Yeah, I'm in my 50s, and my daughter is now 32.
Mixed media artistic librarian living silently in a cacaphony of sound. Interests include history ranging from the ancient Americas to ancient Central Asia and horse domestication. I have had T1D since 1984 and am autistic.
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Yeah, I'm in my 50s, and my daughter is now 32.
I believe that was my point in talking about having raised a kid to understand the larger world rather than just what she learned in school. That said, a lot of parents don't have that ability for many reasons. My original comment to this thread was facetious, and I graduated a bit before 95.
World history was still required when/where I was in HS. I raised a kid where it no longer was, and I made sure she learned some world history and US history beyond the pilgrims. I was not going to have her not know that there are other places and ways of being.
*facepalm*
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Somebody didn't actually do the homework in world history, or even North and South American history 😆
Nice play on words 😆
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I wish the same for you, as well 🐾
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I'm sorry you did as well. I have little tolerance for people who voted for him, no matter who they are. Trump has always stated what he is, even in the 80s, and he does it in a way that people think he doesn't mean what he says. Classic abuser behavior.
I'm so sorry it happened to you, too. You are correct. The abuser always goes on. When he died a few years ago, it was the first night I felt any relief. For me, the biggest betrayal was that my mother turned her back and blamed me until the day she died. This, too, happens often.
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Thank you 🐾 This whole presidency feels like a huge f*ck you to me for so many reasons. His first was horrible, and people knew who and what he was and voted for him again.
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LOL, I remember that, too. I have hypermobility, so I was able to do it, but I was also the size of an 8 year old at 13 hehehe. Me with my then 7 year old daughter:
I lived for roller skating LOL. I didn't care much if I had the latest trendy thing as long as I could skate. I was perfectly happy blocking out everyone around me and just skate in my own little bubble.
I wish that old wrinkly and peeling eugenic catchers mitt nothing but a long torture session in Hell for what he is doing to millions of children worldwide.
The one you're still not sure of looks like a Great Dane momma with her babies snuggled in, to me.
I drew a raven today. But until I was almost done, I though I was drawing a cuttlefish. How does that even work? I wrote about it on my patreon, walking through my process and showing how I got a corvid out of a cephalopod. It's a free article, so give it a read! www.patreon.com/posts/quoth-...
Yep.
Exactly.
All to erase the previous achievements by groups of people who were not white and west Europeans. Achievements that white explorers basically stole. 2/
How the hell does he think "class" in the US began? It began by denying Black and Brown people education and pathways for mobility. During the "Renaissance," "Age of Discovery," and "Enlightenment," they literally thought that Black people were non-human and Brown people were child like. 1/
I remember back in 2014-2015 ish when a woman near me said she'd like to see T run because he's entertaining. Like WTF?
The huge welts are just nasty
To help, I spritz flonase on a cotton ball and gently rub it on my skin where the adhesive part will go, let it dry, then insert. I do that for bandaids as well, but avoid the sore itself.
Same and the adhesives for my insulin pump infusion sets and CGM.
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I do, too, as do millions of others who have mental illnesses and "personality disorders." I'm not a racist POS posting violent rhetoric, nor are most of us with these. JFC T is using these reasons to round people like me up under the false pretext that we are violent criminals.
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All of his posts seem to give the impression that he only reaches for surface level understanding.
TFW you haven’t done the age assigned reading, but you’re gonna talk a lot in class cause you read one book from the 1930s once.
The guy has never heard of turning qualitative into quantitative info used by social sciences before? Suddenly, computer scientists have all the answers 😆 These people need to actually get out of their cave and into the light 😉
I cannot unsee the mitt, now 😳
wow
Those of us with disabilities did as well. Especially those of us with autoimmune diseases.
Flooding the courts and entertaining the masses are all part of the plan. Every week, there's a new "squirrel!" for us to chase. Meanwhile, people are disappeared and are dying from this administration's decisions.
Here’s better reporting about that which seems to be missing from most U.S. reporting
It's unsettling at how many people would even contemplate this question while so many people and other life on this planet are suffering and dying. If tech bros want to understand suffering, they need only open their eyes 🤦🏻♀️
Gross
When my daughter was hit by a car at 50mph after getting off a bus, the only way the first responders reached me was through her own phone. Most kids don't have IDs, and many like her forget them in their locker, like she did. But she had her phone, with Mom and Dad at the top of her contacts.
Of course not 🙄 And they wonder why so many of us try to hide our disabilities in school.
Also, these bans make being disabled even harder. I use technology through my phone to manage my T1D and medical devices. Multiple other disabilities also use technology to manage them. The red tape disabled kids go through is already daunting.
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“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”
Chipmunk Ewok Chucky doll says what?
Don't poison the worms, silly goose.
Of course, they loved it. There were no disabled people with medical devices controlled through a phone/receiver to see now. How peaceful without us. Oh wait, we could be there if we get a doctor's note and go through administrative red tape.
