Never have I read finer poetry.

He shopped out his lips.

They struggle to make ends meet during periods of economic downturn because 1) they are “wealthy”, but not “filthy fuckin’ rich”, and 2) they live almost beyond their means and…when they have to “cut” back…it involves downsizing the Beamer 7 Series to a Volvo S90 and spending two weeks in Hawaii on vacation instead of a month in Europe.

For most of the working class who are well off enough to be able to afford a roof and know where our next meal is coming from, they are one bad month away from couch surfing.

To the “wealthy” in this scenario, I say to you tighten up those bootstraps…quit eating avocado toast and all that.

To the “filthy fuckin’ rich”, I say this: Guillotines exist for a reason.

This is the only reason I still teach teenagers after 17 years, and I will not expound further.

And you simply must begin and end every sentence with uWu, obviously.

Straight dating online is like trying to find drinkable water in a crisis situation; women are stranded in the ocean, and men are stranded in the desert.

“Arizona toddler…died”

Brian Regan once equipped that he had taken a speed-reading course. “Since then, I can read 2000 words per minute. But…my comprehension’s plummeted.”

I only date women who do exactly what they want to do and not what society says they should do. As it happens, they generally don’t wear makeup every day.

“Oh…no, no, no honey, the steel foil hat doesn’t go with that outfit, try the gold one.”

As someone with ASD, GAD, and MDD (all diagnosed if it matters), smart home devices are an essential service to me. I can quickly set redundant reminders to help me with personal routines, add stuff to my shopping and to-do lists, and quickly get my lights and music set to what I need them to be when I am experiencing an anxiety episode. I definitely understand that my data is good and harvested at this point, and I don’t trust them to have done anything good with it. But these dots have made my life work since I bought my first one, and they’ve significantly reduced the anxiety I used to be riddled with.

That’s a rock solid way to endanger your financial livelihood. I’d take a hard pass on that idea, my human.

You don’t want to play this game with me, son. Whatever you hurl at me about Oregon, I’ll lob back at you something twice as bad about Texas.

I get that Oregon has its hard right people. Hell, most states do. But at least my trans kids gender identity is protected by state law, and my having a trans kid won’t result in me being on the governor’s fucking hit list.

You think that’s bad, get this. In most US states (47), public school students are required by law to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States once per school day, though…for most of those states…students may opt themselves out.

However, in four states (Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Utah), students may not opt themselves out. The school must receive a written statement from a parent or guardian in order to be exempt.

I have taught in Texas public schools since 2005, and I brought this up with an attorney for the teacher organization I joined (not a union as Texas bans collective bargaining for state employees, so our dues are really not much more than lawsuit insurance). He told me that, in the eyes of the state courts, children under the age of eighteen not being yet adults do not enjoy the same right to freedom of speech that adults do. Hence, in the eyes of the courts, a school district would be within their rights to fire a teacher who does not do their part to ensure all students under their purview recite the Pledge during the time it is spoken over the school’s PA system (and the Pledge to the Texas state flag, also mandatory), 1st Amendment be damned.

Thankfully, I got a gig teaching in Oregon next year, so I am heading northwest (through the also miserable states of Utah and Idaho unfortunately) and never looking back.

‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned it down

This implies that 85 years ago a racist mob burned down the new Texas home that she was just handed the keys to, which makes no sense.

A better way to word it would be “‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ handed keys to new Texas home 85 years after racist mob burned her childhood house down”. I get that it’s at the same site, but the home she’s moving into isn’t the same one that was burned down.

Whether it’s obvious or not has no bearing on the fact that it’s an awkwardly-worded title.

What an awkwardly-worded title.

new Texas home…after racist mob burned it down

Burned what down? New house?

I live in Texas. ~cries in Oncor~

I will never downvote a non-downvoter of upvotes, fellow fellow.

Ah, Big Stupid enabling the Scammer Class: a tale as old as time.

YOU ARE IRELAND’S ONLY FEMALE.

Now kiss me.

(Cuz I know I’ll get downvoted to hell if I don’t clarify, Kiss Me Kate is a Cole Potter Porter musical. You’re not sheltered if you didn’t know that; I’m just super fucking old. Srsly, I found two gray hairs the other day in my ear, and one on it.)

Edit: typo

The most fun I had in Starfield was probably a zero-G fight at one point, can’t remember if it was the main storyline or not. But I got as far as the final main quest line fight, after which New Game+ would become available. I realized before going into it that…I just didn’t care. And I am not one to experience the sunken cost fallacy. So I just logged out, canceled Xbox PC Game Pass, and did something else.