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Adventurer, 3 hours ago to random

Why the heck are we only now hearing about Alito flying the flag upside down?

GottaLaff, 7 hours ago to random

I parked near some asshole who had a big Trump bumpersticker, and a smaller one that read: "Trump was right about everything."

It took every ounce of self-restraint to not deface it.

Adventurer, 1 day ago to 3goodthings

#3GoodThingsToday
@3goodthings

1.Hiked about 2.5 miles for close to 5 miles roundtrip with an elevation rise of about 600 feet.

2. Enjoyed a wonderful iced tea at the Oregon Zoo cafe.

3. Took a nice relaxing bath to clean up and rest my feet.

Adventurer, 6 days ago to random

Ok pro-vaccine people.

How often do I get a COVID vaccine. It is not clear to me reading CDC guide. It has been about 8 months since my last one and I have had a total of 6.

GottaLaff, 6 days ago to random

Fun Fact: The USPS doesn't forward mail to Canada.

Adventurer, 8 days ago to 3goodthings

#3GoodThingsToday
@3goodthings

1. Yah! I finally have my new bed scheduled for delivery. Time to say goodbye to the air mattress and be an adult.

2. Walked about 3.5 miles today.

3. Needed a restroom while out walking so bought a soda from a food cart so I could get the code. It smelled so good that I came back later and they had the dish I had wanted a few days ago.

GottaLaff, 8 days ago to legal

Via Scott MacFarlane 1/...

ALERT: Former #Trump advisor Peter #Navarro files emergency motion to get his prison sentenced reduced (for release)

Defense argues: "Dr. Navarro’s term of imprisonment has been marred by the same political turmoil that gave rise to his prosecution.. "

"He has been denied the opportunity to speak both with the press as well as a with Member of Congress" #legal

Here it is:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.244001/gov.uscourts.dcd.244001.175.0.pdf

skykiss, 11 days ago to Ukraine

Exclusive: UN experts say North Korea missile landed in #Kharkiv #Ukraine

Where is the outrage over the 803 days of full scale genocide of #Ukrainians?

The #Hague issued warrant for the arrest of #warcriminal Vladmir Putin for GENOCIDE.

UNITED NATIONS report - The debris from a missile that landed in the #Ukrainian city of #Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee in a report seen by Reuters on Monday. In the 32-page report, the U.N. sanctions monitors concluded that "debris recovered from a missile that landed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on 2 January 2024 derives from a DPRK Hwasong-11 series missile" and is in violation of the arms embargo on North Korea.

Russians kill Ukrainians with North Korean ballistic missiles. Where are the genocide protest?

#RussiaIsATerroristState
#ArrestPutin #genocide #warcrimes #UN
#StandWithUkraine

United Nations report of russian military's genocide of Ukrainians. Putin's military use North Korean ballistic missiles on civilians.

GottaLaff, 14 days ago to legal

NEW #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵 starts HERE: 1/...

Hope Hicks is back on the stand.

Merchan: "Good afternoon Ms. Hicks. Remember you're still under oath."

18+ Frances_Larina, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to random

Here's the governor of Utah's site for submitting complaints about trans people being in the wrong bathrooms or playing on the wrong teams or whatever.

And they let you attach a .zip of your supporting documentation...

https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint.html

Adventurer, 16 days ago to random

I am so excited. By this time next week I should have a real bed and new mattress.

ai6yr, 16 days ago to Geocaching

1/5 geocaches today, it appears I do not yet have a hang of detecting them. (notably, 2 of the "did not locate" I walk past nearly every day of the year 🤔) #geocaching

pathfinder, 17 days ago to Autism

@actuallyautistic

No matter how well I learnt to mask, no matter how well I learnt to get on with people, if not in any deep and meaningful way, at least superficially. There has always been one skill that I have never mastered and that is simply the ability to not upset people and especially without having the slightest idea how.

Or that I didn't for a long time, anyway. It was only when I realised that I was autistic and that the way I looked at the world was in some ways substantively different from the way many allistics looked at the world, that I began to understand something. Allistics tend to find validation externally, through feedback from the group or the part of society that they identify with, whereas autistics tend to find it within themselves, in their own reason and sense of worth and value.

Now I must stress that in many respects this is a generalisation and obviously there will be a lot of variation and degree in how true this is. But in its more extreme forms, it could very well explain many of the experiences and difficulties that I've had.

Because if someone's self-worth, the value they see in their life and actions, is almost entirely based on their interactions with the dynamics of the group they identify with, or the society they live within and not from their own judgement, then this could lead to certain choices and reactions that are quite frankly alien to someone like me and that I could easily end up in conflict with and all without really trying to.

For example, if the value of a child reflects back on its parents. Then in the extreme case the values and behaviour expected from that child, are not those of the child, but of the parents in terms of the group the child is meant to be representing them in and how well it is doing that. So any sense of divergence from that or criticism of that child, no matter how slight that might be, could easily be seen as an attack on the parents and reacted to accordingly, irrespective of how reasonable or just it was.

Equally, of course, worth, praise, or rewards, can also become divorced from any sense of reality. All that matters is that you, whether that's through your children or not, are being valued, not whether there is any justice to it. Because the truth or validity of it, is not based on how you see yourself, but only on how others see you. And in the extreme case, it doesn't even matter how they came to this view, as long as they have it. So worth can become something to be manipulated and played for and how you really are and how you actually feel about yourself becomes almost irrelevant to this process.

