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1. Does this need to be said?
2. Does this need to be said *right now*?
3. Does this need to be said *by me*?

You're 0 for 3.

As if running on the "anti-woke" platform isn't identity politics.

I don't know if this works for everyone, but this is the indoor thing that helps recharge me: spending unproductive time at my local library. Just to be with humans (most of whom are pretty quiet) and not bothering to try to get something done. It's a mental reset for me and I'm not isolated.

Thanks for sharing!

"It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power."

And a Brooklyn!

They're not pursuing anyone else detaining people for more than 12 hours!!!! It's discrimination!

Protests won't change the mind of the people who put them on the street. It's unlikely to change the mind of the people who saw the horror of mass deportations and said, "Sign me up!" But the coward who loves America but loves his power/position/comfort a little more may be reachable.

This is a really good reason to go back out on the street and protest, to stay peaceful in the face of escalating suppression by feds and law enforcement and even the national guard: when you see someone put their body on the line to protect their country, it puts your cowardice to shame.

My concern is that the level of information control with the media environment is that many people who might care and who live in the districts of the only people who have the power to rein him in don't know it's happening.

Three things can be true at once.

Came here to say this.

frankly i don't give a fuck what the owner of two car washes thinks would be best for the future of 82nd avenue. it's not his avenue and he can pound sand

Terrible people rarely specialize in being only one kind of terrible.

It's why Dr. Gregory House hated them.

Screenshot from the Wikipedia article on radio waves showing that radio broadcasts began in 1900, 18 years before 1918 flu pandemic. 1979 seemed dubious, too.

It's one of the best time travel movies of all time. Time travel is really hard to write about!

Mandate pools? What?

Steven Pinker slander right off the bat. I'm here for it.

Thanks for the recc. I loved Debt. Dawn of every month audiobook is available now from my local library on Libby. Kinda disappointed in my fellow patrons, but it's a windfall for me!

I saw a tiktok from a painter doing a painting in progress. The human artists take longer, but they're on it.

Taxes are high at least partially because we all voted to raise our own taxes - I voted for Preschool for All, I voted for the library levy and the capital improvements on the high schools. I'm not thrilled with how the first and the third are going but I don't regret those votes.

I bet it was designed by AI

Happy Spooky Lake Month to all who celebrate!

Is Tylenol risk-free? Probably not. Neither are epidurals. But the risks are very low, and my pain is not meaningless no matter what that birth coach or RFK says.

But when I think back on what it was like to be pregnant and have all the things I thought about it filtered through the misogyny of the mother-as-no-more-than incubators, I see how they wanted me to suffer (or didn't care if I did) or otherwise to get to blame me for any bad outcome.

She was fine. She was just further through her journey than they thought and they were looking for her heart in the wrong place.

So this is my story so far: I spent 10 months (and even before that!) making every choice for my baby's health no matter my discomfort and I make one decision to ease my pain (one that had been stigmatized in our birth class) and now my baby doesn't have a heartbeat.

They came to check on us and to get a monitor back on her and it always takes a little longer than you want it to to find a heartbeat again. But then it took a little longer than that and all the color drained out of my nurses face and she put a O2 mask on me and left the room without a word.

Things finally got going, we went to the hospital and I was contracting for longer than a minute and they were only about 2 minutes apart. And finally I asked for an epidural. I got one and took a nap.