My song of the summer is Lotto by Nightmare and Chippy Nonstop

Feel good song of the summer

Tackar tackar :)

National day is kind of a new thing here — people are mad because it displaced another holiday, and the only ones who care are immigrants (like me!) who had their citizenship ceremonies today.

Um, there’s actually very little evidence that sexköpslagen has done anything about trafficking in Sweden.

He was a shitty shitty governor, so I’m not surprised.

I think what you’re seeing is pushback against all killers being called “mentally ill”, especially if they’re white and male, and then mixing it with the idea of “not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect” ie “pleading insanity”. The latter has to do with criminal responsibility - roughly “ a defendant should…

I would drink Smirnoff Ice if Baddie Winkle was offering.

As I said to the other person who pointed this out

Fucking hell. Assholes.

Pony up the 5 bux and download it. I dare you.

They’ve been around a while — Jona also was a collaborator with The Blow.

My mom was extremely low maintenance on both, and unfortunately we didn’t have the same hair or skin type so both were terrible until a stylist told me my hair was actually wavy and I read Paula Begouin’s Beautypedia to figure stuff out of my own. I was given Stridex pads when I first started breaking out at 11 -…

Thanks for the tip - I might check it out at some point, but we haven’t spoken in almost a year and it’s been pretty good. Years of therapy have done wonders for my ability to set boundaries and not feel crippling guilt.

I wish I could give this a million stars, it took me weeks (and several therapy sessions) to figure that out and then get angry and grieve at the same time so I could move forward.

You left? That takes serious brass.

My mom (and myself) are Jewish atheists. Dad was a lapsed Catholic, but returned after a near-death experience and has the zeal of the converted. And I have no point of reference at all to the Jesus stuff, and find it really alienating.

No, we shouldn’t have.

Yep! That was the dynamic in my family as well.

That’s exactly it. My dad doing the “amends” bit held me hostage in a public place.