To quote Margo from the Magicians:

“I am the most successful female serial killer in American history, but all these women keep talking about my victims instead of celebrating my success!”

UGH. Why am I not surprised that they would drop all the introspective and cosmic stuff in favor of a bland, pat ending where the monster is defeated by the power of friendship or some shit? I suppose they excised the giant spider and the deadlights, too. They fucked that up in the TV movie, but at least they included…

Lots of trolls these days have multiple accounts, with usually at least one “trusted” account they use to post innocuous stuff that gets through. They then use that account to star themselves out of the greys.

It seems like what they’re saying, judging from the story, is that Trump’s attorneys produced video evidence showing that she doesn’t have grounds to proceed. So the judge is saying, “Keep pressing that charge and I’ll slap you with a fine.” That’s the threat, if I understand correctly.

“A lot of people are saying that my horse is the best horse, my horse is the smartest horse, my horse is very successful in business and they really hope it runs in 2024.”

Except that it’s not, because Uber’s business model doesn’t have enough drivers to work on the “2 hours a day to make beer money” concept. They might have initially believed that they could simply be a service connecting people with spare cars to people with spare cash, but they rapidly found out that this was not a…

Trump: Making Caligula Look Good Since 2015!

No. That’s not why I’m calling you an asshole. I’m calling you an asshole because it is NEVER okay to try to diagnose someone’s mental condition based on reading a news story about them on the Internet, because you don’t have enough information to legitimately do that and it is always, repeat ALWAYS straight-up…

Again. You are not a mental health professional. This is not someone you are treating in your capacity as a mental health professional. This is not even someone you, personally, have spoken to. Saying, “This feels like mental illness to me,” even if you don’t feel like that’s a formal diagnosis in your personal book…

At this rate, I’m fully expecting him to nominate a fucking horse.

Nah, it’s Neutral Evil. The Republicans only care about laws when they can use them to oppress the lawful. They’re as corrupt as the day is long... at the North Pole in June.

ProTip: Only a complete fucking asshole diagnoses strangers with mental illness based on hearing about their behavior over the Internet. Don’t be that asshole.

Any wedding with a T-Rex in the picture is, by definition, a picture perfect wedding. :)

I think that’s the key. The two sisters presumably knew each other very well, and T-Rex Maid of Honor probably understood the bride’s sense of humor well enough to know that she would find it charmingly eccentric and not infuriating. There’s always room for miscalculation there, of course, but it sounds like the MoH ha…

“I just doubt that any asshole like that expresses he’s an asshole that way”

And to water down the situation and spread it around in smaller concentrations all over the Internet!

Gaslighting isn’t exactly “make someone think they’re crazy”, although certainly that was the plot of the movie from which it took its name. It’s more about the presentation of false information with a degree of convincing certainty sufficient to make the person doubt their own convictions, even though their initial…

I think that any advice column has to offer advice on the basis of what the person is telling them, barring extraordinary circumstances; once you start saying, “Hmmm, I suspect you’re probably lying about your boyfriend’s comments because most guys aren’t assholes like that...”

The thing that I think it’s a little difficult for anyone to wrap their heads around who hasn’t dealt with abusers is that they groom their character witnesses just as thoroughly as they groom their victims. Scarlett has no doubt been subjected to just as much gaslighting as Soon-Yi, but it’s directed to a different…