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I read an advance readers copy of a nonfic book about a murder while visiting my aunt in the woods in Vermont. The book was describing the murderers watching a man and a boy stacking wood at their home in the woods, and I realized it was my uncle and cousin at the house I was in. Great sleeping…
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Depending on which AI they’re using, it could also be a HUGE HIPAA violation to do so. Most of the AI engines train off material that people put in, so those patients’ data and personal medical information is…who knows where?
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Congrats! My youngest is a sophomore and learned how to crochet last year as a fidget/anxiety coping strategy that has worked absolute wonders: started with woobles, then moved on to a massive temperature blanket and then made all her Christmas gifts. We spend a lot on yarn, but I’m good with that 😂
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You/they need muuuuuch less than Pinterest and the various “must-have” lists tell you. Bedding, shower shoes and carrier, some nice lighting and comforting wall art, extra pillows. Power strips, a fan, and some good hooks for the end of the bed. Maybe a rug. Everything else accumulates over time.
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I like that he chose his own—it’s been a while since a Leo. Francis made sense for the last one and was distinctly his, so here’s hoping Leo can live up to his name. We need a good one right now (we need a good ANYTHING right now).
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Ethics. But also, in order for them to be useful, the prompt has to be pretty exact, so unless you ALREADY know what you want and how to ask, what you get back is so meh that you have to spend time adjusting the prompt. In most cases it’s faster to just write the text yourself.
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Bookshop dot org ALSO has a great stock of ebooks now—I have a new(ish) vision issue that makes paper books difficult right now (😭😭😭) so I’m delighted that there’s a non-kindle option!
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It’s good that those occasional glorious parts turn up, because a lot of it sucks and nobody warns you. So, so difficult.
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Attended a concert of my daughter’s college orchestra last night that was shimmering and gorgeous, and it gave me hope for the future.
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It was posted on a Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger appreciation page, but not written by her—somewhere on the page yesterday the author posted her own name.
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I felt exactly that way. Except that once your kid is attending one of them, you’re hyperaware of what THEIR school should be doing better, and offended by various policies 😂
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I started holding my pencil incorrectly in first grade because I desperately wanted the 1981 version of this (the pencil itself had it built in), but my teacher was on to me and refused to give me one. So now I hold my pen incorrectly, and with every twinge of carpal tunnel I think of her.
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Uniball Deluxe Rollerball Fine. Since college (in the 90s). Have tried others, nothing compares (except the fountain pen, but that’s a whole other thing).
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We had to go to target yesterday because, oddly, there was a food item there that my nephew needs for allergy reasons that we couldn’t find anywhere else on short notice. It was like a ghost town. It was delightful (and then we went to the Costco immediately next door).
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Those cheeks! That hair! Happens fast, man.
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Living in a house with two lactose intolerant people has a way of curbing the ice cream thing (there’s only so much lactaid in the world), and I’ve never been a huge fan of the texture of pie. Plus I make really, really good cake, and frosting that could change your mind. It’s one of my superpowers.
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Matt was going to look at his/mine tonight, and I said, just…don’t. You know what it looks like. OTOH, I very much need both social security and the market to hang on for my PARENTS, or things are going to get grim.
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Both of my kids competed in National History Day regional/state/national events (and were very successful, despite neither being wild about public speaking). The program lost funding forTHIS YEAR’s National competition, happening in June, and is trying to fundraise so kids can finish the year.
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My husband gave me a painting he made of a bunch of white roses when we were in college (he is…not really a painter 😂) that’s still hanging on our daughter’s wall. We’re proudly raising our own nerds. Gotta keep the line strong.
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OMG the Lego flowers!! This is adorable.
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Love the passive voice in that headline. Do they not see that the “tarnish” is largely because of their refusal to stand up for their students and faculty?
