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Katie Botkin

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7 months

@danishacarterr Yeah. The “give guys a chance” and “you need to lower your standards” crowd also blames women when they do, in fact, lower their standards.

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@Ciara_BK When I was 37, I exchanged numbers with a heavily-bearded guy I’d had a lot of fun dancing with. Texting the next morning, I found out he was 21. TWENTY ONE. We were both horrified.

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@ask_aubry People tell me that being a single mom must be the hardest thing ever, and let me say, no. Being with the wrong partner is a lot harder

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6 years

@clhubes She was aristocratic, which means she was thin and boyish, where boyish means athletic in a pristine white tennis skirt, a skirt that floated around her navel as she moved, revealing the perfect hindquarters of a young hart. Boyish because ... no cellulite.

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9 months

@meganalcg I personally am very attracted to men’s hands. And I do not appear to be alone in this. Therefore, to avoid causing women to lust, men should wear gloves at all times. They should definitely never play guitar or any other instrument showcasing their fingering ability.

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3 years

@AlixEHarrow Oooh, ooh! I love explaining this one. Because in English, the j sound is an affricate, meaning it’s actually two sounds jammed together. The first sound IS the d sound. The second sound is the soft j heard in French (je jure). Say “Jam” and “Djam” and you’ll hear it.

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5 months

@sarahradz_ I got my toddler to eat carrots by calling them rabbit popsicles

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3 years

@AlixEHarrow The reason “dragon” sounds like “jragon” is because your mouth naturally makes a soft j sound when it’s passing from the d sound to the English r sound. In both cases, it’s going to sound like /djr/.

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4 years

@J_Dot_J Another time, different guy, I’m talking about French and historical linguistics, and he interrupts me to say wildly inaccurate things about language and tells me I should watch this YouTube video he saw, and I’m like “I have a master’s in linguistics and I speak French, uh, no.”

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4 years

@CutestMost @LaughYcats @benjancewicz @tedwheeler This is absolutely true. In Iowa, they had penny auctions and gave the land back to the owner. This is from “Hard Times,” an oral history of the Great Depression. This particular interview is from my great-grandfather, Oscar Heline.

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5 years

@ShannonDingle My sister’s co-worker took a bite out a lunch sandwich and then sobbed because it was no longer whole like her siblings’

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9 months

@emilykmay Yeah. When my one-year-old had to get her blood drawn and they couldn’t find a vein despite multiple tries, and she kept sobbing “all done,” I had to wait until it was finished and then go cry in the bathroom

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4 years

@J_Dot_J I was explaining a linguistic term to a guy, and he immediately started telling me what it meant even though he’d never even heard of it until 30 seconds previously

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5 years

@ShannonDingle Same co-worker, before she could form whole sentences, asked for food by standing on a chair and yelling “Norah! Mouth!”

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5 years

@emilychyanne_ I once went on a first Bumble date and walked in just as the guy was being kicked out for (allegedly) assaulting multiple women the bartender knew. Just stood there watching as security kicked him out.

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5 years

@AllisonHutchiso @m_kayladawn I taught intro-level composition at a university and I never did peer reviewing because as I remembered from my own time as a Freshman, students are often WILDLY wrong. And I was teaching, not crowdsourcing misinformation. Or cruelty.

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4 years

The President of the United States retweeted a billboard from my tiny hometown because it was flattering to him. What he doesn’t know is that even in small-town Idaho, that sign is a target of wide mockery.

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2 years

@annehelen I had a last-minute transfer to Bonner General after an unsuccessful home birth. It’s four blocks from my house. I’m not exaggerating when I say I would have died from blood loss and infection if not for the care of the OB staff at that hospital. Abortion bans will kill mothers.

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8 months

@RRR0BYN I was homeschooled for 18 years, zero exposure to leftist ideas, oldest of five. Like so many others raised this way, I’m now a leftist. We see how toxic all this is under the surface and we go the opposite direction.

