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ENL teacher & ROC dweller. Mrs. Roper meets riot grrrl. Strong sense of justice AuDHDer with excellent pattern recognition skills who chose a really bad time to reincarnate
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I just clean cleaned the litter boxes. Please clap.

I am so over this winter.

So are we, like, planning to store up, hunker down, and try to resist fascism, or liquidate and leave while we can? I’m in a constant battle between flight and freeze right now.

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

Can’t wait for the FAFO effect of RFK’s plan to restrict ADHD meds and anti-depressants. Our general strike will be organic.

When I start to get discouraged, I stop and remember that we live in a world where elephants and otters exist.

The vibes in the US right now are eerily reminiscent of March 2020.

There is a certain grief of mourning a future you thought you'd have. For mourning a world you thought would exist. Especially when you weren't expecting much in the first place, just simply hoping for the opportunity.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.

I'm digging how this WWII guide is basically "gum up fascism by being an energy vampire." Let Colin Robinson be your guide in the fight against fascism. The link: www.404media.co/declassified...

I would say 911 dispatchers provide a valuable service but it would be ok to criticize them if you called them and instead of sending an ambulance they said "Someone should do something about this!" and hung up

I need someone to talk me out of not paying taxes this year. I have no meaningful representation, have a fundamental moral opposition to what is happening, and they are getting rid of all the civil servants.

I just had “the talk” with my Fox News loving mom. I love her, but she didn’t believe any of this would happen even when the rest of us told her what their plans were. She voted against members of her own family’s right to exist, to love, and work. I’m sorry she’s hurting, but I need some time.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

If you feel like the world is falling apart, try FaceTiming with a toddler. Hope and joy abound with every babble.

I waited until the 11th hour, and by the 12th had to accept that the adults in the room gave up democracy for the sake of decorum.

2025 is off to such a bizarre start, even David Lynch has had enough

One second from every episode of Twin Peaks.

Watching southerners experience snow for the first time with wonder and joy is the antidote to all the other crap right now.

Anxiety driven hypomanic mode looks like polishing off lesson plans for a formal observation by adding links to current peer-reviewed articles to justify my methods. I need to chill.

Are they waiting to release the Jack Smith report until after the national day of mourning for Jimmy Carter? My last shred of hope is fraying at the ends.

How am I suppose to transform from goblin-mode to teacher in 16 hours? Anyone have a fairy godmother or Elsa on speed dial to intervene on my behalf?

A group read of The Bell Jar where we find all the lines that are autistic coded-

I’m still using an iPhone SE from 2019 and desperately need to upgrade. I’m leaning toward a OnePlus. Thoughts? The OP13 is being released on 1/7. Would you get that one or get the 12 to save?

Good parents can still end up unhoused.

Them: dO YoUr OwN reSurCH!!!! Librarians: Alright, bet.

People underestimate how much of making art involves having a little sit and doing a little think

What would it take for NY to legally to join Canada? What’s the process and can we get this started if Trump won’t be stopped? Cc: MA, VT, CA, WA, OR, MN, IL

Here I am dancing down the aisles of HomeGoods while Depeche Mode is playing overhead. I don’t know if my younger self would be jealous or appalled.

When you no longer party so you get yourself a special an overpriced drink at Aldi for a special little treat

I’m tempted to start a religion/church just to protect my sincerely held beliefs of empathy, bodily autonomy, and to be recognized as a place of sanctuary.

Life as a middle school teacher- Reading Jaqueline Woodson’s Before the Ever After led to talking about New Year’s Eve in ‘99 and the Y2K panic in the media. One of the kids asks, “How do you know that?” -as if I’m not a few months shy of 50

Advice from a Literature teacher and resister: read your history, but don’t forget your literature. Resistance is woven through the words of abolitionism and feminism and anti-fascism. Read the history and the literature.

Nothing prepared me for the disappointment of finding out Johnny Rotten was MAGA.