I don’t have any followers (but then I don’t follow anyone either; I don’t really know what this feature is for). I just checked out my profile for the first time and I have comments going back to 2011 (mostly on io9 as that’s my main jam), and most have little engagement (no stars, no comments). I guess I am not very…

(*ahem*) algorithm.

Permagrey here, and yes, I do participate less and less as time goes on, while still a (many times a day) daily reader (for like 7 years). Commenting is like yelling into the aether most of the time so I usually just like comments and swallow my thoughts :-( It’s like re-living middle school where I was completely…

The serenity was likely emanating from Melania who was furiously meditating (and perhaps medicating) herself through the ceremony. Difficult to discern from televised images.

Both will suffocate you, so functionally equivalent in the context you meant.

His mother’s life story is fascinating (basically it ended in her creating her own eccentric religious sect).

Her father was an actual Nazi. You’d think she’d try to disavow that, but there’s been silence on the subject. So…yeah.

Oh like 100% of the clothes and shoes I buy are bought and/or researched online. This is because stores rarely have my size (especially shoes, as my feet are apparently ginormous-UK 9). Trying to just find something in a store from scratch kills my soul. Also I can look up fabric content without having to touch…

Perhaps Kaling did give her child Indian middle names, but didn’t talk about it in order to preserve her child’s privacy. We don’t know. Kaling also seems to really embrace American culture and so that may be what she’s more connected to. I can totally see feeling like you don’t belong to your ancestral culture(s),…

As a Katharine (after Katharine Hepburn because my father correctly predicted/instilled my feminist proclivities), I hated the name as a kid because it sounded old-fashioned, but I’ve grown to like it’s versatility (at one point I forced people to call me Jo after reading Little Women (also bc one of my middles names…

As an immigrant to Britain who suddenly doesn’t feel so welcome (post-Brexit and post-rando assault by–I kid you not–a neo-Nazi on the very day I took my citizenship test because he didn’t like my hat, my accent, and apparently my ancestry), the fact that this wedding involves a POC immigrant has got me invested in…

How would it have been Frida without the uni brow and disability? Those two things are a running thread in all her art. She probably wouldn’t have been an artist if she didn’t break her back. SMH

During the silent era there was more equality with more (proportionally) women directors and writers than there are now. It started dying down with talkies (not so much that there was sound but because films became serious business where directing became prestigious). Women were still considered a valid audience for…

My brother once worked as a chamber-maid (chamber-person?) at a high-end hotel for *only a few months* back in the nineties. He has stories about what he’s found in beds (every bodily fluid and solid essentially, in wild quantities and combinations). When I do use a hotel, I basically only sleep in a sleeping bag I…

OMG.

Does anyone live near him? Can someone please scratch one of his cars with a rusty bucket? Totally vile person 😡

I am so ready for all the racists in the UK to go purple in the face. They got Brexit, we get Meghan *steeples fingers*. An immigrant no less.

How is tuition considered income? If you were a business it would be an expense, and therefore not taxable. 🤔

I rent (b/c London and ain’t no way I’ll ever afford the down payment on anything in this market), and my landlady is the architect of my flat. It’s basically a cube (downstairs is another studio flat), and my place is the entry way, leading into the living room, and directly off the living room is a sizeable…

Starred for Canadian standoff. I don’t know if you coined the term but I will be swiping it.