Queen of Anxiety

Manager of web developers. Painter by numbers. Fan of speculative fiction. Love #dogs. Enjoy #minecraft, #WorldOfWarcraft, and the occasional other video game. Defender of the #LastJedi
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2026-05-06 18:57:09 UTC

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Well that sounds completely healthy and not at all problematic…

2026-04-29 18:09:34 UTC

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As with most things here, (white) Americans believe in freedom for themselves and people like them. Anybody else? That’s debatable and depends on how well those people perform whiteness.

2026-04-09 04:08:14 UTC

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I mean, it's not really a question, is it? The first immigration laws were put into place to limit non-WASP immigrants (apart from enslaved people), and it's been like that most of the time. The real question is why us white people can just get over ourselves already.

2026-04-09 00:36:22 UTC

Next thing we know, she’s going to be demanding photos of Spider-man. #dog #DogsOfMastodon
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2026-02-25 09:09:05 UTC

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more infectious, worse health outcomes, and preventable deaths: the GOP platform.

2026-02-13 00:35:13 UTC

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Not perfect is how you know it’s organic, right? ;)

2026-02-10 21:39:03 UTC

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That is toxic AF. I hope she keeps away from him.

2026-01-17 18:25:18 UTC

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OMG! "6,000 ants were brought in initially for the forest colony scenes, but they walked off before filming. Another 6,000 were brought in as a replacement, only for the original 6,000 to return."
That is fantastic!

2026-01-17 17:29:22 UTC

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Possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsieur_Fabre

2026-01-14 17:59:28 UTC

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Christ did away with the old law. You can't be a Christian and follow the Old Testament laws. But then, most of these "Christians" probably would reject Christ as some woke hippy.

2025-12-27 07:13:30 UTC

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I can verify you don’t get the love you needed by being the “easy” child any more than by being the difficult one. Or at least that was my experience!

2025-11-28 01:35:48 UTC

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This is why I get so mad at my coworkers who are all "If you're not coding in your spare time, it means you don't really love it and aren't worth hiring!" (Well and the industry standard of that as well.) I actually do love coding, but I also love balance in my life. If I'm coding all the time, I'm not refreshing my brain in other ways. So annoying!

2025-11-22 03:52:23 UTC

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"Off-label."
Gee, I don't want my patient to die from COVID or develop serious, long-term complications. How can I possibly prevent that? Certainly not the vaccine designed to do just that! That would be off-label!
God damn this fucking country.

2025-11-08 21:49:14 UTC

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I mean, will it? They fly 9 flights because there's the demand for 9 flights.

2025-11-04 22:14:35 UTC

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Stress results in inflammation, and asthma is inflammation in the bronchial passages. Seems easy to explain to me...

2025-10-27 01:18:10 UTC

For those of us with major depression, it’s easier to be wise than happy.
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2025-10-16 14:25:22 UTC

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TBF, nobody was checking the reports for accuracy or biases before AI either...

2025-09-25 13:27:59 UTC

My company is hiring software devs with #JavaScript knowledge, with some #PHP as a bonus.
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/banyansoftware/jobs/4916373007
#fedihire #jobs

2025-08-26 23:03:42 UTC

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I didn’t watch because I couldn’t handle it if he said “what if anything” one more time. ;)

2025-08-26 22:58:03 UTC

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Probably. The Walshe case was already shaping up to be high profile, though, and the Birchmore case is ... well, let's just say ACAB and leave it at that.

2025-08-26 22:54:43 UTC

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As a resident of MA, I'm pretty disgusted by most of the police involved. And the state troopers need a serious overhaul, but as usual are just hoping the furor will die down enough to let them not have to do anything.

2025-08-26 22:50:32 UTC

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No, I couldn't stand it again after the first debacle. Especially as I'm in the minority who think she's guilty, but I also think the investigation was such a disaster that she should probably not be convicted, much as it galls me.

2025-08-26 22:48:45 UTC

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Interesting! I didn't follow it too closely. I do wonder what secrets died with Whitey when he got killed in prison.

2025-08-26 22:44:05 UTC

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Oof! My mom actually got called up for the Whitey Bulger trial, but she got in a bad bike accident just before, so she ended up getting excused. Which is probably good for her, since she is a lot more sensitive than I am. :)

2025-08-26 03:48:16 UTC

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The only time I got a notice, the day my number was going to come up, they didn’t need any jurors. I assume it’ll come up for me again at some point. :)

2025-08-25 23:46:29 UTC

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It's a really interesting experience. It makes me kinda want to serve on a jury, though I dunno if I'd make it past selection when they ask me what I think of police. :)

2025-08-21 18:40:43 UTC

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Looks lovely! Just let Summer know not to eat the cobs, however sorely she is tempted. My mom’s dog did that and was sad she had to go to the V E T. :)

2025-08-21 17:56:56 UTC

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Paywalled so I can't read the full thing, but given that I laughed out loud at some stuff in Poker Face recently, I don't think it's dead. I've heard plenty of good stand-up, too. So ... if there's a problem, I'm not seeing it.

