I figured out I was pregnant only a few days after I should have gotten my period. It was rape. I was dealing with major trauma so I didn’t notice the missed period, but all of a sudden my breasts hurt like hell to the touch. I went AS SOON AS I COULD to get the medical abortion because I literally vomited when I…

France is one of the six flags... 

Correction: Broward County high school.

Jamie Lynn Spears posted some bizarre audio of her 3-year-old daughter comforting her while she cries

As someone with a turf lawn in South Florida in a neighborhood with drainage issues, it drains better than our grass did.

Evangelical “purity” culture is nothing more than codifying abusive practices into a cohesive dogma, packaging that dogma as religious and then marketing it as as a righteous necessity. I say this as an ex-evangelical raised in an abusive home. Its core is rotten, because it’s fundamentally built on abusive practices…

This is public information: https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=ed+buck&order=asc&page=2&sort=A 

My husband and I bought a cheap PAL dvd player and some PAL version dvd’s of the seasons not available in the US, because we’re so addicted to this show and could not find NTSC format versions. Unfortunately we never could get it to work. As someone who works in lighting with architects and engineers, I find this show…

You’re conflating hate with bias. They are different. Understanding the difference is very important for self-improvement, no matter the subject. 

I once had a conversation with a friend where we mutually agreed that if we ever woke up in a different timeline where Harry Potter wasn’t an international sensation, it was probably just because Joanne Rowling had authored it instead of JK Rowling.

I used to be exactly like this until I had a baby with a feeding disorder. Firmish meatloaf was a texture recommended to us by the feeding therapist, so I had to get over it and also learn how to make it firm. I eventually landed on a recipe that we all agree is actually really good, ketchup free (because BLEH). The…

...our perception that candor and forthrightness is a “better” or more sincere/true way of existing often does us a disservice...

I dislike the tone of reverence given to O’Connor’s veneer of honesty. I suspect she would dislike it herself, even if she didn’t understand why. We’ve watched O’Connor’s mental illnesses and childhood trauma acted out on the international stage for decades because of her fame. But as recently as a week ago she…

OK, what’s the implication here? Cause it sounds like you’re sexualizing breast milk. Or shaming breast feeding? I can’t figure out what the innuendo is supposed to be or why you’d be afraid to ask why a child would want a sip of the break milk literally made for him.

As an avid Reddit user who has found lifelines there when I really needed them, this is a terrible take. You’re essentially saying it’s OK to be punished for doing good just because you personally don’t visit the site and that one shouldn’t fight back when things aren’t OK. And you’re saying it about a subreddit that…

That’s the point, I think. 

A quick google search tells me that the 612 billion breaks out like this:

I happen to have helped her developer/CR with the lighting on this job. I made it clear to him that I get paid for orders and everything before that is service I provide in expectation that they result in orders. He took up an enormous amount of time, had me re-spec and reprice things multiple times. I ran photometry…

I’m really sorry you went through that. I’ve done a bit of what you mentioned, but not to that extremeness. Therapy has helped me a lot too. It’s funny because it’s exactly this kind of unhealthy self-image that makes me so irritated that no one pointed out that, if you know what to look for, she does look fit in the…