FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: How About That Local News??
It’s feeling like the holidays in Austin and the local news is bananas! Get in here and let’s chat about it in this week’s Friday Open Thread!
It’s feeling like the holidays in Austin and the local news is bananas! Get in here and let’s chat about it in this week’s Friday Open Thread!
Affordable, functional options for people who binge-watch Chopped regularly!
When you’re not busy counting the sweat beads dripping between your shoulder blades, you’ll be plotting to slip into the club room for your seventh party pie, just to bask in air-con for one sweet minute. Probably, though, you’ll get pie-blocked by one of your red-faced, sweaty-palmed co-workers, who wanders over and, with a dramatic tug of their shirt collar says, mate, how’s this fucken heat? So how do you look and feel great while roasting and dripping under Australia’s death rays?
Why does an event like the election so profoundly affect marginalized people, while allies can almost avoid it?
Maintaining the balance between “I like you and think you’re cool to hang with and sometimes bang” and “we’re dating” is tough, but these gifts will help you out.
What do you get for the person who is perpetually tired, underpaid, and overworked? More books, obviously.
Between the blocking of the recount in Michigan and the partial recount in Nevada, what’s going on?
Stealing diaries; the oldest library; a conversation on women, bodies and writing; a peek at Roxane Gay’s forthcoming book; “The Lottery” in Stars Hollow and more.
Right now I’m a girl fighting a girl arch-nemesis and my headquarters is a ship with a girl captain and a girl mad scientist and I feel real good about everything besides my chaos level and the fact that I think my next mission is to rescue a boy from a boy.
If you’re looking for a way to retool or update your aesthetic, there’s no better inspiration than Grease.
This round we cover unfriending, chatting with bots, wacky 404s, the #UNameItChallenge and more.
Honestly, we just need a good old “Fuck You, I Survived 2016” rager to close out this dumpster fire of a year. Let’s come together and celebrate the strength it took to make it this far. Hopefully these horoscopes will help you figure out how you deserve to celebrate this month.
Join Alaina and Cecelia as they talk you through NBC’s latest holiday musical extravaganza!
Plus also St. Vincent scored Kristen Stewart’s new short film, Tumblr knows your life, Sense8 is getting a Christmas special, Gaby Dunn is on a NYT best of 2016 list, and more queer entertainment news!
“The potential for such a regressive Federal government seems so disheartening because of the tremendous progress over the past few years, but the administration does not control and cannot contain the progress.”
Immortality, my darlings.
Black Mirror found a loophole through the Bury Your Gays conundrum but skirted near one of the most frustrating disability tropes in the process.
If there is anyone in your life currently in need of a truly empowering and also on-brand gift which to utilize to further the progress of our nation or look woke AF, it’s the feminist you know and love.
In which we deal with the ongoing reality of Donald Trump by drawing all over his face in Photoshop like GROWN-UPS.
Molly went to North Carolina to expose a KKK rally disguised as a Trump victory party and found a counter protest that sent the cowards scurrying.