Sunday roundup

I am not linking to stories or images of Syrian kids being gassed (but Syrian kids are being gassed).

Don't watch Roseanne.

you mean the one where she held a tray of gingerbread Jews for an article entitled That Oven Feelin’ because she has actually claimed she’s the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler

is that the photo shoot, just checking pic.twitter.com/s5Elv8gbjR

— Erin Burr, sir (@erinscafe) April 4, 2018

We can't afford it as a society.

I had many thoughts when I read this - on many levels it sounds quite modern - cavalier populists playing with fire, apologists at every turn. We have to fucking wake up. https://t.co/f2HBr6Bmr0

— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) April 3, 2018

The Onion sadly nails it.

WTF, Michigan?

pic.twitter.com/XmrpHXA5ol

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 7, 2018

Women are conditioned to minimize other people's discomfort at the expense of their own safety. Men are conditioned to think they're geniuses. Also, men test the waters before escalating, and women have an uncanny sixth sense for unwanted attention (so don't tell us we're exaggerating or imagining things).

The 'describe yourself as a male author would' entries are priceless. I know the "where are you really from" dudes well.

Despite her round face, the only thing sitting higher than her breasts were her cheek bones. Eastern European, no doubt. He approached her.
“Where are you from?”
“New Jersey”
He smirked, and asked the question that would surely endear him to her forever.
“No. Before that.”

— Vanessa Salkova 🇺🇦👑🇺🇦 (@thetsarina) April 1, 2018

Every tweet in this thread:

3a. 90% of the time (I'm sensing a pattern here) we don't actually want male attention at all, much less of the sexual variety. I know it beggars belief but we really just want to...live our lives and go about our business unharrassed!

— Laura E. Weymouth (@lauraeweymouth) March 31, 2018

Men who cheat sure do justify it to themselves.

What these husbands couldn’t do was have the difficult discussion with their wives that would force them to tackle the issues at the root of their cheating. They tried to convince me they were being kind by keeping their affairs secret. They seemed to have convinced themselves. But deception and lying are ultimately corrosive, not kind.

In the end, I had to wonder if what these men couldn’t face was something else altogether: hearing why their wives no longer wanted to have sex with them. It’s much easier, after all, to set up an account on Tinder.

Vikings may have used crystals for navigation.