This was the most reassuring thing I learned in my TA training. A lot of our labs require swipe card or key code access, and when the cops were going over active shooter info, we asked if shooting the lock would disable the locking mechanism. The cop was like “shooting any kind of lock doesn’t make it magically…

For real. We cling to the ones we love as we feel an impending sense of doom.

This makes me so sad. All of my tatts are from the same shop, and the three super complicated, larger ones were all done by the same guy. He was so respectful of my ideas- honestly critiqueing them (“That wont translate well on skin, but it makes me think of this historical art, which could be cool!”) - and of my…

When I read the first one, i made my friends guess what they thought the book was about. Like, the first book cover: at no point is there a wedding with two smal children, what even is that?!?

Ooo i might have to check that out them. Her book descriptions are always soooo terrible you just dont know what youll get

What is days of abandonment like, comparatively? I’ve thought about reading her other works.

Oh I definitely know that my own life experience seriously colors the interpretation of their relationship. But man, there were so many similarities in their dynamic to mine. It was like reading my life in an alternate universe.

Yes! The covers are godawful, but it’s the best depiction of a toxic female friendship I’ve ever read. It’s a pure character study. The books weirdly make them look like a romance, but there’s like no unrealistic romance (there’s crushes, marriages, break ups etc but that’s because it follows their entire lives). I…

What I really liked about the books is as time goes on, the narrator reevaluates her interpretations of previous events. So like, she does something dumb when shes young and the reader is like “you’re lying to yourself!” Then in the next book she’s like “I was totally lying to myself.”

I think it’s more likely he was chatting to his dr and complaining about her, which led to this “advice”

Bearing witness is an important part of helping people cope with trauma. Telling their stories and feeling heard may actually help their recovery, long term.

“Intent is a pretty fundamental requirement for an act to be criminal in our justice system.”

My favorite part is when he says to the teacher, dead serious, “what about the ball hairs?!?” And as a viewer, you’re like “yeah-what about the ball hairs!!???” And the teacher is just like “excuse me?” Just encapsulated perfectly all of what you described.

I’ve seen him in interviews about Runa tea, which, while tasty, also tries to be environmental and ethical and he seems to be all about that in a non skeevy way. And from what I can the company is actually pretty good at achieving those things 

Green room does not get enough horror love. That movie is scary as shit and the whole thing is just so believable.

I read the wash post article when it came out, expecting it to be about a religious sect. Came away horrified and did some research. It’s unbelievably shameful for our nation, I tell everyone now.

I too used to assume child marriage in the US was between peers, but the numbers don’t bear that out it’s pretty shameful, especially because many states allow marriages with an age difference that would be statutory rape in any other circumstance.

The only thing that makes FLDS an outlier is that the predators only impregnate the girls after marriage.

I just had to do this the other day. The poor sucker came running all excited when I called him. Next thing he knew, he was in a locked bathroom and I had a towel.

It’s similar to anti-terrorism strategies in some European cities. THey are really effective, but make us uncomfortable because humans are wired for revenge. But many people join terror groups because they want to belong somewhere and feel special, not because of the rhetoric (see: neo nazis with black friends and…