that one JNL

Progressive faith leader and fledgling economic geographer. Wyomingite by birth, Vermonter by choice, and dabbling in Canadian-ness through a PhD sojourn in Newfoundland.

Life is political and I talk about both life and politics, US and Canada side and wherever else I happen to be. Extremely anti-genocide. Covid cautious. Rural denizen for much of life, also fascinated by and a student of North America's brick cities. Sometimes speaks of sex and also the institutional church (separately).

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2024-09-01 12:28:52 UTC

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I think he's great. I'm not sure what people get up in arms about? Solid human.

2024-08-23 15:06:15 UTC

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I am not actually drawn to a 'politically oriented' instance, but if I were moving I would want it to be a space that truly welcomes the gamut of the fullness of life, vs. largely intending to be a space for French manuscript translation and the occasional literary shitpost

2024-08-23 14:51:58 UTC

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to be clear, I don't want to throw shade at zirkus- I think it's a really well-run project and I would probably keep my account here, too. I'm a paid subscriber, and I've been impressed. but I've always been a marginal fit in a lot of ways- I am far more political than most around here, and tend to do threaded posts which is less common

2024-08-23 14:45:19 UTC

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zirkus actually briefly considered cutting its character limit IN HALF in fall 2022 and 🤯. they backed away from the idea quickly, but it was so fascinating to understand that the thought was that 'even fewer words' somehow 'better supports microblogging.' I would have to do half as many chained threads if I had just a bit more space.

2024-08-23 14:43:40 UTC

If I were going to switch instances to something with a slightly higher character limit (want to know how long ours is? it's the length of my posts 😂 ), what would you recommend?
not kolektiva- sorry, I like you, but I am not you

2024-08-23 01:28:32 UTC

TIL that 'the quiet part out loud' is actually from Krusty the Clown on the Simpsons
Me: 🤯
Spouse: idk; there are so many Simpsons episodes at this point that it's basically the monkeys at typewriters experiment in real life

2024-08-16 14:32:12 UTC

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Spouse and I both also experience intense bitter taste with coffee, which is a bummer. We thought we got a bad box, and dumped the beans and cleaned out the grinder ... only to have the exact same reaction to different, also good coffee. Hopefully that passes. We didn't have any taste or smell disruption in general, that we ever noticed. Might be lingering paxlovid FX.

2024-08-16 14:29:14 UTC

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The congestion is in my ears, mostly, and very annoying but no longer painful. I do have noticeable muscle fatigue, basically immediately and doing things that aren't exercise and don't feel hugely muscle-involved. Also experiencing HR acceleration when standing, walking or changing positions. I don't think I'd notice this if I hadn't started watching- what it feels like is not heart racing, but general malaise. Like, when this happens what I notice is that I don't feel well.

2024-08-16 14:23:54 UTC

All other members of my family are testing negative (they all got sick before I did). My test looked like it was going to be negative, too, but after 20 min (the read time) has a very faint line- so faint that it reads like a hologram. I'm mildly disappointed but glad to be trending neg and hopeful for tomorrow. I have an occasional cough, which hasn't been a primary symptom this time. Still congested, like 3/10, and mostly just feeling run down.

2024-08-13 17:55:37 UTC

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one thing that we all have in common is that we caught our infections on vacation, and through another younger family member who gave it to us as a vector.

2024-08-13 17:54:48 UTC

Two members of my (four-member) committee now also have active covid, in addition to myself. We have yet to be together in a room and caught our infections in three different countries ... tis the season 🤦🏻‍♀️

2024-08-13 10:49:31 UTC

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fwiw, 50,000 deaths per year is 8,000 more than the number of US car accident deaths annually. That's what they're asking us to normalize. 'Covid toll will just be worse than cars.'
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2024-08-13 10:41:01 UTC

Thank you, NPR, for centering the weirdest take ever. Very public focused. Definitely the norms we all need.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/09/nx-s1-5060398/covid-endemic-cdc-summer-surge
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2024-08-12 20:47:07 UTC

My takeaway from reading today plus experiencing my life this past week is that 1. much of the Western world is in the throes of an Omicron-level covid surge, with geometric case spread, 2. if you don't want it and you're not in lockdown mode you to need to be VERY savvy, have a great fitting mask and assume that you ARE being exposed basically constantly 3. with this level of constant exposure, it's not going to take an hour or a lot of intimacy for you to get it 4. having covid still SUCKS. 👍🏻

2024-08-12 14:44:53 UTC

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I am discouraged in a way that surprises me ... I had a rough time with Covid last time, too (worse, actually), and Paxlovid helped.
But the side effects were awful, and it also just feels super unfair.
Which, it kinda is. Life is not fair, apparently. Who knew. 🙃

2024-08-12 14:36:59 UTC

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We gave 'skipping Paxlovid' a good shake, but my trajectory has been so much worse than my family's (they all got sick and are still blowing their noses but are ambulatory and perky- cooking dinner, playing the violin, taking long walks outside, etc) that I am like fuck this shit, bring the antiviral.
As it turned out my doctor feels similarly, or like I should have done it before (why do they leave us to make our choices if they have an opinion!?!), so today will be Paxlovid day 1.

