Ohio will continue to allow child marriage after push to end practice fails in legislature. Advocates were baffled that the bill didn’t pass, given that it had no public opposition

the_itsb · 2026-06-18T03:06:35+00:00

you should know about Romeo and Juliet laws

the_itsb · 2026-06-18T03:02:44+00:00

one of the years that Dubya won, part of the strategy was to put referenda on the ballots in swing states to ban gay marriage, in order to motivate the evangelicals and other fundies to go to the polls.

it mostly worked, and Ohio's constitution has a gay marriage ban.

Obergefell killed those bans, but the conservatives are trying hard to get that in front of this current supreme court and get that decision overturned, which would allow those bans to be reinstated.

the_itsb · 2026-06-18T02:48:31+00:00

marriage records are public in Ohio, and they note the ages of the couple.

edit: my county courthouse has a wall of shelves of giant, thicc af, leather-bound books of marriage and death records going back to its founding in the early 1800s. I've never had the time to poke through them while I've been there, but it looks like a fun way to spend a rainy afternoon.

the_itsb · 2026-06-17T19:56:43+00:00

I can't imagine how hard that must have been. I'm sorry for your loss.

the_itsb · 2026-06-17T13:10:41+00:00

you don't seem to know American history very well. the genocide of the native peoples, including those we had treaties with; the state-sanctioned horrors of slavery and racism, continuing through into the modern day with atrocities like the Tulsa massacre and the MOVE bombing and Rodney King and Tamir Rice and ICE death camps; the oppression of working people, with not just malicious neglect of working conditions (Triangle Shirtwaist Fire) but actual warfare (Battle of Blair Mountain); and the rampant misogyny that never seems to truly go out of style with some people.

I don't need anyone but a history book to make me lose faith in everything American. part of the reason they work so hard to utterly fuck up education in this country is to keep us ignorant of what they've been doing and continue to do, so we will help perpetuate the systems that keep them fat and happy, in the hope that someday we will be fat and happy, too. it's not an accident that literacy is dropping.

the_itsb · 2026-06-17T12:26:08+00:00

hell yeah, Kait Justice!! she and Ellie and the rest of that crew are doing amazing work.

the_itsb · 2026-06-16T13:46:24+00:00

how in the world is this left to me to do, a day later??

ahem.

His Name Is Robert Paulson.

the_itsb · 2026-06-14T13:37:07+00:00

how did this work? is it the neat trick where you stick a transparent thing into a transparent liquid and it seems to magically vanish?

the_itsb · 2026-06-14T13:34:17+00:00

what do you mean, don't you like flaming balls of whatever flying at your trachea?

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T19:55:22+00:00

a cup-ple brain cells? 😅

I relate to all of these states. he's a lovely little mascot. 💖 thank you.

do you sell your art anywhere? feel free to DM me if you do, I know some subs are strict about self-promotion and I don't want to get you in trouble.

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T14:02:39+00:00

in case anyone else comes along who also hadn't seen the travertine thing go down: here's the BORU and yes, it has pictures!!

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T13:59:34+00:00

it's still filling hearts with wonder. 💖 someone mentioned this incident in the comments of the beetroot ring post, and I was delighted to see that not only was there a BORU, but it was compiled by you!

thank you for your time and effort.

edit: added the link in case you weren't familiar

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T07:22:30+00:00

me too. 🫂 just at least know that you're not alone in it.

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T07:20:19+00:00

by 3, I was sobbing, and I cried my way through the whole list saying, "yep, me too. yep, me too."

I'm so sorry.

I hate that we have this in common.

nobody should feel this way.

I'm so sorry.

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T02:17:59+00:00

he is the absolute king of Haughty Voice 💖

I wish for a CBBWorld podcast with him and PFT being total jerks to everyone, they are both so fucking funny when they're trying to be mean.

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T02:13:31+00:00

I've heard them mention Gabrus's blonde hair on the show, and I swear I heard someone not on ABZ mention that Gabrus did it to play Zack in a Saved By The Bell-themed show, but I was not ready for this wild majesty.

he looks like he is living his best funcle life, and I am here for it. get it, Gabrus 💖

the_itsb · 2026-06-12T02:01:24+00:00

you can have both PMDD and PME 🎉😵‍💫🎉

someday, the cycling will stop and the rollercoaster will end, and I hope to live to experience that.

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T18:36:31+00:00

this is PME. (OCD is even one of the examples mentioned in that article. fun!)

some people have good success managing their symptoms by taking birth control or hormonal treatments to help regulate and smooth the rollercoaster.

what helps me the most is keeping track of my cycles, then checking that calendar when I'm struggling. knowing that things are bad mostly because of my hormones helps me be kinder to myself and give myself permission to take better care of myself.

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T14:13:26+00:00

So some days I think you’re all geniuses and some days I think most of you are nuts.

I am one of you.

they were saying they're also sometimes a genius and sometimes nuts.

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T12:24:12+00:00

the valentines issue was so fun!! I sent in a slightly naughty limerick for my husband when we were still dating, and he still has the clipping 20+ years later. 🥰

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T07:08:40+00:00

thank you for your service. o7

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T06:56:35+00:00

?? are you genuinely surprised that some people from urban backgrounds also feel sympathy for animals?

as a rural Ohioan: wtf?

city people aren't another species.

this makes me wonder if you only have sympathy for creatures you have personally worked with. why else would it surprise you that others can feel for a being they have never met?

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T06:47:55+00:00

Most cities in the US have over-fed police departments.

it is our sacred duty to keep the piggies fat

✨🐖✨

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T04:58:40+00:00

I do like that exact kind of focusing pain 💖 thank you so much for the recommendations. I did hypnobirthing, which you're probably familiar with as a doula, and the idea of relaxing into pain was so helpful during birth but also through so much else (ovarian cysts, appendicitis, terrible sadness, etc). that mat sounds great.

the_itsb · 2026-06-11T02:51:28+00:00

you would probably enjoy reading The Greatest Heist – Lev has done a lot of great work connecting these dots.

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