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Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: [email protected]. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.
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Enraged, nauseated by this tasteless dictator cosplay headed to town

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

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Imagining Elon gorging mountains of cocaine like Tony Montana at the end of Scarface to prepare for a weekend of bitchy little breakup tweets.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

We all knew that Trump and Musk's sordid alliance was going to end in this petulant, loud, and stupid way. Now the end is here, and there's no avoiding exposure to it, which I find deeply fucking irritating.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My very favorite Morris pattern 💆🏼‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

That's right, queen. (Love the NPG — from all appearances, it's under the right leadership.)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Not trying to put on a tinfoil hat, but I’m beginning to suspect that a few of America’s more literate overlords read “Harrison Bergeron” in AP English and thought to themselves, “hmm seems good.” Thus, all these rancid generative AI programs, which are gradually turning brains into cheese.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

submitted 4 days ago • 65 comments

I'll say this: the Dems' commitment to political uselessness has grown so extreme, it almost looks like performance art.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Update: My DMs are bursting with feverish agreement. You little freaks. 😛

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I think that when you turn 40, you should receive a comprehensive list of everyone who has ever had a crush on you up until that point in your life. No matter if the crush lasted one hour, while the crusher was inebriated; it goes on the list. (I'm turning 40 on the 13th.)

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

New kenning, compliments of the three-and-a-half year old: a highway service station is a “potty store”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Lord forgive me, I bought a pair of pedal pushers.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I haven’t used AI to write any of the stuff I’ve published but I think AI might be using me. If that makes sense.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Good for sure, although I continue to feel insane over this protracted definitional litigation. So much gnashing of teeth, so many profoundly bad faith accusations, and all because so many of us have borne witness to what is happening, and dared to describe it with the most accurate term.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

…the space rock?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

bewildered + big mad

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It’s just now clicking that my 40th birthday lands on Friday the 13th (in June, there’s still time to buy me a gift). Will I turn into a witch or…???

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

oh my god can u imagine!!!

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

At 9 p.m., my 3.5 year old emerged from his bedroom, armed with three ukuleles (yes, three, don't ask). Love him though I do, this was not a welcome sight.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

So proud of my wildly talented friend!!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

From the moment my son was born I realized that loving him would always be inextricable from the fear of harm befalling him. What Palestinian parents are being made to endure is the most inhumane torture, and history will judge us accordingly.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The soft animal of my body also hates this.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

I’m surely not the only one who wishes Douglas Adams were here to comment on the ChatGPT of it all. Maybe it would be a useful time for an Adamsissance.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

You can’t whimsy your way out of this one, guy.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Whole Foods played both “Girl,” by Beck and “I Turn My Camera On,” by Spoon. So, that means…whatever it means.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The current administration is deporting toddlers with Stage 4 cancer. At this point, I do not give a FUCK about Joe Biden's Swiss cheese brain.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely grotesque. So much suffering across this country, in Gaza, in Sudan, and the government spends millions to coddle this evil fool’s ravenous ego. Truly disgusting priorities for a country to possess.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Would be the largest visible military presence in the District since the miserable couple weeks between January 6 and Biden’s inauguration. A genuinely terrifying time to live on Capitol Hill, by the way. Luckily the voters of America decided none of that mattered.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments