Charlus

This is a welcoming account. I accept all sorts of freaks and perverts.

@true_reii_ang3l Half of the trans men I know are named Sebastian

i love how trans women pick the most majestic and unique name when they transition but then trans guys just pick some white boy name like nathan

@Stone_tossers I don't even know what kind of person this is supposed to be lampooning

Website is making me angry. Leaving again for a while. Bye bye

This must be what Chinese water torture feels like

I’m a pretty chill guy overall but my roommate always leaves the kitchen drawers slightly open and it’s turning me into the joker

@aidan_mclau Believe me own eyes. Simple as

i knowww this take will be universally hated but i negatively update on the iq of anyone who believes in qualia or the hard problem of consciousness

@simoneistyping Nice try but critiques of the Enlightenment are part of the Enlightenment

I have a confession. Deep down I’m a Great Books liberal humanist type. Can’t escape it. I’m sorry.

@AshleyRindsberg @Wikipedia Philip Roth has the lived experience of being Philip Roth

In 2012, novelist Philip Roth discovered a "serious misstatement" about one of his books on @Wikipedia. Wikipedia claimed Roth's book "The Human Stain" was inspired by the life of writer Anatole Broyard. Roth said this was "in no way substantiated by fact." He should know: he wrote it. The "Human Stain" was actually inspired (Roth said) by his friend Melvin Tumin, a Princeton professor who had died not long before. Roth wrote: "I’ve never known, spoken to, or, to my knowledge, been in the company of a single member of Broyard’s family. I did not even know whether he had children.... "I never took a meal with Broyard, never went with him to a bar or a ballgame or a dinner party or a restaurant, never saw him at a party I might have attended back in the sixties when I was living in Manhattan and on rare occasions socialized at a party. "I never watched a movie or played cards with him or showed up at a single literary event with him as either a participant or a spectator. As far as I know, we did not live anywhere in the vicinity of each other during the ten or so years in the late fifties and the sixties when I was living and writing in New York and he was a book reviewer and cultural critic for the New York Times. "I never ran into him accidentally in the street...We never bothered to have a serious conversation....I never learned from Broyard who were his friends or his enemies, did not know where or when he had been born and raised, knew nothing about his economic status in childhood or as an adult, knew nothing of his politics or his favorite sports teams or if he had any interest in sports at all." Roth contacted a Wikipedia official, who put him in touch with a site admin, hoping to get it rectified, and Roth wrote a letter to the admin (probably by typewriter). The admin responded that he, Philip Roth, "was not a credible source" on Philip Roth—and told him to find a secondary source! Unbelievably, the Wikipedia article still today contains the claim about Anatole Broyard: "In the reviews of the book in both the daily and the Sunday New York Times in 2000, Kakutani and Lorrie Moore suggested that the central character of Coleman Silk might have been inspired by Anatole Broyard, a well-known New York literary editor of the Times." All this sounds unnervingly like a passage from a Philip Roth novel—with a healthy pinch of Kafka. And yet it so perfectly encapsulates the absurdities that lie at the heart of Wikipedia. "Secondary sources"—i.e. the New York Times and co—are deemed better arbiters of Roth's fictional reality than Roth himself. The reason is that on anything political, cultural or social, Wikipedia is a wrapper for the mainstream media. If the media says it's true, it's considered true by Wikipedia. If the media says it's false, it's considered false by Wikipedia. Do you trust Wikipedia? (h/t @lsanger for bringing my attention to this insane story.)

@hyperflesh Recognized this costume from the very first frame

I’m sorry but how can you NOT be absolutely obsessed with Pluto

@mapletonin What’s wrong with this?

chapman’s ice cream is pretty good but what the fuck is this packaging who designed this. this is why canadians get made fun of.

sorry i thought this was google

how to pronounce queensrÿche

@scheminglunatic your gay

@VileHomosexual its dumb. your gay.

i think both can be healthy [except for avocado, why would u ever eat that its not even tasty?] i just eat whatever i want that makes me feel happy and i think is a treat.

@scheminglunatic Yes, but chopped avocado in a salad with salt and lemon dressing is not as tasty, so it's not just the salt and citrus

@VileHomosexual yeah but only after u add in the salt and lemon and so on.

@IterIntellectus How do they test for genuine self-awareness?

i was shitposting but it seems like it’s true? only 10% of people are self aware?!

@iannkatz waow

@hibakod I doubt it