As a woman who enjoys fishing, I don’t mind a fish-pic. It confirms we have at least one interest in common, and gives me hope that I’ll have one more person available to split the cost of a charter fishing trip.

One of my favorite things about Baltimore (or at least my neighborhood/peer group) - it’s very rare to hear someone ask “what do you do?” Instead, we tend to ask “what brought you to Baltimore/the neighborhood?”

Did you know there is a snack bar on the roof of St Peter’s Basilica? You can pay €7 and take the elevator, or €5 and climb the stairs. I took the stairs and saved my €2 for an ice cream after climbing 551 steps to the cupola.

I did two big overseas trips last year. In Italy, there was a laundromat across the street from our hotel, and we spent a couple of hours doing laundry on a rainy morning. We had a chance to chat with other tourists, and the rain had cleared by the time we finished. In Ireland, there was a laundry shop a few blocks…

How about teaching all children to be kind/considerate of all people?

Thank you. I’m so fucking tired of “progressive” concern trolls, especially those who wring their hands over Southern politics despite never stepping foot in the South.

I’m an academic, in a field where I sometimes do need to refer to specific racial slurs in a purely academic manner. Even then, I choke on the word and can’t say it out loud.

Just make sure you use water permeable paving materials. A concrete yard may not use water, giant slabs of concrete cause problems with run off and flash flooding.

I lived in Raleigh as a teenager. For our senior prank, we stole the Ronald McDonald statue from the restaurant down the street and placed in of the roof of the building. We took it down and returned it at lunch time the same day.

The kids at Wakefield definitely aren’t economically anxious, nor are their parents. It’s a suburban school serving a very wealthy community.

The microwave is the way to go for weekday breakfasts. I like to cook a full pound of bacon in the oven on Sunday, then wrap in a layer of paper towels and store in the fridge. For weekday breakfasts, just pull out a few strips of bacon, nuke for 30 seconds, and you’re good to go.

I love my electric kettle - it makes my morning routine much more efficient. I fill it with water every night when I’m cleaning up the kitchen. I use loose leaf tea, so I’ll go ahead and measure the leaves and set up my teapot for the next morning as well. My kettle is programmable, so I’ve set it to heat water to the…

Wow. That’s pretty awful. Racial issues aside, it’s incredibly disturbing for an art museum to promote a set of gallows as a playground.

One of the really cool things about art is that you, as an individual, don’t get to categorically deem another person’s work to be art or not.

Or perhaps include Black people in school leadership? And not as the token Black parent on the PTA. Hire Black principals and promote Black teachers. Examine discriminatory practices in teacher training programs and hiring practices.

Baltimore isn’t the capital of Maryland. And we have no money, so it seems fair to sell the statues. Would be great to sell them for scrap metal, but we would probably get more money at auction.

I’m still waiting for their proposed solution to hundreds of lithium ion batteries in the cargo hold of every transoceanic flight.

By 6th grade, I already understood and supported single payer universal healthcare. I also believed education at public universities should be tuition-free through grad school.

I looked up the breakfast menu at the Four Seasons Toronto - the only pancakes on the menu are described as lemon ricotta hot cakes.

I just looked up the breakfast menu at Four Season Toronto. The main restaurant is a branch of Cafe Boulud. The only pancake-like thing on the menu is lemon ricotta hot cakes.