I personally think the cover’s pretty boring and instagram is a festering shithole with terrible UX, but still kind of puzzled by their reaction to this. Someone should start a feed just of images of classic, sexually explicit art just to mess with them and see how long it takes them to ban them. Something like some…

1. Why the hell are you on instagram at work, unless you work in social media?

Well, that took longer than I thought for someone to come in and insist that the cancer victim was just leading that poor, poor man on...

That looks so disturbingly like one of my former students. On all fronts.

Well, that’s not rapey at all!

This is bringing back flashbacks to all the times I accidentally threw away my retainer after lunch in middle school and had to go through the trash to get it. I guess life really IS a circle after all.

What are the odds that Mr. Sensitive wore a fedora?

Didn’t Honey Boo-Boo or whatever get canceled because of associations with a child molester? It seems weird that this isn’t getting the same treatment.

That sort of cognitive dissonance is hard to overcome, and one I’ve only had middling success with regarding students in my field. I suspect that your student’s thought process was probably similar to my Russian pupil’s— watching something that runs so against-the-grain to the dominant cultural narrative is really…

It’s also clear that the mother didn’t quite get it either.

It’s a problem in more ways than one. I had a student complain to the dean of international students here that I am racist against Americans (note: I AM an American, albeit with dual citizenship) for discussing how the US actively traded away Czechoslovakia in 1968 in order to have the USSR remove missiles aimed at…

My favorite here in Eastern Europe is when people post pictures of themselves with their SO reflected in their mirrored sunglasses.

Frankly, I wouldn’t be shocked if they found a few literal skeletons in the closet with that family. Something just ain’t right with the Huckabees.

I didn’t say I liked it myself. I’m not a huge chocolate fan unless it’s got gram masala in it. Then, all bets are off.

To be fair, neither is instant hot chocolate mix. :D

Also, points for the Ghosts in the Shell tag.

Well, now I just feel super depressed about the future of the human race. They do realize there’s white chocolate as well, right?

I think the author is burying the lede on the chocolate one— who the fuck gives a shit about what color a drink (that you consume) in a to-go cup (which you cannot see through) looks like? Was she co-ordinating her drink and her outfit? I’m utterly bemused.

Yeah, I totally get you now. Sorry I came off a bit like a snarky assmunch yesterday— exhaustion and prickliness and the internet are a bad combination. I think we’re all on the same page and same side here. Nothing but love on my end.

Right on! Sorry I was so snarky yesterday. Much love here.

That’s really interesting. Thanks for sharing that, that does seem to clear that up for me.