mika

you're in no position to make demands, kid

[Kat Rosenfield @katrosenfield]

In the extremely online social justice system, young adult fiction-based offenses are considered especially heinous

[roshan @rhymewithocean]

traverse city is a destination city practically drowning in pride flags and rich white liberals. kamala harris won every precinct of the city at assad margins. that is the place the atlantic decided to portray as a down-home corn-fed we-don't-do-politics-here rural town lol

[mika @mika_temple]

@wesyang I'm so sorry for your loss. All the best to you and your family as you navigate this.

[Eric Wappel @wapp56]

Too good not to share. A neighbor took out a row of our Non-GMO corn next to his field. He sent me a card. 😂

[G.S. Quay @hemingquay]

Possibly the funniest thing ever printed in the Washington Post.

[Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm]

1/ We are entering a post-progressive era. The cultural left-liberalism which emerged a century ago and took off in the late 1960s is exhausted. This ‘vibe shift’doesn’t just repudiate the last decade, but the last 60 years. My latest @WSJ

[mika @mika_temple]

@angijones I wondered if this was real. But yes, here's the artist sharing it on her Instagram, "for the dolls" ofc https://t.co/UCE5BhLZcM

[Lucy Hunter Blackburn @LucyHunterB]

My impression from the last day or so is that if you believe some men are entitled to treated exactly as if they were women, for whatever reason, there is simply no higher rule/order/set of interests in human society that should be able to get in the way of that. It's remarkable

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

@Plurmeo made an excellent point today and it bears repeating:

So-called “TERFs” have achieved more bonafide legal and political victories in the UK than pretty much anyone else.

Though they are much maligned, middle aged women - slimed as “Karens” by the left or “harpies” by the right - are incredibly powerful politically and socially.

When they have their sights set on something, they are like hungry pitbulls locked on to a toddler’s skull at the playground. Any group or ideology who wins their favor will have consistent ongoing victories and experience a surge of success.

Ignore, isolate, or disrespect this contingency at your own risk. If you lose them, you will fail and fail and fail some more until you are finally humbled and submit to your matriarchal Mumsnet overlords.

[mika @mika_temple]

It's not even about selling to men, it's about presenting de rigueur beauty practices as subversive and progressive to women

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

So unbelievably tired of seeing ads like this for women’s beauty products.

[mika @mika_temple]

@oocwhitelotus Piper's twist was fun, the bigger dramas were too telegraphed. Still enjoyed the slow burn season for being its own little world

[Istra of Glome @byistra]

C.S. Lewis, the dangers of the internet (before it existed)

[mika @mika_temple]

@JenniferSey The state of literary skills on here. Embarrassing the number of people who think they're "correcting" you

[mika @mika_temple]

I mean

[mika @mika_temple]

A tell in these scenarios: reinforcing the fantasy roles in direct, unnatural ways

See the fake texts from her "sons" who address her as "mom" in the most casual exchanges

The pat family stories also function to cultivate a naïve audience who will supply credulous engagement

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

The important thing is his journey, his mental health crisis, the threat posed to him by the carcerel state. You can show how 'progressive' you are by directing all your attention to him, not the boring old female victim

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

You're in her DMs, I'm in her campus novel as a tiresome pedant

[mika @mika_temple]

> start posting in niche support community

> absorb house style of therapized gentle commenting into your own brain

> realize treating this issue with reddit gravitas is actually making you feel worse

> leave

> cured now

[mika @mika_temple]

@yearning_slav I was a chronic oversharer online when I was young and now I've overcorrected. It's good practice articulating yourself in some kind of forum, though