Eels are classic. And also classical! In fact, they're the only fish mentioned by name in Homer's Iliad. In Book 21, Achilles kills a Trojan in the River Scamander. Like ya do. And immediately, the eels begin to nibble on the dead man's kidneys. Nibble. 'Cause eels are dainty. 🗃️🧪
I can smell the carpet through my screen
Well, we have a president who likes the idea of injectable bleach 🙄
Yes, and as a fellow person living with T1D (and pediatrician), she knows something about viruses and bacterial infections that can lead to autoimmune diseases.
This.
The absolute horror 😲
Some of the worst ableism I've experienced were at the hands of white "liberals" because I don't do disabled the way they think I should.
I thought the same. Who knows with these dweebs.
Junior faculty and grad students in political science, history, law, and Native American Studies, come take a class with us at the New York Historical Society (and via Zoom) on Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution. To apply, Institute for Constitutional History: 1/2
JFC, well, at least they'll pronounce POO-tihn's name correctly 🙄
Beautiful 😍
Realized this morning that if Back to the Future was made in 2025, they’d probably use a cybertruck.
True. Of course, Musk and Trump are stuck in the nostalgia of the 80's 🤢 Musk and I are the same age, but I remember the 80's very, very differently.
This. Right here. I always thought, "WTAF are you thinking!" when I'd see that.
Two years in at the Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/jasonher...
This is so awesome. I love it. Admittedly, when I saw the email about your post, I thought you were going to tell us about someone asking about your nose. I've been asked the very antisemitic question about my "Jewish nose" so often that that is where my brain went 😳
is self-explanatory but can lead to a dx of T2D, LADA, or T1D. There are other forms of diabetes as well. The main point here is that he is trying to simplify very complex diseases, and that kills. 3/
Diet is only one factor among literally hundreds of them for T2D. Genetics are the biggest factor. Even someone who eats "healthy" can be dx'd with it. T1D is autoimmune. Had there been a flu vaccine available to me in 1984, I might not have T1D. LADA is autoimmune, as well. Gestational diabetes 2/
As a diabetic woman, I can say that this guy is second only to Trump as one of the most dangerous people in the admin. He's literally reaching in to control our bodies. Is it o.k. to ask questions? Absolutely. As long as you don't plug in your conspiracies that have been long disproven 1/
Whether Trump, or Dems, or anyone else is there, show the damn files. As a CSA survivor, I DGAF about their party lines or money.
Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...
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Loved every point in this episode. It reminded me of my husband meeting my family, and he didn't realize he was going to actually meet several generations of Latino/Tongva-Gabrielinos and Finns. The episode touched the fact that no matter who we are, we are all connected.
Come on over to Western WA sometime 😀
We need only look past the romanticized Camelot version of his family to see why he has these ideas.
😆 🤣 I love that
As a disabled Hispanic and CSA survivor, I have similarities to your circumstances. I don't have the luxury of getting along with people who vote in a known predator, a deranged HHS Secretary, and a racist cabinet. I can't ignore politics and sing happy songs while playing games with them.
When my daughter was 2, I remarried. My husband knew there would be no other kids. He jumped in with both feet and was a proud Girl Dad. Men are often distant with daughters here. She's 32, now and they remain very close. The fact is he also chose her when he married me, and that isn't as common.
Definitely, and Boba Feet is the sheriff of this block. Those vans always drive away when he borks and it can be felt through the ground.
😆 He's also very cute 😍
My boy is the bork instigator. He will stand in the middle of the yard, and if it's quiet, he will let out one deep woof, and the whole neighborhood Bork Dorks will start up. The Biggest Beastie Bork Dork:
"Iran style moral policing" is that like saying "Christian Taliban"? Trying to shame your own by demonizing another is pretty gross.
Exactly. Russia's National Archive was destroyed over decades of environmental neglect once Stalin closed it. It wasn't until Gorbachev's era that they began to reconstruct files and needed international help with filling gaps for accuracy.
Well, this has been an interesting rabbit hole, to say the least.
JFC, I give up on humanity.
If I ignore my T1D, it'll go away. I'll never have to deal with it from 6ft under 🤪
She sounds amazing 🐾
Thank you 🐾 I never shied away from letting her learn what I was learning and would explain things at her level. I took her to sign with Washoe and the other chimps when she was about 4, and she had a lot of fun.
I was in college, so my daughter grew up learning about different anthropology theories and anthropologists. Debating with my 3-year-old while sitting on the toilet is a memorable experience 🤣 She's 32 now and is studying language pathology, so pontificating from the throne was worth it 💁♀️
The "Epstein thing" is that children were sexually assaulted repeatedly. Reducing that fact to "thing" diminishes them. Children were raped that fact needs to be remembered. I'm a CSA survivor, I sat in a witness chair at 9yrs old. Even though the jury was hung, it wasn't a pointless "thing."
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He grew up on the Olympic Peninsula, and chainsaws are often involved in accidents there.