Sometimes I'll sit and contemplate the meaning of life and other times I'll wonder if the plural of manatee is 'manatees' or 'menatee'

Instead of taking kids away from parents who can’t house/feed/take care of them for financial reasons, social services should give them the money they would’ve paid to a foster parent.

I love it when people go on a tear on Jeopardy when I’m still trying to figure out an answer from 3 categories ago

Hepa air filtration, special UV lighting, even just allowing for open windows, outdoor eating spaces, sick leave policies that encourage people to stay home, free access to PCR quality covid testing, masks on mass transit. I wouldn’t work in an office where my water was full of lead, would you?

Any conversation about return to office vs work from home that does not acknowledge the ongoing pandemic is ignorant, ableist and destined to miss the mark. Many, including disabled people but not only disabled know they cannot risk getting COVID and offices haven’t taken steps to protect workers.

It's hard to fight agoraphobia when every time I leave the house people reveal their complete lack of home training

"we didn't clean the machine edition"

Highly recommend! Bibi has a terrific range of products and works hard to support the disabled community in multiple ways. Please show her store some love.

Let's pay back her generosity with lots of holiday orders. I can personally attest that her products make EXCELLENT gifts—my mom is still using her Galaxy wrist brace something like 3 years later!

my adhd soul for items i never have to remember or pay to charge t b h

here's some real talk for you. lettuce is nonsense. there's not even calories in it and it's not like it tastes good. real pointless entity imo

if i never see the term "underage women" again it will be a sad day for satan because all of you are going to hell and he'll be so bereft

in fact, stop calling even them "young women" in this context. they are children. they are kids. they are minors and they deserve to be spoken of in the terminology that best elucidates the monstrosity of what was done to them

pickup trucks for the average person should not have been allowed to advance past this. if you need anything bigger, you should have to provide some kind of documentation showing you have the license and need for special heavy machinery, otherwise you get the 1990 toyota hilux

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

I find myself increasingly wondering how able bodied people appear to believe that being disabled is"easy." Getting accommodations in school, uni and/or work: easy, a breeze, even! Getting a doctor to write you a certificate supporting your needs: EASY! Working from home: EASY!

Everyone’s gangster until they hear their own voice on a recording.

Making your content and information accessible is viewed as a nice thing to do. And it is. But this World Kindness Day, we wanted to remind everyone that access to information is a human right. We shouldn't need to keep asking for it, it's simply how it should be.

Everyone doesn’t desire marriage. Everyone doesn’t desire to have chiren. And that’s just fine. I’ll hold tight to the belief that if folks made those decisions because they wanted to and not because they felt like they had to, things would prolly be better.

“This tofu recipe helped me lose 30 pounds.” Yeah, because it was so disgusting you threw it out and starved instead.

a repeated mistake is a choice mf

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

new porch cat just dropped

“Thank you for using Google AI, would you like to kill 3 birds for us to draft an email for you?“

The Weber-Fechner Law of psychophysics: your perception of senses is logarithmic, not linear. It all works like decibels, basically. A sensation has to be much stronger for you to feel it has doubled, than twice as strong. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E...

Pain relievers are a miracle, and part of why is that they allow you to give the middle finger to millions of years of evolution telling you that a toothache or back injury means you should die. Healed femurs *and* crushed herbs.

We have some good neighbors.

This actually is probably correct in a certain way. Punishing women for their existence and operating under the VERY standard medical belief that women are required to be in pain and they should just endure it is a reasonable explanation for why MAHA would come out against pain medication.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

As well as recipes, my patreon is full of my art. You can help support me and get paintings and drawings like these sent to your inbox every week. There's a whole series done in the style of Picasso with African influences on subjects like Black women.

Determined to enjoy the holidays this year. That's why I'm holding New Family Auditions.

Especially highly functioning depression. You just keep going and don’t even realize how sad you are.

You don’t realize how much depression has taken from you until you do.

Homelessness is a feature, not a bug

This still floors me

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

My client told me she hopes I never stop working. Why would you say that to somebody? Bitch.

If you feel overwhelmed, remember that you can still make a difference doing little things. A compliment or word of encouragement, a tip to a favorite takeout place, a donation to a local charity, an email to your favorite author, time with a pet, a walk outside, or a phone call to a loved one.

Don’t make me per my last email you

Guy who would rather burn down a rainforest to regurgitate 50,000 words worth of tedious dogshit no one will ever want to read, rather than try writing 300 words a day for a year, etc.

What if we kissed at the cardboard Costo cat experience

Please stop saying things like "We had to vote for Carney, it was the only alternative to PP". It's just not true. In fact, that kind of thinking made and continues to make things worse. 🧵

We have taken products off the market for being far less dangerous. We also have a clear signal that all the money we’re dumping into AI could be better spent addressing a serious mental health crisis.

Anyone who has struggled to get treatment understands how transformative it is to finally be heard. Having symptoms written off is incredibly demoralizing

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

Once you read the story, go over to the gofundme for teen vogue's laid off workers and throw them a donation. bsky.app/profile/lexi...

You’ve met men like this. You know men like this. Less famous, perhaps, but the same tedious pattern. What a fantastic piece of writing. I hope that somehow, in the afterlife, Sharon Begley hears the satisfying *thunk* of her arrow, loosed before her death, now hitting its mark.

Me flirting:

ME: [extremely burnt out] I need to take the day off to relax ALSO ME: I wonder if there is a way that I could relax that would be more productive