That is something my mother said to me a lot. Along with, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it”. It’s fucked up, because it’s not like anyone chooses to be born. These are not normal things for a parent to say by any means. It’s emotional abuse.

You deserve better than that! It’s not easy cutting ties with family, but life is a lot easier when you’re not dealing with such a toxic, resentful human in your life.

Ask her what she needs you to do or say during those moments. Anxiety is different for everyone, and what might calm one person might be more anxiety-inducing for her. Just make sure to ask when she isn’t in an attack!

Something that helps me when I’m nervous about calling someone I’m dating is to make some of the calls a “date”. Watch a show or play a game together, that way conversation is focused on what you’re doing together. This way you don’t have to stress about making interesting conversation (because the activity is making things interesting for you).

🎵I like my coffee black, just like my metal🎵

They’re not extremely similar to MSI, but you might like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (the band)

These allegations have been around for years, which might be why you’re not surprised

There’s an instance called literature.cafe that has a lot of writing related communities. I see writing prompts somewhat often while browsing all. It’s not the largest of instances, but it might be a good place to start

Where are the consequences for Musk funding Republican candidates?

I have a Braun Silk-Epile that I really like because there’s so many interchangeable tops. You can use it to trim hair down before you epilate, and it also has nice little massage heads to help exfoliate and prevent ingrown hairs. They also have a decent replacement policy, I lost my charger during a move and they sent me a new one very fast.

I also really like how easy it is to clean. I tried another brand before that had a complicated mechanism for opening the housing to remove the hair. Not fun spending as much time cleaning as you do removing hair lol

(also, for transparency: I’m an afab nb that was on T and have gone back in the closet because US politics. So I’ve used this mostly on my face and neck)

Exactly! I’ve lived in this area for six years and just saw my first swift fox last month. They nearly went extinct because farmers were killing them. These little foxes eat rabbits, mice, and insects like grasshoppers, so you’d think they would be good to have around

Rabbit was the example given. But the robot stops for any animals, including sage grouse, swift fox, and black footed ferrets which are endangered in this area due to loss of habitat.

Interstellar is the app for piefed

That’s fair! I am fully covered by the VA so I don’t have a real idea of what things cost. And I’m also on an immune suppressant, so vaccines like the MMR aren’t things I can safely get unless I stop the medication in advance.

Some veterans were given an additional MMR vaccine in bootcamp. I don’t know if there was a cutoff for people born after '88 though. Regardless, it’s still good to get a titer if you’re worried your immune system has lost some strength against measels

Bondi said Trump had saved 258m American lives from fent overdose, so no one with a brain can take her at her word (especially where numbers are concerned). I hope he makes it through this

Her name is Vivian, and up until the last two or three years she is the only daughter he had. According to her, Musk selected male embryos for IVF (which is how all of his children have been conceived). I’m not sure how Grimes and Shivon got around that to have their girls with him

Wyoming has similar demographics to Montana, so I’ll just share this.

I was in a class with a guest lecturer talking about autonomous farm vehicles. One of these has sensors that can recognize a rabbit in its path and will stop until the rabbit moves on. One of my classmates said, “That’s stupid! It’s just a rabbit”, and others agreed with him.

I’ve also seen my city open up hunting on beavers, because they flood the (city-owned) plains where ranchers let their livestock roam for free. Wildlife are just pests to these people, and being a wildlife biologist in these areas is very much a political task.

This is why I’ve always wanted my breasts removed, but have opted to significantly reduce my physical interactions with random people instead

Okay, that’s a really funny band name and song title combo

These kids are really young, I mean where does an eight year old get the idea and motivation to do this? The twelve year old probably egged the others on, but still this is such an intense crime for such young ages

I genuinely don’t believe Vance has the “star power” that Trump has with his cult, or the same sway with SCOTUS and the House. I guess I imagine there will be some power struggles after Trump is no longer in office for whatever reason

I’ve had chest xrays after presenting with possible heart issues that were ruled out with labs and ekg. So that tracks, i think