But don’t file it until July if you have to pay.

It’s like a reverse Grapes-of-Wrath dust bowl.

You’re not wrong. “Passing” is a gigantic, weird, fraught subject for transfolk, and every one of us approaches it differently. For me, what I want is to pass as a woman generally (because the entire point of transition was that I was a woman, damnit, so I want to be treated like a woman) but not have to hide my…

My wife has moved through all the British procedurals, and then onto the French and Belgian ones, into the actual Scandinavian ones, briefly detoured through Turkey, and is currently watching Korean procedurals.

Damn, Joan. I’m so sorry.

I’m old, so this reminds me of my experience with Barney. I watched enough Barney, that I have strong opinions about which ones were “the good casts”. (“The good cast,” in case you are wondering, was the original one, because the show started as a local PBS show, which just used sort of the random kids in the town,…

Yep, this is my strategy when I vote next week. If it looks like Warren has a shot at 15% and get delegates then I’ll vote for her, otherwise it will be Bernie.

Yeah, I’m just a white girl, but Robinette doesn’t sound black to me at all. It’s just a surname of European origin being used as a middle name, which I think of as being peak white people pretentious naming.

I grew up in a small Texas town that is currently in Louie Gohmert’s congressional district. When I was in 5th grade (in the late 70s) the conservative Episcopal elementary school I attended decided that the event they needed to have was a drag beauty pageant for all the upper grade students — which all the mothers…

Yep. I vote a week after Super Tuesday, and while Warren is my first choice, Bernie is a close second. So which one I vote for will 100% come down to what I think her viability is after Super Tuesday results.

As a transwoman, I’ve used both, and yes, the women’s room is usually nastier.

Interesting link.

Thank you. And related to my other pet peeve: “free reign” instead of “free rein”.

Similarly, I went with Synthesis because I didn’t understand the choosing mechanism. I walked forward into the glowing thingy, thinking that once I got there, it would give me a dialog choice between the three options. But instead I was locked into Synthesis. (Which, to be fair, I might well have chosen anyway.)

Top 5 ways people misspell Phoebe (from someone with the name):

I haven’t either. The only time it’s been on my TV was one time when my mom visited, and after spending a couple of nights watching shows like X-Files and Babylon 5, she changed the channel to Friends and was all “You should watch shows like this. They’re all your age and normal.”

It would, but I think Warren would be wasted as VP. I want her as Treasury Secretary.

The Netflix run of MST3K riffs on that movie. It is glorious.

You can play with 6, or you can play with 3 (with each player controlling two factions) but playing with 4 or 5 leads to a very bad game.

For real, Zerlina Maxwell talking about Bloomberg’s treatment of the Exonerated Five on her Sirius XM morning show was the moment I was like — that’s all I need to know about him.