Transgender teacher (ret'd.) She/her. Transitioned in 1983 and kept my teaching job with Baltimore Schools. Support trans kids.
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Getting old ain't so bad, but sometimes things just appear. Take this spot on my arm for instance. It wasn't there on Saturday, but on Sunday, there it was. And naturally, it was on the Sunday before a national holiday, so I can't contact my dermatologist until tomorrow.
Please stop saying that Agent Orange is trying to be a dictator. He already is. He's rigging elections and maps. He's sending the military into cities that oppose him. He's an unrepentant felon. He IS a dictator.
Since when do salmon have loins?
To my dying day, I will never understand how anyone could think that being transgender is a choice. Sure, fool. I chose to be ostracized and despised. I decided that being the butt of jokes is exactly how I wanted to live my life. No. I didn't choose to be trans; I AM trans.
Damn it, Jim! This is wonderful. Stop being your own worst critic.
They were never a good idea.
To all of my board gaming friends who used to think Harry Potter was cool, this is good news.
And don't we all feel soooo much safer now that this harmless woman has been attacked and kept from selling her tamales? F*@# ICE.
we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...
"It was hard for me to actually find the competition." She didn't look very hard. I found: Rugby, baseball, cricket, martial arts, wrestling, fencing, tennis, squash, badminton, table-tennis, triathlon, rowing, sailing, basketball, volleyball, cycling, track and field, swimming, and water polo.
Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator: I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing. I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)
I just went to the site and those sections are still there.
A wet paper bag.
Fourteenth Amendment: (CAPS mine) ". . . nor shall any State deprive any PERSON of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. . . ."
Happy 3rd!
Did anyone else bother to check this yourself? I just did, and sections 9 & 10 are clearly there.
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
Six lies, yes, but you know that that is more than one sentence, right?
I had no idea how much I would enjoy this.
Oh, Donnie Boy. Did you learn nothing from the furor surrounding Elon when he made that gesture? What am I saying? Of course you didn't learn. You never do.
Who's the alpha here?
It's not just that they're both predators, it's that they're launching a sports program for CHILDREN!!!
Yeah, what she said.
This cartoon can be used to describe quite a few moments in history.
Ivory tower? Really? I started this by wishing you luck. I ended it by asking you to get back to me after the elections. I know they are different, and I get that my experience means nothing to you. Now kindly go away. If you answer this, you will be blocked.
I didn't vote Nader. I lived in a Blue State. Gore won our state, in part, because of my vote. I didn't do anything that I would change, but you can keep the Tories out by acting appropriately. Seriously, though, get back to me after the election.
Mine, too.
Yeah, like nails on a chalkboard, but I'm pretty sure we've lost that one.
Why do I find this so funny? 🤣🤣🤣
We call ours Gary.
Cooper's Hawk?
Having taught continuous and discrete concepts in calculus, this hits me pretty hard as well. Fewer milk? Less people? AAAAAAARRGGHHHHH!
Part of me actually wants to believe him on this. I saw the drawing and thought, "I can't believe that he could draw a woman's figure that well." Still, who knows? Maybe he could have drawn it.
Exactly. Something is either unique or it isn't.
I have never owned a live album that was worth the money, with the possible exception of Four-Way Street by CSNY.
By the way, I'm a retired teacher, too. Math and English, both.
I try not to, but in the case of "unique," the prefix is right there! "UNI-"
I realize everything you say, and I believe the Right hopes you follow through. I've lived through this, but I wish you well.
#BookSky
It's a changing language, isn't it. Consider, for instance, "unique." Something "one-of-a-kind" cannot be said to be "more one-of-a-kind" than anything else, can it? Yet, "so unique" and "more unique" are robbing the word of its true meaning.
Dial up! #riseup #standup #resist #revolt #respect #support #change #together #love #nomorehate #transgender #lgbtqiap2s #feminism
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Child, I grew up in the 1960's and there has never been any better music than that with which I grew up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrAV...
Good luck to you, sir, but as a U.S. citizen all I hear are echoes of the Ralph Nader Green Party debacle when he split the vote on the left and allowed G.W. Bush into the White House (2000). May that not be the case here. May the Tories not take advantage of your run.
