Great idea, terrible copyediting: a very occasional series.

From mic.com:

France has taken dramatic action to cut food waste by requiring that all large supermarkets donate their unsold food to charities or else be used in animal feed.

That's ... pretty strict.

Things in my backyard

A couch.
Wifi.
A power cord.
Cider and beer.
The promise of burrito delivery.
Two of my spouses.
A tortiseshell cat.

My life. So hard.

Problems, unqualified and undisclaimed.

I realised tonight that I have, basically, been in pain for twenty years.

I have all sorts of thoughts about this, but I'm too sore, tired, medicated, and angry to make anything coherent out of them

ETA: But, in a nutshell — probably a hideously non-ergonomic nutshell with no padding for my hip — people in chronic pain need, basically, doulas.