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me, packing for an weekend trip two states away.

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In the hyper-pressurized environment of social media circa 2022, it’s rare to encounter a past digital self, unless it is being dug up to defame you.

How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete, The New Yorker

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is it spring yet 💕💅🏻👛🌷🌸🌺🍬🎀💓

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last week’s bike ride 🌈🌈

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Do yourself a favor and glance at all the front pages of today’s newspapers 

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It wasn’t until the 20th century that chivalry started resembling what it is today: holding doors, walking on the curb side of the road, lending out your coat, and making women feel ambivalent. I consider myself a feminist, and at the same time I’ll judge a guy if he doesn’t pay on a first date. I get the cognitive dissonance there, but ideologies and rituals clash peacefully all the time, like not believing in God but still celebrating Christmas."

Can a woman be chivalrous? Sure, but guys are going to hate it

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Call me

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and then there's the nisha call...

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the dream of the 90s

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Here is the obligatory “to be sure” line in the think piece: To be sure, a critical attitude toward culture is also a net good for culture. It’s hard to argue with any system that takes lubricating humilities—empathy, perspectival awareness, the checking of privilege—and insists on their value. The economy of the think piece is the direct result, after all, of our newfound exposure to each other: Through the Internet in general, through Facebook in particular, through Instagram albums and Pinterest boards and Twitter feeds and #alexfromtarget, we are realizing—year by year and also second by second—how different one person’s perspective can be from another’s. Our impulse to question everything, sometimes in excruciating detail, comes from that realization. And it will help us, in the end, to become better, both among and toward each other.

on humor, cultural criticism, the think-piece, and more. (via mollykalan)

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post-holiday sundaze

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Cormac McCarthy