I think it’s a case of just chasing whatever stories are online; if you’re on a twitter a lot, this was already talked about pretty heavily so it just seems like you’re writing an article about what people were talking about anyway.

If you’re smart and not on twitter, it looks for all the world like Kotaku plucked this…

The other day my housemate was saying “they literally don’t even run anything other than old movies and one tv show” and I thought he was fucking exaggerating until he pulled it up and showed me the lineup for the next two days: Mean Girls, another movie or two, and the same show that I don’t even recognize just hour…

It’s fascinating - they essentially view all of Japan as crystallized in the exact form they prefer. Seeing them speak to Japanese devs as if zero trans people exist in Japan is fascinating. They’d rather believe that the devs are merely PRETENDING to be Japanese than acknowledge that they’re idealizing something that…

Right, they absolutely have constitutional rights.

This came up for me in HS when a teacher tried to go after me for refusing to stand for the national anthem. She found out the hard way that no, you cannot force a student to do that. I think people misconstrue some elements of restriction, such as dress code, as a…

Too busy lapping up whatever frothy-ass bullshit Bari Weiss is putting up on substack. It never fucking matters.

I went to state school and a out of state masters program. Most of my friends went to state schools and many went through a masters program, too. The majority of my debt is actually a result of my state school; tuition rose dramatically after my first year.

Judging by the comments I will get lots of pissy responses so my caveat is: of course this makes a demonstrable difference for many (probably the interest more than the forgiveness) but there are two things I want to highlight:

a) As you’ve kinda stated, if you are on income-driven repayment, you’re still just barely…

I mean, the obvious thing we always point to is that there are dragons and ice creatures here so what the fuck is “historical accuracy” but they still attempt to argue that there’s some remote tether to medieval history. It’s not actually there, it’s bullshit, and they just can’t help themselves.

I’m just laughing…

Right, I’m not really a lovato fan by any means but she’s been pretty clear all along that she’s just feeling out what works - something that shouldn’t be off limits to anyone nor inherently considered a sign of something afoot.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with trying on a few hats to see what fits. The issue…

I don’t even know why I keep clicking because I think 90% of my comments now say “I don’t know why I keep clicking” but the jez commentariat is just completely unhinged at this point.

Who even performs any reasonable degree of moderation and approval here at this point? I have no idea how it works anymore and I give…

It’s extremely frustrating because age discourse flatlines a lot of actually-worth-talking-about issues in terms of relationship dynamics and who holds power, which CAN still be an issue when there’s a significant age gap, but it’s been completely turned into a math game. A significant gap with one person who is much…

I see this argument a lot - and it’s similarly applied when we talk about casting cisgender people in trans roles and so on - and what this misses is the part where our sentiments about fat people are such that we would rather put people in fat suits than actually go around seeking talent in a variety of different…

I mean, the world itself seems extremely eager to punish victims right now - why would we expect Hollywood, an abuse machine, to behave differently?

Expecting to hear them rail against the King suicide letter any minute now!

Please don’t do this. We don’t know anything about Ezra or their diagnosis, but what we do know is that Ezra has taken many steps to avoid the merest shred of accountability for their actions. This has been ongoing for YEARS, in fact. Ezra has lashed out at fans before when they didn’t like something said to them for…

The stuff about Jamie is what makes me think this as well. It’s not that Federline can’t possibly have been a competent or even good parent - that’s not what I’m saying - but what he’s saying about someone we already know to have literally been abusive to children _per Federline’s own account_ seems pretty suspicious.…

Really thrilling to see Star navigate into uncharted waters here. A show about rich white gay men? My, my! The representation the queer community has long craved, here at last. 

I’m trying to be polite here as I know you’re probably not a jerk but I come across this so consistently and it’s actually incredibly hurtful to be reminded over and over by people who “support” us that we’re annoying to have to deal with linguistically.

Neopronouns exist and are utilized, and every time I see someone…

Rodlyn, Ezra IS nonbinary. They don’t “identify as nonbinary”, they simply are nonbinary. You’d never preface an article by stating that a cisgender person “identifies as” a man or a woman. 

It’s all certainly helpful additional information but I honestly don’t believe putting this information in front of Depp supporters does much. It matters to put it out there no matter what, of course, that’s not what I’m saying - but that they are at a point of being so far gone with this conspiracy theory that…