That this video is a thing that exists makes me so so happy.

OMFG that article has me **STABBITY**.

I suffer from “night terrors”, so I’m kind of used to quasi-waking up and things ‘being in’ my room when they’re not supposed to - snakes and mice crawling out of walls, weird lights, the walls of my room opening into other dimensions, even people in my room. Those ‘people’ never ever talk to me - this is important.

If the choices before you are “monster” and “not monster”, it doesn’t matter if you feel fucking inspired by the not-monster, you do what it takes to make sure the monster doesn’t win.

THANK YOU. Thank you for writing this, thank you for **getting it**, thank you for saying this and understanding that all of this shit is our background radiation as women and this week we have all been burning.

There’s also the matter of ‘eco’ products like LEDs being ‘greener’ in one sense (energy consumption by the end user) that ignores massive environmental externalities in other places. Like, for instance, the rare earth metals used in all LEDs, which have a 1:1-1.4 ratio of extracted rare earth minerals:radioactive…

In your research for your book, did you ever find any further research related to the (brief but promising) 2005 study by M. Grunwald and T. Weiss (https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/98/5/379/1561360) which shows a novel avenue of treatment for AN which focuses on the sensory-perceptive feedback loops between the…

A political party fucking over other - newer! - members of the same political party (ie, massive infighting among a political entity that remains in bounds of the entity’s bylaws) doesn’t have the same sort of political, economic, and security implications as, say, a hostile foreign government possibly installing an…

Are we at the point yet where we can start diverting some *military* funding to try and deal with this instead of, say, other epidemiological research and/or _anti poverty programs_? I mean, the Pentagon and/or the DHS’ got a billion-dollar slush fund, and surely Zika counts as a national security risk?

Not entirely true. “Drier/sweeter” are good up to a point but there are different kinds of dry and sweet, and if you’re talking to someone who knows about wine (say, if you’re looking for a recommendation), being able to pinpoint the flavors you like and don’t like is really useful.

It sounds like you’re worried about “not being a grownup” if you don’t have children. Parenthood is not THE benchmark for adulthood. Adulthood - ie, taking care of yourself and whoever you decide to call family (if that’s what you want to do), paying attention to the major clauses of the social contract, stuff like…