“Best out of five!”

I know the real Helena is awesome, but when I first read that my mind went to Helena from Orphan Black, and now I want that very, very much. 

Oh for fuck’s sake, stop it. Every. single. story includes this progressive passive-aggressive nonsense in the comments. No one is saying you shouldn’t advocate for the policies you want to advocate for. We’re just saying be smart about it, so you don’t alienate voters you need to win over in order to be in a position…

It astonishes me how badly us lefties are at this type of stuff. As has been pointed out by folks far more clever than I, this is something that the righties are super good at; they find an easy to remember and repeat slogan and they FUCKING HAMMER IT until their base hears it in their dreams.

Obama is right.

I’m from Southern California. It will forever be a liquor store.

And if the post hadn’t been “Only true NYers will get this!” that’s what we’d all be doing. Or we’d dive deeper, into one of the few places where even though they’re expensive, they’re one of the few places where you can still be an independent small business owner,  that hasn’t been taken over by huge corporate…

Yeah, but New Yorkers aren’t the only ones who have a unique name for convenience/corner/variety/liquor stores. In Montreal they call them depanneurs, or deps, but Montrealers don’t act like that makes them special. Philly/South Jersey has Wawa and they obsess over those, but they don’t think that makes them special…

I was born and raised in Boston, so I’m naturally predisposed to think of New Yorkers as perfect assholes.

People who live outside of NYC and don’t have bodegas: where do you go to buy two Diet Cokes, a roll of paper towels, and oh also lemme get some peanut butter m&ms since I’m here, why not

I don’t see the issue here. 

I’m always baffled by this...why open a tab with plans to use it at...some point? If I don’t have time to read it immediately, it’s not worth reading. I might have 5 tabs open at once at most, and that’s just for doom-scrolling my kinja notifications: say, Lifehacker.com, kinja, and 3 notifications at a time. Once I’m…

It *can* be done. Our team has check-ins every morning, and we usually don’t use video, just audio and screen sharing, but we have ongoing games that take up about 15 minutes each day - name that tune, ID that image, etc. It’s fun and it works.

For our holiday party, our company will be sending us a gift card to a…

We’re planning to stream a movie that folks can enjoy - that’s both family and work appropriate - and then end their workday early.

Last year’s competition was Steph’s to lose, and she blew it in the final. It still infuriates me that at the end, bakers are only judged on a single challenge, rather than their performance over the course of the season. 

I just felt bad for her TBH. I’m not mad at her, I’m just sad the show kept her in when there was a snowball’s chance in hell she wasn’t gonna have a breakdown. 

I also adore Rosie, honestly. She's this cheery looking blonde cherub and then she deadpans a line about castrating bulls and Noel loses his shit. 

Granted, the show did kinda peter out there towards the end, but any GBBO is better than no GBBO.  Noel was the MVP of this season.  The producers also either need to invest in industrial air conditioning units or rethink the logic behind doing certain challenges in the midst of summer.  No one wins when half the…

People give Laura guff for her messy bakes, but at least they (nearly) always tasted good. I felt like Dave also lucked out a ton throughout the series, but based on his presentation rather than flavor. (I also shook my head at their praise for his dumb sunset jelly cake. Really?! Hermine’s poppy and Laura’s koi pond…

America has broken me. Every time a baker offered assistance or encouragement to a competitor, I now burst into tears. British history is problematic, but British people soothe my chaos-riven psyche. Thanks, GBBO. Y’all delivered solace, and it was badly needed.