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Enlisted my partner to tally kids as they came and we had around 70! I gave out chips, Rice Krispies, and candy, and bags to kids who didn’t have one. Ran out of treats by 7:30! Definitely did not stock as well this year but I guessed we got 50 kids so now I know 🎃👻

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Like he knew I wouldn't ever say "I saw a bird today" because I'd say what bird it was or I'd say something about it lol and idk why I asked "is it real?" it was also not something he usually would say! Usually he tells me about the turkeys or birds he sees on his bike rides lol. It was a real cat 😆

a woman wearing glasses and a white sweater is sitting on a couch covering her face with her hand . Alt: a woman wearing glasses and a white sweater is sitting on a couch covering her face with her hand, then chuckling and shaking her head in disbelief.

I knew this wouldn't work with my partner because we literally talk about birds every day but I did it anyway and said "I saw a bird today" and he replied "Was it dead?" 😂 and then the next day he did it to me and said "I saw a cat today" and I said "Was it real? 😂

This "bird challenge" is going around that has women saying "I saw a bird today" to their male partners to see if they'll engage in conversation. A little depressing, but it is based on the idea that you should respond to your partners "bids" for engagement, etc anyway,

And they did this when they should have been spending money on air filtration.

I think a big part of the upset is always also having to be reminded yet again that it shouldn’t be this hard and we shouldn’t have to advocate, it shouldn’t still be such an uphill battle 😩

I’m also just really tired of asking people to care

Basically every time we see family it’s just such a huge risk and we have to just hope our masking alone is enough. But it’s so exhausting worrying. Masking isn’t perfect or foolproof, especially when it’s just us and no one else we’re around 😩

We mostly did things outside and at home I tried to have doors and windows open until it got cold then air purifiers but man it’s exhausting staying this vigilant when just trying to see family is such a huge risk cuz no one fucking masks

My partner’s parents were with us for a week and don’t mask, they just texted us they’re sick 😩 they left last Wednesday an said they started feeling sick on the way home, so by now I think we’re out of the woods but as usual I’m mad at myself for not advocating for ourselves and making them mask 😔

I have to take the day off after seeing my niblings cuz I know I’m gonna be sore and feel hungover lol 😆 props to parents 👏🏻

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

I think my baseline is feeling like I’m about to get sick 😩 like I just always feel kinda off, congested, faint, and tired 😵‍💫🫠

Just bought a Keanu reeves coloring book for a dollar from the library book sale. Did I need a Keanu reeves coloring book? No, but I truly couldn’t resist. Also bought a Keanu Reeves movie from the sale lol. Superfan status

Pretty sure this is a scene from @annaleen.bsky.social's The Terraformers

It’s WI book fest weekend and there’s no SFF/horror/magical realism, there’s a loooot of lit fic this year. maybe it’s like that most years but last year was so good and more nonfiction I was interested in last year

Universities across the world seeing this:

"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

Email your Wisconsin State Legislators: Protect Free Speech, Reject AB446/SB445 A codified definition of antisemitism that stifles free speech won't keep Jews safe

The Wisconsin legislature is trying to pass AB446/SB445, a bill that would codify a dangerous definition of antisemitism into law. Email your reps here (also email Gov Evers if you can!) nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

i wanna go to the book sale downtown but i dont want to drive and park downtown, i just want to be magically transported to the room with all the books and then back home with all the books i bought

People be having long COVID. Hordes of people. I notice in my professional & personal life, the brain fog & the toll it's taken on people's bodies, they're not admitting why they've never been at their best since that last of many COVID infections.

Sent the in-laws away with a huge stock of cheese, beer, and brats. The Wisconsin Way.

Sometimes I forget the mutuals feed doesn’t show reposts so I have to go to profiles and catch up on the good reposts I’ve missed cuz they got buried in my main feed

Well, that was the point

Same reason why everything has to have an app. Sweet sweet consumer data, to be sold to ad brokers.

Please help my friend, she's one of the kindest people i know

trying to mix in some decaf coffee and whew, some days i can tolerate it, and other days i'm like, what am i even doing with my life drinking this lol

collecting all the articles and studies I can about AI making people less productive cuz my work is just ALL IN on AI ugh. (people don't seem to listen to me when I talk about the worker's rights and environment harm aspects 😵‍💫😖🥺)

A news article from Medical Xpress dated October 20, 2025, titled “Post-pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits.” The word “Post” is crossed out and replaced in red text with “Ongoing.” Below the headline, an image shows a woman in a blue sweater holding a tissue to her nose, appearing sick.

"COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences year-round as occurred during peak influenza months, a team that includes Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) researchers has found."

Source: archive.li/z10Zl

i dont know the details but she did qualify and then didn't (or maybe that was medicaid i can't remember) but yeah i think they are still trying to deal with that 😵‍💫