Agatha Burgess
"She cooks all day for anyone who stops by (1983)"
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Dramatic music with sparkling drink!
"Freddie's nonsense song from a room with a view"
colacoke2111
https://youtube.com/watch?v=OxMJyFAuJlU&si=0bAZ7fQ2I_XAx9i4
"Sinner in the Sea" ~ Calexico
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-t6HepIKo70&si=uPGC_pX7Wqw88zXR
Enjoying a Ginger Lemon Kombucha with my puzzle
And a relaxing tune. 🎶
"Summer Wind (2008 Remastered)" ~ Frank Sinatra
Maybe I'll try this sometime! For the lovely ancestors.
"Giada De Laurentiis Adds Cookies to Her Lasagna—and You Should, Too"
https://www.allrecipes.com/giada-de-laurentiis-cookies-in-lasagna-11851581
There's still quite a lot of abuse in some families.
I suppose going to the Roman coliseum was once considered a family friendly outing, regardless of who got traumatized by going along with the family dynamics and what not.
"The Leopards Finally Came For Karoline"
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/26/2355738/-The-Leopards-Finally-Came-For-Karoline
"Attorney: Woman with ties to Karoline Leavitt, detained by ICE, has deep respect for the Leavitt family"
https://www.wmur.com/article/bruna-ferreira-detained-ice-karoline-leavitt-ice/69581585
I feel like they're just, like, lolling around in a pit of muddy misogyny.
Did you ever take a 20th century junior high history class???
"The significance of Sarah Baartman" - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35240987
Couldn't really keep on going with this episode. Maybe they're extremely immersed in dealing with their own demons.
"Sona Explains 'BBL Smell' To Conan & Gourley"
on Conan O'Brien Needs A CULT Oops, Sorry Mean FRIEND
Well, I want to watch this now.
"Your grandma has a message for you..."
@sheapila
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9ZqIQYmhJM0&si=L_e-xyypE9UdhP7V
I think this is some collective stuff, eh?
And she's so cute!!!
I'd like to thank my cat for giving me another day of role modeling the healthier and more balanced version of being self-centered. Of course, I cannot be like her. She is a cat and I am a human being. But she is pretty fun to hang out with!
Patriarchy, pffff!
This is something, huh? Shifts are happening.
"Paulina Borsook’s 'Cyberselfish,' which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years."
David Streitfeld
"The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/technology/writer-silicon-valley-criticism.html
Remember the cat videos too, yeah?
"Elizabeth Warren Calls Out David Ellison by Name on the late show"
https://latenighter.com/news/elizabeth-warren-calls-out-david-ellison-by-name-on-the-late-show/
I like that idea, and what's more, I think it has really happened.
Even though a lot of misogynistic meanies were culturally groomed to disregard others in order to make unscrupulous men richer, when they realized they could get rehabilitated and get a lot healthier, their sense of themselves and their behavior patterns improved quite a bit.
💲😱 GASP Behold the egocentric cultural drama of addictive behaviors in the early 21st century!
"Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Delete Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads"
"This is what puts money in all our pockets."
https://futurism.com/facebook-beauty-targeted-ads
"Mark Zuckerberg Allegedly Said Child Safety Was Less Important Than 'Building the Metaverse'
'Like tobacco, this is a situation where there are dangerous products that were marketed to kids. They did it anyway, because more usage meant more profits for the company.'"
https://futurism.com/future-society/zuckerberg-meta-teens-safety
Good cats and books!
📚🐈⬛
"Formally introducing our crew❤️"
~ twicesoldtales
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2vK8qBLILK/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Today Jamie has one book recommendation!"
~ twicesoldtales
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRiEWlSAbjH/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Also, isn't it amazing how many people with traumatic childhoods got diagnosed as bipolar?
Cultural Stuff.
Maybe they wouldn't be acting like such meanies if the patriarchal cult hadn't made them think they were supposed to be acting like such meanies.
This has cheered me up!
"Not on my watch..."
rokabringsflowers
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRrRxZ9iMN7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Sometimes people should try harder to look better for the grandchildren, I think.
Just imagine!
"Attorney: Woman with ties to Karoline Leavitt, detained by ICE, has deep respect for the Leavitt family, attorney says
'She is not doing well, but she is strong and resilient,' Pomerleau said"
https://www.wmur.com/article/bruna-ferreira-detained-ice-karoline-leavitt-ice/69581585
For such disgraceful treatment to be a consequence of being duped into doing what's worse for everybody!
Okay, okay, I'll go back to the calmer stuff.
No, you cannot automatically rely on the systems can you? So you will have to make your own way.
Sometimes I resent so much the incredible lack of support or care for some people by the systems, especially for people with certain sets of health problems, and I'm just almost spitting with anger about it. I'll just have to make peace with that, I guess, and find what else works, even if it's different.
I want access to amazing healthcare, dear angels, may I have it?
Roy Orbison - "You Got It (Live 1988)"
Possible change in healthcare situation.
Tonight I had the thought that since the only insurance we have available to us doesn't seem to cover anything anyway on account of the deductible, then maybe I should go to a holistic doctor who just takes the payment out of pocket, cuz that's how it's been year after year.
This is better right now.
"Chakra Rebalancing Sound Bath | Align Your Energy"
Healing Chakra Vibrations
Choose healing. Again.
I on purpose looked up stuff about "healing" on and tried to click on it like four or five times and every single time tiktok instead keeps putting up stuff about stress and fear and topics and that will get people feeling upset and angry. I'm purposely choosing healing topics this evening. This body needs the healing topics more now.
Getting more focused on this path of healing.
I have to give myself permission, full permission, to really put healing and my health first. We all need to take care of ourselves as best as we can.
What if the stuff that's going on right now is just another opportunity to put healing first and not let either our own lack of knowledge or the lack of understanding of others sabotage us from taking care of ourselves and putting our health first?
Then that means if your body's telling you need to put your health first, your body's right. Listen to your body. You really do need to put your health first. I know the culture didn't bring us up this way, but we have to change and learn how to take care of ourselves. It's the best we can do and it probably is the life path of a lot of us.
Putting your health first is the right thing to do. It's your birthright. You are here to care for yourself and you deserve to feel good and feel healthier.
Peace and blessings for being on the healing path, again.
I'm going to see if taking a shower and another castor oil pack helps with my physical well-being.
Maybe I just need to tell myself that people do the best they can, and I need to do the best I can for my health, because it's apparent that's what I need to do most right now.
