Corvid Crone

I had to go; the vibes were bad

PNW, ACAB, BLM, anti-TERF, anti-fascist

Trans rights are human rights.

Let the weeds grow and capitalism die.

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2026-04-29 21:41:58 UTC

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Something else: peeled the stickers off and reattached

2026-04-29 21:15:31 UTC

Hit me with tomatoes, if you like, but um...
$400M to build a new building complete with underground bunker kitted out with hospital and using bullet proof glass is not outrageous in terms of what construction costs.
That bunker part with all the bells and whistles is going to inflate the cost.
That said, it is an outrageous thing to do to begin with while more than zero people are homeless, children have food insecurity, and national infrastructure is crumbling.

2026-04-22 22:06:13 UTC

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Poiuyt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trident

2026-04-20 20:22:36 UTC

Ok, chaos gardeners, I've recently learned about chaos gardening, and I want your input, anecdotes, pictures if you're feeling inclined, and tips. Tell me all about your experiences!
#ChaosGardening #chaos #gardening

2026-04-15 16:37:53 UTC

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COOL
The hole is getting bigger. You could literally walk out to the street and carry away a chunk of road.
And it's garbage day 🙃

2026-04-15 14:51:56 UTC

There is a goddamned sink hole in front of my house in the middle of the street. Originally reported as a pothole, the city reclassified it as a storm sewer/barrier repair.
So, there is a hole in the road that the road is crumbling into. This is due to storm drain issues.
The city has a truck out here working on the sewer, and they didn't close the road?!?!?
There is a HOLE the road is FALLING INTO and the city is like, "yeah, drive right over that. No big deal"

2026-04-13 20:53:22 UTC

My fellow Americans, lend me your...eyes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT

2026-03-31 20:56:34 UTC

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https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/325/778/304/762/649/original/90ae8e9cb7e72dcd.mp4

2026-03-26 23:24:43 UTC

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That is a very cool experience!
According to Wikipedia, Yogi Bhajan has been credibly advised of sexual misconduct (with adult women) and spiritual/financial malfeasance.
He seems to have offended the Sikhs with his teachings.
"In 1977, Gurucharan Singh Tohra, former President of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), stated that Harbhajan Singh was not the leader of Sikhism in the Western World as he claimed and denied Singh's claim that the SGPC had given him the title of Siri Singh Sahib.[13]
Sikh High Priest Jaswant Singh stated that he and his council professed to be "shocked" at Bhajan's "fantastic theories." Yoga, Tantrism, and the "sexual practices" taught by Bhajan, the council declared, are "forbidden and immoral."[17]"

2026-03-26 22:23:36 UTC

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Yogi tea: crystals to fascism pipeline

2026-03-26 22:22:08 UTC

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😬

2026-03-26 21:53:50 UTC

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Sleepy time [brand]: your question of whether or not I'm in a cult is answered by my T-shirt that says "I am not in or running a cult". Pay no attention to the gossip, please

2026-03-26 21:36:35 UTC

If teas were human interactions:
English breakfast: cheerio! Splendid morning we're having!
Irish breakfast: [kicks in your door] GOOD MORNING, Sunshine!! Let's get this day started!
Chai masala: I came for the caffeine and stayed for the conversation
Lipton: [dead fish handshake]
Earl Grey: ready to spill the tea? Oh good heavens, not the literal tea!
Tetly: mornin', Boss
Pu'er: [looks up from a philosophy tome] I should do some gardening... after I 💩
Lapsang Souchong: [is the most interesting person you know] maybe I should be a hermit.
Ceylon: [is always correct and never says told ya so]
Add or correct :)

2026-03-16 20:50:25 UTC

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I just had a sudden memory of sitting in high school economics class thinking, "this...this just seems like a big scam..."
Took years to unlearn thinking I wasn't smart enough to understand economics.

2026-03-14 16:46:47 UTC

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is this the Pomeranian that challenged my wife's car like a knight challenging a dragon a few years ago? 😂

2026-03-11 03:28:42 UTC

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That's a good sign

2026-03-11 01:35:59 UTC

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Did they give you a call back number or transaction number?

