i do have some sympathy as a straight woman who does not always understand straight women's performances of sexuality in a way that ends up feeling like liz lemon veering into german. "hair crashing around her breasts... is that what you people are responding to here"

i believe that this is how a woman my age who slept with rfk jr sees her female hero i just ... woof. what are the odds she talks about trump with this much physical contempt

I like kids a lot i think they're hilarious and today i worked with a bunch of teachers who looked at me the entire time with the gentle authoritative pity they can command VERY EASILY while i word saladed a bunch of yes or no answers to questions

Really minor point but California has devastating floods all the time that kill a bunch of people and you never see anyone use that as a metaphor

anecdotal obviously but the white people i know who used to be passively pro-police are significantly less so than they were before 2020. i'm not convinced you can take any stance on the police as a democratic candidate, no matter how cynically, that doesn't create some drag

genuinely thank you for your service

you can be out in the randomest wilderness of like the plumas national forest or something and it's wall to wall hallmark card ass trees, if scientists are genetically engineering things I support them as a genetic engineering enthusiast, but that can't be the whole story

Is it a california thing that people just go out into the woods and cut down a tree they like

the way the second amendment is interpreted in this country is deeply corrosive to people's souls and i feel like we've kinda given up on pointing that out

I know I could be scammed easily but I demand slightly more professionalism from my flim flam men

Like that cult from the volleyball man i couldnt even sit through the documentary of. how does this get so many people

I am an annoying scold these days and I realize this but I can read dense nonfiction books for fun again and cutting back social media helped a lot in that and many other ways. This thread obviously being a failure