Being so physically under the weather today has been rough. I need to figure out what I else I'll need to do if it doesn't improve more soon.
Maybe some things really are for the more genetically fortunate.
I want to make my genetics feel more fortunate for me somehow.
I guess this is a wish, but it might come true.
I have a headache again now, but I do hope that the more caring parents can show some of the rather shallow, sexist people that it really behooves them to care more about the well-being of different kinds of people.
A dreadful headache is lifting. It is sunsetched!
The Orb (ft. Rickie Lee Jones) - "Little Fluffy Clouds"
And how is that working out for you? Did you get the nice patriarchy in this life?
"Hey, how you doing? I'm obviously a handmaiden of a patriarchy, lol."
Young people!
"FIX IT JESUS⚫🙆🏽♂️"
King Storm 🌏🌪️
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrBHYKhN/
Decentering???
"Y'all be DISGUSTED..."
King Storm 🌏🌪️
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrBCvWnD/
Chilling...
"WE VIBIN ⚫🌊"
King Storm 🌏🌪️
Well Sister, I think you should have a forgiveness ceremony.
"I hate pink!"
"Girly things are stupid things!"
"Now I am mother, and when you become one, you're entitled to act like a superior being whose status conquers the rest of humanity, right?"
"U really mean that?"
"Sure! Just as long as you're of a certain class and have access to certain resources."
"But apparently, it's still not enough to care if your daughter's human rights are getting trampled on by your generation's old-fashioned sexism!"
"They're there... These are the old things... These things are the falling away things now."
"For all this stuff, Sister, why don't you have a forgiveness ceremony?"
O Brother...
What if you get reincarnated as a girl next time and one day you wake up and you're like? Oh my gosh why were all these girls around me trained to be so much better at centering men???
Men!!!
But not all men, but certain kinds of men???
What about that, huh???
I'm happy for Buckley for being such a good dog.
I appreciate Buckley, the dog, mentioned in the dream, by the woman who told me I create my own reality.
I'm cool with it if Buckley wants to help.
The pain is mortifying.
Well maybe I'll just make friends with it.
I have to get better now.
Okay, back to the getting well stuff.
"You have been given a great honor"
Emily Louise✨Matriarchy Rising
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrM5sxFe/
"whats next 'this Christmas our hotels are too full?'"
Eliott
Time to create a new and better reality.
Blindly walking a new path, pain obstructing your vision. Old ways that apparently worked for others are useless to you now. In order to find some new ways, to help yourself, you have to manage pain and find calm and go within and any little thing that seems to put you on the more healing path is what you need to be paying the most attention to.
I am not a dog named Buckley.
Dear financially well-off, emotionally stunted baby boomer dream woman whose favorite living being is a dog named Buckley, I think you were trying to not care about women and girls, and therefore you do not have a lot of helpful insights to share.
I've got a headache and I don't feel well so I'm going to be
I've got a headache and I don't feel well so I'm going to be finding foods with phytoestrogens in them.
I think I have at least these two available to me:
Hot water with flax seeds.
Edamame.
A thoughtful book review.
"Book Review: Brown Face, Big Master." Written by Joyce Gladwell
"The book is an interesting weave of her stories as she navigated life, and evolution that came to her from exposure to various parts of her life. I also believe that the honest study of this book might have influenced Malcolm to have an objective view of situations that are reflected in his books. I was also concerned about the issues that were never mentioned as Joyce’s autobiography unraveled. She never mentioned her twin sister and her relationship with her parents. It seemed that she had to cut off from the past to be able to build a future with her own family. She still visited them and mentioned them sparingly but it seemed she had decided to navigate her life without the emotions that guided the beginning of her life.
I guess we will never know."
~ Mobolaji Atolagbe
Two thoughts:
One: But maybe it's not too late to know more?
Two: Maybe a different focus will be cultivated more in the next life.
Maybe this was a grief dream?
I had a dream that an older woman was lecturing me about how I create my own reality and then she went on about how much she loved her dog and I guess his name might have been Buckley.
I said to her, okay so what if Buckley has just passed away. Do you really want someone to give you a lecture on how you should feel better right now because you create your own reality? And you should just go out and buy another new dog right away?
And she just laughed but did not answer.
Happy to note some improvements!
Some of my physical symptoms are still hanging around but they're not dreadful anymore and that's means they're getting better.
I decided to make a celery juice and then discovered that unfortunately a piece of glass got in the garbage disposal.
Some very diligent work was performed and a shop vacuum also came in quite handy. Thank you, helpful man!
Dear Lord and Lady, please bring us healing blessings. Amen.
Dear higher healing powers, please help with healing the physical pain and the emotional pain from enduring the foul attitudes towards girls and women that the unwell patriarchy instilled in the very vulnerable and fearful people who became warped by the sexist and punitive attitudes that were seen as just normal, and were anything but just normal, but were in fact, hugely offensive and damaging, and people are going to need to heal from these attitudes a lot.
Please assist with all of the healing that will be needed for all of these processes. Please and thank you. Healing is much needed. I really need to heal from the atrociousness and the audacity of some to think that being exactly that prejudiced and discriminatory is just supposed to be normal when it's never ever going to be normal. So that is why it must be healed now.
And I know part of me is deeply shocked by the bigotry and the damage that's been caused. However, I ask you to help me move beyond some of this anger even if it's deserved because I want to feel like I deserve to feel the healing even more than the anger and the disgust. I want more healing and more caring and I feel that more healing and more caring can be helpful in breaking bad old cycles that are never going to help us.
People deserve better and this isn't known by enough people, but it's definitely known over here in this body that's for sure.
Mine is just one of many many bodies who deserve wellness and healing.
How to heal from pain and abandonment by an imbalanced culture that abandons girls and women with real health issues.
It's shocking how entitled people feel to just act like girls and women with real health issues are not their priority at all.
Just to fit in with some conservative authoritarian mindsets. For some reason, that is what feels more safe or comfortable for them. Whatever makes the world feel more dangerous and inhospitable for girls and women. Why must it be so. I don't think it must be so.
Family dynamics abandon the girls and women. Group dynamics. Societal expectations.
Now I need healing on multiple levels. I need to heal the pain and irritation that's on the physical level.
I need to heal on the emotional level of experiencing the brutality and the harshness.
I need to find where I can get my blessings and healings.
I have flax seeds and water.
I have raspberry tea.
