I went through a phase in high school when I was obsessed with the zero calorie Splenda-sweetened grocery store brand seltzer, but eventually I realized my energy level would crash like an hour after I drank one

I was working on designing a plushie of Tala but lost momentum when I had to move house. I think I'd worked out the whole body and face, but I got a bit stymied trying to figure out how the tail comes out of the dungarees 😂 Maybe I'll work out the rest someday.

I'm seconding the H Mart recommendations (Elkins Park and Upper Darby), but parking is dog shit in Upper Darby. It's right near the terminus for the El though, so there's that

And like... this is the shit that never gets accounted for in tenure applications for women. How many times you were trying to have men treat you as colleagues with ideas and they were not serious about anything except trying to fuck your body.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

The latest iteration of this doomed cycle is... a product that shows us what it would be like if you could pull up an avatar of a dead loved one on your phone whenever you wanted to and "talk" with them. www.welcometohellworld.com/for-all-thei...

(and ftr I think there's a big difference between rehabilitation and allowing offenders to resume work/activities that allow them opportunities to offend again. No, they shouldn't return to the pulpit, classroom, doctor's office, etc, they should be trained in other occupations)

These programs exist! They have been piloted and demonstrated to dramatically reduce reoffending because the single biggest predictor of reoffending is isolation and ostracization. But they're wildly unpopular among the general public

I absolutely agree. I think my wokest opinion is that the things that would make the single biggest difference to the rate of sexual violence against children would be the abolition of the registry and funneling those funds into programs to rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders into society.

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