no way NYT

https://i.imgur.com/cA15Lzb.jpeg

instant classic

astounding

journalism is when you refuse to talk to other people

Friedman would have just invented an intelligent taxi driver who disagreed and faked it from there.

that one broke me. I can't imagine actually turning something like that in

Friedman is just talking to self driving cars these days

https://i.imgur.com/DjY0mw1.jpeg

oh lord please spare us

that byline and bio pic next to that column title, perfect. nyt pitchbot done for the day.

Stephen Breyer: The Supreme Court I Served On Was Made Up of Friends

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/Da_Next_Level.jpg

Don't ever Douthat?

just seeing that douthat screengrab, excellent stuff

A.I. Is Spying on the Food We Throw Away

Artificial intelligence is trying to figure out how to send less uneaten food into dumpsters.

apparently the most popular article in today’s nyt is a… saturday night live…. recap??

wth she has like five posts and gets a glowing nyt article??? who dere daddy!!??? i should put up like two posts of old shoes on the side of the road and maybe they put me on coverrrr!!

#nottryingveryhard

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/style/boy-room-rachel-coster-nyc.html

https://www.instagram.com/boyroomshow/

out of curiosity, I did look up her parents, and they appear to be normal folks living in maine.

Nepo Normie

https://www.instagram.com/expiredmilkcomedy/reel/C3-n2dQAqvn/

I knew it! #calleditagain

there’s an nyt article out now about a 20-person polycule and it’s as exhausting as you’d expect

Wow you ain't kidding

are we gonna poll the polycule

I'm sorry, 20 people isn't a polycule or any sort of personal relationship network. That's a cult, a yoga studio, or a dorm room floor. They're not doing anything that someone needs to write an article about unless they all do something really kooky or violent to someone outside their circle

The editorial urge to table-set actual human behavior at this point is getting fascinating to behold

there’s an nyt article out now about a 20-person polycule and it’s as exhausting as you’d expect

I said elsewhere that "I'm happy for you, now shut up" should be a socially acceptable thing to say to people like this.

We learned a strategy from the Multiamory podcast called “agile scrum,” which was adapted from business-meeting models. We utilized that format. We did that for a year and a half, at least once a month, sometimes six to 10 hours of hard poly-processing.

hardcore relating

Ann I have one partner now with three kids. He is transmasc, and he’s radical about the way he raises them. They’re radically home-schooled. They’re 17 and nonbinary, 6 and 5. They know everything in age-appropriate ways. They’ve seen their mommy undergo the transmasc experience, seen their mom become who they really are.

I was up late last night with him in a hotel room, and the 17-year-old was in the room snoozing, so we just sat on the bathroom floor chatting about our relationship all night, and while that was happening my husband was texting to say, Oh, I got a last-minute match, so I’m going to meet this girl for a date. And then I get a text while we were still on the bathroom floor vibing, it was 4 in the morning, and he said, We had a great date, a great connection, she’s looking for friends with benefits, we had sex.

This entire setting here just strikes me as deeply awkward, happy for anyone who goes on their journey of finding their true selves but you know, seems weird to be at a hotel with one of the kids, they're sleeping in one room while you're vibing on the bathroom floor etc? I guess at least they probably didn't have much trouble finding babysitters for the five and six year old.

This article is like a conversation you desperately want to get away from.

The worst part of course is if you escape from one person you have to get through 19 more

Polycule: Final Boss - the Eurogamer review

are you a bad enough dude to steer the conversation away from polyamory?

Wait who was he floor vibing with?

The floor itself. It’s part of the polycule. Foundational, even.

let the polys hit the floor

er,idunno,they*, fr. But an article like this should just refer to everyone by name for every mention.

The floor is xe/xem

jfc pamela paul

^evergreen

speaking of which, this is good:
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/columnists-and-their-lives-of-quiet

literally no one has anything interesting to say twice a week for years on end. all these positions should be limited

but she has really set the bar for having nothing to say from the very start

I feel like I should know what “transmasc” means but I don’t. Is that another way of saying a trans man?

jfc pamela paul

― mookieproof, Thursday, April 18, 2024 10:53 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

^evergreen

― jaymc, Thursday, April 18, 2024 11:32 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

very true, so much so that I thought mookie was reacting to the dumb-as-shit college roommates piece not the evil-as-shit I love free speech but it's good that cops arrested protesters I disagree with

xp trans men, masc leaning nonbinary/genderqueer/etc, some butches, a transness embodying or moving toward a masculinity of some kind

conversely transfeminine/transfem(me)

umbrella terms to include trans men and women and people who may be neither but whose relationship to gender generally leans masc or femme usually in spite of social expectations for their "assigned gender at birth" (an increasingly toxic concept but it will do for now)

David Brooks

The Courage to Follow the Evidence on Transgender Care

a real banner week

brooks is always tailing the most reactionary currents in american liberalism and is a great example of how upper crust liberals will repeatedly indulge the musings of most intellectually lazy and vacuous people in the world because they look the part and went to the same schools as them

it must get so hard to find any kind of right-wing voice to put on t.v. that isn't either completely nuts or completely stupid. or both. with david brooks i think its just "well, at least he's not drooling and he can do that kinder/gentler thing where he pretends to be a big-hearted softie so lets keep him on..." because what else do they have? just the people who escaped the asylum who work for msnbc now.