I listened to a fantastic audiobook this week, I’m one book away from reaching my goal of 50 this year!! I hadn’t seriously taken up reading since high school so before this it was maybe like 2 books a year if lucky. I joined a book club and made new friends. That’s been great.

I’ve also been practicing video editing for the group I organize with so that we can up our social media game. That’s been a huge learning curve but very fun.

I’m not particularly into porn but this sounds cool AF. Good for you.

I went to tidal (which I know is only marginally better than spotify). They at least label and demonetize AI slop. But I’m still feeling like I should switch soon, I just wish qoobuz had more.

Idk, reading through that it felt like the french dude probably had an inkling but was in denial about it. He had slept with men up until that point and was probably just glad he found someone who, at least from the outside, fit the gender he thought/was told he should be attracted to.

Either that or the dude was just really, really clueless about female genitalia (which, also not impossible if he had only been with men prior). Men today will still say women only have two holes down there so really that not that shocking in a time when sex ed was probably even worse than it is now.

Editing to add that this triggered a memory of reading a story about a hetero couple who had explicitly only had sex in the woman’s urethra for like 30 years or something??? People are fuckin whack man idk.

Editimg again because I was curious. It was 52 years and I cannot believe I remembered a random post from fucking r/wtf from 14 years ago. Anyway, in my search I found that apparently urethral coitus is a (super rare) thing and usually because of a medical condition so I apologize for calling those people weird.

Bless Scooter

My dream job was transcription. It became voice-to-text editor. It is gone now. Was a beautiful few years of tuning the world out and just typing :(

Black people can also do racist things towards other black people

Having watched the video, I can see how the other parents would’ve been frustrated. The kid was truly kicking ass and the dad was being obnoxious about it (also, apparently the kid was 3 and the rest of the kids were 5?).

However, calling the cops on a black family for trespassing still seems extreme and unnecessarily endangering imo. People have been killed for less.

I joined a book club earlier this year and have now almost reached my goal of 50 books (mixed audio and physical). Honestly one of the only thing that brings me joy these days.

I missed my flight after getting lost in London and the airline worker changed and upgraded my ticket free of charge for the next flight.

I really don’t know what I would have done without her act of kindness. I would have been left stranded in London without money, a dead phone, and a credit card that got suspended because I tried to wire myself money before my phone died and it was flagged as suspicious activity.

Fight Club at its core is about how society fails to provide men a safety net for their emotions / personal development and instead pushes them to things like consumerism and unrealistic expectations of masculinity. This is what triggers the narrator to become nihilistic, angry, and eventually violent. The reason society is the way it is towards men is because it was set up that way by the patriarchy to keep them in their societal place and so that capitalism can keep capitalizing.

There’s lots of articles about it (and how its so often misunderstood). I’d also recommend the book, as the different ending drives the point home in a different way imo.

Interesting point about evanecessence (JFC what a word to spell). I get more depression rather than anger from them lol

It’s very white technically (cast), but its various messages speak more to class struggle and patriarchy which affect all the races, so I personally wouldn’t consider it a “white movie” in the same sense as some others in this thread.

I love that movie so fucking much. It saddens me that I will never again experience the thrill of watching it with a white person (many white people in fact) in a movie theatre. I’m not sure I’d want to because it made me feel physically ill but what a thrill.

Absolutely, but the way that it is broadly known to be misunderstood is in its commentary about toxic masculinity.

People come away thinking “I should start a fight club” and those people, as the movie, are not generally women. Because (precisely the point of the movie) men are not taught how to deal with emotions in a healthy way in our society.

This is an ongoing issue of society, its what’s led to the male loneliness epidemic, and to point that out is not sexist. we need to address it and correct it.

Obviously the issue is now beyond the point of making a super cool satirical movie about it and its connections to consumerism and the broad failures of our capitalist hellscape.

It was a film targeted towards men and was specifically about toxic masculinity. So in this case, yes I absolutely meant men. Have you seen it?

I think men would misunderstand the message of fight club even more now and it would become a white supremacist hit.

I hear this so often from young men (or men who were at one point young men). It’s absolutely disgusting and should be spoken about more. Even if they do believe the men, they’ll say they’re somehow “lucky” to have gotten a woman’s attention.

I’m so sorry it happened to you.

Oh I actually haven’t seen that that’s gross. Normally I see that they line up other politicians/allies around the speaker, but not typically random people.

I’m so sorry, I’m glad you were able to get him to the vet and hope they’re able to help him.

My family has had two diabetic kitties and it is so difficult. Whatever happens, it sounds like you’re doing a great job of caring for Bambi.

I think Monica’s apartment was owned by her grandma, but yeah realistically for everyone else.