I missed the last one. Was feeling pretty smug about my skills until that, I thought it was going to be the kid tucked under the lip of the pool on the edge of the deep end.

Okay, I do enjoy that a Princess and Countess have teamed up to be outraged at once. Aristocracy, uniting against people telling stories of sad/upsetting things they normally don’t have to deal with!

Well this is a TERRIBLY dramatic reaction.

It’s beginning to sink in with my friends, having just woken up. They’re kind of free-association texting me. I don’t think that a lot of Americans understand that in terms of percentage of the population directly impacted by deaths, this is the same scale at 9/11.

Given the phrasing, I’m guessing he’s got Kiwi citizenship. The more important piece of the story, for me, is how long he spent growing up in Australia. The white supremacist scene is far stronger there than in NZ.

This was an Australian man

When I bought a new car, my dad passed down advice from his father: go kick the car, enough to scuff or ding it a bit. Doesn’t have to be a big scuff or ding, but just enough that you’re the first one to make a mark.

HI!! Holy shit, another Parsonage-Turner vet! Left shoulder for me, same symptoms out of fucking nowhere, unbelievable pain. I am not a wuss about pain, but I am a woman, so when I told them very seriously that I had 10/10 pain and had been experiencing it for almost a week they basically wrote me off as being…

All I can say is that after two months of CBT and getting absolutely nowhere, still jumping out of my skin and rocketing into hypervigilance based on really specific triggers, it took one EMDR session to cut those responses down by 90% and a follow-up session to basically blitz it entirely. I don’t know why it rewires…

I did EMDR in the exact process you describe, and it broke a PTSD-association that had been haunting me for months. That shit works.

“Do it to Kellyanne! DO IT TO KELLYANNE!”

also how tf is editing video speed not video editing [in their dunce supporters heads]?

white people were not wearing shirts saying “White guilt is okay” with Duck tap over their mouths?

also What difference does it make? Is the earth just shattering because I say Syfy instead of “Sci-fi”?

I watched The Dark Crystal when I was nine and on a TV ban. I watched it surreptitiously at my friend’s house, the crab people ate the elflings and the jackrabbits died horribly and vultures breathed horribly on everyone, and then I went home and couldn’t tell my mom WHY I was a shattered wreck for the next 2 weeks.…

I was convinced the Big Bad Wolf waited for me at night in the dark living room doorway right at the bottom of the stairs. My father raised us listening to Sergei Prokofiev’s orchestral treatment of the story and encouraged us to close our eyes and let the music direct out storytelling, and I think the wolf is a…

She’s doing it because the topic would never, ever die. Ever. Ever ever. He brings it up every time he talks about her, it’s not going away. She either ignores it (this does not work well with Trump tactics, he just continues repeating the lie and people believe it on the 18th repeat) or she at least lays the facts…

I think it is important to recognize that being a Cherokee or a member of any other tribe is about culture and relationships, not a result of a DNA test.

Honestly, the crime in this video is that she didn’t produce a 30-second version. No one is watching the video, everyone’s relying on summaries. Every time I hear someone find fault with Warren, it’s something she explicitly addresses in the video and if called on it, they wave it off and find another reason to prop…

You and I are on the same page. This whole thing is unbelievably stupid. She said she was Native American because she’d been told by family they were. At no point did she claim to be part of a tribe, and she didn’t get any benefit from the distinction. It’s like me claiming to be part Welsh (which as far as I…