My American friends laugh when I take an antiparasitic a few times a year just to be safe. Of course, in the US the pill that costs about 5 bucks (usually OTC) everywhere else in the world has been jacked up to almost 900usd thanks to that gross pharmabro Martin Shkreli, so after this tapeworm thing I’ve had a few…

I love Mo’nique for living on her own terms even when it’s to her detriment and I want her to thrive, but I’m not giving up Netflix. I don’t have access to US programming, but it seems to me that Netflix is a LOT more willing to have women and POC-driven shows than any of the mainstream broadcast or cable channels I…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai isn’t rattled by former engineer mediocre parrotfish with a victim complex James Damore’s lawsuit.

I was really hesitant to try it, but it’s made a huge, huge difference in my pain levels, and it lets me get restful sleep (which I’ve basically never had in my life) so I don’t get into a feedback loop of pain=no sleep=stress=pain=no sleep

Jesus whose first miracle was helping people get drunk at a wedding? Who healed the sick and soothed the suffering? Pretty sure he’d be okay with it. His fucked up Gospel According to Nancy Reagan “followers” are the ones we gotta worry about.

I get very sick very easily. My least stressful, most successful flights have always been red-eyes where I can grab a window seat as close to the front of the plane as possible. Fewer people, not as much moving around, and I don’t feel as self conscious slipping on a cutesy surgical mask. I don’t generally go for…

That’s very interesting, Lysol has a specific travel size packet of wipes and my friend whose dad is a pilot and mother is a former flight attendant swear by them and make everyone they’ve ever met pack them. I wonder if they have issues with whatever particular pack you’re bringing in or if they’re just being weird.

I have a gorgeous male friend, about 6'4", science teacher, looks like Ricky Martin, dances like a dream...just a complete catch. He ALWAYS wears a cap to hide his bald spot. I’ve known him for almost seven years and he could have Mexican Voldemort under there for all I know. I hate that it bothers him because I want…

Nah, no worries. It’s always a nice surprise when someone ISN’T racist. It’s rarer and rarer these days.

My dog-whistle ears are always up, just like every marginalized person in the Trump era, but there’s a couple hundred years of precedent to use après [insert whatever leader/cultural figure here] to indicate a cultural shift because it’s a riff off “Après moi, le déluge” attributed to both Madame de Pompadour and King…

As a former Eucharistic Minister (in a Eucharistic but not Roman Catholic church) yes, a chunk is so the service isn’t 40 hours long, but we had two standing stations and the altar mostly to be more inclusive and easier for people to receive. If kneeling was uncomfortable you could go to either standing station…

It’s just a little conspicuously try hard to me, so it would be mildly irritating, but mildly irritating because of the second-hand embarrassment I’d suffer when I see anyone do something performatively scandalous, not because they’re doing something so! shocking! and sacrilegious! but because it reminds me of all…

I’m kinda into it, though the Mid West jokes write themselves.

I don’t know how the ads are for your US-based readers, but just today I whitelisted Jezebel, clicked an article and got a shrieking full-volume autoplay video screaming at me about the Amazing Race, which honestly I didn’t even know was still on. I use ABP and don’t mind minimally intrusive ads —The Root’s vertical…

I was in an online feminist book group slack for about 20 seconds with mostly well-meaning mostly white American millennials and we read Parable of the Sower and I was like “A lot of this stuff is literally happening where I live, or where my family lives” and at a certain point I genuinely wondered if my words were…

Moving from a card culture to a cash culture was a shock and took some adjustment, but now I love living in a cash society. I understand the advantages to the retailer and of course I use it for online shopping, but for me and my own particularly arranged bouquet of anxiety issues and bad luck, relying on cash and…

And the remaining oil will have a nice flavor to it. Top it off with a tiny bit of your favorite full-flavored olive oil and you’ve got a solid DIY garlic/shallot/whatever oil without having to worry about botulism.

I absolutely believe they’re all made with the same flavor profile, but since scent is such a huge part of what we perceive as taste, if you take the same base flavorant and add different scents, they’re going to taste different.

Yes yes and yes. I’m not even going to pretend to be unbiased or reasonable about this. Justin Timberlake could take down the Trump Administration, cure cancer, and find Biggie’s killer and he would STILL be the cup o’ noodles haircut who tanked Janet’s career.

you know she’s got the sugars