Chad Chad (not really) to the movie Cinderella in the Caribbean.

Some minor adjustments darling, Not for my vanity, But for humanity!

Up this week by popular demand: The rundown on quality of life scales and how to use them to check in on how your pet is feeling.

"Use the NOVA classification system" ok but how? There are four groups in it and if you ban #4 you're literally banning anything sold "heat and serve" aka literally all microwavable food. So people who are hungry and don't have time to cook are just going to Mcdonalds. Is that actually better?

Holkham beach, Norfolk - I was commissioned by someone to replicate this beautiful beach and all its shades and textures as an aerial embroidery! Lots of grasses, reeds and mud mixed in with the sand. Not sure if the tide in coming on or going out though... More close-ups are in the thread: 1/2

Y'all: Trademark law is stupid. There's no reason to enforce it. Also y'all: Why does this Fenty foundation I bought off Wish smell like gasoline?

The head football coach of my high school had a Very Serious "no drinking or drugs" policy. He would try to get kids to eat each other out for smoking weed. He made a big deal about how if you got caught drinking, even if your parents let you, you wouldn't be allowed to play any sports.

"Monogamous people define themselves by restrictions." Well... No. Because I don't define myself by my relationship at all. I'm in a relationship. The relationship is monogamous. This all has very little to do with how I see myself as a person.

Y'all I really mean it. Be very very careful before you start talking about Ebola or travel restrictions. Maybe do some reading. Learn about Ebola. The path to saying something awful and unintentionally racist here is v short. I don't want y'all getting tripped up.

Lol so many of the responses to that question about parenting hot takes are just "tell me your kid is neurotypical without telling me they're neurotypical."

Funnily enough, all my breastfeeding hot takes are public health related and not parenting related. V on brand for me.

One more: some of the people I have known who have complained the loudest about seeing children in public have the worst behaved dogs. That they insist on bringing everywhere.

Unless you absolutely know what you're talking about, every time you cite "how women raise their babies in Africa" as a reason for why you're parenting differently than your parents, you sound like a fucking racist talking about the "noble savage."

If I were gonna have a freak out about the sanctity of women’s athletics it would be about the appalling disparity between resources given to male vs female athletes not a handful of trans women who want to compete

This will show me of being part of a v specific time and place but Pacific Rim isn't feminist or a masterpiece or even good and I have no idea why people act like the main female lead is the greatest female character ever written.

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

As someone who legitimately lived the low-income "We didn't have time to cook so we ate a lot of drive-thru fast food" life, I wanna discourse about time to cook so bad. But I will not. I will resist that urge. LOL.

Here's some free advice to the online COVID conscious community who aren't formally trained in Public Health: think very very very carefully before commenting on Ebola or travel restrictions. That's all.

I cannot believe I am 40 years old and still have to hear the name Spencer Pratt. JFC.

Lol now I am always like... But what's the changing table situation? I went from not having an opinion to having BIG opinions basically overnight.

Spotlight. There's literally no reason that should be a comfort movie and yet...

"We Are Young" by fun. has gotta be on the list.

I definitely was not taught that but also, I went to a really shitty high school. I wasn't taught a lot of things.

JFC

Now for a Hater Moment, where I take a moment to hate something. I've always thought the IRL Quidditch was stupid as shit and now that we know JK Rowling is a terf, it's fucking embarrassing that it's still going. The worst of Millennial Culture.

Controversial opinion: I actually think we should encourage rich people to care about the Met Gala. We should convince them that events like the Met Gala are the coolest and we are all super impressed by it. And that we think politics and government is lame a boring.

Imagine if you were a long haul trucker and someone married you and then after a few years they were like “AGAIN with the truck???” that is squarely on them

I'm not saying people should love Catcher in the Rye. No one is obligated to love a book just because I do. I will say the cultural perception of the book and the reality of it are v different and also most people seem to not grasp the basic facts of the plot. Probably b/c it's about a dude.

Worth it.

Commercial and privilege

This is what I call a "daycare classic" ie a movie we watched 10 million times in daycare. I have entire portions of it memorized.

I'm sitting back and waiting for the angle on how they're going to try and apply this to children. Because it's not about adults. Somehow this is going to be passed on to the kids and maybe involve some anti-vax bullshit.

This guy rules

I will stay out of conversations about segregating sports by gender... I will stay out of conversations about segregating sports by gender... I will remain strong. There is no winning this conversation on the internet. I will stay out of it and instead play Animal Crossing.

JD VANCE IS TRYING TO USE JUST WAR THEORY AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR WHY THE POPE IS WRONG ABOUT THE WAR ON IRAN? SORRY FOR THE CAPS BUT THIS IS AN ALL CAPS MOMENT. FUCKING WHAT???

Continuing the Wheel of Time theme: The Eye of the World sets up a type of fantasy series that the Wheel of Time never quite turned into. I'm not saying the series is bad, just that it never really fulfilled the promise of the first book.

I despise that man.

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

Now for a thread of wild speculation but I am pretty sure I am right because this guy is a Type: 1. This guy considers himself to be a "wage-earning non-managerial class" worker.

The only thing that can save it is for all the teens working here for the season to band together and run a bikini car wash.

... ... Facilitated communication is back in the news. At least no one is being sexually assaulted this time. JFC.

Like I said. A ginger? Is woke? Not in this economy.

You absolutely have to let people in community know you plan to use ChatGPT to analyze their data before you collect it.

Remember kids, Even Emma Goldman, our non-hierarchical queen, struggled with polyamory. Sometimes relationships are just hard. That doesn't say anything about your personal politics.

Love this tbh. I've known so many women that have beat themselves up because some MAN told them that being poly was progressive. That monogamy is ownership. That they're faking their identity (anarchist/queer/whatevs) unless they're poly. And that's why he should get to fuck with other women.

It's time for them to confiscate Jimbob's hard drive. Something went on in that house beyond just the typical "we've raised our boys to think men are in charge of women patriarchy rah rah" shit we all know about.

Lol I have a terrible fucking headache and just confused Panic! At the Disco with Death Cab for Cutie. I feel like this is both v funny and also v lame. I feel like someone is trying to drive a railroad spike into my brain through my nose.

A ginger? Is woke? Not in this economy.

It's so exploitative. It's all the worst parts of working in non-profits except agencies are, mostly, for profit businesses. I once asked at a workshop about the business side of free-lance interpreting how to get health insurance as an interpreter and was told, no joke, "get married."

Canada man