all
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/ntsiki-biyelas-wine-is-taking-the-world-by-storm-2018-2
around
https://daily.sevenfifty.com/the-science-behind-decanting-wine/
the world
https://twitter.com/Ntsiki_Biyela/status/1018552615297306624
Thursday, February 28, 2019
this is why
no, why don't you let the "nice man" buy you a pack of gum never never never die in a roach ridden apartment instead stop being so dramatic
Diatomaceous earth remedy for ineffective landlords who are also engineers apparently?
Diatomaceous earth remedy for ineffective landlords who are also engineers apparently?
Just rlly ♡ running water a lot
Gr8t 2 make when u got it
https://www.momskitchenhandbook.com/uncategorized/healthy-chocolate-truffles/
Bon appetit
https://www.momskitchenhandbook.com/uncategorized/healthy-chocolate-truffles/
Bon appetit
Do I hear water coming through the pipes???
"Teachers from San Francisco, Berkeley, San Lorenzo and Albany were planning a 'sickout' Thursday to rally with their Oakland colleagues on the picket lines."
~ K. Veklerov
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-teachers-plan-sick-out-in-support-13649773.php
~ K. Veklerov
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-teachers-plan-sick-out-in-support-13649773.php
Water and what I would like
I would like to be able to live in an apartment where the water doesn't randomly get turned off from time to time without anyone telling us.
Three people with college degrees live here. Not that lack of college degree should matter. But we were taught that those degrees would help us have a better life. We just don't have the right kinds of college degrees.
We should have gotten the "high wage" types of college degrees. But guess what? Wages and rent weren't so bad back then!
I like having functional plumbing. I understand that sometimes they might need to turn the water off, but why not give some notice? I need water. WATER.
IF NOTICE IS GIVEN THEN I CAN MAKE SURE THE PITCHER IS FILLED AND THE CAT HAS FRESH WATER AND THE DISHES ARE WASHED
Three people with college degrees live here. Not that lack of college degree should matter. But we were taught that those degrees would help us have a better life. We just don't have the right kinds of college degrees.
We should have gotten the "high wage" types of college degrees. But guess what? Wages and rent weren't so bad back then!
I like having functional plumbing. I understand that sometimes they might need to turn the water off, but why not give some notice? I need water. WATER.
IF NOTICE IS GIVEN THEN I CAN MAKE SURE THE PITCHER IS FILLED AND THE CAT HAS FRESH WATER AND THE DISHES ARE WASHED
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
2st, the herbal. T
our friend: you are missing a gr3at opportunity....
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to make screech owl noises
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to make screech owl noises
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
4 real?
"Whatever you fight..."
~ E. Tolle
https://mobile.twitter.com/EckhartTolle/status/1098674090527862788
Doing dishes...4:40...
"In the suffering of this one individual there is the potential of awakening..."
~ E. Tolle
https://mobile.twitter.com/EckhartTolle/status/1098674090527862788
Doing dishes...4:40...
"In the suffering of this one individual there is the potential of awakening..."
Funny/sad humor
"In a major reversal, Ivanka Trump comes out in favor of working for what you get."
~ A. Giridharadas
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1100398145165500416
"Despite the president's over-the-top hyping for the economy, real wages have remained flat, thanks to factors like persistent inflation, a regressive tax policy, the erosion of the manufacturing sector, and—above all—the unyielding corporate law principle of shareholder supremacy.
This dynamic is the reason why Ocasio-Cortez-esque politics are on the rise within the Democratic Party, and why millions of Americans are re-examining their reflexive, Soviet-era animosity towards things labeled "socialist." It's also why so many jobs guarantee proposals now sit firmly in the political mainstream: In a country in which 4 in 5 people live paycheck-to-paycheck, unfettered capitalism is very obviously not addressing the basic needs Trump identifies here. While straining to repudiate the merits of a federal employment safety net, she manages to offer a spirited argument for enacting one as soon as possible.
This is not the first time Ivanka Trump has visibly struggled to resolve the cognitive dissonance created by her burning desire for her liberal New York City friends to like her on the one hand, and her craven loyalty to this administration on the other. As is often the case these days, the most compelling arguments for taxing the rich come straight from the rich who would be taxed."
~ J. Willis
https://www.gq.com/story/ivanka-trump-jobs-guarantee
~ A. Giridharadas
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1100398145165500416
~~~~~
"Score card" lol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/08/11/trumps-economic-scorecard-higher-inflation-flat-wages-and-a-ballooning-federal-deficit/
~s~e~r~i~o~u~s~l~y~
"Score card" lol
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/08/11/trumps-economic-scorecard-higher-inflation-flat-wages-and-a-ballooning-federal-deficit/
~s~e~r~i~o~u~s~l~y~
This dynamic is the reason why Ocasio-Cortez-esque politics are on the rise within the Democratic Party, and why millions of Americans are re-examining their reflexive, Soviet-era animosity towards things labeled "socialist." It's also why so many jobs guarantee proposals now sit firmly in the political mainstream: In a country in which 4 in 5 people live paycheck-to-paycheck, unfettered capitalism is very obviously not addressing the basic needs Trump identifies here. While straining to repudiate the merits of a federal employment safety net, she manages to offer a spirited argument for enacting one as soon as possible.
This is not the first time Ivanka Trump has visibly struggled to resolve the cognitive dissonance created by her burning desire for her liberal New York City friends to like her on the one hand, and her craven loyalty to this administration on the other. As is often the case these days, the most compelling arguments for taxing the rich come straight from the rich who would be taxed."
~ J. Willis
https://www.gq.com/story/ivanka-trump-jobs-guarantee
ill...illustrative
"Inequality is growing so furiously that if you’re at the bottom of the richest 1 percent, you may feel middle class" ~ R. Reich
https://mobile.twitter.com/RBReich/status/1100109271851782145
"The union has told reporters that 95 percent of teachers have joined the picket lines and that just three percent of students were in class on Friday. While this strike has already gone past the one-day mark of the Oakland teachers’ 2010 strike, it still has another three weeks to go before it catches the 26-day strike of 1996. Here’s hoping that teachers get a fair contract before then, and that no more similarly poorly compensated reporters have to take a bullet to tell Oakland residents about it."
~ N. Martin
https://splinternews.com/tv-crew-robbed-and-their-security-guard-shot-while-cove-1832874198
https://mobile.twitter.com/RBReich/status/1100109271851782145
"The union has told reporters that 95 percent of teachers have joined the picket lines and that just three percent of students were in class on Friday. While this strike has already gone past the one-day mark of the Oakland teachers’ 2010 strike, it still has another three weeks to go before it catches the 26-day strike of 1996. Here’s hoping that teachers get a fair contract before then, and that no more similarly poorly compensated reporters have to take a bullet to tell Oakland residents about it."
~ N. Martin
https://splinternews.com/tv-crew-robbed-and-their-security-guard-shot-while-cove-1832874198
Hello!
Man...Sometimes you just have to wake up.
"Betty – a white woman who left school after ninth grade, had her first child at age 16 and spent much of her life in severe poverty – wanted to vote.
So she waited with busted knees that once stood on factory lines. She waited with smoking-induced emphysema and the false teeth she’s had since her late 20s – both markers of our class. She waited with a womb that in the 1960s, before Roe v Wade, she paid a stranger to thrust a wire hanger inside after she discovered she was pregnant by a man she’d fled after he broke her jaw.
