Missouri’s abortion fund is Gateway Women’s Access Fund. It’s not mentioned in your post about abortion funds. 

The difference between “it’s not a white supremacy sign, I’m just a white supremacist trying to trigger you” and “it’s a white supremacy sign” is literally zero. It’s like if the KKK said they really only wore white robes ironically.

Farts. The original bath bomb.

In 2003, Limp Bizkit (yes, I know) released a cover of Behind Blue Eyes. I was 15 and I still remember brother asking my dad — a big The Who fan — to listen to “this new song” that showed how Limp Bizkit (again, I know) was artistic and creative.

It’s also about creating a perpetual and disposable workforce that’s too poor, uneducated, and sick to fight for better.

100% this. It’s documented that white supremacists put the idea out there to use the OK hand sign as a “fake” white supremacy symbol to “own the libs”. So lots of people did it just to “own the libs”. The problem is that the white supremacists are clearly also using it as a white supremacy thing and both the original…

“the death of another dragon/child because of the incompetence of the people she surrounded herself with”

the death of another dragon/child because of the incompetence of the people she surrounded herself with

I think the show has made a good point of showing that, when the high borns get into conflicts with each other, life for the smallfolk becomes impossible. It’s also shown some pretty intense poverty in parts of King’s Landing (Flea Bottom). But over all, in times of peace, yeah... the smallfolk just want to be left…

100%! I would have loved to see some of that actually stated on the show. Like, if Dany’s and Cersei’s armies got into skirmishes between Winterfell and KL and we had time to see the smallfolk regard Dany as an invader and actually LIKE Cersei’s rule for its stability and competence... I think that would have been…

Well it goes to show that “the wheel” works pretty well until Targaryens get involved. A group of elite families have upheld the status quo in Westeros for generations. It gets craven and violent at times (mostly among themselves) but there’s an art to it, and the outcome is stability and prosperity.

I think it could’ve been clearer but I’d still argue it’s all there in the episode and recent seasons.

I also like that it challenges us to wonder whether Cersei was the lesser of two evils. She was a monster too, of course, but don’t her cruelties look downright strategic in hindsight now? It’s much more complicated than CERSEI BAD, DANY GOOD. CERSEI PATRIARCHY, DANY FEMINISM. CERSEI MEAN, DANY NICE.

It seems I’m one of the only people who still likes this show now, because apparently the idea that a show whose only long-running theme that rulership by birth is destructive at best and when led by ill rulers is horrifying in totality, ending with yet another ill-ruler with a longstanding history of…

That’s my problem with the ep, in a nutshell. I don’t hate where the characters ended up, but there’s a distinct lack of connective tissue to explain why.

I don’t care if it becomes untrendy, having discovered rose I’m not giving it up. It’s the closest I can get to red wine these days; for some reason, once I turned 40, red wine (even a little bit) makes me urp.

It really is delicious. Restaurant down the way from uses a slushie machine to make them. They also do a frozen G&T on occasion which I’ve yet to try but definitely sounds good, too.

I love rosé in slushie form. So delicious.

If I may, I’d like to take the opportunity to plug some classic summertime cocktails, specifically Pimm’s cup but without the multitude of garnishes, maybe just a couple of slices of citrus or cucumber, gin and tonic with extra lime, Michelada with Tajin on the rim, or any Mexican lager in a chilled mug with a rim…