LORD.
She/her * Disabled by Covid; #pwLC since 2022 * Once (and future?) content strategist/manager, editor, competitive rower: linkedin.com/in/jennifergingras * Still a writer: movingsideways.substack.com * Oaklandish natiVermonter on Wabanaki land
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LORD.
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
Basically, yup
Vv tempted to turn off the internet and turn on soap operas while my youngest is home sick today...
The...the president is actually...rallying some...actual...but... Omg.
People forget I'm sick SO OFTEN. I'm thinking Daytime Emmy—I can't manage feature-length wellness.
Auden, ‘September 1, 1939’
I grew up knowing I would've been Joshua Eric. 🙄 An old friend of mine was named for the girlfriend of the taxi driver who got her mom to the hospital. He told her a story to distract her, and she liked how the name sounded. Plus, she'd already named two girls. 🤷♀️
There are about 20 women with my maiden name in my generation. I've met one and gotten emails that should've gone to two of the others. 🙄
I knew two Bronwyns growing up and now I have questions
Not me, though I'm the granddaughter of a Knight of Columbus *and* a Catholic Daughter of America who was baptized before I could blink. In my baby book, my mom filled in the "Who were you named for?" line with "For herself." She was REAL tired of the Catholic in-laws at that point.
French/Quebecois, too—generations of Joseph Thises and Mary Thats, all called This or That.
Indeed
I'm sorry you needed it, but stunned and thrilled that you got such good ER care! ❤️
Ain't mad about it.
Whew, la playa is having a rough year. Absolutely love that for them.
Vast difference between that and "Apprecite it"—but you don't know it til you feel it.
Yes. This. So much this. "I appreciate you" is a phrase I didn’t learn until Oakland taught me, and taught me good. 🫶
Holy shit, these are tasty. I will be doing this every year. #homesteady
On the flip side, when I moved back to Vermont from CA last year, mechanics and Home Depot Guys complimented my Subaru's undercarriage like it was my smile. 😆
Same, but Vermont. 🤣
RIGHT?!
Most importantly, the sleep deficit is on the parents to fix, not schools or leadership. Which means giving kids melatonin, which is safe-ish, but not recommended. Then again, there's now Children's Nyquil... That should do it! 😒 But make sure they do their homework! Stims for breakfast, obv.
The kids are settling happily into their new schools with new friends, man. After the last 5-8 years (depending on when you start the count), that is *everything.* ❤️
I've been tracking ads for learning aps for a couple of months now, and this claim that AI can help kids learn at super speed is one of the most prevalent and troubling claims. 1/
What Just Happened? Dismantling the Intelligence Community’s Foreign Malign Influence Center www.justsecurity.org/119653/wjh-d...
Same vein: It's apparently PAL-ə-din, not Pə-LA-din. Still only get it right half the time.
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Oh, bless baby you, omg
Um, me, too. Exactly the same source. 😂🤣
But you got the point, right? Because I'm about to throw hands for colllege you if that didn't count.
I am the family bookworm. My first sighting of a "lingerie" store on a shopping trip is a thing of family legend.
OOOOO, it me
OK, Hear Me Out...A 'LORD OF THE RINGS' Remake, but with These Two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
A Russian classmate who turned out to be a bad kisser recommended her work. I recognized the cover art style from when—/blush/—Robbie the Waiter recommended "Fountainhead" to Baby Hausman in "Dirty Dancing." So I guess I already knew someone who took it seriously was an irresponsible dumbass?
Sitting out in a gentle rain, having a wee toke, smelling the wet leaves, and feeling grateful af for the last week alone.
Not sure about your exclamation marks, as I'm a #pwLC (and unwittind Covid expert) rounding out my third year of descent into post-viral disability, but yes, of course. This, too. But listen to Brave Little State, anyway, and support public radio. ✌️
I feel this way about Ayn Rand's biggies. Sure, the prose is ghastly and the premises are bullshit, but... none of these fuckers surprise me. 🤷♀️
Oh, hell, now they're gonna raise prices again.
Cheesy latkes for dinner. I used to make these with leftover mashed potatoes because my ex's nana made them that way. But Nana was a Brit Of A Certain Age, and, though she was an absolutely wonderful woman, she was no kind of cook.
I keep a stash in my car for Chewed Gum Disposal.
Snuck that "experts" in quick after "faces" and "advocates"... 😒
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And now farmers in my state are whining about having to get up at 4:30 for chores because there are no workers. I mean...I come from dairy farms on both sides. That's part of the deal?
Brave Little State had an excellent podcast on the history of smuggling stuff from Canada into Vermont... 🫠
Grandma of the Year, right there.
Me since moving home, calling one uncle or another: "Who do we like for windshields/firewood/specialty glass/tree removal/appliance repair?" Sadly, there's a lot of "I used to go to..." 🙁
Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm barely (sometimes not) making rent. People have been telling me to start a gofundme but I feel weird about that. But I thought maybe if I was contributing something? SOO I started making shitposting shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?
