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Possibly the difference between those who focus on nutrition and those who don't is about people who are sensitive to small differences in how they feel, maybe because they're already tracking that due to chronic illness—and maybe they're correct about how Food ABC makes them feel, maybe it's all placebo!
I'm very insensitive to this, possibly because I've never actually reduced my diet to such simplicity that i would notice a change in one ingredient
"How did I feel? Sometimes good and sometimes bad, in ways I could sometimes connect to food and sometimes couldn’t."
At some point I noticed that more and more people seemed to be telling me: everything you think you know about food is wrong. This led me down a rabbit hole that I’ve come to think of as “dark nutrition.” I wrote about this whole world for @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/21/magaz…
Some families give all of their kids names starting with the same letter. Even better…everyone, husband wife and kids, has the same first syllable!
Childebert, you ruined it 😠
There are actually lovely nooks at Slutcon where you can read poetry and classic literature
Kayla retweeted
Where in DC to get foie gras based on your politics
MAGA: Butterworths
Pro-Palestine progressives: Albi (dessert)
Resist libs: Any Jose Andres restaurant
Third-way/corpo Dems: Mastro’s Steakhouse
Establishment Republicans: 1789 Restaurant
"pharmapseudicals" thank you
What goes on at an NYC peptide party?
Cyborgs, Slutclouds, sex peptides, microchips in people's hands. We sent @DenzelRust to find out...
mamathemagazine.com/what-hap…
Talked to a guy about his job for a good while and the thing he seemed most excited about is that there's occasionally free food. Dude makes 300k+, he can afford food, why is it so much more exciting when it's free?
You subtly ratchet down the sexiness of your clothes. Put away the low-cut red dress, today he gets the blue dress. Let’s hope he catches on before you have to break out the loose brown pantsuit and nude bras
just as slight optimism about your life prospects is better than strict realism, slight optimism about your level of virtue is better
there must be something harmful about going through years or decades of life with a constant background belief that you are a Bad Person
Agreed, here. I also think the world would be better if we could at least admit to ourselves when we're doing something unethical, instead of pretending we're not or rationalizing ourselves out of it.
People often don't admit it to themselves because they think 'if I were knowingly doing something unethical, I would either need to stop immediately, or it would make me a profoundly Bad Person. And I couldn't stop it immediately, and I don't want to be a Bad Person, so I am going to convince myself it's actually ethical.'
But I think ideally, if you don't feel capable of stopping the unethical behavior for whatever incentive reasons, you should not pretend it isn't bad, but rather you should let it stick as a thorn in your side. You should rest uncomfortably in the truth that you are capable of performing antisocial behavior.
Once it's irritating you, you can slowly, gently circle it on your own time to try to sort your own ethics out, and see if there's a sustainable way to change your behavior that feels better for you. But then at least you aren't hiding it from yourself, which makes it harder to hide it from others, and you aren't allowing it to rest without paying a cost to your psyche.
How can you not love Ebert's bad reviews?
>>And Ken Russell has really done it this time. He has stripped the lid of respectability off the Ursuline convent in Louden, France. He has exposed Cardinal Richelieu as a political schemer. He has destroyed our illusions about Louis XIII. We are filled with righteous indignation a we bear witness to the violation of the helpless nuns; it is all the more terrible because, as Russell fearlessly reveals, all the nuns, without exception, were young and stacked.
Roger Ebert's zero stars review of The Devils
rogerebert.com/reviews/the-d…
Roger also gave zero stars to:
Texas Chainsaw
I Spit On Your Grave
The Hitcher
Police Academy
Death Wish 2
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
he gave 1 star to Blue Velvet & The Thing & half a star to Hellraiser
Kayla retweeted
A: Why are you so obsessed with numbers.
B: OK you hate numbers and like narratives. Right. There's a billionaire, see. He banks at Bank of Business. He likes it because he's evil.
A: Right this sounds really credible to me.
B: Will he bank with you instead.
Part of why therapy works to the extent it does is that you have a specific time in which to focus on the most important problems in your life. Because the time is limited and expensive, you're incentivized to concentrate and to the best of your ability avoid the distraction of small talk or trivia about what happened last week. If I have an AI therapist constantly in my pocket, when do I get beyond griping and into deep work?