I told my crying three-year-old “you are the master of your own fate, you are the captain of your own soul” and he started crying even harder
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Just went to a work event that passed the Bechdel test with flying colors
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It’s a tough job being the girl who gets kicked out of the rationalist Halloween party for going as shrimp welfare but somebody’s gotta do it
It's a tough job being the girl who's hosting the rationalist halloween party but somebody's got to do it
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You’ve never seen someone like me
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Gilberte de Saint-Loup retweeted
Commentary on the heterosphere is yes very much tilted towards the goings-on between particularly rich and powerful men and especially young, gorgeous, and either vulnerable or conniving women. The rest of humanity might as well not exist.
Are they writing specifically about sugarbaby dynamics? Like, these dynamics aren't that relevant to most normal relationships like couples who met in college. Similar-age couples make up the vast majority of US couples.
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Used Ukrainian at work award
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Gilberte de Saint-Loup retweeted
Historically of course the group most keen to see Eastern Europe as essential to the identity of Jews born and raised there were... Jews from Central Europe.
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The lobby of my building is full of Chinese-language flyers for a candidate with a Cuban name
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My older kid’s first political memory is going to be half his family freaking out about the Israeli election
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Overhearing Hebrew on the street and shaking my head so everyone knows I disapprove of them neglecting their civic duty this week
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Gilberte de Saint-Loup retweeted
Replying to @GilberteDSL
“Jerry why aren’t we getting invited to weeklong overseas birthday trips?” “I dunno George, maybe it’s because we’re normal!”
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Reposting now that I’ve unlocked
What’s something that even/especially people who know you well are surprised to learn you’ve never done? I’ll start: never been to Spain, never seen Battleship Potemkin
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Maybe I’m outing myself as friendless and/or destitute, but I am not being inundated with invitations to weeklong overseas birthday trips
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Everyone I know has their birthday party at home or in a bar/restaurant. Unless these parties are an elaborate ruse to distract me, specifically, from the real festivities in the Maldives. I guess you never know for sure
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“I told Jill we’re going to the Odeon. What she doesn’t know is that everyone except her is flying to Fiji after dinner!”
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Caught sight of myself in the mirror wearing opaque black tights, midi dress, puffer
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Mom, holding up a garter belt: is this yours? Me: um… yeah Mom: I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t mine
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Gilberte de Saint-Loup retweeted
Kindly refrain from accusing your ideological opponents of child rape. It's unbecoming.
Neither major US party is pro-pedo. So sick of people furthering conspiratorial nonsense for their own gain.
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Oh wow, people started having premarital sex a whole DECADE before the pill?
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What’s something that even/especially people who know you well are surprised to learn you’ve never done? I’ll start: never been to Spain, never seen Battleship Potemkin
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Coworker: “I have a padded jacket. Now all I need is a padded cell.”
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