Belle 🇺🇲 Persists

Welcome to #BellesBookClub and #BelleBookReview - where you can find all the book review threads I have done so far! I'll be adding replies to this pinned tweet with each new thread that I add. You can also search for the relevant hashtags or ask to be added to my tag list!

I will be available to talk to on Discord, if nothing else. I will try to follow some of my favorite content creators elsewhere, if I can find them!

As sad as I am to say good bye to some of my favorite Twitter accounts, I will shortly be deactivating all my Twitter accounts. This site is going downhill fast, and it started when hate speech became welcome here. I still haven't figured out where I will end up instead!

@kvastbin @citybeautiful I'm sorry you don't know how to feel joy.

@citybeautiful Ughh… I’m sick of seeing a rainbow everywhere!! It’s utterly ridiculous we have to have a whole month of this.. why not a whole month Of Memorial Day or July for our independence!!

🌈 #PrideMonth is underway! At City Hall, we’re proud to showcase Orlando’s pride and diversity reaffirming our collective commitment to creating an inclusive, welcoming and equitable community for all. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Pride Month begins today—a time to celebrate our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and neighbors and honor the queer activists who led and continue to lead the work to affirm and protect equal rights for every person in our country.

@JasonOverstreet 20+ people, including me, caught COVID at our choir concert. This thing isn't over by a long shot.

The pretending it doesn’t exist anymore strategy will never work.

After getting COVID for the very first time, it is now 2+ weeks later and I can confirm that post-COVID fatigue is real. I can't make it through a full work day.

This is freedom?? To be shot at a mall? Shot at school? Shot at church? Shot at the movies? We have become a nation that is more focused on the right to kill than the right to live. This is not what the American people want. Do your damn job, Congress.

A 16 year-old was shot for ringing the wrong doorbell. A 20 year-old was killed for driving into the wrong driveway. A cheerleader was shot for getting in the wrong car. A six year-old & her daddy were shot when her ball went into a neighbor’s yard. It’s about the fucking guns.

@MayorMoon @Maladroithe How did I not know this!! I knew about the cookie dough, but not that it was safe to eat raw! This is a game changer...

@Maladroithe You are forgetting the most amazing part! They sell raw cookie dough that is SAFE to eat raw. You don't have to cook it. Want fresh pizza and a treat on Christmas? Papa Murphy is the place to go the day before

@casualruffian @hello__caitlin Seriously, Papa Murphy's is a regional treasure.

@hello__caitlin the papa murphy's and pacnw pizza slander in this thread is really bumming me out

My friend’s coworker moved to the northwest from the east coast and spent all of yesterday morning describing how horrified they were by the local pizza shop that gave them a fully raw pizza and refused to cook it for them (Papa Murphy’s)

@acegirleatscake I've almost always desired romantic relationships, but I rarely if ever feel romantic attraction. Dating is horrible because I keep waiting for romantic attraction to arise, and when it doesn't, the other person thinks I've wasted their time, so I gave up on dating.

Aromanticism means little to no romantic attraction, it’s not about “not desiring romantic relationships,” it is about attraction. Saying dumb stuff like “just try to date” is aphobic when someone who is aro comes out. Aphobes are horrible.

TW: aphobia, arophobia The QTs on a post for Aromantic Awareness Week is so disgusting: aphobes calling aros “cold incels” and “dateless” and saying trash like “not wanting to date isn’t a sexuality.” This is why we need Aromantic Awareness Week because of this ignorance.

Let’s talk about sexual dimorphism in humans. This is something that comes up a lot in Jordan Peterson & incel circles. And it sets you up for terrible answers, because it fundamentally misunderstands the question. A better question: why are human males and females so SIMILAR.

Love this Danny Trejo story about his mom and Kermit.

“Your negative opinion is not yours.”

@mehdirhasan Was going to say the best cheese ever is Yancy's Fancy Bergenost, but it turns out it's a variety of havarti! So I guess you still win!

Random aside: How did I only discover havarti cheese now, so late in life? It's literally the greatest cheese EVER.

@FeistyPK2 It's Aslan, but the twist is that Aslan is preparing to pounce and devour him.

What in The Fuck is this?

@bunsenbernerbmd I dunno, my dog sleeping next to me is a serious threat to me getting to work on time. You should see the looks she gives me when I try to wake her up!

A good laugh and a pet sleeping next to you are the best cures in the dogtor's book.

From today’s ⁦@nytimes⁩ . Sometimes, the truth hides in plain sight.

single people may go on dates in their free time but not me, i’m making soup for my dog because she isn’t feeling well

My wife called and asked me to get the chicken thighs out of the freezer. I told her we don’t have any chicken thighs in the freezer so she said she’d check when she gets home- your thoughts and prayers are appreciated