2024-08-12 14:32:06 UTC

I dreamed last night that I had been captured by some sort of Dutch torture regime and they had put something in my throat that felt like it was cutting me every time I swallowed.
I woke up at 1 am with not only a sore throat, but truly the worst or one of the worst sore throats of my entire life. Nothing helped; it was brutal.
This morning I went to get strep screened just to make sure I didn't get cross-infected somehow. Looks like nope. Just covid.

2024-08-11 18:58:26 UTC

When Israel paves over Gaza and US dual nationals are buying beachfront condos and God knows where the children of Gaza have gone, is the developed world gonna carry on like this all didn't happen? Honest question.

2024-08-11 17:30:41 UTC

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me, trying to think of politically plausible pathways out of the TX death cult spiral 🤦🏻‍♀️

2024-08-11 17:29:33 UTC

Maybe everyone could abandon Texas at once and then (white) private equity could annex the whole thing at disaster capital markdown. You know, like what happened in Detroit.

2024-08-10 12:35:13 UTC

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In retrospect, I am also really glad that 'sorry your knife is gone; a crow took it' is not a sentence I had to say to the homeowners

2024-08-10 12:27:32 UTC

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Also if this is a portent of doom I 100% don't want to know about it, thx

2024-08-10 12:26:06 UTC

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It did drop the knife first. The entire thing was so mind-exploding and Euro goth that I just sequestered it in 'weird memories to review later' while we left for the airport. 😂 😱

2024-08-10 12:24:33 UTC

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On our last morning in the Netherlands, younger son yelled for us when he woke up BECAUSE THERE WAS A CROW HOLDING A KNIFE on the desk in his attic room. Houses don't have screens and the attic bedroom windows push out at a slant ... apparently this guy just hopped or flew right in, and then was drawn to the (small and sharp) knife that the teen whose bedroom it was had (somewhat mystifyingly and ambiguously) left on the desk. It flew away with a clatter, right back out the window. 🤷🏻‍♀️

2024-08-09 15:01:29 UTC

I did not foresee 'block Brianna Wu' on my to do list for today, but here we are

2024-08-06 20:38:58 UTC

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We also spent a few nights in Paris and a couple in Germany. Paris was out of its mind at the time (it was a week to opening ceremonies) and Germany was raining ... our long stays, though, were fabulous. We can imagine living in these places. We did. We are.
And now to go home and think about it all.

2024-08-06 20:35:20 UTC

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Overall, we very much recommend the trip. Switzerland was as gorgeous as you imagine, and we found it easier to visit than we had feared. I really do recommend Valais as a region in which to base yourself- it is a place with TONS of personality, and where the two tallest Swiss mountains are. If you like hiking and trains you will be in heaven, and it's possible to do on a general 'Europe' budget.
That's a tough act to follow, but the Netherlands is truly equally rad. They were worthy partners.

2024-08-06 20:22:53 UTC

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Things that are absolutely unbelievably expensive in Switzerland: dining out, hotel nights in the 3 largest cities, entry fees, bottled water, tap water, peeing in public, per-trip rail tickets, Swiss citizenship

2024-08-06 20:18:03 UTC

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Things that are pretty affordable in Switzerland (compared to the things that are not, and compared to the US and Canada which is where we otherwise spend our time): buying food and cooking your own meals (groceries were comparable with or cheaper than Vermont and Newfoundland), renting a car, renting an Airbnb in the Alps during the summer (we got two weeks for less than what we paid for ONE in the Netherlands)

2024-08-06 20:06:34 UTC

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Thing I brought that seemed a little ridiculous BUT WAS NOT IT WAS AMAZING I AM BRILLIANT: my foam pillow, giver of joy, harbinger of middle age, whatever whatever.

2024-08-06 20:01:52 UTC

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Things we did not bring and ended up buying: hiking poles. reusable water bottles. reusable store bags (whywhywhywhywhy what have we all done)
Things we did bring and ended up repurchasing anyway: sunblock products in many varieties. basically infinite takes on French and Swiss antiperspirant.

2024-08-06 19:57:58 UTC

Things we felt it neccessary to carry with us to Europe: bananagrams. 12 books, some unreasonably heavy, including a D&D gamemaster handbook. an unopened and heavy bag of Molly's Suds detergent. Jackets.
Things we did not use AT. ALL: see above 🙃

2024-08-05 20:18:36 UTC

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I mean, I think most people invested in tech stocks had a serious eye on Nvidia for most of the past two years. We aren't Nvidia holders but we are definitely tech invested in multiple ways and this has been an interesting 24 hours given that we are already trying to make long-term decisions. 😅

2024-08-05 20:07:11 UTC

Mastodon seems split pretty evenly between 'crash and burn, motherfuckers' and JE SUIS NVIDIA

2024-07-29 21:41:52 UTC

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counterpoint: PLEASE tell us why the book matters to you. Tell us where the picture you're posting was taken. Tell us who loved you into the person you are today. Tell us where the dust on your shoes and the lilt in your voice is from.
Without your spin and specificity 'ten books' might as well be a bot post.

2024-07-29 21:36:46 UTC

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If I wanted to see a bunch of random old book covers with no connection or explanation whatsoever, I would find a library book sale

2024-07-29 21:31:13 UTC

Genuine question: why do we think posting books that matter to you 'with no explanation' is actually a good thing, and why do y'all keep doing it? It's a meme. Someone made it up a decade ago on FB. You are definitely allowed to explain your books.