Betty worked for many years as a probation officer for the state judicial system in Wichita, Kansas, keeping tabs on men who had murdered and raped. As a result, it’s hard to faze her, but she has pronounced Republican candidate Donald Trump a sociopath 'whose mouth overloads his ass.'
No one loathes Trump – who suggested women should be punished for having abortions, who said hateful things about groups of people she has loved and worked alongside since childhood, whose pomp and indecency offends her modest, midwestern sensibility – more than she."
~ S. Smarsh
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans?__twitter_impression=true
From
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1100161426667257857
"Betty – a white woman who left school after ninth grade, had her first child at age 16 and spent much of her life in severe poverty – wanted to vote.
So she waited with busted knees that once stood on factory lines. She waited with smoking-induced emphysema and the false teeth she’s had since her late 20s – both markers of our class. She waited with a womb that in the 1960s, before Roe v Wade, she paid a stranger to thrust a wire hanger inside after she discovered she was pregnant by a man she’d fled after he broke her jaw.
Betty worked for many years as a probation officer for the state judicial system in Wichita, Kansas, keeping tabs on men who had murdered and raped. As a result, it’s hard to faze her, but she has pronounced Republican candidate Donald Trump a sociopath 'whose mouth overloads his ass.'
No one loathes Trump – who suggested women should be punished for having abortions, who said hateful things about groups of people she has loved and worked alongside since childhood, whose pomp and indecency offends her modest, midwestern sensibility – more than she."
~ S. Smarsh
https://amp.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/13/liberal-media-bias-working-class-americans?__twitter_impression=true
From
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1100161426667257857
Life in a body continues
In a better world, would never wake up so appallingly thirsty.
Love, learning to negotiate the world with physical limitations.
That girl has to come back.
I want a life in a body that is healthy and in balance so bad right now.
Love, learning to negotiate the world with physical limitations.
That girl has to come back.
I want a life in a body that is healthy and in balance so bad right now.
Monday, February 25, 2019
For a strange person
"She was very interested in alternative healing techniques; that was apparently a boring topic..."
Like parents (sometimes)
He does not understand.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/janet-yellen-says-trump-doesnt-understand-what-the-federal-reserve-does/
I probably don't either, but at least no one pretends I do / gives me obscene amounts of $$$ for god knows what reason.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/janet-yellen-says-trump-doesnt-understand-what-the-federal-reserve-does/
I probably don't either, but at least no one pretends I do / gives me obscene amounts of $$$ for god knows what reason.
High School
Xx: What if we went up to the top of a mountain and eased this headache and got so high until I just died, that would be so terrible, to leave you behind with the body, but so perfect in my head.
https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/high-on-the-mountain-top?lang=eng&_r=1
Xx: Wait, who was I talking to?
Musical interlude
https://www.lds.org/music/library/hymns/high-on-the-mountain-top?lang=eng&_r=1
Xx: Wait, who was I talking to?
winning
D: did I tell you about my friend who is going to spend an hour with the kids for every dollar he donated...
sonny
X: hi
X: omg hi
X:
X:
X: so lucky, those kids whose moms didn't go for selfish, misogynist men
X: i know, right? better luck next life
X: omg hi
X:
X:
X: so lucky, those kids whose moms didn't go for selfish, misogynist men
X: i know, right? better luck next life
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Big, big paragraph
"You might think that, above a certain income level, there would be diminishing returns for competitive parenting. Once you have an excellent school (probably in an expensive neighborhood), SAT tutors, music lessons and select sports leagues, aren’t the boxes of intensive parenting checked off? But American inequality has been particularly pronounced at the top, with larger and larger shares of income going to the top 1 or even 0.1 percent of earners, so even parents near the peak of the income scale feel inequality’s pressures. The desire to push children one rung higher is relentless. Indeed, since the 1980s, couples with more money and more education have increased the time and money spent on their children at a much faster rate than others."
~ M. Doepke & F. Zilibotti
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/02/22/feature/how-economic-inequality-gives-rise-to-hyper-parenting/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.673943db2c08
~ M. Doepke & F. Zilibotti
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2019/02/22/feature/how-economic-inequality-gives-rise-to-hyper-parenting/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.673943db2c08
Skin talks
It's good the universe made me spend years layering more than one than type of story with another...shows a strain of optimism in my brain.
Use a baking pan next time
Burned hand. :-(
Sweet potato in foil.
To be eaten tomorrow.
Pour soy sauce on the burn.
OW
Sweet potato in foil.
To be eaten tomorrow.
Pour soy sauce on the burn.
OW
As if
someone's British voice Velveteen Rabbit childhood story cassette got mixed in with someone's old Victoria's Secret classical music tapes in a box under a tree outside
Is that Meryl Streep's natural accent?
Is that Meryl Streep's natural accent?
Food book
For Kids
http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/05/top-100-childrens-novels-27-bread-and-jam-for-frances-by-russell-hoban-illustrated-by-lillian-hoban/
I thought at the end she sings about how she thinks eggs are nice.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/911579.Bread_and_Jam_for_Frances
http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/05/top-100-childrens-novels-27-bread-and-jam-for-frances-by-russell-hoban-illustrated-by-lillian-hoban/
I thought at the end she sings about how she thinks eggs are nice.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/911579.Bread_and_Jam_for_Frances
Pickles
I am so mad. I would like to pick on someone. Can't so and so go back to repressed and proper personality. Was it really that bad.
I used a card.
I bought edible flowers and Gravlax and other stuff.
A drink.
https://untappd.com/b/gt-s-kombucha-gt-s-pure-love-blood-orange-hibiscus-rose/2504307
A drink.
https://untappd.com/b/gt-s-kombucha-gt-s-pure-love-blood-orange-hibiscus-rose/2504307
As if to concur
My cat, who apparently has a better life than a child of people seeking asylum in the U.S., projectile-vomited her dinner and cat treats at my feet.
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/23/white-house-plans-to-house-immigrant-children-by-toxic-dump_partner/
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/23/white-house-plans-to-house-immigrant-children-by-toxic-dump_partner/
Tonight, in Camp News
Asylum seekers get the toxic chemical treatment?
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/23/white-house-plans-to-house-immigrant-children-by-toxic-dump_partner/
How is it even being nice to your own offspring to be okay with something like this?
HOW DISGUSTING
https://www.salon.com/2019/02/23/white-house-plans-to-house-immigrant-children-by-toxic-dump_partner/
How is it even being nice to your own offspring to be okay with something like this?
HOW DISGUSTING
Manners
At a diner last week a girl took our order then went across the aisle where her brother and his friend sat. Standing by their booth, she started loudly talking about chlamydia. She had never had it, she said. In my head it was like, hello...we are customers! We are right here and can hear everything! I made a joke about joining Yelp and the two guys I was sitting with looked up from their phones and said, Huh? They hadn't noticed. Too engrossed in baseball scores. So. Whatever. It was late in the afternoon. No one else was in the place.
~+ ~+
"Time to go!"
Remember it was a devil who pushed the words out of your mouth that you did not plan on.
Remember it was a devil who pushed the words out of your mouth that you did not plan on.
