If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,732.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
‘I Have Stage Four Cancer, But I Will Not Live Like I’m Dying.’ I can’t help but think that JB’s morbid streak comes from me because when I read articles like this, I think harder about all the ways I have to figure out how to replace all the things that I do in our family should I be out of the picture. But that’s a rather transparently desperate attempt to impose control over something you can’t control. I couldn’t replace PiC with systems and preparation if our roles were reversed. Not by a long shot.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior: It’s about reaching students where they really are. I don’t understand why teachers aren’t taught to teach this way to begin with, though.
One Frugal Girl is homeschooling this year and researched a lot of interesting resources. We are definitely not homeschooling but we have been managing JB’s remote education through the summer with a combination of one on one lessons given by a teacher, one-off classes online, and lots of reading and recreational writing with us. Their spelling is amazingly creative at this stage and I don’t know if that’s normal but it’s pretty funny. I would love some other creative and fun math resources from a secular company though. We picked up the Singapore math books, and JB loves those in the abstract, but gets distracted easily.
I’m the worst at calmly accepting and sitting with uncertainty, it reminds me too much of the emotional whiplash of my teens and twenties when I was supporting my family and taking all the hits of their decisions. “On the flip side of every good thing is the risk that it will end.” It’s an interesting mental thing I have going on that I always gird myself against the bad times lasting forever and the good things ending unexpectedly. That comes from experiencing the loss of so many loved ones over the course of a decade, and the Great Recession and countless other bad things strung together. Their impact overshadows the very real good things that happened across that same time span. I’m working on it, and it’s progress that I recognize that even bad times surely will come to an end, but boy is it a rough journey.
I absolutely love seeing a beautiful cake (in pictures, not in person since I can’t have them – no beautifully decorated cake is ever GF and sugar free 😭😅) and if you enjoy cake design too, hie thee to Syndesi Desserts!
I had no idea that ice cream shop songs had racist origins, but now that I know, I’m glad to enjoy this new jingle.
golden retriever spotted, purposely laying in the middle of the sidewalk to get pets from strangers. very strategic
(fridaygolden/sassthx IG) pic.twitter.com/8ZDySIi2nm
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I struggled for years to get adequate care for my chronic pain so reading about the decades-long and systemic dismissal of Black women’s pain and illness by the medical establishment is absolutely infuriating. We all deserve better than this.
The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic: “One of us (Aronson), who was a protégé of Festinger in the mid-’50s, advanced cognitive-dissonance theory by demonstrating the powerful, yet nonobvious, role it plays when the concept of self is involved. Dissonance is most painful when evidence strikes at the heart of how we see ourselves—when it threatens our belief that we are kind, ethical, competent, or smart. The minute we make any decision—I’ll buy this car; I will vote for this candidate; I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax—we will begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reasons to dismiss the alternative. Before long, any ambivalence we might have felt at the time of the original decision will have morphed into certainty. As people justify each step taken after the original decision, they will find it harder to admit they were wrong at the outset. Especially when the end result proves self-defeating, wrongheaded, or harmful.”
I’m looking around and I think it’s pretty clear Americans are going to completely squander what’s left of our opportunity to get this thing under control. Americans continue to amaze me in all the wrong and terrible ways.
I needed some good stuff:
What a lovely affirmation! The video is worth watching, I just had to take a screencap for folks who don’t click through links: https://twitter.com/pearlsnappea/status/1291878131880665095?s=19
This thread led me to this designer’s collection which is absolutely gorgeous. I’ve never seen a collection of dresses where I loved almost every single one of the creations. Just some really lovely eye candy.
A 2-year old profile of Seanan McGuire. I adore every Incryptid story she’s ever written even though some make me sad because they’re too short. I can’t handle the Wayward Children books right now but that’s mostly because of where I am in life and also pandemic. Middlegame was spooky good and spooky and good.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62;Rural libraries, $321.62.
I’m a long time Angry Little Asian Girls fan and I need this “I hate people” design in pretty much everything – this is 2020 in a nutshell.
Indian Matchmaker: Two of my most profound decisions in life made a lot of sense: first, to exit my community in search of companionship, and second, to exit marital companionship, to not marry at all. When the game itself is dirty, why yell at a mirror pointed at it, reflecting the moves for all to see?
This gorgeous blanket octopus!
This is a blanket octopus. You should know her because, while she’s shy & rarely seen, when danger gets near she does not hide, she shines: unfurling a giant rainbow cape so bright everyone realizes she’s stronger than they knew.
