Stuart Blair
Husband, Dad, Humanist, Immigrant 🏴🇺🇸, Software, Archery, Sailing, Cooking.
Intentionally unarmed.
Joined Aug 2021
We need to treat suicide like we treat other issues surrounding bodily autonomy.
That starts with us each getting comfortable with the idea that those we love may choose to live their life (including its end) differently than we'd like.
That's down to us and the conversations we have with each other. I've told my kids that I have no intention of living out my final years like my elderly uncle. The key is to have those discussions early.
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Next to "I do", I think the two sweetest words in the English language are, "It's benign".
Wouldn't it be fantastic if the Chemtrails nuts accidentally ended up supporting the aims of the EPA they rail against?
https://bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68716894
March 31 is also National Bunsen Burner Day, but somehow that doesn't seem to be bothering them as much.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/trump-camp-assails-biden-declaring-march-31-easter-108684848
Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency with an interactive atlas. Go see your city in 20 years!
As an immigrant to the US, I sometimes find things a little alien here even after 16 years of moving from the UK.
That's why it's always good to hear Tim Stanley on BBC Radio4's Any Questions. Listening to that man on any topic leaves me with the sense that emigrating was a good move and that I want nothing to do with that man or the culture that sustains such cretins in the public arena. Fuck that guy and all that he stands for.
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"Son, 4 years ago we were using freezer trucks as morgues and wiping our asses with coffee filters. Anyone who says we were better off then is a certified window licker."
One of the nice bits about being 2 to 3 decades younger than most of the pro-life religious conservatives is the thought that I'll be alive long enough to leave a portion of my estate to funding an abortion clinic named in their honor.
I like to think that with a large enough endowment, the clinic would grow to prominence and that by association, the names of those politicians would in time be associated with something that appalled them.
I'm thinking about it right now.
Thinking. Smiling.
Vallejo man, identified by Instagram page for aspiring rap career, charged with $5,000 armed robbery in Orinda
Arrgh...the Stupidity.... It burns!
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/03/13/vallejo-man-identified-by-instagram-page-for-aspiring-rap-career-charged-with-5000-armed-robbery-in-orinda/
Oh look! The same Catholic church that agreed the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany had thoughts about what Ukraine should do about their invaders.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/10/pope-francis-ukraine-russia-war-00146147
The blamehound notion remained as a conversational shared reference for a decade until I got my dog.
Only my dog is a blamehound in the sense that he detects them and points his muzzle toward the person who farted in an accusatory and startled fashion.
My dog fartles easily.
My brother once told me that he hadn't farted even once since he got a dog. We laughed at the idea of a blamehound, a special breed bred with fart-blame absorption characteristics as a guiding principle.
@Alfred when asked to identify where a picture was taken, are you using exif data embedded in images?
Inside the Internal Debates of a Hospital Abortion Committee
https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-doctor-decisions-hospital-committee
Holy shit. The ending.
https://youtu.be/GE-VJrdHMug
Well Alabama, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/university-alabama-pauses-ivf-services-court-rules-embryos-are-childre-rcna139846
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This seems super important. Less than 60 seconds 👍 >>>
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M8j1xWbyfjI
Stuart Blair
Husband, Dad, Humanist, Immigrant 🏴🇺🇸, Software, Archery, Sailing, Cooking.
Intentionally unarmed.
Joined Aug 2021