Gardening: What plants produce hard-to-detect, tasteless poisons and how best to make them flourish?

Semi-former sadistic domme here -

OMG - I bet they were Fundies.

I read this book of essays called Voices From the Spectrum and there was a section of essays written by parents of children with autism. I was shocked to read about how many of them realized that they or their spouse is also on the spectrum but was never diagnosed after their child’s diagnosis. If your son is on the…

I hope you feel OK about that. After I was diagnosed with ADHD and started researching it, a lot of my mom’s behavior made much more sense. She’s an awesome person, but a lot about her perplexed me as a kid.

I’m autistic with ADHD, wasn’t diagnosed with either till my fucking 30s. I badly struggled in school but I was ‘so bright’ so people just shrugged their shoulders and did nothing. Ahhh the 80s-early 90s.

Now that President Obama has moved on, it’s actually nice to see the new leader of the free world sitting in the Oval Office, and also Donald Trump.

I mentioned this on another thread, but this so-called bill devotes 6 pages to kicking people off medicaid if they win they lottery. It goes into an absurd amount of specifics of the types of lottery winnings, how much lottery winning disqualifies you, how the state can ‘intercept’ your lottery winnings to recover…

I am a clinic escort volunteer coordinator at my local indie abortion clinic. Our local CPCs raised 325k to buy one of these stork buses. Every day that we are open, they park in the empty lot across the street (that they lease and have forbidden us from stepping foot on). The regular antis that troll our sidewalks…

I just finished reading “The Child Catchers” by Kathryn Joyce about evangelicals and adoption. It was an amazing (and depressing) read.

Honestly, I’m now convinced they want women to put children up for adoption just so they can adopt all the babies and get Jesus points for taking in “orphans”.

Counterpoint - the popularity of the Duggars, the tenet that “go forth and multiply” leads a culture to squeeze out other cultures if the population growth rate is higher, that children are miraculous presents from the ghost of Santa Claus...

Go fuck yourself, Julie.

I feel like the heartbeat bill was just a way for them to distract everyone from the 20 week abortion ban.

As a former 14 year music industry worker: It’s sad when this is a step up from the years where employees would be fired bc of bullshit reasons the moment the bosses found out they were pregnant. Or tortured until they quit.

Two stick out to me at two different companies:

These are amazing costumes, I love it!

We went Game of Thrones...
Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragon

I read this article earlier. Nightmare scenario.

Man, everyone thought I was a monster for having a four week old Baby State sleep in a crib across the hall.
It’s what worked for us, and kiddo now sleeps like a brick. One of us rocks him for 20 mins, and then he’s placed in the crib where he puts himself to bed as…

Same here. Every time this discussion comes up, I go through this intense roller coaster of emotions, starting with, “Wow, this is insane and it’s only getting worse! We’re barely hanging on with one kid, we’ll never be able to have another,” which moves directly into a purely irrational, emotional (probably…

Yeah, people are surprised that I pay the extra $$$ and pack his food, hopefully it pays off when he has to choose my nursing home. ;)

Oh man, I wish we could do that! Unfortunately I’m of “advanced maternal age” at 40. So if we do want more, we are going to have to bite the financial bullet.