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Mar 27 12 tweets 4 min read
One of the things NY Mag mentions about Huberman is that one of his girlfriend's friends called him "breadcrumbs" for his inability to sustain consistent attention or presence towards her, and it occurred to me that many women don't know how to identify breadcrumbing. (lil thread)

nymag.com/intelligencer/… Here's a checklist of breadcrumbing behaviors (sorry, forgot the source).

Pay special attention to "showing interest when you pull away," which is on here twice. It's important to understand that the breadcrumbers' primary goal is to keep you on a string without investing time in you specifically.

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Mar 16 6 tweets 2 min read
Listen. I think the way to think about this that your mind is like your body: It will do whatever it needs to do in order to keep going. You know how if you break an ankle, you will start relying on your hip more to push you forward? Your personality flaws are like that. They are all coping or overcompensating for some underlying issue and your mind did that so you (and it) can just keep going. A good example of this is addiction. Addiction is bad. But it exists for a reason: There is some underlying psychological trauma so noisy, so active, that the addict would not be able to function if that trauma were live and online all the time. So he drinks or does drugs to medicate the trauma. Then he can keep going, often at a pretty high level. (Until the drugs or alcohol cause more trouble for the body, then the addicted person is back where they started: Traumatized.)
Mar 14 8 tweets 4 min read
We've come so far in European monarchies since the days when royal bastards were common and Queens knew better than to actually fall in love with their husbands.

Actually expecting the King to stay faithful (mistaking the nature of the transaction of marrying the future King, in other words) is very Catherine de Medici. Catherine de Medici is known for many things -- among them, she hired Nostradamus as the court astrologer and was known for a series of mysterious royal poisonings of her enemies -- but the one least discussed is that she was actually foolish enough to genuinely love her husband, the King, and she waged passive-aggressive war against his mistress Diane de Poitiers. Who looked not unlike Rose Hanbury, actually!Image
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Feb 1 4 tweets 3 min read
The reason this dress fits like that is twofold: One, it was tailored for her. And two, perhaps more importantly, the construction of this dress is something called "cut on the bias" which was popular in the 90s and aughts, and which is really rare in mass-market fashion. Bias cuts require extreme skill and you will almost never see them in mass-market fashion. In the past, designers like Emanuel Ungaro were famous for these kinds of cuts. It gives a dress a lot of movement and stretch, even when working with delicate fabrics. Image
Dec 6, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
today's cooking experiment: making a giant lentil bolognese sauce to both enjoy today and freeze for like 10 future meals Image The recipe calls for tomato paste but I don't have any handy so I used kalamata olive paste and rehydrated mushrooms for umami. It's amazing already. Lentils and walnuts just went in for more flavor. (The recipe calls for red lentils but they're creamy and I want the bite)
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Nov 11, 2023 11 tweets 2 min read
As literally all the quote tweets say:

Falafel is a Coptic (Christian) Egyptian creation (made with fava beans and chickpeas) and Palestinians adapted it with chickpeas, and Israel took it (like the land) and named it the "national dish." They even illegally occupied the food. Add this to Debra Messing's ignorant claim that Gaza was part of ancient Israel. (It wasn't. Ever.)

It's extremely funny* that Israeli leaders are like "we must kill all the Arabs" when they are stealing the food, culture and history from their Arab neighbors.

*not funny
Nov 6, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
I keep seeing people talk about a one-state solution and that is frankly impossible. After seeing Israel commit a genocide, besides 80 years of torture, dispossession and murder of Palestinians, you cannot ever want Israel in Palestinian territories unless you're a psychopath. Netanyahu is a psychopath but he was elected to do *exactly* this. Torture and bullying and murder of Palestinians has been Israel policy under multiple governments. Human rights advocates and the UN talk themselves hoarse about Israeli war crimes. You cannot have "one state."


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Nov 3, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
Here's the thing about double standards:

You do not have to accept them. You do not have to abide by any bigoted "rule."

The way to make speech safe is to keep speaking and encouraging others to speak.

The bigots cannot fire everyone.

Let them hear how wrong they are. When you behave in accordance with a double standard, you are assenting to the double standard.

If everyone speaks up and rejects the double standard, it falls.

Speak up and tell everyone in your workplace and your life to speak up too.

Don't let bigots make the rules.
Oct 18, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
I think it'a time for people to understand how narcissists work (and this PM is definitely a malignant narcissist).

