MY DARLINGS!
As this has become my personal Twitter, I started another JUST FOR BUSINESS. It is, unsurprisingly, here:
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@brooklynnayt
@iBartholemeu
@aguavrgo
@TheFineFeminine
Yeah. It’s not that girls mature faster. That’s pseudoscience. It’s that society expects girls to *act* mature much earlier: to control emotions, be compliant, help others. Whereas, of course, boys will be boys.
Human brains grow at similar rates regardless of gender.
@misanthropologa
@Freeirony
I started group therapy, which can sometimes be a bit intense. We all agreed that while the lockdown sucked, having our cats (and some dogs) there when we needed them was a pretty awesome tradeoff.
@VeryBadLlama
Even if it’s a parody account, what’s the point? We’ve all been beaten to a pulp for a bazillion years now by Poe’s Law and men playing devil’s advocate. Please, for the love of plants, can’t they just find other hobbies? Lion wrestling, maybe? Competitive mushroom foraging?
@theomancyCos
I’m a corsetmaker. I have to fight this double standard ALL. THE. TIME. And you know what’s even worse? Women tell me, “Oh, I’m too fat for your corsets— I want one, but I have to lose weight, first.” Like...NO. There is NOTHING wrong with you JUST AS YOU ARE. *I* adapt to *YOU.*
@ShotgunZen
@fabricdragon
@axios
I don’t see the tears, but I see his coherence breaking down.
I also get this horrible, slimy feeling, as if what he’s really saying is “I could be nice, but you made me hit you.”
Which I suppose he is.
@uzbadyubi
You wanna really cry? When psyching himself up for the final fight, Mandy Patinkin (Inigo) imagined Tyrone as the cancer that killed his father. So that final line? Yeah. I lose it.
@Rachael_Conrad
@taek_tod
They’re more or less required in Bermuda— a couple stepping through one after their wedding will have good luck in their marriage.
@NatalieZed
Just to so you know: Inky means “popular” in Korean, so he’s merely fulfilling his destiny by going viral. I don’t know if that’ll help him feel better about his perfectly valid phobias, but hey, weirder things have happened, right?
@Nowacking
@tazigo
I had a kitty who was terminally ill for quite some time, and some days I had to get creative to get her to eat. But she’d do almost anything for tuna. I’d start up the can opener, and instant “EXCUSE ME! DOWN HERE!” I still sometimes hear her voice when I open a can of anything.
@ellle_em
I just had to go comment. Cos you KNOW they boinked the father before they decided to jump ship. You don’t know you’re “more sexually compatible” with one man over another unless you’ve slept with them both.
@BrandonMHavener
@jack_turban
It’s okay. If you really want to try it yourself, hit up Sephora or MAC, and they’ll show you everything you need to know. Have fun— no one will judge you.
@gatamchun
Usually, if you want to find out why something’s happening, you follow the money. So who’s bankrolling this drama? Who’s funding the propaganda? Could it have anything to do with the upcoming elections?
@oldenoughtosay
When the Eagles won the Super Bowl, I had a guy in the UK screaming at me that fans had set Philadelphia on fire.
I offered to send him a photo of my very-much-not-on-fire view from Center City, but I think he imploded that a woman denied him his righteous anger.
@gooddirt
@RGibsongirl
@JetBlue
I can imagine waking up and just being *aghast.* “Oh my G-d, HOW DID YOU—”
To which the answer is just always going to be “Because cat.”
Extremely unpopular opinion time: K-pop idols are, for the most time, grown up humans, and behind them have large companies with many lawyers. They do not need swarms of angry fans charging in over every perceived slight and demanding to speak to the manager.
@blvckstair
On a bus from New York to Philadelphia in the late 50s, the bus driver asked my father if he’d be willing to change seats so a family could sit together. He moved across the aisle to sit next to a very nice young lady.
They were married in 1958. They still are.
@TheRealHoarse
It isn’t, I swear. It’s coded for the time in was written, and is actually quite empowering. She WANTS to stay, but she has to demure.
“Hey, what’s in this drink?” was a common joke at the time, implying there was nothing at all in the drink— you just need an excuse.
@Rebecca_M_Dean
I realise this goes somewhat against the grain, but…opossums aren’t actually bad companions. I know some folks who’ve lived with them. It’s obvious this one really likes your mom, and…well, maybe it could help out around the house with bug duty? Footwarming? Comic relief?
@ellle_em
I seeeeeeriously doubt I will. OP is over there INSISTING their relationship with the father isn’t at AAAAALL relevant to the ex’s/son’s anger.
I sense a distinct untethering from reality.
@itsddubin
@OH_mes2
Taemin was sitting an exam the same day he had to fly to Japan for a concert and I just thought, “G-d, what have I done with my life?!” Several of VIXX have their Master’s, and I’m here trying to get half a page written on a good day.
