I’d recommend picking a few of your fandoms/interests, and starting there - personally, I’m intermittently active in my particular nerdy areas of ASoIF (A Song of Ice and Fire), Skyrim, classical music, and Harry Potter. Thus far I’ve enjoyed the communities there immensely; they’ve been super welcoming and…

And on the rare occasion it does? It’s usually shouted down into oblivion, or swiftly removed by mods. I love the Gawker Media universe, but their constant hating on Reddit is obnoxious - it’s not like this site doens’t have its own enclave of racists, sexists, homophobes, and trolls. It’s almost like it’s not…

Because Jez/the GM universe has a raging hate boner for Reddit.

If it hasn’t already been mentioned below, St. Ives makes a fabulous green tea scrub that has worked wonders on my uber-sensitive skin...and bonus points, it’s cheap. I highly recommend it!

IT’S SO GOOD

Yesssss their green tea scrub is amazing. I use it 2x a week or so and it is marvelous on my skin - the apricot one was always a little too harsh for my sensitive skin, but the green tea one works wonders for both blackhead excavation and exfoliating.

I’m from the Chicago region myself and my bestie, who grew up a few blocks away, moved to Minneapolis two years ago with her fiancé, so I’ve been up a few times since to visit. I do legitimately see the appeal and admittedly love it there, but I’d probably miss the Chi far too much to ever move (despite her best…

I’m keeping an eye out for the, “She’s had sex with other men in the past so she clearly is a Slutty McSluterson,” and the “what woman would turn down an NBA star so she’s obvs lying,” spots, myself.

I’m really disappointed in how a lot of people around here have reacted to this...like their not liking her somehow means that she must be faking or exaggerating what happened (???). There were some shitty comments on the original article last night about Kanye cutting off his show early, and even more shitty…

Remember the heady time where Gawker employed an actual science person to write their science articles? RIP The Vane, we barely knew thee.

“Stop making me accountable for things I said on a national platform!” D: D: D D:

Apparently no one likes her because she’s really earnest and dorky in a not-cool-girl kind of way...like an adult theater nerd from high school.

Let me go ahead and be that person: individual bits of classical music are referred to as “pieces” - Symphonies are a specific format with a specific structure, as are sonatas, concertos, etc. But they’re referred to generally as pieces, never songs, lest people find out that you’re a pleb.

This version also seems appropriate:

A man with such poor impulse control that he’s provoked into having tantrums on social media by the mean ol’ media - definitely someone we should elect for the highest public office. Yup.

Schrödinger’s Obama?

It’s a giant tote with a bunch of interior pockets that’s sturdy and well-made, that I can throw in the wash after hauling all of my shit to and from work constantly. My laptop fits in it along with everything else.

Wow you guys, I’ve really learned a lot about myself tonight! Because I use a Vera Bradley tote as my work bag and have purchased their products in the past, I am apparently: a former sorority girl (nope), super into Jesus (nope), a person who dislikes sci-fi (nope), old (nope), a person who wears pearls every day…

Welp, guess I don’t exist then. But sweeping generalizations based on purse preferences are fun!

...I like these bags, and have a few :(