Raina Bora

I could not, I repeat, NOT date someone who doesn’t eat vegetables. What, am I going to lecture you about eating your carrots so you can grow big and strong? NO! It’s too embarrassing! JUST EAT YOUR VEGETABLES

Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.

My favorite thing about Bluesky is that it has recaptured the old social media experience of: "I made a cool thing!" "I like your cool thing! I also make a thing." "Thank you. Your thing is also very nice! Someday I may try to make that thing."

there are a lot of great scifi shows set in space, not enough scifi shows set in the deep sea (reverse space)

Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

After observing what Tony eats on The Sopranos, I’m pretty sure his so-called “panic attacks” are actually cardiac arrests

Shook to my absolute core (negative) in seeing Lin Manuel Miranda in an episode of The Sopranos

Them: How is it outside rn? New Yorkers:

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

All the websites are bad now. They used to be good, but they are very BAD now!!!!!!!

W/r/t the Neil Gaiman piece, I really hope they get that kid the fuck out of there.

Sexual assault is bad in any capacity, but somehow, reading today’s updates on Neil Gaiman…it’s worse than you can imagine.

Wonder if there are any skeletons in Ann Leckie’s closet, as I spent my winter vacation obsessively reading everything she’s ever written

I would say I’m a tax lawyer’s tax lawyer, most comfortable among the other nerds

A gentle reminder that new year resolutions don’t have to be about positive changes. You can commit to be more petty, seek revenge, and disrespect your enemies.

Solidly in the category “worse me” for 2025

we are entering a golden age of people being so open-minded their brains leak out

Black music powered every significant musical movement. Every.

Some whales are more than 100 years old, smashing previously estimated life expectancies, according to new research. 🐋 🐋 www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025

“Another idol has displaced me … A golden one … I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?” 2/

I think it's wrong that the British refer to all dessert as pudding, regardless of whether or not it's what North Americans understand to be pudding. Morally wrong.

There’s no rush quite like hitting Checkout with Apple Pay on your Etsy cart full of what can only be described as tchotchkes

Okay, so HOT FROSTY? Surprisingly fun, committed to its premise, and reminded me of a 90s-era Brendan Fraiser romcom in the very best ways.

“From October 17 through October 29, 2024, during the fall-run Chinook salmon migration, the data suggest that more than six thousand fish have passed the former Iron Gate Dam site and migrating into the newly re-opened habitats…”

Writers who pay attention to every word: Ottessa Moshfegh. Sam Kriss. I can’t really think of any others off the top of my head

Lindsay Lohan rom-com idea: she goes to Hastings for May Day and accidentally gets put in the Jack and is transported back to pagan England, where she falls in love with a Celtic king or something

open.substack.com/pub/samkriss... Christmas should be renamed “Kriss-mas” because this piece by Sam Kriss was so so good

“You can't give her that!” she screamed. “It's not safe!” IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE. “She's a child!” shouted Crumley. IT'S EDUCATIONAL. “What if she cuts herself?” THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON. - Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Watching The Sopranos…Tony is the very blueprint of the shitty dad and husband, always around, doing nothing but looming and threatening if poked

This is actually what New York looked like today

Can't remember the last time it actually snowed on Christmas Eve in New York City

Kinda feel like twee fashion is back…I just ordered not one, but two, pairs of dainty bow earrings from Etsy…could not be more excited

Really relate to Jeremiah on Queer Eye…I too am extremely pretty and unusually short but fully functional, like if a Polly Pocket could build furniture

Usually each Harvard Law class has 50-70 Black students. This year it’s 19, which is the lowest number since *1965*. Struggling to articulate how sad and angry this makes me (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

I have a theory that some women are attracted to a certain curmudgeonly, gnome-like quality in men…think Barry Keoghan, Jeremy Allen White, Ed Sheeran…do you know what I mean (I don’t like men so this is not my personal type)

The new guy on Queer Eye is adorable…im coming out as pro Jeremiah

The most I've ever felt robbed by the universe was the loss of Pratchett.

Every single person the Fab Five help on Queer Eye is the most adorable person alive