Elon Musk in Better Off Dead

Twitter is so fun now that all we talk about is Elon Musk.

Are you supposed to tip service technicians, i.e., the Verizon guy?

It is *astonishing* how accurate Twitter is at predicting what might interest me.

So what we’re saying is that if Murdaugh had simply been more restrained in his murdering, he would have gotten away with the decades of fraud? How many more upper-class people are happily defrauding everyone but not attracting scrutiny with messy murders? nytimes.com/2023/01/23/us/…

Dumb question of the day: Why ARE eggs so expensive? Does it have something to do with grain prices?

This is entirely too geared toward young people who go places and interact with others. As a hermit crone, I feel erased thecut.com/article/tippin…

I would pay top dollar to see Matthew Macfadyen and Nicolas Braun in a Broadway revival of True West.

Who among us, knowing what we know about how the US government works, *wouldn’t* check into the hospital for clinical depression?

“We can do hard things” but for closing Twitter and doing the dishes

I sometimes get Visa gift cards as gifts and I usually use them for mundane stuff like groceries. When they run out, I always find it touching that the cashier will say in a low voice “the card has been declined, ma’am.” People are fundamentally decent.

Writers—does anyone else feel that if they are fussing over a scene for days or weeks, that’s the universe telling you to abandon it? (She says, obsessively writing and rewriting a very meh chapter.)

Serious question: do Fritos count as an ultra-processed food? On the one hand, they seem pretty processed to me. On the other hand, they have only three ingredients: corn, corn oil, and salt. (Asked by someone on an unpleasantly restrictive diet who wants a treat.)

Why do we have to remove 2FA?

So the Tennessee GOP just made these two previously obscure, very appealing, extremely charismatic young men into national figures? I … don’t think this is going to go the way they think it is going to go.

I am crying

“Grandma, tell me again about how the ancient curse that destroyed the entire world was released?”

Current mood:

What happens after late-stage capitalism? Early-stage Ragnarok?