Story addict since childhood. Thinker of many & uncommon thoughts. Challenger of perceptions. Independent. Hopeful. LDS. Different than many suppose. Complex spoonie. Homebound frustrated by wanderlust. LOVES colors. And plants.
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I've been trying to determine how to thread out the absurdity of Trump's announcement about moving Space Command from CO to AL. @charlotteclymer.bsky.social to the rescue. We are more vulnerable, less ready, & at the continued mercy of a drifting partisan who will always put himself before you.
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The Hooverville homeless encampments where the wealthy take advantage of desperation to pay nothing for labor on their opulent designs, w foreign interests making their own designs to conquer & destroy running it all in the background. (Dalek cultists, destroying the one that dares to outgrow it.)
I really like how it talks about her brother's schizophrenia and then uses an episode to help her kind of see what that's like for him. I keep looking for that season to buy but it's nowhere.
I didn't know it was originally a book series. 1 800 Missing is a TV series that diverges a bit from the book series, but I found it enjoyable, too. Meg Cabot, but I think under a different pen name. Girl gets struck by lightning and starts dreaming clues to missing people. FBI gets interested.
That was my conclusion, too. Much easier to provide context. The movies just felt like exciting grand effects but mostly empty storyline to me.
When I'm tired, my brain tends to get stuck on whatever subject loops show up at the moment and burn energy I shouldn't info-dumping bc the exhaustion can only handle the single topic. I need to teach my brain a way to off-ramp when this happens. I guess it's progress to realize it's happening?
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This is the bond woman one I couldn't remember. m.imdb.com/title/tt3048...
Or Endgame, the agoraphobic chess master. 1 season. I think that one is Canadian? He sends out hotel staff to be his outside people. And I forget the name, but a new show about a lady detective just gone blind using a call in sight service to continue sleuthing. True Blood, similar, paranormal.
I also remember watching a season or two of the Russian series called Sniffer, a guy with hyperosmia (extreme sense of smell) used to help solve crimes. I keep seeing it on a few platforms with 4 seasons listed so I work my way around to it again.
Medium is American, a paralegal mom in Arizona who finally accepts that he connection to the dead could be useful to solving murders (with a detective & her friendly DA). With all family life involved. Grimm is dark fun, too. Guy detective with real life fairy tales hidden from regular view.
There are the 2 British lady detectives, but I forget the name. Scott was one of them, I think. One had kids, the other a felon brother.
The genre is one of my top ones, too. Midsomer Murders is one of the few I've watched that regularly catches me off guard by who it ends up being. I'm usually really quick figuring out who they are, but not with that show. Medium is curious in the family life overlap. (I do some of that genre, too.)
The Jadoon, a police force paid off by whoever can afford them with little regard for the harm they leave in their wake to the innocent. Dumb and happy to play judge, jury, and executioner at the slightest irritation. (Guy in hall bumped one and got executed for violence.)
That one was surprisingly intense.
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
I asked at the same time the link posted. I've talked with a therapist friend about the same premise about the psychopaths & sociopaths that function in society under the radar (not judging until they start harming). But the author's premise is presumptuous & disturbing. Embrace it?!?
I'm curious how they made that list...
“Human rights are central to issues like migration, surveillance or torture — all these topical political issues have this important ethical and legal dimension.” fivebooks.com/best-books/h...
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Do any of you know of good resources on OCD designed to help children? For a friend. She is, too, but I don't think she had help as a kid and doesn't know of options or tools geared to help hers now.
I've seen that term once before, but I couldn't find any context to understand what it meant.
This would include more than just the AuDHD, I think. Some of us get far more info overload than the average NTs who get the simplifying filters, and some might not get any of some of the inputs at all. I think the metaphor makes sense and might be useful and then I thought you might like it, too.
@audhd-psychnp.com I read this today, & it made me think of NDs vs NTs in a metaphor way. It talks abt using limited filters in space photography to avoid info overwhelm, aiding easier analysis vs no filters & no way to separate it all apart. Like us. Like a bell curve with the NDs at the edges.
I recently watched through the whole collection bc I could never connect with the stories before, and I thought a push through in chrono order might make it click. I did like some of the series, but the movies are still so meh, I've already mostly forgotten them again after only a month. This fits.
Part of the eugenics push is to make those of us who are chronically ill with no current hope of a cure too afraid of the future to keep putting in the very hard effort to keep living. They're hoping we give up & willingly check out on our own. The same is true of every population they're targeting.
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NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day. This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets! @50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings (🎥 10-97 News)
Is that what that was about? It seemed highly suspicious at the time, but it took so long, and people got so weird about it that I tuned out before finding out.
i said this a few days ago, and these two sentiments are connected: you don’t cede ground to fascists, because even if you ignore basic human decency, ceding ground to fascists makes you weaker and them stronger.
Anyone else tell God every day for who knows how long: I hate this world ? Every time I read the latest news updates here on bluesky. And I hate this limbo of bad health where I'm not dead yet, but all I can do is watch it be awful or hide from the awful for a breather so my body will rest.
