Ah, American English gets me again! Normal boring plants, that live inside a house in pots. I did not grow up in a house full of marijuana!

No one’s gonna see this (ungrey meeee) but...

That is almost cute; at least you habitually used them!! I would accept decent earplugs as a gift cause I use them when I get sensory overload.

Crashing in days late here to say STEAL THAT BIBLE BACK.

She’s also doing a really good job of posing, like she’s not actually an X, in other photos she’s less hourglassy, more slender. But in the top photo there, along with a neat blouse with shaped shoulders and a well-fitted full skirt (excellent combination to emphasise any hourglass tendencies), she’s shifted her left…

That would be even cooler! I presumed OP wanted the wedding-dress dress-up experience, like, trying on big poufy white dresses with other women and cooing over one another. If we’re going just for dressing up in something cool and different, theatre company dress-up party would be amazing!!

It’s specifically private equity funds doing this. They (DB) were probably doing perfectly well. Some big shady company borrows a load of money to buy the normal company, and gives the normal company the debt. So like they borrow €1billion and then go okay, DB, you owe the bank €1billion, and they rake off all the…

I wonder if you could find a small local retailer and offer something they’d like (money, lunch, free advertising, a “skill swap” if you’re like a small business tax accountant or a graphic designer or something) and be upfront with them, like tell them you just want an hour or two of fun girl time, and make an…

I genuinely do not know how you are supposed to do that, like??

Is it just me or is her neck getting longer? That photo is genuinely approaching Uncanny Valley.

Obviously there are bigger victims here but I actually feel bad for Kool-Aid that it’s not even accurate! It’s an awful thing to be associated with, but especially shit when it’s a mistake!

I appreciate the quick and useful history lesson and connection to the evils of slavery but I appreciate even MORE the pedantic parenthetical self-correction. Good comment!

She hid, but she didn’t know what she was hiding from, because they went around to round everyone up. Her sister left willingly, and she was like, nah fuck him, and stayed behind, hid under her bed until they’d stopped looking for people, then just went to bed. She thought it was just another speech or something. In…

I only found out with the anniversary pieces this year: it wasn’t even Kool-Aid, it was Flavor-Aid. Obviously I feel bad firstly for the victims and their families, but I also feel a bit bad for Kool-Aid. That’s such a shitty thing to be accidentally connected to!

They want that. Firstly, it’s a nice controlled fascist society, with armed guards everywhere to impose Law, which upholds the racist, sexist, capitalist paradigm of violence through which they profit and maintain power. And secondly, because it’ll be privatised, of COURSE, and they want so badly to profit off death…

I think lunetta has it, it was actually a Voyager episode, but YES I watched Schisms recently and that scene is so creepy!! This kind of strange high-concept sci-fi is what Star Trek does so well!

Yes, I think you’re right! The episodes of Voyager and Next Gen I saw as a child are all mixed up in my head; my parents watched both and I was too young to differentiate between them properly. I had wondered, cause I’ve seen most of Next Gen as an adult and never came across that episode. I’m glad I didn’t just dream…

I saw an episode of Star Trek (I think TNG??) where aliens were stealing people’s organs (??) and became Absolutely Convinced, with a cold and certain dread that permeated my entire irrational tiny existence, that those aliens would be In My Bathroom. And would steal my organs and leave me dying on the linoleum floor…

Thank you so much! A big internet hug for you too <3 Literally the only good thing about CFS/ME is how universally sound and decent and empathetic other people with this shitty condition are when you find one another. I wish you peace and restful rest!

I have CFS/ME and I use a cane on normal and bad days, and the dark secret is I don’t actually “need” the cane on normal days, but if I don’t have it with me, no one will offer me a seat on the tram, no one will ask if I need help when I’m queuing, people will give me those Looks for using the accessible elevator or…