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persistentfeminist.bsky.social
I had an MRI recently and in fact did comfort myself that I had never been so safe from attack by metal weapons.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
One thing lunatic fringes tend not to be is cowards.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Perhaps you are thinking of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake books.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
The same industry that, when those new periods of patent protection expire, immediately stops producing the medicine, so that in the gap before generics are ready, NOTHING is available for people who need these drugs in order to BREATHE?

THAT industry?
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
You mean like the same industry that has repeatedly gotten periods of renewed patent protection for drugs that are on the order of FIFTY (50) years old for exactly this kind of reason, which they have known about for decades?
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Frumble. Dammit, autocorrect. Do you not READ??
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
When you read the books with this in mind, Mr. Grumble is not so much chasing his hat as running mad in a futile attempt to escape a horror-filled reality. Like Steppford Wives, only pigs.
Image from Busy Town of Mr. Frumble, a pig in a green suit, running through a scene of grocery shrapnel.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
I am forever thinking that we queer folks need a catchy equivalent to "your skin folk ain't always your kin folk." Because it comes up a lot.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
My mom gave me a copy to use with elementary students my first year out of college. They were all drawn in by it.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
(Mostly after telling people to turn the wrong way bc I am great at knowing how to get places and WRETCHED at remembering which of those words applies.)
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
That is not "very normal attire" anywhere, no sir.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Cold spaghetti that's all stuck together with the noodles parallel. Wrong but so right.
faineg.bsky.social
What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Unless you pick @jeannellewrites.bsky.social , in which case I will lose that bet so hard I will have to look for my Canadian currency. (I only bet in Canadian dollars.)
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Also, we do mostly get told about the French Revolution, and I know you think France and Britain are very different, but the upshot is we think beheading kings is pretty much what happens.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
I know this bc 1) I went to a very weird school where 8th grade was British history, which is NOT NORMAL; 2) Monty Python.

I will bet you $20 that if you pick an American at random, they have no idea there even was an English civil war.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Bari Weiss tried to take down one of the kindest and best teachers at our gem of a beloved-community public school. For clicks.

What a genuinely awful person.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
My 11yo, listening to Life of a Showgirl, "When is Taylor Swift gonna give us some little Taylor tots?"
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
This is a children's book begging to be written.
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Was she a reporter any of those places? I'm only aware of her as an op-ed type. (And as the person whose publication tried to take down my kids' public school for clicks.)
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
"Please call me Leo. Mr. Pope is my Father."
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Getting the trans out of transportation?
persistentfeminist.bsky.social
Will this mean I become better at sports? I understand that's the main thing.