EXCEEDINGLY normal.

I have two of them. Recent software updates have made them worse. So far not so bad as to get the wife frustrated. That’ll be the trigger.

if the wrapper didn't split
you must acquit

Small towns in Nebraska are full of houses that look like that. They're lovely and I gotta imagine completely hell for maintenance.

I've already got the audio interface at home to support the SM7B. If it's too amazing I'll be sorely tempted to just bring the MV7+ to use at work. It's unnecessary overkill… but it's such a pleasure to have good sound on all the zoom calls.

When, in fact, I am quite firmly persuaded that moving beyond the cis heterosexual paradigm is precisely what will free us; can show us that many of the “problems” they diagnose are non-problems and others can be addressed by means that are neither premodern nor neoliberal

None of the people in that conversation can offer answers that are true or useful or compassionate to the questions and concerns they’re attempting to address, because they are all locked into a cis and heterosexual paradigm of life and society and see LGBTQ people as evidence of the problem

Happy birthday!

To be clear this wasn't a little cup of au jus for dipping; they basically ladle a scoop of the stuff over your sandwich and then, as I recall, dump the excess off your plate and back into the pot.