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Oh, I’m so sorry. I’m not a CAR car person, but I do get attached, and I’m terribly sad when they have to go. RIP, Jared’s car 💗
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I was meh on all the actual movies, but Empire Records has a slight edge, and I actually still have the Empire and Reality Bites soundtracks on CD. From BMG, of course.
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I love that it cannot be contained. You can prune all you want, but it will burst forth anyway, regardless of what you want. I actually really don’t like forsythia in general, but it’s exuberant joy and eff you, I’m going to grow wherever I darn well please attitude makes me happy.
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One of my friends is the supervisory registrar at the Smithsonian museum of the American Indian, and she said they’re steely, quiet, focused. They have no plans to change anything or be perturbed by this—their mission is clear. Such admiration.
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It’s a straightforward rhetorical argument, and very convincing. We can just amend a couple of the pieces of evidence and proceed.
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You…you know that they took the museum down last year, right? There was a huge fight over Conny’s fate. He’s now relocated, kind of. His back end is on the trout brook trail, giving the appearance that he’s diving under the ground. It’s a travesty, but slightly better than total annihilation.
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Both still sitting on BOTH daughters’ bookshelves at this very moment. Canon.
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Bunnicula is underrated.
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I was going to go with this one! We took our daughters (now almost adult and adult) to the Met this winter and overheard them having a full-on debate about which fountain they took the change from and which bathroom they’d have hidden in.
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Homemade frosting can be delicious—but it should still be a complement to the cake, not the other way around. My household members who eat it out of the mixing bowl with spoons disagree, but I hold fast to this truth.
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We’ve recently rehabbed our “prepper area,” as you call it, and are examining what else we might add. The cup of tea is something I’m working into, semi-successfully (I drank a lot of it when I was in Ireland in grad school, so it feels good). And potato leek makes everything better! A good Sunday.
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Elizabeth Warren, still out there beating the drum.
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I’ve been saying that I wish my kids (15 and almost 20) were 10 years older or younger—launched or still young enough to adjust expectations to the new reality. Both are fighting mad but also want a future. Congrats to your girl, and I’m so sorry her gram isn’t physically there for the hugs 💗
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“Hath the pup supped?”
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Not well. Embedding myself in some family stuff (plenty there to keep me busy right now) and rationing how much time o give the news each day. Occasionally purging the hysteria by listening to music that makes me cry while alone in the car.
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I love, love, LOVE this kind of thing. The Archives/LOC have the drafts of the Declaration of Independence with peer edits from Adams/Madison/Franklin, and it’s fantastic for teaching revision (because a LOT OF STUFF was revised out, and many of the most famous lines were revised in).
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I thought they should have risen, as a body, as soon as he began speaking, placed hands on hearts, and recited the pledge of allegiance, then either quietly filed out or sat down, extracted copies of the constitution, and studiously read them until he finished, THEN quietly left.
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Also, who wrote this? Because I do not see this person typing out “from which they came.” Grammar isn’t his strong suit.
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Clairfying: he was vaxxed as a baby. This is a refresh just in case.
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My husband has an appt at CVS for his in an hour. I redid mine in college because there was a specific batch they identified from the 70s that was I refrigerated for too long (how did they determine this??) but I would be re-upping too.
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Plus we’re the grownups, which really, really sucks.
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I’m betting he’s already removed it. He’s mentioned this too many times.
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I’m getting the feeling that not everyone realizes this. It’s terrifying how few people seem to be realizing this, frankly.
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This is the part I don’t understand.
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This. Can’t we make it a little harder??
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Also, the main access page for management, submission, etc for PSLF is at another site, so it’s not actually missing—just not at this site. So far, anyway.
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And they don’t know what to do when you ask them to, at all, so they ask AI for chapter summaries. It’s bad.
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Seriously??
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It’s phenomenal. Built of logs made from the trees they cleared—small but wide open with huge windows. The state snowmobile trail crosses a distant corner of the property, so thy can just hop on and go. Also the wildest sledding hill you’ve ever seen (we’ve helped with that over the years). Silent.