i didn’t know my grandma was technically my step-grandma until i was 13. (we aren’t close to my dad’s side of the family and she’s a nice lady who made awesome lefse up into her 90s for sure, i was sort of “oh, okay” because my dad’s mom died before i was born, so step-g is “damn i might be better off if i *had*…

white, i’m an honorary auntie three times over and a second-gen twice over now (all my “grafted on with love not blood” folks are at least somewhat mixed fwiw), and my also-white professional mentor had a “call list” who were basically family (volunteer firecrew together, mostly) that was as long as the actual…

Good for her, but this just cements my DNW vibes. i realize that expecting perfection in politicians is unreasonable, but i’d like to maintain that last molecule of hope that i might actually get to vote for somebody who’d stand up for my NEIGHBORHOOD, and it seems like every time sanders opens his mouth he confirms…

repping the 210 here. for-real taqueria lemonade is the best and one of the circle k’s close to me makes basically homemade breakfast tacos as opposed to those “WTF?” things you usually see at the convenience store. i’m pretty sure you could probably plan out your day in my city (and in my neighborhood in particular)…

my opinion on bernie remains: he might do okay by my disabled queer WHITE self, but i DON’T trust him to do okay by my “70% latinx/mostly working poor on a good day” neighborhood. he’s just slid out from giving meaningful answers to almost any question that’s specifically about communities of color, basically.

google “fat bear week”, go Holly for winning this year. (apparently she’s a fan fave due to adopting a yearling cub which is SUPER unusual for her species.)

He’s definitely a “Respectable Gentleman” who I would adore getting to pet.

9.5 pound calico (rescue, when we met she was 7.5 with all ribs showing and two kittens to feed so the vet says she’s fine she’s just not a petite lady), we lost one to unknown causes (she got up to princess floof size which may have helped her to become a Harley-volume purrmonster), her surviving bro is actually 10.2…

the only reason i disagree is because they might make Mr. B. sick, not because I think having fewer racist incels around would be a bad thing for the world. (as occasional treats when one hits “even for racist incel-types this is particularly awful”, sure, no problem.)

i don’t know if it was a saying before shakespeare used it in something, but yeah, it’s usually misunderstood as “DNA before all” when in reality it’s a whole lot more “this is how folks talked back when about ‘might as well be’s’”. (i am up to second-gen of babies who are going to grow up calling me auntie despite…

flip side: you don’t realize how many things your back affects. (there’s a good chance my intermittent hip pain is because i have lower back issues, for instance). but yeah, there is nothing like those first few “omg SO RELAXED” moments.

btw, i *personally* find manicures and pedicures pretty relaxing and the “give me the top-of-the-line package” usually includes a couple minutes of hand or foot/leg massage, so maybe that’ll work better for you.

i’m white, and *I* know talking about non-white people’s hair is basically a racist dogwhistle 99.999999999% of the time. (my hair dress code is basically “nope sorry you can’t dye it money green for the last two weeks of the tax season but otherwise we really dgaf”.)

i cannot remember what forum i was on, but the one thing we could ALL agree on: red delicious apples are THE WORST. (make mine granny smiths, please.)

the NOLA version is marginally better, but every time i see patton and sebastian doing face recognition (which i routinely sign petitions against) i cringe plus did they really HAVE to do a “nope, that WAS a legit shoot?” ep.

i could have sworn there was at least one case in texas where the “cop” in question had been previously fired and his previous department pretty much did the HR equivalent of “don’t ever give this dude a badge and a gun again” and he STILL got rehired by a county or something, but my google-fu is failing me.

yeah, i am pretty damn white (to the best of my knowledge) and *I* am “wtf, i am totally unimpressed by that so-called apology”. (does she get extra insincerity points added for claiming to love black musicians? because it seems like an extra dose of awful to me.)

I got phone surveyed about a) the Antonio Brown deal (voted for suspension pending outcome of investigation) b) legal bookmaking (who cares, everybody runs March Madness/fantasy football pools) and c) whether I thought NCAA “student-athletes” should be able to profit off their likenesses and such (FUCK YEAH they’re…

Rosa Parks would probably have dealt with these victims better, but it’s not for the “nope not moving to the back of the bus” deal that most people know her for. (yeah, she did that, but she ALSO did a lot of anti-sexual violence activism.)

yeah, if dan carcillo has horror stories, i figure nobody gets out of juniors unscathed. hopefully both links work outside canada. (cbc other than gem USUALLY does, and obviously both are potentially triggery although no object insertion that i recall.)