“These blankets are good enough for our troops, they should be good enough for Illegals!”

Fun fact! The United States of America is the only member of the United Nations to have refused to ratify the United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child! The USA wants to not ratify it, as far as I can tell, as it wants to continue to practice state-sanctioned murder of children (minors tried as an adult can…

I really need everyone to stop feeding compulsory heterosexuality to kids*  so that monosexual queer people can stop using bisexual identities as their zone for shaking off the brainwashing. I am not cross with Amandla or any other gay/lesbian people who needed to do that, our big awkward bisexual/pansexual/polysexual…

I want to know her story.

I am just chiming in (two days later) to add to the chorus here: what your father did was bizarre and cruel, how your family reacted was strange and thoughtless, and you should feel absolutely validated in your hurt, outrage, confusion, and loss. And any of your friends should support you in those feelings, but it’s…

No, there’s also “well Professor A was going to write you an amazing reference for the postdoc position in Oxford, but Professor B is chairing the funding committee this year and Professor A needs to keep in Professor B’s good books, and Professor B told Professor A in no uncertain terms that you are a cantankerous…

Yeah, the Taoiseach (prime minister) here has confirmed that Northern Irish women will be able to access abortions here without having to prove anything or anything, they can just rock up to a GP office like any Irish woman. They’ll be able to access an abortion with less than an hour’s drive in most cases.

Yeah, I gritted my teeth and used it during the #repeal campaign, because “what if your daughter was raped?” does actually work on some (clueless?) people, but it is a disgusting line of argument. “What if any woman at all was pregnant, and didn’t want to be or wasn’t safe to be?” is all that SHOULD be needed.

I’m okay, don’t worry! I actually only really knew him as “that cool chef guy who travels around a lot and seems like a decent guy”, my partner watches a lot of him so that’s how I know how much cool stuff he did. But I’m not good enough at sitting still to be into documentary-style things! My partner was/is pretty…

Suicide is a risk going on anti-depressants, because the first thing they do is sort of “wake you up” and give you a bit of energy back, but that kicks in before the depressive/despairing thoughts/feelings go away. Depressed people with the energy and follow-through to competently execute a plan are much more…

Also, they may have had resources, but most “celebrity” lifestyles are full of stuff that makes it difficult to manage mental illness: irregular routines (in his case from lots of travel), late nights, free drinks/drugs, people lying to you, time away from normal life with your family and friends, difficulties…

I hope you’re doing okay, DrugstoreGlasses, I hope you’re being really gentle with yourself and you’ve got some supportive people to talk to, to get through this shitty time. I hope he can still be a hopeful story for you, because he did lead a meaningful life and he did so much good in the world, even if it didn’t…

The nature of the game has become that you need to be very very rich (minimum) and preferably obnoxiously rich in order to run at all. Jimmy Carter has an excellent interview where he talks about how he would not only not get elected today, he wouldn’t even be able to run. It’s not only the two-party system that needs…

If she had divorced him, at any time, and continued to run for office / be involved with politics at all, the Republican smear campaign would have had a field day/decade with it. There’s a weirdly huge group of people who like her because and only because she Stood By Her Man. I think it wouldn’t have helped. She’d be…

If anything, “perfect smokey eye” is a compliment to her looks!

She could theoretically be wearing an equally deep-v’d camisole or light shirt thing. Or she could have a besotted Kristen Stewart just off screen holding a sexy black silk shirt for her to daringly turn around and change into while Kristen stares, biting her lip, at Cate’s lithe, angular back — and here I am writing…

I leave my straight-as-an-arrow husband at home when I go to Pride (he hates crowds anyway), I usually go with my gay uncles and/or my friend/ex-gf/platonic-lover person who is ace. Although I’m in a opp-sex relationship, I present as queer, like, people tend to guess from the short dyed hair, gothy/plaid clothes,…

In Ireland, the Pride organisers have specifically said that this year’s Pride is also for all the people/women who fought for reproductive rights, to commemorate the repeal of the anti-abortion 8th Amendment! Excellent queer-feminist solidarity, and as a member of both groups, I’m even more hyped for Pride than usual!

It’s the fruit and vegetables that really get me, I’m trying hard to eat healthy but I’m too poor and tired to go to fancy shops and buy fancy fruit and vegetable in paper bags. The supermarkets here use SO much plastic for fruit and veg. I’m really welcoming the movement to reduce single-use plastics and I’m going to…

We can’t fix it on an individual level, we need governments to impose strict regulations on companies who use plastic, especially one-use plastics, especially unnecessary one-use plastics (think, companies selling whole, unpeeled oranges individually wrapped in plastic wrap, companies double-wrapping things just for a…