She named her kids "Aryan" and "Nation," and the cops slow-walked their investigation and tried to blame her Native American victim until the media brought some heat.
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I'm a fifty-something woman working on my recovery from a decades-long eating disorder, working on living well with mental illness, and working on boundaries. They should teach that last one in school. She/her/we.
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Good news on the Scholastic front. They’ve backed away from the pit and are owning their fuckup.
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I feel sorry for all the news companies that launched research for stories on “Who is Tom Emmer?” only to have him drop out of the race for Speaker in four hours.
Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic are getting effective at creating new measures of time! A Scaramucci (or Mooch) is 11 days. A Liz Truss is 44 days. And now an Emmer is four hours! (“Man, it's only 1 pm? I have a whole Emmer before I can kick off from work!”)
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It is a Handmaiden’s Tale level nightmare now in Texas, where Lubbock has become the largest county where it is illegal to travel through the county to receive abortion services in another state. This is what predictably happens when you throw a fundamental question of human rights “back to the states” to decide. We need Roe v. Wade and its legal protections codified.
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Apparently, according to police estimates, there were ~100.000 people at the Women's Strike today in Reykjavík.
That's pretty wild when you consider that the whole country is less than 400.000 people.
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My daughter: "Everyone's so amazed that every snowflake's different, but no one cares that every potato is different."
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This is a hard time for Jews like me. Seeing so many progressive and even left-of-progressive people I respect getting on board with colonialist genocide is really heartbreaking.
I believe borders should be a shameful relic of the past and in an ideal world Jews and Palestinians would live together in peace.
But we don't live in that world, and colonialist violence is unacceptable-- even when my own people are committing it.
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How Canadians are hatched:
Eggs are laid in early fall and hatch mid-winter. The pucklings then make their way into the forest to forage for syrup amongst the moose.
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Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce.
That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.
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Gender is a lot like operating systems. People always assume you use one of the two big proprietary ones and if you don't, you're gonna have to deal with a lot of confusion and compatibility issues. On the plus side you get a lot more customisability and don't have to care about bullshit policies of the proprietary options.
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"It sounds absurd to say it, but America is in the process of choosing whether to be a white nationalist fascist state or an inclusive democracy. That's not hyperbole, that's just where we are."
Ryan Avent
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Two weeks in a row Trump gets horribly confused. Last week he says he beat Obama (twice in same speech). Yesterday he talks about beating a Bush who served in military and got US into Iraq war. He confused GW Bush with Jeb. This is why he is not doing debates. Yet corporate media ignores this! https://youtu.be/T5-00-4phnI
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"around four out of every five collections remains unsold" and "This, however, would not address perhaps the greatest drawback of NFTs, which became a major controversy as they peaked in popularity: their environmental impact" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worthless-researchers-find-1234828767/
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Wow!😳 Texas teacher fired after assigning an illustrated Anne Frank book
Censoring one of the most important works documenting the Holocaust and punishing the teacher who dared teach it is pretty much in line with what fascists do. Horrific antisemitism.
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/texas-teacher-anne-frank-fired-18375331.php
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On Hold, listening to tinny music.
Robot Operator: We apologize for your wait, but we refuse to pay our Operators a fair wage, so never enough people are working here. Instead of accepting the blame, and fixing this, we tell the few people who work for us, they are simply not trying hard enough. Your wait will be 30 minutes to talk to an Operator who is about to cry, because everyone has yelled at them for having to wait so long. REMEMBER YOUR CALL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US, but not in any demonstrable way.
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I have no idea who originally made this graphic, but whoever you are, you are a genius.
It's harder to find good leaders than it should be. Being in charge of a big country or company isn't the criteria. #Leadership #Boundaries #Recovery #MentalHealth
http://fromfaminetofeast-eatingdisordersandrecovery.com/2023/09/15/does-a-leader-need-followers/
Perfect is the enemy of lots of things. Don't purse the ideal. Good enough is good enough. Mostly. #MentalHealth #recovery
I really like to overuse the helpfully descriptive adverb. Really. #writing #adverbs #StephenKing
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