Adriana Hightower
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Got my Covid booster shot + flu vaccine yesterday, and while I'm super into walking through plagues unscathed, my poor little arm hurts today and I think maybe I deserve a tiny treat. Like a hot chocolate, or this $870 green evening dress which I could wear while doing the vacuuming.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Got my Covid booster shot + flu vaccine yesterday, and while I'm super into walking through plagues unscathed, my poor little arm hurts today and I think maybe I deserve a tiny treat. Like a hot chocolate, or this $870 green evening dress which I could wear while doing the vacuuming.
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"until scandal led her" - this is what we call the exonerative tense, like it was the force of some unstoppable scandal bearing down on her and not her sexting a sentient beef jerky with prion disease
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"until scandal led her" - this is what we call the exonerative tense, like it was the force of some unstoppable scandal bearing down on her and not her sexting a sentient beef jerky with prion disease
My current theory is that, among other things, he's historically been a bottom-grubbing snitch. Informed on grotty financial malfeasance by other deeply unpleasant people.
Not criminal, not relevant to Garland, but Trump would want that publicly known about as much as he'd want to lick an ashtray.
Not criminal, not relevant to Garland, but Trump would want that publicly known about as much as he'd want to lick an ashtray.
man, what the fuck is in these files that would a) be worse than anything we have ever learned about him, b) make him willing to risk a maga civil war over it, and c) have him desperately calling half of the republicans in the house and begging them to vote against their release
Trump on Epstein Files: I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you—you’re a terrible reporter—fake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My current theory is that, among other things, he's historically been a bottom-grubbing snitch. Informed on grotty financial malfeasance by other deeply unpleasant people.
Not criminal, not relevant to Garland, but Trump would want that publicly known about as much as he'd want to lick an ashtray.
Not criminal, not relevant to Garland, but Trump would want that publicly known about as much as he'd want to lick an ashtray.
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“you have what it takes to make it to the top” cannot be read as anything but a brutal attack on one’s character
November 13, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“you have what it takes to make it to the top” cannot be read as anything but a brutal attack on one’s character
As a Maine voter, I'll vote for anyone with a pulse with a chance to beat Collins, but Jesus Christ please don't make me fill in my ballot for the mercenary with the Totenkopf tattoo. I've eaten hot dogs with more electable backgrounds than Platner.
We have options! Some of them even house-trained!
We have options! Some of them even house-trained!
October 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As a Maine voter, I'll vote for anyone with a pulse with a chance to beat Collins, but Jesus Christ please don't make me fill in my ballot for the mercenary with the Totenkopf tattoo. I've eaten hot dogs with more electable backgrounds than Platner.
We have options! Some of them even house-trained!
We have options! Some of them even house-trained!
Love protesting, absolutely HATE writing signs. Why do my lines always droop; why are there always too many letters? I do not belong at the revolutionary arts + crafts table.
Next time I'm just gonna write "I HAVE EMBARRASSING FINE MOTOR SKILLS" and be done with it.
Next time I'm just gonna write "I HAVE EMBARRASSING FINE MOTOR SKILLS" and be done with it.
October 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Love protesting, absolutely HATE writing signs. Why do my lines always droop; why are there always too many letters? I do not belong at the revolutionary arts + crafts table.
Next time I'm just gonna write "I HAVE EMBARRASSING FINE MOTOR SKILLS" and be done with it.
Next time I'm just gonna write "I HAVE EMBARRASSING FINE MOTOR SKILLS" and be done with it.
I didn't know this about Platner, and let me tell you, it was a hugely dismaying google search. A real bad time.
I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to candidates, but time spent as Blackwater merc is a no for me, dog. Excuse me, an Xe merc--sorry, Academi merc--whoops Constellis merc--ah shit wait,
I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to candidates, but time spent as Blackwater merc is a no for me, dog. Excuse me, an Xe merc--sorry, Academi merc--whoops Constellis merc--ah shit wait,
Everyone who told you to support John Fetterman in that primary, is now telling you to support an ex-Blackwater mercenary with no voting record in the Maine primary.
When are you going to catch on?
When are you going to catch on?
October 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I didn't know this about Platner, and let me tell you, it was a hugely dismaying google search. A real bad time.
I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to candidates, but time spent as Blackwater merc is a no for me, dog. Excuse me, an Xe merc--sorry, Academi merc--whoops Constellis merc--ah shit wait,
I'm pretty pragmatic when it comes to candidates, but time spent as Blackwater merc is a no for me, dog. Excuse me, an Xe merc--sorry, Academi merc--whoops Constellis merc--ah shit wait,
When the world changes, as it eventually will, I can't wait to read the definitive book on what the fuck has been going on at the NYT in the last 10 years.
It’s always been imperfect but this craven capitulation has been genuinely astonishing and I WANT THAT DIRT. I want vengeful staffers to SPILL.
It’s always been imperfect but this craven capitulation has been genuinely astonishing and I WANT THAT DIRT. I want vengeful staffers to SPILL.
