this is exactly why we New Yorkers need to keep all the vaguely threatening guys who smoke and mutter to themselves on the subway— to stop this kind of thing from happening here
me: come over
Malcolm Gladwell: I cant
Me: I need someone to explain a very obvious concept to me by cherry picking evidence from various scientific studies to give an ordinary truth the gloss of counterintuitive genius
everyone shits on Twitter for being horrible but every other social media platform has incrementally gotten worse and worse to the point where twitter is actually fine now
say what you will about twitter but when there are major news events taking place there is no better place to receive unimaginable amounts of psychic damage from reading the opinions of the worst and dumbest people in the world
When I saw what was playing out in Union Square today, I texted my son and asked him if he was there. He replied no. I told him to stay out of the area until we resolved the matter.
Shinzo Abe assassin built his own gun from scratch in a country with essentially an absolute weapon ban this country is literally knee deep in guns and this is the best we can do America is washed
@fake_living
Long story but basically he credulously has been reporting from a source who is clearly a liar and probably broke the law and it’s becoming pretty undeniable coincidentally he deleted his account today
@me_im_chloe
I was just reading a short story by roald dahl to the baby about how he loved moles and how he hated how gardeners poisoned them so his solution was to bury wine bottles in the ground and the sound of wind whistling over the openings scared them away from his plants
joe Biden (jet lagged and fucked up and sun downing) : I killed her with my bare hands. jonbenet Ramsey. I-I felt the life drain from her body…
Benjamin Netanyahu: yes joe thank you we accept your unconditional support for our war against terrorism
me: ...so it seemed clear it was a sock puppet account *but* then the account posted a video showing he was real & his name was byl spelled “BYL” & after some research it turned out he is patti labelle’s nephew—though at first-
my wife: (texting her lover she’s leaving me) mhm