Monday was Labor Day in the U.S. (not Memorial Day, that’s at the end of May; not Labour Day/International Worker’s Day, that’s May 1) and with that, the unofficial start of fall is here. (Of course, if you live in San Francisco like I do, it’s the unofficial start of summer.)
happy Labor Day — thank a union pic.twitter.com/uD2tfwryMv
— Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) (@Annie_Wu_22) September 2, 2024
Kamala Harris in Detroit on Labor Day: "You better thank a union member for the 5 day work week. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time." pic.twitter.com/AjE6WrqsZi
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 2, 2024
To take a brief detour:
Kamala in Detroit vs. Kamala in Pittsburgh — literally 5 hours apart
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 2, 2024
The difference is insane pic.twitter.com/ZPXXr2BHe7
This week too short to explain code switching to white people https://t.co/fXJEEpli63
— Ryan L. Nave (@rlnave) September 3, 2024
brought to you by the labor movement: pic.twitter.com/7yUHiworEq
— Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) (@Annie_Wu_22) September 2, 2024
Apparently Charlie XCX abides by the meteorological seasons:
goodbye forever brat summer.
— Charli (@charli_xcx) September 2, 2024
bbc tweeting like it’s the WHO declaring the pandemic is over https://t.co/HynF35Xqmr
— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 3, 2024
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another brat summer was made, in Australia, in the fires of the southern hemisphere https://t.co/zJut3cHQfA
— Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton) September 2, 2024
You know the girlies at @KamalaHQ were on it:
goodbye forever brat summer 💚 pic.twitter.com/5GcomQ8kIk
— ilana (@ilanawurman) September 3, 2024
it’s time. https://t.co/WUsJKcy2XH pic.twitter.com/hj1PyU7Jts
— k8 ⎕ (@noposhchoc23) September 2, 2024
They’re defrosting pic.twitter.com/H9jOJO89YV
— Luke (@mothrasattorney) September 1, 2024
‘Christian Girl Autumn’ awakens from her slumber in new video:
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) September 1, 2024
“It’s September 1st…you know what that means.” pic.twitter.com/JfLKP3p1zo
shes my mariah https://t.co/ajc2IlVgoX pic.twitter.com/GKRYmBXurM
— everlark daughter | academic weaponing (@galeslander) September 2, 2024
slept under my down comforter with the window open gm pic.twitter.com/QeZPMhMEqR
— uncle gworl (@_uncle_gworl) September 3, 2024
don't let the nerds take the last days of summer from us. they want it to end so they can tweet from inside the home about drinking soup and wearing scarves. this is an annual battle we've historically lost because there are more of them but enough is enough.
— joanie (@laracroftbarbie) September 3, 2024
This (lovely!) The New Yorker cover ended up being something of a Rorschach test for one’s childcare politics:
This cover is going to stay with me for a long time. "Who takes care of the children of the people who take care of your children" is a question I implore everyone who has the means to pay for private childcare to ask themselves. https://t.co/QMXJBmQ97b
— Corinne Low (@femonomics) September 2, 2024
I'm the graduating kid on the nanny's phone! In her 33 years in the US, my mom has raised the kids of company execs, professors, doctors, lawyers… Mi mami is the best of the best.
— Tomás Mier (@Tomas_Mier) September 2, 2024
I'm so proud of the American Dream she and my dad have built for themselves — and for me. https://t.co/L07kooY40N
when I worked at the library in a rich neighborhood the kids were well behaved when they were with their nannies during the week.
— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) September 3, 2024
when it was the weekend and their actual parents had them they were bad af, throwing things and calling their parents by their first name 😂😂😂 https://t.co/Z0jC3cLOnZ
the funniest part of this cover is that when @newyorker actually had an employee who pointed out the lack of diversity & representation on its own staff—with no Black editor for articles hired in ~15 yrs—instead of thanking her they put her on a retaliatory PIP & fired her… https://t.co/r0nDOjkn6g
— Erin Overbey (@erinoverbey) September 3, 2024
it's interesting that everyone assumes there's some kind of pointed critique or political argument being made here https://t.co/2gDnLjHijk
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) September 3, 2024
am I the only one who thought this cover was cute. Not in a deep nor political way, just in a slice of life way (a cute slice of life) https://t.co/dEdKHCPgal
— Béatrice Leydier 🥐 (@BeaLeydier) September 3, 2024
The New Yorker cover is proof that if you are a woman and you engage any outside childcare at all – daycare, nanny, hell even your own family, for even one single second, even in an emergency, someone somewhere is ready to tell you how horrible that is
— girl fieri (@realgirl_fieri) September 3, 2024
If your favorite season is awards season, welcome to its precursor: film festival season.
