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LUPITA NYONG'O for Elle Magazine — May 2026

do racist white people have any idea how fucking stupid they sound when they try to claim this woman isn't beautiful enough to play Helen of Troy

goodsirs

Widow's Bay 1.06 "Our History"

pinstripebindi

I was like BITCH SHE MET THEM LIKE 5 MINUTES AGO

socialistexan

Same exact playbook, down to the "but it was based on a lie."

socialistexan

It's kind of amazing how much this is the identical strategy. Focusing on the distress and harm of parents over the trans or autistic person themselves. Pathologizing the condition treating it as an epidemic, including calling it a social contagion causing a worrying "explosion" of diagnosis because it is "trendy."

Ignoring the experts on the subject while also appealing to "common sense" and dismissing all research that contradicts them while also appealing to "basic science."

Plus it's all the same quacks and bad actors behind previous medical and social moral panics saying the same things in the same ways and no one seems to acknowledge that.

jackironsides

The same man who invented ABA to stop autistic behaviours also invented conversion therapy, which was explicitly to 'stop adult transsexualism', so this feels less surprising than it should be.

pinstripebindi

fun fact, there was a huge overlap in bad actors between the satanic panic and the "shaken baby syndrome" hysteria. the grift changes but grifters never do.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is resigning, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Good riddance.

bartfargo

Now we will never again have to deal with the cognitive dissonance of seeing the words "Tulsi Gabbard" and "intelligence" in the same sentence.

truth-has-a-liberal-bias

Tulsi Gabbard is resigning as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, she announced Friday.

Gabbard, in a resignation letter addressed to Trump, said she has to step down in order to support her husband, Abraham Williams, who has “recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.”

From CNBC

pinstripebindi

her husband is gonna treat his cancer with Ivermectin, right?

sashayed

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

sashayed

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

pinstripebindi

I feel this way about cave diving. I don't have to do it! in fact I am too fat to even be able to! I couldn't even be made to do it against my will!

myrandomstuffpage

Fuck you, you worthless senile skin bag. This shit is on you. You could’ve stopped this by helping impeach the traitorous fucker, but you couldn’t be bothered.

Sincerely hope to use the Mitch McConnell memorial bathroom very soon.

pinstripebindi

drop dead you evil ghoul, this shit is on you "the gravedigger of democracy"

republicansexscandals

pinstripebindi

the GOP is never beating the allegations

I make some version of this rant several times a year

As someone who works in the food industry, I would like to inform you that most of the "scary chemicals" you see on labels are just vitamins. Phytonadione is Vitamin K. Ascorbic acid is Vitamin C. Pyridoxine hydrochloride is B6. Cholecalciferol is D3. I could go on but I trust you get it. These "scary chemicals" are why you no longer see kids with things like rickets and pellagra. It's why you probably don't even know what rickets and pellagra are. You're welcome.

And if you're tempted to say "But you can get those naturally from food", maybe you can, but everybody absolutely can't, which is why we started enriching food in the first place.

alexandar-deactivated20231029

💀

pinstripebindi

whenever my mother praises my cooking I just tell her I possess both common sense and the ability to follow directions

robertreich

Just wondering: Do you still shop on Amazon?

pinstripebindi

are you working class and living in the rural south where there are often no options--not no "good" options, ZERO options--for the things that you need within 90 minutes of driving?

something tells me no.

daysleftofsecondterm

Beautiful, you don’t HAVE to forgive them. You just can’t ridicule them after leaving for being “tainted” or “evil” or whatever the acceptable word is now. Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

“But they should’ve known sooner” and we should’ve known sooner that Destiel was never gonna meaningfully happen outside of queerbaiting, what’s your point?

“I never want them near me” that’s fine, but you do realize to insult them, YOU have to get near THEM, right? Wouldn’t it be more conducive to what you want to just leave each other alone?

“What if one of them tries to approach me?” Then you block them online, or you keep the conversation clinical and polite irl. You do NOT take time out of your day to berate them for their old views. Your mother raised you better than that.

jame-dumb

Preserving these tags, they're very correct

llamaking

I would reblog this one million times if I could

daysleftofsecondterm

As a matter of fact you can!

ink-in-hand

This is fundamentally how cults WORK, btw

Villainize outsiders, which can look different depending on the cult, make everything an us vs them situation. And then when those outsiders show themselves to be hostile (doesn't matter why) the cult is proven right all along on one of their foundational messages

pinstripebindi

none of these people are going to start voting for progressives or even bog standard Democrats. they aren't going to stop being ignorant and hateful. they're just mad that their groceries aren't cheaper and gas is going up, which is their fault btw. they can stick their heads in the toilet and keep flushing.

chamomile-teabag

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

pinstripebindi

Heaven's Prisoners by James Lee Burke. It's the second Dave Robicheaux book, a while back I decided to read them all in order (I've read 4 or 5 over the past 30 years, in no particular order). Burke is a real lesson in how much I can forgive for beautiful writing, especially in the earlier books.

rustmarty

i think amber heard shouldve beat him up more

1264doghouse

Connie Converse

pinstripebindi

to anyone who ever asks, if I am long unheard from

roycohn

it's crazy when we talk about the great tv moms in history why becky ann baker's name doesn't come up more. two such distinct performances close to 20 years apart on freaks and geeks + girls and she's such an empathetic but also kinda sly and layered in a way that just tells you she's got a whole inner life of her own regardless of how much room the narrative gives it. love her

pinstripebindi

I think about the scene where Bill's mom admits that she drank when she was pregnant and Mrs. Weir quietly says "I once dropped Lindsay on her head" all the time. It just reminds me of my mom and her friends (in the years that I was growing up) so much.