“People like me feel bad when you do X, so please don’t do X” is a sympathetic request particularly when X is some minor thing. I don’t want to refuse them.
“Don’t do anything that anyone dislikes” is between impossible and oppressive, since there are just too many types of people. Even if everyone just request small things, the sum of everything is too big. Merely keeping track of everything is difficult.
Unfortunately these two statements are actually the same.
The girl on this home-for-sale staging show on an off-brand might-just-be-on-whatever-package-bars-get channel is the most obviously autistic-so-no-actual-social-skills-but-has-decent-tits-so-fell-into-that-role-and-developed-some-experience I’ve ever seen
No, anon, this is not an Ælla subtweet, but God, it could be
One amusing thing is as my energy runs down overnight my intestines stall, so after I take my daily creatine & iron I inevitably have to go sit on the toilet and take a shit
The CIA etc. Using Twitter etc. To do dirty work they're technically not allowed to do themselves is similar to rich guys use of the Pinkertons as strike breakers in the post posse comitatus, post redemption, gilded age
The Pinkertons’ successor in government service is the FBI
When she floated above the audience in
her high, high heels on that lighted dock, facing a stadium of
sixty-eight thousand people, how could she feel anything except either a
messiah complex or profound loneliness?
Later
that night, I said to my husband, “I thought of her as a
singer-songwriter.” And my husband, who has never voluntarily listened
to a single word escaping Taylor Swift’s mouth, laughed.
“Singer-songwriters don’t perform in stadiums,” he said.