2025-08-07 17:45:28 UTC

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It's not the signs discouraging people getting help. It's the insurance companies' predatory practices.

2025-08-05 08:01:55 UTC

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Well and teaching requires so many hours and is super stressful and gets harder and harder, with more and more burdensome admin. A cousin taught for a year and gave up, in part so he and his wife could afford the IVF they needed.

2025-07-26 12:44:15 UTC

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Of course they don’t work. They’re used by people who are willing to let an entire group of people be treated as less-than-human. And while the current concentration camp plan is barbaric, the Dems are as complicit in maintaining the current busted immigration system that created this situation as the GOP is.

2025-07-12 11:08:10 UTC

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It will also get people killed, especially minorities but also women, because it has the same biases baked in as people do.

2025-06-29 11:28:28 UTC

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I mean, it’s already close to that without cutting medicaid. The ER has become the primary care for the elderly. But they don’t care. They want us poor and scared and sick so we don’t make them give up the wealth they’re hoarding.

2025-06-22 14:17:21 UTC

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Not just for dementia, either. I was shocked to learn I’d have to hire a nurse, not a home health aid, to manage my mom’s tube feeds, and at rehab it’s the same thing, but I’m supposed to do it at home.
But sure, let’s cut Medicaid and instead start another endless war.

2025-06-17 18:47:50 UTC

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I think it should also be a warning for the regular World Cup. The US is not a safe place to have major sporting events, or much else really.

2025-06-05 23:39:40 UTC

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Who doesn’t say hi to dogs? Why do we allow them in society?

2025-05-22 11:23:11 UTC

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Or Zuckerberg could just actually go to therapy.

2025-05-17 20:14:24 UTC

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My mom’s had a lot of anxiety since her surgery. I don’t really know how to help that. Especially when it keeps her from sleeping, which keeps me from sleeping. It’s definitely not an easy thing. Sending love to all three of you!

2025-05-13 00:55:01 UTC

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I cannot stand the mockumentary format. It makes the cringe of sitcoms even worse. Ugh.

2025-05-05 19:30:56 UTC

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Like. Why the pushback? Prolonged grief disorder is NOT the same thing as grief. Yes, a lot of people have stupid ideas about grief, but most people don’t experience it as a disorder. It’s like there being a difference between being down for a few weeks and having major depressive disorder.

2025-04-30 03:26:09 UTC

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My sis makes really good orange rolls, and she puts some of the orange zest in the icing as well, which helps carry the orange flavor. Maybe a similar approach to the raspberry could help?

2025-04-28 17:16:22 UTC

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Horror in general is too much for me, whether gory or just tense. Heck, I can't even do medical dramas because of all the gore!

2025-04-28 16:49:11 UTC

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I haven't watched the first one. No reason I'd watch a remake.

2025-04-10 17:59:18 UTC

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It means we could sue Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerburg, so I bet it doesn't pass.

2025-04-08 18:32:26 UTC

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Except in the original they don't talk, so I feel like that one should be ok. But I think they may also have left out some because they didn't want to make people sad, like Old Yeller or Marley and Me or Where the Red Fern Grows. Some thoughts:
* Sandy from Annie
* Hercules from the Sandlot
* Petey from Little Rascals
* Einstein from Back to the Future
And as we know, they're all good dogs :)

2025-04-08 18:12:14 UTC

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I went with Toto but I feel like I must be forgetting a dog that would be my real choice.

2025-02-18 13:56:44 UTC

She has bed face on the morning. #dog #DogsOfMastodon
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2025-02-10 12:45:12 UTC

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Took me a while to get used to the mask, but less time than I expected. I didn’t get the life-changing results some people do of suddenly having tons of energy, but I am even more of an exhausted wreck without it. Good luck! :)

2025-01-31 22:00:03 UTC

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Man those fluffy legs!

2025-01-23 01:22:47 UTC

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That episode amuses me on many levels. :)

2025-01-21 00:34:54 UTC

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Earlier last week I was all “I need to remember her gotcha day,” and then I didn’t realize it was already the 20th! :)

2025-01-21 00:14:36 UTC

Oh hey it’s her gotcha day! #dog #DogsOfMastodon
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2025-01-20 22:18:51 UTC

Side-eye. #dog #DogsOfMastodon
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2025-01-17 23:27:03 UTC

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5/8. Been paying too much attention to the news. No wonder I am exhausted.