That people could even be this way, that everything could become how you're being perceived and anything that effects that negatively can be something to be attacked, is still something that I struggle to understand. It is so foreign to my nature. But, it certainly explains so many of the times that I've upset people, because I wasn't playing this game, or seeing the world the way I should and didn't even realise it.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

ashleyspencer, 19 days ago to random

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RickiTarr, 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago) to random

The Tale of Two Gynecologists

This is a bit long, and I've talked about this a lot lately, but it's something I'm thinking about a lot in the wake of so much hatred of female Healthcare. When my female troubles got bad enough that I finally talked to my doctor about it, he referred me to a gynecologist. I had already had several ultrasounds and an MRI at this point, and she had put me on some oral contraceptives for several months, (which made sick to my stomach no matter what I did) and had just done another ultrasound. She greeted me with "Well, you're really messed up inside, Honey.", which already had me pretty stressed out. Then told me I would probably need surgery to figure out exactly what was going on. She then asked me if I wanted children, and I said No. I had taken my husband with me to the appointment for moral support, and she glanced over at him, and then talked to me for 5 minutes about how many women my age could still have children, and I could definitely consider it, and that they would do everything they could to make sure I could stay viable. They could freeze my eggs if I had to do a hysterectomy, just on and on. She probably asked me directly 4-5 if I was sure I didn't want kids. Finally, I said, "Ma'am, my husband got a vasectomy over a decade ago, we are absolutely sure we don't want kids." After hubs had found me crying on the toliet, because my period was late again, he went to his doctor and said, "Hey doctor, I'm thinking about a vasectomy." The doctor gave him a pamphlet to read, and made him an appointment. The whole thing was done in a few weeks.

Anyhow, she finally referred me to a gynecological surgeon, and I was not looking forward to dealing with this again, and was just generally terrified of having surgery for the first time. I met with this woman and she was so efficient and practical. It is the longest doctor appointment I've ever had, since this surgery would be exploratory, she went over every possibility of what could happen when she was inside. She did a thorough exam, she went over all the scans that I had, and explained why she thought this needed done. Then she said she would like to put in a Mirena IUD during surgery. She said, "You're in pain half the month, and there's no reason for you to have a period if you don't want to have kids. You'll have some erratic bleeding for six months, but by a year most women have a very light or no period at all, there's no reason for you to needlessly suffer if you don't end up needing a hysterectomy."

It's interesting to me still, that one doctor was so focused on what my body could do, and another so focused on how I felt. I came out of the first appointment feeling scared and confused, and the second feeling heard and cared for. Feeling valued as a person and not a baby maker made the surgery much easier to go through, and the Mirena has been great btw. Women don't have to needlessly suffer.

Nonilex, 24 days ago to Law

Judge #Merchan to Consider Holding #Trump in #Contempt for Verbal #Attacks

Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.

#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-hush-money-trial-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Adventurer, 26 days ago to random

#SilentSunday #ThickTrunkThursday

ashleyspencer, 28 days ago to random

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RickiTarr, 28 days ago to random

I remember being a kid, and having the realization that the money the government has is our money, and how weird it is that people act like using social services is taking advantage of the system somehow. We are the system, the people embezzling money through the "defense" budget are the people taking advantage of the system.

Adventurer, 1 month ago to random

Had an amazing massage. Amazing pastor tacos, and a to die for key lime pie.

Guess the diet is not starting today. Lol

Daffodil (or similar bulb type flowers) mostly yellow with some that are deep orange and a few red. Mostly green vegetation in between some sprays of purple flowering plants also visible.
More daffodil or daffodil type bulb flowers in red with a brown fence visible in the background.

Dr_Obvious, 1 month ago to Autism German

@actuallyautistic
When it comes to #autism awareness and false stereotypes an important topic is autistic woman that were ignored to exist for a long time.

When people talk about that they often refer to "female autism" or "female representation". That often focusses on higher level of masking and deep compensation in social skills.

I find that sometimes irritating because I kind of see myself in that description. On the other hand there are woman that show rather stereotypical traits.

Adventurer, 1 month ago to random

#SilentSunday
The harbor in San Diego, CA at night/early early morning filled with parked boats under a cloudy sky with the moon not visible but creating a lighter spot in the clouds.

RickiTarr, 1 month ago to random

Your porn name is:

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skykiss, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Milwaukee

Manafort is a convicted felon. It’s not just that he’s a Kremlin agent who was paid $10 million/year by Oleg Derispaska starting in 2006 to advance Putin’s interests in the United States. It’s not just that he knowingly colluded with the Kremlin in 2016 bypassing proprietary data to Russian intelligence in mid-campaign.

Rapist Donald to Rehire Confessed Money Launderer Who Conspired with his Business Partner, a Russian spy, wanted by the FBI.

WaPo reported the criminal defendant Donald has hired the convicted felon, national security threat Manafort as a campaign adviser. The rapist pardoned Manafort in 2020 after he was convicted in 2018 on Obstruction of justice, bank fraud & tax charges.

Reward: The #FBI is offering a #reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to the #arrest of Konstantin Kilimnik, a longtime Manafort business associate, a Russian intelligence agent.

Here's where Kilimnik passed #Republican data handed over by Manafort to #Russian #spies.

#Election #vote

skykiss, 10 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Trump's NSC aid Robert C. O'Brien's testimony may be the last puzzle piece. Any other witnesses may be targets. Specifically, the people who knew force or violence was contemplated & agreed to it because they were going to be placed in high-level positions in the dictatorship.

2. When this was happening my first thoughts went to "what's the plan? If they stopped the count that might jam up Jan 20 but it would not create a basis for Trump and Pence to remain in power. Their terms would end at noon and nothing could stop that. So what was the plan?

3. I am as convinced today as I was then this was the plan: VP Pence was removed from the Capitol. Grassley tipped his role in the coup that was reported the day the planning was complete.

4. Then the coup leaders made him change his story less than 24 hours from the execution of the coup.

🧵 1/8