In the course of my work recently I was made aware of a child hospitalized with measles who had had her vaccines. That to me is also terrifying.

Let me tell you that Frank’s red hot sauce on top of a saltine is my weird snack.

I go to a similar church and I’ve honestly made such close friends there, we just call ourselves spiritual mutts and have a wide spectrum of beliefs. We are VERY loudly welcoming to LGBT folks, and even have one trans lady in our congregation. A local church of a similar demographic recently announced they were not LGBT affirming, and two thirds of the congregation up and left and came to us, absolutely shocked that this has happened, because they are not people who would tolerate that and has no idea the leaders occupied that position (the pastor of that church also resigned because of this stance). Honestly it’s one of the best things in my life, we do lots for the community and a ton of creative projects as well, including having summer artists in residence. It really can be so different from the shitty churches.

All the time. Usually because I am working from home and my husband has the dog snoring in his lap and doesn’t want to disturb him. Or I’m piled into bed with the dogs and don’t want to create a stir by getting up. Dogs govern a lot of my time lol.

See I drove my last car 16 years, always went to the dealer I bought it from for maintenance, and they were always forthright every time. He finally told me the last time I took it in for service that he was really starting to cross his fingers when he put it on the hoist, and that it might be time to stop throwing good money after bad. I never felt pressured.

One day between two jobs I worked 20 hours straight in a row unexpectedly, including a night shift I was wholly unprepared for, and when my husband picked me up and we got home, it was so icy on the ground on the passenger side of the car that I asked him to carry one of my bags in because it was heavy and I was afraid I’d slip. He ripped it out of my hand, snarled “What are you fucking handicapped?”, and I called him a sociopath and went to bed, whereupon he woke me up four hours later “so I didn’t waste the entire day”.

Don’t ever get married, and don’t entangle your finances with someone else. You’ll never get free.

Pour Some Sugar On Me is just terrible. And Peaceful Easy Feeling.

I like metafilter.com a lot!

I hate this question so much Mai Gad.

Ok good to know. Maybe I’ll try again.

I thought I’d feel kind of mellow and goofy. I think the reason I didn’t react much is because I’m on naltrexone which is used in anti-substance abuse treatment (I use it for trichotillomania).

My husband who has ED got a woody for the first time in a while lol.

I tried 5 mg to start I think? Idk I just wanted some cereal and slept well.

Yes they do!

I’ve never used cannabis in my life, but last year I got a wild hair and decided to buy a gummy. It had no effect on me save for wanting to go to bed early, but I did my part y’all.

iYKYK. Took me forever to figure out what it means.

This is social media but I suppose that counts, Livejournal. Made friends there I still have 25 years later I am closer to than anyone else.

Precisely. Nobody should be forced to wear clothing in any faith that they don’t want to.

Ologies is very good. Every week they pick a topic and sit down with an expert in the field, from penguins to vampires to apples to near death experiences to sea worms, and everything else in between.

Glad to see someone mention this shiw, it’s delightful and rather a hidden gem. Their series on Scientology was marvelous.