Julia Carrie Wong

honestly very excited to see some very serious people get very seriously concerned about the non-commercial use of municipal recreational facilities during non-work hours

I don’t love it when the rats come on the platform to me that is a step too far

The culture that produced this ad is the same culture that keeps publishing handwringing takes about therapists “pushing” adult children to go no contact with their parents, despite it being well established that childhood sexual abuse is common.

this piece got so much less attention than the other big piece about this movie published today but it was a thousand times more interesting and informative

I’m not a culture writer so I don’t know all the nuances of this stuff but I find culture writing that studiously amd self-consciously avoids spoilers to be annoying and often pointless to read, like if you’re going to write about the thing, please go ahead and write about the thing

ok i think the moral of the movie is that humans cannot be trusted to draw accurate conclusions from visual media

I love trying to read an article longer than 250 words on a browser on my phone the constant reloading adds a lovely frisson of danger to the reading experience also it loses my place every time it reloads which is both interactive and disorienting best of all is when the ad tech kills the page dead

among other things I feel kind of confused about what a documentary is

My great-great grandmother got herself and her family on a boat from Odessa to the US after Cossacks beat her husband over the head during a pogrom. He was never the same. It would have looked a lot like this. Disgraceful.

there are a lot of things that are going on in the world and most of them are unfathomably bad but if there’s one thing I will not abide it is strangers having a slightly different opinion than me on the issue of the beautiful singer and the terrible store

ngl i bet the magicians at the fancy automaton bird shop were right cunts

i'm not just saying this because i love kelly clarkson i'm saying this because i don't like twee stores that aspire to be experiences

it’s weird how much people want to use history to deny difference my friends that is not what analogy is for that is just another way to terminate thought

spent a little time thinking about what will happen with the live-streamed footage of a firing squad execution on this internet we have and I don’t think a society comes back from it

the propaganda footage of boat strikes in the Caribbean is the direct precursor for this, but I think it will be meaningfully different to have a named individual as the target of a firing squad, esp one who uses a wheelchair

spent a little time thinking about what will happen with the live-streamed footage of a firing squad execution on this internet we have and I don’t think a society comes back from it

this kind of civic celebration of official violence seems designed to implicate as many people as possible in the crimes of the state, which prepares the ground for more violence

one of my favorite Sondheim jokes is when he was like “actually I can write a simple hummable show tune” and then he put it in the mouths of two corny psychopaths where it belonged