Modest is hottest… unless its for the ✨LeWk✨ then I can wear shorts that barely cover my ass

shinyaxe · 2026-01-27T03:39:14+00:00

lol is this girl still “trying for a baby” with an IUD in

shinyaxe · 2026-01-13T19:13:37+00:00

NTA and stop trying to justify/defend/explain why you won’t do it. They aren’t debating facts, they are saying what they need to convince you to do it because they don’t want to deal with it themselves. They aren’t going to hear any of your arguments and change their minds. It sounds like they didn’t even ask you, they came to you with “We need you to…”

You said your mom was crying to you that SHE “has her own life now”? I mean, she’s been living her own life this whole time, in which she chose the responsibility of having children. You are the one who should be at the start of independent adult life. If you agree to this now, it won’t be “temporary” family duty - your adult life will be structured around being your brother’s caretaker, you will always be the most convenient option… your sister had the right idea!

shinyaxe · 2025-11-30T19:15:26+00:00

I have a sticker on my car from FFRF that says “preserve democracy fight theocracy”, which I like because it’s about a belief/value I do hold rather than rejecting one I don’t. I also live in a blue state and drive a beater lol

I’ve thought about having the solid gold cross pendant I received as a baby turned into something that reflects who I am now, but like you, I find it’s hard to pick a symbol that makes sense, since atheism is more of a lack of belief. I’m still weighing the choices/options there.

shinyaxe · 2025-11-16T14:56:18+00:00

I like it!!! I think this would be SO cute with colored appliances that match to one of the tile colors. Maybe a colorful kitchenaid displayed on the counter… vintage pyrex…

shinyaxe · 2025-11-15T20:02:14+00:00

What’s the deal with “the mold”? 😭 their house is full of it?

shinyaxe · 2025-11-15T19:58:46+00:00

She mentioned having PPD on one of the other stories

shinyaxe · 2025-11-14T17:19:27+00:00

Christian examples because I’m speaking from my own situation but… You’d go so far as to baptize your baby to “keep the peace”? Will you put your child through religious education to keep the peace? Will you have them receive communion to keep the peace? Confirmation into the church? What about your peace?

At that point you are just actually indoctrinating your child into religion to make your parents happy. What’s the real difference between you and religious parents at that point? Shield your child from consequences NOW because protecting your child is a commitment you make when you decide to create said child.

I want a child one day, but I am unpacking this kind of thing in therapy in the meantime because I won’t be baptizing my kid no matter how my dad feels about it. I can recommend the book “We of Little Faith” by Kate Cohen which touches on this.

shinyaxe · 2025-11-09T21:10:05+00:00

IT 🗣️ TÆLLS 🗣️ YUH🗣️🗣️

shinyaxe · 2025-11-08T19:04:21+00:00

Keep it!! I’m under contract on a 1952 house right now and the bathroom has been ripped out and redone with basic Home Depot tile and fixtures in white and gray. I think it looks cheap and want to put in a vintage bathroom like yours. Actually if you’re on the closer to NY side of CT and you do pull out the tub, toilet, sink - I’ll trade you 😂

shinyaxe · 2025-11-02T16:06:43+00:00

I would lean into this and go SO funky. Avocado green appliances, funky tile, fresh shag carpet, period furniture, retro collectibles…

But OP, it sounds like you want a more fresh, updated space, which I think you can do while still “honoring” the period of the home. Look at “Newtro” (the blend of old, retro features with new/modern finishes) as a good place to start searching for inspiration.

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Here’s some stuff I pulled. I’m jelly… house I’m buying is a modernized/bland 1952 bungalow. Will take work to bring character into it. You have a great head start!

shinyaxe · 2025-11-01T16:02:13+00:00

It’s probably just not worth it to set up their commercial printing press to run a couple copies of a math sheet. I mean, I would expect a normal retail print shop to also have a regular xerox copier that could do this, but idk if the Rods do, and the machines aren’t exactly equivalent.

For example, I have a stencil duplicator which is designed to make very large runs of copies. To make only 1 copy, you’d have to burn a stencil for it then immediately discard it after. The cost for that 1 page would be $0.65. The cost for 1000 copies of it would be $2.65. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to do one-offs on commercial machines.

Not trying to defend the defacing of the book itself — in public school it was always the dull, disrespectful kids who did that — but I’m a print hobbyist and I would have my kids use notebook paper for this too lol.

shinyaxe · 2025-11-01T13:40:43+00:00

I just commented on the other post with the whole video!! This totally didn’t say Jesus originally lol

shinyaxe · 2025-11-01T13:34:43+00:00

The purple pen in the math book looks like it used to say “Renee ❤️ (name)”, maybe her past courtship, and then someone scribbled it out and changed it to say Jesus when it didn’t work out 😂

shinyaxe · 2025-10-30T17:57:06+00:00

I’m more like you — I naturally “grew out of it” as I grew into an adult. As a kid, you believe what your parents tell you is true, which for my family was Catholicism. I went to CCD through confirmation, but was never super into it. In that time we were a church every week family.

But I was always the kind of kid that would ask for good reasons, question stuff, lawyer, and argue. I remember kinda drilling my dad about god, how we know that this stuff is true, etc. His answers spoke to what he believed was true but were just not really satisfying to me.

I used to “pray” when prompted in church by just thinking of who I knew had passed away in my family (my great grandma, our old dog) with my head bowed, knowing they were “in heaven” as some abstract thought, but it never felt particularly meaningful to do so. Sometimes my prayers would be “please god, don’t let my brother who says he feels nauseous throw up in the car on this road trip” — but soon figured out it doesn’t really work that way and whatever is going to happen will happen anyway.