2026-03-10 20:09:26 UTC

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I've heard that the reason rape does not result in the death penalty (in the US) is to prevent rapists from killing their victims.
However, I don't know that this line of thinking is based on anything but vibes.
When death is the penalty for crimes large and small, the government can easily get rid of dissenters. And regular people can use the heavy hand of the criminal justice system to punish their neighbors for real or perceived slights.
Crime often stems from a lack of something, and when it comes to the option of certain death by starvation vs possible death for stealing, the death penalty is not a deterrent.
So, the underlining conditions of such a society will be the determining factor.

2026-03-06 22:17:20 UTC

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Reported* sexual assaults

2026-02-17 18:41:52 UTC

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if the Republicans are putting honey in their coffee, I suddenly understand why they are so unpleasant. That sounds like it would ruin the flavor of both.

2026-02-12 18:45:06 UTC

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What's past the paywall?

2026-02-11 23:57:01 UTC

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apparently public schools doing this have our local conservatives' panties in a twist. Big mad about "their tax dollars"

2026-02-10 19:32:23 UTC

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I voted both choice 3 and 4 because I interpreted option 3 as extracting resources from the powerless and protection of property from retribution as slightly different 🤷‍♀️

2026-02-10 19:02:06 UTC

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Laws also exist to protect property and the property class from being rebuked by the rest

2026-01-31 00:13:07 UTC

Uniforms are powerful tools. They allow the subjugation of the self into to a group, such that the individual's actions become the group's actions and the group's actions become a reflection of the individual.
We see the first effect all the time. A school child who wears a school uniform can get disciplined for behavior outside of school because the uniform makes the child into a representative of the school. The problem isn't that 'Johnny' stole an apple, the problem is that a child from this school stole an apple. This goes both ways for good and bad behavior. The institution gets the credit.
Subjugating the individual to the group also allows people to act in ways they wouldn't normally because while wearing the uniform, a person is no longer just 'Michael', but whatever the uniform represents. In some cases, this could mean a work uniform which allows you access to restricted areas, such as a school or a hospital. The uniform can create cohesion as everyone wearing it will be subjected to the same assumptions, expected to behave a certain way, and be recognized as part of that group. The anonymity granted by the uniform is a shield to hide behind. Some groups are very aware of this and hold their members to high standards, and some don't.
However, the very mechanism by which the individual's sense of self is less important than the uniform also means that the individual takes on the public character of that uniform regardless of whether or not that individual participates in the actions that others wearing the uniform participate in.
So, when a person tells a cop that he's a murderer, the individual wearing the cop uniform might react with, "I didn't shoot anyone". Maybe that's correct. Maybe that individual wearing the cop uniform has never fired his service weapon. But, someone wearing the same uniform he's wearing has. When an individual dons the uniform of a violent group, they take on the actions of that group.
Cops, and especially ICE, want to have their cake and eat it too. They want the anonymity and power of the uniform without taking on the group's stigma of violence.

2025-11-21 23:06:39 UTC

Older white lady pulled a gun, or as she calls it her "safety weapon", and phone recording video on ICE trying to harass the guys she hired to put up Christmas lights.
And ICE fucking left.
Who called a Granny being the first one to exercise her 2nd Amendment rights on ICE in the way the founding fathers intended?
#YeeHawFuckTheLaw
Link below
Edit: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRF_ikTktUh/?igsh=NWcwc3oxMTBocWEw
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRGETKsj4sO/?igsh=MXNzdWpoYWwwYzFldg==

2025-10-30 01:05:46 UTC

#tacoma #ICE at the smoke shop on Yakima and 48th

2025-10-29 20:29:27 UTC

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I am very aware that ice isn't military. That's why I said "also".
I highly doubt that they are planning to divide that 130M equally across the entire military. I suspect that certain people in the military will be paid while the majority get nothing. That is what I was trying to illustrate: there will be some paid and some who aren't and knowing this administration, they'll prioritize higher ranking officers over anyone else. This is worse than not paying everyone if you want a cohesive military. It creates division, especially as the people most likely to not get paid are the ones living paycheck to paycheck with debt.

