Septimaeus

Giving the gift that becomes a child’s lifelong passion is some top-shelf, gourmet shit.

Yes! What the Dems have been is history. What voters make it is the future. That’s what primaries are for. So imagine what you want them to stand for and vote for the candidates that fit that vision.

Everyone should vote in their primaries, even if they can’t make the general. Your vote is higher impact there than in the general election for a few reasons:

1. The folks who usually vote in the primaries, bless ‘em, are not good at picking winners
2. Participation tends to be so low that it doesn’t take many additional votes to elect progressives
3. Progressives are MAGA kryptonite; people will actually show up for them in the general.

Also voting in primaries is easier, since early voting can often be completed digitally or by mail. You don’t have to take off work. And if you vote in person, you don’t have to be registered beforehand. Just show up to your polling center and they’ll have you fill out a special affidavit ballot that’s submitted in an envelope with your registration info.

Vote in your primaries people.

First off, it’s OK. We all make mistakes and misrepresent our feelings sometimes, which can affect others in ways we don’t intend. The particular social accident you describe is also quite common. I promise she will quickly recover from the inadvertent rejection.

My answer is: practice. 8-9 years is a long time to be out of practice at anything of this sort.

There are a variety of ways to actively pursue that practice, some more creative than others, but the most natural way is simply to invite interaction with others in general such as, apparently, drawing on a bench at the park :)

My cat burrows under my arms while I’m sleeping to get the heat from my chest. I’m allergic but I love him, so when I wake up holding him like a teddy bear with his fur all over my face, I just wheeze a laugh on over to the cupboard to look for the antihistamines.

Is “trolly” pronounced like troll-ee or like trolley? Because I do have some trolley opinions.

TIL. I mean, the headers on most boards are easy to find, so a few paperclips and some tape could be your USB port. And most built-in peripherals use the interface so it probably isn’t disabled. The rest depends on how thoroughly their IT vendor locked things down.

What did you take 8 hours ago? What’s with all the concussion monologues?

Right, every religion prescribes reflection of some sort. Only the non-religious simply peel potatoes.

But also why would you peel potatoes?

Liberal use of eyebrow pencil on everything BUT his eyebrows? Sounds about right.

Precisely

I think you’re describing an important step of online mental hygiene. The reality is that humans have not evolved with the daily emotional bandwidth necessary for one to handle a planet’s worth of grief responsibly and without inuring oneself to others’ suffering.

I’ve seen people criticize this as head-in-sand, that you should remain available to amplify voices and causes in online discourse (especially theirs). I see that criticism as unthoughtful, bordering on unkind, and a critical problem with how we do online advocacy.

(Aside: “conflict” appears twice in keyword list, which has no effect now but can cause unexpected behavior later)

Yeah I thought the same, since my city did away with the 3-month rule two years ago (there’s still a partner-limit/monogamy requirement last I checked).

Apparently what makes it a “world first” is not that they allow gay donors but that they lifted all sexual activity-based rules (for plasma specifically) which used to reject sex workers, women who slept with bi men recently, and others. The title is just a bit misleading.