As a bi woman wow it is so hard to pick up girls. I feel for the men.

Indeed. When I was younger, I would’ve given anything to have the vast choice that straight women have.

Someone on Reddit said that dating for men is like trying to find a drink of water in a desert, while dating for women is like trying to find a drink of clean water in a swamp. I think that’s roughly accurate.

Getting rejected all the time and how extremely passive women seem in dating really sucks though. I don’t understanding being that passive and I guess I never will (having not been raised or socialized that way).

Around the World in Eighty Lies. How a writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura.

God I have such a good bullshit detector. I read a number of these stories — not even realizing they were by the same author — and thought, “Reads like hogwash to me.” Because they seemed so specious, I never linked to the pieces and stopped without even finishing most of them.

Anything that at all reeks of Malcolm Gladwell just instantly throws me off. All of Mastbaum’s journalistic turds did that. Someone really should pay me for this because I can detect BS 10 miles away and upwind.

What’s a moment in your life that felt like a real turning point, but might seem insignificant to others?

When I realized at about 13 that I could just…do things. I vowed to do whatever I liked and fuck anyone who hated me or wanted to beat on me.

And so I did. Improved my life and social standing immensely. Got me some more scars too, but what can you do? (Well, bash some bully heads in, which I also did.)

I know a million people have written about this scene, but that’s because it’s perfect. The composition, music, lighting, blocking, photography — it’s all just spot on. Stranger Things never lived up to its first season and only felt like the 1980s to those who didn’t live through that time, but Sadie Sink’s acting is just so wonderful here.

What I particularly love about is that even if you watch it a dozen times, it’s still suspenseful. It feels like you don’t know if she’ll get away. That is impressive. And if that is what depression feels like, I want no part of it.

I was so happy that they had an extended and pretty-accurate B-17 checklist scene in Masters of the Air. They could’ve cut that out and didn’t.

I am angry about how women treat me now.

Fully fuck how shallow people are in general. Funny, getting hotter has made me more incel-sympathetic (note: I am definitionally not an incel).

Sie hat eine so schöne Stimme.

The first ten on today’s playlist:

Why does expressing a preference in potential partners become “fat shaming” the moment you say you’re not attracted to fat women?

Because the majority of women are now fat and, as already observed, they control the dating market so they set the terms. Nothing triggers a lot of women like having the same (or higher) standards than they hold you to. Women are allowed standards; men are not.

If that hurts anyone’s feelings? Chin up, you’ll fucking live.

The upcoming war against China will be the first to see widespread use of anti-satellite weapons on both sides. Expect GPS to be intermittently to fully unavailable for 2-3 years.

This will lead to balloon-based GPS and other similar technologies used during that time, as well as “positioning beacons” in major cities built on/around existing cellular tech.

Saw some gray whales today, way off in the distance. Was standing on some bluffs somewhere south of Mendocino. Even though they were far away, it was still really cool.

And the weather today was perfect — little wind and temps in the 60s.

I cain’t even tell you how much I like this shot of Thomasin McKenzie from Last Night in Soho, but it’s a lot.