chaya7.bsky.social
I dabble at depth in comparative mythology as it relates to ancient history and pre-history from around the world. I also dabble at a mandolin. And I dabble around in the yard. A real Renaissance Dabbler. I also read. A lot.
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Wow. So completely out of touch.
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There are still lesbian bars????
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Take us, too, please.
Love, New Mexico
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Oops, I guess you don't see the + sign until you begin typing.
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3/3 Your text characters are limited. But it's easy to split posts so you can write longer ones if you want, like I have done here. Use cut and paste, and the + sign you see below.
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2/3 There's recently been a huge influx of people from X, and that includes extremists. So I don't generally use the "Discover" category (I think it's called that). The category that opens first, anyway. But if you do, you'll find that it's super easy to block people!
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Hi, you know me as chamisa8989 (I think) on threads. From New Mexico. Anyway, this is not a bad app. You can set up different categories aligned with your interests. For example I have categories like fisheries and marine science. So I can go to my places and talk to people like myself. 😆 1/3
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Your mystery bird looks like a canyon towhee.
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All violence and hate ever accomplishes is more violence and hate. You would think humans could learn that lesson, given their large brains and millions of years of time to learn it in.
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In Basic Training in '76, one of our uniform items was "pumps." I had to stand in an endless formation in them for a big inspection. Afterwards, they went right in the nearest dumpster. My DS asked me where my pumps were. I told her, expecting punishment. She just smirked.
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But now people call people in Gen X or anyone with grey hair "boomer." So "boomer" has become nothing but a cussword. And "Karen" is just misogynistic and racist. Neither category exists. I would just cut off conversation as soon as either word was used. (After shaming them for using it). 3/3
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My wife's a boomer and I love her, but I was born in 56 and certainly wasn't a boomer. I didn't have all those advantages. Boomers were a completely different group of people. I was really envious of them. 2/3
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"Boomer" has become a term that has no value beyond gratuitous insults. When I was growing up, the "baby boom generation" referred to those children who had been born immediately post-WWII: 1946 to 1952 or so. The category kept expanding until it was all the way up to 1946 to 1964. 1/3
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When I had a tooth that looked like that my parents just tied a thread to it, tied the other end of the thread to a doorknob, and slammed the door. 😆
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
- Margaret Mead.
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cultures, ages, educational levels, income levels, abilities, and contributions. We're building community. That is in fact our first and most important task.
We are doing exactly what we need to be doing.
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patriarchy has taught women to fight each other, suspect each other, even hate each other. These deep fractures were needed in order to keep patriarchy alive. We are now connecting. In the grocery store, on the street, on Blue Sky, on Threads, on Facebook. Women of all backgrounds, nations, 3/5
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We've retreated to our cozy tea rooms, they whine, and have given up the fight. But these are mostly men, I find, and they are not getting what is going on. All across the Internet, I find women connecting, and this means something. It means something because
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Meanwhile at 7,000 ft. elevation, my main problem is how to keep the bread from rising too much and too fast and collapsing.
Bread-making is an art.
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This lady's entire account is amazing, but I highly recommend this video of her turning cow bones into perfect Mahjong tiles
www.instagram.com/reel/DAqBro5...
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Here's to terrible-ness! 🍻
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The one with the bumblebee is perfect. ❤️
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Congratulations!
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If the orange one as a "mandate," the Rep. McBride has a mandate. Clearly her voters expect their choice of representation to be treated with respect on Capitol Hill.
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Our sky in Santa Fe, NM looked like your left photo at one time - 20 years ago. After two decades of development, it looks like the one on the right. Our population increased by 20%, so we needed more businesses, car lots, parking lots, stores, medical services, homes, and roads. It's so sad.
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Oh my, what a great story. Good for you!
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She's a sociopath, like so many of her colleagues. Some enter politics with the noble desire to serve their country. For too many others, politics is a ladder for climbing to the top - kicking, biting, and shoving competitors on the way to the next ill-gotten rung.
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Sociopath.
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It was such a a beautiful place. I'm grateful we were able to see it.
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I stood on the canyon rim. 🤷. We were racing to stay ahead of the storm - wind and snow - driving along the rim to see as much as we could of the canyon before the storm caught up with us.
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Sweet dreams.
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That's so nice. 🙂
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In the Buddhist method - also used by pain management clinics - the key really is to look at the pain, name it, focus on it, embrace it. When we try to deny pain or struggle against it, our brains respond by making it worse until we sleep or eat or whatever. Which is obviously not an option!