Nom De Flume

Here to be a bitch about your education takes if you don’t goshdurn no how know college wurks. Raging feminist bitch.

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

@literally_chad Break up early and often and as kindly as you can. Do not leave someone dangling especially if they’ve sent up distress signals!

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

@literally_chad The one time I reacted “crazily” to a breakup I was reacting to saying “Hey, wanna cut our losses and try to be friends later?”, the dude insisting I was the love of his life and he wanted to marry me someday, then dropping me in the cruelest possible way. I GAVE YOU AN OUT!

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

Because I have advantages and so does Partner, but neither one of us comes from Fuck It Money™️; if our hypothetical kids didn’t PUSH hard they’d be fucked.

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

The problem is that athletic/artistic success is much rarer than getting a degree from a more-or-most-selective college and starting a career. A middle class life is harder to attain and easier to slip from; pretending it’s 1950 and they can coast doesn’t serve your kids well.

[wanye @xwanyex]

Anyway, just to bring this whole thing around to the core of what people are talking about, what they’re worried about.

Your kid probably isn’t going to become Tom Brady, and that’s why we don’t want a culture of preparing kids for the NFL at all costs. It’s not that we don’t care about hard work. It’s not that elite athletes don’t practice. It’s not that the people who make it don’t put in a lot of effort.

The point is that we don’t want all of our kids — all of them, without reference to interest or ability or potential — to be grinding toward this one single goal.

We don’t want their childhood to be dedicated to this thing that may not be important to them or that may clearly not be part of their future.

That kind of dedication to work for work’s sake without any interest in what it produces in the average case it’s not admirable or laudable.

And, yes, it’s also un-American.

And, further, no quantity of breathless, exasperated, annoyed appeals to Tom Brady or the Puritan work ethic is sufficient to address this core point.

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

If you look at my Boomer parents’ life trajectories and my own/that of my Gen X partner, we are less materially secure than they were at our ages despite similar work ethics and objectively more impressive CVs. If we ever have kids, I will be tiger mothering HARD.

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

@ljmontello It’s sort of a worst of both worlds scenario where you get the dysfunction of rural WV AND the dysfunction of Rust Belt WV. Beautiful country physically, but the oil and gas industries did a number on the environment.

[Rebecca V. Proud American 🇺🇸 @AntiCommieBecca]

It’s fine to be just OK & coast through life enjoying more simpler things!

But you can’t complain when you’re out competed by people who want more or when you’re not making the money or have the prestige you actually want.

You get what you put out.🤷‍♀️

[also laika @cheekrneatchews]

intersectional thinking is so incredibly important because you can absolutely tell that murphy only views dahmer as "that gay serial killer", when the much more harrowing issue was him preying on queer youth of color, predominantly young black men. that fact is being erased.

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

@TinyPrincess_D @Jani__Gee Stepford would have been Romney. Trump and his crew are more white trash than white picket fence.

[Bia 🪻 @kaeyadiangelo]

this type of post is truly just men coping with their gfs being smarter than them because if you claim to understand logic there's genuinely no reason to not do well academically

[Alias_Rosie @Alias_Rosie]

How far back?

Because dude, I guaran-damn-tee you have immigrants in your family, and old anti-Irish sentiment ain't too different from what you all say about Indians or Hatians or Mexicans...

[i. Sciarra @ICONOCLASTIAE]

Victims are re-traumatized by the process of seeking justice. Men have been non-stop threatening violence against anyone who talks about this case since this suit was filed.

No woman PAYS $$$$$ to go to court and faces ALL OF THIS just bc she “regrets” a hookup.

[Alias_Rosie @Alias_Rosie]

Ah, the restorative marriage. Yeah, that is definitely what our society needs, women being forces to marry their rapists ane abusers to restore their "honor".

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

@berrysweetlady @WhiteBabyFac I would have been in SO MUCH TROUBLE.

[Liz Is Amused @lizisamused]

You can tweet you like doughnuts & some guy will mention Lindsay Clancy

[Guy @nosilverv]

- Upper-class Victorians drank ceaselessly. Conduct guides recommended four or five glasses of wine at dinner *for married women*. Port was often served in pints.

- Elite Victorians learnt almost no STEM at school or university. At least half of class time was given over to ancient languages, often as much as 80 percent. One leading educationalist remarked that it was not worth teaching science to gentlemen because it does not involve ‘continued reasoning’.

[Thorne 🌸 @ExistentialEnso]

To boomers, we are eternally 20. To zoomers, we are somehow already 60.

The oldest Millennials are still 20 years away from retirement age, and it'll probably be higher by the time we get there.

[Rock ☘️🗽🐦‍⬛ @RocksGood37]

we have turned what used to be an incredibly kind and unselfish gesture into a forced formality

[Nom De Flume @NomDeFlume]

Why are all Republicans wearing skinny suits like we’re still doing 2010s Mod?

[Amrith Ramkumar @AmrithRamkumar]

Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke:

6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage.

Profile w/ @keachhagey:

https://t.co/KN9ZnQ5j9a