think leftists understand how cruel they're being by saying all these ppl need is total freedom & money. if your own family member was truly sick in this way you'd see up close how that makes everything so much worse

Swann Marcus

@SwannMarcus89

2 months

If you don't support involuntary commitment for the severely mentally ill, then what you're actually arguing is that we should wait for them to push someone in front of a train and then just stick them in a prison cell for the rest of their lives instead of hospitalizing them

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@RizomaSchool my friend's 7 year old was complaining about some weird tan lines on his knees in earshot of his friend's mom. later she took my friend aside, recounted what happened, and said, "I need to know what steps you're actively taking to make your son anti-racist."

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

you are no longer Civilized unless you preface every mention of a male author with 7 different synonyms for "rapey"

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@tommasodi_di this is one of the things that boggles me about all this - their crusade on behalf of victims leaves a trail of actual victims in its wake that they literally can't see.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@feelsdesperate In my former LGBTQ/prog community there were exactly two of us who said anything in protest, and we were shunned for it. The judicious libs saw all this and thought “not for me” & kept avoiding even private convos with us bc they were worried of committing a thought crime.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@MogaProtz @eiamtmet @feelsdesperate there are many areas that fit that description that have lovely natural sights and destinations such that it's not a a "pity" or "poverty porn" visit, i live in such a place.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

@feelsdesperate have you seen that “why I’m no longer a white nationalist” essay? Werner Herzog needs to make a movie around his sad, quixotic attempt to move to a white Midwest town and get rejected by normal people who didn’t want to listen to him talk abt the Faustian spirit of the white race

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@wesyang I admit that I didn’t want to think this of her (as someone intimately sympathetic to immigrants) but what I saw shocked me and she shouldn’t be in congress.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

1 month

but why can't the WNBA just give better raises the way WeWork did, they were good to their workers before they ran into their troubles.

Megan Gailey

@megangailey

1 month

Wow so many financial experts in these comments. It’s actually not that rare for a company to not earn a profit. Should people who work at Blue Apron or Lyft not be paid?

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@useful_emetic

2 months

for years in prog land I've had to bite my tongue about how much I hated Jacobin so it's a beautiful thing now to see my TL dunk the crap out of them several times a day.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

I was the one who got civilized by men. I learned to cook European cuisine, became more cultured, & broadened my intellectual interests significantly. "My man smartened me up" is not a very current thing to say now though. This way of thinking is so ungenerous

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

watching a family member repeatedly self destruct while being powerless to stop them is very frustrating and sad.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

too relatable. my ex-community was a place where if you weren't giving 300% to performing this shit you were suspect. they'd regularly talk about cutting people out for infractions like mildly questioning whether JK Rowling was a nazi, not realizing they were talking about me.

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@Indian_Bronson

2 months

You can do it but it sucks. For a long time at a tech company I was able to hide out as a “normie” and no one suspected anything and I was losing my mind, constantly pretending to like things and people. I had a rainbow sticker on my laptop. I was in an ally group. It was rough.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

any online community trying to help troubled men is Nazi

Mike Stabile

@mikestabile

4 months

Absolutely stunning investigation by NPR into the racist, antisemitic, misogynist roots of “porn addiction” junk science — the very stuff being peddled by antipoorn groups in order to pass age-verification bills and other censorship. It’s all nonsense.

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3 months

i didn't grow up in a diehard 2nd amendment family, but if this is the instruction my dad got from local police, he'd get a gun, keep the fobs in the house, and shoot the shit out of whoever broke through the front door. wtf is going on.

Straightouttathe6ixtv

@sot6ixtv

3 months

#REPORT : Toronto Police tell the public "to prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they're breaking into your home to steal your car. They don't want anything else.”

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Mme. Fragonard

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4 months

@whstancil but would this not also go the other way? my leftist friends' mutuals were cheering on violent native american reclamation of US land, keeping silent about saira rao's and bree newsome's slide into madness, and calling hamas kidnap victims misogynistic slurs.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

consistently one of the worst accounts on X. this vapid & lazy argumentation may have worked in 2018 but doesn't anymore when articles & video of TW competing in women's sports are constantly circulating all over social media.

