Nothing will ever exceed Anthony Trollope’s fiction, so please don’t raise your hopes too high!

He can’t handle the Ruth.

Yes to the condoms. You might not be able to get pregnant but an STD that's been brewing since V Day is no joke.

It may be different in other places, but I like how this can also address a larger issue about agency - people in nursing homes are still people and still capable of making decisions about their own life. I hope they’re also giving out condoms and safe sex talks!

Well, it is a robot, and robots are used all the time to blow up ‘suspicious packages’. Most major city PDs have them.

I feel like my utter contempt for the wedding industrial complex and my bleeding heart empathy for the displaced just had a five-car collision.

My way: no bullets. You don’t get a firearm until you’re on the job for one year or 2500 hours. You can have a taser and your more seasoned partner can have a firearm. Rookies don’t get/need guns until they’ve proven themselves and have experience.

She is on point and angry. I like that about her.

Wait, OE comes in plastic bottles? Where the hell have I been?

“But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

“escape” by Carolyn Jessop is the most popular/a great place to start. ‘stolen innocence’ by elissa wall is my personal favorite

Here’s a link to Dr. Hern’s clinic for anyone interested in offering support directly to the people who work there, and here’s the National Network of Abortion Funds. The George Tiller Memorial Fund specifically goes to late abortions.

How was this misleading? She did indeed have a 32 week abortion. The difference is that her baby was not viable and she had to go through the rest of that before she had what is an abortion.

fuck off

The seagull in this gif is my hero.

Excuse me: here is my man your man!

I’m so glad for Sarah that not all of her family are shitlords. My heart breaks for the kids at the facility that aren’t that lucky. All of these military-style/hard labor camps for “troubled” teens should be illegal, they're abuse straight up.

This article is full of vivid, on-point, deeply unpleasant word paintings. Great job Anna, but also damn you for the mental images.

They need a personal chef for Supreme Court.

He thought it was fine saying those things about Keira Knightly because the people he hangs out with, in the business he operates in, talks about women and people of color that way every day with impunity. So when he got blowback about it and realized his words were heard by people not full of white bro privilege, he…