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9 years ago @ The Toast - Go On, Get Out Of Here · 1 reply · +32 points

*Stands at the bow, facing into the wind, having taken to the sea, and inhales deeply*

Me: I'm king of the--

*Mallory materializes and slaps me*

Me: Yep, that's how the end of The Toast feels, you got it exactly.

9 years ago @ The Toast - A note on The Toast · 0 replies · +23 points

This...this is so much. I am going to give this letter to my daughter because as much as it is for me, a Toastie, it is infinitely more so for her, a fierce little STEM need with great hopes and no knowledge of life's obstacles. Maybe by the time she's finding her first job out of college, there won't be obstacles. This gives me hope that we can clear the way, all of us together, for the future. Let's go do it. Let's keep giving them hell!

9 years ago @ The Toast - When You Smile: On Hum... · 0 replies · +20 points

Ahhhhhh wonderful wonderful. I give you 5/5 beards for the piece.

9 years ago @ The Toast - All the Reasons Why Pe... · 0 replies · +29 points

So we've met, then?

9 years ago @ The Toast - All the Reasons Why Pe... · 0 replies · +19 points

I hear that people with NT kids want/get alone time. Don't you think you've EARNED yours yet? Go get it. Any kid old enough to walk five blocks and spend money can also be in the same house not interacting with you for an hour.

Personally, I use fresh pads of sketch paper and/or bonus screen time as needed.

9 years ago @ The Toast - "A'ghailleann": On Lan... · 0 replies · +8 points

This piece was such a beautiful examination of the linguistic frameworks with which we define ourselves and approach the world. Thank you, Iona.

9 years ago @ The Toast - "A'ghailleann": On Lan... · 2 replies · +10 points

I do! I do! My grandparents' generation used Yiddish like a secret code, so it's almost lost to my parents and me, but I want it back. My husband is Irish, and that language has been lost, too. My daughter is missing two languages of rebellion and insurgence, but only one's on Duolingo, and it's not Yiddish. How do we start?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +7 points

IKR?!

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +6 points

Half of why we have one and done, right there.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup · 0 replies · +51 points

There's something marvelously aspirational about looking at a precious newborn and sticking her with a solid old lady name like a protective amulet for her longevity and grandoffspring.

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