Thanks for the laugh, eating my gummy vitamins is also the highlight of my day some days. They're delicious! Although after my partner admitted to going through a jar "in a week or so" because they're so good we DID have to sit down and have a chat about why gobbling multivitamins is bad for you...

Late but my older sister and I do actually have names that can be combined, so as kids we would tell people we were twins who shared the same name because our parents couldn’t come up with a second one (ie both named Susanne, so I went by Susy and she went by Anne). We went to the same college and revived this lie as…

THIS. I once had a friend express surprise that I could buy the exact same free-range, “happy” beef at the local discount grocer that they get at WF, but for half the price. Plus that local discount grocer pays their employees well above minimum wage, and offers great health insurance and PTO to everyone from the…

Oh this is fun! I’m young, a marathoner with a “good” diet, a bike commuter + take lunch time walks, I’ve always had decent health insurance and get annual physicals, I have good work/life balance and a support network, I meditate. I also have high blood pressure and high cholesterol. My doc said “healthy” appearing…

Right??? I generally avoid Whole Foods and one of the only reasons I went in was for their loose bulk cookie section...most grocery stores in my (albeit urban) area sell the same organic products Whole Foods does at a far better price and without the holier-than-thou pretense (could anything be morally worse than…

Honestly every time I feel down about the state of things I think about her and it brings me a little joy. 

This stuck with me from Tina Fey’s memoir too - she talks about losing some weight and suddenly getting all this attention from men and being offered better bits, and how icky it felt to reckon with that kind of “success” that she wanted, but not like that.

Yeah my partner works in a small local business where people will remove their masks to talk with them...I watched a woman take her mask off to sneeze in the grocery store the other day. HOW IS IT THIS HARD?

A little mint oil under your nose will clear up a stuff, witchhazel salve works wonders on irritations/slivers/etc., elderberry syrup is great for a mild cough or sore throat. I think there’s a benefit both to recognizing that doctors/we often waaay over medicate and sometimes there’s a gentler approach AND…

I’m confused as to how anyone is coming away from this with a different take...the police a) went to the wrong house; b) did not announce their presence; and c) violently burst in. Even if you think no-knock warrants should be allowed (I do not), there better be a system in place to check and double check that you…

NEVER! It’s all the comfort of a dress combined with all the convenience of pant legs. Plus bodysuits and leotards stay tight and tucked into skirts and pants whereas normal shirts are always trying to escape. The downside is that you have to get totally naked to pee, which is pretty awkward if you lock the restaurant…

Wow thanks for sharing this - no snark I had no idea this is how it worked and always wondered but clearly not enough to do my own homework :)

Seriously! The best way I’ve heard it put is that we are sentencing people to time, but we’re not sentencing them to *insert the range of bad things that happen in prison.* Everyone should be safe, have access to opportunities for physical activity, get healthy meals and have access to books, art, etc. etc. that…

What’s fucked up is the gig economy, the lack of services, the fact that our brains get us down so hard sometimes. You are great, you are valuable and I'm glad you're here. You're not a fuck up.

It always happens like that! I once thought "it's so nice to bike because you can skip to the front of the line of cars at a red light" and instantly got doored.

It’s almost amusing how hard people want to cling to some “sexy” “exotic” fake lineage (barf) when odds are if you just spent more time researching your actual family members you’d find some cool stories! I had a friend whose family thought they had Indigenous heritage, but turned out not to once they went…

From what I saw, Haddad is her ex-husband’s name. It’s amazing to me that someone would go through with this - my graduate department somewhat accidentally nominated me for a diversity fellowship (queer, but the fellowship was really aimed at racial diversity), and I made sure to stress in my application materials…

I’d also add that a lot of universities don’t require history coursework to graduate, even though colleges are full of a) impressionable students who are vulnerable to denialist propaganda; b) students who are old enough and ideally mature enough to be exposed to some of the really horrific yet necessary documentation…

Weeping over that last line - thanks for the laugh.

Yeah I just relocated from Minneapolis, which entailed making a lot of calls to customer services lines to coordinate all the fun stuff that comes with moving, and the number of total strangers who felt it was appropriate to talk about “what a shame it is *those people* are burning things” or ask “how unsafe the…