Better living through chemistry!

Another vote for whatever drugs you can take. I used to be very stoic about any medical procedure that might be painful. Now that I’m older....fuck that! Max me out on whatever is indicated, baby! Don’t torture yourself unless it’s absolutely unavoidable.

It’s not that the thyroid has some sort of affinity for radiation. It’s that the thyroid takes up iodine-131 readily and holds on to it, so even a little radioactive fallout is bad news.

I hear ya—it’s not hard to work with your partner if you’re grownups. I used to work with my spouse, and I work in a field in which spousal hires are a weird but fairly normal thing (you have a hard time recruiting an academic from, say, Australia if they have an academic spouse who would be out of work—but if you can…

There’s a book about the women who painted watch dials with radium so they could be seen better.

Didn’t they also make her wait for her food which was a huge factor in her hysteria? All because they had to make it fresh

Or the one who was literally crying about how she had to pay for her own McDonald’s meal.

Ethylene gas, if you’re curious. 

Good for him. I hope he wins.

Cops are the biggest fucking snowflakes in the world. This is just like all those cops who claimed to OD on fentanyl from touching some - which is impossible, and it was all the placebo effect. Fucking babies. 

I’m generally a mind-your-own-business-if-it’s-not-hurting-anybody kinda gal, but I really really fucking hate any PDA that’s above the level of like, holding hands or closed mouth kissing. It feels super disrespectful to people around you, like you either don’t give a shit about their comfort or you’re showing off to…

I was secretly bumping uglies with a coworker just before the pandemic. But we had very different views of what was safe during the pandemic, I was very cautious and she was not. So we didn’t see each other but kept in touch, sexting and all, what very much felt like a long distance relationship. Then a couple weeks…

It should not go well for them.

It’s not over, and this age group is, largely, unvaccinated. They’re being hospitalized, and while they’re at less-risk of dying they are still at risk of developing long-haul symptoms. CNN and MSNBC are both covering this issue, as it’s primarily 18-30 year olds (specifically, 18-25 which are college-aged and the…

1) At this point, I would rather watch people makeout than fight (or storm government buildings).

However, sex with a near-stranger is a delicious treat, like a Fudgsicle straight out of the fridge on a nasty summer’s day, and everyone deserves to do it.

I get that this is a humor piece, which is a pretty funny read, and reminds me of goofy pieces from old pop culture magazines.

Technically Georgian era, but I agree. Also, I have a graduate degree in history. Neither deodorant nor toilet paper existed before the 1880s, so I’ll gladly stay in the 21st century, where people don’t smell TOO bad.

I’ve never understood the romanticizing of the Victorian era or ANY era pre-women’s rights movement. Even 50 years ago, women still needed a husband to get a credit card or a bank account.

Gretna Green prepares for its greatest moment.