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Isabel Cooper@isabelcooper.bsky.social |
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Author of paranormal romance and romantic fantasy. Roleplayer. Occult dabbler. Feminist. She/her, pro-LGBTQIA+, pro-abortion, pro-sex, "work ethic" is a fake idea.
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Isabel Cooper
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“Um, so, in Photo 1 you’re a handsome dude with a great jawline, and in Photo 2 your name is Obediah and you want to sell me handmade furniture. Which of these selves are you embracing currently?”
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Isabel Cooper
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ISTG there needs to be a “yes if you shave” option, like right yes, left no, up if they ditch the pornstache.
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Isabel Cooper
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Less relevant to world affairs: is there a generally accepted way to ask someone on a “dating” app if they still have the hideous facial hair they’re sporting in one of their photos?
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Sean
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this is wayyy under-discussed
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Isabel Cooper
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JFC. On the one hand, I hate that this guy exists. On the other hand, if I need to establish the punch-off-a-building-worthiness of future villains, I have a ready-made scene now.
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Isabel Cooper
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Start a new rumor about what Kids These Days Are Doing on the TikTok and why it's the downfall of society. Some sort of weird name. "Captain Crunching?" Can we make that a thing? Basically, should we just find some keys to jingle?
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Isabel Cooper
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Maybe a bunch of us should dress up like mascots and start robbing banks or whatever, just to give them something else to do.
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Faine Greenwood
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The fact that Trump is actually weakly attempting to pretend he doesn’t back Project 2025 = EXACTLY why you need to be telling everyone you know about their evil, violent plans.
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Isabel Cooper
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Treebeard 2024, yeah.
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Lawrence Hall
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I’m sure all the media that spent months on Hunter Biden’s laptop will cover this with the same scrutiny newrepublic.com/post/183468/...
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Isabel Cooper
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I mean this, and also at the point I'm even more invested in him staying in and winning because it would make A. G. "Dick in the Pickle Jar" Sulzberger have a sad.
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Isabel Cooper
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And some people are bringing up the whole Jello Shot Incident, and man, I know it was only under investigation, but....ooof, dude. That was not a good life choice. Not sure what it says about his editorial judgment now.
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Isabel Cooper
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One of my fellow alumnae and I are making a list of all the weird foods he liked to put his dick in. So far, we've got tiramisu, pickles, almond butter, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter...
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Isabel Cooper
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Because I hear many top people were kind of concerned when good old "Dash" mainlined a case of Icehouse and tried to hump the bear statue in front of Faunce, know what I'm saying?
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Isabel Cooper
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Were you at #brownuniversity from 1998-2003? Did you interact with Arthur Gregg "Dash" Sulzberger (thanks, Wiki, and wow what a basic nickname)? Do you have stories about him picking his nose in a lecture or shitting himself at a frat party? Sure would be a shame if those got around...
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Isabel Cooper
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Update: Holy shit, he was two years before me. I should actually go to an alumni reunion and see if anyone has stories about him wetting himself at a frat party or whatever.
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Isabel Cooper
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I theoretically agree with you, but infinite escape Joker is also comicsverse Joker, and Batman may know he’d just come back as a Black Lantern or some other nonsense.
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Isabel Cooper
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Yeah, I am extremely salty about my otherwise-fine day job not giving us today off.
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Isabel Cooper
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We could maybe, as a society, stop measuring dedication and skill by how hard you're willing to push yourself, because that seems like it leads to nothing good.
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Isabel Cooper
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The whole expectation that high-powered people should be On All The Time is terrifying--like, when I hear how little sleep pilots and ER doctors and so forth often get, I am amazed that we're not all dead.
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Isabel Cooper
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Someone who went there five years later confirms they brought a whole different neocon dipshit on to write about Why Bluejeans Are Destroying Civilization and Why I Can Text In My Car If I Want. Lord.
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Isabel Cooper
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Absolutely!
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Aaron Sojourner
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Happy #JobsDay 📉📈.
Overall the labor market remains strong.
Fed rate hikes took it off boil, been cooling & now back near pre-pandemic levels. Cooling has taken the form of slower hiring & slower wage growth, not job destruction. Layoffs remain at record lows.
Here's the numbers...
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Isabel Cooper
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I wrote Some Shit about it at the time, but the day when I'm desperate enough to go back and look at my college Livejournal has not yet arrived.
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Isabel Cooper
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NYTFailson apparently was on my college's student paper, which...tracks. I went to school in 2001-2005, and I remember the Daily Herald dragging some troglodyte out of a basement every month and giving him a raw chicken so he'd write a column on Why Sodomy Is A Concern, Acktually.
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Isabel Cooper
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Go with God, those of you who can refrain from throwing entire baked potatoes at your dipshit relatives long enough to try convincing them. I admire your abilities even as I cannot hope to match you.
