AngelaInNC 💙💒🏳️‍🌈🤷‍♀️

@bbcworldservice.bsky.social the story about wealth transfer is off! My eldest is an elder millennial. He’s 40 & I’m 60; he’s not near an inheritance! MY parents are alive! My husband is a trailing edge Boomer, & his parents are still alive! You’ve completely skipped Gen X! 😑 But we’re used to that.

Am I the only person who gets behind somebody doing 32 and a 45 at 10:50 at night and immediately assumes they’re drunk?

This is very helpful - thank you!

This is a letter from my sister, Pam. I can’t begin to tell you how much it would mean to me for you to read it, consider what she says, and maybe share! #Transplant #bekind

As @marcelias.bsky.social reported, the attempt to overturn the election of Justice Allison Riggs is overt and egregious.

If you don’t think Dem votes are the target, go here: dl.ncsbe.gov?prefix=Legal...

Challenges:
Chatham Co: 800+\-
Lee Co-1
Durham Co: >3500
Alamance Co: 6

See a trend??

an epiphany poster with three wise men riding camels ALT: an epiphany poster with three wise men riding camels

Happy Epiphany! 👑 👑 👑

I hope today you are filled with joy over gifts given or gotten, and that in some way that is meaningful to you, you find yourself face-to-face with the Divine.

Yup. And driving across half the island without traffic lights was…interesting!

I hear that!!!! We are blessed with a diocesan ofc of worship director who is OFM (😱), so I could count on him to offer to “pastorally correct” his confreres! Hahahahaha

Hahahaha Oh, I wasn’t so reticent, but my MA is in liturgy and my title was Dir of Liturgy and Music, so they weren’t shocked. LOL

I love my Franciscans dearly, but having worked with them for 13 years, I can attest to their liturgical…ummm…creativity? 😆

NOT an offense - a totally yummy plan! 😋

Love Franciscans, but Salesians really bring the liturgical gravitas!! 😆

I agree with all of the other positive comments being made about #BlueSkySocial.

But a rule I had in X land is still true here: if I follow you back, and don’t personally know you, and you immediately private message me, I will unfollow and block you. Because that’s just weird!

And can I just say how much I enjoy seeing a familiar name here? I hope you’re enjoying a blessed Advent!

This is just total bragging, but today, my brilliant, beautiful, daring girl turns 24. I don’t know where the years have gone, but she’s as precious to me today as she was on this date 24 years ago! Feliz cumple, chica!

T’giving is a time to reflect on blessings that are not always recognized as entitlement.

Going to see family? ✅
Family coming to see you? ✅
Paying someone to pet sit? ✅
Have a pet? ✅

Not a guilt trip, just encouragement to see little things some take for granted & to remember those who can’t.

Today we realized as a faculty that serving a large immigrant population means that in the new year, we will need to understand legal rights for officials to access the campus and do everything we can to protect our students. From the government. In the US.

This is just wrong.

As a good friend of mine, who went to law school with my husband, likes to say: ‘I don’t know’, and ‘I don’t remember’ are perfectly valid answers. 😐

Therefore, to achieve population replacement in the U.S., each woman would need to have approximately 2.005 children, considering current infant and maternal mortality rates.

And that students, is a valid use of AI.
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Combined survival rate = Survival rate to age one × Survival rate per birth
Combined survival rate ≈ 0.9947 × 0.999777 ≈ 0.9945
Calculating TFR:
TFR = 2 / Combined survival rate
TFR ≈ 2 / 0.9945 ≈ 2.005
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Adjusting for Maternal Mortality:
Survival rate per birth = 1 - (MMR / 100,000)
Survival rate per birth = 1 - (22.3 / 100,000) ≈ 0.999777
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Adjusting for Infant Mortality:
Survival rate to age one = 1 - (IMR / 1,000)
Survival rate to age one = 1 - (5.342 / 1,000) ≈ 0.9947
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Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR): The U.S. maternal mortality rate in 2022 was 22.3 deaths per 100,000 live births.
CDC

The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) represents the avg number of children a woman would need to have in order to ensure population replacement, considering mortality rates.
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To maintain a stable population, each woman needs to have enough children to replace herself and her partner, accounting for infant and maternal mortality rates.

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR): The U.S. infant mortality rate in 2024 is approximately 5.342 deaths per 1,000 live births.
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I’m sure everyone has read about the “Quiverfull” movement, re couples having crazy large numbers of children.

In reality, population explosion is not good for many reasons, so I had to wonder: if we wanted a stable population, what should THOSE birth rates look like?

I turned to AI: 🧵 1/7

It’s not impossible re their parents, but the students are being formed for justice in a Jesuit school…the ones who spoke to me were definitively opposed to him.

There’s a lovely song - Advent Litany - by Jaime Cortez that incorporates the Veni Veni tune within a modern setting - in English or Spanish - of the Os. I used it for years as the entrance hymn for Mass. #memories

That’s a lovely way to introduce them to people who don’t pray the Office - I’ll read!

I cannot restrain my curiosity - what calendar?

I’m just not familiar with one that shifts Advent and Christmas earlier…

We totally get this! 😆