a friend gave me a very sweet little “just because” gift tonight & I was sitting in my room happy crying about how I never thought I’d be able to build these kinds of relationships & then I remembered this tweet from 7 years ago & the juxtaposition is stark.
It gets better💜
12 years on this cursed app where I have learned a lot & gone from needing this online space in order to find & connect with people to barely using it because I finally have IRL community so yay for growth
#MyXAnniversary
I thought people were saying OceanGate as if this was a scandal on the level of Watergate but then I learned that’s just the name of the company that built the sub
thinking about how that guy couldn’t come up with a “deeper form of self-giving” during sex than.. ejaculating in a vag? not like, spending the whole time eating them out or doing anything actually sacrificial, nope.. just getting his own pleasure & framing it as generous!!
My paper on the relationship between asexuality and feelings of detachment from gender just won the 2023 Graduate Student Paper award from @socwomen-South!
I’m thrilled to see this work recognized by a feminist organization.
A quick summary of the paper:
in other news I actually DID listen to music this year more than any other previous year of my life & even discovered 2 artists I really like ALL ON MY OWN & I am proud of myself (& also thankful for Spotify’s ability to recommend songs for me that I will enjoy😂)
trying to figure out this percentage because anyone who knows me would agree that I don’t listen to music that much so how?? is this?? a thing?? is Kesha not cool anymore I guess that would explain it
thinking about this one time I gave a call to my boss & told him that the customer was yelling & swearing at me & he almost didn't believe me until he picked up the call on speaker & long story short we now call this customer "Dr. Motherfucker" 😂
Saturday Night News: Musk fired the company’s entire senior staff “for cause,” an attempt to avoid paying out tens of millions of dollars in severance packages to the former CEO, CFO, GC and head of legal
https://t.co/vUF4PheK29
when I found out that wasn't the doctor's real name, I Googled his clinic & discovered something even better!
Dr. Bob is their office dog & his name is their caller ID 😂