This is fitting for today. The healing catharsis of being able to finally yell at all the people for the things that need yelling finally shifted from the privacy of my home (Yes, I yell in my empty home - it really helps) to my subconscious in my dreams on a big issue last night.
Oh, so that's how you schedule texts for later on my phone... Good to know.
I'm not a knitter so I don't know how to best describe this design for alt text, but it's a coral/peach colored square with a border around the all cap words "Is he dead yet" (no question mark). Mood setting includes wood surface, candle, scissors, and (can knitting needles be like bamboo skewers?)
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Rosemary & Thyme The Canadian EMT/EMS guy that hears people's thoughts: The Listener is another non US one. There's a French one about a geneologist that helps solve murder mysteries, too, but I forget the name of that one. Have you seen Babylon 5? (Space future)
There's so much bad news in the world. So, here's some wrapping paper designed by Japanese artist Ippei Tsujio that turns everything into bread. A delightful (delicious?) distraction. More info: spoon-tamago.com/bread-wrappi...
“Do not give in. Do not give up. Do not submit, do not bend the knee. Fight until we win and then keep fighting so that Texas and this country never face this kind of authoritarianism again.” -Beto O’Rourke
We're talking about my personal library here. Let's not forget the 20s Australian Lady private investigator, or the older British lady gardeners that find murderers everywhere they go.
*echoed
"Gary's on!" Was a call that excited through our house regularly during that era.
The world finally quiets, cools down, lights darken, and all the people making impossible demands go to sleep. You can breathe, think, and finally be still without pressure. Add in delayed sleep phase disorder, and late nights are an embraced inevitability. Mornings, on the other hand...
During Covid pandemic, someone got clever and came up with a DIY box filter to help with air quality in classrooms. Smoke from fires? Bad air quality in home? Another pandemic? Corsi-Rosenthal Box Filters: corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/ Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E...
Any advice on picking good filters? I chose some merv 13 hepas and my sinuses swell shut whenever I try to use it. My AQI says they're off gassing, too. Since when does that happen? Am I just allergic or are some filters bad?
That's his specific complaint against windmills. And I did suggest he was possibly being paid off. But that doesn't tie in his constantly claiming the cancer causing angle. That was the main point of my thinking that you just ignored.
New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them. States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.
I don't know if I said that right. It seems like what I said are both the same first point and the second half is tracing the lives of various serial killers throughout the various affected areas and how this affects played out. It's heavy and gruesome. But a lot of food for thought.
Is that why he keeps accusing windmills of causing cancer? Bc they're competitors to that OG money source? Maybe not. Maybe he just thought it was stupid then & finds it useful now. But I think it's connected to EPA regulations of toxic known pollutants. I think he's projecting to distract.
Did DT's family ever have investments in something where they were held liable for pollution toxic health effects? Did he, by chance, happen to hear his father ranting about their money source being accused of causing cancer? >>>
Now he's cutting regulations & declaring crime rates are out of control. Part dementia regression when it was that scary? Lobbying payoffs by big corporations looking for cost cuts by ignoring health costs? Useful scare tools either way. But I wonder. The cancer claim. >>>
The companies fought & hid any evidence that these heavy metals were poisonous and damaging for decades & it took that long for regulations to grow any teeth. Violent crime has correspondingly decreased as regulations have lowered these pollutants. Cops claim wins. She discusses this debate. >>>
I just finished listening to Murderland by Caroline Fraser that is equally about the damaging effects of lead, arsenic, and more from multiple sources (smelters, mining, etc) as it is about their seeming at least partial correlation with the spike in serial killers. >>>
All the tech bro oligarchs want to turn everyone into soulless cybermen they can hijack and control on demand.
I will never catch up watching all the videos and playlists I've saved... I'm good at only buying books and shows I've seen and know and watching/ reading what I own, but there's just so much more to absorb in the freely accessible arena that I'll never keep up.
17 year old Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931. Ruth's fee fees were hurt and threw a tantrum on how women were too delicate to play baseball. Due to his toddler like antics, women were banned from being signed in the MLB 1992.
they have a podcast side series yeah www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Video appeals 46-year-old conviction for killing The Radio Star, argues that The Radio Star is alive and well and living under assumed name of The Podcaster.
Is that a podcast?
Something like this style could be a pretty sun catcher to hang in windows.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
The same for people mocking RFKj's mitochondrial functioning bc his face looks discolored. You're just normalizing eugenics thought patterns in society and your own thinking patterns when you turn it against the bad people. Those of us, hi🙋♀️, who actually struggle with it, see everyone doing this.
They’re radicalizing us all now.
I saw "anathema" in a post earlier today and immediately recalled my parents mocking me for not knowing that one. It seemed a logical conclusion to me, though, bc it's spelled so similarly to "Athena" and "theme," so how was I supposed to know?
