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West coast middle age neurodivergent mom with granny hobbies. College educated, married 15+ years. Gardening, preserving, crafting, self sufficiency.
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The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

Not a conflict of interest at all.

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

What the actual fuck?

these cabinet announcements are like an advent calendar counting down to the apocalypse

Tell me again what a genius he is.

But what about states rights? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

I’ve heard the clock app is suppressing this…hmm, wonder why?

We are in the dumbest timeline.

Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," but his advice was for CHILDREN. If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper. I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.

You know that struggling single mom that smiled and served you coffee, or waited your table at lunch? She paid more in income tax than Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg - COMBINED. Let that sink in.

This is why crisis informatics, data science, GIS, and complex systems modeling is at risk: we create inconvenient truths for propagandists.

I feel like this poem I wrote perfectly describes what we’re all feeling and going through