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i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

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how to say "I love you" in x-files [198/?] ⤷ 4.08 — “Tunguska”

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my hyper-niche complaint of the day is that none of the “shopping at kohl’s in the 2000s” playlists on spotify have michelle branch on them.

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I’ve decided that my 20s are actually age 25 - 35

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Skam Cast with Elle Norge for 10 year anniversary of Skam

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Sent these as postcards to moots a thousand years ago :D

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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from the archives of octavia butler

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no but i haven’t even shared my most memorable encounter with a man in the last few years. so my research is on avant-garde reception of film in europe in the 1920s. this means i’ve taken a few seminars on film, which is the natural habitat for the Film Bro. well, last year i was in a film theory seminar and one such Bro happened to be in the class. i don’t wish to be mean, but he was…absolutely not my type. he also spoke with the sort of condescension about film that was not warranted for someone who a) was doing his masters in art history and b) confidently mispronounced Zizek’s name. anyway, i signed up to lead the discussion on soviet film theory (as that is one of my specializations). Bro would not stop staring at me and grinning the entire class, which was unnerving in and of itself. but then, when class ended, he waddles up to me and loudly introduces himself as though this was not a seminar of only five people and i clearly knew his name and story. he then says to me that “we should probably exchange sosh meds” (short for “social media”?) as we clearly have an “intellectual compatibility.” he said some other stuff, mostly pertaining to avant-garde cinema, but in that moment, i started having an out-of-body experience. i managed to stammer my way out of the conversation, with the help of the professor who witnessed the awkward interaction and helped me out by interrupting to ask me about my research. i then booked it out of the room to avoid having to speak to Film Bro. thankfully, he never tried to talk to me one-on-one again, but i did receive a facebook friend request from him when the semester ended. delete request.

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I think there's valuable rhetorical weight to articulating the Zionist Entity as a Nazi entity -- I do, genuinely -- but I also think it's potentially dangerous to conflate "genocidal, race-exterminationist, military government" with "Nazi" specifically inasmuch as it construes the Nazis as some kind of archetypal Original, which all other genocidaires are attempting to Emulate or Approach. I know that the mainstream rhetorical understanding is that the Nazis were a unique evil who represent the height of inhuman violence, but I think that's troublesome, since 1) they were not unique in their evil and 2) they were not unmatched in the consequences of their violence and 3) their genocidal fervor is not inhuman but indeed a horrific but profoundly human activity, which served a political and material goal.

All of this is to say that I think that there's value in articulating "No, the Zionists are not Nazis, they are an entirely different and unique form of genocidaire; likewise, they will be remembered by history, hopefully, not as 'like the Nazis'; rather, people will begin to speak the word 'Zionist' with a unique level of disgust and horror; as people who saw the scientific and technological innovations in racial violence and genocidal bloodlust of the Nazis firsthand, by being subject to them, and who instead did not say 'Never again,' but rather said 'I can do that, but worse.' They who left the flames of the Holocaust and decided to be the ones to set the next ones, rather than find a way to put them out."

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some guy saw me on a dating app and took it upon himself to look up my university email and contact me there to shoot his shot. what the fuck.

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regina spektor is a violent zionist, but i don't think it's constructive or honest at all for people to be like "well her art was always bad anyway." some terrible people have made great art. This idea that artists with unsavory morals can't make good art (1) only feeds into some people's mindset that if they dislike something, that MUST mean there is something ideologically wrong with it, and (2) some people then take longer to realize the true colors of their favorite artists because... good artists can't be ethically bad right?? and so they hang on to their faves and pretend they are so righteous and defend their every move when sometimes. sometimes you just gotta accept that your favorite art was made by somebody you don't agree with, and you have to identify how much you are willing to support someone like that and what lines you have that can't be crossed

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kathy acker (1971-1975) unpublished early writings