So does South Africa. In the way I keep reading and watching about due crime bc that's the closest psychological match to what I experienced at home. These are not the sources they should be flattered we gain insight from about them. (That grammar got away from me.)
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No. Right now it's all just really strong hope just in case that helps it become reality. And some awesome posts.
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
Even if he dies we’re still going to need to see the Epstein files.
This is like in Peter Pan where the audience tries to revive Tinkerbell with applause. Except, you know, the opposite.
Western US. I keep it vague for safety. (Cyber stalking toxic family.)
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Started modern Doctor Who again. (Yes, I skip around across a bunch of stories a lot.) The Daleks rather give MAGA vibes, don't they? Worshipping a crazy emperor and intent on destroying everything different.
Oh! I want to see the final results if anyone puts one together. All I could think of quickly was Another one bites the dust but that one doesn't feel completely on point...🤔
I've been hiding in a game on my phone to train my brain out of defaulting to social media stressors (that my brain is less and less able to process anyway). It's working so well I'm starting to miss big news events, and I'm starting to hate the game for giving me free playing time.
My memory has problems, so the first time I saw the headline, I wondered why the lady with the ax would get military honors (and curious to see how you'd explain *that*!) And if that gruesome rhyme is about a lady whose name isn't similar somehow? I did just say I have memory problems.
It strips out all the garbage and just gives straight links like it used to. I made it my homepage. Google still tries to get me to use their preferred homepage, but I just need to click the home icon again.
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(To folks who don't know: phrasing someones human rights as "debatable" is an automatic loss.)
This is a great idea!!
Fellow Cassandras, you know how you warn, & you tell, & you explain, & it just never sinks in? Do you have a favorite variation on, "I told you so!" when they finally clue in to what you've told them for years? Mine is, "I've been sayin'!" (Complete with exasperated hands thrown in the air.)
When this plays out in families, usually when the wife is trying to leave an abusive husband, this is when it becomes a murder-suicide. It's bc of this collapse. He can't face losing control and refuses to let his victims escape either. Now we see what it looks like on the macro scale.
This took years to work out as the combo that helps me the most. An idiot like RFKj is sounding brass and tinkling cymbals pretending he has any authority or understanding of (probably) anything medical. I wouldn't let him apply bandages.
The supplements being ones generically understood to help muscle strength and general functioning. But it varies from Dr to Dr. Mine included alpha lipoic acid, coq10, creatine, l-carnitine, & B3. Now I do b complex, coq10, lysine, magnesium, and apple juice (malic acid +sugar) as needed.
I was told that I wouldn't get diagnosed with greater detail bc that cost more than Medicare would cover (and it's hard to do (& they don't know all of it yet anyway)). They send you home with a list of "Mito cocktail" supplements to start trying out & everyone just fine tunes it the best they can.
My mitochondrial challenges require a test that is performed so rarely, I've had to point out the errors in lab prep to a technician (having asked with great curiosity at the Mayo Clinic when I saw them do it). Mito are so complicated & can go wrong in so many different ways, his claim is absurd.
Not that. Per past endocrine testing. Probably just part of the nervous system stuff we already know. I just don't understand how it all works or why it happens. I asked in case you knew of any more details, but no worries.
Vocal music (despite having grown up in choirs) is not my instinctive goto for music. I finally realized this past year that I avoid a lot of music in general bc my sensory processing struggles mostly can't keep up with vocal music. The radio doesn't come with subtitles (how my brain syncs up on TV)
That link is more than my brain can handle, but today's Dr appointment was, in part, literally about my lifelong struggles in temperature regulation and some ideas I'd thought of for managing it. I knew the hypothalamus was in play, and the vagus nerve somehow, but not hormones. Any other clues?
Thank you for spelling that out for me. Autism is only one of many of my issues, and today (this year) kicked my butt. I would not have been able to deduce those pieces to try to Google on my own. But I've saved them for later reference when my head is clearer.
Lol. I was wondering how this curious tidbit ended up in my notifications. And then I laughed. I'll take whatever you've got, but especially more about the age of autism dna...?
More info, please.
The neurocognitive style of Autism predates the development of acetaminophen and vaccines
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I still think creeper Mike Johnson has been willing to go along with giving away his own power in Congress bc he's half banking on getting to take over when Vance is inevitably rejected.
Does "gauche" work in this context? I thought wealthy people looked down on poor people for lacking tasteful style.
She's always great, even if you also get your news elsewhere... but her last few letters have felt weightier and more urgent. Highly recommend scanning through as many as you have time for if you're not already a daily reader. Also, Gov. JB Pritzker is a national treasure.
Definitely not Newsome.
No, but it's EXACTLY what happens when a narcissist has ANY type of power over you. Parent? Boss? HOA President? Holder of the fishing licenses? If that narcissist makes any error, & your presence REMINDS them of that error, they will expend any amount of energy to make you a nonperson.
“Late stage capitalism is just fascism” for the win.
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