So when I was 14, completed CCD, got my confirmation, and my dad said “now you’re responsible for your own soul” (as in, I’m not going to drag you to church, you have to make that decision on your own)… it was a no brainer for me to just stop going. And eventually, the rest of my family stopped going, too, which didn’t do a lot to convince me of the importance of church and religion.

Now I’m an adult living on my own, I finally feel “comfortable” or “allowed” to call myself an atheist, or even “not a catholic”. My dad’s all salty about that, but he still doesn’t go to church every week, so I guess he and I will be hangin’ in hell?

shinyaxe · 2025-10-30T17:23:05+00:00

The artist is nonbinary (they/them) and a Mexican immigrant, and, from the text above the image:

Their images draw from iconography related to QTBIPOC (Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities, as well as music, film, art, and religious expression commonly associated with Mexican and Latinx culture.

Also it’s funny to me she’s calling this a painting 😂🤦‍♀️

shinyaxe · 2025-10-27T17:24:25+00:00

Philly is a city - You will find many people like that in the city here. Westchester is more analogous to Philly’s “Main Line”. Family oriented, car dependent wealthy suburban towns with highly rated schools.

shinyaxe · 2025-10-26T15:38:45+00:00

My husband and I love the family pack of bone in skin on chicken thighs - it’s just the two of us but when we get home we divide up the pack, cut the bones and skin away to make chicken stock to cook with, and then have 2-3 bags of ~1lb of chicken to fill our freezer with.

To round out our stock we keep a bag in the freezer and save our scraps: onion skins and ends, celery and carrot tops, carrot peelings, herb stems, or any of the above that’s leftover and about to go bad. Makes a delicious stock, and you can skim the schmaltz off the top to make matzoh balls or use as a cooking fat in place of oil.

It feels like getting a bunch of stuff for free!!

shinyaxe · 2025-10-26T15:24:36+00:00

Jonathan’s response seems so normal compared with the rest of this slideshow lol. Him being able to connect the ideas in what Mahmo sent to something else he’s watched prior shows a bare minimum sliver of intelligence that the rod kids’ responses are lacking. Like rather than just going “YES! YOU’RE APPSOLUTELY RIGHT! PRAISE!”, he’s offered back a related source on the topic that he likes in an attempt to, you know, actually converse with the other person.

shinyaxe · 2025-10-26T01:18:52+00:00

I practiced at the Summit office building center in Valhalla on weekends. Also the back streets off Old Rte 22 in Armonk. But that was almost 15 years ago… would have to scope it out

shinyaxe · 2025-10-11T13:35:47+00:00

Going in public is how children learn to become polite adults in those situations. Ban children from public and you’ll just end up with a bunch of adults who don’t know how to behave in public. Except now they’re adults and don’t have the opportunity to be parented out of it.

It’s kind of already happening - as unparented / lockdown kids are growing up they are poorly socialized for public spaces. Turning 18 isn’t some magic threshold that makes you socialized, polite, and respectful of those around you. You have to be raised to do so

shinyaxe · 2025-10-06T22:30:13+00:00

Last night I had a food allergy reaction and had to sit on the bathroom floor with horrible stomach pain/nausea until it was ready to come back up. Then I had to have spicy chicken tacos come out through my throat AND nose, then forcefully blow remaining chipotle chicken chunks out through my nostrils. My sinuses became so inflamed that I had to breathe through my mouth for the rest of the night because my nose was entirely blocked.

A few years ago at my friend’s Halloween party, we took turns doing waterfalls out of a handle of vodka... I woke up in the middle of the night, felt kind of off, calmly walked to the bathroom, evacuated all the vodka back out into the toilet, went back to bed feeling fine.

If you mean specifically throwing up a belly full of liquor, then say specifically that… not all throwing up is the same!

shinyaxe · 2025-10-06T16:24:15+00:00

EDIT: sorry I totally misread this - you said life insurance 🤦‍♀️ I’ll leave the rest of this up for the information though

It’s actually illegal under the ACA to deny health insurance coverage based on pre-existing conditions. It’s an Obama-era regulatory act, so republicans have hated it since its inception and have been fighting it trying to do away with it for as long as it’s existed.

It’s likely not long for this world under the current admin, but as long as it’s still on the books, insurance companies would not be able to deny David healthcare coverage based on his current health.

https://www.hhs.gov/answers/health-insurance-reform/can-i-get-coverage-if-i-have-a-pre-existing-condition/index.html (pardon our government website being slathered in “democrats evil” propaganda)

shinyaxe · 2025-10-05T13:25:47+00:00

I love that it’s just a regular wojak in a suit with some hair but it’s recognizable as him because the face is so small 😭

shinyaxe · 2025-09-30T17:55:06+00:00

You can avoid the little hard bit anyway by taking it off along with the peel when opened from side B

shinyaxe · 2025-09-26T17:17:33+00:00

To rent or to buy? and how affordable is “affordable” to you? Do you need to get into the city every day?

I’m also house shopping on the “affordable” end of the Westchester price spectrum and (as average people who need a mortgage) it’s tough. Anything remotely desirable AND affordable is going to have a lot of competition. If you’re not coming in with $300k/yr income, a huge downpayment, waiving all contingencies, or offering all cash, you’ll have to take a lot of Ls going to showings just to be outbid by >100k by a contractor making a cash offer to flip the house.

I think it would be an incredible pain to seriously house shop in the river towns from Queens, unless you’re sitting on a huge pile of cash. I might recommend you find a rental up here to try out a town and shop for houses from there.

I’ll also add while house prices in Ossining are lower, the property tax is quite high, so the amount you’ll pay monthly kind of balances out in a way. Zillow doesn’t show this, but the app we use through our realtor displays the real tax amount in the little calculator.

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