paigewrites.bsky.social
Freelance writer and marketing consultant, weekend grammarian, occasional novelist, equal opportunity dog and cat person
81 posts
41 followers
67 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
comment in response to
post
Truly a staggering array of red flags here, I’m gobsmacked
comment in response to
post
Not a lawyer but this feels an awful lot like unconstitutional prior restraint
comment in response to
post
“Robber barons claim to have a bold idea to help employees with their personal finances, but critics say that company scrip creates debt peonage”
comment in response to
post
I think the failure of legacy institutions (not just the media) is a national disease. I worked for Planned Parenthood in my twenties and public health for a decade after that, so I feel pretty qualified to judge. These old things are unfixable. We should just build new and better things.
comment in response to
post
Let me just casually hike my shirt up so you can see the badge that I wear every time I do a podcast
comment in response to
post
Listen, my grandmother has eaten ice cream every day of the past 93 years and that’s all the data I require
comment in response to
post
Keeping Narcan on hand is such a great thing to do, I hope more candidates follow this example
comment in response to
post
I’ve never thought about that but…yeah, I’ve been lifting for years and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one of those guys so much as touch a barbell
comment in response to
post
I have been thinking about this ever since RFK Jr did a shirtless incline bench during his campaign that was approximately the same as my warm-up set
comment in response to
post
Horses think they want to escape until they actually do, and then it’s instant regret
comment in response to
post
Absolutely the most fragile of men, it’s astonishing to watch them implode as soon as you inform them that you don’t really care about any of their little opinions
comment in response to
post
I’m shocked that this appears to really be happening
comment in response to
post
And on that note I have decided to decline any Oscar nominations I may receive this year
comment in response to
post
Timothy Dolan is, ah, historically a pretty problematic guy all on his own
comment in response to
post
I just can’t help wondering if maybe other non-doll products will be similarly affected
comment in response to
post
This company is rotten all the way through and needs to be pruned from the face of the earth
comment in response to
post
He must have attended a different 90s than the one I was at
comment in response to
post
If birthright citizenship isn’t a thing then I guess I will accept repatriation to my great-grandfather’s native country of…Canada
comment in response to
post
1% chance they would show up for the second half of the first shift
comment in response to
post
I know a few things about factory work and Lutnick would be crying in his car by the first break
comment in response to
post
The Acadia facility that trapped me seemed emphatically pro-danger, but maybe I misread things when they forced me to sleep and shower and change with my door wide open in a mixed-gender unit with minimal staff and no panic buttons anywhere
comment in response to
post
Plenty of Fox guys just pretend to be total dolts when they’re on the air, but just like Hegseth, Kilmeade is an authentically dumb guy, a true oaf’s oaf
comment in response to
post
It is and always has been about misogyny and racism
comment in response to
post
Don’t worry, it’s always turned out fine when governments strip disfavored groups of the essential tools for social and economic participation
comment in response to
post
Doesn’t seem like it would even fit all of his large boys but what do I know about cybertrucks
comment in response to
post
“A Tahoe isn’t even a luxury car, you PHILISTINE”
comment in response to
post
Misogyny is and always has been one of the essential main ingredients for fascism
comment in response to
post
I called all of mine but Jim Banks is one of my senators and he’s *very* into it
comment in response to
post
Lee Greenwood “Proud to be an American”
comment in response to
post
The deliberately obtuse queen of bad faith arguments and tortured logic
comment in response to
post
Misogyny is bad even when it’s directed at profoundly problematic women actually
comment in response to
post
This approach to dealing with Trump only works for white men—if the Canadian PM was a Black woman he would just call her ugly and stupid and hint that she was trans or slept with Pierre Trudeau or something
comment in response to
post
These people keep finding these supposed loopholes that all amount to “it’s wingardium leviOsa, not wingardium leviosA” and then suddenly all republicans in Congress agree that magic was always real and Biden didn’t do the spell right when he issued pardons or won in 2020
comment in response to
post
“He was only supposed to hurt OTHER people, not me”
comment in response to
post
Sometimes I read a thing and I’m like, “Who was I before this?” This is one of those times.
comment in response to
post
As one of his constituents and someone who’s been, uh, peripherally familiar with him since he was a state senator, I can confirm that Jim Banks is not especially interested in anyone except Jim Banks.
comment in response to
post