I had no idea that so many of my Facebook friends from high school are chromosome and gender experts, but I should have known because they are also inflation experts, infectious disease experts, foreign policy experts, and French performance art experts.
best part of thanksgiving gotta be the deep, palpable intergenerational sadness. stretching back endlessly like a hall of mirrors. cold november fallow fields, moon sharp against the black. radio tower blinking in the quiet. pumpkin pie is also good as well
i love cranes in the sky because you can buy all the clothes, change your hair, do every activity to try and stay busy but at the end of day you just gotta allow yourself to feel what you feel and go through those emotions.
People ask “how could a single Victorian novelist produce 10 million books” and then you read the diaries of Victorian novelists and they’re like “spent the morning rolling around in cocaine and laudanum. drank a hundred cups of coffee and saw God.”
For people facing the perennial idiotic "gotcha" of "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist??!!!" the answer is clear:
No state whose existence demands the continual dispossession and/or genocide of an entire population has the right to exist as a state.