yet

When people talk about “how did Octavia Butler know?” It’s because she lived through Reagan!

i skimmed it initially as ungluent kisses, and did a double-take.

i grew up in CA, so none of those things seem especially incompatible with the suburbs.

imagining them bowling against pete and trudy campbell, as pete gets progressively more unhinged.

i was talking about the aesthetic of the suburban house and yard, not claiming that they're the literal same thing.

but yes, i grew up in a suburb and now live in a suburb (technically a small city, but suburban scale neighborhood). most of my life has been spent in the burbs.

bingo

crime in chicago has fallen by a huge amount during johnson's tenure. not arguing the politics of it, just the reality.

the suburban aesthetic is a miniature fantasy replication of the rural manor house. they just use lawnmowers instead of sheep.

best hopes for mayor mamdani rocking some of his kid cardamom fits.

but that's the thing—they talk like everyone in academia are tenured elite professors, but the actual targets of attacks are much more likely to be relatively vulnerable adjuncts, TAs, grad students, teaching faculty, etc., esp. those who are women, LGBT, nonwhite, immigrants, etc.