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@waiting@pnw.zone

Committed to active kindness, compassion, generosity, and ally teamwork. Soup maker, novel reader, podcast listener, early morning walker, Zen practice efforter. Out of the game for good. Go Mariners.

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RickiTarr, to random
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Truly and honestly, I have a great time here, because you all make it great. You boost, you reply, you encourage, and inspire! It is crazy to me that I get to talk to people from all over the world every day. I get to be friends with people I'll probably never actually get to physically meet. I was born into a pre-internet world, and this still feels a little like a miracle to me.

waiting,
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@RickiTarr Whatever good vibes you get from the fediverse, @RickiTarr, its nothing compared to the good vibes you put out there.

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    waiting,
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    @aetataureate A lot of these folks live on the margins. No health care access, persevering with illnesses and injuries, and being treated like livestock by their bosses. What’s it hurt to show them the respect of a mask?

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay...I just...there's just so much happening here...what the heck is going on?!

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr I have the fellah on the cross saying, “This wasn’t my idea! I got drunk at my sister’s wedding and the next thing I know, I’m wearing a pumpkin on my head.”

    RickiTarr, to random
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    It's that time of year again! I know this can be a time of year where we have a lot of complicated feelings, so let's have a little Mastodon Holiday Party, but you can talk, vent, cry, laugh, or really anything you want. So, I'm asking, How are you doing today, for real?

    And just for fun:

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Christmas is one of those days when I’m glad I’m 64 and my daughter is 16. It’s super mellow. She got me a Duff Beer coffee mug. It’s the best! Now she goes off to her mom’s and I can alternate between reading, reply guying, and drinking coffee. Then an epic walk in the <20 degree sun.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I kind of miss when Bond movies were completely ridiculous. There would be some woman named Iva Wetpussy, and she'd not wear bottoms the whole movie with no explanation. But we need to make this more inclusive, so there also needs to be a man named Colin Allbutts that wears chaps the whole time, and an Ace named Ima Notinterested, who actually gets all the work done.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Ima is an intriguing character possibility. They presents as attractive, gender mysterious, and witty, but just can’t be bothered with that other layer of “nonsense”. An ace icon.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is the most ridiculous question or complaint that you've had from a Customer/Client?

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Couple folks wearing me out to the boss, their legislators, our sup ct, whoever, about the lazy, stupid people working at a specific courthouse. I invited them to volunteer for a week just date stamping and filing stuff. After two days they gave up. Said they had no idea how the staff kept up and kept going with the insane workload. They apologized.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Could you be in an Open/Poly Relationship?

    P.S. This is a place to discuss your own personal opinions about yourself and your choices, or ask earnest questions of others if they wish to answer. If you've come here to preach or degrade other's choices, that is a block from me.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr I am 100% sure I’ve retired from the game, and 85% happy with the decision. My mistakes have left me without faith in my own suitability for romance. Now that I’m on the sidelines, I’m so impressed with how much energy is spent on love and nookie. I just want to “sit here in this bank of sand, and watch the river flow,” as Joe Cocker said.

    waiting,
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    @purplepadma @hosford42 @Itty53 @RickiTarr All these sweet stories of hope and realized joy are really nice. I am grateful for them. Unpersuaded, but most grateful.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I legitimately don't understand pride in where you were born or where you live. You had nothing to do with it, and probably your parents didn't either, most people move for economic reasons. At best, I guess, it makes sports more interesting, and at worst, it leads to genocide. If some places seem better than others the reason is usually money, better infrastructure, better schools, which is a whole other rant. Nothing wrong with enjoying the place you are, but feeling superiority about it, is just cringe.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr O Henry wrote a great story about this very thing. It has stuck with me since high school. The link provides an audio reading.

    https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/131/the-four-million/2389/a-cosmopolite-in-a-cafe/

    RickiTarr, to random
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    I'm going to open up a discussion about how people actually live with Boundaries. This isn't a place to be judgemental about other people's choices, we all rationalize things, and make the best we can out of difficult circumstances.

    Many of you know I care for my mother who is paraplegic, the level of care my husband and I give her is on the high end, it would be incredibly difficult for one person to do everything that would need to be done. This might sound ugly, but my mother was not a good mother, she frantically switched back and forth between helicopter parenting and outright neglect. She also doesn't think she has issues, and would never go to any therapy that wasn't "Christian" or take any kind of medication for mental health. I spent my childhood caring for her, my father and my siblings, and I still care for her. Understandably, people ask why, and it's a hard thing for me to answer. I do try very hard to set Boundaries with her now, but it probably isn't enough all the time, burn out is high for caregivers in the best of situations, and I can't pretend this is that. It feels like most of us compromise on something, especially with family.

    So, what are your experiences with this kind of thing? What do you rationalize? What have you learned?
    This is more about sharing personal experiences than to preach at people about their choices, so please keep that in mind when you reply.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Helped my parents get to the other side. I first just kept an eye in their affairs, and it got more intense each year until they died. Had no help from my brother or spouse. It was hard, and I lost a part of myself.

