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Michele Dec 15, 2022

Loving the exploration of the harmful feedback loop of social and mainstream media in #MeghanandHarryNetflix.
But also someone just misused “symbolic annihilation” and now I’m having “social capital” and “emotional labor” anxiety.

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Michele Dec 14, 2022

I probably care bc people always used to tell me I should be one when I was little bc I’ve always had long legs. And yanno, because people comment on children’s bodies in creepy ways.

Michele Dec 14, 2022

Anyone else have a weird useless flex that your brain refuses to let go even though it wouldn’t matter anyway?

Mine is that I’m too tall to be a Rockette. I can’t dance for shit.

Michele Dec 14, 2022

Annalee Newitz 🍜Dec 14, 2022

I'm old enough to remember when Yahoo! Groups unceremoniously nuked every single LGBT mailing list overnight, leaving people completely untethered from communities they had relied on and loved. When that happened, we got angry at Yahoo. And yet when people flee from Twitter, anger is directed at those "defectors". Twitter is not a country, and we were not its citizens. It is a corporation. If Twitter is driving people away, it's Twitter's fault. It's not our job to fix it. #noxp

Michele Dec 14, 2022

Florence Ashley Dec 14, 2022

Transphobes: “Womanhood is not a feeling!”

Best-selling superstar Shania Twain, about to write one of the biggest hits of the decade:

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Michele Dec 14, 2022

Today:

Michele Dec 14, 2022

I work from home so every single one of my BeReals is just me on the couch with my cat on my lap.

Michele Dec 14, 2022

What’s the most magical Christmas movie?
Not your favorite or the best, but the one that really nails Christmas magic vibes.