https://t.co/ssK1lGhMxP pic.twitter.com/VmvPWZZssF
— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) September 2, 2024
no harm to anyone involved but i would get so fucking bored standing there clapping for a quarter of an hour, like honestly who can be arsed https://t.co/JnCmNHCX1w
— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) September 2, 2024
if you told me to clap for 17 minutes with my life on the line I don’t know that I could do it https://t.co/8FiagzZ7Xq
— Chris Alsikkan (@AlsikkanTV) September 2, 2024
what do you do while people are clapping for you for 17 minutes like i’d go absolutely insane not knowing what to do with myself, i can only smile and wave for so long https://t.co/vyB76xBw9n
— nick (@lovechazelle) September 2, 2024
Eventually the standing ovations are going to be longer than the movies receiving them https://t.co/vzOcumgZnY
— Tom and Lorenzo (@tomandlorenzo) September 3, 2024
for noncinephiles this is like if they started throwing tomatoes https://t.co/kOUTFWnr6y
— yalitza apariciosus (@dunevillenuve) August 29, 2024
4 minutes only and they're sitting down, oh this film is garbage https://t.co/G9gOUF7VuF
— . (@kingbealestreet) September 2, 2024
In other festival news:
Lady Gaga doesn’t view #Joker2 as a musical.
— Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 4, 2024
Gaga says “the music is used to really give the characters a way to express what they need to say because the scene and dialogue is just not enough” #Venezia81 pic.twitter.com/XV5tmmrhY9
literally … the definition of a musical. https://t.co/PNo3fOb6oM
— ✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi (@roxana_hadadi) September 4, 2024
We’re like a week away from Todd Phillips trying to coin the term “dudesical” to convince guys whose gym playlists are full of Jordan Peterson’s podcast appearances to see the new Joker movie. https://t.co/oFZv2mChj3
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) September 4, 2024
Nobody does viral content like New York Magazine:
Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, reportedly watched porn in private booths up to five days a week in the ’90s. He strenuously denies that as well as the Holocaust. https://t.co/C3P4jT3bMv
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) September 3, 2024
is there a pulitzer for tweets https://t.co/0YzKpagZGQ
— Leah Greenberg (@Leahgreenb) September 4, 2024
Absolute banger tweet for this story https://t.co/FYlhPKOMms
— Jared Holt (@jaredlholt) September 4, 2024
The amazing thing about this election cycle is that the quality of GOP candidates for high office is such that Kari Lake isn't the worst thing on a ballot. https://t.co/sr4WigYBHI
— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 4, 2024
We have a new entrant in the “what AI means for art” conversation:
Yesterday, a Chinese company released an alarmingly advanced text-to-video AI:
— The AI Solopreneur (@aisolopreneur) September 2, 2024
Minimax.
It's like a Hollywood studio in your pocket.
10 mind-bending examples (plus how to access it for free): pic.twitter.com/m6fJrNCLQd
This cannot the example they led with https://t.co/BcbLAScR5Z
— george slopadopolus (@mustachetoilet) September 3, 2024
If you’re like me and merely scrolled by this 10 times this morning and laughed, I implore you to click on it and turn your volume up – the audio is even funnier https://t.co/nw5KflJ2C2
— atlantis brett (@JuiceThousand) September 3, 2024
is my algo fucked or is everyone else seeing that atrocious st*r w*rs ai video nonstop
— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) September 3, 2024
i cant take it anymore
This is just what life is gonna be like, I think.
Prompt tweets can be annoying but this is always a good genre:
“Virginia is for lovers”slogan was made so that when you google “Virginia and “Love” together you don’t get Loving V. Virginia. https://t.co/nFY4pvt4Gp
— Thomas ❤️☀️ (@Thomas_Eames18) September 4, 2024
A lot of stupid celebrity children's names are actually just fake and they say their kid is named Orchid or whatever just so the media doesn't know the actual one https://t.co/IJcUdhB82h
— Maia (@maiamindel) September 4, 2024
You know which one is mine: the Trump animatronic from Hall of Presidents is a hastily retooled Hillary https://t.co/15tZmdCueQ pic.twitter.com/rK0QzczmG5
— Nikolaj🥥🌴🐝🇺🇦 (@nikicaga) September 4, 2024
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