Elizabeth R Brady

"If the tree hadn't been harvested, it could have lived up to about 250 years."

Let that sink in.

I will be sure to visit this magnificent tree to lay a wreath.
Not a Xmas wreath.

#RIP

We are a sick people to think this is an "honor".

#HomeMeansNevada

So sorry missed #GenChat last night. Have been in a "pause" as to projects. My beautiful mom's final advice to me was to take care of my core family of 4, being sure to HAVE FUN. Doing our best in that regard in honor of Yvonne Carol Gates Brady,
1 Apr 1934 - 21 Nov 2025.

I promise, Mom. Always.

Sitting here in the quiet before this cooking day ....
can now picture mom's tray also included radishes and those jarred small, red & green, whole pickled peppers. Miss you, mom. ♥️
#FamilyHistory

Ah, the "relish tray" for Thanksgiving. Sweet memories.
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy

"Relish tray". Was my job early as girl helping mom w/ T'Giving meal -- late 60s, early 70s.
She was from rural western Colorado. (Her mom from Colorado, her grandma from Iowa, GGrandma from England.)
Gherkins, blk & grn olives, carrots, celery, deviled eggs.

I did not carry on this for meal.

#Genealogy
#GenChat

LEFT: Mark Kelly, shirt covered with medals.
RIGHT: Pete Hegseth, shirt covered with booze.

Beautiful.
#HomeMeansNevada

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory

This is great—>

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:

Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.

If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.

Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

“For the first time in my career, an editor prevented me from doing my job, just because of who I chose to aim my pen at.” – Ann Telnaes, Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, who resigned from the Washington Post in protest on January 4th 2025. Jeff Bezos (Amazon, Washington Post), Sam Altman (Open AI), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times) and Mickey Mouse (Disney) are portrayed variously offering money in tribute, applying lipstick in advance of kissing, and lying prostrate before a giant statue of President Trump in the sketch that was rejected by editor David Shipley, leading to Telnaes’ resignation. cartoonistsrights.org/donate

After a headline-making year we thank the amazing @anntelnaes.bsky.social for lending her powerful cartoons to our 2025 fundraiser. More to come in the days and weeks ahead.
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Quiet, Piggy

Amen on the ONLY DULLES flying plan. (Says Northern Virginian with retired air crew family and who flies a lot .... )

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.

So here:

If his lips are moving, he's lying.

#DemocracyDies

The Great AI Bubble Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the AI bubble, talking to Folk Who Know.

"Welcome to the Great AI Bubble, a metastasized trillion dollar tech tumour so massive it’s practically visible from space."

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#HughBrady Abt 1709-1787, Hopewell Twp, #Pennsylvania .
For those who stumble here: ZERO meaningful evidence that son (and Rev War soldier) William Brady had a son Nathan Brady.

Please work to find TRUE father for Nathan, likely in NC.

Beware "researchers" who claim this connection as true.

this is insane .... whoa.
#DemocracyDies

#genchat I am so sorry we ran out of time! Thanks for all your courthouse stories!
Next time (Nov 28) is our LAST OPEN MIC about #Genealogy Related Projects - be it professional, personal, creative or whatever! See you there!

It is with bittersweet feeling that I’m announcing the end of #genchat as we know it as of December 12 on Bluesky and 13 on Mastodon. There are several reasons for this:

Just seeing this. Echoing all the thanks. I loved what we once had for a more cohesive, vibrant #Genealogy community. I have learned & shared so much. #GenChat was such a bright spot for me. Feeling like #ancestors 200 years ago who moved away never knowing if they'd see family / friends again. 😢

The problem of sexual assault goes well beyond the perpetrators. It wouldn't happen without the enablers. Such as Republican politicians who go to church on Sunday and then spend their workdays trying to cover up the president's involvement with a child sex trafficking operation.

I have to reiterate that the loss to the United States of so many excellent scientists who were fired by Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is catastrophic to the future of the country.

And also to the present of the country.

Finally have this amazing book in front of me & a chunk of personal time to bury myself! #GenChat #Genealogy
#Lineage

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Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

“Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a time that Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

Liz Cheney