All of this exactly.

Riiight? There’s this school of thought that ‘sunlight is the best disinfectant’ and that if terrible people put their terrible thoughts on display, that they’ll be squashed and wiped away by the marketplace of ideas. Hell, up until a few years ago (::cough::2016::cough::) I believed that myself.

“They want safety & are thrilled that I ended the long-running program where low-income housing would invade their neighborhood.”

It’s the kind with the little round filter on them, like a Vog mask. I have one that I bought because of our annual fire / smoke season in Northern California because they’re fairly good for that, but they also don’t prevent you from exhaling the virus if you have it:

I feel like I go back and forth on it. I loved it as a kid, HATED it in my teens / early 20's, and then rewatched it a few years ago and was surprised that I weirdly kind of liked it again.

I don’t take it strongly at all - I appreciate the clarification.

The thing is, we’re talking about kids, and while the discussions largely involve social transitions (pronouns, clothes) and hormonal transitions (like puberty blockers) no one’s talking about doing surgery on minors.

Even for full-fledged adults, the path to get surgery is long and difficult and involves things like…

“’Yes, two dads can get married and can have kids, but they have to hire a woman to implant an embryo in her uterus and carry the baby to term, then the two dads take the baby away from the mom, just like a puppy.’”

Also a Gen Xer in California. I always started in September too, but over the last couple decades, the school year has started earlier and earlier.

Oh, you’re right! It’s TOOOTALLY Mazzy Star!

Bubba Ho-Tep was *amazing* I highly recommend it. It definitely works. 

‘August’ really DOES sound like a Cocteau Twins song!

As a teen in the early 90's I DESPERATELY wanted those 90's swoopy bangs, but I had (and continue to have) corkscrew curls, and my efforts to straighten them just made my head look like a mushroom.

“Republicans are actually worse.”

“He’ll pop out of his basement every once in a while to say ‘Defund the police!’”

Two cans of beans AND coffee! He’s going to ‘start the day’ by spending the first two hours of it in the bathroom.

“Everybody Hates Chris” was SUCH a well-done and underrated show.

AAAAAA! Charlie! We miss you ‘round these parts!

It legitimately is a different account / person. For whatever reason this troll has been playing the long game of setting up another account under Lizardo’s name and posting racist garbage. The account gets shut down periodically, but always pops back up again. It’s been going on for AGES.

This is adorable and I just got entirely too teary for a short film with stop motion dinosaur toys <3.