I’m glad your kid has a supportive family.

When you think of it, “tomboy” is a pretty shit descriptor though, and descriptors for boys who liked feminine-identified things were even worse (and I suspect had a role in a childhood playmate’s eventual suicide). So, I’m not seeing a problem in having a bunch of different labels and acronyms instead of the old…

I’m feeling a Star Wars quote coming on:

Tumblr seems to be a uniquely bad place for having nuanced conversation or commentary. I blame the format for making interaction difficult more than the people or demographics that tend to use it, but I couldn’t even handle it for fandom.

Personally, I’ve met more trans women and non-binary people than I have trans men. So that worry doesn’t seem to be born out in what I’ve seen. And the trans women I’ve met are ardent feminists I’m happy have fighting with us for equality.

They’re . . . “oat squares” or “oatmeal bars” (or “oatmeal squares” or “oat bars”)! And more likely to be homemade then mass produced and sold pre-cut and packaged. (Or at least they were when I migrated.)

I’m guessing it’s the time-to-boil due to voltage difference. Residential voltage in the UK is generally 220-240 V compared to 100-120 V in the US, so electric kettles heat water a lot slower in the US than the UK.

Yup, “quotation marks”. And the standard is doubles “” for regular quotes, singles ‘’ for embedded quotations: She said, “people in the US say ‘period’ instead of ‘full stop’ for the punctuation at the end of the sentence”.

The other avocado squeezing “trick” is probably worth mentioning here: Once your properly ripe avocado is cut in half, pick up the half with the pit of it in the palm of your hand and squeeze it gently. The pit should pop right out without any need to hack at it with a knife like you’re trying to slice your palm in…

He did it before his sentence was completed, so the victims are now getting cheated out of the $50,000 restitution that was part of the plea deal and are going to have to sue his estate for damages to see anything.

That description sounds like every single thing James Franco does.

All the rest of the year yes absolutely. For the couple hours of the entire year where a smoke alarm is constantly giving off false alarms so it won’t do its lifesaving job anyway (cf. the Boy Who Cried Wolf) and you’re far more likely to notice a fire because you’re right there, it’s better to put a big ugly plastic…

Same. Those dolls were aspirational.

Put a shower cap over it while you’re cooking next Christmas.

Whatever about stupid instagram “influencers”, but this asshole doesn’t just get off on shock publicity, he’s gone over into illegal discrimination against people with disabilities by demanding people produce a doctor’s note to order gluten free food.

I clicked through. Yup, there’s a “million” missing.

Considering the raft of food safety violations Mar-a-Lago has been cited for, they may have been eating poop on a plate.

Dudes are selectively “dumb” when it suits them. Which is bullshit. They know what they’re doing.

Not email addresses, but something close here (mystery at a convention of multiverse counterparts):

“Not at this address” written on the envelope tends to get it returned to sender, even if it’s international post. (Just got back a mis-addressed Christmas card.)