Ellis Goodson

@Aria_Babu @werldknot @shrimplici12164 Masturbate to ≠ date/marry

@werldknot @shrimplici12164 Stated vs revealed preference. Every day men masturbate unwittingly to fake tits.

Most women underrate how much men care about looks. And when they do try to get more attractive they waste time and effort on tanning, contouring their face, getting their nails done. Instead, almost everyone could be considered attractive if they lost weight, grew their hair long, and cleared up their skin. All these things are within your control. There's other basic advice that should be obvious. Wear makeup everyday and go for a youthful, dewy look. Remove your body hair. Ditch your glasses. For the extreme looksmaxxers, focus on your body. Your face is probably fine and hard to change. Get a boob job, precisely control your weight, and do hourglass-enhancing exercises. You are no longer stuck with the looks God gave you. ariababu.co.uk/p/get-sexier

@MoogRogue @avidseries Or there was more scope to improve on Dylan’s recordings

@avidseries Twice as many Bob Dylan songs were top 40 recordings by other artists (13 vs. Paul Simon's 6). This could signal musicians themselves believed Dylan wrote better songs.

@RoworthJack Grow up

I have ADHD. Alton Towers removing disability access for people like me is not fairness, it's exclusion. I've written to Dame Karen Bradley MP asking her to challenge this before it becomes permanent. Disabled voices matter.

turns out this is not a parody

@J_Bloodworth @henno21 Do you think you’re coming across well?

@henno21 The human equivalent of beige paint drying

Actually that was back when I *didn't* have a book to sell and had no idea who you two dorks were (apart from being failed comedians).

I've spent years struggling to prove that the sunk-cost fallacy isn't actually a fallacy. No sense in giving up now, though.

Solidarity with Michael Ben-Gad, Professor of Economics at City University. Students are demanding his sacking simply because he is an Israeli Jew who has done (mandatory) military service. The antisemitic harassment he is being subjected to is horrifying. I hesitate to amplify it, but British academics need to understand what is happening. instagram.com/p/DPtJchuiInk/… instagram.com/reel/DP6Wop0iM…

@wanyeburkett I think the issue is that, in both instances, he was insistent that the opposing position was indefensible.

I would defend the inconsistency on even more fundamental grounds. Smart people have a lot of thoughts. You can kind of take two approaches with that: 1) only ever say that which you believe with 100% certainty; 2) let it rip, try things out, etc. The further you trend toward the second approach, the more likely it is that you’re going to say something that isn’t perfectly stable across your lifespan. And to that I would just say: so what? Who gives a shit? That’s a silly standard. If you’re smart, intellectually oriented, open to new ideas, then you shouldn’t be particularly persuaded by this kind of gotcha.

@AyoCaesar In this context, would you not distinguish between, say, being a member of the Lebanese Armed Forces and being a member of Hezbollah?

If "death to the IDF" is antisemitic, then "destroy ISIS" is Islamophobic. Because the principle that enforces is that we can't consider violent, genocidal war criminals as separate from the wider religious group they claim to act on behalf of.

BBC presenter corrects ‘pregnant people’ to ‘women’ JK Rowling hails Martine Croxall as her ‘new favourite’ BBC newsreader following live broadcast remark

So, Radiohead front man Thom Yorke has posted an 8 page statement about the Israel/Gaza conflict on Instagram. In it he claims Netanyahu and 'his crew of extremists are totally out of control and need to be stopped' because he has a 'transparent desire to take control of Gaza and the West Bank'. He criticises the 'blockade' and asks us why 'endless thousands of innocent human souls are still being expelled from the earth... for what?' He calls for the 'international community' to do all they can to make Israel 'cease'. But in a surprising turn of events, Yorke goes on to say: 'At the same time the unquestioning Free Palestine refrain that surrounds us all does not answer the simple question of why the hostages have still not all been returned? For what possible reason? Why did Hamas choose the truly horrific acts of October 7th? The answer seems obvious, and I believe Hamas chooses too to hide behind the suffering of its people, in an equally cynical fashion for their own purposes'. So, Israel and Hamas were given a good kicking in Yorke's statement. But if you could hazard a guess, which side do you think is responding positively to it and which side is having a massive meltdown about it? You know the answer. Thank you for your courage, Thom Yorke.

@pegobry_en Gay people weren’t asking for anything that undermined the safety of another group

What’s your theory for why gay rights won but trans rights lost?

@NiohBerg @PigeonFeatherz

I can't even focus on the magic trick at all. When did Ben Shapiro start lifting?

you gotta hand it to sabrina carpenter, i don’t think i’ve heard anyone say “expresso” in like a year

@HarleyShah Is your implication here that ‘child sex abuse ring’ sounds more innocuous than ‘grooming gang’?

The term "grooming gang" nowhere to be seen, no pictures of the perpetrators and comments turned off: they are white

@datepsych I’d also draw a distinction in that people tend to be ‘into’, e.g. the Simpsons per se, rather than automatically into a ton of other shows with similar visuals/styles *because* of the appearance/setting

@AyoCaesar My friend dated a girl whose whole family did this. Has to be the same person…

My housemate eats bananas by first peeling them in entirety. That's insane, right? Who doesn't hold them by the peel?!

@VeeduVidz Wasn’t Shaykh Waleed invited?

Had there been an imam present at the inauguration, it's highly likely they would have criticized him for attending. Many imams and shaykhs in the past have been heavily criticized for sharing platforms with presidents .You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

That was the Village People

@TheSimonEvans Savage Garden would disagree

This is bad and wrong and Tom has my unalloyed sympathy. Nevertheless, Tom is privileged to have enjoyed a very decent education and indeed been blessed with a good brain. He should know well enough, even in shock, not to start a sentence with an unbroken sequence of three -ly suffix adverbs.