my immune system has been a right nightmare since i conceived.  It was mostly garbage beforehand, but since i became pregnant i’ve had back to back tonsillitis and a truly horrendous head cold.  I did have the flu shot this year (back in Sept the day I got my IUD removed, lol) but I’m terrified, still.

I can’t even imagine. The only skin “condition” i have is that I am blindingly pale, but that still invites multiple comments per summer from strangers about how I really “ought to wear sunscreen... b/c you’re so very fair!”

My best friend is T1 and the “dresses w/ pockets” trend in the mid aughts was huge for her.  Now we’re both pregnant and she’s screwed basically.  VERRRRY few maternity pants have real pockets, forget skirts/dress/leggings, etc.  She’ll have a good long while of stuffing her pump in her bra...

I don’t quite see how that would even work? I guess it might give your cheeks a sucked in quality.  Yikes.

it turns out it was my phone’s fault... somehow a voicemail from Wednesday materialized without me having missed a call.  Anywho, I got low risk across the board, so I’m relieved.  I’m 33 which feels ancient at times to be a first timer...

WHY is there so much revulsion about this? You’re (the royal you, as in lots of people out there) fine with drinking a cow’s breast milk, but not another human’s? That is 10000% social construct. Breast milk is the only milk that is truly meant for human consumption. Why is it good for baby but gross for everyone…

I can’t believe people would question the testing itself... it’s standard of care for OB/GYN and midwifery practices.  

thank you.  I’m not super worried, but you know.  Pregnancy makes worriers of us all.

eventually Republicans turned on Nixon, but I’m not sure the same will be true of Trump.  He has folks in his thrall somehow.  Nixon was never any flavor of charismatic enough for that.

I’m 13 weeks, the genetic counselor was supposed to call me with my risk profile after my first genetic screening on Tuesday...

I’m confused, too, were these men black? I thought the initial report was that it was MAGA hat wearers, which implies (strongly) white assailants. But these men were Nigerian, yeah?

just goes to show you how fucking stupid she is or how stupid she thinks other people are.  Huskies are like 50-60 lbs on average, wolves are so much bigger than that.  Like way way bigger.  They can be up to 120-180 lbs.  Anyone who’s seen a wolf-dog (one parent is a wolf) knows that those dogs don’t look REAL…

It just sucks that Emma Thompson has to penalize herself for a shitty hiring move made by Skydance.  And if she hadn’t, she’d be the bad guy?

with dijon mustard, no doubt.

I assume the “out of wine glasses” crack was meant to indicate how elitist she is.  Like, underage drinking, sure, but look who’s *putting on airs*.

same same.  I’m 33 and I had a snickers bar for the first time in probably 27 years last halloween.  I had always just “known” that I “didn’t like” snickers bars.  But fuck me if that wasn’t delicious.

I didn’t learn until like decades later than she did it because she was routinely abused.  All I knew at the time was the “crazy bitch” narrative that she randomly cut of her husband’s penis.  Goes to show what the media cared about.

confirmation bias.  We only hear about it when law enforcement gets it wrong.  If they take action on red flags, the ultimate crime doesn’t happen.  In any system there will be false negatives.  It is literally unavoidable.  Regrettable, but unavoidable.  This is one.

the way law enforcement treats those we dub “Arab” should not be the example on which all else is modelled.

because the vast majority of men who exhibit these behaviors never murder anyone. Not saying the FBI is correctly calibrated here, I’m just pointing out that the sheer number of misogynists in this country is staggeringly high, but still (relatively) few of them commit mass murder.  The bigger concern is…