David Roberts

@drvolts

2 months

The right's obsession with the "problem" of trans girls wanting to play sports -- a problem that, statistically speaking, basically doesn't exist -- is one of those things that seems to me so obviously self-discrediting that I barely know how to formulate an argument about it.

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3 months

@QuetzalPhoenix one of my friend groups who have, as you say, more normie lifestyles with 2.5 kids each - they're fine. the other (now ex) friend group - made up of ppl with creative jobs, few attachments, and/or radical leftwing politics..no. noooo. no. it wasn't good.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

the whole reason that i went anon a month ago is that there was a deranged, mentally unstable maniac that used to be part of my social group (who still is very much welcome) who i was afraid was going to start emailing my boss or something for saying very mild heterodox opinions.

Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

@wahoolaw2006 every single one of them are terrified of being screenshotted and canceled so you can't get any thought out of them that isn't pre-approved. they are frightened to death of any real thoughts. i have tried really hard.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

"what are we going to do about all the union workers who don't believe in defund and woke stuff?" i pressed yrs ago. "if they vote against their economic interests bc of social issues they're irredeemably racist and we would't have got their vote anyway." - BK bernie supporters.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

@wahoolaw2006 every single one of them are terrified of being screenshotted and canceled so you can't get any thought out of them that isn't pre-approved. they are frightened to death of any real thoughts. i have tried really hard.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

@CartoonsHateHer they have extremely high exercise needs compared to a lot of dogs - minimum of 2 hrs a day. if they don't get it, they develop all kinds of behavior problems.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

i'm joining more women's groups here lately (after moving in jan) but the types that make an aggressive beeline toward me are like, "oh thank GOD a non-white from NYC let's bitch about how purple this state is!!!" 😐

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

nice regular guys enjoy sweet-natured women. whatever dregs you attract with open nastiness will later turn to you 3 months in and say they need to be polyamorous for "self care" and cry as they do it. is that what you want?

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

my parents didn't allow tv or video games (I did have sleepovers). I ended up reading the Anne of green gables series & learned a ton about Edwardian Scottish-presbyterian culture over a few years. If I'm earnest & a little corny about being good it probably came from there.

𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐝𝐨𝐞

@comfysarah

2 months

the wiser i become, the more i agree with the “strict” “mean” “crazy” parents who didn’t allow cursing, sleepovers, toys or games like bratz and GTA, and unsupervised computers/phones.

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@useful_emetic

4 months

like "rapist," lab leak is another phrase that people can't process as anything other than a sorting mechanism that helps you more clearly identify your enemies. polarization doesn't describe it at this point-the very meaning of the words have become abraded over time

Nate Silver

@NateSilver538

4 months

This is exactly the sort of obfuscation where misinformation experts engage in misinformation themselves. The common form of the lab origin theory is that SARS-CoV-2 resulted from gain of function research, i.e. was manmade, then leaked accidently. That claim violated FB policy.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

if you want a serious relationship, don't hook up hoping it'll lead to seriousness, and don't be open to hookups on your profile. you know what that usually engenders 9/10? MORE HOOKUPS.

Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

@purplcabbage i could do a whole series of rants here just about the terrible mistakes young women make when mate selecting, esp online

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@useful_emetic

4 months

@purplcabbage i would say in many circles, the discipline all comes from the forces pushing "yes" as an answer, hence these anon accounts in which we affirm our sanity through other means 🤷‍♀️

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@useful_emetic

2 months

we visited an ethereal 10k sq ft moss garden yesterday - took 10 patient years to make, the owners of the property said.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

No matter who you are - but ESPECIALLY if you're a union worker - you should be heavily on your guard against young women from prestige schools unless they prove you otherwise.

