heymandy.bsky.social
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Honestly if you went into the subforums (well, most of them) everyone was normal! I ended up spending a lot of time in The Book Barn and No Music Discussion back in the forum's heyday and got so many great recommendations from people.
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This is such a relief to my ears, especially after her last one which I did not like at all 😬
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Andrew Scott is swell but Hot Priest was NOT hot.
I also don't know what being a Catholic priest in England entails but he was written more like a vicar? I don't know of any priests from my own churchgoing life that were ever so available to just hang out with parishioners like Hot Priest was.
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Ha, and yet another spiritual truth is there is nothing (except perhaps being named Ashley) that could out me more as a middle class person born in the Midwest in the mid-80s than my specific combination of Amanda + middle name.
(I am in practice, however, the chaotic Amanda that goes by Mandy)
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And the glue!! I had glue from those things stuck on me for WEEKS the last time I had some on me.
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Yes! I have become an almost exclusive audiobook listener after having to transition to using eye gaze technology, and I DESPERATELY wish narrators of adult books would stop doing voices. Unnecessary, and more often than not it negatively impacts their vocal clarity!
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Independents are real too because they are just Republicans with the awareness to know admitting that out loud is embarrassing.
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Love the "losing interest" framing like the Ukraine war is the latest season of Stranger Things
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Exactly. What's funny is even the political pundit's favorite meme of how something "plays in Peoria" as code for country bumpkins is derisively ignorant of active reality: Peoria is a city of 113k and its county has voted for the Democratic candidate in presidential elections for the last 30 years.
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Years and years ago I read on a message board (!!) the clearest distillation I have ever seen about our presidential politics, and it plays out the same every fucking election: the Democrats have to fall in love with their candidate while the Republicans are busy falling in line.
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This is what I keep coming back to: who is this national-level Democrat that 1) is not Biden 2) meets all the requirements of disaffected voters 3) could beat Trump? With a press that is wholly in the tank for Trump. Does such a person even exist? This is also a genuine question.
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I've had this exact issue for several local elections now. Sometimes if I'm lucky I can find stuff on Facebook but it's incredibly time consuming.
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Combs not changing the gender in the lyrics feels like a centimeter of progress for Nashville, too.
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Right?! It's been a little concerning that so many women my age are being awoken to the basic tenets of feminism by it.
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A large part of me wonders if people went so wild for it because it was just a fun couple hours? It feels like years since we've gotten something that bubbly and funny. Taika tried his best but even the most low stakes Marvel movie is like homework now.
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Ahh, that sucks! Fortunately/unfortunately there are always more dogs incoming. My mom was looking for a terrier type and they would hit petfinder and the rescue sites at regular intervals when yet another puppy mill in Arkansas or Kentucky was busted.
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My sympathies! I'm in the Chicago area and tried for the better part of a year to help my mom adopt a small dog and it was impossible - not for lack of dogs but because none of the rescues were interested in adopting out to a retired boomer couple? It was frustrating and bizarre.
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I remember one of the selling points at Apple Music's launch was their genre/mood playlists were human curated. They claim that to still be true but I don't really believe it!
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Every picture she's got the Gob Bluth "I've made a huge mistake" face, which is making me laaaaugh.
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This is an extremely generous way to frame coddling people who have a poisoned worldview - Jamelle Bouie said it best on Twitter a couple years ago: so long as the Democratic party is perceived as the party that helps Black people there's a % of Americans who will never vote for them. They're lost.
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Isn't that second paragraph like 60% of the Democrats' platform for the better part of this century? Different implementation than Trump envisions of course but truly it's amazing Democrats ever win when they can't even get reporters to pay attention to their message!
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People have a lot of opinions about Bo Burnham but the Disney villain cackle he lets loose in that song is perfect.
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Inasmuch as you can trust a poll anymore, I do wonder sincerely how much of Trump/the GOP's elderly base has died of COVID over the last few years. Is it enough people to affect an election? I suppose we'll find out.
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Our family dog growing up loved ripping up and eating paper. She got ahold of my brother's homework once and his teacher STILL didn't believe that our dog ate it when he turned in what was left of it in pieces and full of dog slobber in a ziploc bag.
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Are those omelettes?
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I'm homebound due to disability and just had to cancel my scheduled booster visit with the county health department (that THEY took six weeks to schedule, sigh) because I tested positive over Christmas. They told me to reschedule in three months.
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Don't half ass it! Be a Depression era grandma and just tie a grocery store bag on your head like mine did!
(My aunt seriously bought her several of these nice kinds of bonnets to protect her wigs over the years and she never used them once.)
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Feeling trapped in clothes is the worst! Second only to trapped in your sheets. I do not understand people who want to be tightly tucked into their bed.
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I have only worn tank tops for several years because sleeved tops are too hard to get my arms through without injury now.
It's the most comfortable I've been in clothes in probably a decade? And it's fine in winter! That's what blankets (and for you, hoodies) are for!!
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I have this conversation with my brother all the time. There used to be value in the expense and rigamarole of it all but is it even worthwhile when they're just playing a file off a hard drive, exactly what I'm doing at home?