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
When the world changes, as it eventually will, I can't wait to read the definitive book on what the fuck has been going on at the NYT in the last 10 years.
It’s always been imperfect but this craven capitulation has been genuinely astonishing and I WANT THAT DIRT. I want vengeful staffers to SPILL.
It’s always been imperfect but this craven capitulation has been genuinely astonishing and I WANT THAT DIRT. I want vengeful staffers to SPILL.
When I lived in Florence, there was a little toyshop down the street that offered Popemobiles for sale next to fire engines and carabinieri cars, like of course kids want Popemobile toys, of course they do.
Italy is so wonderful that sometimes you forget how delightfully weird it is.
Italy is so wonderful that sometimes you forget how delightfully weird it is.
April 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
When I lived in Florence, there was a little toyshop down the street that offered Popemobiles for sale next to fire engines and carabinieri cars, like of course kids want Popemobile toys, of course they do.
Italy is so wonderful that sometimes you forget how delightfully weird it is.
Italy is so wonderful that sometimes you forget how delightfully weird it is.
I could watch Britt Lower contemptuously say "Yeah, no shit," on a constant loop for the rest of my life. That dame can deliver a line.
You see someone like Lower get cast in Severance, and you realize how many lethally talented actors out there just never get their shot. Thank god someone saw her.
You see someone like Lower get cast in Severance, and you realize how many lethally talented actors out there just never get their shot. Thank god someone saw her.
March 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I could watch Britt Lower contemptuously say "Yeah, no shit," on a constant loop for the rest of my life. That dame can deliver a line.
You see someone like Lower get cast in Severance, and you realize how many lethally talented actors out there just never get their shot. Thank god someone saw her.
You see someone like Lower get cast in Severance, and you realize how many lethally talented actors out there just never get their shot. Thank god someone saw her.
Man, zealous new converts are absolutely the most tiresome people on earth. Doesn't really matter what it is -- faith, atheism, veganism, political activism, whatever.
The benign form is junior-year-abroad smugness, god bless those bores. The malevolent form is this haunted pork mannequin of a man.
The benign form is junior-year-abroad smugness, god bless those bores. The malevolent form is this haunted pork mannequin of a man.
In this clip, Vance explicitly says that, *more* than being about national security, this is about "who do *we,* as an American public, decide gets to join our national community." Not to be Influence of Soros on this but this is antithetical to an open society
www.foxnews.com/video/636998...
www.foxnews.com/video/636998...
JD Vance reveals whether more deportations of green card holders are coming | Fox News Video
Sneak peek: Vice President JD Vance discusses the rights of green card holders in an 'Ingraham Angle' exclusive.
www.foxnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Man, zealous new converts are absolutely the most tiresome people on earth. Doesn't really matter what it is -- faith, atheism, veganism, political activism, whatever.
The benign form is junior-year-abroad smugness, god bless those bores. The malevolent form is this haunted pork mannequin of a man.
The benign form is junior-year-abroad smugness, god bless those bores. The malevolent form is this haunted pork mannequin of a man.
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As you may know, I've been living in Canada since August. In this interview, I tried to convey something I don't think Americans quite appreciate — how profoundly *angry* Canadians are, and the danger a US-Canadian rupture poses to our future prosperity and security www.vox.com/politics/403...
Canada is so furious at the US right now
Vox’s correspondent in Canada reports on the reaction to Trump’s tariffs.
www.vox.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
As you may know, I've been living in Canada since August. In this interview, I tried to convey something I don't think Americans quite appreciate — how profoundly *angry* Canadians are, and the danger a US-Canadian rupture poses to our future prosperity and security www.vox.com/politics/403...
I realise anyone on Bluesky is already aware that the breach with Canada is serious, but even smart, informed Americans cannot conceive of how intense Canadian hatred has become.
If you think Canadians are actually as nice as their manners suggest, you're in for an exceptionally nasty surprise.
If you think Canadians are actually as nice as their manners suggest, you're in for an exceptionally nasty surprise.
March 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I realise anyone on Bluesky is already aware that the breach with Canada is serious, but even smart, informed Americans cannot conceive of how intense Canadian hatred has become.
If you think Canadians are actually as nice as their manners suggest, you're in for an exceptionally nasty surprise.
If you think Canadians are actually as nice as their manners suggest, you're in for an exceptionally nasty surprise.
If human civillisation is a series of pendulum swings from cooperative growth to entropic collapse, I cannot WAIT for the backlash to this current backlash.
I want the next era of cooperative growth to hit these motherfuckers like a cluster bomb. You're gonna feel our progress real hard, assholes.
I want the next era of cooperative growth to hit these motherfuckers like a cluster bomb. You're gonna feel our progress real hard, assholes.
March 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If human civillisation is a series of pendulum swings from cooperative growth to entropic collapse, I cannot WAIT for the backlash to this current backlash.
I want the next era of cooperative growth to hit these motherfuckers like a cluster bomb. You're gonna feel our progress real hard, assholes.
I want the next era of cooperative growth to hit these motherfuckers like a cluster bomb. You're gonna feel our progress real hard, assholes.