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@ofreacharound it's bleakly funny that the sprawling porn conglomerate that operates all the major domains - pornhub, youporn, etc - is owned by a private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

I'm a little disconcerted by this. I came up with all this on an extreme whim, because I enjoy art history, and because the rococo era seemed to demonstrate frivolity, excess, and a certain something that I personally liked but felt distrustful toward. am I doing this wrong?

scary spice 👁🐉

@vagabondfujo

2 months

I seriously believe profile pictures are a glimpse into the depths of your soul. Like yes. 50 year old Steve is literally clone trooper with back the blue flag plastered on his helmet. 19 year old Noel is literally Madoka flipping the bird and chugging vodka.

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@useful_emetic

3 months

a childhood married guy friend once confided that they had been in an affair for years. they went to a therapist, and instead of advising them to achieve a resolution in either direction they filled this person's head with podcasts and books about polyamorous marriage

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@wesyang

3 months

It's such a bad sentence. The publication would never have allowed itself to be associated with a travesty of wit so incompetent even a half-decade ago.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@ofreacharound no no no, there is no reason to have even come out to friends and family over this, let alone his coworkers. she probably isn't even bi, this might be her way of getting attention for a new 'queer' identity.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@willyl0wman @purplcabbage my schizoid take is that it's spiritually degrading to have your self-image constantly mediated via machine. what you see of yourself in video is no less artificial than seeing yourself in painted portrait form, but ppl conflate the machine-mediated image as reality too readily

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@useful_emetic

4 months

@MichaelJGras @feelsdesperate i'll bite: those issues are part of a wider program that exploits people's desire for positive moral self-regard by forcing them into an incessant escalation of ideological commitments until they end up accepting/defending falsehoods, distortions, and counterintuitive ideas

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@useful_emetic

2 months

in 1 of the 4 busiest months of the year, they forced me to sit almost an hour on a call with a 29 yr old customer education manager for a social media solution who took half of the hour explaining in basic terms how linkedin and X worked.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

professions not to date: full-time DJ adjunct faculty poet adjunct novelist adjunct anything really comedian (unless only hobby) actor rock musician (unless only hobby) journalist (for the most part) bartender influencer streamer I'm sure there are more but solid list to build on

Lion Summerbell

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2 months

@useful_emetic How about: don’t date a DJ. It’s only okay if he started at 35 and does ambient electro at the odd vernissage

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@useful_emetic

2 months

this is honestly one of the strangest things I've ever seen. I was late with a lot of this stuff and ended up being desired and happy and fulfilled. this is a mindset problem, this isn't real at all!! the only reason I'm giving this attention is for anyone who feels this way.

trappy 🎀🤍

@c1nnamonbunny

2 months

I can’t stand people who are this age and still hung up on high school

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@useful_emetic

3 months

sadly most poems look like this now. as the physical scope of our world shrinks down to phones, we're losing poetry's musicality & orality. the only one under 30 reading all the old poetry free to read online is ChatGPT-the rest think poetry is any text less than 1 page in length

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new poem

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@useful_emetic

2 months

a question I've had for a while now is-where are the people who are missing fingers? arms? legs? almost every "disabled" person on twitter is a nutcase with their physical body intact. I want to talk to the people who are actually not whole in their body.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@DavidKlion @wesyang I wish I had a screenshot of you making fun of Michael Tracey for wearing a bandana to the grocery store in the first 3 days of COVID panic, then reversing yourself two weeks later with no explanation.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

One of my weird art school hobbies is making abstract Ukrainian Easter eggs. Commencing festivities at in laws house. Happy Easter!

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@nonblankslate @TheyLiveDC @ofreacharound It worked a scary amount of the time. Self professed ardent feminists who complained about white men all day long would tell me with a straight face that it was Completely Fine if a trans person with a big honking dick was in a nude spa with them

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@kittypurrzog i live in your neck of the woods, am non-white, & have never had a whiff of any trouble in this area. have had more trouble in certain parts of CA tbh.

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@useful_emetic

3 months

i met my SO that way but i was very deliberate. i turned down anyone with professional headshots or instagram. it was clear he had cobbled together the only 5 photos of himself that were ever taken. i could infer he was cute and liked to read good books. my instincts were right

Dr. Debra Soh

@DrDebraSoh

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Ladies, what has your experience on dating apps been like? (My DMs are open.) Thanks to all of the men in my audience who have shared their thoughts with me.

