What I find interesting in this picture: Women freaking out to music in public was still such a rare occurrence at the time that the women in the back really don’t know how to handle it. By now it has been normalized so much, nobody considers it particularly noteworthy. And the world is better for it.

While “tribadism” (old term for various lesbian sexual positions, including scissoring) has been known since antiquity, scissoring itself has only been distinguished from other lesbian sexual positions in several sexologist studies in the 70s. Its prevalence was heavily debated even back then, but there was little doubt about its existence before the emergence of modern porn.

Me? I am impartial, I am certainly not being paid by Big Dictionary!

*attempts to hide the old, dusty Oxford English Dictionary on the bookshelf

Dictionaries are - by definition - descriptive. It is not their duty to judge what goes into them. They merely collected terms used by people and explain what they mean.

Demanding to remove information from a dictionary, because you do not like what it expresses or the people who use those terms, is the very definition of censorship.

I think I experienced similar feelings which usually appear when I was comparatively “better” than during the times that counted as major depressive episodes, according to the professionals I dealt with.

But honestly the way our psyche deals with depression is highly individual and good, responsible therapists/psychiatrists/neurologists/… consider a variety of symptoms before making a final diagnosis. With the exception of a high risk of suicide which will immediately place the sufferer in the “major depressive disorder” category, because of the immediate danger to their lives.

What I want to say: Probably only an expert will be able to tell you exactly what kind of depression you have/had. And I cannot claim to be one. I am simply someone who suffers from it too and I read up about it.

I am sorry for being the bearer of sad news. Suicidal thoughts are the most easily recognizable of the symptoms. And even if they are less persistent between major depressive episodes, a lot of us are still stuck with depression in one form or another for the rest of our lives.

And that’s the difference between minor depressive disorder and major depressive disorder. Thank you for attending Depression 101.

I moments of crisis, I will just start crying, but I can do that very fast.

Ah oui, c’est bien jolie and même romantique. J’envie tout le monde qui habite dans un coin aussi beau.

Es ist nicht okay das Mäh zu verdreschen. 😤

They don’t want to save Hollywood, they want to control it. They can’t control it if the studios shoot their films outside of the US.

Despite subsequent repairs to the parapet, the cracks there periodically reappeared. Fallingwater’s problems were so numerous that Edgar Sr. referred to it as “Rising Mildew”.

This part never fails to amuse me.

Ooooh, cookie! Thanks! 😋

Yes, do feed the squirrels!

When “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” was shot, Harrison Ford was 47. Sean Connery was 59 and played the father of Ford’s character.

Art is by Kelsie Brumet

The Guardian shedding crocodile’s tears? Boohoo, we spend years vilifying trans people and now look what happened…

I pity the guy. He tried really damn hard (without much success) and then I had to murder him.

The NYT had an article from 2006 which described a very similar “training”. It goes into greater detail. Here is an archived version without paywall: https://archive.ph/n4GPa

It all may sound like a great big bucket of bad news for the car company, but the stock market has a different take. “If this is the worst it gets for Tesla, then certainly there must be some upside for the stock once tailwinds, such as the highly-awaited cheaper model and the Robotaxi, finally hit the market later this year,” wrote Thomas Monteiro, senior analyst at investing .com.

Quote from this article by Ars Technica

I am not posting this because I think it makes any sense. It only makes sense if you are a rich person with way too much money to be bothered by Elon Musk’s track record of just making shit up.