Completely, completely agreed. It is completely good and normal that creators have full control over the art they create -- art of any kind. And while we are all entitled to our opinions, I wish people would stop conflating "this isn't for me" with "this is poor quality and they should be ashamed."

Thank you! I think this is something we can do at my house with a lot of the things we have extras of in our fridge. (Cleaning out your fridge as an ADHD person means that you find things like FOUR TUBS OF SOUR CREAM)

This looks DELICIOUS. Do you have a recipe to pass along, by any chance?

That small-of-the-back touch is hottttttt

I mean, honestly I could use some of these recipes. Ground beef is $9.89 a pound where I live, and a pound of chicken breasts is over $7. Soda 12-packs are $14.

I'm pretty much considering going vegetarian and living on Arizona Tea.

I'm so sorry. That really, really sucks. I'm glad you're going to be okay though.

I hope you're able to pay everything. I'm resenting taxes this year, knowing that most of it is going to facilitate... all this authoritarian nonsense. I wish there was some way to "conscientiously object" to paying taxes if they're being used for certain things. But that's a slippery slope.

It's going to be my favorite joke for like, the next year.

Just warning you.

That's so rough! That was me last year.

My friend is in a 1-income household paying for her husband, daughter, and her independent son and his partner. She tried to pay off her taxes all last year, only to have her wages garnished for 4K in March. Absolute madness. You're not alone.

Today my wife taught me what scomiting is, and I will never be the same.

Screaming vomiting.

I will never be able to stop subconsciously saying "Wallace and Scomit" intead of "Wallace and Gromit" for the rest of my life now.

Anyone know if they're actually going to shut down the data centers? One of these is in my hometown. A settlement seems useless if they're going to keep contaminating the groundwater and making people sick/causing miscarriages.

The bottom line is, we weren’t there. I still care that someone died on the job, and given what we know of Amazon warehouse work conditions, there is a large chance that there were environmental factors in the death, and the fact that you think that’s irrelevant because someone did CPR is wild.

Oh my god. Workplace death is enough to get you in the news in my state. Don’t you have something better to do than argue semantics because you’re sure you’re right? I’m sure you’ve got good intentions but it reads as self-superior and smug. Go touch grass, please.

Either that or he heard vaguely that it existed, never bothered reading it, but tells people he's a scholar on the subject.

I don't think it's the heart attack so much as the circumstances that make it significant? The fact that workers were told not to help the person?

Making it about anything else, like the mundanity of a heart attack, seems like a pretty bad-faith argument, though I thank you for the stats.

Same. I heard about it yesterday from my wife, who heard it on Bsky. It’s terrifying, isn’t it?

I don’t disagree. But the thing is, I don’t know how much protection any other voting democracy has from doing the same. No one thinks it can happen to them. Do other nations have policies and contingencies in place to prevent this? I hope they see us as a cautionary tale.

I’m from Oregon, experiencing serious whiplash as I see all the positive comments instead of people constantly bashing everything she does as “handouts” and “liberal commie ideology” and suddenly I realize that it’s because I’m not on FB.

This is what happened to me. I was a gig worker classified as an "independent contractor," so no one had to give me benefits or protections of any kind. Working 3 jobs, no insurance, able to be fired without reason, treated like garbage on all three fronts. Is it any wonder I had a breakdown?

I literally read this from bed and I cannot. What the fuck is this timeline and can I get off yet

I agree. Like I just posted elsewhere, the day will happen where he pushes the button just because we laughed at him. This man is driven by ego and pride, not reason. And Congress? Congress will watch it happen and MAYBE write a strong letter afterwards.

Maybe we should take this issue seriously.

He always chickens out, until the day he decides to push the button just because we told him he'd chicken out. Only then it will be for ego, for pride -- the two things we can reliably count on him to care about.

And Congress MIGHT stop him AFTER it happens.

I would yeet my wife across the room during sex for tickling my feet. If someone did THAT to me I would end up in jail for grabbing them by the tongue and yanking it out of their head.

I'm so sorry you're going through this. It's hard! Having all this "background" stress constantly, and all like "our president is unhinged, beef is nearly $10 and by the way possible NUCLEAR WAR" but also your pet is sick and your AC isn't working in an unseasonably hot year because climate change.

I get it! I struggle with sex repulsion. I enjoy writing it with my partner. I enjoy solo sex. I experience attraction to people. But actual sex with others is complicated. I keep trying with my wife, because I want to enjoy it, and she's caring and wonderful. But sex with people? Mostly ew.

Whether or not Koch's words are true about our government specifically? Irrelevant. There are plenty of people for whom it IS true. I will always choose Earth. And I will always choose us. Maybe that's all we can do?

Most days, I have to fight for my hope with dogged determination, because I believe that despair is just capitulation in a trenchcoat.

But I want to believe in this sentiment, so badly.

I hope so. I certainly don't participate in anything he touches.

You gotta admit though, giving him an absolutely atomic wedgie would feel really great.

I'm sorry for you, too. There's just so much, and it affects our mental health, our physical health, our spiritual health... just everything. I'm always here if you need support.

My therapist and psychiatrist have to account for a background level of stress and overwhelm in my sessions now. "Why are you feeling dysregulated, Alyx?"

Me: "Well, first of all *gestures wildly*"

Them: "I know. What else?"

They can't even tell me it's all in my head.