Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Billy!

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I will seriously take no more guff from red states chiding my beloved Palo Alto. Hanging out here in gun-loving, right-leaning North Carolina, I’m witnessing people and posters that make me feel like my residence is MAGA central. I took a photo of the flier below this morning which features “they/them” genderqueer social work associate (which sounds like an 8th grade education is required) whose approach is, evidently 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming.

Incidentally, “they” are now accepting new clients, so your long wait is finally over.

Rolling a Fatty

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There’s no such thing as a free lunch. When Ozempic shook the world, there was this idea that Mericuhns would trim down (so much so that airlines began publicly celebrating spending less on fuel to fly these porkers from place to place). Well, for whatever reason, this miracle ain’t happening, and the firms that sell these magical elixirs to stop people from shoving fatty crap in their mouths nonstop are finding out it ain’t working out so well. Down they go!

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