This is pretty much a black mirror episode.. The foul mouthed blue puppet thing... Except this one is orange and has no larger point or creed. Or maybe Trump’s whole thing IS performance art meant to expose the rotten core of our so called democracy...

My husband has been to Borneo several times over the decade to work at an ecological station in the jungle... The first time he came back and was telling me about palm oil plantations, the way the jungle is clear cut and destroyed to make these sterile farms for oil, he was so upset he could hardly growl-choke the…

Used to do that as a barista!

I had a pale green one like this, more spaghetti straps... And the rest of your outfit! Prom 02! ;)

Idk, my silk and bamboo parasol I ordered from Shanghai is pretty sweet. The paper one is great too.

I see what you did there.

I like to wear big sweeping Scarlett Ohara/Out Of Africa hats. Doesn’t have to be dorky... I’ve seen them here at Forever 21, and on girls who shop there, really very sexy...

It just gives me nasty cystic acne, whether it’s an allergy or blocked pores idk but I do know it’s every friggin brand and nothing I do makes it not happen. So I cover up/go out mostly in the morning/late afternoon. Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun....

I live near the Gold Coast, Australia. Really, the kids are beginning to go for untanned skin here. If you could see the 40- somethings who look twice their age after a lifetime of sun worshipping, you’d want to protect your skin, too...There’s also been a big push in recent years to educate people about sun cancer.…

.....because we are the invasive non-native species, I guess.

I carry a sun umbrella. And usually wear a hat and shades. Not sorry, no shame. Sunscreen makes my face break out and the here UV in Australia is crazy pants. The glare alone gives me migraines...

I'll never forget seeing unwrapped mummies in glass cases for the first time at the British Museum... In glass cases with crowds leaning in close. It felt so gross. Disrespectful... But then I realized mummification was to ensure immortality, and in a way they were achieving that by being whole (ish) and seen by…

When I was a kid, my grandmother used to send back her grandchildren’s thank you notes with corrections. It was more funny than bitchy, she was an elementary school teacher and just couldn't turn it off. She always kept mine. :-D

Oh well it's not like we inherited that many fucks to begin with.

No Drs ever ever thought I was bipolar, just my asshole family... :-/ After I “discovered” female asd but before I was diagnosed, I went to a local Aspergers group (Aspergers is now autism 1 but ppl still use the old term a lot). I wasn’t sure what to expect but I figured I should be brave and just go see. And the…

She sounds like a good one. I'm glad they're out there.

Oh god that's awful on so many levels. How truly horrible, that does a huge disservice to the child and also the autistic community. :-(

I am a white personal with very pale skin (generally translucent, no freckles...) and use a Japanese skin “lightening” soap for that reason. A friend in Tokyo recommended it... It sorta polishes me up and fades out acne scars very quickly. It’s a nice one, nothing scary or nasty in it.

Yeah, what can we do about those bleach enemas? It's so beyond the pale. I know my asshole mother would have done it to me as a kid if it had occurred to her. Those poor, poor kids. I have a fantasy of building an autistic sort of Hogwarts for those kids, rescue them and give them proper training and guidance for who…

I had pretty classic boy-autism issues when I was a little girl. I was also exceptionally ahead of my peers academically. No one ever ever thought autism for me because 1- the perception that girls don’t get autism and 2- I can speak quite glibly most of the time. My sensory problems and other issues were mostly…