ex-Lethality Jane

Boy I sure am glad we don't have a bunch of military bases in the Persian Gulf that rely on ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz for resupply.

He does not.

Wonderful news given I have a road trip I can't reschedule to a dance convention this weekend 😭

This I cannot defend.

Lol

Stuff like this goes into the on base convenience stores to display fruit for sale. There's been a big push to get healthier food options at every on base store.

First thing I thought of with the recliners is how some military hospital rooms I've been in have them.

The fruit basket stands are probably to display fruit at the on post convenience stores or the dining facilities. There's been a big push to get healthier food options into the stores that operate on military bases.

Bullets and lobster tails: Pentagon spends nearly $80 billion in one-month spree The Defense Department went on its biggest monthlong spending spree since the height of the war on terror, dumping nearly $80 billion in a rush to empty its accounts before the end of the fiscal year.

Link to the article I clipped the paragraph from.

The lobster thing comes up every few years and always causes outrage in the press. They're for special holiday dinners for service members serving overseas, usually. Here's a Washington Times article from January 2025 complaining about Biden's DoD spending money on steak and lobster in 2024.

Spend a month doing all your laundry by hand then get back to me.

Good idea. *grabs nearest book* Sophie's Choice. Oh good! A book about a woman finally getting to choose.

A fallopian tube? Idk 😂

Anyway the next book will be out in October so be prepared to wonder "what the fuck is this series and why is it taking up so much space at my local bookstore"

It's especially fraught when it comes to the main love interests of the stories. One is condemned as abusive (with some reason) but the other two idolized characters do VERY similar things and they're lauded as "perfect mates" and a lot of readers are... perturbed... by this.

And basically a lot of the questions about some of these details were met with "who comes up with this" and "people read too closely". And it has caused a firestorm.

So there's a divide in the fandom where some people are noticing that a lot of what the characters say in the books doesn't really match up with what's shown. And there's been this debate - is this intentional? One of the characters has the power to read minds and adjust memories, is that happening?

She spent much of the early interview being outraged that women's books aren't taken seriously and how she always wondered as a kid how characters in books like Lord of the Rings dealt with periods and cramps.

Then she got irritated by reader questions and said people read her books "too closely"

Also the podcast interview the author gave has incited a giant war within the fandom and honestly I thought she didn't come off great in it.

These books are the dumbest things ever but are basically popcorn in that I can't stop eating/reading.

A wildlife refuge in Washington hired a bullfrog catcher because the invasive bullfrogs are threatening an Oregon spotted frog or whatever but THE POINT IS I can't stop laughing at the picture of him they chose to put on Facebook. That man has two armfuls of Kermits. He is a Muppet villain.

It was union teachers in a blue town and a blue state who had fully bought into a nonsense reading curriculum that didn't teach my kid how to read. And I think that's a key part of how we have to look at fixing it - look at why our liberal educational institutions failed our kids here.

I mention teachers unions primarily because half the crap I get from people skeptical of my story is things like "well if you lived in an area that funded schools" or "if you lived in a union district where teachers felt protected and empowered"

I took my kids to the library, helped them pick out books, and read to them and with them since they were babies. The reason I noticed something was wrong was *because* I was reading to and with my kid at home. But he was memorizing the little paper story books so the school thought it was progress.

Damn you didn't have to go at Lindy West like that

Am fascinated by the type of person who says both that they want to rent and not own a home because they don't want to be responsible for the maintenance but also says that being a landlord is not a "real job".

They made Colin Powell go to the UN and give a speech how about a bunch of trailers were really mobile chemical weapons labs to justify the Iraq War. No one puts any effort into their lies about why a military conflict is actually super justified anymore.

Ah, the second mistake. Trying to share something that helped you.

(I hope you feel better and thank you for sharing the story)

Now here, students, you see a blue checkmark make the all too common error of trying to post something inspirational on the "social media for chronically depressed people who are determined to make it everyone's problem" app