I probably get my acrylics shorter than any other of my nail tech’s clients. Right now, she’s super booked due to all other nail techs but one leaving town (it’s a small town) so I gave my last appointment to my mom (otherwise she was going three months.) So, my nails have grown out beyond the length I am comfortable…

I have a friend who is genuinely icked out by the sight of nails that aren’t natural (and is a little iffy about those) so when I post my new nail art when I get them done I have to exclude her from the post. (I guess IRL it’s OK for her as long as it isn’t in your face. We live a couple hours away from each other, so…

So, the ring finger is the one next to the pinky. The Louis Vuitton logo is clearly on the index finger.

I expected this to be some guy in his 60s or 70s, not someone a year younger than my oldest nephew. WTF?!

I like that the Boomers, who are mostly Republican these days, are all, “Fuck Fox News, I’m too old not to get this vaccine.”

Up until it was canceled, I held out hope that the characters were wrong to assume it was religious in nature and it was really some sci-fi reason. *If* they do that, then it will be worth it, but I was close to giving up on it before it was canceled because of the religious thing.

There’s a show on ID—I can’t remember the name—where the family of a convicted person will call this guy and this woman to say they think they’re innocent and these two (I think she’s an attorney and he’s a PI) will investigate. The family has to have reasons why they think the person is innocent, and that’s what they…

That right there is one of the reasons I stopped believing in God. According to that, every despot, every abuser in an authoritative position, freakin David Miscavige are all legitimate authorities, because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be in a position of authority.

I feel like we could both hold her responsible for nearly killing other people, including her child, and get her the help she needs. They aren’t mutually exclusive, even if our current system isn’t doing a good job of it.

You know, being agnostic is really the truly logical choice. Because no one can prove there is a god (or gods) but no one can prove there isn’t, either. In the face of that, saying, “I don’t know, it could be or it might not be” is really the closest to correct.

I think the problem here is the idea that her being mentally ill would somehow absolve her of responsibility.

There are a shit-ton of religious people causing problems for others everywhere, especially these days in the US. I will put all kinds of blame on them.

“...if you believe some omnipotent being is watching every moment of your life, judging your actions, listening to your prayers, and sending you hardships or rewards in life accordingly, it’s not much of a leap of faith to think they’ll guide your fate in a car crash too.”

I’ve long since passed the “suicide is selfish” thinking after learning a lot more about it and what brings people there. But, people who commit suicide involving others (or in front of others, like a cop in my hometown did in front of his entire family—kids and all) just piss me off. I get it, you feel like there is…

So, when I was training to be a 911 dispatcher, one of the things we were taught was if someone was calling in distraught over life but hadn’t mentioned suicide yet, it was OK to as if they were thinking of hurting themselves. Many people think you shouldn’t because you might give them the idea. In reality, no one is…

People who have been through really bad shit and are having a hard time going on would disagree. It implies that if you can’t handle what you are given, then you aren’t trying hard enough. So, your kid died and you’re barely hanging on? Well, that’s on you, because God wouldn’t give you more than you can handle.

I have a friend whose adult (barely, he was 21) son died in August of 2019 (and 6 months later the pandemic hit. She has not had a good last couple years.) Anyway, one of the things she hates more than anything is shit like that platitude, because she is barely handling this. You could really say she isn’t handling…

I just wanna know why God is tempting people.

I was a believer in God for a long time without going to church. Because most churches have an agenda and they teach things that are not in the bible or are a twisted version of what’s in there. A good many churches now are just a way for the people who run them to make a lot of money. I imagine a lot of Catholics…

The only reason I care about people believing in one religion or another is when it becomes something to be used to hurt others. Which has happened a lot. My point being, if they weren’t using it to hurt others, then who cares? (And, most individuals are not using it to hurt others, actually.) Just like any mental…