I scrupulously have avoided any self-preoccupation.

huh? Twitter doesn’t have comments. you’re either tweeting or retweeting or being tweeted at.

All totally true things, but not the same as it being difficult *just* to get a diss published, which it isn’t - if it’s good enough to pass your committee it’s more than good enough for a lot of publishers. In the German system publication is actually a requirement; you’re not a fully-fledged Dr. until the diss is…

Yes to all you said, except the dissertation thing - almost everyone’s first book is their dissertation. Getting a top publisher is tough, but getting just a publisher is quite easy.

yeah i’m guessing she knows how her own tax system works.

No meds. My mom was a midwife in the US from when I was a toddler til I was about 12. This was 25 years ago and anecdotal, but in my experience the whole culture was super anti-medication and fairly cultish, and in hindsight ironically(?) anti-feminist in some ways. The center of the movement was The Farm commune in…

There’s actually a very long tradition of the idea of camera-as-means-of-sexual domination (male over female) within the history of photography (the advertising of cameras, writing about it in art criticism and literature, scholarship on these and photographic practices). You may not feel that it’s relevant to your…

I hate the term “edible [insert precious metal]”. Anything that doesn’t poison you is edible, technically. They don’t do anything but shave it down so fine it’s not worth much money. But that doesn’t make it chemically special, or any more “edible” than my wedding ring, which I could totally just swallow and not get…

Cher is the only celebrity I follow on Twitter. Her feed is a work of art.

I’m 37 and have in all seriousness outgrown this nonsense, or maybe just left behind is a better term. And I used to be bulimic. It can definitely go away. Probably faster if you stop engaging with that kind of media, but I know that doesn’t seem helpful in the moment.

Holy fuck that’s great.

lol

is in no way counter to my point.

I cannot fathom that it’s a real relationship and not purely a business arrangement.

this seems too methodical for an angry person. or a crazy one for that matter. but, could be.

The point of the graphic is well taken, but I’m going to be difficult and note that all those other countries are historically white & Christian.. (sorry)

not I.

you’re right, that’s probably more likely. is meth really controlled by the mob now? i thought the cartels took over.

eh, my money’s on a drug debt.