it's no fun here, no fandom, no kekes, overly serious to the point of turgid self importance, it's like LinkedIn meets Twitter for burnt out white millennials, the site admin doesn't care about minority voices, it's an echo chamber of white people almost every day. that's why I still have twitter
What many ppl don't understand is the southern US border is intended to be porous. The US economy depends on undocumented labour & will tank without it. The border was designed to allow enough migrants through to supply that labour while being hostile enough to deter too many from crossing ./x
Despite its kinks, the Big 5 factor model of personality is still one of the best validated. Want to find out where you score on extraversion and more? Take it for free: (I do not work for them, I'm just a psychologist who hates the MBTI) personalitytest.net/ipip/
IPIP NEO - The IPIP-NEO (International Personality Item Pool Representation of the NEO PI-R™)
thank you for all the memories, grande dame 💖
Dame Maggie Smith is one of my favorite actors. I've you've never seen The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, you should rectify that ASAP. Or A Room with a View (my all-time favorite movie).
Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actress Maggie Smith played everything from wistful ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.
This December, prepare yourself for a timely & erudite meditation on the near future in MECHANIZE MY HANDS TO WAR, the new Appalachian sci-fi novel from Erin K. Wagner. This mind-bending non-linear novel just received a starred review in Publishers Weekly! astrapublishinghouse.com/product/mech...
To paraphrase Michael Pollan: Give people money. Not too much. Mostly cash. It's not goddam rocket science.
Universal Basic Income works literally every time. www.latimes.com/california/s...
L.A.'s BIG:LEAP experiment gave monthly payments to poor families for a year with no strings attached. Recipients saw lasting benefits, a study finds.
there's currently a sims event going on that gives you rewards for helping the grim reaper so that also counts as a point ig 🤣
I think my top five is: 1. Curtis Mayfield Concert 2. Outdoor dining is good because you can hit on women from your car 3. Any day could be 9/11, which makes NYC great 4. Instructional search video 5. [to an elderly tenant organizer who survived the Holocaust]: You’re a plantation owner