@__Dudek_
@Peasweat2
@aljwhite
*raises hand* I didn’t, at first. But then, most of our political commentary over here at the moment involves an 800-pound orange toddler.
I honestly don’t care if he smoked more pot than Snoop Dogg on a slow day and dropped more acid than the third night of Woodstock. It’s in no way a reflection of his worth or character.
I hope he does top-tier work and reaps the benefits thereof. You go, kid.
@joonypear
It’s called “code switching.” It totally makes sense for him. Lots of us do it— we have different voices we use for different aspects of our lives. Even different linguistics. He moves between some very different worlds— it’s natural for him to have a different voice for each.
It might not seem like that big of a deal for a Korean song to have only Korean words, but it's not just that there isn't a rap or a line in English: Korean uses dozens if not hundreds of English loan words. You can hear them in any conversation.
This song has not a single one.
@archer_rs
Listen, in all seriousness: thank you. A lot of people think they have to be Jewish to do anything about anti-Semitism, but honest to G-d, there’s way too much for us to handle alone. So. Yeah. Thanks for this.
@Lolili44
@PokeManny
@EdisonNorford
@claudiamconwayy
“Agree to disagree” is for pineapple on pizza or the best season of “Friends,” not on whether your fellow Americans are humans deserving the same rights and freedoms as anyone else— including the freedom to not be shot in the street or their house of worship.
@Jeff__Benjamin
@kconusa
I think I saw that same setup at one of the Stray Kids gigs the other week. The group pointed her out and thanked her.
I love seeing that kind of thing.
@nicole_4_jo
@thealux
Okay, that made me laugh.
They told me after I came back from the audiologist, who told me exactly what was wrong. I was pretty devastated.
“Oh yeah, that runs in the family.”
“WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME??”
“We didn’t want you to worry.”
@ineslime
The one thing that stuck with me the first time I read them— and I found her views old-fashioned and regressive but I didn’t take them to heart— was the “punishment” of Dolores Umbridge. You don’t have to know Greek history to get what they did to her. That I couldn’t overlook.
@iamharaldur
She was right, but nobody wanted to hear it. I remember I felt something like relief when she did that— that someone else was out there saying “No, the Church isn’t this all-wonderful thing.”
@Soronsen
@shoobe01
@ChrisRFLLC
@Daniel_Lewis3
@ChristopherJM
No, fuck him. He can die and I’m happy. But if she’s actually trying to actually guide and shape policy, and she knows what she’s doing, maybe— just maybe— she can do something. She just has to not get fired.
A janitor laid off at Twitter’s HQ said an
@elonmusk
aide told him the janitors would be replaced by robots. The union president said they were laid off because they’re unionized. SF officials say Musk is breaking law by not offering to rehire them
@niwa_nz
@Cordelya
Hold on. It was eaten by a seal, run through its digestive system, pooped out, collected, FROZEN FOR OVER A YEAR, thoroughly washed, AND IT STILL WORKS?
I will buy whatever device takes that kind of a memory stick just so I can use them. That’s some quality goods right there.
@BrandonMHavener
@jack_turban
No, they’re pretty good about what they put in them. And you can get some really soothing makeup remover that’s ultimately good for your skin, too.
@sgbuggs
@epiktistes
@reclaimuc
Oh, but you left out the best part: New College has absolutely no sports infrastructure whatsoever. No fields, no arenas, no track— nothing. Nor does it have the NAIA accreditation it was telling these kids it has.
@tsukkiu
Listen: it’s not your job to fix a broken person. Ever. Unless you take up therapy or social work, where you get extensive training and a paycheck. If someone is violent and scary, you SHOULD stay away from him. We teach that in school every day. Y’all did nothing wrong, k?
@Okamikosama
@UnsytedRadio
@thisdancinghart
@InternetHippo
I used to mock those late night weird product commercials until someone pointed out to me that some people really do need, say, a gadget that can scramble an egg in its shell, or that a warm blanket with sleeves is perfect for wheelchair users.
That shut me up pretty quickly.
@CoraCHarrington
I served on a jury only a year or two ago after not getting picked many times. It was an amazing, engrossing experience. Afterwards, I had to ask the lawyers why on earth they’d wanted a corsetmaker on the jury. They said, “We knew you’d be able to focus on details.”
Taekwoon used to be so awkward in front of cameras that he existed in a semi-permanent state of frozen silence. The others insisted he was a whiny, clingy, melodramatic baby in private and we didn’t believe them. Oh, we believe them now.
@winterjessica
I’m a costumer. If you can find a replacement, I can artfully age him for you, if you’d like? It wouldn’t be exactly the same, but maybe with a good story…?
Watching Duran Duran at New Year’s— like I did FORTY YEARS AGO.
But fuck it: I’m still alive. Last few years have taught me that’s not a given.
Happy New Year, y’all.
@twicepunch
I *think* VIXX was the first in 2016. But it’s such a cool site, I can see why so many groups film there. I wonder what it would have looked like had they finished it.