One of the reasons I think the Your Mom Is A Narcissist Industrial Complex took off is because gray rocking actually slaps. It is a VERY effective way of dealing with ANY difficult person who wants to drag you into some drama, regardless of whether they have a personality disorder or not.

As a cat owner with a lot of hands-on childcare experience, I feel like I can settle most "pet mom" vs. actual mom discourse pretty easily. If you object to me lightheartedly calling my cat my daughter, you're the asshole. If I expect you to wish me a Happy Mother's Day, I'm the asshole.

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

sweet vaping Jesus, what the hell did I just read

Ok sure losing your shit is awful but tell me where in this article any of this is listed: - how much was he making - how much is he losing - how much did he get in subsidies + what does he think about other ppl getting gov asst - how much does he stand to make from the auction / total valuation

Everybody wants “ultra processed” to mean “anything unhealthy” but any consistent definition involving, ya know, PROCESSING INGREDIENTS would put Sour Patch Kids and oat milk in the same category so like. It’s not particularly helpful.

I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Yep. It isn’t 2023. Telemedicine abortion remains broadly available everywhere: •Domestic providers can switch to a miso-only regime; slightly less effective but still extremely safe •International providers will still mail mifepristone uninterrupted The field has been planning for this moment.

Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Just a heads up, the 62 million monthly visits figure was to the ENTIRE porn site the rape videos were hosted on, not specifically to the "rape academy." The site seems to also host normal porn. www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...

There’s a reason Republicans don’t constantly shit on their own voters and that’s because it is an abysmal strategy for winning elections

Last week, I spoke with someone from the Klobuchar campaign and I told him the thing that is going to be my drumbeat in this election: "I want her to expend as much energy trying to earn my vote as she does with Republicans in rural Minnesota."

Before he was Pope, Leo had an entire section of his Wikipedia devoted to all the child molesters he personally protected while a Bishop. Since he became Pope, it's been heavily sanitized.

america is such a protestant infected hellhole that yall have tricked yourselves into thinking catholicism is counter-culture. they are an organization of rich pedophiles that want free reign to do whatever they want, same as any other group of powerful, untouchable men.

hanif abdurraqib today, tomorrow, and always!!!

This is my thought as well. Maybe the price of most consumer goods has not increased faster than wage growth, but the cost of housing definitely has, and the niceness and affordability of your home probably has a greater impact on your sense of financial wellness than that of your TV.

You cannot make me hand it to the Catholic Church, one of the most destructive and vicious organizations in world history, but if this is what turns Christians against him, fine

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

If Pope Leo personally excommunicates JD Vance, I will take a 48 hour break from bringing up how he has an entire section of his Wikipedia devoted to all the child molesters he protected.

Ahh, lookit Bezos got a shill to write his sour grapes because his billionaire butt is never going further than LEO. (LEO is playing on easy mode. Deep space is hard.) Julia Cartwright, how does it feel to be his discarded kleenex? Because, babe, he used you like a Fleshlight.

it's amazing how far this total myth that real rednecks are somehow all communists has spread. i've lived in the south my entire life and there is just absolutely no proof of this at all

If you were wondering if actually being a therapist with identical credentials to your own therapist would prevent your therapist from assuming she knows more about your mental illness than you do... I'm afraid the answer is no.

All my friends are recommending it but I saw an episode summary about a kid having an asthma attack because his family lost Medicaid... I already work in a Medicaid clinic. I don't watch TV to be reminded of the failures of the American healthcare system.

why did Melania say this at her press conference?

you ever notice how media uses this weird framing when talking about men and boys? it's always, "hmm, women are doing better according to this specific metric. how do we help men get back on top?"

If you’re not describing the job categories with the growth, you’re obscuring something. And the most likely factor worth hiding? That the growth is low-pay, low-respect service industries like childcare, elder care, low skill health & cleaning. Desperation jobs, taken because her kids must be fed.

Games like darts, billiards, bowling and chess completely give away what's going on. The ONLY reason to segregate these sports by sex in the first place is because men cannot emotionally handle losing to women. The ONLY reason to lock out trans people is bigotry.

I don't think it's a "problem" that there are fewer teen pregnancies. I think fewer teen pregnancies is a good thing, actually,

after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign

John Cena is a master of defusing questions designed to get celebrities to say controversial things. Truly, a master of the craft.

When I was in high school I built a huge amount of my personality around hating Twilight (in a fun-hating feminist way, not in a not like other girls way) and now whenever it comes up I feel extraordinary fondness. Thank you Stephenie Meyer for teaching me the forbidden pleasures of being a hater.

People often preface posts with “not to be a Reddit atheist but—“ and I really don’t think that’s necessary. This country absolutely needs a militant “get religion out of government” movement right now. Any person of sincere religious conviction should 100% agree with that and be a part of it

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

this waiter is currently in your Bluesky mentions

One of my tiniest pet peeves as a therapist is how often people say "you need therapy" when what they mean is "you need a better way to manage your mental health." There are MANY effective ways to manage your mental health, and therapy is only one of them!

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

can't believe I have to say this, but PSA, the tortoise is not dead, I repeat, the tortoise is not dead

christ millennials we have got to let the younger generations break our balls about our dumb bullshit. epic bacon garbage and so forth. did none of you learn the golden rule of ballbreaking: the more you gripe about it the more of it you bring rightly down on yourself

This still makes no sense to me. What you say as a therapist to a client isn't just "speech," it's medical treatment.

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

seeing a lot of "higher gas prices won't affect me because I don't drive very much" and unfortunately it is my sad duty to inform you that your food does not teleport to the grocery store

The data is really clear: the foundational mechanism of change in psychotherapy is the therapeutic relationship itself. You cannot have a relationship with an app. You can only have a delusion about having a relationship with an app. This shit is criminally negligent malpractice.

If you can’t afford a therapist, please just buy a workbook or idk smoke weed like a normal person. At least no one ever died from doing that.

I cannot tell you how facile the argument is that therapists have "freedom of speech" to practice conversion therapy on our clients. Therapists do not have "freedom of speech" within our therapy sessions. There are MANY things I cannot say to my patients without being disciplined by my board.

Just to share something that's helping me combat that "no one is doing anything" feeling: Veterans for Peace and the Center on Conscience & War have been putting up billboards outside military bases offering free legal and logistical support to servicemembers who want tf out.

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning