clearly things haven’t changed since the 80s-90s on that account. this is probably why i live in a big-a## metroplex now.

i’m bipolar ii, and at my most manic my word salad is STILL more understandable than trump’s.

this is basically how i get all mine too. (first long-term: good cat manners on my part + good barbecue on my friend’s part equaled siamese mix who thought i was worthy of being her person. when said friend moved into housing that meant she couldn’t take hers i got them because they already knew me and my kitteh. i…

probably a while, baseline rule of being a cat’s person/one of their people is “don’t interrupt naps if at all possible”. (i have one cuddlebug that went from “people are ALL SCARY” to “okay, i guess you’re just a weird hairless fail! cat, my mama is trying to feed you” to “your arm is the perfect length for…

White, just disabled enough to be “f*ck I’ll talk to their special assistance teams” on a trip that one way was American and the other way was Delta. American’s was *worthless* (wouldn’t even get me closer to the front without an additional “comfort” charge).

I had one time I was scared they were GOING to retest for a pre-employment deal because mine came up so light. (Unlike you, I might well have legitimately popped dirty because I like my weed, but apparently 10 days off, a bunch of niacin, and a gallon of palo azul tea in my system at test time skewed the results just…

This page is now bookmarked as a “charitable options” item. (As in, whenever the next money comes in, this dude gets some. I live in Texas and we couldn’t even vote out the Zodiac killer/Ted Cruz, I’m all for any chance at getting anybody a little less red.)

+1 on the “I’m white and sorry for everybody hurt by this and wish all white people felt the same”.

Amazon’s German department, USPS and UPS are all being annoying right now. UPS is blaming the post office and won’t let me make a claim through them because it’s an Amazon thing plus there’s two separate deliveries with the same UPS tracking number signed for by different people on different days, the post office…

I’m at 20 pills a day and have cats. Some of the OTC maintenance stuff (Tylenol for sure) is toxic to them, so my setup is three pill minders (one blue one for the 3 500 mg divalproex AM horse pills, one blue one for the rest of the AM drugs, and a purple one for the PM) in one zip-loc slider in another much bigger…

Ancestry-style DNA testing is basically only useful for laughing at neo-Nazis who aren’t as “pure white” as they thought they were, but the $700 pharmaceutical DNA kind can actually be medically useful for folks with longstanding “my body hates way too many meds” issues.

White, medically complicated (as in physical stuff and being bipolar II with a side of tremors from my TBI and probably autistic). Getting mental health assistance can be a nightmare even for folks who check as many privilege boxes as I do and who grew up with the mindset that “hey, if your neurotransmitters hate you, …

Overseas Amazon is currently claiming “somebody signed for this no refund without a police report”. (This is basically going to force me into Becky-dom if somebody at UPS since they were the US side carriers or the actual post office “where’s my stuff?” specialist can’t find it.)

I was an IRS employee at one point, and their union’s generally pretty kick-ass. (For instance, at least if you’re data entry like I was, while you have to pass a hard-core background check and get fingerprinted, you don’t have to pass a pre-employment drug screen thanks to their efforts.) They were also fighting to…

Amazon’s overseas shipping may force me into Becky-dom if neither UPS or the post office can figure out where the fuck my (roughly $70) package is, because it was signed for and as such the only way they’ll give me a refund would require providing a police report. Sympathies :(.

Sympathies. I’ve got an Amazon package that somebody (not me, not the usual post office person either) signed for that unless either the post office or UPS can find I may have to take the ludicrous extreme of filing an actual police report to get a refund since it was signed for.

Fire works, right? Just be sure you don’t do it somewhere they have a burn ban for a legit reason. You don’t want your name mentioned in the same sentence as that park ranger who started a wildfire with his gender-reveal party. 

I’m a big-box tax preparer. I literally have a spiel down for all my single mama clients who’re filing Head of Household whose kids have a paternal DNA contributor but have nothing even vaguely worthy of “dad” or even “father” status, which is a thing I have to ask to show that they’re the ones paying the majority of…

I am a white woman, and I don’t trust the vast majority of that 53% to even have my back. I definitely don’t trust them to have my majority-Latinx’s neighborhood’s back. (Held my nose and voted for Hilary, not that it actually did any good. I live in Texas and we couldn’t vote out the “I still think you’re maybe the…

I came out of it with respect for *Carey* Kelly. I already didn’t have any for R., and Bruce being all “idk why Carey didn’t just take the money and the fall” was very wtf to me.