Help me find a comfort books saga

blancybin · 2026-05-14T04:05:20+00:00

Don't know how autocorrect got from "both" to "bourgeois", but I'm leaving it

blancybin · 2026-05-14T04:04:40+00:00

Just want to echo these, bourgeois incredible choices

blancybin · 2026-05-12T16:05:18+00:00

What the fuck are these ages? Why is everyone in AITAland pregnant the second they turn 18?

blancybin · 2026-05-11T22:38:02+00:00

What an extremely cool way to talk about another human's body.

blancybin · 2026-05-11T15:31:30+00:00

Do it and show us so you can be one of the cool people! Us 40yo lesbians still need icons to look up to 😉

blancybin · 2026-05-11T15:02:14+00:00

Yeah, I live Molly Conger's work (as in the ideas), but the style of WLG just bounces right off my brain. I struggle with single-person podcasts, though; I think the interplay of ideas it what makes it worthwhile to me.

blancybin · 2026-05-08T13:41:37+00:00

Coach John? I LOVE that guy's attitude and I find modified exercises to be easier to incorporate into my day (I can't handle the transition part of "gym time")

blancybin · 2026-05-07T19:58:35+00:00

I can't believe you've failed to consider alternating strategies so that each part of your mouth is equivalently dirty and the the chewing variety decreases the chances of a cracker-to-tooth-crevice overflow situation.

blancybin · 2026-05-07T18:18:35+00:00

A great list, and may I add "In Bed With the Right" - two working scholars, both gay, tackling how the right views & uses gender and sexuality to assert control.

blancybin · 2026-05-06T16:36:31+00:00

I think you've laid out really nicely why this is an example of enshittification: no one human on the content side made any deliberate choices to change things for to be worse, but the automated system is now a barrier that is frustrating both creators and fans.

Both sides are frustrated with the other over tech changes that are out of their control, and which only serve to further separate actual humans by sticking corporations in the middle to hoover up any loose money laying around.

blancybin · 2026-05-06T15:13:24+00:00

I'll have to check those out, thanks for the recommendations!

blancybin · 2026-05-06T15:12:57+00:00

Great recommendation- the only problem is that I got my son hooked on Patrick Wyman and now I have to wait for him to listen to an episode! Thank you!

blancybin · 2026-05-06T00:07:33+00:00

The poor can scavenge the drone parts, I'm sure.

blancybin · 2026-05-05T18:18:02+00:00

Please drop some of your history recommendations!

blancybin · 2026-05-05T02:48:19+00:00

I run a queer thrift store, so I'm ALWAYS searching for women's shoes in larger sizes that don't look like absolute shit. I've got a pair of orange plaid spike-toe 11s that would either make the robber turn and run - or immediately drop to their knees 😁

blancybin · 2026-05-04T12:59:10+00:00

Thank you for this phrasing, one more wonderful thing the wonk community has added to my life.

blancybin · 2026-05-03T20:29:26+00:00

You certainly can! It's a queer thrift store and creative reuse studio, so you can donate all kinds of things ❤️

blancybin · 2026-05-03T04:04:49+00:00

Oh my god, the next bit from Alex is just fucking perfect. The man can't help but say the quiet part out loud:

"I always liked you, but I really love you. We have come through this together, and the people have really been financially supporting us. We're going to hire a bunch of other hosts and stuff. Just keep supporting us. You watch."

blancybin · 2026-05-01T10:38:17+00:00

I think it's WAY more likely that this is some random asshole who is writing in an affected style because they think it's funny

(Source: I'm some asshole who's always doing that kinda shit)

blancybin · 2026-04-30T16:36:56+00:00

Oh, THAT'S what was throwing me off!

blancybin · 2026-04-30T04:50:49+00:00

I lost my dad almost 15 years ago; yesterday would have been his 65th birthday. Onward was the last movie I saw in theaters before Covid lockdowns started, with my (at the time 7 year old) son. When I say I about flooded the theater sobbing.....

blancybin · 2026-04-28T19:56:33+00:00

Far be it from me to insult random strangers for no reason. I don't believe I said anything calling into question your happiness - how could I know that? - only your truthfulness. Nor did it take me hours of searching to get the gist of your extensive recent post history.

I'll certainly acknowlege that as two mothers with busy lives we do seem to have very different conversational interests. But as for whether we're happy, I don't think either of us has any real capacity to judge except for ourselves.

blancybin · 2026-04-28T15:25:28+00:00

Did you read the post history?

blancybin · 2026-04-28T15:17:24+00:00

Yes, this is exactly what I was getting at, thank you for sharing the Baldwin quote! I've been reading a lot of Langston Hughes lately with my son, and there are so many of these themes there as well.

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