I have heating pad.
I'm going to find some healing music for my soul and my body now.
Mini colored snowstorm dream
I had a terrible migraine but it's going away. I had a dream that I went into in office to pick up a job application but I needed some info from home. I set out with the application, But a win came and tore it out of my hand and threw it into some puddles or something. A little miniature cloud was coming down the sidewalk and trying to rain on me and that turned into a little mini a snow storm and maybe that end was just an animated pile of snow and it would change colors which included purple and pink and it would just sit around and then it would start moving and changing colors and make funny shaves and I needed to try to avoid that thing But part of me thought it was interesting. I was taking pictures of it.
Back to prayers for peace. 🪷🙏🏼💞
Healing for humans: physical, spiritual, mental, emotional and all areas.
Learning that a body is deserving of healing.
I think my body under this castor oil pack and heating pad wants some truly feminine energy for my healing. I have found some before but it was too mingled with patriarchal beliefs and about what motherhood is and motherhood as a superior role and that is actually very patriarchal and not healing and not nurturing, and it's awful and it's insensitive and it's degrading. A terrible thing to experience.
I have to calm down and really truly allow the nurturing and healing energies to heal me and I never want to go through the hell that I went through in this lifetime ever again.
The only way I can go forward is to get better at forgiving because people are childish and sometimes they don't grow quickly. They hold on to very childish belief systems and very damaging patterns. But instead of feeling oppressed by this, I want to get so much healing and nurturing energy so that instead of feeling oppressed by the childish and patriarchal, offensive and sexist attitudes, I want to be so much in a real nurturing energy that I no longer feel like I have to fight with those people anymore.
I don't have to prove myself to those people. I don't even have to convince myself or them of anything. I just need to put myself in nurturing healing spaces and I don't need to feed their belief systems and I don't need to feed their egos anymore. They will suck you dry with their nonsense and their insensitivity and very shallow attitudes towards what motherhood means. There are men who have more nurturing motherhood qualities than some women who've had multiple children and choose to use that as like their badges of honor. I don't see that as being very nurturing at all. It's very egocentric.
It's the kind of thing that you get in a culture where a bunch of mothers ended up voting for a sexual predator and allowing terrible draconian laws are making their daughters less safe than they were. It's absolutely atrocious.
But sometimes the body is not in the best shape to fight and argue. Now it needs healing. It needs good things to calm the pain and calm the hormones and calm the anxiety and calm the body and tell the body it's deserving of healing.
It hasn't been easy at all, but it's good to know that some blessings and more of the energy of healing is getting through now.
Friday, November 28, 2025
I have to heal.
I have been lying in bed under heating pads in a castor oil pack. For the lower lower right side of my body. I have anxiety. I have listened to singing bowls. I guess I'm going through a lot. I got an image of a beautiful calico cat outside the front door, like a cat spirit. I want to do so much healing.
💞🙏🏼🪷 Peace 🪷🙏🏼💞
I am going to ask for more access to healing calmness. I think I really do need it.
Sometimes, I feel it's rather a pity because there are some things that are so interesting to learn about out there in the world, but I just cannot get too involved in them because it's not what's best for me and my health at the moment.
And it seems like I would have gotten so much more external approval from certain people if I'd gone other ways, or I would have gotten financially rewarded more, but I have to do something that's better for my health now anyways. It's hard to make a new way that's better for my health, or it maybe it just feels hard at this time.
For now, maybe I can go relax more under a hot stream of water and little physical symptoms that nag at me will begin to ease up. Maybe I can let the universe help me more and stop thinking so much about worrying about what to do.
Yes, I want to learn the magic of not depending so much on external circumstances.
I feel that my particular genetics need me to get better at accepting I can get better at relaxing and being at peace. 💞🙏🏼🪷
"Stop Letting Life Control You | Eckhart Tolle on Peace..."
Sometimes you can find better roles when the old ones don't really serve you.
Maybe she'll quit this particular role for the rest of her life?
"Karoline Leavitt admits working for Trump has ruined her private life" - Irish Star
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/karoline-leavitt-admits-working-trump-36300409.amp
Oh, and when ICE snatched her nephew's mother for Thanksgiving, how was that for the family? Did we have to answer questions about why some mommies are more valuable and important to patriarchal white supremacy than other mommies? And therefore, why some kids are more important and valuable to patriarchal white supremacy than other kids?
That's what I imagine.
People who actually like what's going on probably also like watching those "You are not the father!" TV shows where people take paternity tests and have absolutely no empathy for the kids.
The unwell patriarchy wants people to feel oppressed; it really is sick and sad.
"A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.
'She’s absolutely heartbroken,' Pomerleau said. 'Her college dream has just been shattered.'
According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an immigration judge ordered Lopez Belloza deported in 2015. Pomerleau said she wasn’t aware of any removal order, however, and the only record he’s found indicates her case was closed in 2017."
~ Holly Ramer
"College freshman deported flying home for Thanksgiving"
https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98
"Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 sentence"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon-96ac8d1d44d438f64beb8b24ca54b651
"Trump says he wants to 'permanently pause' migration to the US from poorer countries"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-guard-shooting-migration-17bc0655f4544cc702623574ed08eb62
He's such a misery.
Time to focus more on health-related things.
It's weird how the body always seems great at letting me know that everything else is secondary to taking care of your own health. An ache or a pain or a feeling that that's like getting overheated returns. Time to put other things aside now and focus on health more.
Perhaps the Spirit of the Mother of Silicon Valley is watching.
"Silicon Valley on the Couch" | Revisionist History
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j1Lq9vpTcBs&si=mnZk9qjeV-_CJYWU
"William Shockley and the Nobel Sperm Bank" | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fully-human/202505/william-shockley-and-the-nobel-sperm-bank
"Shockley, who died in 1989, was highly intelligent, brilliant really. But intelligence is not the same thing as wisdom, and brilliance does not equate with goodness. Rather than seek to sterilize, prevent the birth of, or eliminate persons who seem subnormal in some way, perhaps we are called to help them make the most of their capabilities. People with Down syndrome, for example, have run ironman triathlons, performed at Carnegie Hall, and starred in weekly television series. Instead of trying to sort human beings into categories of acceptable and unacceptable, we should respect the innate worth of each human being."
