I’m late to the party here but I had to laugh at your cat creeping on your bathroom time. Both my cats come watch me in the bathroom, but one will join me by pooping in the litter box WHILE I’m pooping. And then doesn’t cover his poop and I reach the box, so I just have to breathe in his poop fumes for a bit. I think…

It’s not just for her mental health & well-being if they won’t put her in a women’s prison until she’s had sex-reassignment surgery. Trans women in men’s prisons are at a higher risk of being the target of physical violence, harassment, and sexual assault than the average inmate. It’s in the state of California’s best…

An airgapped computer and printer/scanner with USB connection (with wifi disabled or (even better) not capable of wifi connection, if those still exist) should do the trick. If malware/hacking is a concern, data files can be shared between airgapped computers on a USB drive that’s never used on a networked machine.

I’m supposed to get 4 periods a year with the one I’m on, but I skip the placebo week (which my doctor & a shitton of internet research okayed), so I haven’t gotten a period in roundabouts 2 years. Skipping a week of pills is too long for me & I end up ovulating, which throws my hormones out of whack & gives me…

Ahh same re: pills. I don’t need hormonal BC to prevent pregnancy (perks of being a lesbian), and I really don’t want an IUD since the pills work great for me. It took me a long time to figure out a regimen that works for me and I don’t want to go back now. I use continuous BC to suppress my period and it gives me…

I imagine they’re also factoring in the cost of designing/building/maintaining some kind of climate-controlled display case to prevent further deterioration. Buuuuut I have no idea how much that would cost.

Honestly, that’s why I got a Clinton window cling and put it inside my car’s back window. I live in a VERY liberal college town that had a very large, active, and angry base of Sanders supporters and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to have a Clinton bumper sticker get vandalized here.

A very late reply (sorry for this!) - the shelter where I adopted both my cats from uses a 3-year vaccine with adjuvants, which I learned because one of my cats had a bad reaction & developed a firm lump at the injection site that took several weeks to go down. I had my vet check it out & did a bunch of research on…

Sorry, just saw this! I was referring to the rabies & (I believe) FeLV vaccines. I know for sure the rabies vaccine and only one other (I think it’s FeLV) has been linked to vaccine-induced sarcoma in cats. It’s standard to give rabies in the back right leg and the other in the back left leg because of that. But there…

Cats & dogs to tend to be way OVER vaccinated, which wouldn’t really be a problem except that a couple specific vaccines are linked to aggressive cancer in cats at the injection site. They give those ones in the back leg now, since the only real treatment is amputation. The vet industry as a whole is moving towards a…

Also, if you can & your cat tolerates it, learn how to trim your cat’s nails at home! In my own experience, some cats are much more tolerant of it than others, but even cats that don’t like it can be trained to be less resistant. For example: one of my cats HATES being held, so when she’s distracted with grooming or…

That’s exactly what I thought. They “sacrifice” their least favored members to save the asses of their more favored members who’ve committed the same damn crimes, and hope it’s enough to satisfy the public’s demand for justice. I think we’re all intelligent enough that we should be able to simultaneously hold in our…

I’d like to add an asterisk to all the Bill of Rights answers you’re getting that say *if you’re white. Because the Bill of Rights didn’t seem to matter to the government when the Black Panther Party was firebombed out of existence.

Sorry? I didn't see the notification before. You don't have to be an asshole about it.

YES. I’m a trained biochemist & take a pretty scientific approach to understanding basically everything (including politics) and you would not BELIEVE the amount of shit I get on Twitter from both the left & right wing. In the past week I was called both a whining liberal college student and an elite ensconced in my…

Yeah I think when you have rational, respected people making diagnosis, even if they aren’t qualified to do so, it’s a sign that something is seriously wrong with a candidate. Part of the problem for me though is that it’s a tactic REALLY frequently used by irrational, unqualified people to discredit someone they…

Hm well what I meant there was that societies that view “child brides” as normal are totally gas lighting children. Which is partly what makes the term “child bride” an even more loaded & horrific term than rape victim. At least rape victims (in some cases, certainly not in all) understand & are told by society that…

Personally, I think it’s better to discuss symptoms & avoid using a clinical label. We’re all qualified to observe and comment on his behavior. We’re not all qualified to diagnose him with anything. Additionally, it’s a lot easier to dismiss an armchair diagnosis than it is to dismiss critiques about his observable…

I find “black and brown people” to be an especially useful term when talking about forms of racism that are based in colorism, like Western-centric beauty standards. It seems pretty heavily context-dependent which term is most appropriate though.

For me personally, the phrase “child bride” translates directly as rape victim, and furthermore a rape victim who was a) a minor, and likely pre-pubescent or in her early teens, and b) told in some way that her situation was “normal”, i.e. within the defined social contract of marriage. Both of those factors, for me…