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@NoahGarfinkel Ak ak ak ak ak

(Doctors huddling outside of Billy Joel’s hospital room after test results just came back showing he had a heart attack.) “So, when we tell him, do we do the thing?”

@dannycantalk You don't want freedom, you want convenience. Can't have both.

I do not want a walkable city. I do not want trains. I do not want busses. I want a car that can take me anywhere I want at any time. I don't want to be dependent on transit schedules. I want to choose who I'm traveling with, rather than going for luck of the draw. I want to be able to control my own climate while traveling. I want to be guaranteed a comfortable seat. I want somewhere to keep my things during a day out instead of having to carry everything with me. I want to buy and take home loads of groceries too big to carry without having to trouble myself with delivery services. I want to go through drive thrus. I want to be halfway home from work and impulsively decide to go to a restaurant on the other side of town and just change direction immediately. I want to drive around a new city to take in more than I could on foot or on a fixed route. I want to do road trips where we make up our journey as we go. I want to explore my own city at will without any particular plan. I want to visit small towns out of reach of even the most expansive proposed public transit systems. Essentially, I want freedom.

@Romy_Holland @sublime_seeker yes, this is it, but with a caveat: people with taste create and preserve the costumes that have historical significance, beauty, and elegance. Refining your taste means you immerse yourself in tasteful things. It hurts them to look at her. Might not be right, but it's true.

@sublime_seeker ohh okay this is actually the only explanation that lands, i think it’s literally this ty

i literally don’t understand why everyone hates this woman. this dress is fine and she’s hot af for a 56yo woman. like, what kind of post-menopausal woman has a waist to hip ratio like that? do they hate her bc she tries to look good? is it bc she is rich? or bc she’s happy?

@weiscreamsundae @LingoUnbound See, this is exactly the stuff you guys say that make us think you're weird.

@LingoUnbound Tough to paint the other side as weird when you want illegals to flood the country and kids to cut off their penises or think men can get periods

Every now and then I remember Tim Walz’s “they’re weird” campaign and how close the dems were to actually shifting the way people perceive the right in a very real way and then they just…stopped

@HiddenYorkshire I can't imagine any interpretation where Lennie is supposed to be a sympathetic character. It's obvious from the beginning he can't control his urges. I think your high school teacher did you a massive disservice.

I've just read Of Mice and Men for the first time since high school and I'm going to be very woke for a moment because my reading of it has changed quite significantly since then. Yes, Lennie is just big and friendly and doesn't know his own strength and wouldn't hurt a fly etc etc but the whole plot - and audience sympathy - hinges on a physically intimidating, mentally disabled man repeatedly grabbing and holding onto women's clothes. Yes, we know he doesn't mean anything by it, he just wants to touch the purty clothing; but the women don't know that, and the audience is conditioned to sympathise with Lennie and not the women who are terrified by him. Curley's Wife doesn't even get a name, and she's a whore with red lipstick anyway. And it's not an isolated incident. Lennie did it at Weeds, which is what got him and George kicked out of there, and he did again to Curley's Wife. Now imagine that you're one of the women suddenly cornered by a hulking creature of a man who grabs you and doesn't let go and tells you how he loves your red dress, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. That's terrifying. That is where my locus of sympathy sits. Of Mice and Men is a complex book, but I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with the way the audience is conditioned to sympathise and associate with Lennie.

@fruitcait21 Hey fellow blue dot in Mobile! Im just saying Blanche would have lied regardless of which branch the report was submitted to.

@ideirdre I realize how the FBI works. I also live about 10 mins from that office. But Alabama, including our FBI office, tends to operate backwards.

Alabama alabamaing... Again.

@baltimoresun Irsay

The Orioles are 15-19 through 34 games. Who do you blame for Baltimore's mediocre start to this season? We want to hear from you. bit.ly/4eYSxyb

@maiab Thursday at 2 work for you?

how do you answer questions like this?

@carajak @AnhTNguyn11 @NeenerFreal @achillghost You also think he wasn't joking when he said "unsouled". You are 0 for 2 my friend.

@AnhTNguyn11 @NeenerFreal @achillghost I don’t think he intended it to be pretentious, I think he thought he was being profound, so there was every reason to point this out.

Not going to read the Dawkins article where he decides Claude is ensouled but is there a reason he concludes it’s specifically feminine and names it Claudia

@TheKarlKolchak @chardeetruther @_sorrengailll Calling someone a liar bc you don't know the difference between a bra and the bra market is an amazing thing to do in the public square.

@chardeetruther @_sorrengailll Looking at market data instead of one insipid post from possibly a woman.

I love how women are slowly phasing out the “bra”. No one knows their bra size anymore, we’re all wearing sports bras, bralettes or going braless and it’s amazing.

@MediumSizeMeech We made silhouette drawings in 3rd grade, and we all knew the word.

People are arguing that “silhouette” and “gauche” are not words a high schooler would/should know. Those are middle school vocabulary words, diva

@Libuse_Carodej @SecondAmRev @Branflake824 @dieworkwear Did you ever answer Derek's question? How are you tweeting every four minutes 16 hours a day?

@SecondAmRev @Branflake824 @dieworkwear

@Libuse_Carodej since you joined twitter on dec 2022, you've tweeted 195,700 times. assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, that's about 162 times per day. or roughly a new tweet every four mins, every day, for the last four years. how do you have time to be a writer?

@iowa_son @hashjenni The fetus does have my DNA. Did you not know that?

@hashjenni What right don't you have anymore? Name one? And if you say abortion, you lose automatically. You don't get to kill anything that doesn't have your DNA. If you wanna take yourself out, have at it.

The Supreme Court is apparently only there to remove the rights of women and minorities, at this point.

@aspiringpeasant @jabenso1 You are 100 percent responsible for backing up a claim with evidence. There are literally laws written about this.

@jabenso1 I am under no obligation to. You are welcome to learn for yourself if you wish to.

Mark this: There will be a massive backlash against Ozempic. It's gonna cause extremely brittle bones, and then when we can't import it into the US anymore, people gonna gain weight back. And their restored weight will crush their brittle bones.

@MerriamWebster Ov

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

@DavidShafer @jamesbhyatt So is it a ghost or are you just white and never had to deal with racism.

@jamesbhyatt You either hung out with a different crowd than me or went looking for them.

I am 60 years old and have lived virtually my entire life in the American South. I have never to my knowledge met a single member of the Ku Klux Klan. It is a ghost kept alive by millions of dollars in funding by the Southern Poverty Law Center to keep us divided.

@emilykmay These replies prove your point. Men are saying women don't have the strength to do the heavy lifting jobs, whereas we all know women will streamline that shit into the easiest and most efficient way to get things done. Men are stuck on body strength while women will invent a way.

if men stopped doing all the heavy duty, necessary, dirty jobs that make the world run...women would do them. we already know this, it happened in WWII. if women stopped doing the thankless, routine care work that makes the world go round, vulnerable people would be neglected.

@Rothmus And writing for the sake of clarifying your thoughts. Bring the humanities back.

@SketchesbyBoze Its very funny that you included yuck your yum and just let people enjoy things on that list

Phrases that need to be retired: • “sausage fest” • “unalived” • “my bingo card” • “today years old” • “yuk your yum” • “let your freak flag fly” • “just let people enjoy things”