~ Richard Gunderman
"Electronics Pioneer William Shockley's Legacy" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2006/07/21/5573656/electronics-pioneer-william-shockleys-legacy
"Mr. SHURKIN: His wife was the reason why this book got written, actually. She wanted it done very, very badly. She turned over all of the family archives to me. And I actually moved into her house.
FLATOW: Wow. Because she wanted to do what?
Mr. SHURKIN: She was his last defender. She was his lover. She was his friend. She was his colleague. She was his soldier, his secretary, and his doormat, for all practical purposes.
She wanted desperately to have a book written - a biography written of him. I could not possibly have done this without her. I owe her a great deal. And she did literally let me move into the house; I moved into his office.
FLATOW: But you did - but the book you came up with I'm sure is not the kind of book she thought was going to happen.
Mr. SHURKIN: I'm waiting for the telephone call."
Maybe it's a good time to question some of the beliefs.
"The last thing the conservative movement wants is an educated woman with autonomy."
Nick Jones
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrrp4UBJ/
"Bravo"
Stephanie Ann Diaz
Where do the belief systems come from?
"Poverty, Starvation, Homelessness in 🇺🇸 USA"
https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/wt3eQVDXfD
Johnny Carson
Dorothy Fuldheim
Richard Pryor
Hi. Value women. For a change.
So much work! But feminism is getting more popular than it used to be in some places.
"The common denominator is MEN..."
Emily Louise✨Matriarchy Rising
So anyways, today it's worship money day, and I found out the current version of the EPA is approving poisonous new pesticides.
Is this for MAGA?
"If you can't beat them, seduce them"
Basement Biology
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrr63cUW/
"Trump EPA Approves Its Second ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide in Two Weeks
Approval Ignores Health Risks to Children, Extreme Toxicity to Bees"
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Thank you for the positivity.
I really did get a lot of good out of listening to somebody talk to me about her life today. It's been hard to feel happy. It's been hard to think positivity is actually a good thing to have around you right now. Positivity, the toxic kind, just felt like conquering and meanness, and insensitivity towards what others were going through. But I don't want to be an angry person all the time; my soul was not made for that to be what my life is all about, and now I know this or I've gotten a great reminder. Yes, I've gotten a great reminder about that from multiple people today.
Letting go and moving on. 💗 Met a kind soul.
Life changed today. I met a lovely older woman in line at the pharmacy and I listened to her tell me some of her life story. I was there because I got a prescription for an antibiotic after I had to go to the dentist to get more work done unexpectedly.
The older woman, I wish I'd gotten her name, wanted to talk about her life, and I felt reserved at first, but then warmed up to the idea of listening to her, and it was fun. Oh, and this was divinely ordained too, because up at the counter I saw another woman who had once told me that she always listens to older women if they want to talk to her. But that other woman near the counter just went in and out of my vision quickly, and she didn't notice me. I guess it was a message from higher sources, and so as I was in line, I got to hear some of a story that a friendly stranger wanted to share.
She grew up in Pittsburgh. She's lived out here since the 1970s. Her husband passed away this year (maybe in July?) and she's going to move soon, and live in a mother-in-law apartment in a house with her daughter (and possibly her daughter's husband?) in Annapolis, Maryland. Her daughter works in some kind of capacity for the music industry and coordinates things for some musicians or something. And she knew Quincy Jones at some point, I think. So she comes out to Southern California a lot. She told me her father was a World War II veteran who worked for a steel company in Pittsburgh. Her father did some kind of work coordinating things, too. I said, oh so your daughter is doing something similar to your father, but also different. She said "Oh, I didn't think about that!"
Two things stand out that she told me.
One: None of the secretaries or receptionists at the steel company were women when her father worked there. There were only men. Two: All of the people in the highest positions looked alike. She said what, were they all from the same family or something? But they came to her father's funeral. He died at a very early age of a heart attack. She had brown skin and I imagined who her father might be, and what it was like for him to get that good company job. She talked about how her parents got a taste of what it was like to be rich and fly on a corporate jet, and it was like she was reliving her childhood. She said the pilot tipped the plane so her mother could get a good look at the Statue of Liberty in New York.
I really could almost cry, remembering this little conversation.
She said something about a copper building, too.
When I acted surprised about something she said, like about the male receptionists, she would lean forward and jab me and laugh. Like "Can you believe it? Who thought of that?" She did that with the male receptionists and she did that with the all those men in higher up positions looked the same.
We also made small talk about some other things. Her husband used to program things for her in her car. Sometimes she gets turned around when she tries to find places. She doesn't like driving at night so much. I told her about the new Trader Joe's that opened up nearby. She couldn't find the other one and ended up going to Walmart, but she didn't like Walmart as much, because she wanted to go to Trader Joe's. I thought she might like to try to visit the closer Trader Joe's now. But if she's going to move to Maryland soon, then maybe there won't be many more trips to Trader Joe's out here.
She really was the opposite of me because she was very chatty, but it was fun to be around her. Opposites attract sometimes.
I find myself wanting to know more about how she's doing now. But I'll probably never see her again. She was a good person to meet today. I did not get her name before the pharmacist called her, or I didn't remember to listen for it. But I feel my heart has been done good by her eagerness for a willing ear and some friendly conversation.
The last thing she said to me was, "To be continued!"
I kind of want to blow a kiss. Good humans are here on Earth! Thank you for being here.
There are some sad people among us; pray for them.
They decided to put a sign that said:
"America is not stolen land. Your ancestors were conquered."
FirePhotoGirl
3h
The Yaamava’ Resort & Casino advertisement is covered up on the I-10 freeway with this message in Yucaipa Ca.
@FirePhotoGirl
https://xcancel.com/FirePhotoGirl/status/1993726407089021371
I suppose doing so might have been the highlight of their sad day.
I bet so many people who've agreed to do what they're doing are bitter.
Maybe they just want to know how prejudiced you were trained to be, and they think that's their job, and they are performing it well.
"We can learn from our mistakes."
Better if more people took time to think; then they wouldn't make so many.
People can be really different from each other sometimes.
"The Last Secrets of Anne Frank: The Untold Story of Her Silent Protector by Joop van Wijk" | Goodreads
"That's understandable, really."
"X had to say 'Bye' to the people who still acted like being prejudiced and entitled to lack compassion for others was the best they could do; it was getting too disgusting to indulge them anymore."
Great to be able to learn more about what you don't need.
Fewer women dehumanizing other women in service to the preferences of the old chauvinistic patriarchal culture is in the forecast.
