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textualdeviance

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Democrat, pop-culture geek, Gen Xer, author of SFF novels, spoonie, parent, occasional classical singer. Queer/enby (flexible pronouns.) I swear a lot.

ID for profile pic: The colors of the progress pride flag in the shape of the state of Washington.

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RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

textualdeviance,
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@RickiTarr Honestly, understaffing is a huge part of this. You can't get the work of three people out of a single person unless you force them to work very long hours under very high pressure.

A business that can't properly budget for adequate staff is a business that shouldn't exist, because it drags down the entire economy.

GottaLaff, to Texas
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Via Maddow:

"The case started with 5 women the state’s ban stopped from getting medical care for their complicated pregnancies. The case has since grown to include 20 women and two doctors.

In August, a judge issued an injunction allowing Texans with complicated pregnancies to get an abortion if their doctor made a 'good faith judgment' that it was necessary.

The Supreme Court overturned that ruling today."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/31/texas-supreme-court-zurawski-abortion/

textualdeviance,
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@lillyfinch @GottaLaff They genuinely don't. They sincerely believe everything related to pregnancy is God's will.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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💥🔥

TO REPEAT,

GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff It's my birthday tomorrow. I'll be having Womp cake with Womp filling, buttercream Womp and Wompity-Womp sprinkles.

DemocracyMattersALot, to random
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“Women in 14 states have lost the right to terminate a pregnancy under almost any circumstances. We remain the only advanced economy without any form of national paid family leave..the number of teenage girls experiencing suicidal thoughts and persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness is at a decade high...My 1-year-old granddaughter may grow up with fewer rights than I had."

Melinda French Gates commits $1B to advance women, families https://thehill.com/homenews/4688727-melinda-french-gates-pivotal-giving-women-families/

textualdeviance,
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@Dtraslerwriting @DemocracyMattersALot Bezos' ex is using her share of the divorce money to do some good stuff, too.

textualdeviance,
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@Dtraslerwriting @DemocracyMattersALot Yes and no. There are a lot of shitty women out there, too, unfortunately. It's statistically better, but not as good as it should be, especially wrt white women.

amydiehl, to random
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1988: The year when US women could obtain business financing without a male co-signer via the Women's Business Ownership Act.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/25/pregnancy-discrimination-still-rampant-in-corporate-america-author.html

textualdeviance,
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@amydiehl I remember my mom needing to get my dad's signature for a Sears store card because they wouldn't allow a woman to get one on her own. That was mid-'70s.

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

🛼📺🎞️👾 TOTALLY 80s! 🕹️🎸💿💾

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🎵 Like, gag me with a spoon! Another decade theme night?

Take a chill pill and post totally tubular bodacious music from the 80s along with what you’re drinking. 🎶
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🍷 Axel F / Tears for Fears / DeBarge / Sade / Madonna / Simple Minds + Sex On The Beach🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Compilation of 80s music videos and ...I love them. People think the 80s had the worst music? 90s were meh with some flashes of brilliance. And has pop music even changed since the 2000s? Clear channel garbage: you're wrong.

textualdeviance,
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@flexghost I was a teen New Waver in the '80s, so I could post stuff for daaaays.

But I'll limit myself to two. First up, some Ultravox (though I had a VERY hard time deciding between this and Reap The Wild Wind):

https://youtu.be/azQ-C0_Sb-k?si=5yVD2CCYWowQ5Rok

textualdeviance,
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@flexghost And then this. Among other great songs they did. I was actually more into Berlin and Duran Duran but I had a soft spot for these folks, too.

https://youtu.be/1WDly1Oc_P4?si=RbZyNA4gg3fKLi0x

GottaLaff, to random
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Today I read one report that RFKJr has 17% of the vote nationally.

Then I saw this from Cook. So you'll forgive me if, despite knowing how meaningless polls are, I get nervous:

https://www.cookpolitical.com/survey-research/2024-swing-state-project/unique-election-driven-traditional-issue

textualdeviance,
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@TCatInReality @tylervu @MisuseCase @SailorDisco @GottaLaff Some people think they can "send a message" with a vote. But voting isn't like a slogan-bearing sign in a protest. It's way more powerful than that. And as with any other powerful instrument, it has to be wielded carefully so one doesn't do harm with it.

Besides, the only "message" sent by letting fascists win because a candidate didn't kiss one's particular ass is "I genuinely do not give a shit about other people."

GottaLaff, to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ “During a marathon day of proceedings in the #Trump Mar-a-Lago classified #documents case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen #Cannon devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand” https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon-hearing?cid=ios_app

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff WHAT nuances, Cannon? He took classified docs and refused to give them back. That's not exactly complicated, you compromised hack.

RickiTarr, to random
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Sometimes the way people phrase things is so telling. For instance, telling women they should be "taking care of" their husband and children. Another adult doesn't need taken care of like a child, what you want is for women to be a Sex Mom.

textualdeviance,
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@Caiotekit @RickiTarr They think that once women and minorities are no longer in the workforce, all that paycheck money will somehow come to them instead (and magically without any increase in workload.)

Of course, young Republican men don't get that the combo of their party's social and economic policies mean most of them are never going to be able to have sex, either regularly or at all. Contraception is illegal and you don't make enough money to afford kids? No sex for you, bub!

lanartri, (edited ) to random
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textualdeviance,
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@GrantRVD @ePD5qRxX @baum @lanartri @NatureMC There are no finger problems where you say they are. The woman who's second from the left is holding the cloth (her head covering, I assume) in her right hand. The hand to the left of that belongs to the next woman over.

