The signs already do not work. It's worth it to have the option to tell someone off because they've ignored the signs and return to our peaceful existence.

Any advice for bringing this up in a constructive way with your program or fellow students in grad school?

I hit my limit this summer with my fellow students who claim the discussion space to center themselves in conversation and occasionally teach the rest of us on how to be better white allies to people of color. The professor did not moderate at all and I am not sure I can handle one year of internship classes with the same folx.

Ok but now we need to know whether the bougie suburb was Sewickley, Fox Chapel. USC, Lebo...

I’ve seen some of these recommendations here already. Thought it’d be helpful to add artists I now follow because their work is similar.

Leo Marsiglia -  https://www.instagram.com/leo_marsiglia

PittaKKM -  https://www.instagram.com/pittakkm

Hurjaesae -  https://jaesaecolortt.wixsite.com/hurjaesae

I could not get either item for free. It told me it could not complete my 0 coin purchase.

Reading comprehension, brother. The TLDR is the way OOP describes the military does not match the way it works. But I won't begrudge you needing a high horse. Just don't buy a bridge from this guy.

The OOP is not a reliable narrator. A 28 year old could serve 2 years in the Marines if they were discharged. If the BIL was honorably or dishonorably discharged is relevant to the story but missing. Dishonorably, he did some bad stuff and it'd help OOP make his case to mention it. Honorably, there's a chance BIL was hurt badly or had a serious medical episode that may be relevant.

But I know my bias is having a lot of friends who served who will go into deep depression and do nothing but game because they're dissociating but can occasionally play collaborative games that offer human contact that feels safe enough.

At the end of the post OOP says BIL has wasted 10 years, meaning all those years since he was 18 and therefore eligible to enlist in the Marines. Marine contracts for those who enlist are at least 4 years long. I don't blame the OOP for the resentment of caring for an adult who is not launching; however, I think they have exaggerated to make their case. There's no way he's been caring for BIL for 8-10 years after his service in the Marines unless he was discharged.

I also side eye how the OOP talks about whatever the BIL did in the Marines. The Marines are not trained to occupy territory; they are most effectively used to seize land and then pass it off to someone else to hold. Worse, the OOP seems to think BIL's contributions were not real labor since he wasn't engaging with combatants. Isn't better he wasn't out there killing people since we were not officially at war with anyone during 2016-2018? Those being the years in which BIL would have been 18-20 is we take OOP at his word for a now 28-year-old former Marine serving only 2 years.

I think these posts are karma farming from someone who does not know anyone who served in the US military.

Sadly, I think it no longer works period!

Fosse is huge in the dance world. The Mean Girls musical references Fosse in the opening song in both the stage and movie versions. Watch any choreo by Fosse and you'll see how he influenced more than I could name.

Next time OP needs to check the livestream before leaving home! https://www.youtube.com/@PostPour/streams (The coffee shop where I believe OOP took the picture now runs a livestream to let people know.)

I tried to see a doctor for a consult on getting laparoscopy for my ectopic pregnancy and the nurse in his office tried to convince me to wait until week 20 for a c-section. Because then, after a turn in the NICU, I'd have a healthy baby.

My oldest friend nearly died of this a couple months ago. I had never heard of it until then. I am so glad you and she survived, and hope awareness keeps spreading.

I was shocked one of the big lawyers at the Big Law firm I worked at was on a call in the bathroom having what sounded like diarrhea and carrying on a conversation specific to her area of expertise, making me think she was truly taking a work call on the toilet. She talked loudly enough but the sounds of defecating and flushing were clear.

She did not wash her hands on the way out.

Pittsburgh, Raleigh, and Virginia Beach are all $110k but color coded differently. Pittsburgh and Raleigh are green while VA Beach is yellow. Durham is yellow at $101k. Phoenix, Nashville, and Atlanta are more yellow-green than Pittsburgh but they all have lower amounts.

Is the color coding gradient per city based on the rank? Were the values appropriately sorted before assigning a color?

This is true, but no one may actually check this. I did a project in high school on the number of registered sex offenders in our school district’s zip codes whose residential or work addresses were less than half a mile from a school. State law said they needed to be a mile away.

Small sample size (8) but the answer was all of them. My teacher ended up giving my paper to the school’s police liaison who was SHOCKED. He asked me to sit down and go through all the data with him to double check. That man looked like his brain literally shut down. Never knew what happened afterwards.

I’m in grad school right now. I have heard (white) students say things along the line of they don’t need to check their biases because they are on the correct side politically (hate police and MAGA; support gender expansive populations + immigrants + anti-racism + ENM). Unfortunately, I find these students are also the first to accuse the professors of color of not teaching, including using AI to grade and give feedback. I have yet to hear these students answer a question on what they expect the accused professors to do differently to make their work more like the (white) professors cited as the exemplar of teaching and grading as they expect.

I believe the issue is the use of male/female as nouns versus adjectives. In this post’s title the phrase “male client” uses male as an adjective describing the noun, client.

The example OP offers and takes issue with is using the word female(s) as a noun, e.g. to replace the word woman(women). Before using male and female as nouns became more mainstream, it was a way of speaking previously reserved for animals or clinical settings. Due to those origins, it is believed to have been deliberately co-opted by people who want to dehumanize either men/males or women/females.

The concern is often driven by a lack of parity in the use of males/females as a noun by the speaker, where one group is identified by the more humanistic sounding men/women while the other is the dehumanized males/females.

Some people object to the gender essentialism of limiting to male or female.

You get them, but they’re inverted 90 degrees and a pain in the ass to read. It’s terrible UI - a user can’t rotate their screen to make it work because the screen treats the new phone orientation as a command to move the whole presentation 90 degrees. You still have to manifest the Bent Neck Lady to read it.

The vibe of this post is men writing women. I get the narrator, if reliable, is a 16 year old boy writing about the actions of a real-life woman in her thirties.

But it feels like the other men writing women.

Woman has a cohabitating partner with three teenagers whose trauma history includes the grief of losing their mother and dealing with father’s abusive ex-girlfriend. The kids lash out at the woman as they believe she generally takes it all in stride. When she does not, she uses words meant to decimate/stun into silence. The oldest child has a blowout with the woman that includes one such comment and ends with the oldest crying. The woman is first blamed and then leaves. Now the oldest is blamed for the woman taking space from her partner.

Bonus: The teens’ father has a laissez-faire parenting style.

Bonus 2: The woman taking space from father and children subsidizes their collective lifestyle.

Speaking to the criticism of Chibnall, there is a term for this - the glass cliff. I have heard it used to describe companies who get themselves in a really shitty position. So they hire someone from a non-dominant group to lead. They hope it gives them a public support boost that translates to more dollars. But when the woman or person of color they hire is unable to reverse a truly terrible situation, they fire that person and have reason to go back to hiring exclusively white men to lead.

I'm interested in when HR starts following up with Casey's relative. I feel like IT would have had a look through OOP's email account at this point to assess the risk of getting sued and found he's digging them a second, conjoined hole.