I don’t know about you, but I’ve been suspicious of crocheteting community for a long time now. You don’t play with hooks that long and not come out a little weird.
But crocheted baby Viking hats gets me.

I think adding the seen before of consent and some kind of acknowledgement that this acted out should be a heralded aspect. If that destroys your boner well, maybe then you need to rethink your boner.

Can't say I am fucking surprised.

True MVP here.

Pretty sure we had the same parents. I got diet pills given to me starting in 5th grade.

My parents in tithed in the 80s and 90s. They would send envelopes to your house, as other commentors have mentioned. You could give cash i the offering basket (my parents would give each of us children a dollar to put in the basket) but they sure as hell made sure the envelope with their name was in there as well. In…

Isn’t Gawker itself supposed to be the celeb and pop culture coverage considering it is about gawking and gossip? What the fuck.

Must add these on the Super Serials to chat about list. I thought it was just me and the elementary school librarian who knew these books even existed.

People seem to think abortions only occur at PP or outright abortion clinics. They don’t- my conservative well to do suburban hellhole had a private obgyn that did that and everyone knew it but it was hush hush. These laws are directly aimed at poor people.

I have so many freckles (thanks super duper pale skin and limp reddish hair) that I even have freckles on my lips. MY LIPS HAVE FRECKLES. Yeah, it isn’t the cute sporadic dots and I get really self conscious about them. =[

1) Living with 7 people in a 4 bedroom apartment. 2) not much, food banks, handouts, doing science experiments [yep], and (3) medication? LOL I haven’t seen a doctor in over a decade.

It happens really quickly in areas where they instituted vouchers for schooling- private schools that wanted to retain and maintain exclusivitiy just jacked up their tuition rates as to not deal with problems. This is why things like single payer are so important- we need everyone in the game to offset the risk or it…

The problem is we can’t give vouchers because then daycare providers will just jack up their rates to justify voucher use (which a lot of people will just suggest as a panacea to the problem.) It would be better for the government to cover the cost of insurance and incidentals needed or even utilities. (I’ll never…

We have A LOT more professional development mandated by states than previously. After certification in PA, you only get a level 1 (good for 5 years) and still have to take some amount of hours in order to get your level 2 cert which is good for basically ever. Even if you are cert’d, you still are required to…

Right now, as a substitute teacher, I’m lucky to make $800 a month. $2400 a month would be 300% of my income.
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Yeah if your daycare has administrators and administration (now just owner/operators) their salaries are ridiculous, just like every other administrator in education.

Aha. Not for daycare. Maybe for a private K-12 school, but most definitely not daycare. It generally is 10-20% off a month, some employers if you are super lucky, it is 50%, but that is very VERY rare in the industry.

After taxes, I usually took home around $900 a month. That’s working “full time” (when I worked pt, I maybe could get 600 a month if I was lucky.) And what a lot of people don’t realize is that a number of daycares have employees who work only half a day and your half day shift changes all the time. It’s an incredibly…

Also, they don’t want to pay for a teacher and aides to be full time. =/ Classes are also being condensed at all grade levels (I had 35 kindergarteners last year and I noped out of subbing for that ever again), especially as urban districts close buildings and sell them off to charter schools. =[

My concern is what kind of “ink” or paint is used for the nail designs. There are lots of 3/5 free nail polishes now because we understand some of the chemicals are a bit toxic- especially something manufactured toward kids who aren’t the best even with polish to keep their hands out of their mouth (you’d be or maybe…