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Isabel Cooper
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(and also went to my school, GOD DAMMIT, I was doing so well feeling superior to the Yalies) and is mostly pissed because Biden isn't catering to his daddy issues, or that the economy has improved under the current administration, or that Thomas took bribes from a Nazi?
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Isabel Cooper
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...that those of you with higher Diplomacy skill checks can drop into conversation, like oh, hey, Uncle Bob, but did you know that Trump is named and detailed in a CSA case, or that the NYT editor is a fourth-generation nepo baby who had an entire three years on another job...
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Isabel Cooper
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...grabbing people by the lapels and shrieking "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU ARE YOU A BIGOT OR DID YOU GET KICKED IN THE HEAD BY A LLAMA OR WHAAAAAT?" and this is not the most effective tactic. So I figure the best I can do is present information...
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Isabel Cooper
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Like, I am not good at persuading people, especially anyone who was asshole enough to not be voting Democrat in the first place (I'd say third-party in places like MA, but at this point it seems like your choices are RFK and Jill Stein, and WTF even), because my strategy is...
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Isabel Cooper
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Between now and November, I suspect that this account will become a mix of FUCKING KICK OUT THE GOP type political posts, being horny on main about fictional characters, and occasional updates from the novel mines. So mostly the same but with more slutty liberal chick rants.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
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…I really think this is the more important presidential-election-related story to have in the news cycle.
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Isabel Cooper
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Also interestingly: they couldn't find his dong, so Isis carved him one out of wood. I am not familiar enough with UK politics to follow this metaphor to its conclusion.
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Isabel Cooper
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Eh, I’ll be back to having opinions about Fire Emblem tomorrow. 😀
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Isabel Cooper
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...didn't feel a need to have a grand moral confrontation with them about it or stop being their friend or anything. They were a bad SO to the other person at that point in time, their partner reacted, and it's fundamentally none of my business unless actual abuse happened.
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Isabel Cooper
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Added, and then I swear I'm going to go be productive: you can even think someone did a kind of shitty thing without having to pass a grand judgment on them as a person. There were many, many breakups where I was like "...yeah, that person was being a dingus, I see why you left," but...
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Isabel Cooper
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I think Rand's mistake was thinking "it sucks to be on the wrong end of pity" and conflating that with "so screw the unfortunate" rather than "so maybe have systems to help out so it feels less personal," and also being a shitty person.
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Isabel Cooper
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It wasn't the absolute moment I told everyone to get bent, but it was the beginning.
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Isabel Cooper
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There was a point in my late 20s where I was the center of a Bullshit Scandal, and I felt really bad for a long time. And then a friend was like, look, if you keep dressing and flirting and generally acting like you do, people are going to believe this sort of thing. Doesn't mean you should stop.
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Isabel Cooper
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OMG yes. It's also why I am truly uneasy with the idea of marriage: if someone isn't into me, I want him to leave. I don't want him to stay because he feels obligated to. I don't even want him to *try* and stay. I want to know someone's there because he's into me, and won't be if that stops.
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Isabel Cooper
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Oooh, yes. I am 100% Full Eowyn about that. I tend to feel like every extraordinarily shitty person has at least one good idea, and Rand's may have been that one.
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Isabel Cooper
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It absolutely does! And conflates not being interested in/liked by everyone with being universally interesting/likeable, which means that a) rejection of the "you are Swiss, I want Limberger" type feels more personal than it is and b) everyone feels awkward saying that.
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Isabel Cooper
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Ooof, yeah. I tilt between that and Hello My Life Is An Audience-Calibrated Performance, depending on how much I like the person in question.
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Isabel Cooper
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"Everyone wants attention: learn to offer something in exchange." And that doesn't have to be a capitalism something, it can be your own attention, or knowledge about a subject, or the ability to tell a funny story about that time you put your credit card in the receipt slot at a gas station.
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Isabel Cooper
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Yup! Or the...whatever, not Munchausen, but the person who is always a victim, always in crisis, always the half-drowned kitten on the doorstep whenever the spotlight shifts. IMO it's much better to be like, okay, you want attention, what are healthy ways to get it?
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Isabel Cooper
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Right! And I can do some parties, but not big crowds, and also a couple of hours of talking is generally more than enough, even with people I'm close to.
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Isabel Cooper
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...and it's even fine to think that Russell from accounting is a grating know-it-all who should eat a hornet, even if he's not A Bad Person (tm). You don't have to construct an entire narrative to justify "ugh, *them*?"
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Isabel Cooper
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The adjacent principle, that you can just not like people even if they're not oppressive or predatory, has come up, and I think they're both really important. It's fine to wish someone well and not care about their kids or their car or whatever...
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Isabel Cooper
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I really, really want a whole investigation into who these people are, because the country needs to come together to point and laugh at somebody.
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Isabel Cooper
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If Biden can make Tom Cruise cry on camera, I'll spend my entire fall knocking on doors in Wisconsin, a state half the country from where I live.
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