Leny 🐀

Political nerd & public health geek. Armchair historian. Academia burnout. Library lover. Queer. Retweets *may* be endorsements. Manchmal auf Deutsch. ♿️⚧️

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

Folks if twitter is *done* done in the coming hours—I’m @lenyatom and @lenygetdown on instagram and will likely be starting to use tumblr again as lenyatom.

I have an old tumblr under another name but I want a fresh start.

Please feel free to be in touch!

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

@rickyazze @_pem_pem She’s not always wrong—but if you yell at thousands of Roma every week, eventually you’re bound to catch at least one pickpocket. The same way you would if you did this with any other community.

But she herself admits that she just “knows” who’s guilty—hint, she isn’t psychic.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

@rickyazze @_pem_pem Walking around and accusing all members of an ethnic group that you see in a crowded urban area of being criminals is cartoonishly racist.

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Okay, @Mattel. Once the WGA/SAG strike is over, I'll write the HNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS script. Provided it's an R-Rated, October-release horror flick about Pablo Escobar's escaped drug zoo hippos terrorizing rural Colombian river communities.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

Everyone having a meltdown about how this sort of thing signals the “end of society” or something needs to shut up and mind their business.

This genuinely doesn’t affect you at all.

And it certainly isn’t harmful.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

Honestly people are being really nasty to this guy who is, in essence, just wearing a fursuit.

Like I’m sorry if you have a personal issue with people fulfilling lifelong dreams by dressing up in costumes—that seems like a you problem.

Talk it over with your therapist.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

A random Japanese guy who’s fiercest longing is to dress up in a lifelike collie costume is on so many levels a more valuable member of society than some other person who’s fiercest longing is to, idk, join the police force or become a member of a military.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

@afterlifeprep @ailderwitha @beef_dancingmad @mm2030org @GoldshteynYulia @JaneTea4 @mhdksafa If you claim to care about human life, restricting gun access on a national level is one of the simplest and easiest “pro-life” things you could do.

But you won’t—because you’re here to incite a moral panic and to complain about leftists ruining America. Not create solutions.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

@afterlifeprep @ailderwitha @beef_dancingmad @mm2030org @GoldshteynYulia @JaneTea4 @mhdksafa Also? If you have a problem with all of the shootings in the USA: ban guns.

The rest of the world has done so—and no other country has anywhere near the level of gun violence that the US does in peacetime because we simply do not arm our civilians here.

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

@heelyboy0911 @kyogres @cagefreeavocado @superaarthi Lol at the suggestion that Tushy is a phenomenal bidet.

Tushy isn’t bad. But compared to the average Japanese bidet it might as well be garbage. A manual bidet can’t possibly compete with an electric multifunction washlet.

[Sarah Taber @SarahTaber_bww]

So not only did Amartya Sen get a Nobel for pointing out "Hey famines don't actually come from natural food shortages, they're manmade!"

but St John the Elder called it 2,000 years ago, stuck it in the main religious text for the West, and it's STILL news to most commentators

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

People are saying "Haha, like the Weather Underground" but Weather never targeted anyone for death or even caused that kind of collateral damage with one of their actions. Despite bombing the Pentagon. The Phoenix heat is more deadly than like the entire domestic New Left.

[Dan Davies @dsquareddigest]

I've said in the past that a surrounding clique of yes-men and a high media profile has an effect on decision making similar to that of taking psychedelic drugs, but ... so does ketamine?

[Dan Davies @dsquareddigest]

I just can't stop rereading the Wall Street Journal story which cites numerous witnesses saying Elon Musk is self-medicating with ketamine; surely this fact ought to be mentioned in every other business story about his decision making?

[Leny 🐀 @lenygetdown]

@LA_Knight89 What…. Uhhh… what do dicks have to do with Taylor Swift’s music???

Do I even want to hazard a guess at what these fans were thinking?