Sunday Snippets: Back to school

Already that time of the year!

A tiny house gives them hope: How a homeless family in Brazil got a fresh start

Caring for people with fentanyl addiction often means treating terrible wounds

Watching The World Burn on Our Phones

A new clue to the reason some people come down with long COVID

‘It’s really only the beginning’: are we on the cusp of a breakthrough in endometriosis?

What The Retrievals Understood About Women’s Pain

The plot thickens: The battle over books comes at a cost

Uprooted: How climate change is reshaping migration from Honduras

Sunday Snippets: Abortion

Abortion is healthcare. We should not try to make Mother's Day a forced holiday.

1790 HISTORIC ESTATE FOR SALE IN KING FERRY NEW YORK

High school students raise funds for Afghan refugees living in D.C. area hotels

Polish women band together to give Ukrainian women car rides to safe refuge

Will COVID ever end? A forgotten pandemic from the late 1800s might offer some clues

An ancient Sussex farmhouse filled with inherited furniture and flea-market finds

Louisiana’s Terrible New Bill Might End Abortion Rights for Minors

“I Tried Slow Living in a Remote Welsh Cottage, and This Is What I Learned”

How to Come Out of Lockdown

Florida man asks schools to ban the Bible following the state's efforts to remove books

Many Americans Are Celebrating the End of COVID-19. Here's What It Feels Like When You're Not

Interior Designer Simplifies Her Life in Her Own Tiny Home

POET OF THE WEEK EUGENIA LEIGH

Italian children should not automatically receive their father's surname, court says

In 'Belonging' Black environmentalists show off their favorite local parks

212: HOW TO WALK OUT OF A ROOM

Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone

Sunday Snippets: 11 years

Celebrated 11 years of marriage last week with the best guy I know. I'm so grateful for him and his love.

You Have to See Inside This Teeny Tiny NYC Rooftop Studio

Mazie Hirono Is Okay With a Little Confrontation

These Native American women are reclaiming a ‘stolen’ part of their identity: Their language

Elizabeth Warren says the government should fire student loan servicer Navient, which should fire its CEO

7-Year-Old Jaslyn Adams Shot And Killed In McDonald’s Drive-Thru: ‘That Baby Should Not Have Gotten Killed’

Harriet Tubman’s lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say

ON EASING YOUR FOOTPRINT THIS EARTH DAY

Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World

The Secret Mission To Unearth Part Of A 142-Year-Old Experiment

The Vitality of Ordinary Things

Why Women Do the Household Worrying

George Floyd Was Also a Father

Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course

Diaspora and My Unpackable Library

VACCINE SIDE EFFECT, OR HAVE YOU JUST BEEN ALIVE FOR 40 YEARS?

I’m not languishing, I’m dormant

Work Isn’t Fulfilling Because Capitalism Is a Death March

Sunday Snippets: It's been a year

I didn't quite realize how very complicated, trying and plain out hard this year has been. I wasn't expecting it but every day was something new. Last week, we came home to some house issues that we are still resolving. I'm going to actively try to carve out quiet time for the rest of this year and next year.

Adorable Poor fox

Gimme They are so beautiful. It would make day to day living hard, but the peaceful and simple life you could live?

LOL

One of my favorite movies

#Ferguson Updates & These awesome kids (breaking hearts that they have to step up and say this) & This is so sad.

Just in case you were unclear about this situation It's sexual harassment and it's illegal.

Disgusting that this is done But like most things in racist America, not surprised.

hahahaha, because cats & awww, kitties

Well, damn

Cool Science Facts

Beautiful imagery

I would love to explore some of these

I love seeing words like this

Feels. Poetry is amazing.

Gah, I love Saint Bernards!

#Ferguson 9/24/2014 & More

How cool is this?

Her innovative Bump Mark label is filled with a solid, set form of gelatin. When the label is smooth, the food is fresh. When a consumer starts to feel bumps, that’s a sure sign that eating what’s in the package could make you sick.

Adorable. I love dogs.

Bless this teacher

He's also looking to provide support for parents through free dinners and educational events, like resume-writing and finance workshops, at the school in the evenings.