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5 months

@ayyy_cuhh_88 @ShoopsNChicks Some other options as well: Men’s bodies arouse men. Men’s bodies arouse women. Men’s bodies repulse women. So I also get to tell men how to dress for my maximum comfort and taste, right?

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9 months

@bawerk_bomb @_celia_bedelia_ Hi, I’m a linguist. There are very few words in any language that have one strict meaning whose definition everyone agrees on. And yet here we are.

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@khbotkin

6 years

@BridgetCambria8 I guess I can’t DM you. I’m a journalist/editor and this story should be covered.

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3 years

@SomersErin This reminds me that as a homeschooled child, I was confused by the “best and worst dressed” magazine covers at the supermarket because I was obviously wearing worse clothes than all those celebrities

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6 years

@BridgetCambria8 @BridgetCambria8 would it be possible to get in touch? My email is katie at multilingual dot com

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3 years

@AmyAchenbach The amount of free copyediting I’ve done for (ex) partners is unreal. And they flat-out told me they saw it as part of our relationship. Also yes I’m a professional editor.

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6 months

@XianJaneway 4 is easier than 2 if the oldest gets parentified. Ask me how I know…

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2 years

@themeatispeople @kattenbarge Then Elon glanced at those notes and said “now publish those, cuz at New Twitter we don’t waste time with editors or whatever you call them.”

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7 months

@fuckyouiquit My hacks were 1. Buying the book, reading it, taking notes, returning it in two weeks 2. Buying the “outdated” edition 3. Not buying any book and paying attention in class. I graduated with two bachelors and a 4.0

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7 months

@baddestmamajama Yeah I have a master’s in linguistics and I couldn’t tell you which answer is supposed to be correct

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6 years

@BridgetCambria8 If there is not already an article about this, can I write one? I’ll DM you.

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7 months

How I imagine the conversation between Doug Wilson and Elizabeth Locke went

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4 years

The Reformed culture that offers “Ride, Sally, Ride” (the story of a Christian hero who puts a sex robot in the wood chipper), and prides itself on demeaning certain women, shouldn’t be shocked when men actually treat sex workers like evil objects they can destroy with impunity.

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5 months

@theyellowdress My daughter is almost 3 and we’ve never made the switch to kid music. Her current favorite song is a dubstep song about a frog.

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10 months

It’s literally been years since I wrote on these topics, but for everyone who reads my takes on DW/Moscow culture, here’s the first I’ve written since having a kid

The Emotional Price of Spanking

Spanking a kid into smiling when she sees you. That’s the subject of a video that recently went viral, recorded and distributed under the…

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3 years

Halcyon is here safe. Labor threw me a lot of curveballs and an amazing support team. Incredibly thankful I had access to modern medicine or I almost certainly would have died (twice). So grateful to @reclaimID for getting Medicaid expansion passed for pregnant women in Idaho.

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1 year

@Rach4Patriarchy My personal anecdote proves your initial assertion is garbage. That’s all.

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4 years

I’ve been saying that it’s not even the policies that rural voters are against. Deep-red Idaho is overwhelmingly in favor of expanding Medicaid. It’s a matter of who they’re listening to. It’s a matter of language. Linguistics and politics are deeply linked.

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So what's the reason Democrats are losing rural White voters? It's because they aren't talking to rural White voters. Only 36% of rural White voters were contacted this cycle by Democratic Candidates or the Party. In fact, only 50% of rural white voters were contacted by anyone.

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5 years

@EricMGarcia When I was one, my mom told me not to touch the stove because it was hot. But I didn’t really know what “hot” meant, just that it was forbidden. So I dragged over a chair and lowered my palm onto the burner.

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9 months

@bawerk_bomb @_celia_bedelia_ Also, the entire purpose of language is not to convey meaning. Arguably, it’s to build social structures for survival. Meaning is usually secondary in most utterances.

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2 years

I’m repurposing my homeschool quilting skills to make belly dance costumes, in case you’re wondering how good quiet homeschool girls turn out.