2025-10-29 19:19:52 UTC

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Some military are getting paid. The Trump administration accepted a donation of 130M on the condition that it be used to pay military salary. This is a drop in the bucket for the actual military payroll cost.
ICE is also getting paid during the shutdown from homeland security's ridiculously inflated budget

2025-10-21 20:01:15 UTC

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Who are they? No time like the present

2025-10-10 00:33:12 UTC

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The power is distributed equally. They can scream that they are the smartest person in the room until they are blue in the face, but no one is obligated to stay in the same room with them. It means no one gets to control someone else's access to necessities, which is the primary way people take power

2025-10-10 00:28:03 UTC

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What happens when you're on a sports team and you decide you don't like a specific rule of the game?
What happens when you're in a band and your drummer refuses to stop getting hammered before each show?
These situations even under the current system are not governed by laws. They are organized through voluntary association. Interpersonal disagreements are sorted out through conflict resolution.
There are some versions of anarchism wherein voting isn't a simple majority. It's a process where, in order for the vote to pass, it has to have 100% agreement. So when someone says, "nah, I don't want mandatory ties", the person organizing the vote goes to this person and actually talks to them about why, and if there are conditions that would tempt him to vote yes. If there aren't, then the vote doesn't pass, and everyone who wants to wear ties, wears the ties and those who don't don't. Maybe that person doesn't want to wear a tie because a tie gets caught in his work tools. Maybe he hates the feeling of something so close to his throat. Maybe he just doesn't have any. Maybe he just hates what they represent. Maybe he thinks they look ugly.
Now, if this was a safety matter instead of dress code, the person who won't comply with the safety procedures maybe gets asked to leave and find some other work to do (remember, his housing and food and healthcare are not tied to this work). Or no one will work with him while he's not following the safety procedures.

2025-10-09 23:53:10 UTC

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Covered that in a separate reply :)
https://kolektiva.social/@CorvidCrone/115340583244588739

2025-10-08 16:18:30 UTC

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So, there are a couple of ways this would be addressed in an anarchist system, and there are solutions that we haven't even come up with yet.
1.) if we lived in an anarchist society, you might post about your experiences online, and, because our livelihoods are not dependent on working a job (as opposed to working for the benefit and continuity of the community), we could literally just travel to you, help you pack and move to whenever you wanted to go. Anarchism means the freedom to walk away without life-threatening consequences. (This option makes most sense to me, but I am only one brain)
2.) if you didn't want to move, we could still come to you and mediate between you and the neighbors (figure out what crawled up their butt to cause them to be so vicious to you), and try to work out something with them to help them stop. Find people in your community who are kind but afraid and embolden them to stand up to these tormentors.
Again, I am only one brain, we would have more solutions with more brains working on the problem.
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That story about the dog makes me want to set their house on fire 🤬

2025-10-08 15:58:41 UTC

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Yes, the violence of our current system creates violence in people. Some of it is misdirected anger at the state of their lives, some of it is because violence is all they have been taught. Trauma changes people and sometimes for worse. Trauma can be healed, but that is extremely hard to do in our current system.
When I say that people being bellicose by nature is a fiction made up by elites, I mean that they have a vested interest in manifesting this belief in those they oppress and maintaining those conditions that reward violence.
In an anarchist system, beating up the pizza delivery person would still have consequences, and probably much more effective consequences than there are now. They could be blacklisted for all delivery services in the community, they could have the rest of the pizza workers show up and beat them up, or some other solution that works for that community. There would be no corporate pressure to just move on or retain a customer. And no corporate pressure from other delivery companies to deliver to this person anyway.

2025-10-08 15:16:01 UTC

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The whole point of anarchism is to distribute power so it can't form a power vacuum.
The issue is that governments don't actually prevent the cold hearted narcissist from doing what they want, but do prevent regular people from doing anything about the cold hearted narcissist.
Evidence shows that the vast majority of people are collaborative and prefer to help rather than hurt, which we see all the time in the aftermath of natural disasters. The "looters" are really just people bypassing capitalist chains by distributing goods that are already on location without charging money. The entire narrative that people are bellicose by nature is a fiction designed by those in power.