2025-01-15 14:01:05 UTC

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I mean, have you been on FB recently? It’s already enshittified.

2025-01-15 13:58:29 UTC

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That sounds like BS to me. I trust the people doing the work of teaching a lot more than I do anybody researching teaching, especially when they talk about the cost of education.

2025-01-02 23:46:14 UTC

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Never liked it. If I wanted to watch people being toxic to each other, I wouldn't have gone no contact with most of my extended family.

2025-01-02 20:05:34 UTC

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But other studies have shown that cannabis use by teens has significantly decreased in the last decade. The article doesn’t mention that, which makes it feel more fear-monger-y than a useful warning that those teens who do try it are more likely to get more than they bargained for.

2024-12-27 21:09:03 UTC

The way the scruff was over only one eye this morning was super adorable! #dog #DogsOfMastodon
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2024-11-18 22:10:07 UTC

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Oh my gosh he's so freaking adorable!!!

2024-11-13 17:57:55 UTC

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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence while profiting from slavery. Washington led the country in war and peace, all while profiting from slavery. Many of those who wrote and fought for their own rights vehemently denied those rights to Black people. If we can't acknowledge these aspects of our history, how can we understand how the current systems continue the oppression that grew from those historical practices and thoughts?

2024-11-13 17:55:54 UTC

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The point isn't that she was racist so women shouldn't have the vote. It's that we continue as a nation to erase the racism of important historical (and current) figures, and that this erasure is part of the system that continues to oppress and victimize Black Americans. White people don't need to renounce our own rights to ensure those rights are also extended to all, including and especially to Black Americans, who have been denied them for centuries.

2024-10-11 17:10:37 UTC

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5/9. Coulda gotten one more but I voted for what I wanted to be true rather than what I thought would be true. Ah well.

2024-09-26 20:10:16 UTC

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*sad sigh* Three women and none in the main list. Alas. Also I don't particularly care for most of the main list. I'd probably say Robert Zemeckis from the honorable mentions because I like 3/4s of the listed movies. I would also argue Rian Johnson's list should include Knives Out and Glass Onion, but maybe he's gonna end up with two entries as well!

2024-09-18 23:27:06 UTC

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I highly recommend fire.

2024-09-17 14:02:44 UTC

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This is a wise approach. And it's why women choose the bear. At least you know the bear is gonna be a bear. You never know what sort of guy you're going to get.

2024-09-14 14:28:27 UTC

Daisy is on alert. You can tell by the ear lobe configuration. #dog #DogsOfMastodon
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2024-09-06 16:22:43 UTC

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Unfortunately the more I get right in news quizzes, the worse my mental health tends to me.

2024-09-06 16:21:01 UTC

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Yeah, I've got maybe one Republican I haven't blocked or unfollowed, and she isn't very political, but I admit I've gotten into it in her comments with some of the more outspoken people. I shouldn't waste my time, but she otherwise posts cool stuff, so I keep following her. Self-inflicting that wound :)

2024-09-06 15:09:58 UTC

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Oh no I got 6/8. Been paying too much attention to the news! :D

2024-09-05 19:08:58 UTC

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I would be soooo tempted to reply in a snippy way. I finally blocked my Q-head sister-in-law. We were never close, and I later found out she cheated on my bro, so I don't feel particularly bad. MAGA is bad enough, but full on Qanon is more than I can handle.

2024-09-05 17:47:28 UTC

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wooooooweeeeeee

2024-08-26 14:12:20 UTC

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Wow, often images of non-European animals by European artists of that time are nowhere near as accurate as this! I'm impressed. :)

2024-08-18 23:48:14 UTC

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I believe she has a PhD in it, but not sure how much it focused on the issues of the US Black culture which created the dance form, nor the oppression and cultural appropriation Black people face in the US, so she may have been ignorant of how her approach might have been seen as mocking the dance form and culture, rather than trying to do something unique in it. There’s a convo to be had about breaking on the world stage, but I don’t know enough to have it. :)

2024-08-18 22:23:31 UTC

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I keep reading about it because I just don't get what she was thinking. Best I can tell she knew she couldn't win going head-to-head on the usual breaking moves and decided to try something different. But she hasn't been clear saying that, so it makes me wonder if I'm right or not. To a large extent I don't feel I'm qualified to comment, since before these Olympics, I haven't really thought about breaking since the 90s.

2024-08-13 23:25:57 UTC

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This pie is causing flooding in Massachusetts. :)

2024-08-09 03:11:57 UTC

Work fell apart. I considered quitting. It’s not actually that bad, but it was painful. At least my #dog is cute. #DogsOfMastodon
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2024-06-21 16:49:44 UTC

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I almost went for Last Crusade but instead picked Jurassic Park because it doesn’t have a long back-story. :)