We have a thing called healthcare. I’m sure you haven’t been reading about it too much.

It’s a common writing exercise (especially for screenwriters) to transcribe spoken dialogue directly. What usually comes out is a jumbled mess and the exercise is used to show that direct transcriptions without context or editing are wasteful.

I will never get over how aggressively stupid this man is. Disgusting.

That’s actually fascinating. I love shit like that. Sustainability is my safe word.

That’s “anti-choice” group or “forced-birth” group, please. Ain’t no way these people are pro-life, unless the life is straight, not poor, not brown, not female, and its family has lived in this country since 1900.

Quick update: We’ve discovered hagfish can’t survive outside of salt water. So the vast majority of those critters are likely dead.

You may want to avoid reading this BBC piece, then.

When I read “slithering mass of slime eels” I naturally assumed this article would be about House and Senate Republicans.

Just on the topic of highways and marine life...

I laughed hard at that last paragraph. It assumes (well, first it assumes there’s will be a wall but anyhoo):

The problem is that hate crime legislation is generally written weakly. It basically requires the suspect to say “I’m doing this because of your race” during the act to get anywhere. It’s a very frustrating standard and lawmakers need to come up with a better way to factor this in.

Been a while since I tortured myself by reading a transcript of his dipshittery

Absolutely, he was congratulating Emmanuel Macron for being the owner of a nice trophy.

I wish she offered him a fake arm, and when trump pulls it in toward him, it will pop off and look like this!

Yep, because women are either fuckable or not fuckable to him and the real men have fuckable wives.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. **Shudders** Ugh, I want to take a shower for Brigitte. I would have been so repulsed by the up and down look. I say this pretty much every day, but, “I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS DICK BAG IS THE PRESIDENT!”

It kind of irks me when people define these things as gender fluid or the like, in that it seems to result in tighter definitions of the binary genders in the first place instead of loosening the boundaries as intended. ie - Florals are for girls, so if Zayn, or Anwar, wears them he is being gender fluid. vs Anyone…

I had no problem submitting a net neutrality comment to the FCC yesterday.

People say the most awful things to people with cancer. Well, they say the most awful things all the time to everyone, but you really notice it when you’re covered in scabs from chemo injections. A friend of mine looked me deeply in the eyes and asked, “What have you done to bring this into your life?” I told her I…

It’s all wrong, isn’t it? Bates might have joined the legions of us plebes who lose our jobs after it’s discovered we are ill.