So racist and sexist and fascist of K. L. and others to choose not to care about how her nephew's mother and others are being treated.
Maybe there will be a lot of better people in the next generation who will try to do as much as possible to not repeat the old, unhealthy, bullying, greedy, atrocious behavior patterns that have been on flagrant display this year.
Racist relatives were trained to choose shallowness and selfishness over empathy or compassion.
"ICE detains WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew's mother"
"Pomerleau said Ferreira, who is being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana, was in the final stages of getting her green card, with the last interview scheduled for the spring."
~ Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy
Gee, it sounds like she was trying to do things the right way! And then, that no longer mattered when the racism got worse, apparently?
Not every aunt is a good auntie.
"Karoline Leavitt Slammed by Nephew’s Family for Ignoring ICE Arrest"
Indifferent children in an indifferent era.
"Auschwitz Through the Lens of the SS: The Album"
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/auschwitz-through-the-lens-of-the-ss-the-album
Society could be a lot healthier.
People who are the most manipulated by cult dynamics maybe did not feel good enough about themselves as children, but it still seems too sad that as they age, they feel they must be less than what they could be.
Unfortunately, some people choose to be very cruel when they choose to conform to fit in with others.
"The rare images show Nazis singing, hunting, and even trimming a Christmas tree. They provide a chilling contrast to the photographs of thousands of Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz at the same time."
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/auschwitz-through-the-lens-of-the-ss-the-album
It seems like even the selective empathy portion of some people's brains has gotten damaged.
And it makes some people seem very dishonest, as well as uncaring.
"'This Thanksgiving, I thank you for your service, and for deporting the illegal invaders who've flooded our communities,' Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee said."
~ Alex Nitzberg
"Republican lawmakers thank ICE workers in DHS"
"Saint Paul, Minnesota, earlier today, November 25, 2025 - ICE violently assaulting citizens"
itsmemaudeholly
Puzzles mean podcast episodes.
Over the past few days:
Revisionist History Season 11
"Nooks & Crannies"
"The Formula"
"The RFK Jr Problem"
"The Joe Rogan Intervention"
"Running Hot"
Shall I read an account of when a conservative anti-fascist American woman (I don't know if those were her political beliefs yet) went abroad with a friend in a Model-T Ford?
TRAVELS WITH ZENOBIA PART 1 | Simanaitis Says
https://simanaitissays.com/2021/12/22/travels-with-zenobia-part-1/
Helen Dore Boylston (WWI nurse aka "Troub") wrote a series about nurses.
https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984/
TRAVELS WITH ZENOBIA PART 2 | Simanaitis Says
https://simanaitissays.com/2021/12/23/travels-with-zenobia-part-2/
Internet archive has a copy to check out.
Travels with Zenobia : Paris to Albania by Model T Ford
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Maybe the USA will get less sick soon and won't be doing these unnecessarily traumatic things to people anymore.
"'I just want him released to come home to me and our family,' Kinney told KTVQ.
Grzeb’s immigration attorney, Randall Caudle, told KTVQ that applicants with pending marriage-based Green Cards are legally allowed to remain in the U.S. while the application is processed.
'There’s a lot of people that say immigrants need to go through the ‘correct process,’' Caudle told the outlet. 'Well, Justin and Carla were going through the correct process. They were doing everything the way they're supposed to do it. And yet we still have CBP coming after people that are doing it the right way. It's kind of insane right now, just what we're seeing ICE and CBP do. They're feeling empowered. Unfortunately, we're seeing massive constitutional violations.'"
~ Billal Rahman
"Husband Awaiting Green Card Detained by Immigration Agents During Bike Ride"
https://www.newsweek.com/husband-green-card-detained-immigration-agents-bike-ride-11105995
Reminder: It should be reasonable to act like women own their bodies, not their husbands.
"Just two months ago, Maria Elena Figueroa—a woman who fought against forced sterilization and one of 10 Mexican American plaintiffs to sue the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center for forced sterilization—died. The case Madrigal v. Quilligan highlighted the impact of racism, medical abuse and language barriers on reproductive justice within the healthcare system. Figueroa gave birth to her daughter in 1971 and had her fallopian tubes tied without consent to the procedure. Instead, her husband gave consent and signed the form without her knowledge.
Although not incarcerated, Figueroa stood as an advocate for thousands of women grappling with this history of medical violence and for the growing awareness of these long-standing ramifications."
~ Emma Cieslik
"Quilt Honors Survivors of Forced Sterilization..."
Life in a body has some stern lessons sometimes.
A situation with a tooth has taught me I need to learn more about self-care vs. self-harm.
There was a root canal tooth that needed a crown. Before the first crown, I coincidentally found out that Anne Frank had a root canal done on that tooth too, when she was in hiding, sharing a room with the dentist that lived with their families.
Oh humans, and their medical needs!
When the stress was constantly too much (and maybe it still is sometimes), and compulsive chewing on fingers and clothes finally led to a horrifying snap and broke the tooth and the crown, it was time to go to an emergency dentist, back in August.
And there another strange situation occurred. At first, the dentist and his assistant were getting along so well. It was nice to be worked on by people who seemed in harmony with one another.
But then the boss of the place, or somebody like that, came over and took away the assistant.
And this threw off the younger dentist, and it showed. He got someone else to work with him. Maybe she was a female dentist. He apologized to her and he said the other dentist always takes away his assistant.
Really his mood was not very good after this happened.
The female dentist said she didn't mind helping and said that when she was hired, she was told that she was going to have to help out a lot and it was like "serving many husbands." That's what her boss told her in the job interview.
Interesting. Kind of sexist.
Anyways, the dentist thought it would be better if I had an extraction and what's the thing that goes along with it. Bone graft. And then eventually an implant. But he also said we could try to do a crown.
As I am not making money at the moment, I asked him to please try to do the crown instead. I still had to pay out of pocket for the crown; insurance wouldn't cover it. But it would be less expensive and less invasive than the other work would be.
Well he was more depressed now, and as he was designing the crown, he was a bit gloomy about it, but he said he thought he could do it.
And then, when we put it in my mouth, it seemed a little big, because it is bigger than the other tooth, and maybe the color was a little off, but he said it was good enough. He said he would be surprised if it lasted very long, anyway.
Honestly, I was very stressed out and I just decided to believe him, but I wish I pushed back more on this.
After he decided that the crown was good enough, he dropped something. I almost wondered if he dropped the crown, because what else would it have been that he dropped?