Please stop supporting this guy, asking people to support this guy, or yelling at people who don't for this guy. Stan for walz or moore or furgeson or anybody just, just not this guy. You're just gonna trade red fascism for blue fascism just because you're scared. Please let's not with this guy.
I'm a walking, talking real-life comic book hero with these calves. The rest of my body is going to hell and these calves are holding the door to be the last muscles out.
Hard to argue with that 💥
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
I mean, if the bar is his boss, who couldn't step into the job?
More chances to yell at and ostracize him!
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
Peaches! First time. Not enough headspace, but they looked great before the pressure-canner. 🤷♀️ #canning
I need my library to do this.
Tbh, with my spending habits when living in DC, protection from Kramers would have been useful. Not this kind, but /sigh/ that place...
Any other #BoneSeason fans feel strongly that Nathan Lane would be perfect as Jaxon Hall? #booksky
Today is Friday, Aug 29. Good morning ❤️ eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Thanks to Abraham Joshua Heschel for introducing me all those years ago. “Man is a palimpsest, not a tabula rosa.”
God, that's a great word.
I'm rewatching LOST. No, I don't have a good reason.
RFK Jr & the FDA have made it much harder for Americans to access Covid vaccine It’s no longer recommended for children, healthy adults or pregnant people You can technically still receive it if your doctor prescribes it, but this will mean insurance may not cover it & pharmacies may not stock it
It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot. It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place. Ban assault weapons again now.
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AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
It did, thanks!
I don't disagree. I just think they'll get away with it for some time yet.
Please let my kids have gotten on the right bus. Please let my kids have gotten on the right bus. Please let my kids have gotten on the right bus. Please let my kids have gotten on the right bus.
You can't take a bot to court. But the techbros insist it's autonomous. But it's a piece of technology programmed by people. But it "chooses"/compiles its own responses! They'll go round and round on this for a generation.
In 40 minutes, my kids will get on a school bus (first time, because NorCal and OUSD hate parents) and go back to in-person school for the first time since 2023. It's their choice! 12 has walked through his schedule and met all his teachers. 8 knows some of his classmates from day camp. #LFG 🥹
Agreed.
This is a six-degrees-of-something moment, as I once knew the daughter of the guy who designed "the worm." 😂
One difficulty I'm having with all the fiction/fantasy I'm reading this year is how many authors sidestep the reality of money. Plots are much smoother when the main characters have seemingly bottomless bank accounts. #booksky
Yup. THIS is awesome. HE is not awesome. He's as much a Dem as my current governor is a Rep...which works in my favor in Scott's case, but works in no one's favor in Newsom's.
I think of Kirk and the KM every time someone mentions the Trolley Problem. It's only a "problem" when you aren't an inhuman automaton.
Meanwhile, kids show increasing anxiety from/about being *constantly* monitored. (Mine did, anyway, until we moved/changed things, and so do a lot of the kids in their orbit.)
Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
The Catholics have lay ministries: Project Gabriel to support you if they convince you to give birth, and Project Rachel if you find you need nonjudgmental, spiritualish support after an abortion. Which, admittedly, ain't much, but is more than I'd have expected when I still went to catechism.
And thank god for that. I used to hate garage-saleing with my mom in the summer. Now, Town Yard Sale Day is my new favorite holiday. No to flat-packed crap I struggle to construct and the packaging I pay to recycle/throw out, Yes to $5 solid wood bedside tables from my friend's aunt's sale.
"Since 1966 UCLA has conducted an annual survey of its new students... . When it started, “developing a meaningful philosophy of life” was twice as popular as “becoming well off financially” as a reason to go to university. By 2015 those objectives had switched places..." This part, though. 🤬🙁
Exactly.
And shoes. I have shoes older than that.
I've always been so bad at this. Unless you look like my grandparents in the 90s, or likely under 18, I assume we are peers.
Pretty striking for the BMJ to run this piece. “[Immunity debt’s] explanatory power has faded as the number of non-covid infections has kept rising each year.”
This. All day. Every day.
"Regulators have repeatedly asserted that the reason for this change is because the average Vermonter is not intelligent or responsible enough to be trusted to read and follow dosing instructions. We take umbrage with this assertion..." chng.it/CvTRpLw6tv
I do remember being squicked out by the idea of multiple shots in my Tiny Baybeee, but we did it anyway, because science. I also would've liked non-surgical births, but c-sections are my birthright. 🤷♀️
Yeah. A former friend of mine talked a looooot about Doing Her Own Research when her first was born, then later had Concerns about the HPV vax. She...was not a double science major. I spent years pulling her back from the edge of further rw bullshit/whataboutism.
Tl;dr: "How far can I push you on your values? How important are principles, really?" I have seen this hypothetical in so many goddamn forms. "But couldn't you just play along? I promise it'll be worth it." Never once has it been fucking worth it.
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
43, if it's tech and you're female
State-Owned Enterprise Or, since it was at the point of a metaphorical gun, half the plot of Atlas Shrugged.
A service founded by an immigrant Used to round them up
It's reminding me a lot more of the aftermath of 9/11, when tanks rolled down my street. Which tracks, since this is domestic terrorism.
The Resistance in DC is understated but pervasive.
