SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

one of the worst things to happen to the internet was when ppl in charge of stuff got the idea they could fix everything by making ppl use their real names and faces instead of being a dumb character online

Animaniacs is so sick. I had like no reason to understand any of the LA specific industry jokes but I was like "hell yeah"

i think americans find it very hard to understand how irreligious the uk is. for reference, the global communion headed by our state church – the third largest on earth after catholicism and eastern orthodoxy – schismed in HALF yesterday. this has not made the uk news

hence why someone like Samuel R. Delany assumed that straight culture would eventually get its own version of cruising spaces, bathhouses, etc. the problem is right as this became culturally possible, physical urban space got enclosed and sanitized, while private digital ones sprung up to replace it

the weirdest part of the rise of online dating is that it has created a large set of people who view romantic interactions occurring in any context other than explicitly “i signed up to look for a romantic partner” to be weird and creepy *inherently*, because dating is contained to the Apps.