My twin and I were conceived with an IVF treatment that involved mixing the sperm of the donor and that of the father together, and then inseminating eggs, as a form of “plausible deniability” as to whose sperm it was, exactly, that was successful. My sister has opted to do several of the commercially available DNA tes…

It shouldn’t, but I’m often shocked by the amount of absolute vitriol towards Florida as a state that I find in the Jezebel comment section. Not just “fuck Desantis” or “Don’t Say Gay is dumb,” but everything from that Bugs Bunny gif of him sawing the state off the map, all the way to “we should just carpet bomb…

The cheating ex of a family friend came out as polyamorous when she was caught. She came out with a facebook post of an old picture of her at Pride, and followed it up with a post that polyamorous people are “valid” for “experimenting with nonethical nonmonogamy” before coming out.

I explained my past with an abusive ex once in a way that I think applies to cults: have you ever sat through a well-meaning but misguided sales pitch because you didn’t think you could leave? Have you ever done something you weren’t comfortable with because someone you loved asked it of you? Have you ever realized…

I just re-found this Dear Prudence question which is related, but with a twist: https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/03/dear-prudence-my-daughter-has-small-breasts-should-i-offer-her-a-boob-job.html

I have extremely flat feet, and I’ve always found conventional sneakers to be very uncomfortable—the arch support digs into my flesh bits! The only truly comfortable shoes I own are Converse and my beloved pair of Fluevog Derby Swirls (like Converses, but expensive and leather).

My boss’s last day is tomorrow, for this reason. She’s one of the most incredible people I’ve ever met in any workplace, and she broke down crying when she told us she had to leave. She has sacrificed so much, so much, to keep me and the other employees under her safe in the past few months--working overtime, putting…

Modern customer service, at least in America, has functioned on kindness and lenience. We bend the rules, we litigate issues to find what we can do, we smile and offer sympathy and walk you through every step of finding that lamp on the wedding registry. Customers don’t realize how much of customer service is a stage…

...that can afford to keep their kids home. There are a lot of parents for whom public school is the only childcare they can afford, and for whom working from home is not an option.

That said, this insistence on normalcy punishes them, too. If we were keeping every kid that CAN stay home, home, then that many more kids…

When I heard that as of yesterday they’re still saying it’s gonna be August 28th, and a theater release at that, I just cried in frustration. I live in Florida; even if the theaters are open, it’s still not gonna be safe enough. I can’t believe I’ve kept the faith through all these dire rumors and delays and I might…

I tried to learn roller skating during quarantine and broke my arm. 0/10, do not recommend having to go to the bone doctor during a pandemic. Watch how-to videos and (important part) take them seriously, everyone.

Well, the Supreme Court just decided that, no, ex-felons who owe any types of court fees or restitution do not get to vote. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/supreme-court-florida-felons/index.html

Thank you so much for this. I live in Florida and it’s absolutely terrifying here. It’s too easy for people to hide behind jokes about Southern states (esp. Florida) being backwards and stupid, without realizing that this virus doesn’t give a shit if your state is full of rednecks or not. If it has a chance, it will…

This, very literally, for Florida. In 2018 Florida’s citizens voted for Amendment for, which gives voting rights to ex-felons; it literally enfranchised millions of voters. Almost immediately, the Republican legislature passed a law that felons had to have paid off all court fees or other costs related to their time…

Which is very him, because he’s just shown over and over to be incapable of actually understanding how to function within a normal, loving family. If he was able to go upstate and also behave himself, he could be having a bomb-ass summer with the two coolest people in the musical, but he doesn’t understand how to be…

Oh god I have so many weird food things, but probably the most infamous is that that only mac n cheese I will ever eat is the Kraft kind, with character shapes, and I have to make it myself, so that the cheese is just barely no longer a powder, and not even close to being a sauce. Honestly it all comes down to…

I went in a group of four who had brownies prior. I didn’t get all that high but I had more fun than I would’ve had otherwise. My husband, on the other hand, got too high and had a hard time; the proportions confused him. At times he thought he was a miniscule person, and then he thought he was a giant, ten foot man,…

American Girl dolls were a cornerstone of my childhood. I had a significant learning disability as a small child that was evading diagnosis, and I was significantly behind on reading and very sullen and defiant about it. She had American Girl books in the classroom, and although they were separated out for the…

I recently made myself a faux fur coat, because I’m an idiot and I wanted a coat inspired by the big-ass fur coat Sean Young wears in Blade Runner. It involved about 50 hours of work, 9 yards of faux fur in 4 colors, and 92 individually cut fur pieces. I’ve always bought into the dialogue that faux fur was an ethical…

Commenting on a post from two days ago, I had jury duty, sue me. I have been having this exact same crisis about a different shoe, and it has been going on for several years, partially because they are....very, VERY expensive. (Well, $400, but I can just about afford $35 shoes these days and even then I feel like it’s…