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1 year

@Rach4Patriarchy I waited until 40 to have a baby. I absolutely am a better mother than I would have been at 18, exponentially. And I was the oldest homeschool daughter of a large family; I knew the technicalities of raising kids. In those 22 years, I learned more than I did the first 18.

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2 years

@AjaSaysHello Over the past 2 years, I’ve spent $50 on clothes. Instead of shopping, I’ve been updating the things I owned but didn’t love by hand; dying them, altering them, etc. I’ve never had a wardrobe I liked so much.

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3 years

Any editors out there want a long piece (already written) on just how sheltered and mind-bending homeschooling can get, tying into the Duggar trial?

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8 months

@DeansJules Rape apologists never ask why the hell a woman would just make something like this up about a friend she loved and trusted. Women gain nothing from saying “X friend did a horrible thing.” Not money, not more friends; usually less of both.

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7 months

@clairezagorski If we found a loose human embryo on Mars, pretty sure it would not be alive…

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9 months

@LawSelfDefense @the_fit_fem “Perhaps even kids.” God forbid women have those.

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8 months

@NoEmmeG “The powers that be exist to protect me” is an underlying belief stemming from extreme privilege, and that can be exploited, 100 percent.

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9 months

@bawerk_bomb @_celia_bedelia_ Words are assigned meaning, but that meaning is broad, nuanced, and somewhat defined by personal interpretation. They lose all magic when anyone attempts to force them into boxes with one single, narrow meaning. Try it with “chair,” “fish” or “love.” Society uses fluid words.

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@khbotkin

7 months

@Gaery81 @RenContessa This guy is trolling for explicit photos, clearly

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8 months

@ask_aubry If anything, menstruating/birthing people need more red meat than dudes like this do. Medical professionals told me to eat straight liver post-birth.

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4 years

@MattWalshBlog Most of my former homeschool friends from large families are laughing at how this actually went in practice. Many of them are super gay/trans/leftist activists. Turns out that trying to brainwash an entire generation doesn’t actually work.

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@khbotkin

4 years

Call for pitches! I’m looking for stories (reported pieces but also personal essays with the right angle) for @multilingualmag on minority languages and how minority cultures around the world are intersecting with global events. Our mag focuses on translation and localization.

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7 months

I read the demand letter from DW, which makes some specific claims about how Jim Nance’s abuse of a Logos student was handled. Here’s a screenshot of Doug talking about it, contrasted with the police report.

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@khbotkin

1 year

@emilykmay This is the point at which my 2-year-old would beat me to saying “oh, honey,” in a deeply disappointed tone

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6 months

@_nomadic_soul “Oh, you’re attracted to your partner? That’s fine, as long as you pretend like you aren’t. If you’re obviously horny for your husband, you’re also worth nothing as a woman, just like the unmarried horny ones.”

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5 years

@C_Stroop As a kid I was already a researcher and debater, and my argument as to why we should see Aladdin was that “it teaches you that stealing has consequences.” We were subsequently allowed to watch Aladdin, although my mom made an edited version to censor Iago the parrot’s attitude

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@khbotkin

5 years

@dan_nelson42 @CliffVines @teriblahblah @timkellernyc Yeah, since I’ve heard of exactly zero Marxist protests and shootings in my entire leftime, and a LOT of white supremacy, I’m going with “Marxism is the boogeyman the white nationalists distract you with”

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@khbotkin

11 months

@douglaswils @KSPrior @joe_rigney “The police determined she was not” is not an accurate statement there, bud. I’ve read the police report. You make an appearance, you don’t look great, and nowhere do the police “determine” anything. That would require a trial.

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2 years

@colleenawilson @ashleysimpo Oh I’m a single mom and I 100% believe this. Raising a child takes less time than managing a grown man in way too many cases.

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@khbotkin

3 years

@Popehat @danravicher Truly wild to assume that you don’t have to actually follow any of the rest of the rules of a libel case, you just “win automatically” if someone tweets something mean enough. Like truth is an absolute defense in any libel case; doesn’t matter how mean it is.