Medicine!
Another good thread!
https://mobile.twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/1099281460077449219
For men and women.
https://mobile.twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/1099281460077449219
For men and women.
velut cubantem piis foveamus amplexibus?
Libri
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/14/the-library-book-susan-orlean-review
magni
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/books/review/susan-orlean-library-book.html
sunt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/everybody-who-loves-books-should-check-out-the-library-book/2018/10/09/3e771e28-cafe-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/14/the-library-book-susan-orlean-review
magni
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/books/review/susan-orlean-library-book.html
sunt
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/everybody-who-loves-books-should-check-out-the-library-book/2018/10/09/3e771e28-cafe-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Sigh.
Bored: This woman is so stupid, she doesn't know who I am and how I can blah blah blah, anyway.
Details, details
How about that equipment???
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes
Happy nitpicky Saturday evening ;-)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes
Happy nitpicky Saturday evening ;-)
O mon coeur de huit ans
She really loved soap shaped like seashell scallops with white and aqua stripes...
This is not at all the same but it is quite nice...
https://www.sagegoddess.com/product/aqua-soap-and-shell-set/
This is not at all the same but it is quite nice...
https://www.sagegoddess.com/product/aqua-soap-and-shell-set/
Still have a body? Yep.
Kidneys
https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/can-my-gfr-get-better
"Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome"
“'the National Institutes of Health has recommended changing the name of this syndrome to one that more accurately reflect the range of metabolic, psychological, and reproductive complications typically experienced by women with PCOS,' Scott Isaacs, MD, an endocrinologist with Atlanta Endocrine Associates, and adjunct instructor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, told EndocrineWeb."
https://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/polycystic-ovary-syndrome-pcos/what-causes-pcos-how-will-it-affect-body
♡good♡
I believe I deserve the best healthcare ever.
Including LOTS of non~allopathic options.
AND a very peaceful place to live!
Including LOTS of non~allopathic options.
AND a very peaceful place to live!
Well, they do still seem nice
And as though they have good intentions...
"Then, of course, there’s student loan debt. According to the Federal Reserve, Millennials in their twenties carried an average debt of $22,135 last summer. This is one of the most integral metrics of the Millennial experience because of its implications for how much money a young person can save. Arecent study by ApartmentList claims that the rarefied minority of debt-free Millennials are putting away twice as much money as their counterparts who are still paying off balances."
~ M. Howard
https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials?zd=1&zi=xhvtg6na
Not everyone has student loan debt!
Not everyone is a public school teacher in Oakland!
"Regardless of intent, these Millennials are telling an older generation of elite Americans — the very people whose policies and financial decisions kneecapped the economy — what they want to hear: that everything is more or less okay, and young people just need to be more thoughtful about their money. And that’s a shitty idea to perpetuate. Because whatever happens in the years ahead, penny-pinching will likely remain a lifestyle enhancement for bourgeois Millennials who possess enough money to enjoy the dividends of being thrifty. For most of us, there are no dividends: just thrift."
~ M. Howard
https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials?zd=1&zi=xhvtg6na
"Then, of course, there’s student loan debt. According to the Federal Reserve, Millennials in their twenties carried an average debt of $22,135 last summer. This is one of the most integral metrics of the Millennial experience because of its implications for how much money a young person can save. Arecent study by ApartmentList claims that the rarefied minority of debt-free Millennials are putting away twice as much money as their counterparts who are still paying off balances."
~ M. Howard
https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials?zd=1&zi=xhvtg6na
Not everyone has student loan debt!
Not everyone is a public school teacher in Oakland!
"Regardless of intent, these Millennials are telling an older generation of elite Americans — the very people whose policies and financial decisions kneecapped the economy — what they want to hear: that everything is more or less okay, and young people just need to be more thoughtful about their money. And that’s a shitty idea to perpetuate. Because whatever happens in the years ahead, penny-pinching will likely remain a lifestyle enhancement for bourgeois Millennials who possess enough money to enjoy the dividends of being thrifty. For most of us, there are no dividends: just thrift."
~ M. Howard
https://theoutline.com/post/3840/frugalwoods-frugality-millennials?zd=1&zi=xhvtg6na
Maybe it's not only about numbers
"The Mark of a Woman’s Record: Gender and Academic Performance in Hiring"
~ Natasha Quadlin:
"Although GPA matters little for men, women benefit from moderate achievement but not high achievement. As a result, high-achieving men are called back significantly more often than high-achieving women—at a rate of nearly 2-to-1. I further find that high-achieving women are most readily penalized when they major in math: high-achieving men math majors are called back three times as often as their women counterparts"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122418762291
~ Natasha Quadlin:
"Although GPA matters little for men, women benefit from moderate achievement but not high achievement. As a result, high-achieving men are called back significantly more often than high-achieving women—at a rate of nearly 2-to-1. I further find that high-achieving women are most readily penalized when they major in math: high-achieving men math majors are called back three times as often as their women counterparts"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122418762291
Friday, February 22, 2019
Cross
Jesus: I can do what I want, I am rebel with big --
Mary: it's like I would literally kill myself just to get away from you, your brainwashed, unethical family, and your criminal, misogynist friends
Sigh...just leave the internet
It's like...a marriage?
https://mobile.twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1098763128811257857
A really bad one?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ForeverLogical/status/1098763488363573250
https://mobile.twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1098763128811257857
A really bad one?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ForeverLogical/status/1098763488363573250
Happens to everyone...
Has a really nice cover.
https://tinhouse.com/product/dying-a-memoir-by-cory-taylor/
Wanna go accidentally astral travel / eavesdrop on so-and-so again? No, now is not an especially good time. Oh well. Kinda too bad you're not just kids playing in a sandbox or something, huh? Yes, that would have been different. Well, this is why we like to believe in do-overs.
Wow. Debut novel appeared only a few years before she died?
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-935639-36-7
That is not such a bad idea.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29894007-dying
https://tinhouse.com/product/dying-a-memoir-by-cory-taylor/
Wanna go accidentally astral travel / eavesdrop on so-and-so again? No, now is not an especially good time. Oh well. Kinda too bad you're not just kids playing in a sandbox or something, huh? Yes, that would have been different. Well, this is why we like to believe in do-overs.
Wow. Debut novel appeared only a few years before she died?
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-935639-36-7
That is not such a bad idea.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29894007-dying
An upLift
Got it.
"From mountaineers to astrophysicists, meet 50 extraordinary women from Pakistan"
https://mobile.twitter.com/MalalaFund/status/1095374474608865280
Better.
https://assembly.malala.org/stories/50-extraordinary-women-from-pakistan?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true
"From mountaineers to astrophysicists, meet 50 extraordinary women from Pakistan"
https://mobile.twitter.com/MalalaFund/status/1095374474608865280
Better.
https://assembly.malala.org/stories/50-extraordinary-women-from-pakistan?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true
Wish they would not
It seems as though being narcissistic, greedy, and insensitive to others is a good way to inadvertently make life worse on earth for a whole lot of people.
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-national-debt-deficit-compared-to-obama-bush-clinton-2019-2
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-national-debt-deficit-compared-to-obama-bush-clinton-2019-2
O say can you see
For a living, my daughter...(fill in the blank with a low-paying, mostly female-dominated occupation)
Embarrassed Silence.
