I don’t exist to teach other people empathy. I’m severely pigeon-toed, but because I’m not in constant pain, I’m not a candidate for hip surgery. I would have jumped on this in a heartbeat as a child/teenager.

Ugh. What a mess. I feel so sorry for the kids. I believe the daughter, but that doesn’t mean Lolita isn’t telling the truth as well ...

She and her allies essentially threatened to accuse the administration of structural antisemitism, which was a bad look for the Obama administration because they were already getting that from the rabid edges of the pro-Israel crowd.

I’m a dual citizen, and I’m more appalled by America’s fucked up police and courts than I am by Sweden’s mediocre judiciary (though Tingsrätter are just as worthless as American local courts)

Please tell me you’re reading something besides Aftonbladet, Expressen, and the Local.

The only place in Swedish media I’m seeing this information (re: refugees) in avpixlat, aka Swedish Stormfront. One suspect is an asylum seeker, according to police reports.

As for the other, I’d love to see what the original Swedish was, because there are different words for “not ethnically Swedish/foreigner” that…

This. It’s a major problem at all European festivals, not just Bråvalla. Swedes report more rapes/sexual assaults in general and record them differently.

It was ALWAYS security theatre.

Yes, call ahead to the airline and ask for a wheelchair/extra support. It speeds things up considerably and puts you in different queues for immigration/security et al. The only thing to remember is to tip your handler in the US, 5USD is enough.

(I’ve gone from/to the US with a knee injury where I couldn’t stand for…

It is an international story — from the Japanese perspective. Public Security Section 9 isn’t Overwatch, FFS.

It’s interesting that he keeps referring back to the manga — which part of the manga does he mean? Is he trying to distance himself from Stand Alone Complex anime?

The amount of drugs you have to take just to keep the drugs keeping you alive from killing you is insane.

Methotrexate is a nasty drug. My mom had it as part of her chemo cocktail about a decade ago. It’s not vincristine bad (that one I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemies) but it's still going to make you puke.

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.