what she says: i’m fine
what she means: it’s 2 am and I can’t stop thinking about the Pied Piper. Initially i thought it was just an old faerie tale but i’ve been reading up on it and it turns out that at some point in the town of Hamelin, a bunch of children really did go missing all at once in fact a stained glass window in the local church in 1300 was made to tell the story AND Hamelin’s written history literally BEGINS in 1384 with the sentence “it is 100 years since our children left.” There are a ton of theories about what the piper could actually represent but historians are pretty much convinced that something did take away children en masse in the 1200s in Hamelin and to this day we still use the phrase “it’s time to pay the piper.” When will we pay him? Who was he???? Like okay I see the theories but what if some flute paying faerie really just led a bunch of kids away in 1284 I cannot get over this.
something toxic that growing up ugly or bullied or Visibly Other in a way that makes you a target will teach you is that female friendship is always conditional – that there’s always some inherent trade-off to belonging to any tenuous group of friends. if you’re not cool enough to belong by virtue of just being effortlessly yourself, you’d better be really funny and self-deprecating and then you can be the court jester, or smart enough to let everyone else copy your work, or maybe your role is to be the foil that makes everyone else look hotter by comparison. i don’t think we examine enough how these experiences in grade school and adolescence inform the rest of our lives. i know that they fucked me up.
oh my god this is The Thing – or one of them – that’s been fucking me up so much lately. (and one of the reasons I so deeply value @prudencepaccard)
There is a growing political scandal in Virginia regarding the ubiquitous influence of the state’s largest energy company, Dominion Energy, and it’s raising fundamental questions about the integrity of the governor’s office and state regulators who will decide the fate of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Dominion’s longstanding exercise of power and influence in Virginia is no secret—the company is the largest corporate donor to state candidates.
But a new report by the Public Accountability Initiative documents in one place the company’s extensive, revolving door relationships with the very regulators charged with issuing permits for this controversial, $5 billion fracked-gas project.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a joint venture of Dominion, Duke Energy and Southern Company, but Dominion is the leading owner and will operate the pipeline if it goes ahead.
The project, which would source fracked gas from West Virginia, plans to traverse the Allegheny Highlands bordering West Virginia and Virginia, cut a large swath through Virginia to the Hampton Roads area, and branch south into North Carolina.
The new report details how Dominion’s influence penetrates every level of state government, from Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) officials, through General Assembly members on both sides of the aisle, to the governor’s mansion.
The planned 600-mile interstate pipeline will carry 1.44 billion cubic feet per day of fracked gas from West Virginia to North Carolina, cutting through forests, critical animal habitats and pristine mountains that Dominion would be required to “reduce” between 10 to 60 feet, according to the paper released Thursday by the non-profit Chesapeake Climate Action Network.
Tl;dr : There’s a new drug that will come out on the US market, but it won’t be available till august. The ALS has created a fund called the “Home Health Care Initiative” to help patients like him. You can donate here.
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Why is “born” in quotation marks? Were you brought into this world elsewise? Why did you nail them to your door? Is it a kind of symbol? A warning? A… fetish? Everything about this ask is extremely upsetting. Thanks so much.
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