I end up dealing with insomnia a lot lately as I lie in bed having concurrent existential crises. Three things I’ve found that help a lot:

I went away on a weekend trip with a single male friend so we could see a concert, and we even stayed in the same motel room. We fucked zero times, which is the same number of fucks my boyfriend had over the situation.

Is any of it practical to wear around everywhere in the summer?

You know what? You go, Coachella-girls-with-cash-to-burn. Get your weed crown on. This is infinitely better than buying Native American headdresses at Urban Outfitters or Free People or whatever. Have all the weird, non-appropriation fashions you want.

I worked for my first employer for years, a job offer I’d gotten fresh out of college. Near the end, I asked for a raise when the other studio assistant quit and I was doing alone all the work she and I used to do together. This including pulling off the most absurd deadlines when the boss decided to go on…

The rules, the imaginary rules, that society comes up with. Going grey? You have to dye your hair to match exactly whatever you had before, anything else is snide commentary about how you’re either old or pretending you’re young. And even then, people will still make it their business, because now you’re “ashamed” of…

I have wonder why, other than the potential for it to look bad, PP hasn’t sued this guy and his group for slander.

A former employer of mine used to make interns do this kind of thing if there wasn’t enough work in the studio. This was design/illustration work and we were getting relevant interns for that field. I didn’t balk at training them for the less glamorous tasks of shipping and paper testing, but at one point an intern…

...agreeing to pay eligible former interns a fee ranging from $835 to $1,210, depending on when they were with the company.

Alternate horrifying follow up question: “Say something in (language)!”

What the fuck is infinite scrolling doing here? I hit “end” on my keyboard and there’s Celine Dione. Who thought this utter nonsense was a good idea?

If the women are allowed to shave their legs, everyone has all their teeth, everyone is remarkably clean, and all the richest and privilegest of the people are somehow believers in democracy and “fuck corsets,” I’m pretty sure we could stretch the imagination far enough that the presence of non-whites isn’t going to…

Well shit, they’ve found us out. Alright ladies, it’s time to enact Operation Vampire Baby. Everyone go get hired at this company and immediately get pregnant so we can drain their profits dry for our own nefarious purposes. Additional honors given to women who thoughtfully have high risk pregnancies or postpartum…

They’re ALL band-aid-babies. Every time a problem happens, just have another one. This family is horrifying.

I don’t normally get cramps and when I do, I usually do some kind of exercise to relieve them. Those ads just made me think, “yeah well if I did all that I wouldn’t have cramps anyway.” It’s actually something you’re recommended if your cramps are more towards the “uncomfortable” end of the scale than the…

They tried with hundreds if not thousands of other cell cultures. There’s a bit in the book where the medical assistants talk about prepping cells and it gets to the heart of how tedious and seemingly endless the task was. It took years to find another immortal cell line, complicated by the fact that HeLa cells…

There is some very cute stuff on Tatyana. Sizing runs small in my experience but everything is really well made.

I always had a lot of respect for ModCloth’s representation, particularly of gender non-conforming individuals (which you see basically never). Even though 99% of the site was way to fucking twee for me, I’ve done a lot of workwear and Christmas shopping there.

Yeah, it’s a pretty typical work around. You see it a lot in small, independent artists (of varying stripes) who don’t have the money or the time to get the correct VISA, because those VISAs are formidable if you don’t have the means. This is something of a concern right now in the comics industry, where a good…

British actors, British castles. Wait until we get to the Be Our Guest song and they’re surrounded by British food too.