I worked in a niche field for a bit, and our staff had an older couple (60s) who had dated for like...35 years or something insane and then he LEFT HER to marry a 20ish year old. Because it was a niche field and we were at one of the top institutions, they both remained, offices directly next to each other, and just…

Well she ultimately tried to go on a "short" 6 month vacation with my security deposit so 😭

My old landlady in Boston sounded just like him, and was also a bit of an asshat as landlady’s go, and I used to have to listen to her voicemails over and over again while I played “am I misunderstanding her or is she trying to fuck me over.”

I think the response of her actual Latinx community is the most important piece. From the quotes here, they do not appear to agree with you or her that she deserved to land high profile interviews and jobs with Latinx led organizations. IMO it’s not that different from the filmmaker who was recently exposed for…

Is it wrong that I think it tastes vaguely soapy but I...like that...

Can confirm living this nightmare at 16 while tubing with my friends cute older brothers....

Oh my god.... I've seen this so many times but I've never turned the sound on. Thank you. Thank you so much. She has so many cute outfits!!!

As a former Catholic, this tracks. Organized religion is (IMHO) not inherently bad but inherently problematic. To start developing real awareness about social inequities you have to understand the role organized religion played/plays. Then the bottom starts to fall out for a lot of people, especially those who begin…

I would honestly short out. They all need to watch the library card musical from Arthur.

Ah I grew up in a dictionary and encyclopedia house too, and now one of my greatest pet peeves is other adults asking me something they could easily solve themselves (I just had a colleague email me asking for the journal name for an article they had the full name, date and authorship for. I did not respond).

One interviewee said his company is “laying off workers and debating how aggressively it should pivot away from oil and gas toward renewable energy. If the company does move rapidly toward cleaner energy, he said, he is not sure if there will be a place in it for him. “How much are my skills going to transfer?”

This blew my mind when I learned it. I’d never looked her story up, so I always felt vaguely bad about how she’s remembered. Nooooope. Turns out she was a raging asshole.

Honestly this made me empathize with Jason. Whomst among us hasn’t done something clearly stupid in hindsight with a high cost? I broke a tooth jumping out from under a bed to scare someone. I’ve smashed my phone doing a goofy arms dance. I would never put my teeth near a corn drill because wtf but like...I get it man.

Ugh sorry that happened to you. Our family was targeted by an "animal rights" org when I was a kid that resulted in the bomb squad getting called to our house (false alarm). It's a good story now but was much less amusing at the time, especially to my parents and adult neighbors.

On the flip side, I'm from MI and the number of wealthy suburban white kids I know who claimed to be "from Detroit" in college was....intense.

Naaaaailed it. I’ve lived in Boston for about 7 years now. When people ask I tell them I’m from the Midwest, but I’ve lived in Boston for about 7 years now. I have spent time living abroad, which I do not mention unless it’s specifically relevant...

Just wanted to say I always appreciate your legal takes for the plebes! Some of these have seemed legitimately concerning from the outside and then I read your explanation/mockery and am like PHEW I can raise my blood pressure elsewhere :) Thanks for your services!

I read an op-ed somewhere early on that called him “incurious” and that always comes back to me. The disinterest in engaging meaningfully with anything that might require the smallest bit of real effort.

That surprised me as well and I can only assume it’s because she’s a pretty white lady. I mean I can’t bring myself to be truly bothered by her deciding to align with a different colonizer, but I also don’t understand the desire to defend someone who pretty clearly and repeatedly lied to presumably appear more exotic…

Some family members having black hair, weak beards and dark skin does not make you Indigenous...even having a far distant ancestor who was Indigenous does not give you the right to go around claiming that identity because it makes your family feel special or exotic. If you want to do things right, it’s not that hard…