☠️ kaitlin ☠️

all tweets are ironic unless stated otherwise (she/her)

[☠️ kaitlin ☠️ @kaitlinofficial]

happy birthday to me and timothée chalamet! i could do dune but he couldn’t do the weather channel’s social media

[Spooks🩸 @SpookyGinger]

Eggers himself has said - "I’d rather sit in a carriage than in a space ship. For me, the voices of the dead are a lot louder, and I’m interested in exploring who we are by going backwards"

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[୨ৎ @girlsnotes_]

"deriving pleasure from being attractive in the third person" is exactly how I felt in my experiences with men. In the clinical world, we call it dissociation.

[☠️ kaitlin ☠️ @kaitlinofficial]

listening to this is what watching megalopolis felt like

[kit 🍋 @sourkrowt]

so my best friend sent me this song that Tyra Banks made herself for a dystopian young adult book she wrote over a decade ago and i'm being so serious i think she officially made the worst song of all time

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

They scraped the internet for every last bit of data, stole information from books, articles, art etc. all created by HUMANS, and now want to sell it back to you at a premium because you all have convinced yourselves this is the future and it’s inevitable lmao

[shine ♀ @ladymysticalwmn]

I can't unsee it sorry

[Maia @maiamindel]

the main reason why none of the post-lena dunham "voice of my generation" tv shows are the voice of anyone beyond annoyign LA nepo babies is that nobody is willing to put themselves through the torment nexus like lena dunham was

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

[Average Undertaker Enjoyer @itsmerfornothin]

We could be living in a socialist utopia and male leftists would still be like ‘There are bigger things to address than misogyny! I swearsies we’ll get to it later! We have to uhhhh…secure theater equity first! It’s not fair that those people in the back can’t see as good!’

[meh @itstuff48]

So cute how men just never think about NOT impregnating women.

[Lauren @gothamshitty]

I hate how eventual acquiescence to patriarchal norms is framed as aged wisdom whereas opposition is framed as youthful naïveté, especially within feminist discourses. If we tell younger women that the smart option is to roll over & capitulate then there is no movement, no cause.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Interesting to me that the Met Gala gets compared to the Hunger Games more than the Oscars red carpet or the Super Bowl halftime show. All of these involve spectacle, celebrities, and extreme displays of wealth. Notably, only one of them is a charity for a public institution (the Met Gala, which is a fundraiser for The Met Museum).

The difference, I think, is that the Met Gala leans more into unusual outfits. That's natural, given that it's a fundraiser for a costume institute. But to me, the perpetual criticism — which comes up year after year — speaks to how people see fashion as frivolous and not as "serious" as other corners of culture, such as sports or movies. The more extreme the outfit, the more offends the public, even if such work is an expression of artisanship and craft, no different from an artist creating a painting.

I've said it before, but Western culture has a long history of seeing clothes as frivolous, even if everyone engages in self-fashioning. And it's notable that "serious" areas of culture are often masculine-coded (e.g., architecture), while feminine-coded interests, such as fashion, are considered frivolous.

One can reasonably question whether the Bezos are trying to whitewash their reputation through the fashion industry (although I would note that we are all participating on Elon Musk's platform, so I see some hypocrisy among some who criticize the Met Gala but won't deactivate their accounts). But I also think we can tax the rich and encourage them to donate to public causes, including institutions like the Met. Given my interests, I also think we should take fashion and clothing more seriously. Thankfully, some real researchers and academics are making headway in that regard.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this:

"Israel did X."

"Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y."

"Yeah, because Israel did Z."

"Yeah but only because the Arabs did A."

But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there.

Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there.

So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen.

And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today.

This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected.

Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews.

The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

[‎ً @funeraleggsalad]

The veil is so thin at dollar tree I get scared

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Taylor Swift’s record contract could lead to millions of dollars being paid to artists as UMG prepares to sell half of their equity stake in Spotify.

When Swift signed her contract in 2018, she negotiated a clause stating that any sale of UMG’s Spotify shares would result in a distribution of money to their artists, non-recoupable.

Her “non-recoupable” clause ensures that artists receive that money even if they still owe advances to the label that signed them.

(https://t.co/a6vxKX98qo)

[Libriscent @libriscent]

I just heard someone on TikTok say "this is the first time in history women are dating men for their character. And that's why no one is dating." and she was right.

[morally grey @knowncougar]

the most hilarious thing about this is that MOST female smut readers are fantasising about a world where men are good at sex and confident in pleasuring women.

MOST male porn watchers are fantasising about a world where women are just vessels for degradation and torture

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

i interviewed marketers about their ai-obsessed bosses

[luci is a star ⭐️⭐️ @hxranpankow]

la gente picada con esto como si no fuera verdad que si tienes una copa más grande que una c no te puedes poner ni la mitad de la ropa que hay en las tiendas