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@pavarottishighc Right? "Come meet me, a complete stranger, alone, on a remote country estate and let's drive out, all by ourselves, into the hills".

Mistake number 1. Driving an hour & a half to meet a bloke off tinder #shouldimarryamurderer

@alyndenzel Love. 🤗

I am not 'just watching it happen', I am telling people they're wrong as often as I can, as I have throughout my life, and they're ignoring me, as they have throughout my life. So, like, less guilt-tripping, okay? We're not the ones you need to convince.

@Vickie_Austin @dieworkwear I like to imagine Ms @JoyceCarolOates read this and enjoyed it as much as we did. It's his area of expertise and he does wonderful work.

@dieworkwear Do you know who Joyce Carol Oates is?!? 🤭 At least you said "respectfully." Always love your discourse.

I respectfully disagree. This sort of outfit can be beautiful, but it has to be done well. IMO, the problem with Vance's outfit — along with many others — is that the work has been influenced by fashion designers, rather than tailors. Let me show you. 🧵

@Lovandfear Adulthood.

what is it called when you can't take it anymore but you keep taking it

@cpt_depression_ That hadeda went to private boarding school.

Beautiful Hadeda I captured during a hunting trip near Zastron in the cold Free State

@zakfilm Solid list. 👍🏻

Happy to! Some of my favourite performances in television that are also women. Edie Falco (The Sopranos) Keri Russell (The Americans) Carrie Coon (The Leftovers) Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) January Jones (Mad Men) Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) Lorraine Bracco (The Sopranos) Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul) Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld) Sarah Snook (Succession) Molly Parker (Deadwood) Regina King (Watchmen and The Leftovers) Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) Sarah Goldberg (Barry) Britt Lower (Severance) Youn Yuh-jung (Pachinko) Kim Min-Ha (Pachinko) Marisa Abela (Industry) Myha’la (Industry) Denise Gough (Andor) Genevieve O’Reilly (Andor) Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) Rachel Brosnahan (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) Cristin Milioti (The Penguin) Emma Stone (The Curse)

@KingZahyd @Variety I couldn't read that book, she made me too angry. Imagine thinking yourself too good for the fashion business and then choosing to work at Vogue, of all places, and smugly judging them for being passionate about something.

So the real life Andy was actually just a bad employee who spent her shift writing a burn book instead of doing the job a million girls would kill for? Leslie Fremar is right. The book wasn't a "betrayal" it was just Lauren Weisberger's way of gaslighting us into thinking she was the victim when she was actually the slacker

The real-life Emily from "The Devil Wears Prada" reveals herself as celebrity stylist Leslie Fremar and speaks out for the first time: "[The book] felt like a betrayal." “I definitely told [author Lauren Weisberger, the inspiration for Andy Sachs] that a million girls would kill for the job. That was definitely my line because I actually really believed that, and I knew that she didn’t necessarily wanna be there.... It just felt like this exposure. Even though someone obviously advised her to make it fiction, it was really based off of a lot of things that, you know, I lived, she lived… I probably was not very nice, and I probably was high-strung because I felt like I was having to do her job as well. So for me, that was really frustrating. I think she was probably just sitting there writing a book and not necessarily taking the job as seriously as I did.” (via Vogue) variety.com/2026/film/news…

@NatalieRCargill I was not planning to sob before breakfast today.

For Margaret: nataliercargill.substack.com/p/it-is-the-en…

@DisaffectedPod But what if we don't care about your respect or admiration? What then?

Women of a certain age: One of the biggest mistake you make is thinking that hairstyles for younger women flatter you. They don't. They really, really don't. They look ridiculous, try-hard, and they make you appear insecure and silly. If you're a lady of 50 or over, you just can't get away with it. I don't care what your middle aged girlfriends tell you-they're lying. All of you are prone to falling into trends and gassing each other up with lies. I'm a gay man, and I'll tell you the truth. These au courant styles look terrible on you. Especially the "messy" ones. You are wasting the beauty you do have as an older woman. Your best bets? -Shoulder length pageboy (many variations, parted on the side -Similar, but with a soft wave roller set. Groomed. Think updated 1950s And if you have long hair, for god's sake, put it UP. Long flowing hair is for younger women. It's always been a sign of the maiden, not the matriarch. Wear it in a twist. Put it in a tasteful chignon at the nape (see M. Trump). Something like that. Older women who wear these styles command respect, admiration, and the room. -Uncle Josh

