Had a friend in school who spelled it this way. So we called him Goofrey.

That sounds like "It could never happen to me" syndrome. 

It probably doesn’t help that we still use their terminology, “influencers”, instead of what are likely more accurately descriptive terms like “’net randos”, “unvetted bloviators”, or “lying shills”

It worries me a lot that this kind of misinformation is finding its way into contraception.  I feel like I'm educating my kid into having to be some kind of medical missionary for her friends one day.

The most powerful and dangerous lies always have a grain of truth. Here, the grain is that 1) hormonal birth control and copper IUDs do have side effects for many women, which for a very small subset of women can be severe and occasionally even fatal, 2) it’s all too common for these problems to be dismissed by our…

If you wanted to only look at the medical outcomes for patients who received false blood results and may have taken advice premised on those results... That’s an unknown since the victims are still facing the impending medical treatments to resolve their illnesses.

The rhythm method is great.

The tradwife trend has actively ruined all social media for me. I guess I hit a sweet spot of craft, slow farming, vintage finds and cooking content to pull in all the religious, anti-feminist nutjob content. It’s highly upsetting to be minding my fucking business, watching an embroidery video and suddenly I’ve got…

Yeah, best case scenario it seems like they’ll donate needed stuff, but only after investing in the companies they’re securing contracts with. Worst case, they just contract with their own companies in a loop and basically do nothing.

I thought it was pretty accepted that when super rich people have charities, those are usually just a way for them to funnel money back into their other enterprises. Twas ever thus.

She was a child of the aristocracy. Privileged, and by nature spoiled and self-centered. The extent to which the Firm expects new members to subsume themselves to the machine runs counter to that type of upbringing, unless like the actual family members they’ve been beaten over the head with “DUTY” since they could…

They say that the best revenge that you can have against your enemies is to live a long and happy life.

I was thinking the same thing! (Not having the bleached hair washing him out might be helping too.)

You can tell me to fuck off. I’m a big boy.

I work part-time at a Michael’s Arts & Crafts. We got Black Santa, Black Nutcrackers, Black Elves. It’s on at Micheals.

They. Don’t. Give. A. FUCK.

Maybe like the line that you are not so much paying them for sex as to leave afterward 

Gummies for all. 

Drake is really leaning into this Andrew Tate incel arc.

I sympathize with the anxiety here and can’t imagine being a BRAND NEW mom during this time. However, I’ve been living a slightly different version of this story—my older son (just shy of 5 at this point) has significant special needs and, in the “before times” received speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral…