The Sex Parties

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Listen now | To get this episode into your new premium RSS feed, please click the button below from your phone: So here we are, freed from the shackles of Patreon, having sprinted into the welcoming arms of Substack, and ready to deliver our first weekly Members Only dispatch. Yay! And you’re in for a treat, dear citizens of the Fifdom. Many of you have requested that we address the

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with my better half Jon Batiste

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Discuss whatever

College presidents go to Congress.

Celery is a Calorie-Negative Food

Today’s thread idea comes from a combo of prompts from Culture Study readers Jules and Elly, who want to know: what are you proudest of accompli…

"Wet Putty" whips are everywhere. What’s behind it? ... a BBSP investigation

Plus miracle sweatshirts re-up, sick winter boots, that "Swag A.I. Jesus" flow & more

Thank you for inspiring us all

Quality of life is rapidly improving for the dogs

Revisiting Joe Alwyn.

The Taylor Swift’s Time profile’s most dizzying quote.

Morning Person is a weekly newsletter packed with obsessively-curated recommendations and ideas—let’s get to it! 📺 “Uncoupled” on Netflix: Michael (Neil Patrick Harris) has been with his partner for 17 years, when he is unceremoniously, suddenly dumped. From there, he has to navigate an entirely new dating landscape in New York that calls to mind another breezy show from the same creator (Darren Star),

Thao Thai and my awkward yoga encounter.

The ERO has launched "a focussed evaluation to specifically look at the emotional and physical safety of all students.”

Webworm Birthday Bash on Dec 22, plus a Mister Organ blu-ray giveaway.

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& a 2023 roundup

On Piers Morgan & the danger of men who don’t get what they want

Missouri bill could make IUDs & emergency contraception punishable as 'murder'

Last fall, my wife Debbie and I got a puppy named Maximus Toretto Blueberry Millman Gay. He is six months old. He weighs 7.5 pounds. He is confident, outgoing, and sweet. He enjoys eating paper, leaves, disgusting trash, and murky street water. He is not interested in food unless you are eating it, and then he is very interested. When Max realizes he is…

Our December 2023 Selection

you don't get to insist that no one talks about your political project and it's weak and pathetic that you think you do

if even she doesn't feel like she can't quit all the uphill clawing, how can any of the rest of us?

Matt James' season comes to its inevitably depressing end.

"May December," a scathing reality profile, a twisty podcast, a nursing dress, and glittery holiday party tights!

A critique of Tordoff et al. (2022)

This is about Planned Parenthood, but really it’s about most progressive organizations

Hey everyone, First off, I owe you an explanation. You might have noticed that I’ve not been updating this Substack as frequently over the last few months. It's not because I've run out of things to say about the current state of women’s rights, free speech and comedy! If only! Rather, I've been putting the finishing touches on my memoir, ‘Tough Crowd’.

On 6th December 1989, a man called Marc Lépine walked into a mechanical engineering class at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a semi-automatic rifle. He separated the men from the women and then instructed the men to leave. He declared that he was ‘fighting feminism’ and opened fire on the nine women who remained. He killed six of them.

Jurist silenced by elite Stanford Law mob explains why it matters for democracy

And: Father Kolakovic's descendants, and looking for community

And guess what? It’s simple. No charts, no graphs. You don’t need a PhD in statistics to understand it...

I still remember it

Bobblehead! Bobblehead! Bob-bob-bobblehead!

We also take on The Buccaneers and Yellowstone is fighting about coffee, now.

Building an emotional survival kit

Meg the miracle worker

How a washed-up celebrity, men’s rights activists and true crime stans convinced millions of Americans to buy into a conspiracy theory

It's hard to take the perpetually aggrieved at their word.

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A hospital blog

abuse, aesthetics, and assigning deviance to difficult women

a novella-length gift guide of biblical proportions, assembled with love by some of the coolest people on and off the internet