WE PUBMED AROUND HERE. <3

Sealer is definitely worth the [minor] effort! It’s easy, it’s pretty cheap, it’s clear so it’s not like you have to be super precise, as with painting. And it just makes such a big difference in keeping everything looking nice!

If you’re not averse to bleach, you can also just mist it down with a bleach/water solution! Or an occasional blast of a bathroom cleaner that contains bleach.

Wow that’s the first time I’ve EVER heard an okay to apply a retinoid during the day! Down the research-paper rabbit hole I go ....

This. I would never deliberately order one — iceberg is nutritionally void bullshit, and most bleu cheese dressing is a fucking abomination — but if one just arrives in front of me? Shit yes I’ll eat it. It’s the salad equivalent of Cheetos : basic/played out, full of trash, but also strangely compelling if only…

I support this anti-Wedge dissertation and am willing to subscribe to your anti-Wedge newsletter, if/when one becomes available, so long as you don’t give my email address to porn-spam people.

I’ve never looked at dishes in Walmart! (They do have the little anchor hocking glass storage bowls with squishy plastic/rubber lids that I love, tho.) OH, you know who often has fucking incredible dishes? Old Time Pottery, aka That Horrible Tacky Craft Store. If you have one nearby, check it out sometime.

I’ve never had a wedding so I don’t own Wedding China, just an assortment of Fun Dinnerware that I bought because Fuck You I’m A Grownup And I Like Shiny Things. I also don’t own any Fiestaware, but since my preferred aesthetic is “mix and match” within a limited colour palette, I would 100% happily throw in some…

IT’S SO GOOD. I will hear no impugnment of the marvelous Chilled Sea Bugs With Red Sauce That’s Really Just Ketchup And Horseradish.

THIS! Retinoids can HUGELY increase your skin’s UV sensitivities, resulting in *increased* sun damage! One of the very things you’re trying to prevent/reverse!

ASTROTURF SPACE COOTIE!

That is .... 1000% not the point. This is not about “telling it like it is” or “speaking truth to power” and catching flack for it. Yelling “your dad is gonna mess shit up” is not the same as calling her A VULGAR MISOGYNISTIC SLUR. These two things are in no way equivalent. Like, not at all.

And *I* didn’t claim that “don’t give them something to use against us” should be the primary rationale behind our choices — it’s not mine. But you know what, not everyone thinks the same way I do, and some people prefer to take a pragmatic “what will effect the desired result” approach — and for those, it’s worth…

Of course that’s not the only reason the right doesn’t listen to the left. But castigating the right for this kind of behavior AND THEN DOING THE SAME FUCKING THING makes it that much easier to discount your arguments. “WAHHH, THE RIGHT ARE STUPID HYPOCRITES, which makes them TERRIBLE PEOPLE.” So your strategy is to…

Ivanka is indeed a piece of shit. But her inarguable piece-of-shittitude does not suddenly make using a slur okay, nor does a different meaning in archaic usage make it okay to use now, because this isn’t Georgian Lit class, it’s 21st century American television. Like, I’m sure Samantha Bee is a very nice person —…

That is SCARILY accurate. NOW THAT’S ALL I CAN SEE. DONCHEAL SUTHERLAS.

Holy actual fucking shit, are you being deliberately obtuse? Americans, now and pretty much always, consider “cunt” a really vulgar slur. Yes, it technically means “female genitals” but if you’re implying that the etymology is purely Latin and therefore somehow “scientific” and “neutral” — nope. Nope nope nope. In…

Why would you willfully give “the other side” a reason to tear you down and dismiss your message? Why would you purposefully want to do the exact thing that you condemn them for? Why would you deliberately and knowingly use gendered slurs when you yourself as a liberal (I’m assuming) have been shouting from the…

Agree. This is 100 PERCENT PRECISELY the kind of shit that “the Right” screams about “the Left, and their PC Police!!1!” hammering them on. I mean, if we’re dead set on railing about conservatives tearing down politicians and other public figures based on their looks, or using racist or gendered slurs against people…

COMEDY GOLD PLATINUM.