jtfd.bsky.social
Liberal arts success story (Oberlin ‘93). Living kidney donor. Any bad thing that happens to me can and will be made into a funny story.
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My (Mandarin-proficient) 18 yo keeps saying, “I knew this would be China’s century, but I didn’t think it would happen this early or this fast!”
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(Bonus that it has a car in it—most of them don’t!)
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Finally, a small step means you can usually continue to do those steps. Waiting around for the big thing, usually just leaves you waiting around. Start somewhere and build your endurance for taking REGULAR actions.
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It's kinda cathartic to realize how much time, money, & energy these fucks are devoting to stopping Me, Personally from existing--and that even so it's not working. The US federal fucking government will rend itself into a million pieces, for me. It will break upon my gender as a wave upon a shore.
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I am counting on my Secretary’s desire to hold onto power (and his seemingly god relationship w Team DOGE) as the only thing that can save my Federal job.
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Part of the reason that we write books about lone heroes is because the moral functioning of a society is DULL. It’s bureaucracy and logistics and sending out surveyors to make sure the wells get dug far enough from the cesspool. It does not lend itself well to a three-act-structure.
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DOGE is not responsible for the termination of this lease. The benefits to President Carter under the FPA terminated upon his death. This example is silly, but it calls into question how many of these cuts are attributable to DOGE and how many are attributable to rote government action. 6/6
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It’s hard to explain why a history of the Massachusetts state lottery could be so entertaining. But it’s AMAZING!!
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That is part of your power! Part of your power is being a massive spectacle that incites the public! MAKE them drag you away in the paddy wagon, and make the public WATCH what is happening to their elected representatives!
Forcing this spectacle is PART OF YOUR POWER!
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“We must end gender ideology,” say the people who believe that heterosexuality should be enforced with state violence and that women should have the legal status of permanent children.
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The PRC already has all of my information at least twice over, and I have the comfort of nothing left to lose (besides my boss’s emails, of course…).
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That HHS folks received another nudge *from within their own department* is to me a pretty clear sign that they’re a priority for evisceration.
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We’re watching the game on mute while my mother sleeps. I was wondering what was going on with that.
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Hmm, I think I need to invest in some seersucker, for adventures on my way home from the office.
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Another family friend who asked how I was doing two weeks after. I said “great!,” because I was in a genuinely happy mood—the saw the look of deep sympathy and realized that I was supposed to feel very sad and not good in the slightest.
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The college admissions interviewer who believed that as soon as I mentioned his death, it was my obligation to swallow the rest of my sentence to give her the space to express sympathy.
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The family friend who held me in a tight hug and told me it was ok to cry. And kept holding me and repeating it, until I realized she wasn’t inclined to let me go until I cried for her.
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One of my deepest resentments was the way that I felt expected to perform grief in a particular way after my dad died when I was 16.
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honestly I suspect every problem in my life could be fixed by a good hug from Robin Williams
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All of our richest billionaires are having mid-life crises at the same time.
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Females just have these responsibilities. It’s coded in the one X chromosome. No not that one, the other one.
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My 13 yo requested a summary of the book when I was about 2/3 of the way through; he got a huge kick out of the sobriquet “Charles the Bald” when, at that point in the story, Charles was about 16.
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I wondered the exact same thing!