And I wish I'd asked him. And then maybe he would have made a different crown.
He went into the other room and cleaned off whatever it is he dropped, and then came back and then put the crown in.
Anyways, the problem with the crown is this: the gum swells up around it. And it does constantly seem more swollen, but some days are worse than others.
I've been back several times and it seems to be like the gum is not so swollen, if I eat well and use a mouthwash and then it's not too bad.
And there's no infection, according to x-rays.
But it's bothersome. So now I'm left with a kind of inferior feeling about what I have in my mouth. And it will take another, different procedure to fix it.
Nobody else notices, of course. I notice it all the time, though.
What am I to learn from this?
We must build up our strength, and be able to advocate for ourselves and not harm ourselves further. And we must get the best care we can get for our bodies, now and in the future.
Also, cultivating gratitude and fun helps make a lot of things better.
One must advance...
It's hard to forgive situations that have been hurtful, especially when it seems as though there's not quite enough resolution, or that some people might still be doing things which will hurt more people.
And yet, in order to have a better life...
They deserved better. They deserve for their voices to be heard. And they deserve more.
"these six women remind people that medical violence is and has been permissible in this country"
Emma Cieslik
"Quilt Honors Survivors of Forced Sterilization"
Sharing this opinion now, and for what reason?
Because it strikes me as very important to acknowledge, for human rights, both now and the future.
They also wanted you to make excuses for lots of abuses. Stop the insanity!
"My toxic positivity gives me a pass and helps me blend in and be more dehumanizing towards people like you, which is exactly what they wanted me to do."
"Social Purity and Eugenics Movements" are cruel.
"During the Social Purity and Eugenics Movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, eugenicists sought to preserve and uplift a pure white, Protestant race by 'protecting' white women’s virginity and encouraging them to have children. (Pronatalists got their start during this time as well.) At the same time, they were forcibly sterilizing women of color, especially Black and Native women, poor women and disabled individuals."
~ Emma Cieslik
"Quilt Honors Survivors of Forced Sterilization in California Prisons: 'Together We Rise'" - Ms. Magazine
What besides a cult of cruelty makes somebody want to perpetuate an attitude that is so misogynistic and mean?
And it's sad that she must actually believe these lies.
"Through my research, I noticed that Erika Kirk repeatedly referred to the sacredness of motherhood. She claimed that 'childless leftwing women think children are a nuisance and a burden', painting a caricature of feminists as people who hate motherhood and children."
Nergiz
What an astonishingly insensitive and small-minded point of view. But now I am reminded of another point of view that I saw recently...
"This guy really lays it out!"
Knitting Cult Lady
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5vtvQG6JNxI&si=difjDQYUxB6G01WN
He's talking about why some right-wing people are super bad at acting like they care about others, and why they act like white supremacists.
It is nice to have a cat wander into my view.
Cats never justify their insensitivity by repeating unwell patterns that were perpetuated by oppressive patriarchal cults, and that's great.
It's time to tune into better images.
Good thoughts about people getting well, getting better, seeing new ways of doing things, feeling healthier, acknowledging feelings are good.
Society has been sick and needs to get better.
Why would you want to treat someone's father or brother worse if they came back in the body of a girl? Just a lot of unquestioned indoctrination, systemic prejudices, voices that said you had to go along with certain programs in order to survive. It was all so unnecessary.
Thoughtless misogyny should be considered a human health issue.
The exhausting drain of patriarchal patterns is hurtful. And terrible to human health. Like, when someone who once seemed trustworthy begins acting like an insecure person who makes excuses for abusive behavior, just because, I guess they learned that from somebody else, that is being abusive. That is discrimination. And it's exhausting. Human stubbornness is exhausting to behold sometimes. It's physically and emotionally taxing.
Good Old American Robert Redford really did fly that plane!
"Breathtaking Robert Redford & Meryl Streep Scene"
~ Popcorn Picks YT
Do they get help?
What happens when the United States of America has had too much to drink at a party and needs to throw up?
Rose Wilder Lane was Dorothy Thompson's live in nanny?!?!
"At the time (November 1931) Rose was staying at the Westport, Connecticut, home of Sinclair Lewis and his wife Dorothy Thompson, a journalist and Rose’s longtime friend. Lewis had won the 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature; Dorothy wanted to go to Sweden with him and asked Rose to mind the household, which included the Sinclairs’ six-month-old baby. There, she worked for a month on Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of Smedley D. Butler, which was published in 1933."
"Rose Wilder Lane, Smedley Butler, Lowell Thomas, and Rachel Maddow"
https://susanalbert.com/rose-wilder-lane-smedley-butler-lowell-thomas-and-rachel-maddow/
Kind of a shame. I never learned anything about Dorothy Thompson as a younger human being in a certain kind of educational system, in the United States of America!
"Dorothy Thompson" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Thompson
"She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s.[1][2] Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism"[3] and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt.[4]"
And her parents were very bad at talking about feelings. But anyways...
"...when living through the Long Winter they didn't have any fruit."
He really has suffered a lot, too.
"Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation" - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-inflation-affordability-policies/685054/
Those formative years...
'Prairie Fires: the American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser" – setinthepast
What if she was just someone who lacked affection or good guidance from her parents as a young child, and as an adult, she was still trying to make the best of it?
Oh, do I even want to know very much more about this person?
I liked her when she was writing "Old Home Town."
"Rose Wilder Lane, Smedley Butler, Lowell Thomas, and Rachel Maddow" - Susan Wittig Albert
https://susanalbert.com/rose-wilder-lane-smedley-butler-lowell-thomas-and-rachel-maddow/
There may be a great crisis of mental illness in this country, but surely there are better ways to address it!
"Trump Doesn’t Understand Inflation" - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/trump-inflation-affordability-policies/685054/
No, it was the mom who was fortunate to still have her place in the home.
What home did she work in?
Did Railroad Daddy tell you to say that?
But at least you could worship some of their dads! Like what about the good ones, the ones who didn't become ICE agents?
So, would they treat you better if we were living in a matriarchy?
"Patriarchy persists in our institutions and relationships, and only an entirely different social structure can heal the gaping wounds of this violent system. What’s worse is that the right-wingers and red pillers of the world can capitalize on the unfinished work of dismantling patriarchy, convincing women to embrace oppression, telling them that feminism 'failed'."
