drinking pink rabbits

#Should you or shouldn't you seek out resumes of female candidates if none offer themselves to you?#What are the best practices for assuring a gender diverse workplace?#Should we encourage women to hire other women or is that just an additional burden we're placing on them and not on male bosses?#these are all conversations we could have been having as a culture when this meme was at its peak#but instead the focus was mainly on how incredibly cringe Mitt Romney is#remember in season 1 when Ted did the Alan Iverson speech?#and people who had liked that meme thought#wait. did I just think that was funny because he said it in a funny way?#was Alan Iverson actually completely valid?#(he was)#and Mitt Romney has been wrong about many things#but it's sad that him announcing that he was actively seeking out more women hires is the thing he still gets blasted for without any nuanc#there are other things you could be mad at him for I promise#ted lasso#I too hate that my brain has retained enough information from this particular overlap of knowledge to produce this post#mitt romney#(obligatory addendum that I'm not even a huge fan of how the gender critique in the episode ultimately came across)#I'm so sorry for putting romney in your feed -- @boglady

actually once you do vote by mail once, it feels STUPID that in-person voting is even a thing. getting to sit with your ballot in your house, easily see your options, have time to do research and consider your choice, talk with friends and neighbors about their vote. it's especially so for small local elections and primaries where you might not have heard about different candidates and really have to ask around, attend local events, or dig into local news stories to find out who they are and what they stand for. but, of course, not allowing voters to easily research and carefully consider their votes is why there is opposition to vote by mail in the first place.

how do you even keep things casual when your soul is wired for devotion

I continue to be baffled by people proclaiming “romance books are simply like this. They all are like this. There is no other option.” No, it’s just that you’ve been reading bad to mediocre romance books. Another world is possible. Have you heard the good news about Cat Sebastian?

[woman who has never been gentle with herself voice] I just need to be more disciplined

i dont want a childproofed internet i am almost 30 fucking years old. give your kid an internet safety talk and stop making it the problem of every adult on the planet every time some cryptkeeper legislator gets the brilliant idea (via conservative lobbying) to push through yet another bill gutting our access to free expression + increasing the powers of the surveillance state + lining the pockets of Big Data in the name of Protecting The Kids they wont even feed. this shit is exhausting i can’t believe we’re going to be fighting about it for the rest of my life

greatest dynamic in the world IS strange, eccentric asshole and their normal and polite friend who on closer inspection is actually worse in deeply weird and unexpected ways

(Guy who never stops thinking about claudia voice) also despite the fact claudia can only exist in the show as other people view her, with her diaries being the only real voice she has (and they had been edited!) it gets to me that nevertheless she has such a strong presence that any attempts to minimize both the profund way she has changed and moved louis + her attempts at being free from the control lestat and the coven try to exerce on her are ultimately futile. You cannot erase her! She lived and for even a few months she was happy and able to live independently with someone that respected and loved her. She fought hard for that. It's a disservice to pretend that she was just a doll, that it has never been about her, that she was just roof shingle that flew off of their house. At the end of the day everything has always been about her