Alyssa

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar.

• Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars

• Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

[spike's pet @ricksredmachete]

The craziest thing about men not understanding consent is they will post proof they are a rapist and think it actually cleared their name

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

The misandry debate, summarised

[Alyssa @alyssampape]

Normalize yelling at people for smoking in no smoking zones. Grow up and pop a fucking zyn.

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

BREAKING🚨 The US has bombed a maternity ward in Iran including babies in incubators, survivors are being transferred out of hospital.

[danielle @emodoII]

yall be like “i can’t believe the mexico government allows the cartel to run mexico” like if our u.s government isn’t doing the same with these white supremacist incels that commits a mass shooting every month. y’all are so weird when it comes to mexico and i hate it.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

No offense but money would solve literally every single one of my problems. like all of them. i dont have a single problem that money wouldn’t actually immediately solve

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

I think if musicians want to stay out of politics then should also consider shutting the fuck up about Jesus

[Meth Head?!? Ngga Ima Fckn Electrician @TiaNoTamara1]

The amount of people who think civilians should always remain calm around law enforcement but give “trained” law enforcement passes to be scared or excitable is truly astounding

[Vivian @suchnerve]

i want YOU 🫵🏻 to say full, actual, uncensored words like “kill” and “rape” and “suicide” and “genocide” rather than using insipid euphemisms and puns like “graped” or “unalived”

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

You can be mad at the amount of influence Kai Cenat has, or you can make fun of him, but Kai promoting literacy and thoughtfully reading longer books to his audience - who are, for the most part, the dumbest teenagers alive - is actually a very good thing.

[Alyssa @alyssampape]

Why does nobody in the replies know the word “adjective”

[FormerlyIR @ 🦋 @FormerlyIr]

A person learning English as a second language just asked me the difference between “burned” and “burnt” — and I just stared blankly back with a 404 error screen running through my brain.

[Alyssa @alyssampape]

I have TWO kids now (in this economy? I know insane) and I’m as exhausted and stressed out as can be & all of that is directly due to every responsibility I have outside of my children. I don’t want to budget or do dishes or call my insurance company, I want to play with my kids.

[Alyssa @alyssampape]

I truly love nothing more in this world than having tea parties with my 3 year old. Riding a carousel with that girl?? Better than cocaine (I imagine).

[Justin Murphy @jmrphy]

Am I just a monster? It's been 4 years since I became a father and I'm beginning to fear for my soul. The truth is I just don't like being around kids for very long. Historically, this is not uncommon among fathers, but today it feels almost illegal. It's causing me a lot of confusion and anguish.

The ideal amount of time I would like to spend playing with my kids is probably about 70-140 minutes a week—roughly ten minutes each day, maybe 2x/day, taking breaks from work. My feelings of love toward them are perfectly strong, but if I have to watch them or entertain them for more than about 10 minutes my blood starts to boil. I just want to be working, or accomplishing something. I try to be grateful, but it doesn't work.

It's 9 AM this morning, Saturday, January 3. It's a sunny, warm day here in Austin, and my four-year-old son is begging me to play catch in the street. I was drinking coffee, still waking up, so I didn’t really feel like it, but at this age his desire to play is insatiable. He begged and begged, so I conceded, and with a smile. I have no problem being a kind and loving father, the problem is only that I do not enjoy it. It's not that I'm trying to maximize my personal pleasure; it just seems wrong that I experience so little delight when my dad friends all claim to experience so much.

It was beautiful. We live on a picturesque, tree-lined block. I am even relatively relaxed from the holiday rest. Playing catch with your son is supposed to be an iconic, peak experience. Yet for every single minute, on the inside, I just don't want to be there. I want to be drinking my coffee in peace. Then I feel guilty and absurdly ungrateful, and ashamed, when we're done. I know that when he is a teenager, I'll long to have these days back. I have all of this perspective rationally, and I've been very patient and steadfast trying to digest it, but nothing fixes me emotionally.

Am I a terrible person? Or is my feeling within a certain range of historically normal and it's modern parenting norms that are off? Whether it's my fault or not, I don't even care, I just want to figure this out. Something is wrong and I no longer have the excuse of being new to this.

[Alyssa @alyssampape]

I can’t believe I live tweeted like 3 seasons of this show and never finished it

[don | brady bunch era @katelosten]

you know what show actually did have the most poly and queer ending of all time?

[Alyssa @alyssampape]

@ladybuginette Whispering it shamefully under my breath as I discuss the process

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

“unalived” “graped” “self delete”

the self censorship of words is so dystopian & straight out of 1984 that it makes me nauseous. stop censoring urself for an algorithm that may or may not flag u. dont undercut our language & devalue what u say & mean I cannot stress this enough.

[Meg ✦ @Flicky0ps]

Idk who needs to hear this, but your life is almost certainly better than a 1940s coal miner.

[licinha 𐚁⸆⸉ @folkthorn]

oh well, american liberals are more worried about creating a false narrative that taylor swift is a white supremacist than about actual neo nazis IN OFFICE