The problem with opening only when you need to is the step counter. It’s pretty wonky. If you don’t have pokemon Go open, it won’t count your steps.

Well, the DPD immediately blamed a black person who had no connection to the shooting whatsoever. So, they are always going to find a way to blame us.

How do you know they were heros? Do you have their discipilinary record? Performance reviews? We need to know these things before we can call them that.

It shouldn’t matter, but when the shooter is white, he’s a lone wolf with a mental illness.

This is awful for the families and friends of the officers but it also makes me incredibly fearful — even more fearful than usual — for the safety of PoC once the police force starts to enact vengeance.

This struck me as such a strange thing to emphasize. These people are cosplayers, not mental patients. They are capable of wearing regular clothes when appropriate. Many of them wear regular clothes all the time!

she owns a comic book store

Empathetic professors have always given “trigger warnings” in just the way you’re describing. I don’t like the idea that certain “triggers” have been formalized: Sexual assault, eating disorder, suicide... Ironically, these formal warnings have the effect of prescribing a limited set of experiences of discomfort as…

You likely have no idea that contingent faculty tend to be women, while tenured positions tend to be men, or that academia has a way of turning pregnancy into a career-ending disability, of forcing women into taking on more service-related duties, of punishing them for speaking their minds. You are likely unaware that…

I specifically like the idea that it’s called out as being like a disability. Clearly, PTSD is not the normal human state of mind, and this sort of thing is more like an illness. That said, with the number of potential triggers being staggering, it really should be on the students to anonymously provide this…

right? Like, the entire literary canon taught from middle school through college is white men. We spent months on Shakespeare alone. WHITE MEN WILL SURVIVE.

I only recently found out that she’s a billionaire heiress. She could have spent her life squandering daddy’s money and abusing his connections, but instead she forged her own career as one of the funniest people in the world. AND she seems like a total mench. I love and respect her so much it’s bordering on creepy

I tweeted her but she hasn’t responded yet. I probably should have complimented her more first.

Has anyone asked Blake what it was like to work with the seagull?

It depends. In Reform Judaism, one Jewish parent is enough - no conversion necessary.

And some day Jacin will be the new Aidan.

No, Aidan is the new Jason: a perfectly reasonable name until everyone and their dentist started using it for now more than a decade straight.

Male mediocrity being awarded is so common that it’s not even newsworthy anymore.

Uhm...who are they?

I will forever be in awe of Michelle’s class and restraint during her tenure as FLOTUS. Imagine a gang of stupid, racist, liars, all of whom have a vendetta against you and your husband and blather on about it constantly. Now imagine having to mix socially with that gang and having them in your damn house on a regular…