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@useful_emetic

4 months

@feelsdesperate there was some crazy pre-2020 tweet I can’t find now where some lady wrote BLACK WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL 14 times and I couldn’t help but wonder if she was doing it because she was secretly afraid she thought they weren’t

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@TheyLiveDC @ofreacharound in my ex-circle, one gay dude haughtily said, "well i think it's actually AWESOME if trans women are turned on by their own bodies" they believe if they say these things w enough confidence and force, they can cow some ppl into questioning their own judgment of what's normal

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ultimately i turned on the left not just bc i disagree, but bc they got increasingly indignant & suspicious at having to put together anything even approaching a real argument w/ me. "this issue is so stupid i don't need to make a coherent point in favor of my side." what???

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@feelsdesperate at least we'll always have RBG saint candles and nevertheless we persisted mugs. that was the trade that coastal dem feminists made, i suppose.

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@useful_emetic

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@purplcabbage this is exactly how it happened more than once. They said “I’m a feminist, but I need to talk about my needs 😢 with you. I hope you can talk about my needs? I’m sorry, I know I’m putting you through emotional labor.”

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@feelsdesperate

Phil

@phil2524

4 months

@L0m3z @mattyglesias @Steve_Sailer There’s an interview with @Steve_Sailer where he wonders if @mattyglesias is purposefully bat-signaling his tweets so Sailer can respond in the replies and Yglesias doesn’t have to take ownership

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@purplcabbage contrarian opinions used to be socially valued & respected more... even when most people disagreed with them. now that inclination is smeared as "just asking questions," "concern trolling," or much worse- a bad faith framework that undermines truth-seeking as the ultimate goal

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@useful_emetic

4 months

@feelsdesperate Louise Perry had a theory that young childless liberal women's extreme leftward lurch was owing to their thwarted maternal impulse getting activated and channeled into political activism that purported to protect and nurture less fortunate minorities

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@useful_emetic

3 months

joined a local knitting group yesterday and the in-person estrogen of it all so powerful I'm having whiplash returning to this bird site and seeing "pussy in bio" everywhere.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

@purplcabbage it's gotten considerably worse now from what i hear - medieval and classics courses shuttering while other unmentionables are ascendant. we're shutting our ears to the voices of the dead, and this is very ominous.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@purplcabbage because the self-care industry is rooted in the fundamentally dishonest idea that your benign projects of self-fulfillment won’t ever conflict with someone else’s

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@drocto @feelsdesperate yeah that ship sailed a while ago

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@useful_emetic

3 months

thank goodness for my spouse, and my close unnamed friend, who are brainwash proof

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@useful_emetic

3 months

@feelsdesperate every once in a while i'll flip over to my old abandoned progressive accounts & they're still as crazy as ever.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@as_per_ushe @RegHumber @feelsdesperate If you accept that limited cognitive processing when it comes to interpreting cultural messages is mostly an inherent trait, how is it different?

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@useful_emetic

2 months

I don't think most ppl understand how up in the air & strange it is for economic predictions rn. "will we enter a recession. should we raise interest rates." this is surreally something nobody knows the answer to at the moment, even among the "experts."

Purple Cabbage

@purplcabbage

2 months

@eigenrobot individual economists might have individual insights on individual topics, but the field cannot reliably identify and aggregate these insights into a larger body of reliable knowledge

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@useful_emetic

2 months

i've been living in this state for a couple of yrs now though-do you reckon i should just omit mention of the big apple altogether?

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@useful_emetic

2 months

the bernie movement required young urban leftists who valued openness & social libertinism to unite w blue collar workers who skewed toward conscientiousness & orderliness. but seeing how the former handled "defund the police" shows how much open contempt they have for the latter

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@useful_emetic

2 months

this is simply a misunderstanding of the pragmatic social role race plays in post-2012 US. there were times when I was the only one able to diffuse tense convos around race bc I could get my points across without being assailed by volleys of white racial ad hominem.

