lextextilia.bsky.social
Textile artist, appellate research attorney, ADHDer, obsessive information omnivore, GenX raising GenZ 🎻🎸and GenAlpha 🥍 🏀 boys.
I make #quilts about labor, anxiety, aging, motherhood, and mortality.
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This feels even more moving and somber now that the volume of human knowledge and creative achievement in this magical place is under assault.
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A reminder that “Paul Revere’s Ride” was published in January 1861, and was understood by its readers as Longfellow’s cry to arms against treason and slavery.
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The best is when your teen is on their phone 47 hours a day and then you glance at yours once while they are not even talking to you and they make a snarky comment about how you’re “always on your phone” 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Honestly I didn’t either but it makes me feel itchy
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*crochet 😜😜😜
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As I’m their age, fascinating to see the differences caused by living — but also how much of aging is simply genetics.
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That is a good point. I remember how surprised they were when we said we wanted to stay with him and hold him while he died, because they said most people wanted to leave the room, which broke my heart. I had trouble leaving the room even after he was gone.
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It just felt like a miserable existence most of the time for ALL of us, including him, but we did it for a year because it was too painful to consider anything else... until it just became clear that there was nothing but misery, worry, and unpleasantness in our dynamic on all sides.
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causing him to pace and howl at night, waking our kids, our hearts broke every time we left the house to come back and find that he had clearly had another seizure and was wandering around in the enclosure he had to stay in, covered in poop and urine and we had to force him into the tub to bathe.
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Thank you! I think it was less either of those things and more that the vet felt that only pain would justify euthanasia, and perceived us as not wanting to be "inconvenienced." In reality my husband had been sleeping with our dog in another part of the house for a YEAR because his dementia was
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Also if someone deserves dunking on it’s this guy responding to the first guy.
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As a wife - joke easily understood and also appreciated.
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Interesting. I am also a married woman and I absolutely see both points of view.
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It IS a great website, especially because the guy you are dunking on is also right
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Or, educating them... children are generally just repeating garbage they have heard at home or online, and are still malleable -- showing them another perspective can actually help them build empathy and understanding. Shame has value too for sure but so does education.
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Vet made us feel like crap about even considering euthanasia bc he wasn't "in pain." Finally we saw a new vet who agreed with us that his quality of life was incredibly poor and would only get worse, not better. It was the right choice but I am still angry that we were made to feel bad about it.
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Barking at nothing, pacing. Again vet said it was "just dementia" and he wasn't suffering (?). Seizures got so frequent it was 2, 3 a day, he would poop and pee and need to have a bath, which he hated. He had to be confined most of the time bc the seizures were so unpredictable.
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Our dog had a long decline with seizures of increasing frequency. The vet told us that since he wasn't aware that he had had a seizure, he wasn't suffering. But when he came out of a seizure he was so disoriented and confused, he would walk into walls. He started to be confused all the time.
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Different case now moving through the courts. We will see, but they are not part of this case or addressed in this order.
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I completely agree which is why I said I wasn’t defending it - it’s a choice borne of a desire to retain money and professional status at the expense of making a stand when it matters.
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NOT defending this, but I think the subtext is that the partners are trying to convince/ ensure they take their clients with them when they leave and that takes time; in the meantime they don’t want to take a stand that may scare the clients away.
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"Weekend" is just a nice extra level of shade
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Thank you!!!!
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The dereliction of duty was by the AG, not the court.
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That’s what I thought thanks for confirming.
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Chat GPT once made up a Supreme Court that didn’t exist to answer my legal query including a citation to a page and a quotation 😄
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Definitely not. Found objects don’t make their own choices. They are inert
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No I should have asked AI to answer it lol
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I can’t think of a time when the art world didn’t embrace a new form of art (new styles yes, but a new “medium?”) but also no one has ever proposed that art made by nonhumans is art before?
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Oh sorry I read your question wrong / opposite sorry!!!
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Sure, I think most obviously conceptual art - but could be more based on how broadly you define saying something “isn’t art” - possibly earthworks would qualify
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100% :(
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For your sake I hope they don’t move on to “Doot Doot” from here 😂