2025-10-07 19:13:27 UTC

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"Vote with your wallet!" is such bullshit.

2025-10-07 19:01:27 UTC

I am so mad that Americans don't have the option to withhold federal taxes when the government is so dysfunctional.
I do not mind paying taxes that actually go into helping people, but it grinds my gears that:
1.) I have to pay taxes to a government so they can build a tacky gold ballroom larger than the White House itself
2.) I have to pay taxes to a government giving bonuses larger than the average salary to masked gestapo so they can traumatize and terrorize the nation
3.) I have to pay taxes to a government who will use that money to pay congressional salaries while that Congress is denying representation to Arizona
4.) I have to pay taxes to a government who uses that money finance genocides and wars

2025-09-11 17:12:06 UTC

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not for 9/11?

2025-09-05 09:14:46 UTC

The most disappointing part of this whole cursed timeline is the realization that people understood "fascists bad" but not why.
How can you be anti fascist if you don't understand what fascism is and how it works?
Fascists are inherently bad at strategy because they always overvalue their own competence and undervalue their opponents. Nazi technology wasn't superior, their propaganda said it was. For fucks sake, the Nazis, specifically, despised reason and the scientific method, and promoted vibes based invention and decision making. Sound familiar?
There is no 4d chess. There is no strategy of distraction. They say and do what is expedient in the moment. It is why truth has no value for them.
The reason fascism is a dangerous cancer on humanity is that it is a death cult. It is that fascism necessitates an enemy and when that enemy is defeated, they need a new one. Fascists talk about an idealized peace time in a hypothetical future, but the reality is that the ideology requires an other to blame for when their flawed policies fail to produce their utopia.
Fascists are dangerous because they don't stop until they are stopped. You cannot appease them. You cannot reason with them. You cannot make a compromise with them. They live moment to moment with no regard to honoring or acknowledging previous agreements.

2025-08-07 23:07:54 UTC

Do you run immigration organizations that help people kidnapped by ICE?
If you have an Instagram account and you haven't locked down your location permissions, ICE now could have your social media person's location.
Lock that shit down.

2025-08-05 20:37:23 UTC

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Please, I would like to know more about the fun potato experiment

2025-06-14 01:15:40 UTC

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Yep. I kept getting calls from politicians in Florida a decade after leaving Florida, and I got sick of it. So, I answered the next call and told them to get me off this call list as I cannot legally vote in Florida anymore and haven't been able to for a decade. And could they please update their records for fucks sake. She was so apologetic.
Now I mark their calls as spam because it never stops no matter what

2025-06-04 16:16:22 UTC

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kind of mad this Nazi's house is cleaner than mine. Was he expecting company?

2025-06-04 16:09:27 UTC

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This. You mean to tell me that the barbed wire topped fences are the only thing keeping the citizenry from appropriating the weapons?
Home Depot has bolt cutters. This is embarrassing for the whole base

2025-05-27 18:57:31 UTC

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there are invasive species of grass in the state of Washington. If you mow your yard, they all look the same.

2025-05-21 01:26:15 UTC

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Banks are also for profit companies, though. So are the credit card companies. So are the payment processors. These all have a vested interest in not getting cut out.
The reason they can do this in other countries is because those other countries have different laws and banking organizations in place.

2025-05-21 00:07:01 UTC

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An open protocol for money transfers wouldn't be accepted by either bank. The underpinning for the service providers you listed is called stripe, because it has the required anti-fraud checks that are extremely difficult to get authorization to have.
The backend of money transfers to and from banks has a lot of moving parts that are tightly regulated.

2025-03-28 21:58:50 UTC

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Oh my God. I've cracked it.
That's the same font used on those We The People flags! And and the 1776 bumper stickers!
It's a false flag! A psyop!

2025-03-27 00:41:23 UTC

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ugh, why do I never get to do these surveys. AI is fucking up my workflow

2025-03-08 01:11:28 UTC

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This nonsense is why I'm currently stuck in an infinite loop with getting a specific document approved for compliance. AI tool says it's missing stuff. More than one human has reviewed it and found the AI wrong. But there is no contact option for us to escalate the issue to a human being.

