As others have said, this is pretty easy to hack. Put tape over the valve (duct tape is good) or another cloth covering. I am high risk and need to wear my N95 reusable mask that I bought before the pandemic, but it has a valve so I either wear a surgical mask over it or put some duct tape to seal the valve protect…

Or you can just put some tape over the valve. 

I really love MIA’s music, but she, like all other anti-vaxxers, is such a bullshitter. Doctors had to pump her kid full of antibiotics after vaccines? She has a shitty doctor if they are giving antibiotics after vaccination. So either her child was coincidentally sick with a bacterial infection or unrelated virus…

If someone had shaken up the bottle, it would have fizzed out when he opened it. This is a case of swigging a full bottle of champagne and dropping it back down so quickly being a great way to make the bubbles go nuts.

Ugh, why won’t this show just die?

This short article leaves out a lot of details of her (and her dad’s) life, as does the interview it’s based on. Her dad apologized for his views in the last years of his life (whether that apology was genuine or not is up for debate, whether he deserves forgiveness is also up for debate and IMO it’s reasonable to…

This was excellently written, and an important history to get out there. Thank you.

She was their diversity pick, obviously.

Something left out of this story is that the law also requires transvaginal ultrasounds, which are unnecessary and in this context basically state-sanctioned sexual assault. Many physicians refuse to perform them as well as pelvic exams.

We really need a federal law that gets rid of all this nonsense and allows…

And I do think everyone should take all their leave, but I don’t think that in itself will make the changes that need to happen.

In my situation, it was completely legal (believe me, I checked). It’s also legal for an employer to give you a shit job when you come back, but at the same rate of pay. They don’t have to hold your job for you, they just have to pay you the same. That’s happened to people I know, including family members. It’s a…

People often find themselves without a job when they do this. They’ll leave for the full amount of time, will be replaced in the meantime, and when they come back their employer gives them a very shitty job at the same level of pay (to stay within the letter of the law) until they can’t stand it anymore and quit.…

Considering our entire economic system has been built from the beginning on chattel slavery, underpaid service jobs, and the unpaid labor of women, this is unsurprising. We need massive structural changes and they need to be mandated and incentivized. And we have to take into account the institutional sexism, racism,…

Blackface, as shitty as it indeed is, is protected under the first amendment. That just means they can’t be legally arrested for it. It doesn’t protect someone from the social consequences of their actions.

It’s really just a sweater representation of Artemis of Ephesus.

It’s not really a happy ending if these dickbags get to keep their jobs after rather blatantly abusing their power. 

That they are keeping their jobs is more proof of a system that protects cops at any expense, including public safety and the law.

Is it just me, or does this seem like yet another reason to focus on tackling the systemic social, economic, and mental health issues that tend to drive people toward various coping strategy addictions in the first place? Maybe it’s just me.

There’s this little thing called meditation, it involves quietly sitting and doing nothing but breathing in for a few minutes! Well, not *nothing* exactly, and there’s different styles and approaches, but taking time to go out and meditate (whether it’s just sitting quietly and observing, or a walking meditation, or…

Yes, and also her preferred pronouns are she/her. https://www.fuse.tv/2017/06/future-lgbtq-history-month-big-freedia

And shortly after this was published, Mulvaney tried to walk it all back and argue that he didn’t mean what he plainly said.

The Trump administration should just establish a Ministry of Truth and get on with it.