I never thought of Moses as hubristic. To me it’s another biblical name like, say, Elijah or Reuben or Adam, or even Jesús. And it seemed to fit perfectly with what seemed to be a trend at the time of celebrities giving their kids old-fashioned grandma/grandpa names.

I actually really like the idea of Cersei sitting in her high tower and sending out proclamations and whispers to smear Dany. That’s the actual Game of Thrones, and Cersei is pretty good at it (not quite as good as she thinks she is, but still pretty good), whereas all Dany knows is conquest, so she’s completely…

I loved Jaime’s end. 1 cuz he fucked Brienne over and 2 because imo it was subverting expectations done right. No grand prophecies (which, let’s face it, GoT was always about breaking your expectations, so fulfilling prophecies makes no sense), just two deeply flawed people finding solace in each other’s company…

YES THIS.

Honestly, I’ve opted out of Mothers’ Day. We make sure to call our moms (who live far away), and wish them a happy Mothers’ Day. But for myself? Fuck it. Really and truly, fuck it. I had a few years where my husband would ask, “What do you want to do for Mother’s Day?” And my response was, “Uh . . . Not have to plan…

A couple of years ago, the NYT ran an article about how Mother’s Day is bullshit. One woman talked about how on Mother’s Day, her family “gave her the day off” and told her not to worry about anything. At the end of the day, she went into the garage for something and found all the dirty laundry dumped in a huge pile —…

I’m sorry to tell you but employers and companies can capture way more data on their employees.

I’ve never watched any of her videos, so I don’t know much about her, but she likes what she likes and that’s just fine. It looks here like she is playing a character that her little fans like and this a brand party.

Why does the outfit she chooses to wear to her birthday party need to be “normal”? And I have seen people dressed in head to toe sequins in public — and frankly I’m sorry you haven’t had the delightful experience of seeing a child or another person just being who they are in public.

In President Pence’s America, data from apps like this will be sold to bars and restaurants so they can refuse service to any woman who might be pregnant. This will become necessary after Congress passes the Fetal Aimed Life Saving Endevour, which makes anyone giving a pregnant woman alcohol, drugs, raw fish, or cold…

I think the privacy interests of the child — who is not compensated and who never consented to any of this — are worth considering. Particularly where certain details about birth and pregnancy, such as being significantly premature, are correlated with health problems down the line. And if the baby is a girl and…

Whenever you use a “free” app, YOU are the product. This goes for social media, food tracking, health tracking, even f’n meditation.  

“Wellness” is a scheme invented by our corporate overlords to squeeze every last ounce of productivity out of us by dehumanizing our most profound moments of sorrow and joy into microtargetable data. Don’t be complicit. Smash your smartphone, burn your fitbit, eat your calorie tracker. 

#staywoke

“What could possibly be the most optimistic, best-faith reason for an employer to know how many high-risk pregnancies their employees have? So they can put more brochures in the break room?”

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“I’d do the same b/c I can’t stand sweet wines, so neither a sparking rosé nor a viognier would ever interest me...”

Hmm. Is that new?

Maybe IDE shouldn’t have brought a Viognier when the dinner was beef Bourguignon.

I’m 60. My grandmother raised me in the midwest to always leave the wine and offer to leave any food you cooked and brought yourself (since buying pre-made food was unthinkable). I’ve never in my long adult life, lived on both coasts and in Europe, ever even heard of (much less seen!) persons taking back the wine they…

I have to ask what’s your motivation for wanting to get together?To me, any invitation puts pressure on her to respond & makes it about you, which is... problematic. (You asked for advice on how to make a “not self-serving apology”.)