I was so glad Orange is the New Black finally covered the problem with period products in prison this year. I’VE BEEN WAITING THE ENTIRE RUN FOR THAT! It’s such a huge issue and very under-discussed. Lack of access to feminine hygiene products is a major, widespread problem within the system. Some prisons also only…

All I have to contribute is I love Katee Sackhoff.

The Harlem Hellfighters of WWI.

Secondhand Embarrassment Syndrome (Fremdsham)

I also just started my new job this past week! I found out that I’m actually going to be making a lot more money than I originally agreed to, which was an exciting surprise. I’m still figuring out who people are and if I’ll actually make any social connections while I’m there. Being new is hard so I’m ready for my…

I got all of the requirements, paperwork wise, settled for my acceptance into nursing school. I start on the 18th and I am so excited/terrified.

I’m at my new job!

I bragged on another post, but I will brag here too.

Not entirely on my own merits, but after two weeks of flirting with hospital admission for preeclampsia, the doctor put me on blood pressure meds and they started working today. 117/77! We’re looking to make it to June, and this gives us a fighting chance.

Haha, no, it was an unrelated joke.

Fantastic. I grew up in a children’s home in the South and this hit me viscerally. What’s that you’re feeling? Oh, nothing much. Just the eternal reverberations of a life without justice.

Just some notes from my personal bugbear. Guns make it easier to commit suicide, on top of being the preferred murder weapons for abusers. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in America, and the more you have to plan out and the harder it is to kill yourself, the less incentive you have to do it on a sudden…

YOU THINK THIS IS SOOOOO FUNNY. Haha. WELL THIS IS HOW IT STARTS, SUCKERS. A few seemingly UNRELATED stories: a girl in a tiara bites plane passenger. Homeless man bites people in Washington square park on St Patrick’s Day while wearing a diamond crown. Disgraced former scientist turned away from pentagon while…

As a fellow teacher, I agree with you. No guns in the classroom - not in my students’ hands or mine. Mind you, I AM good under pressure and I’ve handled guns numerous times. Furthermore, I’ve survived two different incidents when an unstable teen put a gun to my head, and one where a student threatened to beat me up…

That’s the most absurd *looks shiftilly around* theory I’ve ever heard of! *squirts ink, flees*

Last time I was at art class, we spent about ten minutes talking about how octopodes are awesome but also terrifying but also awesome. About 50% of the class seemed convinced that one day an octopus was coming for them.

Given the pain she must have been in, this really was the only sane course of action.

Yep to this. I am so over “progressive” men who concede that sexism exists in theory, but when presented by examples, they can always dismiss them. That is not progressive, folks.