This is so wholly inaccurate I can't even believe someone actually took the time to write it out, think "yeah, that looks right," and hit post. Is this just another example of men not taking the time to understand women's literature? Or women in general? Every single one of Austen's books contends with people's extraordinarily bad morals on an interpersonal level. As in, how do the actions of one person affect another? As well as the domino effect of choice. She's not going to war, she's not solving murders, she's dealing with many of the issues women faced at the time and even today, which is what makes her work so relatable. It lives beyond her time. This reminds me of when I met a "great books" major who insisted that Austen did not compare to authors like Tolstoy, because she did not write the world at large and how her characters/story were impacted by the events of the time. Aka, "had no third dimension." Which honestly, was one of the stupidest things I'd ever heard come out of human mouth. Austen work is not overly dramatic, it's subtle. It does not look outward, she looks within. And not in the "let me mull over my troubled thoughts of my male brain" within, but to the microcosm of society. What it is to navigate a society with strict moral rules and conventions, uphold those conventions, and practice grace for those who fall short? The vices in a women's world are rarely extreme. We are not prone to outward violence. Our vices are manipulation, sexuality, intrasexual competition, and indirect power dynamics. This is why her themes often deal with adultery, seduction, fornication, children out of wedlock, lying, gossiping, etc. These are not evils that can easily be dealt with and were often handwaved away. Her villains are rarely held accountable in the end because they are protected by societal convention. Wickham gets paid off and Lydia ends up with a terrible philanderous and gambling husband. He gets to (mostly) maintain his reputation using his wife as a human shield. Willoughby ends up married to a rich woman after seducing and impregnating an innocent ward. The only accountability he faces is losing his inheretance, which doesn't matter as he's already secured his fortune with (by today's terms) a millionaire. Henry Crawford seduces a married woman, runs away away with her, destroys her reputation, the reputation of her family, and the dumps her. He faces zero consequences other than being exposed as a "rake" which was hardly that big of an issue in Regency society. There were plenty of "rakes" and most people would forget about his misdeeds in a few years. Meanwhile, Fanny's family would likely never recover from the reputational harm. This is what happens when men believe the male story arc is the default position of literature. They expose themselves for having no inkling of the minds and purposeful actions of women as well as their complex interpersonal dynamics. Honestly, it almost makes me believe this person has never even read Austen. And if he did, took no time to consider it as anything more than "chick lit." I hope you all understand that it is takes like this that led to the awful "girl boss" in books and film epidemic. If you continually put down women's stories as superfluous, due to the simple fact that you cannot relate to them as a man, you can't be surprised when women wish to encroach upon the stories of men. Afterall, those are the only ones people seem to respect.

@BarneySimon I'm curious - how would one cheat?

About yesterday... #Caturday

@TheChrisLambert Wait, there's funding?

Seinfeld and I’d do 96 hours just to prove a point

@deeore5 Excellent engagement trawling. No notes. 👍🏻

Can someone honestly tell me what is stopping us from filling all this ocean with land and expanding the size of America?

@designmom Elephants know how to live.

Males developed as the secondary sex to support the primary sex (like drones in a beehive) and are naturally submissive. They thrive when given an assignment & told what to do. Matriarchy is the norm throughout nature, and patriarchy can only lead to the destruction of humankind.

@klara_sjo 👍🏻

Can I have an explanation of this phenomenon without using bean soup as an example? I don't like bean soup.

@BarneySimon You know you have to keep doing it, too. The minute you stop, the weight just comes back. Total scam.

I want to lose weight but I don't want to get caught up in one of those "eat right and exercise" scams.

@yassermedinam I mean, it was prime Rafe Fiennes.

En "El paciente inglés" (1996), Ralph Fiennes y Kristin Scott Thomas rodaron las escenas de amor con tal intensidad y química que dejó perplejo al equipo de durante el rodaje. Minghella dijo que su conexión emocional era tan fuerte que parecía que realmente se habían enamorado.

@whiskeyrich Me too. ☺️

It me, I’m that person 😍

@beffybadbelly 9-1-1?

My mam and I have finished Chicago Fire, we’re not fussed on Chicago PD, she likes The Pitt but I find it far too triggering so can anyone recommend any good series to get stuck into?

@VDOOZER @Lex_Jurgen 🙌🏻

@Lex_Jurgen There's always more.

That's it. I made it through Shrinking. No more Bill Lawrence shows with a maudlin but funny middle-aged white guy widow/divorcee who buries his pain in humor but ultimately realizes he's the luckiest man in the world because of family and friends.