In middle school my friend’s aunt took the two of us to a concert. My parents dropped me off at her house and another woman was there — introduced by name, no “roommate” or “girlfriend” or “friend” or whatever. Didn’t take me long to realize that she also lived there and that it was a one-bedroom.

Dude spent puberty getting constantly and very publicly snarked on for “sounding gay” and “looking like a girl.” He might be a douchebag with something to prove, but gosh what a foreseeable outcome that was. 

The Jupiter PD has since publicly admitted they had no evidence of trafficking before the raid and that none of the women they “rescued” had actually been trafficked. Now they’ve had all their assets seized and will probably be deported.

Sous-vide is the most idiot-proof way to cook meat I’ve ever encountered and even as I’ve become more skilled with roasting and pan-frying it’s still my favorite. As a bonus it doesn’t heat up your kitchen. 

The 2000 Charlie’s Angels movie made a big impression on a lot of queer millennial women —I wonder if that’s part of why she took it. 

The jar hack is one of those things I for sure thought was bullshit until I tried it. It sounds so fake but it totally works.

It’s not really astonishing at all to anyone who follows what’s going on with sex work in the news. The sad truth is that you should be suspicious every time you read or hear the term “sex trafficking.”

He has multiple sexual harassment allegations so I’m not surprised he’s a dick. 

Wonder what the uniforms look like.

Nah, the point is that she absolutely should know what “decriminalization” means in the context of sex work and using it the way she did was either shockingly ignorant or deliberately disingenuous.

I mean, she’s responsible for the Backpage shutdown and cosponsored FOSTA/SESTA — if she hasn’t done “in-depth research” on the topic that would make her an a ignorant hack who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the presidency. Either that or she intentionally used a misleading term. Neither option is a great look.

No, because words mean things. Referring to the Nordic model as “decrim” is incorrect the same way that referring to someone who wants to establish socialism on a national level as a national socialist would be incorrect. That term has a very well-established meaning and anyone using it to mean anything else is either…

Harris later clarified that she supports the Nordic Model, in which buying but not selling sex is criminalized, and which typically includes such broad pimping laws that roommates, landlords, cab drivers etc are all legally considered “pimps.”

Also, IHOP burgers are good. I’m hard to please with burgers and I genuinely really enjoy theirs.

TBH I’ve actually wondered about this, and was grateful to see a definitive response, and also grateful that Salty’s answer lines up with my gut feeling — but I have at no point in my life ever noticed how many samples another bar patron tried out.

I feel almost exactly opposite — read NOS4A2 before I read any of his other work, absolutely loved it, eagerly sought out more of his work only to be terribly disappointed by all of it. Horns bored me and I gave it up partway through, but Heart-Shaped Box was repetitive misogynistic drivel with crap character…

Every study on the issue shows that decrim results in less violence against people in the sex trade as well as far less STI transmission as compared to other models, including the Nordic Model. Ireland saw violence against sex workers nearly double within a year when they switched from basically decrim to…

I used to like getting it as a float on top of a buck. 

It was super trendy for a while and still fairly popular. At its height we used to call it “hipster jäger.”

One of my favorite drinks when I’m trying to slow down or just feel too heavy for more beer is an Aperol and soda, single tall with lots of lemon. The lemon and extra soda cut the sweetness so it’s not overwhelmingly syrupy. Pretty delicious, and I say that as someone who doesn’t like Aperol spritzes much.