Lol, I've never seen this gif used in a "Pro-Florida, fuck the rest of the country" way. I like it!

I'm in Miami. We get to wear our sweaters today. Enjoy your blizzard/"polar vortex"/generally miserable weather, folks : )

There's no "we". The choice was this woman's to make, and Texas ignored it, and her husband's/the father's to make, and Texas ignored it. This is not your body, spouse, family, fetus, or money.

Note to self, talk to my doctor to make sure this never happens to me. I don't care if they let a toddler loose to play in the room, I want that plug pulled. This has been a nightmare of mine since hearing about Karen Quinlan. (I think that is how her last name is spelled)

The part I don't understand: if you subscribe to the notion that abortions equal interfering with God's plan for life how is keeping a woman alive not interfering? "God" allowed this woman to suffer an embolism while pregnant. Did His "plan" really involve her being on life support to sustain the fetus for 26 weeks?

because unfortunately writing good English is still out of reach ;)

Women who use smile-y emoticons get 60% more messages from potential suitors, whereas men who do the same thing get 12% less responses :)

I think I've said it before on here, but I have this on my OKCupid profile under "Message me if..." I can't see your nipples in your profile pictures.

I used a picture of myself when I had a horrendous headcold, all snotty and in my pajamas on my dating profile. I'd captioned it "If you can handle me when I look like this, you'll like the way I look the rest of the time." I didn't get many responses, but the one who could deal ended up being THE ONE.

Post Verbicide, only six words remained.

brain explosion, you just explained the psychology of the MRA fear, right there. thank you! I finally get it.

You had me at "residually famous person Jay Mohr"!

I would love for them to do a POC James Bond because it would lend support to the fan theory that "James Bond" is a hand-me-down moniker of the 007 spot. I always liked that theory. Of course it doesn't really fit with the films—Skyfall especially with all the naming at old Bond manor—but they never explained the…

Exactly. We celebrate "strong female characters" as some great triumph, when really (while it is a step above Damsels in Distress) it's just another iteration of Two-Dimensional Female Characters. Give me depth, and complexity, and multiple motivations. Strong can be great, but not at the expense of being interesting…

I'm all about Idris Elba for James Bond. And President. And just...everything, really. Damn, that man is fine.

I conquer. At the ripe age of 31 I don't give a shit what the teens like. They have terrible taste.

Every year my husband and my daughter get new socks in their stockings. And new undies. It's a tradition. Husband's mom always did socks for all the men every year, so I started doing it after she passed away.

Either way you get to hang out with rich assholes all day and work 18 hour days.

Lady butlers? This is going to raise some eyebrows downstairs.

Why is this article, posted 12/20/10 (honestly io9, what kind of future do you come from where you still use the very-difficult-to-decode-without-context mm/dd/yy style of writing dates), the fourth top story on io9's front page at 3am (EST) 26 December 2013?