well said. feeling similarly.

My current company has one of the most generous leave policies in the US - it’s four months, five if you need to take disability before you go out on leave if you’re the pregnant one (dads get 4 months too, as do adoptive parents, making it super special). All paid via disability or maternity. People see that policy…

Yeah, get that promotion and the new title (and hopefully pay?) that comes with it and use it in your job search to get a better job outside that company! Your boss sounds like a psycho.

Alzheimer’s is a son of a bitch. I’m so sorry. Don’t feel bad about any of your feelings - they are all valid. I’m thinking about you and your mom. You’re doing the right thing.

omg i SO do - I got my IUD like 9 months ago? and after the first couple months of random bleeding, I have like a few days every eight weeks or so of random bleeding (more like spotting) with a day of cramps and just GAH mood swings out of nowhere for 48 hours.

I’m single AF and here are some things I do alone that I really like:

Yeah I have a friend named guy, short for guyon, from the French.

This is why despite all the bullshit it’s really hard for me to leave tech. It’s one of the most generous industries in the US in terms of benefits - parental leave for all genders, regardless of biological birth or adoption, even surrogacy. Sick leave, leave to take care of sick family members, disability, etc. My…

I think I found the first book at age 14, in ‘99. I loved them and was mildly obsessed through high school and college. Books 3 and 6 are my faves, and I’ll never forgive her for killing off Sirius, Dobby, and Lupin.

“Daaaaad, you said this would be the most dangerous game, but they’re too weak from illness to put up much of a fight. So boring. What the fuck, Dad?” - Donald Jr in 2020, probably.

sounds like the GOP is getting what they paid for with gorsuch. I hope they all die.

should have been 30 mil. No amount of money will ever make up for what happened here, but my god, add some zeroes to that.

I hope she breaks out in contagious boils all over that plastic face of hers and then her nose falls off and then her tongue falls out.

yeah i made it through four episodes and only because i was drunk for three of them.

Sterling

I don’t know, but I am fucking pumped about it.

I am going to a rosé festival in Calistoga tomorrow and I am pumped AF.

i miss the mall makeovers at milihelen :(

it was very authentic raping on his part, you know? #nofilter rape. that’s totally cool right?

yeah seriously. I thought HE ALONE could fix everything! So why didn’t he break into NK, Rambo-style, and carry that kid outta there on his muscled back, then? I call bullshit!