For Callahan, one of the most rewarding part of the backpack program is the way that it's drawn people together -- he and his wife, members of the school community -- in their efforts to help support local children in need. But ultimately, there's no greater reward than seeing his students grow and learn and thrive.

Sunday Snippets: Mid Year?

I'm trying to shake off a summer slump; vacation, too much Netflix, etc. I have a lot more I want to get done before the end of year!

Being a photographer = pretty much this

Beautiful I love open road shots.

A lovely sentiment

hahahahaha True statement right there.

Me = watching most modern films

Not surprised, but still disgusted

I mean, who wouldn't want a three foot cat?

Aww, happy owls!

TW-Some of these reactions make me wanna barf

Several weeks ago, 28-year-old Minneapolis resident Lindsey was standing on an escalator when a stranger began touching her hair and calling her “blondie.” When she told the man he “could just say ‘hi’ next time,” she said, he began screaming at her and calling her ugly. The situation reminded Lindsey — a longtime confronter of catcallers, most notably in last year’s Craigslist ad gone viral — that while she could control her reaction to street harassers, she couldn’t always anticipate their reaction to being confronted.

It was then she had the idea for Cards Against Street Harassment: pocket-size cards women could download, print, and hand out to their catcallers, explaining why the attention was unwanted without even speaking.

Completely awful

The whole tragedy is so devastating and to think of how many brilliant things could have come from those researchers....it breaks my heart.

A bit of good news

Shanesha Taylor, a mother living in Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested in March after leaving her children, ages six months and two years old, in the car while she went to a job interview. But on Friday, Maricopa County announced a plea agreement that would drop the charges against her if she completes classes and establishes trusts for her children.

SO MUCH TRUTH

Ruh-roh, women might give their kids their last name?

But within a married couple wherein the woman keeps her name, embracing all these potential snares and giving a child the woman's surname can be an intentional way of shaking up convention. That is the case for Molly Caro May, who, in an essay at The Hairpin, muses on what happened when she and her husband, Chris, went for it simply because they wanted to. And given that their friends and families had always been open-minded, she writes, they were not prepared for the shockwave.

What kind of evil prank?

 This little house looks adorable

Ahh, so cute!

Sunday Snippets: Happy National Women's Day (the day after) Edition

And a beautiful one at that. I threw open all the windows in the house and I could almost smell spring.

Ugh. Double ugh. Of course she wrote a book.

It's sad that I'm not even surprised anymore. What the fuck? I feel like I should have that on a bumper sticker at this point.

Gah, love this tiny house!

Another fantastic discussion over at A Practical Wedding on my favorite subject I love reading stories about surnames.

LOL x 1000000 I may have to use these for our vow renewal.

Beautiful flowers

This is fantastic news

On Tuesday the Maryland Senate voted 32-15 to pass the long overdue Fairness For All Marylanders Act, which would expand Maryland's anti-discrimination laws to protect transgender people in employment, housing, access to credit and public accommodations.

Interesting spring cleaning idea (excusing the fact that I'm not Catholic aside) She includes a list of non-stuff to purge too.

A forty day period in the spring (coinciding with the 40 days of Lent) where you focus on cleaning one area per day. In this one area you challenge yourself to declutter, simplify, decrapify, and get rid of things you don’t need. The goal is one bag a day but you can have more or less.

More about purging/clothing issues & This guys owns 15 items. As in total.

According to the Six Items Challenge, the average American purchases nearly 70 pieces of new clothing per year. “This equates to 20 billion new garments bought in the USA alone, many of these are contributed to clothing that costs about as much as a newspaper or cup of coffee at Starbucks.

This poor beautiful ship On one hand, I love seeing abandoned places, but I see how beauty has rotted away and it's heartbreaking.

These are some crazy photos & These make me crap my pants

Special Edition Snippets: What the hell day is it?

My day job follows federal holidays so I was off Monday. And then holy snow, Batman on Tuesday. (We got around 5 inches...that I was determined to measure in my pj pants last night.) And now working from home because the roads are still a mess.

A bright spot from Virginia

And as McAuliffe promised during his campaign, one of his first acts as the 72nd governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia was signing an executive order banning discrimination against state employees based on sexual orientation and for the first time ever, gender identity.

I need this to be a thing. Hell, I'll sit and eat whatever the hell I want anywhere.

