Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn't bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform.
School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.
Inflammation is measurable. Where are the studies correlating inflammation measured via whatever medical scans to depression diagnoses?
An incomplete article if the studies exist and weren't mentioned. A useless hypothesis if the guy is already authoring books but hasn't done any studies yet.
Waiting to board a plane and then I'm going to nap so hard. I should get some jet engine wash tracks for sleeping normally at home. I am usually asleep before the plane takes off.
My highest rating on Letterboxd for a film from the 50s is The Night of the Hunter. I really haven't watched much from that decade. It is a pretty good movie, great at building suspense.
If someone gave me an AI-generated song, I would be baffled at how little they know me. Any friend of family member of any depth would know I would place zero value on an AI-generated song as a gift. Even "it's the thought that counts" doesn't work because there's no thinking, it's been outsourced to a bot.
Just watch the movie, there's only one at the moment. Sequels are planned but not out yet. Or if you really don't want to invest an hour and a half to watch the movie, there are probably recap videos on YouTube.
MAGA freaks should love me. I didn't get banned from reddit, I self-deported.
I actually had a Fediverse account several years before the Great Reddit Migration, but it didn't keep my interest at the time. Tried again and stuck with it after the API change killed third-party reddit apps and they started inserting reddit-approved mods into all major subs.
It historically the charging port for me that fails first to the point I can't reasonably return it. So this time I got a phone with wireless charging ... which stopped working after a few months and I'm back on USB C charging for years now.
At least C is a little more physically robust than older versions.
I haven't had a phone reach end of life for security updates yet, but that drive me to get a newer one too.
Yes, please. I was just thinking about looking for a new citizen science thing to do over the winter and this falls in my lap. Please DM the discord link to me as well.
A woman answers a help wanted ad to be a housekeeper in a mysterious high-rise in New York City, not realizing she is entering a community that has seen a number of disappearances over the years and may be under the grip of a Satanic cult.
In addition to Zazie Beetz on the poster, the cast includes Patricia Arquette and Tom Felton.
And I'm also atheist, but raised Catholic and had a few schoolmates who became priests or nuns, and even more who explored it but left before making a permanent commitment.
I've got enough anecdotal evidence to cast a very skeptical eye on your claim that homeless broke dudes are the ones that go into the priesthood. So in an effort to get something a little better than my anecdotes, I websearched the phrase "demographics of men who become priests"
On average, ordinands first started to consider becoming a priest at 16 years old, but 35% said they began to think about entering the priesthood in elementary school between the ages of 6 and 13.
Not lining up with your theory unless you think there's a lot of homeless 16 year olds becoming priests.
And I guess caveat that I'm in US currently, most familiar with Western countries approach to Catholic religious life.
Who hasn't experienced some personal calamity? Seems like something that can be retroactively applied to anyone.
Dude went into the seminary to become a priest after his girlfriend dumped him? Personal calamity! He's hiding from future dumpings by becoming a priest!
a) A short story collection in translation - one of Franz Kafka's, there are a few. On my list because I haven't read more than one or two of his, yet his work gets referenced a lot; I'd like to understand the references a bit better.
b) A nonfiction book about Indigenous history - I've got several on my list about Standing Bear and the Ponca. Chosen because the area in which I grew up are their lands and because Standing Bear was a badass.
c) A queer historical romance novel - I don't read much romance so mix in some vampires for The Gilda Tales by Jewelle Gomez.
d) A translated classic - I'll double dip with some other prompt, probably
e) A young adult novel by a Latinx author - TBD
f) A biography about a Black historical figure - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a black woman's cervical cancer cells were "acquired" and are to do this day one of the most important cell lines supporting medical research.
g) A crime novel set outside of the US, UK, or Canada - TBD, probably a double dip
h) A nonfiction book about philosophy - something by Seneca, certainly his On the shortness of life essay. I want to read more on stoicism but the broey-ness of Marcus Aurelius fans has really turned me off it. Maybe Seneca will fit better.
i) A literary or contemporary debut published in 2026 - TBD
j) The first book in a fantasy series - TBD, prob another double dip
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Catholic school with uniform including khaki pants. I started my period and bled thru. I swapped to sweatpants. Most teachers just figured I must have some reason and didn't bother me. A couple asked after it, one accepted my reason and offered to to let me out of class to have a little more time to cleanup or call home or whatever I needed to feel comfortable. The last one gave me detention for being out of uniform.
School administration reversed it when they heard why I was being sent to detention. I was advised to just go to the main office if it ever happened again so they could help me instead of having to deal with each teacher myself.