“Singling out the continent of Africa yet again...”

This whole post was a meander of tangentially related bits of information trying (and failing) to support a main argument. Protecting biodiversity in Africa, environmental racism in the US, Meghan Markle’s experience in the royal family, and Black Lives Matter should not all be mentioned in the same article.

You are free to give yourself permission to set aside your principles if they prevent you from attacking the object of your scorn as completely as you might like. Once you have set those principles aside though, you don’t really get to expect that anyone will pretend you still have them.

It’s a Prostasia talking point. The whole article is filled with Prostasia talking points, which is interesting since it claims to be focused on scientific research.

Yeah, Prostasia, the group that until recently operated chat rooms that literally brought together minors and pedophiles in the name of “support.” I hate this shit. 

Calling Prostasia a “child-protection organization” is definitely a bold choice.

So interesting that this platform is being used to promote the work of the Prostasia Foundation, which seems to be on quite the media blitz lately. But I’ll leave it at that.

Is it just me, but if I was staged in a situation (on public media no less) where my other half deliberately tried to trigger jealousy, I’d seriously reconsider my relationship with them.....

This sounds like the erasure of the biracial identity. Essentially, you have to pick a side to be validated or for a political stance. It doesn’t sound or feel like the right thing to do. Even if it’s just “I know I’m mixed but publicly *this* is me,” it’s still suggesting the other side is of lesser importance or…

Why Exclude Pregnant People from Clinical Research?

The government is not obliged to make it easier for reckless drivers to break the law without consequences. If somebody decides to drive at a dangerous speed* on a residential pavement and hits something (something obvious, that they have been warned about, that’s been there for a decade) and damages their own car as…

I’ve always heard they are better  because they are frozen immediately after freezing. No need to pick them early and let them ripen in transit. You pick them when they are ripe and immediately freeze them (I assume the same for canned)

I am so uncomfortable with the media attention that gets shone onto teen stars’ relationships. She’s 18. She’s going to have relationships and breakups. Maybe we can just not with the headlines and the speculation. I thought we were supposed to have learned something from the way we treated Britney Spears.  

It must be so weird to be a teenager and do normal teen things like getting in and out of relationships or being unsure of who you’re compatible with, but to have it become international news. There’s a real aspect of voyeurism and living vicariously through celebrities I think we all subscribe too. Its just a little…

I don’t know why this has to be some conspiracy funded by conservative wing nuts. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country with all sorts of beliefs; some people think we didn’t land on the moon; some people think the Earth is flat; some people think HRC is a lizard person and that Democrats writ large…

All Abrahamic religions are cut from the same cloth, aka fucking bullshit.

The PM of Pakistan was interviewed on BBC World News this morning, and they were asking him about Pakistan letting Taliban go back and forth across the border with no issues, etc. and the Paks kind of turning a blind eye to what Taliban was doing. Of course the PM denied this, but when asked about the new improved…

I am 100% behind her intent, but I take issue with her metaphor. The popular kids were the ones who always treated me like shit. I never envied them because I didn’t want to be that mean, but I did wish that I could blend with them so they would leave me alone. It wasn’t mainly because I was a “nerd” (defined back…

Why doesn’t Osaka just donate a set amount to Haiti relief now? She’s the highest paid female athlete in the world. Her participation could net anything from $24,000 to $255,000, which is anywhere from 0.05-0.5% of her earning last year, and won’t be received for weeks.

It does feel a little bit like if the UK press went “The Australian Open Needs Andy Murray” when he withdrew from it and much of the casual audience outside the UK probably went “who’s Andy Murray?”