Stuff I saw on the internet last week
I like Twitter and I like Tumblr. I like Reddit and I like reading articles. Here’s some of that stuff. (Also, you have to love that Substack has embedding capabilities for a ton of social media platforms, but not for Tumblr. It truly is the hated stepchild of the internet.)
TWEETS!
Oh my GOD I would kill for this:
My boyfriend is a scientist and I can attest that this is accurate:
This coulda been the best pandemic ever:
Hey America, If it makes you feel better, Ontario’s Trump-lite leader is opening schools with pretty much no plan, either, and is adopting, “If only there was something we could do about class sizes; oh well” attitude about it:
I also get smug/defensive on elevators depending on if the person next to me goes to a floor lower or higher than mine:
This is my attitude to every single person I meet:
I am in this picture and I don’t like it:
A tweet that only a very specific niche of Canadians will understand and appreciate:
I am terrified of Gen Z, but only because they are so much smarter and better and cooler than I am:
Okay, but RIGHT?!?!
An excellent review of this film; Jocelyn and I had similar opinions when we talked about it:
I love these teens who are discovering Phil Collins for the first time:
REDDIT!
Oh, sweet baby, this isn’t a “white lie,” it’s a giant red flag that’s been set on fire:
We got into a fight a few weeks ago and I finally had enough and confronted him about these things. Long story short - he doesn’t help his parents, they actually pay his phone bill, and this was all a lie. He doesn’t own that apartment, he didn’t pay off that debt from his company (he initially told me his parents helped pay it off and then like 3 mins later “came clean” and said that his business partner paid it off so I have literally no idea what the truth is there) and if anything, in my eyes, his parents are the ones who are financially supporting him.
So now, I’m dating a 31 yr old man who doesn’t pay his own phone bill, was lying to me and/or completely fabricating aspects of his life for 3 years, and then when confronted about it, continued to make up lies and then came clean about them 5 mins later. I’m obviously concerned that he could lie for this long, about fundamentally important things like our values, and so on.
So you cheated on your wife, and when your young daughter was understandably mad at you, you used her college fund to pay for law school for your new wife, who had no idea that’s what the money was for, and now you don’t understand why everyone is mad at you? Wow, what a prize.
My wife now won’t talk to me because she feels that I put her in a bad position and should’ve told her before that the money was my daughters because she figured that it was just extra money I had left over and not my daughters fund. Shes saying that I caused unnecessary drama and could’ve handled the situation way better and that she’s trying her best to fix what I broke but she’s exhausted. She’s currently packing to go stay with her parents for the time being so that’s that.
My ex wife is furious at me because my wife called her and she didn’t want to hear my wife’s “bitch voice”. She blew up at me for taking everything so far and is blaming me for ruining everyone’s happiness. She says that I can’t fix anything anymore and not to even worry about my daughters fund because she didn’t raise “her” daughter “to get on all four knees and beg” and that she has everything figured out for “her” daughter now. She thanked me for putting everything in perspective and that I’m not longer permitted to visit or contact my daughter (she has full custody).
I’m now sitting here typing all this out and figuring out ways to contest custody so that’s what’s happening in my life right now. I just don’t get how everything got all messed up when my heart is in the right place. I don’t feel wrong.
It took me way too long to figure out what was happening in this video.
And also, here’s a gross, but very satisfying video of an ingrown hair being removed.
TUMBLR POSTS!
Hey, if it launches a revolution, at least the movie will have done one thing right:
(The original account has been deactivated but I found the post here.)
This is absolutely the kind of thing I would have installed, thinking I was so clever for making good use of space, and then would immediately injure myself on:
(via pancakeke.)
As someone who, many times, wore wide-legged raver pants (or trousers, for you British people) in front of her grandfather, I feel this pain:
(via lake-erie.)
I’m “UR DUMPT”:
(via carolkindofno.)
I liked this pun so much that I sent it to my dad. He liked it too.
(via inabasket.)
ARTICLES AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS THINGS!
3 of Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen stars of color are departing the video channel after failed contract negotiations — I can’t believe Bon Appétit fucked this up so badly (I mean, I can totally believe it, it’s just that it was such an easy fix to make).
Why Gen Z Turned on Lin-Manuel Miranda — I think one can both like and appreciate Hamilton while also acknowledging its significant failings, and I think one can both admire and like Lin-Manuel Miranda, and also never want to hear him say the word “clit” ever again. But also Gen Z, you’re amazing, please burn the world to the ground. (I found this article via the Deez Links newsletter, which is very good and you should subscribe!!)
Jesse Wente’s goal as new chair of the Canada Council for the Arts? To reduce the harm it causes — My friend Carly Maga interviewed Wente for this piece. I’m so glad Wente took on this role and I think he’ll do a lot of good, but it’s also completely understandable that he was a bit hesitant to take the job.
the tree who set healthy boundaries — an alternate ending for Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" — boundaries are very important!!
That’s all for today! Talk soon.
Love,
Kat
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