Charlie Kirk is a perfect example of this. When he spoke, he said repeatedly that feminism had made women miserable, and that women “deep down have an urge to have children, but we’re telling them to forsake that and become CEO of a shoe company”.
~ Nergiz
"Why feminism won't survive without matriarchy"
"What I have learned is that patriarchal people like Charlie Kirk are deeply afraid, so they cling to bloated, illogical, and ultimately fragile power structures. Underneath the bravado and strongman personalities that characterize patriarchal “leaders”, there is unaddressed existential fear. Because patriarchy is a system that is not designed to sustain life, it also ignores death. Death is inherently part of the cycle of life. Matriarchal societies have always honored death, folding it into their societies through rituals, daily customs, and spirituality. They understand that when you ignore death, you actually make the fear of it much larger.~ Nergiz
"Why feminism won't survive without matriarchy"
No matter what I did? Sad...
I can't believe that a system that's training women to hate other women would teach these women to treat me better if only I acted more like their dads. What century is this now?
How to make a comfortable lifestyle. Sad!
Training women to feel they need to hate women because in order to gain access to comforts they need to make excuses for their dads.
Isn't patriarchy sad?
Training women to feel they need to hate women in order to make excuses for their dads.
Can imagine that it was very distressing!
"Dr. Abedini posted on LinkedIn early Tuesday morning saying, 'It was a deeply distressing experience, especially seeing those without the support I had.'"
~ Sierra Joslin
I wonder if one can find lots of books about colonialism and socialism in that store?
"I Bought a Bookstore"
The Cottage Fairy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-IO3rAurptA&si=pS_Dh3gkJppq6gRy
I think they've been a big part of her life.
Thank you for your service!
It's been very helpful that you felt comfortable enough to completely disrespect my point of view.
Because of this life, now I get to wonder.
If any of my former students got picked up by ICE. And I also get to wonder if any of them became ICE agents.
I mean, what do they want? What's their deeper pulse? Do they love music? It's kind of inspiring!
"John Barry: 'Out of Africa' Theme (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)"
They're kind of like the sad rich people, but different.
Operation Rescue Sad Children in the Bodies of ICE Agents.
"Also, acting this way keeps me from getting locked up, too."
So you think like an ICE agent, then? Could you maybe build some common ground with them?!
Well, that's really big of you to admit that.
"Actually, I'm extra selfish precisely because my grandpa wasn't his favorite as much as some of the other grandpas were."
And what do you mean by good?
It seems like some kids (are some of them locked away in detention centers) are going to have to figure out why patriarchal white supremacy was so "good" to some Grandpas in comparison to how it was to, well, a lot of other people, and so much sooner than some of the older people are going to try to figure it out, before they, too reincarnate and have a more empirical experience of it themselves.
Time to pray for all the authoritarians!
May their shallowness, greediness and small-mindedness DIE.
May they be born again to do better things.
Being uncaring for the money is going to get too boring and too disgusting for some people. I just know it.
"ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms."
Just kind of wondering about this now, again.
What would Jesus say for us to do when an authoritarian regime is being so much worse to other people and to others people's children?
Is that really okay?
Is that really good for our souls?
Tick-tock, like the old fashioned grandfather clock.
Some people who were idolizing bad actors are now back to acting like Jesus is their favorite. So we'll see what happens.
But then they began to realize that not caring was the real disability!!!
"What students with disabilities stand to lose
Students with disabilities and other learning and developmental differences depend on the Department of Education's expertise. Nearly 1 million students with autism rely on IDEA’s requirements for individualized supports.
Students from marginalized communities rely on the department’s Office for Civil Rights to investigate discrimination. And 15% of K-12 students with disabilities rely on fair, consistent implementation of federal law, which is something only the Education Department can guarantee.
That enforcement is not theoretical. In fiscal year 2024 alone, the department resolved about 8,500 disability rights complaints, conducted proactive compliance reviews, issued guidance and responded to more than 11,000 inquiries from families and schools seeking help. For many families, whose schools are not providing required accommodations, the Department of Education is their only real recourse."
~ Jacqueline Rodriguez and Chad Rummel
"McMahon's education plan breaks the law and denies students' rights | Opinion
McMahon's argument that no one would miss the Department of Education depends on several assumptions. These assumptions do not align with the lived reality of American families."
No criminal record? No problem. They'll arrest anyway!
"ICE agents arrest green card applicants in San Diego"| KPBS Public Media
Jesus had such a heart for the persecuted!
I guess we'll know more about what the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in 2025 were like for some of the people who are locked inside of the burgeoning detention centers.
Oh, okay! Children writing in their diaries appreciate that!
"I'm so glad Jesus has saved me! Now I always have both my grandkids and other people's grandkids in mind whenever I put my selfish and not so sensitive behavior patterns on full display!"
Anyways, it's possible I could change my mind about this in some situations.
But I overall think that toxic positivity is very mean and harmful to the children who are being discriminated against and feeling persecuted right now, and it's too selfish on the part of the adults who are using toxic positivity as a way to cope with what's going on.
However, I'm not saying there aren't some situations in which it's a better case scenario than the alternatives. So that's why I say it's possible I could change my mind, depending on the circumstances.
Well, it's happening.
Persecution is happening, and I know it's very sad, and society can do so much better.
I'm just staggered by how many people are still acting like they're so disconnected from the ones who are providing them with their fortunate circumstances: food and water and a roof over their heads and things like that.
But this situation is the result of a whole lifetime of collective beliefs and habits and behavior patterns.
And for some of the religious people, right now "getting saved" is what's the most important to them, while stopping the persecution of others is not. They definitely don't want to look too closely at that persecution of others stuff.
Well, it's happening.
And if their actions contributed to those persecutions, that's even more of a reason they don't want to look at the situation too closely.
They just really, really need the happy chemicals in their brains.
Maybe one day they'll also be able to use their brains for bigger and better things.
Maybe I'm a slow learner, but I still feel shocked sometimes.
I suppose there were quite a few people who supported Nazis in the 1930s and that made life absolutely terrible for some people, like a now famous immigrant who wrote "The Diary of Anne Frank," but later, after they changed and just kind of conveniently stopped supporting the Nazis, there was rarely a sign that they ever wanted to take any responsibility for their behaviors or actions; instead, they just moved on.
Traumatizing children is a great failure. It must never be seen as okay that this happened.
"In cities targeted by ICE, empty desks and school disruptions follow"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/11/24/immigration-crackdown-school-disruptions/
Isn't it fun to be able to have fun being curious?
