"How he treats her has nothing to do with how he treated me. The truth of one relationship does not disprove another. I wasn’t the first, but I could be the last. I should — I do — want to be the last." new short essay up on patreon:
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"I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months. This isn’t about student safety, this is about silencing dissent."
Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still rece...
this is my first time playing so I can't compare him to other spouses! his lil room is filthy though
marrying Shane in Stardew Valley has healed something in me I didn't know was broken
I’ll never forget when I got brutally dumped in midtown and sobbed at Grand Central while waiting for a train home, and a nice lady gave me a packet of tissues from her purse without saying a word.
people (on here) yelled at me about this when i said it before but a) you need traffic enforcement and b) speed cameras are vastly preferable to cops.
“…when speed cameras are doing the ticketing, the proportion of tickets issued to Black and white drivers aligns closely with their respective share of roadway users. With human enforcement, in contrast, police officers stop Black drivers at a rate that far outstrips their presence on the road.”
‘Driving while Black’: Researchers found that Black drivers make up 70% of police traffic stops on roads where only half the drivers are Black.
scentology seems much less dangerous tbh
nobody does it quite like New York City tourist hustlers. A guy walked up to my parents today waving a pamphlet saying “Statue of Liberty 9/11 today?”