Hey, shoutout to everyone who decided to stay alive today. You did it, kid. Proud of you.
March 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey, shoutout to everyone who decided to stay alive today. You did it, kid. Proud of you.
I need elected Dems to be way more alarmed about being primaried than they currently are. I want them to be ACUTELY concerned about their own future prospects.
There are a lot of fired federal workers looking for new jobs rn. Hope a bunch of them decide to discomfit the fuck out of comfortable Dems
There are a lot of fired federal workers looking for new jobs rn. Hope a bunch of them decide to discomfit the fuck out of comfortable Dems
February 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I need elected Dems to be way more alarmed about being primaried than they currently are. I want them to be ACUTELY concerned about their own future prospects.
There are a lot of fired federal workers looking for new jobs rn. Hope a bunch of them decide to discomfit the fuck out of comfortable Dems
There are a lot of fired federal workers looking for new jobs rn. Hope a bunch of them decide to discomfit the fuck out of comfortable Dems
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"We're eating more cheese cubes - and loving it!"
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
February 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"We're eating more cheese cubes - and loving it!"
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
Have you read George Saunders's essay "The Braindead Megaphone"? Published in 2007, this part of it eerily predicts the direction America has taken since ~2014
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staying alive is a radical act in a society that wants you dead!!
When I say they *want* you to **** yourself, I'm being literal. The most progressive, black block anarchist, radical thing you can do right now is stay alive. Ask for help. Your community will step up. Just stay alive.
February 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
staying alive is a radical act in a society that wants you dead!!
I'm so tired of being furious all the time. I only ever want to be mad about the very dumbest shit possible, like people who say EVOO, or the acceptability of tilting your seat back on a transatlantic flight.
I don't want to be enraged at nazis. I never want to think about them at all.
I don't want to be enraged at nazis. I never want to think about them at all.
February 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I'm so tired of being furious all the time. I only ever want to be mad about the very dumbest shit possible, like people who say EVOO, or the acceptability of tilting your seat back on a transatlantic flight.
I don't want to be enraged at nazis. I never want to think about them at all.
I don't want to be enraged at nazis. I never want to think about them at all.
The onslaught of heart-sinking news has me feeling like rancid two-week-old garbage. Heartsick and gutsick and soulsick.
I'm reminding myself to breathe and take breaks, and maybe you could use a reminder to do the same. Take care of yourselves, kids.
I'm reminding myself to breathe and take breaks, and maybe you could use a reminder to do the same. Take care of yourselves, kids.
February 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The onslaught of heart-sinking news has me feeling like rancid two-week-old garbage. Heartsick and gutsick and soulsick.
I'm reminding myself to breathe and take breaks, and maybe you could use a reminder to do the same. Take care of yourselves, kids.
I'm reminding myself to breathe and take breaks, and maybe you could use a reminder to do the same. Take care of yourselves, kids.
Really hope Mr Toast is having a great day wherever he is.
February 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Really hope Mr Toast is having a great day wherever he is.
The FT just absolutely prancing into the first image of a How it Started meme like a unicorn doing high kicks.
January 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The FT just absolutely prancing into the first image of a How it Started meme like a unicorn doing high kicks.
@kirbys-epic-sad.bsky.social Hey, you seem like a good person and I'm sorry if I sounded brusque. I'm just exhausted and heartsick and not coping particularly well right now.
Hope you get some rest tonight. Hope you're doing ok. Hang in there.
Hope you get some rest tonight. Hope you're doing ok. Hang in there.
January 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
@kirbys-epic-sad.bsky.social Hey, you seem like a good person and I'm sorry if I sounded brusque. I'm just exhausted and heartsick and not coping particularly well right now.
Hope you get some rest tonight. Hope you're doing ok. Hang in there.
Hope you get some rest tonight. Hope you're doing ok. Hang in there.
@emilylhauser.bsky.social Hey, possibly weird question: were you a commenter on Jezebel way back in ye olden days? I have this niggling feeling that I loved reading your smart takes way back when.
If I'm thinking of someone else, forgive me.
If I'm thinking of someone else, forgive me.
January 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
@emilylhauser.bsky.social Hey, possibly weird question: were you a commenter on Jezebel way back in ye olden days? I have this niggling feeling that I loved reading your smart takes way back when.
If I'm thinking of someone else, forgive me.
If I'm thinking of someone else, forgive me.
I've read excellent explainers about Jo Rowling's descent into reactionary madness, but I ache to know what happened in her private life in the last 7 years.
Seems like there's been a rupture between her + at least one kid, and the black mold infestation sure indicates some kind of personal crisis.
Seems like there's been a rupture between her + at least one kid, and the black mold infestation sure indicates some kind of personal crisis.
January 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I've read excellent explainers about Jo Rowling's descent into reactionary madness, but I ache to know what happened in her private life in the last 7 years.
Seems like there's been a rupture between her + at least one kid, and the black mold infestation sure indicates some kind of personal crisis.
Seems like there's been a rupture between her + at least one kid, and the black mold infestation sure indicates some kind of personal crisis.