I live in the PNW, and “walking kombucha burp” just saved me eons of time thinking up witty ways to perfectly describe the men I’m with on half my dates.

I love how easily some on the so-called left will abandon pacifism to joke about VAW. “When not capitulating to those who prioritize their dick, some lefties like to relax by reflecting on memes with suggest violence against a subgroup of women is cute.” K whatever. 🙄

In Seattle, Paul Allen sits on our public housing board. Nobody seems to think this is fishy. Not even when new public housing is always for “mixed-income” families, meaning not-poors, and developed by Vulcan, Allen’s real estate company. The waiting list for public housing here is also about five years. In an…

The abuse of the word “chemicals” has to be one of my biggest peeves as of late. “Don’t eat that, it’s full of chemicals!” “What’s that smell? Chemicals?” Or, “I don’t use that lotion, it’s full of chemicals.”

History has shown when Democrats are in power they capitulate to the Republicans anyway. They are the party of eternal disappointment. I adore Pelosi, but she’s become ensconced in her centrist worldview. While that is acceptable for her constituents, it doesn’t work for the Democratic Party or the young people of the…

Given the choice between a Republican, and a Democrat who acts like a Republican, people will choose the Republican every time.

Either tone down the theatrics or amp them up into a revolution, AOC, and call people what they are. Mitch McC is quite possibly the downfall of humanity. Say so, cuz you don’t need to sugar coat it, and gesticulating is distracting.

I love her and love that she’s been morbid since she was little, as Dorothy in Return To Oz...which was not a happy film (but great nonetheless). I always wondered why she didn’t star in more movie roles. She was certainly good enough.

It was realistic to me...I have lived a worse version of her reproductive Russian roulette (great term, btw) in my 20s, and I’m not even the only woman I know who did the same or similar to themselves.

Maybe she’s trans, and privately transitioning. 

I’ve thought Lindy was a national treasure since a few years after I moved to Seattle in the early 2000s, but it’s her appearance on This American Life recently that made fatness click for me.

I have no disagreements. But just curious, Tampa is “hugely progressive” in what world?

Not sure...

Doctors and psychologists also used to think lobotomies were an acceptable response to rebelliousness in women. Just saying, just because people in those particular professions are in agreement doesn’t guarantee something is the absolute truth.

Any problem you have with Brita filtered water or refillable water dispensers, you’re also going to have with bottled anyway. 

Paper is a renewable resource. It is infinitely more sensible for single-use items than plastics. Nobody said not to recycle, they’re saying do it properly if you’re going to do it, otherwise you’re paying money every month for no reason except to make yourself feel better.

I can’t believe the shit you’re getting about rinsing out stuff like tomato sauce from the cans and jars. How much extra water would it take to stick them in with the dishes we are already washing? Or a cup or two of water, swirl it a few times (or shake if it has a lid) and dump it. Doesn’t have to be spotless, just…

A good post at the bottom of this one would have been the Lifehacker article on how to use fewer single-use plastics this year. Instead we have “Why Do Opossums Like Garbage So Much” and other assorted articles of little use. If the former Gawker Media empire hasn’t learned how to use tags cohesively by now, I have…

I’m happy to hear about the prohibition on no-cause evictions. 

As with most things in life, because “Fuck women and girls,” is why.