They lie as a game, to see if you will allow them to control your reality. Their only goal is control. To do that, they like to embarrass and humiliate targets. So, the interesting thing about how many malignant narcissists lie is they will *later admit it*, just to prove to you that they won the game, that they got you to lower your standards and believe the reality they made up. This is a victory for them. And they want you to know.
Oct 14, 2023 21 tweets 6 min read
It is exceedingly unlikely that Hamas, a terrorist group that kept its plans for a brutal massacre invisible from all global intelligence services for over a year, had its terrorist-attack plans neatly color-printed and bound at Staples. It is also unheard-of for governments to share real intelligence documents with the press.

Even more so when those governments have not fully analyzed the documents yet.

Again: It would behoove journalists to be less credulous. Please exercise common sense.
Sep 29, 2023 12 tweets 2 min read
There is literally no one stupider than the person who demands that women be "ladylike," change my mind. An insistence on what's "becoming" and "ladylike" is in fact a misogynist demand for women to demonstrate total submissiveness to patriarchy. And every time you see someone talking today, in 2023, about being "ladylike," it is always negatively correlated to social intelligence.
Sep 4, 2023 25 tweets 5 min read
Okay well since that was my FIRST EVER Springsteen concert, and I only became a fan like two years ago, I will share my review First, the man was INTENSE. I expected a guy who was soulful and got lost in the music; he was soulful but he had the intensity and precision of an engineer working on a space telescope. I don't get the sense that this is *fun* for him. I do get the sense it's moving, fulfilling
Aug 12, 2023 22 tweets 5 min read
How can we get Gen Xers to stop reviewing things, their perpetual egocentric, inflated self-aggrandizing cynical misery is incompatible with the creation of any art

nymag.com/newsletter/202… I read that review waiting for the Gen X patriarchal internalized misogyny to show up and...ah yes there it is. Miserable Gen X critic, lacking any logic for analysis, attributes the Barbie movie to "Greta and her boyfriend"
Aug 9, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
I think Sydney Sweeney's hustle is just as valid as that of anyone in Hollywood, and God bless her rise, but just to point out how patriarchy rules over EVERYTHING: Imagine if a male actor in his "producer era" were styled to lick a dripping ice cream and pose in tiny briefs.
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Sydney Sweeney is in her "producer era" and yet a story about her growing financial and professional power styles her only power as (huge coincidence ahead) to pose in sex-object tropes for the Hollywood male gaze

variety.com/2023/tv/featur…
Aug 9, 2023 15 tweets 3 min read
see, this is why I love Gen Z. they're not buying this "dating is a numbers game" nonsense thst Boomers and Gen X made up to torture women into unnecessarily interacting with more men, when we KNOW most men are disrespectful. this is how I've always thought too. Image Your free time, especially as a woman, is precious. (Because we know that most labor, at work and at home, is displaced onto women.) Why would you willingly spend it with random men who are just going to exhaust and disrespect you. That is such self-betrayal.
Jul 23, 2023 14 tweets 3 min read
I have someone in my replies arguing that the atomic bomb is not a bad thing Things are dire in our society, folks.
Jul 23, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
I already replied but because I want Oppenheimer (the man) to be understood as a psychopath:

Here is how the Manhattan Project team, meeting in Oppenheimer's office, discussed their choice of targets. They wanted it so big and deadly that it would get publicity. https://t.co/uyGf689V0L
Image Documents linked below. Please understand Oppenheimer, the man, as a talented but deliberately violent person who specifically wanted to kill more people in order to get more publicity for his creation of the atomic bomb.

https://t.co/0RgFPq6BHNnsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB1…


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Jul 21, 2023 20 tweets 4 min read
It's interesting that the AMPTP is using the "we are the risk-takers" argument, which is the same one that venture capitalists and billionaires have been using to game the system for tax credits Of course "we are the risk-takers" is nonsense, that creates a false dichotomy between financing a production and staging a production. It reinforces the (wrong) idea that capital is scarce and precious -- and important -- while labor is cheap, plentiful and useless.
Jun 22, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
What helped me understand the Oceangate disaster better is that the Titanic dive was probably a publicity stunt to convince oil & gas companies to buy fleets of the company's submersibles for deep-sea drilling. Essentially disposable. Ergo the sloppy ad hoc construction. Once you release yourself from believing that this "mission" was actually about seeing the Titanic, and it was more about selling one-time use vessels to poke at potential drilling sites, it makes a lot more sense.
Jun 22, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Listen I love a good media critique but this misses a major factor: obviously stories would mention Biden's age more, because he is the current president. There are more stories about the current president than a former one, ergo there will be more mentions of the current president's age than the former one.
Jun 22, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
This picture just painted my apartment gray This picture put a matcha latte on my white bedspread next to my laptop and reminded me to rise and grind