For a living, my daughter....(fill in the blank with a high-paying occupation)
Oh does she get to play games with mostly male co-workers and purchase real estate while the Oakland public school teachers can't even afford a studio apartment?
What an empowering move!
Healthy distance
UNHEALTHY thoughts
What if they gave out pills
http://time.com/5435310/michael-avenatti-trump-white-male/
Drugs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/warren-buffett-says-being-a-white-man-helped-him-succeed.html
What if they gave out pills
http://time.com/5435310/michael-avenatti-trump-white-male/
Drugs
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/warren-buffett-says-being-a-white-man-helped-him-succeed.html
Exist
Cold
Comforter
Covers
Fascinating (2 1 person)
Small
small
smaller
Almost another reality could come in
Before or during sleeeeeep
Comforter
Covers
Fascinating (2 1 person)
Small
small
smaller
Almost another reality could come in
Before or during sleeeeeep
Thursday, February 21, 2019
This is supposed to be funny
However
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_little_hours
It actually might make you feel really, really glad you're not living in those times...the men aren't treated all that well, either.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_little_hours
It actually might make you feel really, really glad you're not living in those times...the men aren't treated all that well, either.
Horsie fun
This would be an exciting start to a romance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/atafmd/biker_making_this_ladys_day/
His eyes were two bright, anti-chauvanist daisies of philanthropic intentions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/atafmd/biker_making_this_ladys_day/
His eyes were two bright, anti-chauvanist daisies of philanthropic intentions.
Mas tranquilo
I am going to enjoy some nature soon.
I need peace for my clothes and my jaw.
I just ate lunch and it hurt to chew.
I need peace for my clothes and my jaw.
I just ate lunch and it hurt to chew.
)(*&^%$#@!@#$%^&*()
pOoR LITtle cAt gETs hiS FrigGiN bRaIn exTrActEd
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleFuckingDying/comments/at4lju/poor_little_cat_gets_his_friggin_brain_extracted/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleFuckingDying/comments/at4lju/poor_little_cat_gets_his_friggin_brain_extracted/
Boom
"On one side, teachers facing gentrification in the shadows of Silicon Valley can't live on their meager wages as the tech boom explodes around them. But their school district is so broke, it's about to suffer painful layoffs while struggling to pay for students in need."
~ C. Zdanowicz & H.Yan
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/us/oakland-teachers-strike-walkup/index.html
~ C. Zdanowicz & H.Yan
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/us/oakland-teachers-strike-walkup/index.html
Helpful home decor tips
For the Oakland teachers
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabbynoone/26-cheap-and-easy-ways-to-have-the-best-dorm-room-ever
In their copious free time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/us/oakland-teachers-strike-day-1/index.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-oakland-teachers-strike-20190221-story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/02/21/why-oakland-teachers-are-striking-quite-simply-you-cant-feed-minds-our-students-by-starving-their-schools/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gabbynoone/26-cheap-and-easy-ways-to-have-the-best-dorm-room-ever
In their copious free time
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/21/us/oakland-teachers-strike-day-1/index.html
https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-oakland-teachers-strike-20190221-story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/02/21/why-oakland-teachers-are-striking-quite-simply-you-cant-feed-minds-our-students-by-starving-their-schools/
its good 2 B a numbers person
"a day in the life of a software engineer"
ok i can't really tell what she does with the software, but the video features lots of eating, male coworkers playing games, and begins with a short make-up ritual (because maybe that's one way to ensure the glowing screen will give you bigger tips?)
ok i can't really tell what she does with the software, but the video features lots of eating, male coworkers playing games, and begins with a short make-up ritual (because maybe that's one way to ensure the glowing screen will give you bigger tips?)
Harrr
*lol* *randomness*
DENIAL
https://fairygodboss.com/articles/mom-blogs-you-should-read
ANGER
https://www.kveller.com/my-life-inspired-this-netflix-infertility-movie-but-i-cant-bear-to-watch-it/
BARGAINING
https://oldroadprimitives.blogspot.com/2019/01/orp-blog-is-moving-to-new-home.html?m=1
DEPRESSION
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/582616/ivf-africa/
ACCEPTANCE
https://lifestyle.clickhole.com/fuck-it-let-s-rank-the-religions-1825121953
This has steps!
"The Wild West philosophy of 'get over it already' does not work with this recovery program"
(K. McBride)
...v~e~r~y i~n~t~e~r~e~s~t~i~n~g...
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-legacy-distorted-love/201205/it-s-all-about-me-recovery-adult-children-narcissist
"You are working through a big cultural taboo to embrace this work." (McBride)
"Survival Mode"
He does not care.
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180902/analysis-americans-are-making-less-money-despite-trumps-promises
He does not care in the least.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kga4j/being-raised-by-two-narcissists-taught-me-how-to-deal-with-trump
He does not care.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pankay/why-we-shouldnt-cheer-the-immigration-compromise
https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20180902/analysis-americans-are-making-less-money-despite-trumps-promises
He does not care in the least.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kga4j/being-raised-by-two-narcissists-taught-me-how-to-deal-with-trump
He does not care.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pankay/why-we-shouldnt-cheer-the-immigration-compromise
Some people have that extra talent
They remind you that needless cruelty is very inefficient.
They also remind you that it would be much wiser to get therapy and rehabilitation for a sad childhood instead of reenacting those terrible, controlling, abusive behavior patterns and mistreating other people.
By the way.
These people were all "concerned mothers."
https://psmag.com/social-justice/segregations-constant-gardeners
There is no way that I believe in the inherent good intentions of an insecure woman who actually took extra time to come to a library to spy on me and other people just because one of her offspring through no fault of my own sat by me on a form of public transport.
Based on their choices and behavior patterns, I have no reason to believe certain people are actually concerned about children's well-being beyond their own narcissistic, self-promoting activities. Especially children who would have been very badly treated during their own racist, misogynist, apartheid upbringing.
They also remind you that it would be much wiser to get therapy and rehabilitation for a sad childhood instead of reenacting those terrible, controlling, abusive behavior patterns and mistreating other people.
By the way.
These people were all "concerned mothers."
https://psmag.com/social-justice/segregations-constant-gardeners
There is no way that I believe in the inherent good intentions of an insecure woman who actually took extra time to come to a library to spy on me and other people just because one of her offspring through no fault of my own sat by me on a form of public transport.
Based on their choices and behavior patterns, I have no reason to believe certain people are actually concerned about children's well-being beyond their own narcissistic, self-promoting activities. Especially children who would have been very badly treated during their own racist, misogynist, apartheid upbringing.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Gosh, studio apartments for teachers
That was possible.
"Just ten years ago..." K. Brown according to S. Ghaffary
https://www.recode.net/2019/2/19/18232183/oakland-california-teachers-strike-economic-inequality-public-school-charter-prop13
Who can afford something...better?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/19/women-built-tech-industry-then-they-were-pushed-out/
Did you ever hear about women who didn't need any more abusive men in their lives...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/17/sexual-harassment-silicon-valley-emily-chang-brotopia-interview
Even the ones who were really "successful" during the *gag* "Trump" era...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence
What if successful, abusive men who continuously had lots of people always making special exceptions for their abusive behavior patterns that they would never make for other people with far less money somehow, miraculously found a way to stop being abusive...