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3 years

There’s a lot of sad crap happening out there, so please enjoy this photo of my sweet strong little babe who is loved beyond belief by family, friends and strangers.

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3 years

@chick_in_kiev It took me many years to realize why I never ever used wooden spoons when I cooked. Why I’d avoid even touching them in other people’s kitchens

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4 years

@Wolfe321 @SulomeAnderson @yashar @michaeldweiss I can’t message you, and I totally get why, but if you’re looking for freelance writing could you DM me?

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1 year

@ask_aubry I’m wondering if this is the logical progression from “vaccines change your DNA”

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7 months

@_nomadic_soul I once interviewed a woman who had deep shame because she’d been told at her Christian school that virtually everything she did was overly sexual, including how she was standing.

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@khbotkin

4 years

@rosadona Great minds, I guess

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@khbotkin

5 years

@girlsreallyrule This only makes sense if the goal is to Support Every Bad Choice America Makes Out of Patriotism

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@khbotkin

9 months

Theobros claiming CS Lewis was “anti-woke” crack me up. I was homeschooled: zero TV, no internet, told no kissing before marriage etc. But I was obsessed with Lewis, who introduced me to the idea that non-Christians can go to heaven, and that girls are kickass protagonists.

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Thoroughly modern harpy, that’s me!

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3 years

So let me get this straight, in the USA, boobs are totally innocent for babies to see, but they’re R-rated once you get to some unspecified age, and then you’re not allowed to see them again until another unspecified age. Makes total sense.

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@ask_aubry If this were true (it’s not, but I know the game of telephone that inspired this belief), it would be something to aspire to. More DNA means more options for the body to heal from diseases, learn stuff, be naturally strong, etc etc

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@DuckieLouise I was a child with a gluten allergy in the early 1980s and despite being in frequent stomach pain and being so skinny I was tested repeatedly for other things, it wasn’t diagnosed until my 30s. Soooo

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5 years

@m_kayladawn @AllisonHutchiso ... why on earth would you be so oblivious that you’d choose to assign controversial topics AND anonymous commentary? Has this teacher never seen the comments section of, you know, the internet?

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8 months

@JessPected Yeah, the child support I get every month does not begin to cover the 60k a year I was making prior to having a kid, or damages for the fact that I almost died in labor, and was practically incapacitated for the 9 months prior.

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5 years

@ellle_em Sex was created by God for me haha I am so tired

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2 years

@brandendurst I tried going the midwife route and had to transfer to Bonner General when complications hit. With just a midwife, my baby and I both would have died. Try again.

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2 years

@morninggloria This is why I take a snuggle nap with my 15-month-old almost every day. She loves it, and I get a chunk of still down time where I’m enjoying both her cuddles and the quiet. And I think it makes her more independent the rest of the day.

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4 years

@EmilyGorcenski Oh, yes. Literally my uncle promoted a “200-year plan” for how his descendants were going to take over the world politically.

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@khbotkin

6 years

@alphaknight I’m running for President with my running mate, @eve_ettinger , because we are going to be a little family and I will do it tomorrow. ... family values? Plus procrastination.

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8 months

@ask_aubry Yeah I tried taking an extremely easy hike at 6 months pregnant and started spotting and had to call my OB, who told me yeah, you just need to rest, actually.

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Growing up, it was apparent that most of my homeschooled peers were not getting a thorough education, and mine was only as broad as it was because my dad was a doctor-scientist. We had actual curriculum for only three subjects: math, spelling, and Latin #DayOfTheHomeschooledChild

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2 years

@exfundiediary Fun fact: my boyfriend at the time brought one pair of shoes on our trip to Cuba. Shoe broke. He couldn’t find another pair to buy on a Sunday afternoon, so he traveled across Cuba the next day barefoot. Always bring more than one pair of shoes.

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8 months

@RRR0BYN The particularly hilarious thing is, “we’re going to out-breed the liberals” is the ideology I was raised on. Turns out, kids hate being seen as political pawns.