📽️ J. Elayani: https://t.co/FENETGaiHx#DailyJellypic.twitter.com/qnUamJ2S7H
— Open Ocean Exploration (@RebeccaRHelm) June 23, 2020
Sounds of a sleeping seal
A Weddell seal vocalizing while sleeping in Antarctica 💭 Weddells have a wide vocal repertoire, typically making such vocalizations underwater in social interactions.
Rare occasion captured by @johnbozinov pic.twitter.com/a3FYqFS0fp
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
K. Wright’s right: The Privilege of ‘Always Negotiate’ I have always advocated for myself and negotiated for more money, but it doesn’t always work, it doesn’t always work to the degree that I hope or want or deserve, and I know that more than a few people would penalize me for even asking. I’ve had a strange combination of luck where the workplaces are incredibly toxic but either I had the backing of a strong advocate or they felt like their hands were tied so they had to give me more but they also punished me for it.
Related: I also think that the officer and watch commander should have been personally liable for their actions in arresting Utah nurse Alex Wubbels when she refused to comply with their illegal demands, not just fired and demoted. Maybe that’s what it takes to get officers of the law to actually respect the law they’re supposed to uphold.
Also related: I am so incredibly tired of terrible people.
I hope white people stay out there screaming this truth until it finally breaks the police and federal government brutality.
Brave Saver: “This is the core of what enrages me about traditional financial advice: it actively harms people. There are so many of us who read or hear personal finance advice that leaves us feeling ashamed, worthless, hopeless, and filled with despair. And how can we move forward when the solutions we seek all turn into emotional and mental blocks?” Note – I didn’t have this problem when I was using blogs as a resource 12-10 years ago but the PF world I delved into and loved was incredibly different then. It was almost all stories about people working through their struggles, it wasn’t all this making money off their platform How To and pushing an agenda.
Yay for Kitty and paying off her mortgage! I wistfully think: gosh that’d sure be nice and also: gosh but I’m not willing to dump all our cash into the black hole of our mortgage because it needs so much to make it happy.
I cannot carry a tune in a bucket so I admire those who can. I don’t enjoy talent shows and reality shows as a rule but happened across ten year old Souparknika Nair’s Britain’s Got Talent audition and her voice just blew me away.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1608.94; Rural libraries, $321.62.
DHS is sending federal officers to snatch people off the street in Portland. Here are some ways to help.
SDCC isn’t happening this year and I’m ever so sad about the lost family and friends time. But we can still support the people who would have relied on those sales as a big part of their finances. I’ve been adding tweets to this thread of the vendors currently listed with online shops that we’d normally buy from.
I missed him at this SDCC visit but it was wonderful just knowing he was there leading this Children’s March even if I didn’t make it there in time.
My favorite thing about John Lewis is that at ComicCon, he cosplayed as his younger self, wearing the same coat and backpack he wore at the March on Selma and led kids in a little march around the convention. 🖤 pic.twitter.com/6T2sgRZehz
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1589.82; Rural libraries, $321.62.
A tiny part of me wanted to believe that just maybe it would be possible to see some things improved by the end of the year. Just some. Not all, not a lot. But I’m betting Scalzi‘s right that we’re looking, at the very least, at this complete bullshirt through the end of the year.
I read that younger children are supposed to be less susceptible and less likely to be carriers. Then I see reports like this and this and I remember how many people are selfish idiots who refuse to mask or do anything to keep people around them safe, or naive and ignorant of proper masking, or have no idea they’re asymptomatic carriers, and my risk assessment goes way the hell up. Because it’s not just a risk based on the biology of the virus. It’s amplified by human behaviors. And too many Americans are not trustworthy.
The Plague States of America. Painful to think about how true a lot of this is: It’s not that other nations don’t want to welcome Americans, they just can’t. The point of a passport is that a sovereign power vouches for its bearer, but America can’t vouch for the health of their citizens at all. America’s public health regime is far less trustworthy than Liberia’s (which is actually quite good). Its sovereign is mad.
At the same time, you can’t trust Americans. Americans have poor hygiene (low masking rate) and at least 40% of the population can’t be trusted to even believe that COVID-19 exists, let alone to take it seriously. They’re likely to refuse testing, not report symptoms, break quarantine, and generally follow rules. Americans have a toxic combination of ignorance and arrogance that makes them unwelcome travelers.
I am so sick of this administration and their attempts to further destroy this country. This time it’s their attempts to bring down USPS. USPS isn’t perfect, what is, but none of the private companies that compete with it are any better and in a lot of ways they’re worse in my experience.
People looking for permission to lie to stand out on their applications. It reminds me of the candidate who would have been a shoo-in for the job but I knew the company he had come from so the way he chose to lie made it obvious he had inflated his title. He would have been just fine with the truth. But I will nothire someone who is willing to lie to get a foot in the door. Why would I trust them?