2025-03-08 00:54:41 UTC

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This reminds me of when I was sitting in a one on one "training" for a client's desired compliance AI tool.
She asked if I had questions, and I said, "Yes. True Artificial Intelligence does not actually exist, so, what is this?"
She broke the professional face to say she asked the same thing on her first day working there 🫣

2025-03-06 17:32:30 UTC

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I wonder if universal remote controls can be used to turn off TVs in waiting rooms

2025-02-19 17:08:23 UTC

I need non US Americans to understand that it takes days, almost a whole week to travel across the United States without using a plane.
Using a plane requires you to be and remain unthreatening to the State. To say nothing of the inherent risk of flying with the issues going on regarding Air Traffic Control.
It takes most US Americans hours to get to their state capital.
We are not a European sized country. Descending upon Washington DC en masse is not possible for the average person.
Resisting this dictatorial federal government will need to include ignoring it. Not ignoring the damage it's doing, but operating independently from it. Empires crumble when they get to a size where they cannot exercise local control over their whole land area. Focusing on building dual power and mutual aid is materially beneficial.

2025-01-24 22:51:56 UTC

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I miss my bagel man 😞 and his bagel truck covered in local union stickers
He even gave me a Christmas card for being a regular

2025-01-24 22:50:17 UTC

Franz Bagels, you have disrespected the entire city of New York. "New York pizza bagel" GTFO

2025-01-23 23:11:25 UTC

Washingtonians! #tacoma #seattle these are your numbers to call.
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/880/186/683/990/968/original/b28313859efe9517.png

2025-01-21 17:11:06 UTC

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this first one is one I trip over all the time. So many people don't know the legal names of their own employers (the name on the paycheck is not the one in the side of the truck). So many people involved in property management don't understand the purpose of the multiple legal entities they have to put on documents

2025-01-13 16:12:25 UTC

Open work email.
"CorvidCrone, I don't know what these people are talking about"
Scroll down.
Find one of the most poorly written emails requesting revisions I've ever read.
"Yeah, I bet"

2025-01-10 00:55:25 UTC

@npub1s02…zz9t nice to see your posts back in my feed :anarchoheart3:

2025-01-08 23:38:07 UTC

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Where do I sign? Take me, Canada! I'm yours!

2025-01-06 23:02:41 UTC

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You're not alone. I remember that day. My spouse called out from her computer, "maga is storming the capital building!" And I was like, "wtf?" Then both of us were glued to the live streams. I started researching "living after government collapse" looking for practical advice from people in other countries who have lived through coups and other violent governmental changes. I don't think I ate much that day. I could feel it throughout my whole body. The next several months felt surreal and untethered from time as we all watched the government not react like there was just an attempted insurrection.

2024-12-20 23:57:25 UTC

It's almost 2025, and you can't insert pages from one PDF into another?
Yes, we are judging you.

2024-12-17 22:33:24 UTC

They are the same boots. The same. The boots are the same.
Why are the boots sold with "womens" sizes printed on the sole $20 cheaper than the boots with the "mens" sizes printed on the sole?
They're the same boots! They are both practical and serviceable rain boots. Not fashion boots.

2024-12-15 22:42:43 UTC

Last night, I got up to use the bathroom at around 4am, and the full(ish?) moon shone through the skylight and illuminated my toilet, and just the toilet, like a fairy throne.

2024-12-12 21:18:03 UTC

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I think they can ask, but it's up to Scotland to decide if they want to or not.
https://constitutioncenter.org/news-debate/special-projects/digital-privacy/whose-law-governs-in-a-borderless-world

2024-12-12 16:44:58 UTC

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Romantic covers all that. Gothic romance, maybe

2024-12-11 23:15:21 UTC

I just want a program that will let me read PDFs and also allow me to highlight (a straight line, I do not want to freehand it), and make comments/take notes that is free and open source.
Libre office has failed the trial. Do not suggest it.

