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vicada.bsky.social
Federally nonexistent by executive order; they/them on state documents. Writer, crafter, parent of 5, spouse and office drone. Your neighbor and coworker. Your fellow American until this morning. Probably making fish sticks for dinner if you want some.
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Anybody have a recommendation for a "thank you, father, for allowing me to not get arrested for that" offering to Loki? Right now I'm leaning towards Goldschlager.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If this white man from a tiny town in rural Maine can figure out an ACTIVE way to support his neighbors and his community without demanding he be spoonfed, and with full knowledge of where he fits into all this? You have no fucking excuse to be asking why anyone else hasn't fixed this for you.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I'm beginning to worry about my taste in companies I interact with, but lord do I love getting random checks from the FTC.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Dark Mother, 37 years have you let this child wander, never calling me home, even when I begged. I ask a favor this night: May I send my enemies to you before me in a long parade. May my children whom I lost greet them with jeers. May I arrive after the very last. For this coming war alone, 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Fun fact I learned today: The State Department only recognizes two genders, but you know who still has a check box for Nonbinary on their forms? The ATF. I'm beginning to think some people aren't thinking things through.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Hey if you're doing the Tesla protest thing you should probably wear a mask and leave your fuckin phones at home. If you think they're going to treat you guys any different than BLM and Palestine protestors by the end of this you're not thinking it through.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I made soda bread in an oven box over the camp stove. I burned my hands 3 times, it took damn near 3 hours, and I couldn't get the oven above 220 F. It stuck to the pan so hard that if I cut you a bit there's no bottom crust. Taste and texture, it was handsdown the best soda loaf I ever made.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Every Aries should own a wine glass made of 18/10 pot steel. You know why.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Mondayest Friday in a long while. Call me when it's my turn to cry in the walk-in.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.

submitted 27 days ago • 304 comments

Finally figured out of to pass a training assessment and get moved back to my usual 5-2 schedule on the first try: make plans to stay out til 1am so the switch would hurt as much as possible if it happened.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

On 1/6, watching the news with a brother living in Germany and valid passports for all of my children, my line in the sand was based entirely on who the military sided with. If they fell to Trump, we would run. I firmly believe he was banking on their participation that day. 1/

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I've never been "under the influence" of alcohol. I have, however, been "in cahoots" with alcohol many times

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

I've had to say about lot of hard things to my oldest child (16) over the years, but one of the hardest has definitely been "You will be grown before this is over. You're already in this."

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If you ever wondered who you would be when That Time Came, this is it. This is the person.

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

The first time I went out to my rural property, I found what appeared to be a body wrapped in a tarp. Called the cops, they said they'd check it out. Went back today, mountain tried to kill me. After getting towed and finally making it to the plot, found the same tarp. Across the road. Empty.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

TIL ducks can transition naturally. TLDR: Female ducks have one functioning ovary and one vestigal one. If the functional one is damaged, they'll take on the secondary sex characteristics of a male. Unsuppressed by estrogen, the vestigal ovary can then develop into a testis. TRANS DUCK.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

That's it. I found it. The most panic-inducing corporate embarrassment possible for a socially anxious Autistic hermit. My boss got in an hour before me today and immediately sent out a mass email and Teams post telling people to wish me a happy birthday because I'm awesome. My bday is in March.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Getting retrained into a different project at work (RA Medical Coder), and whichever trainer decided to slide an example chart for an intersex person into the course so that, if no one else, these 150 people would have to acknowledge their medical existence deserves a good damn day today.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Brianna Keilar: Do you think that calling Elon Musk a dick is effective messaging? Congressman Robert Garcia: Well, he is a dick.

submitted 43 days ago • 1855 comments

If anyone wants some good news about good people today: I went to the ER for uncontrolled movements, a crushing headache, and a family history of brain tumors. Zero people accused me of faking or drug seeking, desipte being able to see my god-mode mental health history. Gave me the CT I asked for.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Sitting in the ER, tripping on Toradol, cannula smells like a campfire, watching the swallows fly through the smoke that's creeping up the wall to my right. As long as someone hits me up with a head CT I'm don't caaaaare.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Eggs: *become expensive* Me: This is ridiculous. I should get ducks. America: I should get fascists. Me: *gets ducks* America: *gets fascists* Me:...you know they don't lay eggs, right? America: They'll eventually make eggs cheaper! Me:... America: *dissolving* Me:...y'all want some eggs?

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Golden Age of America? More like Golden Age of Sobbing at My Desk Because My Boss Tried to Motivate Me and Realizing That There's No Point in Trying to Get Disability for My GAD/MDD/PTSD Because Musk's Delete Squad Will Just Disappear it Within 2 Months.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

I changed my DL back in '22. I'm torn between thinking I jumped the gun and hoping that if I have to change it back in 2 years they'll void it and give it back so I can hide it in a drawer somewhere for my great grandkids find.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Just now realizing this isn't common knowledge for people who don't have a diagnosed anxiety disorder (I have 2!), but antihistamines like benadryl can successfully stop a panic attack. Those of us who are pro level get prescribed hydroxyzine, but benadryl will do in a pinch and is easily found.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone talks about how your knees and back stop working in your 30s. What they don't mention is that every injury, now matter how small, now has the potential to be life altering. I opened a grolsch-top bottle wrong two days ago, smacked myself right in the nerve, and have had 0 sensation since.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Whether or not they read it is on them. Whether or not I write it is on me.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

So, like, I get that as a Northern-tradition Pagan I may be super sensitive from having to pat down every website I use for "folkish" elements, but I know what I saw happen on that damn stage. It's understand it's hard to admit it's this bad already. I get it. I do. Denial helps no one, though.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments