I don’t want to be cruel, but.... I think a lot of your confusion is coming from your need to stick with the idea that he did indeed truly love you. It’ll be difficult, but if you want to get over this you need to face that he didn’t love you.

Who calls their significant other by their full name?

12 years?? Dear lord. My 5-year relationship is in shambles and I’m a complete wreck, I can’t imagine how I’d deal with a 12-year relationship ending. I wish you the best and hope every day is a little bit better than the last. Big hugs from internet stranger.

Hang in there. What was the ratio Charlotte had about length of relationship vs mourning for said relationship ? 1/4 ?

Congrats and internet hugs to you! Like my original post says, sometimes brags like that are the best and most significant.

Maybe these religious organizations should start paying some taxes before they think they can decide what is and isn’t covered by health care.

I was in the video game industry, but I think the genius of SV is that it shows how everyone comes to the industry with such hope and optimism but in the end gets crushed and pulverized into a puddle of despair and anger.

It’s quite possible MS employees decided this. The company is SO huge and disjointed that this may have just been a small team or a even a vendor team who put it together and no one else knew what was going on. It’s seriously the worst case of not even the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing but the…

83% at its zenith in the 1960s. It’s steadily going down, some places it’s less than half.

At some point (hopefully) we’ll seriously start talking about why men are fucked up.

I have just made myself a massive stack of ham sandwiches because I don’t know how to cook and I really felt like eating what is essentially half a pig.

so true—it’s not often that appearances so clearly reflect what lies underneath, but in this guy’s case: he looks like a weasel-y little rat-faced petty asshole, and that’s exactly what he is.

Hmmm. Y’know, I think if anyone’s having a ‘rough fucking week’, it’s the people who died, and those close to them.

Don’t worry, they just said they are looking for 3 white men, so they’ll change that title from terrorists to loners pretty soon here.

YOU GUYS. I found out this week that the National Science Foundation is going to give me a $20,000 grant to do my dissertation research. The government is cutting social science research left and right, but somehow I managed to get this money. So I am celebrating with gin and tonics and Netflix.

Word. I have to keep cancelling my plans because that multi-threaded server ain’t gonna write itself.

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Love you all. I sometimes feel so frustrated when looking at the news or social media and how so little has changed in regards to women being respected as equal. The level of ignorance in the world. The lack of compassion.

Where I live, people think the purpose of an apostrophe is to warn the reader than an “s” is coming at the end of the word.

Let’s be fair here. I studied archaeology in school and have worked on several digs, so I am coming from a place of some knowledge. And I’m afraid that I have to agree that having an all-female team *had* to have been a publicity stunt of some sort, and does in fact lead to some questions about the validity of their…