2024-12-11 16:18:16 UTC

I plugged the USB into the computer in the dark in the first try 🎉

2024-12-04 23:36:51 UTC

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We realized our pittie had no concept of preventing physical harm to herself because she would run right through rose bushes and stand outside while shivering.
You can take the dog out of the street, but it takes a while to get the street out of the dog.

2024-12-04 23:24:07 UTC

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My pittie has her own wardrobe of hoodies, lol.
This dork would run outside nekid and shiver her ass off if we didn't clothe her at first. Now she runs into her hoodies.
Spark Paws makes great sweaters for barrel chested dogs

2024-12-03 21:50:17 UTC

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My mom grew up in Memphis during Jim Crow as white person with a divorced mom. There are so many stories, but I'll start with one I was present for:
My parents both worked at a University when we lived in Iowa. My dad in facilities, and my mom as a professor. One day, my mom invited her friend (another professor), who is Black, over to our house. Her friend pulls into our driveway, and as she gets out of the car, our old racist neighbor greets her with the business end of a shot gun. She gets back in her car. My mom hears yelling from outside, and comes outside to see her friend about to leave and the neighbor waving his shotgun. My mom, who grew up in Memphis, is one hard lady. Also important: my mom is 5'11 and the neighbor is maybe 5'7, she towers over him. She marches right up to the racist neighbor, and bellows, "what in God's name do you think you're doing?" (I'm sure people in the next town over could hear her). I think she might have even poked him in the chest. Racist neighbor starts to make his excuses, and she bellows over him, "that lady is my friend who I invited. YOU are the trespasser here. Don't you ever aim your gun at anyone on my property ever again". Racist neighbor was not prepared for this reaction, and is meekly trying to retreat. People are peaking out their windows now. My mom then demands that he apologize to her friend, and when my mom is in this state, the devil himself would obey. And that's how my mom made a racist apologize to a Black woman, and the neighbor never pulled that stunt again.

2024-11-22 22:03:40 UTC

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Yeah, I have a note on her profile that she steals posts and passes them off as her own. I muted her so I wouldn't see her posts boosted into my timeline

2024-11-05 16:34:28 UTC

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is that a wooden pot?

2024-10-31 21:52:14 UTC

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Random violence in schools and elsewhere will do that.

2024-10-29 16:25:28 UTC

https://go.robinhood.com/election
Uh, this is kind of gross

2024-10-28 21:07:39 UTC

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Oh I know this one!
Americans don't speak German. That's a foreign language, and therefore NOT American.
And! We fought them in WWII and won. They were The Enemy, and lost. Therefore, we are superior.
Ugh, I need to take a shower now. That felt so slimy to type out 🤮
Seriously, while I was being flippant above, this is essentially why Nazi became a pejorative in the states. I spent a lot of time in college reading about why people would support the Nazi party, and trying to understand the why, then looking back at how WWII is taught in American schools.

2024-10-21 22:26:28 UTC

God damnit, Xfinity! I don't want to download your stupid app just to update my payment details!
"We can contact you via text or assist you in the app"
"No, I want to talk to a live human person"
"Our AI can -"
"I do not care! I want to talk to a human being!"
"But..."
"Human! Being!"
"You can download.."
"Give me a real person. A representative. A human"
1 minute later, actually connected to a real human.
Was I successful? No. They won't let you update payment details over the phone.
"You can do it in the app"
Flips metaphorical table
"Since this is a recorded call, you are an excellent customer service rep. But it is unacceptable that this company, and I know you don't make the rules, requires an app to pay my bill. Please ensure this note gets to whoever it needs to"

2024-10-04 13:45:27 UTC

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When my parents lived in Brazil, they had a fila. Filas are a mastiff breed, but were also bred for herding. Well, one day on a hike, their fila ran ahead, and came back with jangling and mooing noises. That dog had stolen a small herd of cows, and he was so proud of his gift to the family. While my mom was freaking out about how to get these cows back to whoever owned them, two boys came running up, out of breath, asking my parents to please let the dog return their cows. The dog was so sad to see the cows go.
This same dog also tried to herd church goers back into the church after service.

