Is this even needed? I just open my dishwasher when it’s done, pull all the racks out and by the time everything is cool enough to touch, it’s dry. I call BS on this one and any perceived positive results are likely psychological. Even most of the comments on the TikTok say it doesn’t work.

Well, besides the fact that she was head of state, and her death dominated the news cycle for days, is leading to people being punished for speaking out against her/the monarchy in a variety of contexts? There’s the land and wealth she gets to have and command, at British taxpayer expense. There is the fact that she…

This last week must have been a jarring one for anyone who says the British monarch is mostly a powerless, symbolic figurehead.  

The truth of right-wingers - from the political all the way down to internet posting - is that they have a pathological drive to hurt others. A “liberal” site gives them an endless supply of “victims” to attempt to upset.

But that’s the thing though. Those right-wing goofballs can’t stand each other, and need to have “libs” to “own” or they feel useless and impotent. That’s why conservative social media websites are such a shit show. They’re just the echo chamber, and that is boring. They need their opposites to troll to feel alive. So…

That’s just...really sad.

I am honestly just so upset about the continued attack on the NHS. I moved here from the US just before getting pregnant, and I could not believe (I mean, I could but...) how easy everything was. Just signed up for a GP and went in for my appointments, and never a single penny to pay or haggling phone call with an…

And lets not forget the £350m/week that the Tory/White Nationalist Brexiters claimed would magically go to the NHS once the UK left the EU. It was, of course, a complete fucking lie that the media reported largely uncritically at the time, and nobody has been held accountable for subsequently.

Same here. I don’t want to hang out in a place full of conservatives. Then again, they have the whole sad “own the libs” thing going on; it’s not enough for them to stay in their own space. They have to come here and try to prove something.

For those who can get into the NYT, they did a fabulous article today on Charles’ aggregation of wealth. None of it’s illegal or anything, but it’s all really rich-guy Paradise Papers-type shady, particularly in light of the fact that he won’t pay inheritance tax.

Well, we were also recently told that this issue means nothing to American voters. Even as a cabal of Christofascists meet in secret to celebrate a (pyric) victory they have been chasing for four decades.

Yup...taking a page from the US Republican playbook, they defund and defund a service that provides a benefit to everyone, then complain that it doesn’t work and needs to be privatized. The waitlist in the wake of Covid means that the patients are fleeing to private practice in droves, and of course the Tories claim…

This sounds like the plot you’d find on Law & Order: SUV.

I am trying to wean off watching cop shows, which are propaganda to make police appear like decent everyday people. They are not. They are thugs with a badge, with zero accountability as this story and many others show.

I just want to remind everyone that a bunch of people (probably not a majority with gerrymandering, but still, a bunch of people) keep sending this craven little fraction of a dingus to Congress. 

I guess mother let him out. Wonder how many of the other guests were supporting lynching him (Pence) to stop him from certifying the election.

I try to get my daughter to try and talk about any thing that makes her feel uncomfortable. The tiniest of things. Like learning to dance or trying to catch a ball (she is not keen to do either.) Reading aloud in class. I do it in the hopes that if any thing serious occurs she will just talk about it as an…

A little different. Realistically, becoming a soldier is often not something one chooses to do as a lifelong dream in this country; it’s simply the best or maybe only option for some people, and then they’re under orders. (As for the ones who choose to be soldiers...maybe you’re right). The Queen isn’t supposed to…

Depends on your own personal moral compass. I didn’t declare either of the situations “wrong” or “right,” just pointing out that there are actually enough differences between the two that you can decide one is “wrong” and the other “right” and not necessarily be inconsistent.  I personally wouldn’t show up to any…

I will bet if you try real real hard, you can find one or two differences between the anti-gay protesters who repeatedly showed up at the private funerals of soldiers who were not public figures in any way shape or form to try to protest homosexuality and what they perceived as the “gay agenda” which those dead…