Clay Cane

@claycane

2 months

Coleman Hughes calls for a colorblind society but this NYT headline says he's a "BLACK conservative"... he's getting press and because he is BLACK calling for colorblindness. Why is his race mentioned? Shouldn't he denounce any mention of his race? #TheView Grift on?

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@useful_emetic

2 months

&, the only part of this movie with any genuine sexual excitement & energy was when the young bene gesserit seduced that skinhead gollum na'baron. none of us should feel happy about this.

Philip Cunliffe

@thephilippics

2 months

Probably the least charismatic leading lady in Hollywood - ever. Cross face like a teenager been told to go to her room.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

I speak fluent progressive but that wasn't the issue-it was trying to swallow down my anger as I saw people morally and intellectually degrade before my eyes. I ghosted them all but never said why, bc I'm still paranoid someone is going to email my work or something.

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@useful_emetic

3 months

when I tried gently to tell them that this person's approach was garbage, they were puzzled and said But They Are An Expert??, and the innocence of it made me sad.

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@useful_emetic

2 months

this says it all right? nobody knows how to build things anymore so CA voters are essentially paying $35 billion for DEI webinars.

CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨

@CaHSRA

2 months

Join us at noon tomorrow for a webinar to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth ! Our three expert panelists will share their experiences and provide insights on how to find success in the transportation industry. Register:

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

3 months

now that I find this community to be conformist, anti-intellectual, and pro crazy unnecessary surgery for children, I've ended up completely full circle and don't know where to go from here.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

thank goodness it’s hiking weather again

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@useful_emetic

3 months

hashtag anon problems - having to always negotiate between the desire to speak freely about my life vs my fear of getting doxxed...

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@useful_emetic

3 months

i still think about this: In the 00s, i was briefly tumblr/LJ mutuals with 4 ivy leaguers (2 m, 2 f) who knew each other from school. All 4 had transitioned when I looked them up later. one of the girls did it first, then one of the guys, & the other 2 followed, from ~2010-2014.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@Tyler_A_Harper not black and i was very engaged and interested in my History of American Slavery class over 15 yrs ago!

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@useful_emetic

3 months

it's true, when i try to look up interest rate projections i start crying and painting my nails because i'm afraid of the male pig

DiEM25

@DiEM_25

3 months

"One reason women avoid the field of economics is the male chauvinist pig standing at its centre, masquerading as the model of rationality." — @yanisvaroufakis on why economics is irredeemably sexist

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@useful_emetic

2 months

@feelsdesperate I know of someone who's aromatic asexual ("arc-ace"). I've heard of aromatic polyamorous asexuals. kill me now.

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

ok starting with the obvious - unless you have some rare medical condition where any guy under 6" makes you vomit, be open to dating shorter guys. a lot of cute good dudes get passed over bc of this arbitrary standard & you stand to benefit from other women's shallow foolishness

Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

2 months

@purplcabbage i could do a whole series of rants here just about the terrible mistakes young women make when mate selecting, esp online

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Mme. Fragonard

@useful_emetic

4 months

@RtrnSanity i have a theory that his earlier anti-left poasting (which i enjoyed!!) left him feeling a bit unmoored & insecure about his place in the online political twitterverse so he jumped at an opportunity to fall back on some old liturgies

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@useful_emetic

2 months

there is something to this in that in NYC, women will say nasty things in their dating profile thinking this makes them even more desirable. what kind of softboi will you be attracting with that??

𝔽eral ℙawg ℍunter

@FeralPHunter

2 months

theres something deeply hilarious about stating a basic fact like "meeting women in an area that tends to be largely populated by men is difficult" leading to controversy

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@useful_emetic

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every few months someone on NYC FB posts about being menaced on the train by a junkie. then, the disciplinary scolds swarm like white blood cells to a pathogen. "that sucks but at least they're not in jail" "you should do an Outreach & tell them about clean-needle spot X" etc

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