"Just ten years ago..." K. Brown according to S. Ghaffary
https://www.recode.net/2019/2/19/18232183/oakland-california-teachers-strike-economic-inequality-public-school-charter-prop13
Who can afford something...better?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/02/19/women-built-tech-industry-then-they-were-pushed-out/
Did you ever hear about women who didn't need any more abusive men in their lives...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/17/sexual-harassment-silicon-valley-emily-chang-brotopia-interview
Even the ones who were really "successful" during the *gag* "Trump" era...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence
What if successful, abusive men who continuously had lots of people always making special exceptions for their abusive behavior patterns that they would never make for other people with far less money somehow, miraculously found a way to stop being abusive...
Open face w/ a twist!
BREAD
PEANUT BUTTER
PUMPKIN SEEDS
https://www.topic.com/the-color-of-money
& honey on half of it
https://www.topic.com/the-art-of-making-money
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& honey on half of it
https://www.topic.com/the-art-of-making-money
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When a studio apartment was possible
"While teachers in Oakland’s school district have seen stagnating annual wages — an average of $46,500 for the past five years — the cost of living in the city is now double the national average. An average one-bedroom apartment in Oakland rents for $2,680 a month, according to Zillow — an 86 percent increase from what it was less than 10 years ago.
'Just 10 years ago, a teacher could find a studio apartment in Oakland and be able to make ends meet, but that’s not a reality anymore,' said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, the educators union; Brown has been a middle school teacher in Oakland for more than 20 years. 'The irony is that Oakland and the Bay Area have a booming tech industry, so it should reflect in having great public schools here that are well-funded.'”
~ S. Ghaffary
https://www.recode.net/2019/2/19/18232183/oakland-california-teachers-strike-economic-inequality-public-school-charter-prop13
'Just 10 years ago, a teacher could find a studio apartment in Oakland and be able to make ends meet, but that’s not a reality anymore,' said Keith Brown, president of the Oakland Education Association, the educators union; Brown has been a middle school teacher in Oakland for more than 20 years. 'The irony is that Oakland and the Bay Area have a booming tech industry, so it should reflect in having great public schools here that are well-funded.'”
~ S. Ghaffary
https://www.recode.net/2019/2/19/18232183/oakland-california-teachers-strike-economic-inequality-public-school-charter-prop13
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
And I really do appreciate them
and vibe with these helpful and encouraging messages...
http://www.frugalwoods.com/2015/08/10/strategic-luxury-the-difference-between-frugality-and-miserliness/
But wonder if it is mere coincidence that most of these bloggers had the salaries of software developers or engineers, plus help from well-off parents...any other possibilities?
https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmycosmo/comments/as7pa8/hmc_ill_show_you_how_to_keep_lipstick_intact/
Anyway.
http://www.frugalwoods.com/2015/08/10/strategic-luxury-the-difference-between-frugality-and-miserliness/
But wonder if it is mere coincidence that most of these bloggers had the salaries of software developers or engineers, plus help from well-off parents...any other possibilities?
https://www.reddit.com/r/holdmycosmo/comments/as7pa8/hmc_ill_show_you_how_to_keep_lipstick_intact/
Anyway.
Lunch hour reading :-)
"Women in industries overlooked by our narrow, sexist definition of 'working class' are challenging this country to expand its vision of labor beyond white men with tool belts, and make good on the promises of democracy."
~ S. Smarsh
https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/the-uprising-of-women-in-red-states-is-just-beginning.html
*****
“'We’re selling leggings, sure, but we’re also teaching our customers how to be feminist,' Rachel explains to me in her store’s break room, as she leans over to toss a stray piece of litter into the garbage. Above a work chart and an explanation of benefits hangs a small sign: ‘We will fit you, you don’t have to fit us.’"
~ C. Wang
https://www.refinery29.com/amp/en-us/2019/02/223799/retail-renaissance-workers-millennial
Monday, February 18, 2019
I just read this little bit
Like 4 or 5 paragraphs.
https://www.ted.com/talks/charlie_todd_the_shared_experience_of_absurdity/transcript?language=en
Now I am considering listening to it all to compliment a bout of tidying.
https://www.ted.com/talks/charlie_todd_the_shared_experience_of_absurdity/transcript?language=en
Now I am considering listening to it all to compliment a bout of tidying.
Tech diet was nice
Wow, I hope that kid turns out okay...
I wonder what will happen the next time I recommend some music to a bored and lonely saleperson...
Truly, anything is possible...
Finished / began
Finished the show that references Emily...
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/16/18223862/netflix-russian-doll-emily-of-new-moon
New...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/the-cloying-fantasia-of-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/2/16/18223862/netflix-russian-doll-emily-of-new-moon
New...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/the-cloying-fantasia-of-the-marvelous-mrs-maisel
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Prayers...we might need some
This is the way we came, but not going back there anytime soon.
https://ktla.com/2019/02/14/residents-in-areas-of-san-jacinto-mountains-asked-to-shelter-in-place-because-of-deteriorating-road-conditions/
https://ktla.com/2019/02/14/residents-in-areas-of-san-jacinto-mountains-asked-to-shelter-in-place-because-of-deteriorating-road-conditions/
Library books from childhood
These two
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/902.The_Westing_Game
+
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36638.The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase
popped into my head for some reason...
Westing Game, The
Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/902.The_Westing_Game
+
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36638.The_Wolves_of_Willoughby_Chase
popped into my head for some reason...
Westing Game, The
Wolves of Willoughby Chase, The
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Misty fun
I was able to soak in a hot tub and look at snow during a very light drizzle of rain...called it a "fog-tub."
I guess it is
I guess the idealistic personality is still sad.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47651/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-372
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47651/after-great-pain-a-formal-feeling-comes-372
My tools
A heating pad
Sunflower seeds
2 herbal teas:
Rosehip & cherry
Rooibos & cinnamon
Ginger pieces for the teas
Sunflower seeds
2 herbal teas:
Rosehip & cherry
Rooibos & cinnamon
Ginger pieces for the teas
Pull~quotable
"I finally realized that we were trying to change very strong patterns of behavior and belief, and that changes would take more than my lifetime to accomplish."
~ B. Sandler (to B. Griggs?)
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/08/us/bernice-sandler-title-ix-dies/index.html?
~ B. Sandler (to B. Griggs?)
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/01/08/us/bernice-sandler-title-ix-dies/index.html?
Simple and attainable
Some lifetimes provide children with the great gift of "these adults are showing me what not to do when I grow up."
Being an enabler of abusive behavior is not going to age well, no matter how many times they get on another "re-tweet this good cause" kick.
People are worthy of more respect and fairer treatment. People are a part of the environment, too. Give the gift of being in touch with your own humanity.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Note to s
Would this type of book interest you
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12675767-culinary-reactions
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12675767-culinary-reactions
mmmMful
A comforter a chapstick an unexciting life how outrageously decadent
The long bubbly bathsoak era
And then I ask myself why do some of these grown-ups not remember being one of the girls
The long bubbly bathsoak era
And then I ask myself why do some of these grown-ups not remember being one of the girls
Monday, February 11, 2019
Kids...
Someday, not too far off, someone born the same year as you is gonna be deemed a "world leader" and that's gonna be super frickin' weird...