    My parents, and maybe your mom, weren’t the greatest. I still think that absent criminal abuse, kids have always taken care of their parents. Duty transcends boundaries. It transcends self. That sucks, but I think it keeps us going. And we’re the better people for it.

    dilmandila, to books
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    Author copies arrived of this bulky anthology of African ghost stories. Now I can say that my story was published in the same book as the legend, Amos Tutuola!

    @bookstodon @blackmastodon

    waiting,
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    @dilmandila @bookstodon @blackmastodon This sounds great! Let us know, won’t you please, when it’s available to the rest of us.
    rest of us.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Since I'm stuck inside again, tell me a podcast I should listen to.

    There can be only one! You get one choice, don't give me a list of 5, I can't do it.

    Give me an episode that you think best represents the podcast.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Hardcore History, the Wrath of Khan series. The podcast features very long (4+ hrs) episodes, but you’ll learn a tremendous amount with each. Listen to just a half hour of the first episode and you should have an idea of if it for you. I’m thinking your blushing groom may enjoy it too.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is a little white lie you were told as a child, that you believed for too long?

    I was way too old when I figured out a human couldn't actually get sucked down a drain or flushed down a toliet. I used to cling to my little brothers, and pull them out of the bath any time my Mum would pull to plug.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr 1- we gave the dog to a family with a ranch, 2- if you turn the overhead light on in the car dad will be arrested, 3- if you swallow a watermelon seed you’ll get appendicitis and probably die, 4- your grandmother is not a violent sociopath who hates you because you’re half Asian, 5- …. You know, the usual stuff.

    NicoleCRust, to random
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    Should neuroscientists stay on X or go? Let’s ask a bunch of people who have decided to stay. Voices are missing here.

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.16236

    waiting,
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    @NicoleCRust My fav part of this article is the comment that Mastadon is hard to use. This by a cohort of serious brainiacs. Y’all have brain science Ph friggin’ Ds.

    Anyhoo … the consensus seems to be that the sunk cost of accumulating followers on the guano site is too hard to abandon. How else are they going to share their ideas so broadly? That’s the same transactional justification that everyone enamored with their own words uses to stay. I, fwiw, am not at all persuaded.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Okay, all Superheros are, at least, marginally problematic, but what Superhero do you think is the most problematic, and why?

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Baby Jack from the Incredibles. Little man has to get that fire thing under control.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What embarrasses you the most?

    waiting,
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    @unclepj @RickiTarr A friend of mine can’t watch early Sasha Baron Cohen for that reason. Too embarrassed for the people he made fools of. A different kind of reality TV.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Seriously heard someone saying they don't listen to many black artists, because they aren't really into rap. Bitch please, feel free to share songs from Black artists from any genre. Here is one of my favorites, if you like this song please check out her other work:

    https://youtu.be/KovrJ8HXI1Q?si=HOYIG7YMuAUTsJz6

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr One of the greatest things America has ever given to the world is “Black” music. Davis, Coltrane, Parker, etc. are worshipped in France, Japan, and pretty much everywhere else in Earth. Where would we be without Redding, Simone, Pickett, or a hundred others. Give me a tiny break. Anyway, this will always be the most beautiful song ever for me.

    https://youtu.be/VqW-eO3jTVU?si=6ZHHNPduR-kFyXo8

    RickiTarr, to random
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    That Novelty Cup you had to have on vacation, you'll never use it again.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr So many novelty coffee cups at the second-hand store. Daughter and I, when she was maybe 4-5, cruised these stores one day to muster a “proper” tea set. What a hodgepodge haul we ended up with, and then we had a fine tea party that afternoon. She’s her own young woman and I’m an old man now, but those cups won’t be going back.

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    What’s something that you had to do at work that was the MOST outside your job description at the time?

    waiting,
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    @Alice @LoganFive This is a sneaky angle on wage theft. Doing two jobs temporarily should get you double wages in a logical, rational, merit-based system. 😆 Anyway, now you have a broadly sought after component to your resume, I would think. Good money people are hard to find.

    waiting, to random
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    Went dark for a longish bit. Now trying to get back into this wonderful community but its proving to be a struggle for some reason.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Pretty sure Chihuahuas are just Baby Kangaroos.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr He seems to rile up big dogs. A guy at the park said it’s because he (Pip) looks like a squirrel.

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr What did Ricki just say about me?

    RickiTarr, to random
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    What is making me so happy about all of you taking this dumb Axe quiz today, is it's gonna fuck with the results, and they are gonna get really scared about all the non-binary woke liberals there are!

    waiting,
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    @RickiTarr Glad I could help. I didn’t share my results bc they weren’t so interesting. But I’m right about 50/50 gender wise and like 92% lib, so they can chew on that.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Soup seems like a breakfast food, I'm going to have some Breakfast Soup.

    waiting,
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    @LexiGirl @RickiTarr Kind of common in Southeast Asia to have a bowl of noodle soup for breakfast. I am absolutely here for it.

    Lizette603_23, to random
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    https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-12-2024?r=62joj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

    waiting,
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    @Lizette603_23 Very well sourced article with an interesting, topical thesis.

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