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the fact that roger ebert wrote this is 2009, way before fandom and reference culture was anywhere near as ubiquitous as it is now... pic.twitter.com/OXtPLwwRCm— acquired waste 🇺🇦 (@camelcrushed) October 9, 2022

Thread on Grey’s Anatomy’s Isaiah Washington Some backstory: I moved to LA in 2016 to write. Soon thereafter I started getting noticed by some industry folks. One night, a complete stranger DMs me. A grown man DMing another grown man a photo of himself playing dress up at 11PM? I was confused but I still kept it cordial. pic.twitter.com/vdGrCM0ByS— Dylan Park-Pettiford (@dyllyp) September 26, 2022

Random thought: The obsession with Harry Styles' sexuality fascinates me, because it's where a new generation's golden rule--sexuality is fluid, you can choose from dozens of identities, etc.--crashes into an older rule: Tell us who you are so we can decide what we think of you.— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) September 3, 2022

With all the arguments over whether MAGA Republicans are fascists, I reread William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” to see how much the rise of Hitler and the rise of MAGA smell similar.Conclusion: They do. This thread lists 10 ways. Please take a look. pic.twitter.com/bgTLn4OLgb— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) September 2, 2022

Kim and Kourtney Kardashian, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Hart, and Dwayne Wade have received notices to cut back on their water usage in California after surpassing consumption by 150% multiple times since last year.The state is currently facing its worst drought since the 1800s. pic.twitter.com/SwT0ekdw9R— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 22, 2022

Matt Damon explains why they don't make movies like they used to. pic.twitter.com/BhWypzcsgQ— SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence) August 21, 2022

COUPLES: I am writing about the joy and mundanity of long term relationships. The shared socks, conversations through toilet doors, inherited cousins, shelves, potato bodies, sex scheduled like dental appointments and familiar meals. Tell me: what’s great about the long haul.— Nell Frizzell (@NellFrizzell) August 17, 2022

NYC is gentrified snd segregated as hell, specific crowds in manhattan don't mesh with the tastes of some brooklyn crowds, gigfinesse is monopolizing venue spaces in lower manhattan and paying horribly, and the BX is left with geographical stigma and sporadic DIY scenes https://t.co/COUB3U4zFw— swami sound (back in the day soulecta dub) (@swamisound) August 16, 2022

“"AZ, MI & PA have nominated statewide candidates who would have direct power over the certification process and who worked to overturn the 2020 result or have said they would not have certified it." Could easily undermine a clear Electoral College victory https://t.co/juu3H79M2P”

I frequently find myself in conversations w/ well-meaning people who’ll ask about crime, “Well, we have to do something about it!” And I ask them, “Then why support the same things we’ve always done, which plainly fail to prevent it, hurt people, & cost a fortune?” A dialogue:— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) July 11, 2022

pic.twitter.com/DugRCxTrKM— There are no “bad” foods! (@IWriteAllDay_) August 11, 2022

The millennial formula to building brands (hollow vessels) is topplingThose who (wastefully) slapped condescending design language on a thing we already had & sold it to back to us (via Obama-era optimism) are being punished for their willful wrongdoinghttps://t.co/v4hllwIMMU— hugh francis (@_HHFF) August 10, 2022

This is more or less what my final project is about… Facebook killed the blog and it has killed the ownership of our digital archives with it https://t.co/HTcwRhho1u— Lara Mendonça (@laraisuncool) July 25, 2022

so happy 24k is getting its dues, so here's 24k ft azealia banks @TKAYMAIDZA 🥳 pic.twitter.com/CYCTd9FOIo— َ (@elblrsm) June 20, 2022

In honor of Wendy's show ending here's one of my favorite clips of hers pic.twitter.com/xhhP2GX8A6— STOP DONATING TO BLM NATIONAL AND SHAUN KING (@WrittenByHanna) June 18, 2022

NEW: The Democratic Party just released an ad pointing out that Republicans are voting against solutions to the problems they complain about. pic.twitter.com/fjabW9M7aY— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 10, 2022

In Poland, there is a LARP group that roleplays as contemporary Americans. Here they are doing “Ohio.” pic.twitter.com/ckZRIYZHzV— ✨𝖇𝖊𝖓✨ (@PenBercifield) May 28, 2022