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-ana-tijoux-hip-hop-is-home/
A. Tijoux / Breaking Bad
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2016/04/for-ana-tijoux-hip-hop-is-home/
A. Tijoux / Breaking Bad
How to celebrate
Make a mug cupcake?
https://www.inverse.com/article/11357-it-s-the-first-ever-women-in-science-day
Chemistry
I went to the library...
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/chemistry-of-cooking
I feel strange...
https://www.inverse.com/article/11357-it-s-the-first-ever-women-in-science-day
Chemistry
I went to the library...
******
Gosh why do I keep cooking even though I am not really hungry I had a big salad and some chicken and rice for dinner nevertheless I boiled spaghetti for the roasted tomatoes, simmered a blueberry-honey compote, and am going to make crepes with tapioca flour. It's all going in the fridge for later.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/chemistry-of-cooking
I feel strange...
On the other hand
The stranger who wanted me to pray for her to Jesus, the "right one," also added "not Buddha!"
And that was strange because I felt a little bit like I had been sitting in a Buddha pose.
I almost got the urge to meditate right there, except the cold and growling in my stomach gave me the impetus to leave.
Actually what really did it was a little drone...
Little drone...BIG DISTURBANCE.
Wouldn't it be cool if the world's shady uncles could cultivate the Zen mode instead of aging into the brother you hope no one's nieces ever date.
And that was strange because I felt a little bit like I had been sitting in a Buddha pose.
I almost got the urge to meditate right there, except the cold and growling in my stomach gave me the impetus to leave.
Actually what really did it was a little drone...
Little drone...BIG DISTURBANCE.
Wouldn't it be cool if the world's shady uncles could cultivate the Zen mode instead of aging into the brother you hope no one's nieces ever date.
Books & strangers
Today I decided to contribute some of my old books to a little free library. It was mostly filled with old romances in paperback, and I wondered what effect my contributions might have. Later, as I sat on my blanket in a park, an older woman called out to me that I had the perfect spot and asked if I had been praying. I said I was not, but I could. She said, "Pray for me!" And she added, "to Jesus! Don't pray to the wrong one!" I thought about how I had been curious about what effect my old books might have on someone and remembered that one of them was A God Who Looks Like Me and wondered if the universe had delivered some kind of answer.
It's nice to see this getting respect because...
when I was young, (high school, college, early 20s) a lot of male peers would make fun of you for being interested in this sort of thing.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/
And sadly, sometimes female peers ("I'm not a feminist, but...") would just go right along with them in order to be cool, like "one of the guys."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-women-are-harassed-out-of-science/492521/
Were they threatened?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/ursula-vils-nasa/516468/
Would it really have been so hard for them to...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-women-computers-who-measured-the-stars/509231/
Maybe will check on this again...
https://twitter.com/ladyxscience?lang=en
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/womens-history-in-science-hidden-footnotes/582472/
And sadly, sometimes female peers ("I'm not a feminist, but...") would just go right along with them in order to be cool, like "one of the guys."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/how-women-are-harassed-out-of-science/492521/
Were they threatened?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/ursula-vils-nasa/516468/
Would it really have been so hard for them to...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-women-computers-who-measured-the-stars/509231/
Maybe will check on this again...
https://twitter.com/ladyxscience?lang=en
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Yay
Where would we be without books
http://awfullibrarybooks.net/a-bedtime-story-with-a-nice-side-of-guilt/
http://awfullibrarybooks.net/a-bedtime-story-with-a-nice-side-of-guilt/
Now it's blue! Now it's violet! Now it's bright red!
Kinda exciting, really.
Ow
It's GINGER TEA time.
Probably better to save the caffeinated stuff for the more forgiving part of the cycle.
Empirically
In this corner:
the "road warrior adjunct"
https://www.jessestommel.com/how-to-ungrade/
Elsewhere on the globe:
"I’ve had guy friends telling me to just..."
https://www.mypcoskitchen.com/pcos-story/
the "road warrior adjunct"
https://www.jessestommel.com/how-to-ungrade/
Elsewhere on the globe:
"I’ve had guy friends telling me to just..."
https://www.mypcoskitchen.com/pcos-story/
too much caffeine
"Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you?"
https://www.audubon.org/news/learn-identify-five-owls-their-calls
https://www.audubon.org/news/learn-identify-five-owls-their-calls
anyway
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/aop7up/we_dont_deserve_doggos/
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/aonc1b/cat_retrieves_owners_ring/
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/aook8a/submit_to_me_lazy_hooman/
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/aot09z/so_cold_hes_retracted_his_limbs_inside_his_sweater/
T
https://mobile.twitter.com/EilisAbigail/status/1093987317361098752
https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/aop7up/we_dont_deserve_doggos/
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/comments/aonc1b/cat_retrieves_owners_ring/
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/aook8a/submit_to_me_lazy_hooman/
R
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingDerps/comments/aot09z/so_cold_hes_retracted_his_limbs_inside_his_sweater/
T
https://mobile.twitter.com/EilisAbigail/status/1093987317361098752
Really starting to get the whole cucumber sandwich thing
I had some left over cucumber slices...
And some lemon butter...
& Ezekial toast...
Open faced with garlic salt
Rainy weather is ideal for this sort of thing
THERE IS SO MUCH TEA TO DRINK
I'm going to try it with a paratha
AND THEN THE ORANGE SLICES
Cinematic
ROMA trailer
“I want to believe that in the future, they will continue to include more and more people like me,' she says, 'so that someone else can look at it and say, ‘Hey, I look like her.’”
~ Yalitza Aparicio, Carolina Miranda
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-yalitza-aparicio-roma-oscars-20190128-story.html
"A paper from 2012 showed that almost one quarter of domestic workers in the country lived in poverty, only 12% had medical insurance provided by their employer, and 7% had a pension plan."
https://culturacolectiva.com/history/alfonso-cuaron-roma-inspired-us-domestic-workers-new-bill-of-rights
"CYMI: In the month of February, @Netflix will make a donation to NDWA for every ticket purchased to see @ROMACuaron in theaters."
https://twitter.com/domesticworkers/status/1093985327243350016
Get happy happy happy
real quick 3 good things:
Russian Doll!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094490766322196481
Food!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094591378711969795
Poetry!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094596545305956353
Russian Doll!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094490766322196481
Food!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094591378711969795
Poetry!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ava/status/1094596545305956353
EVs are for...???
A guy behind me was driving one yesterday. It occurs to me that is not always, but is usually, the case. I am not sure if I have ever noticed one being driven by a woman yet IRL.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/heres-how-much-money-american-women-earn-at-every-age.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/heres-how-much-money-american-women-earn-at-every-age.html
Hah, this warms my toes
COLD COMFORT FARM
(Kate Beckinsale & Stephen Fry)
I wonder if ppl can watch YouTube in Andean hotel rooms nowadays...
(Kate Beckinsale & Stephen Fry)
I wonder if ppl can watch YouTube in Andean hotel rooms nowadays...
Stuck and going to bed.
I can't watch the Russian Doll show.
Too cold.
Does our heat work?
Sometimes.
Nevermind. I will just crawl under the comforter. I don't want cold air blowing on me.
I love an electric heating pad.
