some people’s only form of “class consciousness” is comparing everything to the hunger games

Sometimes it’s really like, do you not understand that you were born into relative safety only by random chance??

Meta apparently considered buying Simon & Schuster last year so they could get their book catalogue and use it to train their AI. They would compensate writers with a payment of ... $10.
locusmag.com/2024/05/ai-new…

Go into any MFA program and you’ll find lauded writers pushing a milquetoast centrist politic in through beautiful but ultimately meaningless language. You can write brilliantly by the academy’s standards and still be deeply ill-equipped to drive a cultural conversation

No bc I actually need Challengers on DVD. I need it to play on TBS every Saturday between showings of Maid in Manhattan and Hitch. I need a Challengers marathon every NYE on FX. I need it to be remade every ten years with new hot stars. This is the return of real cinema, baby.

Idk how to explain how I feel about Challengers except to say that I think every movie should feel exactly like Challengers does

Tashi Duncan got that Olivia Pope walk

Squashing the free speech of our children to protect a foreign nation from criticism.

I hope folks who were wary or skeptical of the summer 2020 demand to defund police now understand that police are simply the connective tissue for the state’s ability to actualize repression—not the magical municipal department that would save us all from “crime.”

One thing about the call for divestment is that it forces us to confront just how naturalized the imperialist position is. It's considered a non-political issue for higher ed institutions to profit from war, genocide, and occupation. What's 'political' is asking them to stop.

“If they ban tiktok they could ban anything!” Dawg they assassinated Martin Luther King Jr

It’s really scary the degree to which our universities are entangled with arms manufacturers. It’s really scary that demanding different means the state will unleash a small standing army on you

The timeline has devolved into some weird ass racist phrenology to defend this Freydis Moon character and that’s how I know y’all don’t have enough to do

I need a screener of The Idea of You right this instant the way I need AIR to BREATHE please someone I beg

You wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

You all will never not one day in your lives understand how insufferable I’m going to be about this

Just bought the collected poetry of Sylvia Plath. Down horrendous. Keep me in your gay prayers

did it hurt??? when you’re broke but paid your self-employment taxes and billion dollar corporations paid nothing

i just can't get over paige bueckers going to the wnba draft last night dressed like my little brother on easter 💀