Elly
@ellysaysopa.bsky.social
Do you think a depressed person could make this?
As both a woman and a millennial, I have officially ruined everything.
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
As both a woman and a millennial, I have officially ruined everything.
"While the olds may think they are saving us by sticking around, what they are often doing is denying the future itself just when Americans most keenly long to be reminded that there is one ahead of us."
And here's @rtraister.bsky.social on the Olds v the Youngs: nymag.com/intelligence...
It’s My Party and I’ll Leave When I Want To
Talking to the gerontocracy.
nymag.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"While the olds may think they are saving us by sticking around, what they are often doing is denying the future itself just when Americans most keenly long to be reminded that there is one ahead of us."
Greek people know that *everyone* is your aunt, uncle, or cousin growing up whether they are related to you or not. But also 100% do not know my actual relation to my dad's cousin, so yeah man, she's my aunt.
I used to love how my daughter's little friend Neha, down the street, would call me "Uncle Jeff" when the girls were little.
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Greek people know that *everyone* is your aunt, uncle, or cousin growing up whether they are related to you or not. But also 100% do not know my actual relation to my dad's cousin, so yeah man, she's my aunt.
Can't say I have any notes on this lede.
October 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Can't say I have any notes on this lede.
I'm that age where you run into friends at physical therapy.
October 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm that age where you run into friends at physical therapy.
As someone who grew up in Dearborn, I sure hope America looks more like Dearborn in 50 years than this racist xenophobic shit.
Ask Matt Walsh what the Founders and the first oh 200 years of America thought about Catholics. Total bigoted dumbass. Shame that Dearborn Michigan sided with him in protest.
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
As someone who grew up in Dearborn, I sure hope America looks more like Dearborn in 50 years than this racist xenophobic shit.
"Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries."
I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries."
People often ask why I don't like bubbles and it's because they're trying to kill me.
Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.
Costco’s urgent recall: Get the bottle out of the house, don’t even try to return it
Costco considers a recalled wine so dangerous that it has sent a letter to every store member who bought a bottle telling them to immediately throw it away.
trib.al
September 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
People often ask why I don't like bubbles and it's because they're trying to kill me.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
www.thecrimson.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
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September 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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every time I open the hard difficulty level Pips my brain completely shuts down
September 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
every time I open the hard difficulty level Pips my brain completely shuts down
Strange Currencies (for 30 years prior to The Bear tyvm).
Electrolite, Walk Unafraid, Country Feedback, So Fast So Numb, Drive, Fall On Me and a million more way up there tho 🙃
Electrolite, Walk Unafraid, Country Feedback, So Fast So Numb, Drive, Fall On Me and a million more way up there tho 🙃
September 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Strange Currencies (for 30 years prior to The Bear tyvm).
Electrolite, Walk Unafraid, Country Feedback, So Fast So Numb, Drive, Fall On Me and a million more way up there tho 🙃
Electrolite, Walk Unafraid, Country Feedback, So Fast So Numb, Drive, Fall On Me and a million more way up there tho 🙃
On the train reading @chrislhayes.bsky.social's book while simultaneously doing the Connections and eavesdropping on another woman's call, and uh I think I get it
August 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
On the train reading @chrislhayes.bsky.social's book while simultaneously doing the Connections and eavesdropping on another woman's call, and uh I think I get it
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I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
20 years old? Pretty sure we need to do some fact checking here because this album came out when I was in my 20s and oh no
Twin Cinema: what an album! I wrote about it:
The New Pornographers' 'Twin Cinema' Turns 20
Carl Newman was on an unstoppable tear — an all-time NBA Jam “HE’S ON FIRE” power-pop onslaught. His band the New Pornographers had exploded out of Vancouver with their high-powered, ultra-catchy 2000...
www.stereogum.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
20 years old? Pretty sure we need to do some fact checking here because this album came out when I was in my 20s and oh no
Me being a good homeowner, proactively calling roofers just to have a look
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Me learning we need a new roof, animal control, attic repair/ventilation, and mold remediation
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Me learning we need a new roof, animal control, attic repair/ventilation, and mold remediation
August 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Me being a good homeowner, proactively calling roofers just to have a look
vs
Me learning we need a new roof, animal control, attic repair/ventilation, and mold remediation
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Me learning we need a new roof, animal control, attic repair/ventilation, and mold remediation
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Reading this @gqmagazine.bsky.social profile of Hasan Piker and oh my god this paragraph just made me feel like the cryptkeeper www.gq.com/story/hasan-...
August 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Reading this @gqmagazine.bsky.social profile of Hasan Piker and oh my god this paragraph just made me feel like the cryptkeeper www.gq.com/story/hasan-...
person sitting next to me on the train listening to a podcast with no headphones like we're not living in a society here
August 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
person sitting next to me on the train listening to a podcast with no headphones like we're not living in a society here
Come for the clean energy talk, stay for the accurate music takes.
Fiona Apple is my Gen X tribune. She never chased musical trends, never hired surgeons to give her a fake face & body, never co-hosted dumb reality shows, never became a social media "personality," never appeared in cheeseball advertisements.
She never sold out. All hail a queen. 🫅
She never sold out. All hail a queen. 🫅
August 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Come for the clean energy talk, stay for the accurate music takes.
Being a staff member in higher ed is increasingly fucking bleak.
Northwestern University announced Tuesday that it was laying off 425 staffers as the university faces a $790 million federal funding freeze from the Trump administration.
https://trib.al/ekGFuxI
https://trib.al/ekGFuxI
Northwestern University lays off 425 amid Trump funding freeze
In an email to the university community Tuesday, Northwestern's president, Michael Schill, announced the school's most extreme cost-cutting measure yet. This year, the Trump administration announced it was freezing $790 million earmarked for the school.
trib.al
July 30, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Being a staff member in higher ed is increasingly fucking bleak.
I regret to be the one who informs you that the sitcoms where the mom dramatically throws out her back are actually underplaying it.
July 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I regret to be the one who informs you that the sitcoms where the mom dramatically throws out her back are actually underplaying it.
Elected Republicans sure hate paying people who don't work, unless the people who aren't working are the elected Republicans.
July 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Elected Republicans sure hate paying people who don't work, unless the people who aren't working are the elected Republicans.
