People who are against trigger warnings always seem like they don’t get the actual point. The actual point is about informed consent.

You *know* that a lot of the people in your classes or at your poetry reading or what-have-you have experienced trauma. Some of these traumas are unfortunately common.

So let people know…

What if the train could have an Ikea-style ball-room car? Where, let’s say, you check your children in and both receive a bar-code Tyvek bracelet so that some rando can’t come take your kid.

I mean, yeah, kids are a nightmare. But I don’t think they necessarily need to be more of a nightmare on a train than elsewhere,…

I love “Make Do and Mend” as a motto. I keep having these fantasies of dropping out of grad school and opening a shop that 3D prints parts and fixes the plastic shit that has been passing for kitchen goods in the last 20 years, so that people don’t have to buy new things and send the old ones to landfills.

I swear - I…

This. Really, unless it’s something that is guaranteed to pay off (CS and Engineering and MBAs are the only ones that come to mind) NEVER take out a loan for a grad degree. If they aren’t funding you, they don’t want you.

Dear authors,

Never never never use the word ‘clad.’ It screams ‘11th grader with a thesaurus.’ It is an embarrassment to your readers.

With shudders,
- Me

I was reflecting, yesterday, on how whenever I hear about Elon Musk I basically picture Mr Scorpio:

Maybe a little better:

cock magic!

#LesbianSexForStraights

n/m

I don’t believe that infanticide should be considered a criminal act. At least, not so long as abortion is stigmatized and giving birth gives you intense sad hormones. If you’re a lonely woman who just gave birth because you’ve had nothing but hardcore pro-life messaging your whole life, I just can’t see that you’re…

I came here for Dax. I also found Garak/Bashir downthread. All things considered, I am satisfied.

Fair point, thanks :)

Sooooo question:

I have a milk crate that I want to affix to my bike rack, but I want to be able to remove it easily and I don't want to cut zip ties or require tools to do it. So I was planning on tying the crate to the rack.

Yeah. I’ve worked call centres before, I know scripts. This guy did not have one. I know other folks who were volunteering, they did not get training for the kind of issue I was having. Also I had *specific questions* which I did not get to ask because he talked over me.

I’m not usually impatient with individuals, but…

I was born with a lady-body but I identify as genderqueer.

I mean, the sense of ‘state’ here is clearly that of the prosecution, rather than the province, BUT even so the terminology we’d use is ‘the crown,’ isn’t it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_att…

All I can say is GOD I miss the kitschy, angsty, stealth-Canadian trash TV that was Queer as Folk.

If they could bring that back at the same time as they bring back the X-Files I'd be a happy queer.

(PS Brian Kinney in a threeway with Fox Mulder and Dana Scully is my patronus.)

And then maybe we can get on to fixing the French version, which will in turn fix the Bilingual version:

"Car ton bras sait porter l'épée, il sait porter la croix" —> Because your arm knows how to carry the sword, it knows how to carry the cross.

The bilingual anthem takes the sexism of the English version and mixes it…

When I was in undergrad in Montreal, I worked one summer at the Second Cup at Guy and Ste Catherine.

Taking out the trash involved lugging a wheeled bin filled with more than my bodyweight of coffee grounds and water, among other things, down a flight of stairs, and then through the rear hall of the strip mall to the…