The teacher then told her โitโs just some drawings, you can start over and do betterโ which is a wild thing to be saying to anyone whose property youโve just destroyed. Exactly what somebody who isnโt an artist would say, I guess
Weโre talking full-colour drawings here. I get it, there are good and bad times for a kid at school to be drawing. But donโt rip a kidโs artwork for fuckโs sake???
I am for some reason phobic about backgrounds. I think because I don't have the right equipment for them, they're very time consuming, I never learned how to properly paint, and a host of other issues. I need to get this stuff done, though, and that means plowing through this hangup. Somehow.
"The Enlightened West, in all its wisdom, already has a Third Sex: the tranny." This line sends chills down my spine because I've spent most of my life sensing this truth, feeling the effects of it, wishing I knew how to communicate it, and yet it being almost entirely taboo to acknowledge.
I'm still there but I'm 95% here; engagement here is better than it ever was on birdsite. Even with a tenth of the followers.
The NYT paywalling their hurricane tracker feels like a dark omen of the US to come. Administrative state undermined and dismantled, a thousand necessary services each with their own subscription. Trading gift links to evacuation routes in a crisis.
See the likely path, evacuation orders and wind arrival times for Milton.
this will be amazing. iโm very happy to vote for this
This literally took my breath away. Do you KNOW how big a deal this is? Aging-in-place, at home, is the BEST way to care for a senior with dementia. But can I tell you how much it cost to hire care for my mother at home, even shitty care in a low-cost market (Eastern Iowa)? $14,000 A MONTH.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced a plan to expand healthcare benefits to cover at-home senior care in an interview on ABC's "The View" program on Tuesday, the latest policy proposal in her effort to boost the "care economy" and lower healthcare costs.
this video has the best casual technically-correct comparison I have ever heard, and I laughed about it for a full minute at least.
What is the point of having laws in this country to not allow landlords to reject people based on gender/disability/etc. when said landlords simply aren't obligated to give any reason for rejecting you in the first place? They can (& will) just ignore those applications