Please stop messaging me to tell me why I am wrong to be outraged by dog owners that belittle parents in public, especially when said parents are just trying to live their lives, and doing nothing at all to offend the dog owner in question. I will die on this hill and you will not change my mind. Thanks.

I was in a cafe working this morning when I heard someone ask “why isn't my dog allowed in? Children are allowed in and my dog is better behaved than most of them” and can I just take this opportunity to say please stop acting like children are not human beings deserving of being seen in public, you're not making the point you think you’re making, you're simply being a dick.

It’s an extremely haunting image, burned into my retinas from my time in Los Angeles.

I drive to Home Depot to pick up some paint for some renovations. Outside the store a group of 20 plus Hispanic men are waiting.

They are day workers, looking for casual work to pay for food, to feed their families.

Across the other side of the car park a…

“They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.

You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this…

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wow this is so so lovely- thank you, truly.

The theme of my current reading pile is “Help I have a two-year-old!”

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A Translation of the Misogynistic Football Player's Graduation Speech
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I've been irrationally annoyed for weeks at the idea that heterosexual marriage is a diet (???), so reading this was very cathartic for me. Though as a lazy pescatarian and a hater of protein powder/drinks, I prefer to believe that .5-.7g protein/lb is sufficient for building strength lol