Public service announcement for those who use Amazon: A driver told me yesterday that their holiday bonus is dependent on (a) a "thank you" from Alexa, if you have one or (b) customer positive reviews of their deliveries. So fill out those "rate your delivery" emails so these folks get paid.
An important reminder that Jim Crow style American authoritarianism might start out in the "red" 🙄 states, but can move to the "blue" states pretty quick.
Mispronunciations are the sign of a reader.
Christopher Tolkien is a noted and celebrated first listener of the bedtime story that became The Hobbit, so I think his stance on this might be relevant regardless of his scholarship on Germanic and Icelandic languages.
Also this would lose the alliteration of "Gandalf the Grey"!
Actually some of these nutjobs take the position that female masturbation is basically cheating on your future husband. Riding a bicycle? Cheating on your future husband.
Being old is amaaaaaaziing.
But Norma fucking Desmond, that's Taylor Swift.
Also kind of interesting that they're calling her "alone", unless he meant literally in the photo? She has family, and friends, and like 100 million hardcore fans? She is one of the least alone people in the world.