But gerrymandering and voter suppression are very real things that shouldn’t be dismissed.

I mean, you don’t have to tamper with voting machines for an election result to be manipulated. Voter suppression and foreign action WERE factors in the election outcome. It’s just that no one tampered with the machines or the count itself, so it wasn’t very literally rigged.

2nd wave feminism called, they want their transmisogyny back.

The winner for pissing contest this week (by most stars!) is: ginger is a construct! For her story “Surprise Jalepeno”!

So, I work in an old mansion that’s rumored to be maybe haunted and definitely has spooky stuff going down allll the time. I was sitting in my office, alone, up on the third floor. I had kicked my heels off for comfy and since I was done with meetings for the day. Suddenly, without knocking or anything, a man barged…

When I was maybe 8 or 9 my mom woke around 3 am and it was storming outside. I had a fever earlier and so she wanted to check on me. Mine and my siblings bedrooms were upstairs, parents were downstairs. My mom went down the hall and noticed my soccer jacket on the floor and it was soaking wet. Like laying in a puddle.…

OK this is a weird thing that I have yet to explain. In 1986 we bought our first house. It was about 50 years old. I hung a bunch of photos in frames that I bought brand new, had never used before. I never took the pictures out of the frames once they were hung. Moved out after some time and packed the photos. I got…

There’s a collected Metafilter thread about emotional labor. Make him read it.