I'll be cremated anyway, so I tend to ignore all of those "Your skeleton will reveal you!" arguments.
This is my first reading of this. It breaks my heart.
This is what authoritarianism looks like.
I AM SHRIEKING 💀🤣 Forget the statue at City Hall, this guy is the *real* Spirit of Detroit. 🫡
reader i sputtered
We were camping that weekend and they watched it on a little black and white set that someone had brought, but they did it outside while we kids slept.
Baltimore is the best!
My folks just let us sleep through the first moon landing. I'll never forgive them for that.
Listen, Katy. When I see any skeletal argument, I always reply, "I wouldn't care. I'll be dead. Besides, I'm being cremated."
"Grab him by the Epstein Files!"
I'm hosting a movie night for some friends, none of whom have seen The Return of the Secaucus 7. I'll bet many of you haven't seen it either. I'm sad for you.
WGBH building in Boston today
Oh, is it Friday? Damn. Retirement can be confusing.
This, my friends, is true journalism. Call out the lies immediately. Letting the right spout lies unchallenged is not "hearing both sides of the story." Lies are not any side of a story. Lies are lies.
Not at all the colors I was expecting when I saw this in progress, but wow! That's very cool.
"Not even any salt." Do you know how much salt is in that sauce?
Interesting that hands can't pass through the windows, but that guy's face can.
That Big Ugly Bill will close the only hospital within 80 miles of us.
Oh, I remember that I'm an adult. It's remembering that I'm 71 that keeps fading from my consciousness.
As usual, sir, your work is delightful.
Eight years ago we moved from Baltimore to the heart of New Mexico. It's hotter in Baltimore now than it is here, and we don't have that humidity.
#power #greed #evil #makeitstop open.substack.com/pub/cinse/p/...
Hey, Donnie Boy! We sure are "THE TALK OF THE WORLD," but not in the way that you mean it. We're now the laughing stock of the world because everyone else knows you're an idiot.
Damn it, Jim! You're making me want to get back to that unfinished painting that's sitting on my easel right now!
Blind boxes are generally filled with remainders. You know, like the stuff that grocery store puts in a bin marked "50% Off!"
I've been retired for ten years, I often doomscroll for hours, and I've never felt more fulfilled.
What got to me in this image was the boats with such upbeat names, like Providence, Hope, Friendship, and Unity. There wasn't much of any of that below decks.
Did you know that Thurl Ravenscroft, the original voice of Tony the Tiger, also sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the animated "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"?
I am sooo there!
I'm listening to this on audiobook in my car these days. I'd forgotten how really good this book is.
That image hurts my soul.
My favorite part of this video is when he says, "The Federal government's blessed it. They're gonna provide reimbusement to Florida." Dude! Have you even looked at Trump's record for reimbursements?
Why not release them, big boy? 🧐🧐🧐
But I did not shoot the typography!
I hate Bring Your Child to Work Day! But not for the reasons you think. Take Our DAUGHTERS to Work Day was created by the Ms. Foundation for Women and was meant to show girls the possibilities that boys take for granted. Naturally, boys felt excluded. Thus, the erasure of original meaning.
I hate Bring Your Child to Work Day! But not for the reasons you think. Take Our DAUGHTERS to Work Day was created by the Ms. Foundation for Women and was meant to show girls the possibilities that boys take for granted. Naturally, boys felt excluded. Thus, the erasure of original meaning.
Now this is a different kind of transition timeline.
Is it the Bondi thing?
I'm not seeing this on any news feed. Source?
I loved serving on juries!
#dystopia #fear #darkness #light #wheredowegofromhere open.substack.com/pub/cinse/p/...
What she said 👏🏻 👇🏻
#untoucable #entitled #nooneissafe #awareness #insanetimes
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Holy crap! I know Adrian! Good for him!
As I understood it, this was during an encore of a solo performance. That piece wasn't in the original program.
There's a new Big Bill that they sneaked through at midnight last night. Better check again.
What a beautiful kite! What's the "wingspan?"
If that Big Bill is so Beautiful, why did Republican Senators have to sneak it though at midnight? Would it turn to dust in the light of day? Call your Republican Senators and Representatives!!!
I never watched GG, but this is our local spot for all festivals.