Why is it so important to you to dismiss this image, especially knowing that there was in fact an uprising like this two years ago?

textualdeviance,
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@lanartri I still don't see anything wrong. Her left hand is at her side. The blurring is just standard stuff from repeated copies at different resolutions.

jrconlin, to random
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Oh, cool.

Android introduced a way to make phone conversations more awkward.

textualdeviance,
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@jrconlin The only person I could see using this would be my 11 y/o son, just to troll me.

amyfou, to random
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Good morning, friends ☕ ☕ 🐕 🐕 💞 💞

Thanks to @ingalls for the reminder that May 18 is the anniversary of the Mt St Helens eruption (1980), and it's worth marking that day.

We had moved from Yakima to Wenatchee a few years earlier, so got the reports of 'darkness at noon' by phone from my grandma who was still there.

This ⬇️ is a US Forest Service photo, taken at 1:30PM on Yakima Avenue, Yakima WA, on May 18 as the ash cloud passed through.

textualdeviance,
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@amyfou I don't know if they still do it, but when I lived in Portland in the early '90s, the lodge gift shop at Multnomah Falls sold souvenir tchotchkes made with ash. It seemed a bit macabre to me at the time.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

textualdeviance,
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@CoachMark @RickiTarr When my toddler daughter issues a good burp before bedtime, I always congratulate her. She giggles.

Chrishallbeck, to random
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Colors in the sky.

https://youtu.be/zqzjXM4WHrs

textualdeviance,
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@Chrishallbeck This is how I end up learning at midnight things like the utterly useless information that baby echidnas are called "puggles."

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all want to hear a fact that really changed the way I thought about homelessness?

Half of all homeless people were in the foster system at some point. Social Workers often call the foster system The Highway to Homelessness. If you ever had a point in your life where you had to live with friends or family to for a short time to get back on your feet, remember that is a privilege that not everyone had.

textualdeviance,
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@Rayston @RickiTarr I don't have data at hand, but my understanding is that there are two categories that could be thought of as "choice" homelessness:

--The vagabond sorts who feel stifled by jobs, permanent residences, etc.
--People who have intense addictions that compel them to "choose" the addiction over treatment or shelter rules, etc.

The former is a very small percentage, and these days, they're largely the "van life" crowd.

The latter is a complicated situation...

GottaLaff, to climate
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“Fed regulators on Monday approved sweeping changes to how America’s electric grids are planned & funded, in a move that supporters hope could spur thousands of miles of new high-voltage power lines & make it easier to add more wind and solar energy.

The new rule by Fed Energy Regulatory Commission, which oversees interstate electricity transmission, is most significant attempt in years to upgrade and expand the country’s creaking electricity network”
#ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/climate/electric-grid-overhaul-ferc.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff This is the boring but effective stuff that good government does. But it's just not exciting enough for the suburban revolutionaries.

RickiTarr, to random
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You are going to make love to a Cereal Mascot, who do you choose?

I'm going Snap, Crackle, & Pop.

textualdeviance,
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@RickiTarr Honestly, he looks a little too Dick Van Patten for my tastes, but at least he's human.

GottaLaff, to random
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'A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees immense shift twd the old ways

“Generations of Catholics who embraced modernizing tide sparked in 1960s by Vatican II are increasingly giving way to religious conservatives who believe church has been twisted by change…

..molded by plummeting church attendance…reshaped parishes across the country, leaving them at odds w Pope Francis and much of the Catholic world.”
https://apnews.com/article/7638fa2013a593f8cb07483ffc8ed487

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff A minor point in a near-future book I wrote ~10 years ago is that a traditionalist sect, angry at Francis, split off from the main Church. I now wonder if that might actually happen. Or worse, that they might instead overthrow him and install another Pope Rat.

orci, to random
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Geminis are the literal worst. What is wrong with all of you?

textualdeviance,
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@orci ADHD.

Or maybe that's just me.

GottaLaff, to Canada
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🇨🇦For those interested, finally, Part 3 of my series is done. Parts 1, 2 are linked in Part 3 but just in case, I'm linking here too.

This is for anyone interested in why, how we managed to get permanent residency.

Everyone else, ignore, although you may find it interesting regardless.

Part 3: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-moving-to-canada-part-3-its-happening.html

Part 1: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada.html

Part 2: https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada-part-two-how.html

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff So glad you're almost there! I can't help but be a little envious. We're overdue for a move, and have multiple things pushing us to do so very soon (political hell included, since we'd be in danger.) But with all the uncertainty and prices skyrocketing for the kind of house we need, figuring out where, when and how is just daunting. And if we do have to flee, it's probably already too late anyway, dangit.

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff At the very least, though, we really need to get up there again, soon. We used to hit either Van or Victoria once a year, but haven't crossed the border since the plague started. Our 14 m/o daughter needs to become an official International Baby of Mystery. And we need Nando's and Timbits and All-Dressed Ruffles (all the important stuff!)

GottaLaff, to Canada
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I'm writing Part 3 now. Do you have anything you want covered? #Canada 🇨🇦

https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada.html

https://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2024/01/im-moving-to-canada-part-two-how.html

textualdeviance,
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@GottaLaff I need to look into how they handle remote workers. The spouse is very lucky to have a career that can be done from just about anywhere (though being near a tech hub is best.) But I don't know if they'd want to make sure he's working for a Canadian company, or at least a company with an office in Vancouver or something. And I also do have to look into the health thing.

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