It's warmer than a hotel room in the Andes.
Too cold.
Does our heat work?
Sometimes.
Nevermind. I will just crawl under the comforter. I don't want cold air blowing on me.
I love an electric heating pad.
It's warmer than a hotel room in the Andes.
Amazing film
Just watched the 2nd half.
If I ever go back to Arlington cemetary, I will try to find his grave.
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ddengler.htm
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/ddengler.htm
Saturday, February 09, 2019
Hello, sir
You know what?
"Public service within the military-industrial complex is still widely gendered and conceived of as masculine, good, and — most important — valuable. By contrast, public service outside of the military (in schools, in public health, in legal defense, in nonprofits) is conceived of as feminine, and less valuable. A staggering 77% of public school teachers are women, and women make up 73% of nonprofit workers. When that work is figured as less essential to a functioning society, “investing” in it collectively (through direct government funding, in the form of tax dollars, or indirect funding, in the form of loan forgiveness) is deprioritized or rejected altogether. And that idea extends all the way to the Department of Education — the entity charged with facilitating the disbursement and payment of student loans — which has moved to roll back myriad protections for student borrowers and eliminate PSLF entirely."
~ A. H. Peterson
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/student-debt-college-public-service-loan-forgiveness
This is just one part of why you and a whole lot of the people you know would have unconsciously treated me better if I had been born in a male body.
"Public service within the military-industrial complex is still widely gendered and conceived of as masculine, good, and — most important — valuable. By contrast, public service outside of the military (in schools, in public health, in legal defense, in nonprofits) is conceived of as feminine, and less valuable. A staggering 77% of public school teachers are women, and women make up 73% of nonprofit workers. When that work is figured as less essential to a functioning society, “investing” in it collectively (through direct government funding, in the form of tax dollars, or indirect funding, in the form of loan forgiveness) is deprioritized or rejected altogether. And that idea extends all the way to the Department of Education — the entity charged with facilitating the disbursement and payment of student loans — which has moved to roll back myriad protections for student borrowers and eliminate PSLF entirely."
~ A. H. Peterson
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/student-debt-college-public-service-loan-forgiveness
This is just one part of why you and a whole lot of the people you know would have unconsciously treated me better if I had been born in a male body.
And now more entertainment...
TIME TO CLEAN
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/here-be-monsters/hbm111-waiting-for-earth
It must be extra horrid to have PCOS if you're Mormon.
TBH this one may be a little bit much.
It's got a nausea factor.
Well, time to revisit the fates of fertility-challenged women in 3rd world countries.
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/12/10-011210/en/
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/here-be-monsters/hbm111-waiting-for-earth
It must be extra horrid to have PCOS if you're Mormon.
TBH this one may be a little bit much.
It's got a nausea factor.
Well, time to revisit the fates of fertility-challenged women in 3rd world countries.
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/12/10-011210/en/
Self-entertainment
This song was on the radio.
https://genius.com/John-prine-the-lonesome-friends-of-science-lyrics
I made myself an assortment of "tea" sandwiches with what I had on hand:
Cucumber
Watercress
Radish
Anchovy
Butter
Grated lemon
And they were fine.
The best was probably the boiled egg.
Maybe I was just in the mood for a boiled egg.
https://genius.com/John-prine-the-lonesome-friends-of-science-lyrics
I made myself an assortment of "tea" sandwiches with what I had on hand:
Cucumber
Watercress
Radish
Anchovy
Butter
Grated lemon
And they were fine.
The best was probably the boiled egg.
Maybe I was just in the mood for a boiled egg.
It's 2019 and libraries are great
Kids, the waiting lists for Becoming and Winners Take All are something to behold.
In the meantime, happy to indulge in a little ANTICIPATORY READING.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tabithagoldstaub/2019/02/08/a-wake-up-call-to-ai-companies-hot-off-the-winners-take-all-book-tour-with-anand-giridharadas/
"It just so happened that when I was there, the topic was how to disrupt writing. One of the questions that the VC proposed, was ‘can we use AI to replace all the writers?’ and I was there in the room. In the chapter, I basically described the discussion in which two VCs and a room full of brilliant AI geeks had a discussion about how we could get rid of all the writers. There were a couple of Europeans in the room, and they were the only people who were like, 'what about arts and culture? Aren’t their books that couldn’t be written by AI?' It was crazy to see. Everybody else was like 'no, no, it’s fine. We can disrupt that.' I watching this room of men decide that they would 'get rid of all the writers' and two 'money men', from very serious VC firms, who could put the money behind those ideas. I remember the last line of the chapter was ‘there was one woman in the room and she never spoke’."
~ A. Giridharadas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tabithagoldstaub/2019/02/08/a-wake-up-call-to-ai-companies-hot-off-the-winners-take-all-book-tour-with-anand-giridharadas/
In the meantime, happy to indulge in a little ANTICIPATORY READING.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tabithagoldstaub/2019/02/08/a-wake-up-call-to-ai-companies-hot-off-the-winners-take-all-book-tour-with-anand-giridharadas/
~ A. Giridharadas
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tabithagoldstaub/2019/02/08/a-wake-up-call-to-ai-companies-hot-off-the-winners-take-all-book-tour-with-anand-giridharadas/
Good in the universe
Brother: I wanted to show you the Time cover of the year because I knew you would be moved by it.
http://time.com/5521722/time-christine-blasey-ford-cover-of-the-year/
http://time.com/5521722/time-christine-blasey-ford-cover-of-the-year/
Thanks, brother.
Friday, February 08, 2019
can't stop thinking about life...a lecture...
those 3 little serving plates of charcuterie from the snack table...
https://reluctantentertainer.com/epic-charcuterie-board/
https://reluctantentertainer.com/epic-charcuterie-board/
might make some radishes
(they were good)
So punny
"Fast and Luce"
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1988/03/clare-boothe-luce-profile
Saw this woman's grave at an abbey back East.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/1988/03/clare-boothe-luce-profile
Saw this woman's grave at an abbey back East.
;+%
Mini-fridge exudes wit, optimism, charm, mental health, and...WOW!
"According to data from the U.S. Department of Education, only about 300 borrowers have received public service loan forgiveness based on more than 73,600 processed applications. That’s less than 0.5%."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/30/how-to-never-get-rejected-for-student-loan-forgiveness/
"According to data from the U.S. Department of Education, only about 300 borrowers have received public service loan forgiveness based on more than 73,600 processed applications. That’s less than 0.5%."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/01/30/how-to-never-get-rejected-for-student-loan-forgiveness/
A little trail history
Notice about the rescue Mrs. Loyette L. Will from Apr. 24, 1958:
"A 15-year-old housewife and mother..."
https://twitter.com/SierraMadreSAR/status/1004825658441138176
Husband - 19.
https://newspaperarchive.com/star-news-apr-21-1958-p-28/
They had a teenage wedding?
Guess that's not super old.
"A 15-year-old housewife and mother..."
https://twitter.com/SierraMadreSAR/status/1004825658441138176
Husband - 19.
https://newspaperarchive.com/star-news-apr-21-1958-p-28/
They had a teenage wedding?
Guess that's not super old.
Thursday, February 07, 2019
I can haz relaxing book???
Was just looking for a good yarn...
http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/institches/2013/09/04/book-review-the-yarn-whisperer-by-clara-parkes/
Hah!
