Caroline

I did not know you used to drive a dump truck!

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I’ll never get this out of my brain.

(Also they were union men who voted for democrats.)

I may be an over educated mouthy leftist woman, but by god I know from blue collar.

Friends, I have a truck driver turned mechanic and a coal miner, maybe I *should* run for Congress.

I honestly don’t know. I think I saw somewhere that it was 48 ounces? It’s a literal bucket.

I imagine this has to do with their new enormous bucket o’ iced coffee.

Like abortion care, this seems like a “between you and your doctor and maybe your parents” thing.

I think they immediately go to “they’re going to get top surgery and then regret it.” But whatever people think about doctors, they don’t want people to have surgery they’ll regret either. So I don’t know how you ensure that they’re sure BUT that doesn’t mean it’s unknowable!

They’re not an exact color match, but they do fit the vibe. And yeah I’m also trying to cut down on the number of shoes I own, but sometimes it’s aggravating she you don’t have The Right Shoe.

Right, I don’t think that everything I don’t understand (or don’t like) should be illegal.

This all does make me wonder at what point you can be sure it’s the right thing, to make changes that are permanent. But I don’t get the impression doctors are rushing anyone into it. Have you tried to get surgery for something non-emergent? There is no rushing.

That outfit is fly as hell.

And then 3 or 4 years later, she started presenting more femme again and eventually asked us all to use her birth name and female pronouns, and stopped taking the blockers, and that’s… it. She’s happy and thriving and nothing bad happened.

It was a meaningful experience that gave her confidence and helped her to figure out who she is. She did hormone blockers and wore a binder, and no one recommended surgery because she was 14. She used male pronouns and a different name and wore a lot of sweater vests.

I have a family member who turned out to be this Cautionary Tale they’re so worried about, a kid who transitioned and then changed her mind, and she is absolutely fine. No tragedy occurred. If anything, transitioning was incredibly helpful to her, even though it wasn’t the right thing long term.

I have tied probably 25 ties, lifetime, and I will never ever retain this information.

Managed to tie a tie on my kid for spirit week shenanigans on the way out the door to the bus, god bless them internets.

John: “what is that, a rape whistle?”
Me: “ICE whistle. But I guess… uh… also that. Man, shit sucks here.”

Good to test that alarm system.

My maiden name was Rice, and classmates would sing this to me.

We do have a local shop whose pricing is very reasonable, it’s just a pain to keep stock of any sort for this in something that’s sized.

I get my head down hyperfixating on something and then rant about it and then actually scroll on here and it’s like “Trump is cutting off trade to Spain!” I just… I was gone for two hours, man.

I’m already going to have to burn my email inbox to the ground, having signed up for ever so many things that ended up not being what I wanted at all.

Like I get that this is not for me and my kid’s 3 shirts he sells a year, it’s for people who are actually trying to make a living. But I just need small and simple and easy. So if anyone knows a thing, point me that way? Please?

My kid, tiny entrepreneur that he is, wants to sell merch for his little zine enterprise. We used to use society6 for it, but they’re not available anymore. So I spent like two hours trying to find some kind of print on demand service to make basic tshirts, and they are all so goddamn complicated.

I don’t see me ever going back to film fully in a professional way, but the hybrid thing appeals to me.

I’m old enough that I started shooting weddings on film, so it feels weird to be circling back to it now. But there’s definitely a market for more analog, imperfect things and I like the slowness that it encourages. So I’m shopping for a film camera.