Cruel Summer

Harrowing to think we have a few Pete Buttigieg supporters on this website. I hope you're comfortable supporting whatever slimy nonsense policies his corporate owners decide to make him a vessel for this time, couldn't be me!

The vast majority of it from age three on, and a couple things before that.

Decided because I wasn't using my iPad nearly as much as I'd thought to trade it in and change my phone to an iPhone Air, in Sky Blue while I can still get it since it sounds like they may phase that color out for the second generation. Y'all, the battery sucks on this thing, but holy **** is it beautiful - going caseless with just a screen protector. I will say it looks basically just white in most lighting, which I don't mind at all since I was on the fence between white and blue anyway; I try to keep my personal aesthetic and tech very, very minimalist and looking functional but refined. I'd read about someone saying it's the first iPhone since the X to feel truly cool and like a step forward to hold and use, and that's so true. Super intrigued to see how they iterate on it next spring, might even upgrade it at that time if it stays thin and light (and there's a nice subtle, minimal color I don't hate, even just the white one would work). So far I don't miss having a telephoto lens, I don't mind the bump as much as I thought I might, and I like having a little extra screen more than I expected (I'm a former iPhone Mini girlie and would go back to that in a heartbeat). As far as future form factors, I think my dream phone is a lot like this, but without a bump if possible (as technology eventually makes that possible), even if I have to sacrifice even more camera quality - and maybe with a screen that's a little smaller for my tiny hands, too.

Monetizing this kind of thing, even if the remorse is genuine, is so weird.

While I understand the movement for the new map, it's kind of messy to position this as "correcting" the map when it's just as "wrong" as the traditional Mercator projection is in a strictly technical sense - it just distorts things in a different way, shapes and angles instead of area. But I'm not delusional and don't believe that the US's opposition was for nuanced reasons.

The way all three tracks clicked for me tonight, oh she'll have my AOTY locked the instant this releases, like Melatonin alone

There are several that tempted me and I nearly had to go with Save Room For Us because it's immaculate and flawless, but I can't deny it any longer, I have to be honest with myself: Bouncin' supremacy! Just like this

I wish actual sales figures were more readily available so I could make a hilarious post about stanning a girlie whose biggest album has maybe 10k units there - so I guess instead I'll just say yes 1989 yes smash

Taylor and Charli actually doing the work it out on the remix thing - or not doing that idk maybe they can hate each others' guts and stay that way and it would be even better - would be such a collapse

Taylor will be quaking if Oklou drops the In Waves original score within the eligibility window, I just know it!

Not a lot of physical activity from her really but also she was very much pregnant at the time.

I feel like this tells the story pretty cleanly alone. Screaming at TLOAS being "notorious in stan spaces for having just okay longevity" on… the literal day it falls off the chart. And just in the UK, not the US, its biggest market, where it's still doing fine.

That's has very little to do with what I said or initially quoted. One Taylor Swift album (that's still top 40 in the US) falling off an international chart after almost a year isn't really representative of whether "it's always about debuts and first day numbers huh" in general, and really isn't a strong argument that she's "irrelevant." But like, you know that, obvi. Would you like to try again?

Most of the things you say about Taylor on this website are obvious rage bait, but this one, pretending that longevity isn't a pretty consistent part of the discourse surrounding Taylor Swift albums, just doesn't even work. I feel like you can come up with something better than that. Have you considered falling back to the usual rotating between several women who have less daily streams than her and saying that the pick of the day is the one that has finally ended her?