*assembled in the US in a sweatshop by workers making below-poverty wages, and entirely out of foreign-made materials of questionable quality and efficacy.

To offer someone in their grief the “ability to speak to” their departed loved one is such an unbelievably deprived, heinous abomination. It is an insult to the holy and unquestionable truth that we will all die, and the best parts of us will live on in the hearts and minds of those who loved us.

Yes! Just like Ireland, the Holodmor, Bangladesh, and Palestine (and countless others). Forced starvation is a tactic that has been used for generations precisely because most people think of it as some kind of natural disaster instead of what it really is: genocide.

I’m finding it really hard not to butt in here about how three very different medications I carry with very similar sounding names all have the same color vial caps.

No way he’s making it to 2029.

Only if we get the oiled tin-cloth rain slickers and railroad lanterns.

I know someone who had this happen to them in college. They went on to find out that they themselves were autistic, thought they were really good at masking but just came off as annoying and self-important.

(It was me.)