Kira Curious

🤷‍♀️ Saves effort taking it down!!

one memorable year my mom didn't get around to taking down the tree until July. I don't tree anymore.

I am so glad to know that! thanks

o henlo

where is that line from? There used to be an obscure SF band called Liquid Soul that used it on one of their tracks.

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I missed Stan Getz AND Miles Davis the same way, when I was living in Austin TX.

Interested in low-dose Rapamycin for Long Covid? The Cohen Center for Recovery from Complex Chronic Illness is actively recruiting for a RCT of the mTOR inhibitor Sirolimus (Rapamycin). The trial aims to evaluate if changes to the immune response as a result of the drug improve Long Covid symptoms.

I would expect as a courtesy Mountbatten-Windsor has been released on recognizance, instead.

I loved them till I overindulged once when I was eight and I haven't been able to enjoy one since.

They seem kinda different to me, but I'm pretty ignorant of both places so...fair point?

I dunno, he was creepy about women, so....maybe?

(as a native of Massachusetts, I would suggest that I would not be comfortable getting lumped in with Vermont and New Hampshire, and the Connecticut folks would not have me for love or money)

also, fuck that fucking douche.

I mean, if he is gonna throw stupid fake tropes to get a rise, he's just gonna get it back again. I guess he can dish it out but he can't take it, in the language of our childhood.

that's awesome!!!

"only", she says.

oh I'll have to see about looking this up somewhere I can read it!

It will be a great day in Halifax when the schools have all the money they need and the police have to hold a bake sale to buy an armored car.

My personal feeling is that he's not alive to benefit from it, and for me personally that would change the calculus somewhat, but YMMV.

A blonde white woman in a pink sweatshirt, shorts & white sneakers sits poised on a gray couch, hands folded in her lap. Six black bears behind the couch brace their front paws on the couch back & face the camera.

well, then they wouldn't be able to concentrate $3 trillion in wealth in the hands of 30 guys

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really good piece. Wonder why it doesn't mention Steven Pinker though.

Capitalism loooooves there to be out-groups. it's racist and sexist because it rewards inequality.

Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.

...aside from those five folks, there are some leading academics who people are now looking askance at, but AFAIK aren't having their tenure revoked or anything.

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NFL to look into Giants co-owner Tisch's Epstein files connection The NFL said Monday that it is aware emails released by the Justice Department on Friday show that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein connected Giants co-owner Steve Tisch with numerous women and ...

Giants co-owner Steve Tisch might get kicked out of the NFL

www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

From Trump to Epstein, how Brad Karp lost his grip on law firm Paul Weiss​ Brad Karp has not been accused of wrongdoing, but the disclosures of his contacts with Jeffrey Epstein undid in a matter of days his longstanding grip over the firm that cemented him as a Wall Street ...

and the chairman at one of the more respected political players, a DC law firm called Paul Weiss, has also stepped down

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Kathryn Ruemmler: Top Goldman Sachs lawyer who called Epstein 'Uncle Jeffrey' resigns Emails show the high-flying attorney likened the convicted paedophile to "an older brother" and accepted luxury gifts.

A top Goldman Sachs lawyer has resigned to reduce flak on the company

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some U.S. schools cancel class pictures after online claims surrounding Epstein Some school districts in the U.S. dropped plans for class pictures after widespread social media posts linked a billionaire with ties to Jeffrey Epstein to the photography giant Lifetouch, which on Fr...

among other things, Leon Black runs the largest photographer of children in the US; some classes are cancelling photo day.

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AFAIK beyond the sauce demise there are only a few consequences being reported. Anyone in the Administration is certainly trying to brazen it out.
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