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Proudly from New Jersey, married to a Texan. I’ll come up with a better bio if this site turns out to be more worth my time than the other one.
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A group of Native American tribes and students is suing the Trump administration to reverse its recent firing of federal workers at Native schools that they said has severely lowered their quality of education.

Happy anniversary to my proudest moment on the Other Site

Libby needs a feature where you can pester the person who currently has your book if the queue hasn’t moved in months and they’re clearly just sitting on it

Poor little kids are having a rough time

I, for one, am shocked that the woman who went out of her way to defend Bashar al Assad is siding with Russia over Ukraine. Who could have predicted this.

Man, that Zelensky press briefing was embarrassing

This little gremlin was standing on top of my guitar, trying to pull down the router by its cord. As if I don’t need internet to work from home so I can fund her lavish lifestyle

It’s 42 degrees now and it’ll be 79 degrees this afternoon, making it impossible to dress my child for school in a way that will actually have her comfortable for the entire day

Say what you will about RFK, but the man gets RESULTS

Got a new laptop with a SLIGHTLY smaller keyboard, and I underestimated how much having the keys moved such a small amount would undermine my ability to type

Emus didn’t fight, and win, a war against Australians just for headlines like this to imply that they aren’t feared

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

My 12 pound dog and 4 month old cat enjoy eating bacon cheeseburger flavored canned food, because it reminds them of the food they would eat in the wild (hamburgers and cheese)

Getting rid of the penny makes sense, but if we REALLY want to make our currency worthwhile, we need to stop ending every price in 99 cents, and include taxes in the price like they do in Europe. I'll pay in cash if I can go to the store and actually pay using whole denominations.

I guess even the most broken of all the clocks is right sometimes

If a one mammal (a shrew) can evade photography all these years, why not another (Bigfoot)?

It’s bad enough that this is allegedly a Halloween AND Christmas movie. Why must these dumb characters show up the rest of the year too?

I could have sworn that it was Groundhog Day yesterday

Just woke up in a panic thinking my alarm hadn’t gone off to get my kid ready for kindergarten. How’s your Saturday going?

Man, the Cowboys sure know how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory better than any other team

Last vegetable harvest of the year! We’re getting our first killer frost in north Texas in a couple of days here

My dog is not a huge fan of any of this

Watched the Rudolph’s Shiny New Year for the first time in maybe 20 years, and man that’s a weird movie

And immediately after I caught myself from making a second critical parenting error of telling my husband how I dodged that bullet…in front of said 5yo.

This X community note just seems unnecessary and mean

Despite being perhaps somewhat ineffective as a president, Jimmy Carter proved to be dedicated and caring in the private sector, exemplifying virtues all Americans could benefit from emulating

Just noticed that in Mickey’s Christmas Carol, the gravestones in the background of the Ghost of Christmas Future sequence are for Gladys Knight (who is still alive now) and Bob Wills (another singer, I had to look him up)

This is wild. We have a MoC going AWOL and living in memory care.

Here’s a handy pie chart of how much of each type of flavored popcorn I plan to eat during the holiday season

For Elon Musk, $250 million is the equivalent of $26.21 for someone who makes $50k a year in salary.

New Christmas ornament that seems intent on knocking down all the other ornaments for some reason

Cats who appreciate comfort

The school sent us a photo of my kindergartener and her classmates getting to pet a kangaroo and a boa constrictor during school, so when she got in the car today I asked her if anything fun happened today. She thought for a bit and then went "Hmmm. No. Not that I can think of." 🤷‍♂️

Why are people in 2025 still driving and holding their phones up to their faces? Did Harald Bluetooth die for nothing?

In the Christmas Prince they keep talking about how Aldovia is this tiny country, but then they show it on a map in the third movie and it’s literally pre-World War I Austria-Hungary

Best buds

I like how Bluesky has a lot of the good features of classic Twitter, but they really need to start incorporating some of the classic features from other social media sites too. I want to throw sheep at some people while I listen to their favorite song play on their profile page.

In the office for the first time in months, and I forgot to bring a single Christmas decoration 🎄

Duolingo is stealing material from my internal monologue now