that I said I will not let Pierce County become King County, and I hope our area doesn’t become like Seattle.”

Small personal victory thread:

Shelter Cat Update!

What has everyone made this week? Last Saturday was my husband’s birthday, so I made his favorite dinner, arancini, although they’re less like small oranges as the name suggests, and more like regular arance. Rice croquettes basically, with loads of cheese in the rice, sauce, and a big blob of melty mozzarella in the…

Okay, I’m sure you actually don’t want me to nerd out on eighteenth-century political cartoons, but my sense of this one is that it’s a shot against conspicuous consumption, vanity, and French imports (which are seen as being very, very morally suspect). The “essay on puffing” underlines the main issue—puffery was the…

Because 95% of the time the murderer’s are white men. Their stories are listened too, taken seriously, evaluated and celebrated. The victims are mostly women and minorities and therefore, in out fucked up society, far less worthy of consideration.

When we heard who the victims were, everyone thought it was a hate crime. We knew it in our hearts. We always know. But there’s an unspoken rule that then we have to deny what we all know to protect the white supremacist, cisgender-heteronormative toxic version of masculinity. It’s like we’re gaslighting ourselves. 

This is clearly a hate crime against women but violence against women is so prevalent in our society that this is not news.
This is specifically a hate crime against women of Asian ethnicity is of particular importance after the past year of anti-Asian rhetoric, especially because it appears Asian women might the…

It is so telling that the media/police/justice system do not seem think that massacaring 8 women, 6 of whom were Asian is a hate crime. The debate on whether this was a hate crime based on race is ridiculous. But they don’t even seem willing to make a legal case that this was a hate crime based on gender as well. This…

As a female Asian sex worker (though not an American) I’ve spent a bit of time over the last several hours reminding some people that hating Asians vs hating women vs hating sex workers isn’t mutually exclusive. In this case it was clearly a scenario in which he hated all three, you don’t have to pick one to focus on…

Well that’s certainly in the running for shittiest take of the year.

Hey, uh, go fuck yourself by going “it’s the fault of the people being fetishized over for their objectification”?

When asked whether Long expressed remorse for his actions- the police captain said yes, he understood “the gravity of what he did” and “he was pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him,” he observed. “And this is what he did.”

Another thing that really should be mentioned is the alt-rights disturbing fetish for Asian women due to them being "naturally submissive" and "uncorrupted" by "Western Feminism" I'm on a few anime/ jrpg subreddits and you can spot these pervs a mile away. Fortunately the one's im on seem to be well moderated so they…

Reads: “We don’t know much yet about Long’s motivations”
Sees: killer’s hair cut, literal neck beard, skin tone
Knows: what’s up

This will warm your heart on the coldest of days.

He likely completed disclosure forms as part of the nomination process, so he could be impeached for failing to disclose pertinent financial dealings. 

I was contact once by the FBI. I was surprised, and even more surprised to hear they wanted to interview me about a former roommate I’d had about 3 years earlier. I hadn’t had contact with him in any of that time, either. But I guess I was on some form somewhere as having lived with him and so here I was in a Peet’s…

Calling for a teacher to be fired for reading a book is acutally cancelling someone. Asking a billionaire to maybe not say such bigoted things, and that if she does, we won’t be purchasing her books anymore isn’t that. Do you cancel culture warriors even know what it is you are railing against? 

What I really hate is when a restaurant or store has hours on their website that are wrong (and not just holidays), and when asked about it they say “Oh we don’t keep that up to date, our Facebook page has the updated hours.”