thegreenstudy.com
Writer, Minnesotan, Army Veteran, Bird Nerd, Parent, Spouse, Atheist. I've named the squirrels in my yard & I swear a lot. Working on a novel and writing personal essays at thegreenstudy.com. She/her.
2025-26 Loft Literary Mentor Fellow in Fiction.
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As a Minnesotan I beg of you, please spell his name correctly. The wingnuts have Waltz. We have Walz.
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Exactly the same with making clothing. Insane amounts of cost and time compared to purchasing ready-to-wear.
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Someone else pointed me towards this editorial & for a brief moment, I wondered if the NYT might have gotten its shit together for a coherent case against Trump. This was so mealymouthed and riddled with contradiction as to mean absolutely fucking nothing.
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"Leave the pointless grandstanding to me."
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I don't know what's happened @NPR. I grew up with it, donated to it, but I can't relate to this cultural shift of imitating that other doofus, Joe Rogan, by platforming festering cancers on society like Bannon. I'm done.
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While in Vancouver CA last year, I used a bathroom with stalls (to the floor) for everyone. I washed my hands in the sink next to a man who was doing the same. This is the way. Acting like normal people instead of the pervs that bigots seem to think everyone else is (projection?).
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I grew up with not necessarily evil people, but really broken ones. Things could have gone a totally different way for me and I'm forever grateful that compassionate voices along the way steered me in the right direction. Can never underestimate being that right voice at the right time for someone.
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This looks like a parody skit.
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Cancelled our family account, because AI in its current iteration signals a few things: people are losing jobs, the product is about to get worse, the planet is going to burn a little more, some chode is going to make a shit-ton of money off the whole enshittification process.
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Yes. Meet me at the bench. I'll have coffee and puff pastries.
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I don't understand how the average Dem voter could see this coming from miles away, but these numbnuts couldn't. This is why I don't vote for "relatable" candidates. I want them to be smarter and more politically astute than I am, which is, on my best days, rather average.
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Also, what does it say about his acting acumen that he can't play a gay man?
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This made me laugh. Constantly having non sequitur conversations with my mom like this. She's not even on Reddit!
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This must be some of the anti-Christian bias the GOP is yammering on about. I bet they'll get out there and defend him, right? Protest? Sign petitions? Make a phone call? Do nothing? Yep, that sounds about right.
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She might have pulled this off with less backlash, if she hadn't been so snide about people who signal that they don't want to interact. I love random conversations during travel. Sometimes. Other times I'd like an eject button. Headphones and books are polite ways of signalling preference.
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Exactly this. After seeing the increasing funding and militarization of police/sheriff departments across the country, as well as the low level of accountability, training, and positive outcomes, it's a system not working as it stands and no amount of money will fix it.
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No worries, Senator Booker, the salmonella and e-coli will get some of us and if we're super lucky, we won't have vaccines or a pandemic plan and that will take care of the rest of us. But sure, the "concerning links" is a great take because screw actual, established science.
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My favorite bird!
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Puppies.
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We can see the stark differences when institutions or businesses learn to say "no". And if an institution is going to lose anyway (although they may not), at least they won't leave a trainwreck of a reputation that will take decades to recover. Target v. Costco. Columbia v. Harvard.
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"Why can't we have more rapey campuses?" laments LDS Ben. Okay, he didn't say that, but he kind of did.
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The idea that diverse hiring is contraindicative of merit needs to die an immediate death. I think we've seen what this administration's idea of "meritocracy" is, which is to say sycophantic incompetent nepotism for mediocre white people.