Sometimes I think that there’s nothing more American than a Black woman with a fastidiously polished resume running against a racist white nepo baby who wants to kill everyone and can’t finish a sentence and them being roughly tied.

(hoping you get to rest soon!!)

Also Sam Reid's performance as Lestat is genuinely one of, if not the, best on TV right now The way he can interweave between cold, calculating menace, wild unhinged emotional madness and full slapstick murder comedy in the span of a few minutes is BUCKWILD

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As someone who is an old-school weirdo, I feel like anyone who can’t parse the difference between weird (neat) and weird (gross) is just being weird (willfully obtuse).

i think a big part of why the “these guys are weird” message is satisfying is that they’ve had an unchallenged lock on “we represent mainstream middle america” as a brand for decades even as the stuff they were talking about got wildly outside of the mainstream and now it’s finally being challenged

I think all the previous attacks on policy and even rightfully calling them cruel and hateful didn't phase them because it still allowed them to feel and seem powerful. They didn't care if you found that power good or bad, it's still power. But weirdos aren't powerful at all, so they're shook.

this is classic bully behaviour. When you punch back he wants to be friends, so that when you turn your back he can donkey punch you in the back of the head. Do not stop. Not till he transfers schools or drops out entirely

Every year, AAAS hosts a "Dance Your PhD" contest. The goal is to "explain your research through interpretive dance." This year's winner, Weliton Menário Costa, explores kangaroo behavior & promotes diversity. It is, by far, the best I've ever seen. youtu.be/RoSYO3fApEc?...