On my old ugly face. https://t.co/bJRg55iBHj

We all got along better when weren't privy to every thought everyone had, every day. Perhaps we should go back to that.

The “Great Feminization” theory which has recently become popular on the Right is nothing new; here’s a conservative caricature from Henry James’ 1886 novel, The Bostonians, sounding like he’s been red-pilled by the manosphere.

"Hoes hit the wall and then panic and marry a simp." "All men are porn brained." "Women only want 6 foot/6 figures." "Every attractive man has at least 5 women on the hook." Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Life is too rich and beautiful and complex to fit inside your mutilating

An 18th-Century snuff box.

If you can’t express something in your own words without aid, then you don’t actually understand it. It is not a truth of which you personally have knowledge. And personal knowledge is the only kind that actually matters. This is why writing has always been at the very heart of

The final lines of Middlemarch are some of the most powerful in all of literature. “But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and

one thing that really startled me in its stark simplicity is how often depressed/anxious people talk about being overwhelmed by the future (or burdened by the past) while people with the opposite experience/temperament are radically present in the Now

This is wise. One of the biggest advantages of growing older is knowing what is wasted energy.

The fraud is 100% real but ex-Soviet Jews aren't immigrating to Brooklyn and haven't for a long time. The Russian Jewish population there is now elderly. Recent immigration (and there's been a lot) is from Uzbekistan and Pakistan. The old Jews will eventually be replaced by

zoomers won't remember this but in the 1990s when you answered a phone call it was almost always from a real person, in your real life, who you knew and were happy to talk to, rather than a foreigner attempting to scam you

The "full phone number" tip off was news to me. Good to know.

Would it be audacious to just come up with a new story

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I took my first art class five years ago as a 32yo mother of three. Here’s how a growth mindset helped me go from not believing I was artistic (drawing skills at 21 on the left) to a career in fine art: 🧵 👇

A guy who worked for TI back in the day told me that after they created the first electronic hand calculator, they got a call from Bell Telephone. The folks from Bell sounded uncertain and worried. You see, when they were creating the first push-button phone, they did extensive

Saudi Arabia banned the growing of alfalfa and other fodder crops in 2018 because it consumes so much groundwater. Arizona has no such bans however so now Saudi corporations grow their alfalfa in Arizona instead, one company alone takes 80% of all the extracted groundwater of the

blackpill on the "I use drugs every week and am in a queer polycule and am happy" vs. the "I live in a traditional nuclear family and am sincerely religious and happy" contrast is that some people are just congenitally wired for happiness and others for misery

"41 percent of Democratic college students would not support a Republican-run business, 37 percent would not be friends with a Republican, and 30 percent would not work for one. (The Republican numbers regarding Democrats were 7, 5, and 7 percent.)"

Oculus Cordis (Eye of the Heart) - Sic Decipit Orbis (Thus the World Deceives) — Detail from Quarles’ Emblems. Date: Text 1635; Illustration 1861 (Victorian Era Edition). Technique: Wood engraving. Artists: Charles H. Bennett and W. Harry Rogers. Collection: Princeton

A heavily Victorianised small church, St Anno's, Llananno in Powys is, from the outside, a humble and largely forgettable building. However, inside visitors can feast their eyes upon one of the finest pieces of medieval carpentry in Wales. 1/9