"I was raised to agree, to support, and to stand out as little as possible. You may know my mother from such hits as, 'What should I order?' and 'Am I cold? Do I need a sweater?' Meanwhile, my father was happily tucked in the Rochester Philharmonic as second-chair oboe for more than thirty years, preferring to be eaten alive by wolves than to be singled out for a standing ovation."
(The Yarn Whisperer ~ Clara Parkes ~ pg. 18)
http://blogs.mycentraljersey.com/institches/2013/09/04/book-review-the-yarn-whisperer-by-clara-parkes/
Hah!
"I was raised to agree, to support, and to stand out as little as possible. You may know my mother from such hits as, 'What should I order?' and 'Am I cold? Do I need a sweater?' Meanwhile, my father was happily tucked in the Rochester Philharmonic as second-chair oboe for more than thirty years, preferring to be eaten alive by wolves than to be singled out for a standing ovation."
(The Yarn Whisperer ~ Clara Parkes ~ pg. 18)
Not 100% of the time, but far too often
Money seems to erode moral character.
https://www.recode.net/2018/10/18/17998468/peter-thiel-club-for-growth-republican-donation
Whilst enabling cowardice and white supremacy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-embraces-white-supremacy/579745/
https://www.recode.net/2018/10/18/17998468/peter-thiel-club-for-growth-republican-donation
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-embraces-white-supremacy/579745/
It is sickening.
As well as being necessary
Articles such as this one about the "MeToo" movement are good....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-misogyny-epistemic-worlds.html
It only fails to mention how the women who treat men as more important than everyone else also contribute to the world being more unsafe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-misogyny-epistemic-worlds.html
It only fails to mention how the women who treat men as more important than everyone else also contribute to the world being more unsafe.
In the home
Some people have a way of reminding you that, like charity, it is where abusiveness, shallowness, misogyny, and cruelty begins.
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
Tuesday, February 05, 2019
WtfingF
Gender sound
https://www.violinist.com/discussion/archive/7624/
Must attend to organ messages (again)
https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20000620/fish-oil-b-12-period-relief
https://www.violinist.com/discussion/archive/7624/
Must attend to organ messages (again)
https://www.webmd.com/women/news/20000620/fish-oil-b-12-period-relief
Altogether mystifying
This sort of pattern:
One personality : so lonely, deeply lonely Another personality: heh, my powers are increasing, all the better to control and push ppl around!
One personality : so lonely, deeply lonely Another personality: heh, my powers are increasing, all the better to control and push ppl around!
Muscleme raised brow
Sounds like a really interesting evening at a place called "The Players Club."
"...we have a broken country atop which a former Democratic Manhattan private club liberal now sits."
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1092965537909334022
Huh!
*****
"...we have a broken country atop which a former Democratic Manhattan private club liberal now sits."
https://mobile.twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1092965537909334022
Huh!
DEDICATED TO the grit in the bathroom faucet
I just could not stop hearing an old song over and over.
"Meritocracy"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/In-new-book-Emily-Chang-takes-a-stand-against-12553050.php
So much to read, right...
"Meritocracy"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/style/article/In-new-book-Emily-Chang-takes-a-stand-against-12553050.php
Diluvial dilemmas
When you wish to walk in the woods but the wash is overflowing with water and the sunset is coming on.
Temporary
Even the people who seem "on top" today are really not as secure as they seem.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/perspectives/state-of-the-union-trump-economy/index.html
Because there are too many shallow, narcissistic, xenophobic, greedy people who are pushovers and think their own temporary comfort is more important than actually having a healthy society.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/perspectives/state-of-the-union-trump-economy/index.html
It's ART day
Look into the president's face and think
A CHILD
(the thousands separated from their families
might overwhelm the brain)
merely because
of a circumstance such as being born
on
the 'wrong side of the border'
is residing
in a concentration camp
right now.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691368262/what-to-know-ahead-of-trumps-state-of-the-union-address
A person
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1092787440560078849
Texas History
From "The Rise and Fall of the Tornillo Tent City for Migrant Children" by R. Moore
"Rubin, the Brooklyn software engineer who kept vigil in a small camper since October, left on Monday. He said he promised his wife he wouldn’t stay more than three months. Rubin said he will continue his mission to ensure that Americans don’t forget what happened at Tornillo in 2018. 'The thing that always struck me is that the government has an odd and inconsistent narrative. It says first that these are very, very dangerous people that we have to confine. And then it says we have to protect them, and we have to keep them a really long time in confinement, to protect them from what are essentially their families,' Rubin said."
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/migrant-children-tornillo-tent-city-released/
"Rubin, the Brooklyn software engineer who kept vigil in a small camper since October, left on Monday. He said he promised his wife he wouldn’t stay more than three months. Rubin said he will continue his mission to ensure that Americans don’t forget what happened at Tornillo in 2018. 'The thing that always struck me is that the government has an odd and inconsistent narrative. It says first that these are very, very dangerous people that we have to confine. And then it says we have to protect them, and we have to keep them a really long time in confinement, to protect them from what are essentially their families,' Rubin said."
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/migrant-children-tornillo-tent-city-released/
if life is a coin toss
"A small group of well-educated professionals enjoys rising wages"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/economy/productivity-inequality-wages.html
"to punish"
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/24/688068932/lawsuits-allege-grave-harm-to-immigrant-children-in-detention
People & trucks
Trucks are driven by people, and there are taxes.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1092546414419288065
https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Smarsh/status/1092546414419288065
Time to take supplements for the pain.
Even some "nice" people can be very insensitive - even cruelly so - about poverty and income inequality.
https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know
And about girls' pain.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2019/02/04/adults-take-girls-pain-less-seriously-than-boys-because-of-gender-bias/2735662002/
And about women's health.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/womens-health-care-gaslighting/567149/
Which is linked to poverty, income inequality, and even "nice" people being insensitive - even cruelly and needlessly so.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/4148-dysmenorrhea
It is cruel to experience.
https://inequality.stanford.edu/publications/20-facts-about-us-inequality-everyone-should-know
And about girls' pain.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2019/02/04/adults-take-girls-pain-less-seriously-than-boys-because-of-gender-bias/2735662002/
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/08/womens-health-care-gaslighting/567149/
Which is linked to poverty, income inequality, and even "nice" people being insensitive - even cruelly and needlessly so.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/4148-dysmenorrhea
It is cruel to experience.
Monday, February 04, 2019
Things to injest
This is a life.
Lived in a body.
Try to keep it simple yet effective.
We can't survive off of hardtack in the wildnerness.
Sunday, February 03, 2019
Saturday, February 02, 2019
Hogget
Possible entertainment if the cleaning mood returns.
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2015/04/22/episode-61-earls-and-churls/
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2015/04/22/episode-61-earls-and-churls/
Hardcore tattoo
A ruler on a forearm measuring the length of a plant specimen.
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2018/08/21/episode-115-the-measure-of-a-person/
Maybe later.
http://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2018/08/21/episode-115-the-measure-of-a-person/
Maybe later.
Too late
"Dishonest, abusive one-percenters who taught you more than you ever wanted to know about their privilege bubbles, cruel behavior patterns, and white supremacy."
Circa 2018/2019.