2024-10-01 16:39:16 UTC

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this is giving big "the state owns the sunshine"

2024-09-29 16:19:47 UTC

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Ah, and (Great) "Old Aunt Mary" (self styled). She and her "companion" lived together for over 40 years. I visited her place once as a child, and her living room had grass green carpet and green floral wallpaper. I was terrified of breaking anything. She signed letters to the family as OAM (Old Aunt Mary).

2024-09-29 16:15:28 UTC

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also great great great aunt Meta. No marriage records for her, and the one photograph of her shows her sitting on a farm porch with a messy bun and an expression of being over this shit. I have zero evidence she was queer, the photo just gives a vibe

2024-09-29 16:13:29 UTC

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Great great grandmother Mimi: her husband worked for the telephone company in Chicago putting up the first telephone wires. One day, he goes up the pole and someone on the ground turned the power on. He died, and "that's the day the headaches stopped". She never remarried, and supported the family on her own by copying Parisian fashion for "the ladies who lunch" of Chicago or as she called them, "the noble order of girdle and pearl"

2024-09-27 22:18:28 UTC

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physician, heal thyself 🤦🏻‍♀️

2024-09-25 15:33:59 UTC

So, if you're making a box fan air purifier (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box), home Depot currently has "buy four air filters or more and get them all half price"

2024-09-23 23:57:10 UTC

If something is suspiciously cheap and not pre-used, it was probably made from slave labor.

2024-09-03 23:13:08 UTC

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I enjoy reading knitting patterns and I do use them for some things. I also like knowing how to make a thing based on the theory of it - unchained from a set pattern. I like being able to do both.
One of my favorite vintage Victorian pattern pages was just sock heels - not the whole sock. A collection of different kinds of stock heels from around Europe. I took the "common heel" and made a pair of ankle socks just to try it out. Because the construction easily allowed it, I was able to put a "seam" (really just seed stitch for the center stitch of the heel flap). I now understand why people generally don't use that heel anymore.
This is how I found out that my preferred heel turn used to be called a "French heel".

2024-09-03 22:31:44 UTC

I love old Victorian knitting patterns:
Lines and lines of code to replicate the stitch pattern, then just "turn the heel".
The assumption that you wouldn't need a pattern to knit a basic pair of socks, and you only need this pattern to replicate the stitch pattern and maybe some other little details.

2024-08-30 17:25:53 UTC

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I feel like Black Harvest has an indoor sound that contradicts the wilderness sound of their other work. I dunno if that makes sense

2024-08-30 17:18:50 UTC

Green Lung slaps. I was worried when their album Black Harvest came out as it was no where near as good as Woodland Rites, but they've bounced back with This Heathen Land.
I think their EP Free The Witch is still my favorite.

2024-08-19 16:59:24 UTC

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Should have gone to law school.

2024-08-19 16:47:20 UTC

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how far back can we travel? One life time?

2024-08-03 16:39:50 UTC

Just because your dog is small and cute does not mean it's not reactive and in need of help about it.
It's not normal for a dog to bark and yip like it's having a panic attack every time you take it outside.
Your dog is stressed the fuck out, and you have a moral obligation to try to alleviate that. Just because a small reactive dog is less dangerous than a large reactive dog does not mean you get a pass on working with your dog through that anxiety.
This toot brought to by my weariness of a neighborhood dog that even the other dogs react to like "whoa buddy, you ok?"

2024-07-30 18:41:44 UTC

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yep, Battle Creek Michigan. My grandparents actually attended a Kellogg elementary school (not many options!) and when they tried to request records, they were informed that no such school had ever existed and as such there were no records 🤯
Like, they were both there. It's where they meet (yes, they were school sweethearts, it's so adorable).

2024-07-30 18:32:08 UTC

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my great grandfather was a doctor in the same town, and, according to my mom, whenever "Dr" Kellogg would come up in conversation, my great grandfather would say nothing but give a distainful side eye. Kellogg owned so much there and was so saturated in the medical field that he couldn't really say "this guy is a quack" publicly.
My great grandfather was still making house calls with horse and wagon in the forties.