Take all of my money Can we make this with kitties, hamsters, etc as well?

Yay CeCe! & CeCe McDonald on Melissa Harris-Perry

Argh, yes! This drives me batty.

Holy shit, this move is incredible.

Surya Bonaly was openly contemptuous of the figure skating judges, because they were a bunch of openly racist white men who always screwed her over by giving her lower scores than she deserved. That one-blade backflip was her ultimate FUCK YOU! to the Olympics judges, because she took an “illegal” backflip and made it legal by landing it on one blade. Pretty much DARING them to mark her down for being epic awesome and pulling a move that their precious coddled white girls didn’t have the guts to even think about.

More about tiny house/apt living from A Cup of Jo. And you can read more about Erin Boyle and her family's tiny living adventures here.

(image credit: http://themidnightblues.tumblr.com/post/74042659676/wellibelongtoyou-fact)

Sunday Snippets: Extra Hour of Sleep Edition

I still think the whole fall back/spring forward is a goofy idea, but I'll take that extra hour this weekend.

How cute is this tiny house? I love the idea of using less resources and still getting something stinking cute like that house. Our house is just under 1500 sq feet and I feel like we could go even smaller in our next house.

*dying of laughter* So much truth.

file under things I need

Holy crap, these photos

Sometimes the internet does blow my mind in a good way But it's still a shitty thing to realize

More truth from Lindy West Can also file under Duh, no shit and Of-fucking-course women work, you ass goblins.

Because cats Who doesn't love gifs of cats?

Disgustingly sad that we even *need* this graph.... (slight TW)

YES and more yes See also God bless George Carlin

LOL So true. I love the campyness that is Sleepy Hollow.

MORE YES Instead of this bullshit about buck up, you don't look sick, what do you mean you have anxiety, depression, bipolar, etc? See also, Anxiety

Beautiful essay

All these years later, and he still thinks I can do just about anything. He’s proud of me – he has a queer feminist activist for a daughter, and he’ll talk about it to anyone who will listen. Twenty-one years, my coming out to him as a lesbian, my outspoken activism, my writing and my protesting, and I am still his sweet baby girl. He reminds me often how much he looks forward to walking me down the aisle at my wedding, whenever that will be.

Stand Your Ground MY ASS She was fighting for her life against an abusive partner and how she has been treated is deplorable.

*rolls eyes* Where is my vial of man tears?

Can't wait to see this

No lies

Beautifully true

YES, the conversation we need to have!

These are all deliberate acts with predictable consequences. There is nothing “random” about how we have armed ourselves, and there is nothing “random” about the filigree of high-flown rhetoric with which we justify arming ourselves, and there is nothing “random” about how we learn nothing every time someone who could be anyone decides to exercise his Second Amendment rights by opening fire.

Thursday Snippets: It's Almost October Already?

Chilly mornings, boots with tights and sweater dresses, warm coffee mugs....mmm autumn. Which means cute images like this.

Really cool

Ever since I read The Zero Waste Home, the tiny house movement has captured my attention. I love the idea of working with small spaces. I am forever inspired by this article for de-cluttering ideas. I try to approach this idea in our house. I've downsized a lot on clothes and accessories, opting for quality pieces from thrift stores that can do double or triple duty.

I sincerely hope this is a prank because no one can possibly be that over the top.

A heartbreaking view of pollution But maybe a new way of looking at the problem could bring solutions?

Cannot even express how angry this makes me How fucking dare you? But no! We are totally family friendly!!!

From the Mouths of Rapists (TW) Incredibly heartbreaking and a link I will point people to when they claim it's "just a song."

Utterly fascinating

This sexist trope has always bothered me It completely makes sense, right?!

Another view of street harassment

As a rule, I only say something if I feel threatened. Like if they’ve invaded my personal space or if they’ve chosen to “follow” me when I do not want to be followed or they’ve put their hands on me. But I always wonder if I should say something about how inappropriate their behavior is. How I’ve been told all these things before and they are not “original” or “interesting.”

Sometimes it comes down to a split second decision about whether to turn the music up louder or shout "Fuck off!".

I also come across some of the funniest and poignant quotes...

Completely yes

Yes


For a funny palate cleanser....lol and harsh kitty truths