kelly’s fabulous piece, which I linked in the graf, also does a great job of dismantling this approach to wellness

Beautiful essay - wishing you happiness and joy.

I’ve been studying leatherwork techniques for a couple months, and this is a clear case of too much skiving and not giving consideration to the crotch gusset. Leather garments in general need to be cut a bit more generously around the joints. Everyone wants the skin-tight look, and you can absolutely get it, but if you…

This whole look and I don’t know, is it supposed to be shock value with the tongue? Actually makes me feel a little nostalgic about watching red carpets on TV in the late 90's/early 00's. There was always the out there goth/eccentric couples.

Anyone else sensing that Bennifer 2.0 is a publicity relationship? She just got cheated on, his struggles with alcohol and infidelities towards JGarner are well documented....idk you guys. Its the cynic in me.

Well, let’s not forget when Lordi won Eurovision in 2006 because in my book a win by a GWAR-lite band is still close enough.

The whole “OMG a Metal band won Eurovision!” thing has been hilarious for a bunch of reasons, not just because of the frustrating “why do you even care about mainstream acceptance/validation?” factor, but also because apparently this is what mainstream audiences think Metal is?

The fact they’re so upset about being seen as drug users just makes me hate how this is being spun as a win for rock or metal music even more. This is a supposed “rock band” where the lead vocalist wants to be clean cut and that blond guy was the most embarrassing drunk of the night who then blubbered like a small…

We had an almost identical problem. My wife was denied coverage for a pap smear because she was in their systems as male. I called, they said, “Well, your husband...,” and I was like, “No, my wife,” at which point they started trying to change my gender to male, until I spelled out for them, “We’re a same-sex couple.…

Well, aside from the fact that it’s become clear the hype around robotics is, at best, excessively generous about timeframe and at worst almost outright fiction.

The coming labor squeeze is going to be fascinating, because nobody seems to have quite realized yet that COVID has caused absolute chaos among low wage…

Ten years ago, my husband had surgery on a varicose vein in his testicle. At some point in the insurance process, someone mis-entered his gender as female, and the claim was denied because *checks notes* females don’t have testicles.

I’m calling major b.s. on the “It’s difficult to learn new codes in such a small amout of time” shit. When the school that I word at shut down last year, all of our teachers spent less than a week figuring out how to transition their in person classrooms to online. Our Algebra teacher (who is very old school) had to…

Sometimes its used for a very dry martini that demands only a hint of vermouth - a spritz of vermouth. Why is Martha making that weird face though.

of course martha has one of those perfume things that ive only seen in disney witch movies.

Interestingly, Jordan Fisher who’s obviously black was the first non white actor to take over the role, I think one of the last before COVID closed Broadway.

The problem is, the other actors look more like normal movie high schoolers — not exactly young, but standard suspension of disbelief territory. I checked and they’re only 3-5 years younger than Ben, but it looks like more.

I dunno. The actor who played Moaning Myrtle was in her late 30s when she appeared in her first Harry Potter film.

“Could a 27-yr old female actor play a high schooler?”

I saw the original cast a few years ago and he read older then, too. I think he might just be one of those people that’s always looked older than he is, which makes him playing a high schooler at 27 even more of a stretch. Despite that I understand why he was cast. His performance was without a doubt one of the most…

that chloe clip is missing the funnier part she says right after, while looking completely lost, something like, “but i can’t see them. i literally can’t see them,” because they’re all isolated from each other and literally cannot see other contestants’ actions.