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6 years

@Dictionarycom Thank you; as a linguist, I concur. People have been using "they" as a singular pronoun for a long time, and I'm guessing even if you're theoretically against it, you do it all the time when you're not thinking about it. It's not a political statement, it's how language works.

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@iusedtobepoor @_chismosa_ Anyone I knew who backpacked in Europe did so when they strategically were at the end of renting somewhere. In a college town, it’s pretty common for leases to be up at the end of the school year, and a lot of crappy furniture gets tossed in dumpsters then.

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7 months

@_nomadic_soul The kicker is, these men truly believe that “real” women parrot what they want to hear. Thus, anyone who is telling them something else is not a real woman, and thus can be mocked, derided, etc. They want parrots, not full human beings.

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8 months

@pinkheretic I want pro-lifers to sponsor a bill that says if any biological child needs any organ ever, the father is legally obliged to donate it. And if men don’t want to donate their organs, they should never have sex, because by having sex, they’re tacitly agreeing to support a kid.

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6 years

@Nicole_Cliffe G-rated, but a guy who worked behind the scenes was complaining that child-actors-grown-into-adult actors aren’t cool, except for Juliette Lewis. He claimed he caught her making out with a grip guy and scolded “Juliette!” Whereupon she flung off the grip guy and yelled “what??”

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@khbotkin

5 years

My personal brand is staying out until 2 am, extremely sober, dancing with the whole town, and then asking everyone how they’re getting home and making sure they’re parked correctly to leave their car all night. So basically I realized towns need fewer cops and more big sisters

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@khbotkin

10 months

This is what “No Quarter November” videos look like to me. Some dork cosplaying war with household objects and inflatable dinosaurs. Only NQN is never this funny.

microplastics obliterator

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Guys will see a video like this and be like "hell yeah" in the replies

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@Nicole_Cliffe When I was a 17-year-old homeschooler I was actively planning on going to Bible College and buying the cheapest meal plan because I would just take the glasses off and obviously be going on dates most nights. As it turned out, I went on dates zero nights in college.

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4 years

@laura_brianna @J_Dot_J I don’t know of any particular anecdotes about this; the popularity is much like “get” in English (get pregnant, get sick, get fed up etc).

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7 years

@normative I am so happy to have led the charge on adopting "hello" into the American vernacular again. Those lazy a-holes tried to change it to "hi."

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@Walton_Emily We need a network of vetted homes like this and a step-by-step guide on how to get your own documentation and make your own escape. Maybe in one app. The legality would be extremely tricky unless all the kids are above 18, however.

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@pastoralcomical @jeremiahjw I once saw an ex-homeschooled friend of mine on a dating app. He had never even kissed anyone, and he’d listed himself as “could not be more kinky” and I had a talk with him about how people don’t always like stuff they fantasize about in real life, and to please take it slow.

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1 year

@Rach4Patriarchy Yeah I grew up around quiverfull theology and viewing women as breeding machines is horrible on all levels. And we’d all do better to scale back population growth.

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@khbotkin

4 years

1990s Evangelicals Twitter today 🤝 Marilyn Manson is going to hell

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@khbotkin

6 years

@C_Stroop I was so confused when I found out Olive Garden is a crappy chain restaurant due to the reverent way my evangelical friends used to talk about it. I imagined it as this chic little Italian bistro somewhere.

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5 years

I’m not exaggerating when I say that conservatives and liberals speak different dialects in the most literal sense. And I’m currently working on writing this linguistic piece. If you’re interested, get in touch.

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@theanarthrous Elder: Do you have any qualms about suing other Christians, since the Bible says not to? DW: No, the Bible is subordinate to me, since I am a man, and books are feminine.

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1 year

@caitlinmoriah “Are you married? Do you have kids? What’s your favorite show?” “I’m not legally allowed to answer those questions, Johnny. And for no reason whatsoever, let’s now turn to the definition of facism.”

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