basement gremlin

i’m a fountain of blood in the shape of a girl.

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

I know this is very not the point but The New Yorker style guide’s commitment to the ugliest possible copy editing choices continues to psychologically terrorize me. Dutifully putting five periods in “U.S.A.I.D.” Just to plop “DOGE” in there all punctuationally naked. Repulsive!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, according to Atul Gawande, a former leading administrator at the agency. Gawande, backed by recent academic studies, believes that the death toll will likely reach seven figures. The policy is not only immeasurably cruel, he argues; it is also stupid, badly undermining what remains of American soft power and prestige. Gawande explains the human cost of DOGE’s war on U.S.A.I.D.: https://t.co/pcqDGOFqdJ

[e! @ethxooo]

he did poppers while on viagra💔💔💔 let this be a lesson to other gay people. be safe and hold your trade close 🕊️🕊️

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@rdealrdeal @hecubian_devil It appears so!!

[Carly Rae Jepsen @carlyraejepsen]

After hours, every night, even after all…

After All out July 16 at 9AM PT!

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@RadishHarmers @Ruth_Mensch I’m holding it down for foreign-born Italian Americans in Little Italy (on a technicality)

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

Ironically I am one of the very few Italian Americans born outside the US living in or near Little Italy, and I am from JAPAN. That is how not Italian Little Italy is.

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

Ironically I am one of the very few Italian Americans born outside the US living in or near Little Italy, and I am from JAPAN. That is how not Italian Little Italy is.

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

You can tell the people yapping about this don’t actually live here because New Yorkers know that Little Italy is a historical artifact preserved to sell tourists kitschy t shirts and bad pasta.

[New York Post @nypost]

Mayor Mamdani's map of NYC immigrant neighborhoods sparks outrage for ignoring Little Italy: 'Terrible mistake' https://t.co/dR97RS7CPz

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@EyeOnStalk @BrendanNyhan I am astonished at the number of people who are completely missing your point. You are clearly talking about a paper that needs to be researched, drafted, and edited over several hours, not an essay format exam. Did nobody else have to WRITE PAPERS in university?

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@mtracey @alittleleader Literally every survivor I know went through a period where they minimized what happened to them as a coping mechanism. I’m glad you have never experienced something so violating you had to warp your memory of it to survive. We should have empathy for those who aren’t so lucky.

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

“messy personal life” is a crazy way of describing breaking into a woman’s home and raping her.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Fundamentally, the genocide in Gaza, and the oligarchy supporting it, are great moral sins for which we must all take responsibility. The messy personal life of Graham Platner is not. That was the choice with Mills vs Platner.

I enjoy @IChotiner's interviews precisely because he is so good at showing the moral implications of politics. The glee over this latest story trivializes the stakes of politics, and cuts against his otherwise excellent work.

[Matt Olma @matt_olma]

Some definitions for any who are confused.

Subjective: bad
Objective: good
Ontological: very
Valid: true
Metaphysical: ontological
A priori: without thinking on it too deeply
Deontological: prudish
Postmodern: bad in a French way
Continental: bad in a German way

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Oh we’re calling them farmers now

[The Man of Astoria @depechejoe]

You don’t understand, that’s my EMOTIONAL SUPPORT billionaire shutting down Midtown! Totally different from when Trump did it last month

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@NeilNevins I’m getting married in September where can I contact this visionary artist???

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

This beer is dedicated to the brave freedom fighters of Cape Verde

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@matthew_petti I am largely empathetic to the European resistance to AC, bc they know their summers better than I do, but I am completely baffled as to how AC got characterized/demonized as “American.” In Japan we have AC everywhere and it’s always set way colder than I tend to see in the US.

[QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid]

why would it say welcome? it’s my house. im supposed to be there.

[basement gremlin @saddy_issues]

@hedin__ Vice wrote an article about this (at least for cab drivers) ten years ago: https://t.co/k7xblQEj9F

[NYC Sanitation @NYCSanitation]

No need to Knick a basket!

We are giving away five orange and blue litter baskets! These are the real deal.

Want a chance to win one? Enter here: https://t.co/uXMcKVm2Rt