I knew firefighters could be volunteers, but I had no idea EMTs could learn through volunteer classes as well. Thanks for sharing! I can’t do it right now, but I will tuck the thought into a mental back pocket for the future.

We were sitting in separate chairs when my drunken self had a great idea about how to really ~smoothly~ work my way into a hookup. I went over and sat in his lap and then exclaimed “wow it’s sooo hot in here I need to take my shirt off!” before taking my shirt off.

This is a totally random question mostly unrelated to your story, but are you British? I’m guessing from word choices like “mad” and “rubbish”. And I’m bothering to ask at all because you said you have a thing for accents, and I as an American find British accents to be the apex of beautiful accents. (All of the UK,…

KenKen is the best! I also recommend samurai sudoku for anyone who finds regular sudoku too damn quick/easy. The level options are Easy, Medium, Hard, Evil, and Fiendish. :D

God damn it Patrick Stewart, I just got my “celebrities I’m allowed to sleep with” list laminated. Why you gotta make things difficult?

icing on its own is not a dessert unless you’re licking the mixing attachments or you’re going through a breakup and eating it directly from the Pillsbury container

The fuck have you done? I was sternly against this monstrosity and now I want a key lime-blackberry-lemon meringue (blakeygue? lemberlime? keymerberry?) concoction more desperately than anything. Are you a wizard? What have you done to me?

That is really fucking weird and sad and interesting. I wonder, chicken-and-egg-wise, whether the presence of the gun makes people aware of the ease of suicide, but then they don’t want something so brutal/painful so they find less violent means; or whether the type of home that would have a gun is just the type of…

I’m with mazzieD. Additionally, the very first thing I would do is tell my supporters not to drag Stoya through the mud. “Y’all, I do not tolerate victim blaming. Thank you for the support, but please be respectful of Stoya. Even if we discover this was a misunderstanding, it takes a lot of courage for most victims to…

People who are kind use the word “kind.” People who are unkind use the words “politically correct.”

I would literally push all of my loved ones out of my way and run. Like I would use my best friend as a human shield and not even feel bad about it.

The Rescuers Down Under!

I’m not saying this guy’s a rapist. I’m not. But if you accept that profound contempt for women is the baseline world view of a rapist, and you accept that rape is about power, then you see that the higher the status of the woman, the greater the thrill for the rapist.

Have kids. Being brave for them, finding hope for them, makes you stronger than when you only have to do it for yourself:

I saw Mockingjay last weekend. Someone was texting, volume on, and people were asking him to silence his phone. He ignored them. It escalated to the point that someone went to get a theater employee to enforce the rules.

Agree with everything you said, just want to give voice to black women, too: Rekia Boyd, Renisha McBride, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Malissa Williams, Miriam Carey, Sandra Bland, six of the nine Charleston church victims, and so many trans women of color whose murders never make it to the media at all. Boyd, Stanley-Jones,…

Does Dr. Hamilton have any suggestions for offices full of high-strung adults?

I needed batteries anyway and I am seriously going to buy Duracell just because of this ad.

I love everything about this visual and most especially a plushie R2-D2, which needs to be in my life now.

For perspective, an 18-year-old who hit a cop car with a traffic cone during the Baltimore protests last year was given $500,000 in bail and faces life in prison, EVEN AFTER HE TURNED HIMSELF IN.