Stuff I See Around The old Interweb

Brennan was bullied so badly that he had to be pulled out of school and homeschooled. Those kids hated his ass! And look at him now. What more proof do you need that being surrounded by people who want to kill you during your school years doesn't say fucking anything about how loveable you are or what your life will be like as an adult.

as enormous an IP as harry potter is today, i can't really see how they will be able to maintain the same momentum without that kind of lightining-in-a-bottle energy. unless rowling decides to release new harry potter books (which, who knows, she very well could) i feel like it's likely that this whole thing peters out in a few years. millennials will begin to lose interest as they realize that they won't be able to relive their childhoods in the way they want to and their gen alpha kids with attention spans totally destroyed by social media will move on to the next new thing. until then, though, we'll just have to hunker down 🙃

the importance of harry potter to the formation of modern internet fandom literally cannot be overstated. a lot of the nostalgia for it is tied up in early 2000s internet/internet fandom culture as it was many millennials’ (including yours truly’s) first entry point into that world.

Matty Boy is crashing out because some women are showing sympathy for the woman who contacted multiple suicide hotlines and was on a constantly changing anti-psychotic pill regimen, and who is either going to spend the rest of her life in jail or in a mental institution.

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Is that what “privilege” looks like? Having conversations with one another on the internet while a murderer faces justice for her crimes?

Am I taking crazy pills for thinking a national conversation about postpartum psychosis doesn’t mean this woman’s trial has stopped? Every night she’s taken back into custody in handcuffs. You know, in jail.

It is super weird how leftists cried fainted spoke in tongues over Harris working with Liz Cheney to reach disaffected Republicans but are now mad that Crockett knows she can’t reach MAGA nor expects to. I wonder what the common denominator is.

Ironically, Trump not being on the ticket could end up helping Mike Rogers, possibly the only case of that helping a Republican.