I don't know who needs to hear this but cancel culture doesn't exist. It's a made up thing in the minds of people afraid they'll punished for something they said in their past they try to forget, try to ignore, yet they know that, one day someone will call them on it.

We've said things we shouldn't, we've all done things we shouldn't. When you ( Read more... )

This fairy tale (new? a classic retold?) treats with a rich man and his three sons. Every year for three years, the father send his sons out to accomplish a task for him. They are told the results will help him decide which son will be named as the heir. The youngest son is helped by a small white cat he finds in Colorado on a marijuana farm.

This ( Read more... )

Oh, yes, just what I need. A Google ad that injects nitrous into my dysphoria.

And how are you doing?

After jumping from place to place for so long, my living situation getting worse and worse, I finally found myself sleeping rough and homeless. I feared that I would hit bottom before I could turn around. The living situation is something akin to flophouse and druggie den. I'm further outside of Dallas than I like, but I can finally, metaphorically ( Read more... )

That wasn't a bad Satanic ritual, but, as it was conducted in Houston, I expected the big gay orgy to be held on the field after. 

Two years ago, I worked for United Healthcare on their AARP Medicare Part D for the open enrollment period. All of the new hire process could only be called a clusterfuck, with issues and annoyances that were supposed to be fixed in week continuing on three months later ( Read more... )

Website helps sex workers identify and avoid dangerous clients.

How JG Ballard foresaw our present.

*(Or maybe I'm not invited to those.)

"Living" in a house with no electric and no water, waiting to be thrown out ( Read more... )

Since my internet access is currently spotty (to say the least), I'll be listening to NPR and trying to get some rest so I'll be okay at work tomorrow. I doubt I'll manage any sleep, as one candidate and his running mate seem determinably opposed to me, not to mention the US as a whole.