mcfiddlesby.bsky.social
Fully groovy. Not really lazy, just unwilling to work at creating profits for capitalists.
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Oop. Apologies for failing to see past my local ‘Murican norms. I’ve watched enough “Call the Midwife” that I should know better.
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The etymology of “doula” is “female slave” in Greek. So, it’s already got a rough history. A doula and a “god-sib” or the gossip of this post had about the same responsibilities. In modern times, neither of these women have a role in hospital birthing, so it’s kinda pointless to differentiate.
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A man who puts ketchup on his well-done steak— a man who wears a blue suit to a funeral— is the arbiter of any sort of artistic endeavor? The very idea is insulting.
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And then I feel angry over terms like “improper ideology” being applied to things like the Smithsonian Institute. Or hearing JD Vance whine about college professors. Trump wants to program the Kennedy Center? That’s absurd and casts burning oil onto the concept of “American culture.”
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I feel wistful: every day there’s some health-related service being destroyed. The article will say, “So there goes of monitoring the spread of Lyme disease.” I’ve never really worried much about Lyme disease, but I suspect it’s because public health officials were fighting it back. Somehow.
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No. Sorry. The university was founded in 1873 (after emancipation, after the Civil War, and after most of Reconstruction) so, no slave-made bricks here. I’m sure we could dig around and find other unethical behavior, but not this one.
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VUMC legally separated from Vanderbilt Univ a number of years ago, so technically whether this university has balls or a pussy remains to be seen
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Honestly, no. WE don’t do that. Now, some effed up far right goobers may, but they join friends in every other state while hiding in the woods
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Are there any Dems supporting “Liberation Day”? If so, they are prolly already on my primary list for being lousy objectors in the past three months.
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See “Africa: Economic and Social Failures throughout 20th Century.” I dislike piling on Africa since most of their problems were caused by colonialism, but that place is such a quagmire of trouble, I can’t imagine even where to start.
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I dunno about the speed of tariffs but I think it’ll be six months or more before Myanmar sees any effects (what do they export to the U.S., anyway?) and by that standard, Myanmar isn’t different from most other countries. Anybody driving up prices today because of “tariffs” is dishonest.
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This was my Lula. She passed three years ago but there’s not a day since that I don’t miss her.
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Maybe bang on it a couple of times?
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Does “human composting” mean what it sounds like? Turning a bod into mulch for the garden? Not the worst idea but I’ve never been confronted with such an idea.
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Do you figure it’s BlueSky or is it you leaving bait like this to stir up “visibility” in the social community?
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It’s probably for the best. Can you imagine some of the ways Trump could screw up such a duty? Now, make it 10x worse and that’s what would have happened,
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Looks like he’s really ready to have a big ol’ coronary event.
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Not trying to undercut your point, but I chuckle about headlines like this. OMG Wall Street types haven’t done this for almost … 18 months? Is it really such a catastrophe as all that?
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I HATE that I’ll see GWB at some function and think longingly that I miss when he was President. Which is completely wrong. He was a vile president. Even Tricky Dicky (although he had a cast of bumbling idiots in the Plumbers) would be an improvement on what we have now
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I thought maybe it was some kinda Zen koan. “When is a murder weapon not really a murder weapon?”
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OoOOooh, I get it now. Thanks for the reference point.
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Control of the story. Conservatives have nothing to counter Sen . Booker, do they try and control the larger narrative. Ignoring any pertinent facts, that’s just Dirty Tricks 101 for them. Also to note: if done lard-butt conservative says, “No one is watching,” Con media can just repeat that.
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The ability of doctors to diagnose conditions with greater accuracy and precision.
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? What does this mean?
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Australasian real estate agents.
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Yeah, sorry. I dunno what to say. Marsha is a huge point of embarrassment to a lot of us, but she seems to make rural, undereducated, cow-humping degenerates happy. Maybe the mistake her for cow ?
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This is just like during High COVID: data nerds from Wall Street thinking data is data and since they kick butt on market data, that makes them overqualified to analyze public health data. And they never knew how wrong they are.
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I was supposed to go see some Giants tonight but they cancelled at the last minute. Already rescheduled for … November.
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The CC existence of modern communications has already made the EC irrelevant.
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There’s one or two really excellent points to be made in this cartoon, but they get lost in bad civics. The electoral college is not how we got 2 senators per state— that’s the Constitution. EC and say, the filibuster are … systems for democracy in the U.S. that could (& probably should) be changed.
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President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho!
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And take Hakeem Jeffries with you!
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I wonder how to get a gig like “paid agitator.” That sounds like something I could do once I get laid off from Treasury.
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Well, it must be hard to be so tasteless. Next level Fantasy Island? Are any of these people having fun? Have you listened to any of their conversations? I’d recommend Gemstones, since its humor is a bit broader but still it’s “satire” so you probably wouldn’t understand.
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Forgot the URL, duuuh:
enddei.ed.gov
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I don’t think Dolly has to take it personally. Elephants will hack and slash any attempt at literacy.