ted “the jest from infinite jest” cruz

dropped the numbers. no clue why i didn’t go for the url without the 69 when i picked it nine years ago. maybe it was just occupied 2015-16 during peak republican meme primary season, which would make sense

i’ve been wanting to change my icon to something a bit more tasteful too but i can’t bring myself to. it’s a prized artifact from a bygone era of garishly maximalist blorbo edits. i think i just fear looking like a certain genre of blogger at face value but i hope i’ve by now proven myself otherwise to you guys

i haven’t hate read this yet but when will people understand that bad taste is not a capitalist invention. people have had bad taste forever

“Because capitalism” is starting to feel like a left-wing anti-progressive handwave for issues of gender and race to me.

We read an article for my social history of technology class discussing the onset of the Perpetually-Renovated Kitchen where the author argued it to be a manifestation of America’s postwar backlash to working women. The goal was to make everything in the kitchen flat, white (later chrome), and reflective – this was by design to require historically unprecedented time and care into cleaning, shining, dusting to keep it that way.

Husbands adopted this to conspicuously project that he earns enough that he can afford to have his woman spend her whole day keeping house, rather than housekeeping being her second shift. Wives adopted this because these surfaces provided conspicuous proof to her husband she was working just as hard for the household as he was. (Just like how the original Betty Crocker cake mixes failed to sell when they launched only requiring water, and only later were widely adopted once they removed the powdered egg and required the cook to beat some eggs herself.)

I was thinking "nah, why would they? not the right vibe" and was going to just assume the answer was no, but...

...I was very surprised to learn that in fact, they did. (close by, that is)

lana…

girls love it when jeremy strong says words like fiduciary responsibility

just heard “is he mansplaining or autistic” again and i have to remind you for the second time that he is going into the shredder either way

"we're all sort of making it up at the end of the day" is definitely one of those beautifully true and reusable quotes originating from a context you wouldn't expect*

*trumps lawyer said this in court today when probed on what he is basing a legal assertion he made on

uooooogh the christian God is actually deer skull and raccoon salmon in pickup truck ooooooooooooooo and She (god) (usually refererd to as Male but im Queering it) talked to me in parking lot and said uh h Life Is Decay Anr Rotting and Sunlight is actually the souls of deer skull and i was like woah but im just little old me from somewhere in the contiguous USA and She (god) (Queering it) said being Yourself is th e most important thing and that i should Vote

the world is full of women so crippled by insecurity (not their fault) that renders them completely swagless (all overarching insecurity does) that all you have to do is decide you’re kind of sexy and act like it and it becomes true to an almost distracting extent . Simply from how you walk around on this earth

So much peace to be found in realizing that social interactions are inherently “awkward.” People will always talk over each other or pause in a conversation or run dry for topics at times. It does not mean you’re uniquely horrible or that you don’t know how to socialize. I think it’s the way you react to it (either with anxiety or with nonchalance) that actually dictates how much weight it has. But even the most charming, most extroverted person on this earth has those momentary lapses that I think scares anxious (me included) people so much

becuase

he’s name is Tony