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Let's invent them! We'll be millionaires! You can get in on the ground floor!

Hi Elly! Related to the earlier bike short question: I am a larger woman who rides a lot, and my thigh chub rubbing against the sides of my saddle mean that I tear through pants like a mad woman! Do you know of any pants or shorts that are reinforced or less likely to wear away? I got a super cute pair of lightweight

Yeah, I'm considering FMLA, and I'm also applying for other jobs. I'll give it another couple of weeks before I pull the trigger on something that big. I'm really worried about being without a steady income, as I help support a bunch of family financially.

Hahahahahah human resources! In a six person office, human resources is also my supervisor who doesn't like my face. For serious though, I tried to bring a mediator in, and I was told that my only option was to bring in the ED (who sided with my supervisor) or a Board member. In some ways it's the best job I've ever

Yeah I've definitely told them and asked for reasonable accommodation, which they've denied. They're too small an organization to be covered by the ADA. I mean, honestly when I'm not under threat of firing, my mental health issues are pretty well controlled. But when I am feeling particularly anxious, it makes it hard

Yeah this could not be more timely for my current job. I'm currently in a performance improvement plan which is 90% about my affect and personality rather than my actual work output, which every says is stellar. But sometimes I frown when I'm stressed out, don't demonstrate a positive outlook towards work, and I ask

From the New York Times interview with the artist "I wanted to put a human face on conflict. But when I got there my story changed. Because I realized the way Africa is generally portrayed in mainstream media is either wars, famine or stories like this terrible abduction. You see the horrors or the other extreme,

No reputable non-profit will use a photo without either first getting permission from the photo's subject or buying it from a photo agency which has the rights to it. It's not about "truth". It's about the right of people, especially people in the developing world, to have control over their image and their

This isn't a stock photo, however. A stock photo features a model who has signed a release acknowledging that their photo will be used in all sorts of ways they don't have control over. This young woman agreed to have her photo taken by a photojournalist she had a relationship with who was doing a photo essay about

It's not just that it's not a specific photo of one of them missing girls, and not only that it wasn't correctly attributed. It's that they took a photo that was intended to show the joy and resilience of women in another country, PHOTOSHOPPED IN A TEAR, and made it represent something completely different. Not to

This is the kind of long form investigative journalism that is missing in today's news climate. (kidding.) (not kidding.) (but seriously this was great!)

I understand the desire not to put modern labels on other times and identities but it's also hard to imagine describing a chaste friendship using the phrase ''His thighs were as perfect as a human being could be.''

Can we get the Dirt Bag tag back on the home page? I feel like I'm missing crucial dirt bag because the lead story isn't someone that interests me!

OMG I really love Lupita and K'naan together! He is so smart and thoughtful and political in interviews in addition to being a dope mc!

Ok I don't want to be a Swiftkloss truther, but like 2/3 of those "candid" instagrams were taken by a third person (fairy attendant?) who is clearly a v. talented photographer. cough cough **bullshit*** cough cough

My amazing friend made one and we ate it and it was delicious! Also I kept eating the leftovers for perhaps a day or two too long and I can probably never eat smorgastorta again.

It's gotten so much better this season! Just in time to reward the apparently four people who are still watching!

I think it's hard to separate the and assign blame between Moffat and Smith for the utter shit show that the last few seasons of Doctor Who have been. But I do think that Matt Smith lacks that weird undercurrent of gravitas that David Tenant and the under appreciated Christopher Eccleston brought to the role. And

It's not enough that Matt Smith ruined the Doctor... now he has to go ruin Sherlock as well? UGH! Why are some things that Moffat does so good (the doctor dances, most of sherlock) and other things so awful (almost all of Doctor who since he took over as show runner). #nerdproblems