"Is this what we've been missing as we oppose oligarchy...."
Parkrose Permaculture
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x8OZATzZmVM&si=B3bm2Qw3pd8iJC9b
Instead of incurious and fearful:
"Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm: court filing"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/meta-internal-research-social-media-harm-court-filing.html
Monday, November 24, 2025
Not a childcare provider?
"ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor With H-1B Visa..."
(I was thinking of this one again.)
"After ICE raids, child care workers are building a network of resistance"
https://19thnews.org/2025/11/ice-child-care-workers-network-of-resistance/
People evolve!
"Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is the most important book I have ever read."
~ Alex Connolly
"Revelations about Cormac McCarthy so shocked me that the words I loved are inaccessible" – The Irish Times
This reminded me of strolling past the banned book table at the store the other day
"Hope this helps..."
LA Public Library
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRdL9yXEuW_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Why is The Road banned?" A woman in a hijab indignantly asked a man. "We read it, and it was fine."
'The Road by Cormac McCarthy" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road
I don't know. I've never read it. Kind of curious now.
Ah, youthful idealism!
"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Houseman.
https://poets.org/poem/athlete-dying-young
"Kent State’s May 4 Visitors Center Celebrates Life With 'Bill: An All-American Boy' Exhibition | Kent Campus, Kent State Today, May 4 Visitors Center, May 4, 50th Commemoration"
"Out of Africa (To an Athlete Dying Young)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-yRhm6zfnbY&si=WU9d_h2SJ9B44Tyq
"Meryl Streep's Powerful Poem (Full Scene) | Out of Africa"
And of course, another stop on the journey has appeared!
Maybe this is a sisterly universe sometimes.
Is a conscience a good thing to have?
Back when the pandemic was dominating our lives I remember finding a channel about a girl who appreciated nature and I really enjoyed it when I first found it. I was completely content to just enjoy content.
But then one day, this little weird thought came into my head. I mentioned it to another person and I said of course it helps that she's a young, blond, thin, attractive person and that's valued in women according to this society standards. And I suppose that's helped the channel get popular.
Well, someone said to me, that sounds like it has a lot to do with the channel getting popular. And I didn't really want to think about that. But now it's too late.
"I Bought a Bookstore"
The Cottage Fairy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-IO3rAurptA&si=pS_Dh3gkJppq6gRy
Every single freaking time I see something by this person, the knowledge of that seems to come up again. It's like it just won't go away, and it just completely smashes me in the face. It rattles me. I don't want a calm voice to soothe it away.
I don't think she's as blond anymore, for some reason.
I'm no longer reading about people dying their hair to try to look more Aryan and finding out that actually people who looked blonder were, in fact, more likely to survive.
The ICE raids and kidnappings and torments of children who are immigrants and the demarcations between them and the more fortunate ones is constantly altering my perceptions of our society and who and what people are trained to value.
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Humans deserve better than violence, but who believes that.
Humans deserve better than mediocrity, but how do you know people believe that? What I don't like about toxic positivity is that I feel it does not protect many people, and in creating a false sense of security, it might expose more people to a lot more dangers, and I object.
Survival modes abounding.
People who are in charge now are not like the people that came before. They are their own thing. They're a product of something that's going on with the consciousness in this country.
How many people are thinking about the farm workers? Do they interrupt their own meals to hope that everyone's getting well treated and their children are being tended to and such?
How many are worried about the roofers? Are you worried if they don't have a job or if they're being treated badly or if the roofing contractors lose their roofers and then become ICE agents?
Most of the time, you sit under a roof. You expect the roof not to leak. The roof does its job, and that's enough.
So it seems like a bunch of people were fine with the people in charge because it was familiar enough to them. It was like when they were making excuses for the imperfect people who raised them. Things weren't perfect then but it was good enough, and they've learned to accept it.
If you go in one household and you listen to certain TV and certain radio stations and such, you get a different outlook than if you go in another household and listen to other TV and radio stations all the time.
I get upset because it seems like a bunch of people weren't raised to be feminist at all. Really hardly at all. Barely scratching the surface. And then they don't seem to care when girls and women's rights get more and more threatened.
Maybe they're just in survival mode.
Like if I have a lot of sleep deprivation, I'm just going to be like, I need a nap. I can't focus on anything else. I just need a nap.
Maybe that's what they're like. They're just focused on their own needs. They've got so much going on that they just can't seem to think very much about others.
Also, it's nice and tidy for them to think that socialism is the greatest threat to their lives. Somebody said that was the problem with society when they were kids, it got into their system, they accepted it, and voila. It's become their crutch. How convenient to have something else to point at to make sure that doesn't wreck your world. So much easier than changing attitudes or habits.
" I always loved the admirals..."
"Trump Jokes He 'Never Liked Good-Looking People'"
cnnnews18
And I'd also think that if you wanted your kids to be as sexist as you were raised to be
You are really doing them a terrible disservice, and you are not acting out of love for your children, but out of harmful programming.
What are they thinking?
Anything?
"Woman reads quotes by the late Charlie Kirk to Republican congressmen. They struggle to keep eye contact."
They are not being sexist because they love you.
They're being emotionally immature and repeating old patterns because they're very stubborn, and the sexist ways they were taught are more familiar to them, and they were taught that as long as they didn't think too deeply or feel too much, that was supposed to be good enough for them.
Is this AI's evil plan? Does AI love the poorly educated?
How to make your kids less sexist than you were raised to be / were raising them to be.
"The New Age of Sexism’ explores how misogyny is replicated in AI and emerging tech" | PBS News
Future generations....
Maybe they just won't have to think about some things very much.
"Who can we really afford — the rich or everyone else"
Richard J. Murphy
I think he kind of likes charismatic men in this life!
"Trump praises Mamdani after White House meeting: 'I want him to do a great job'"
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/live-updates/trump-mamdani-meeting-white-house-new-york/
Some of them will change in this life too, though!!!!
I think they'll be less prejudiced against X types of people when they reincarnate.
Maybe it's an opportunity to wake up and expect better.
"There's a cognitive dissonance playing out on a planetary scale, revealing something harsh about human psychology."
~ Cornelia C. Walther
"The Psychology of Collective Abandonment"
Make the USA less prejudiced today.
"I'm A U.S. Citizen. I'm Terrified My Adopted Son Will Be Snatched By ICE Due To A Heartbreaking Loophole." | HuffPost
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