I know you’ve written about it in the past, but what inspired you to move to Panama?

So great to see so many familiar names in this SNS! I don’t recognize pretty much anyone commenting on the daily articles anymore. The new commenters seem hostile on a lot of the pieces. Also most of the writers seem new. Anyone know what’s up with Jez overall these days?

Heck, sign them up now to take in the hundreds of thousands of children and teens already waiting for adoption or in the foster care system. Thought I wouldn’t want to put any children into the homes of these monsters.

I can’t access all the folks in the grays. Thanks to Shannon for the reply with clarification, I couldn’t find the clip where Cheryl was talking about herself.

Did Cheryl refer to herself as “an addict?” If not, my understandings is that it’s a pretty outdated label for someone. I work closely with local harm reduction orgs and they say to use terms like “person who uses drugs.” Of course, people can refer to themselves how they want, but if she didn’t call herself that,…

All I could think about watching the trailer is that, not only are people entertained by this, there are actually Americans who ASPIRE to it.

Congrats to you on that success!

Huh. I had a very vivid dream last night where Megan Fox and MGK were in my living room, just chillin. MGK was so tall and awkward sitting in my reading chair, his knees up to his clavicle. They had very relaxed and loving vibes about them, it felt totally normal they’d stop by for a friendly visit.

Just thinking about walking into a house where all the rooms are red gives me the creeps. When we were house shopping we walked through a home that people still lived in (but who weren’t there) and it had HORRIBLE suffocating vibes. My husband, our realtor, and I all felt it separately, as we learned when we ended the…

Very good!

I’m so sorry you had to live through that and live with the memories of it. I started having really weird “psychiatric” symptoms and occasionally losing my ability to remember simple words about 5 years ago. No doctors could explain them, and they came and went at random. One rainy day at work I heard a dripping noise…

My dog started barking from the other room while I was reading this and I almost pissed myself. SCARY!

Twist: What if that woman was horribly abusive and would punish the kids by locking them in the crawl space, and super messed up shit happened down there, which is why they wanted to put her in a home and she was all salty about it?

I’m reading these in my dining room, which is visible from the windows of 3 other rooms in my house (kitchen, living room, office). I’m too scared to move to even go check my doors and windows so I’m going to sit very still right here waiting for my husband to get home from work. GAH!!!

I’m much too late for anyone to see this. But I’m posting because this literally happened to me LAST NIGHT: 10-10-21.

My best friend has a Havanese Poodle mix and it’s basically like an embodied toddler…mischievous, loving, always getting into shit, always following you around, throwing random tantrums and then falling into a comatose sleep while still being the cutest thing ever.

I grew up on the poor end of working class. In the 90s when everyone started wearing flannel for the grunge scene, I just pulled any number off my dad’s flannels out of his closet. He was a carpenter so the flannels often had sawdust in the pockets and stabbing my skin from within the weave. I remember giving up on…

Very interesting that someone who needs them wouldn’t know to wear them. Sexual health research tells us that breakage is also commonly due to lubrication —condoms need water based lubricant. Anything with oil wears down the condom quickly, leading to breakage.

Not at all the same level, but I am so over dudes who buy condoms bigger than they actually need and said condom slides off without fail. Luckily I don’t have to worry about that anymore in my LTR.

It gives a quick but fascinating overview of “shaming culture” from the bible, to the middle ages, to present. Then they have 4 or 5 vignettes of recent (2017-present) people who did something on the internet that resulted in them getting “canceled,” and what it was like in the moment and what has happened to them…