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kims

@kims@mas.to

Retired speechwriter. Big fan of Peppermint Patty and wooden jigsaw puzzles.

Ex-Wall St, ex-NYT, ex-dotcom stuff.
Ex-New Yorker, now in Las Vegas

I've been around since the days of usenet (met my husband there, our kids are now in their 20s). Most of my public writing is under my own name on Quora, or elsewhere under someone else's byline.

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One life lesson that has taken me far too long to learn:

The first time someone makes you think, “Remind me never to get on your bad side”?

That’s also the moment you should have zero interest in being on their good side

The best thing is to remove yourself from their orbit, as quickly and inconspicuously as possible

kims, to random
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HERE'S the endorsement every politician has been vying for! I'll bet Gaetz is heartbroken he couldn't land this one

Kevin Spacey endorses Bobby Kennedy:

There’s a lot I can learn from this man. When the world turned its back on me, Bobby leaned in. 🙏🏼

He’s a formidable fighter for justice and a loyal friend that’s not afraid to stand up for what he believes.

kims, to random
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Shot:
Archdiocese of New Orleans Suspected of Child Sex Trafficking, Warrant Shows

One document cited in the affidavit states that one specific archbishop 'was aware of rampant sexual abuse throughout the archdiocese.' but the affidavit leaves out the archbishop’s name.

Chaser:
As of March 22, Priests in Louisiana can't be sued for abuse

That's some timing!

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/archdiocese-of-new-orleans-suspected-of-child-sex-trafficking-warrant-shows

https://newrepublic.com/post/180677/louisiana-court-sexual-abuse-victims-catholic-priests

National Catholic Register Archdiocese of New Orleans Suspected of Child Sex Trafficking, Warrant Shows

kims, to random
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Everything feels so hopeless these days. Today I signed up to be a poll observer for the June primaries here in NV

It doesn't feel like much, but at least it's something

What's everyone else doing for self-care these days? I'm open to any and all suggestions

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Can someone explain to me like I'm 5 how the polls are even close, never mind that he might win? This is a genuine question

  • deport 11m people
  • build migrant detention camps, deploy military at border and inland
  • let red states monitor pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans
  • at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress
  • fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone
  • render NATO meaningless

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/

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Appt is 9:45

By 9:50 you're in the exam room, vitals taken

"Doctor will be in shortly"

At 10:20 nurse returns, asks at which hospital you had your broncoscopy done

"You mean the procedure I had two months ago, before my previous appt here? I haven't had any procedures since you last saw me."

"Huh. Really? Okay, doctor will be in soon."

It's 10:45, doctor still has not come in to see you

Do you stay?

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Hey @pluralistic ?

Any idea why iMessage has suddenly decided that your name requires a diacritic?

It's in the reply texts as well, so it isn't just me

further texts that read: Friend: That's tremendous Me: The cartoon or Cory? Friend: Cory the o's in Cory's name also contain the diacritic

kims, to random
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I thought Sandy Hook would end the gun lobby

I was wrong

I thought mocking the disabled reporter and the Gold Star parents would end Trump

I was wrong

I thought dismembering a journalist would make MBS a pariah forever

Boy was I wrong

So I no longer believe that the IDF killing members of the World Central Kitchen team will hurt Bibi even a little

His smirk throughout his press conference is sociopathic. For these men, contempt and impunity are the greatest riches one can acquire

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I took some time to think about the Ronna McDaniel hiring and firing.

The result is that I have written another blog post that has me going against the current.

https://terikanefield.com/the-ronna-mcdaniel-story/

If you get the error message, wait a minute and try again. It's Mastodon's fault! This doesn't happen with any other platforms.

Some news: I may be back in Nevada doing voter protection work with the Nevada Democrats after several cycles in Georgia. A little closer to home.

kims,
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@Teri_Kanefield
If your work in Nevada brings you to Las Vegas (where, thanks to you and Matt Blaze, I also do voter protection work) I'd be happy to buy you a cup of coffee

kims,
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@Teri_Kanefield
Yes, at your recommendation I did poll watching here in Las Vegas in 2020, then spent a few days in Nye after the election monitoring the tallying of absentee ballots

I believe we traded DMs over on twitter at the time, probably after I learned how they deal with votes from people in WitSec

Covid kept me from doing it in 2022, but my kid did vote curing here as well that year

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I just left an estate planning meeting and, dear god, if most people knew how easy (and legal) it is for rich people to essentially pay no taxes, there’d be riots every day

I literally had to step out into the parking lot and take a bunch of deep breaths when she described “crummy trusts”

Also, lawyers look at you funny when you say you want to obey the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law

The end of late stage capitalism can’t come soon enough

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Four years ago today, the Las Vegas Strip goes dark for the first time since the Kennedy assassination

Watching the lights go off from our balcony was a rather surreal experience and I regret that I was too in shock to film it. This photo is from a news org

There is a story that a bar that had been ordered to close here in LV was unable to do so because, ever since it had opened 30 years prior, the doors had never been locked and no one had any idea where the keys were

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Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance in the workplace

A worker accidentally discovered that a touchscreen on a coffee vending machine had taken photos of the breakroom.

"Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said a malfunction caused the camera to take photos. [...] But Carroll added that Amazon offers the coffee to employees free of charge and has no practical use for the camera. The cameras cannot capture audio, she added."

https://sahanjournal.com/business-work/amazon-coffee-machine-camera-surveillance/

kims, to random
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A Covid question for those who still take precautions:

I tested super positive Wednesday morning (Test line was dark before the Control line appeared) and am still infected

Spouse tested negative Wed/Thurs/Fri and finally has a faint positive Test line this morning

I'd been isolating in a separate part of the house. Do we need to continue doing this?

(I almost certainly caught it during an unavoidable hospital procedure 9 days ago)

I'm on the left...

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You get to do a selective memory wipe where you are enabled to watch only one television series again for the first time

Which one is it, and why is it The Americans?

kims,
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@cdamian
The Wire is a good call

But unlike The Wire, when I do a rewatch of The Americans and get to S2, I'm not tempted to skip ahead to S3

If you're just discovering TA, you're in for a real treat. It closes as strong as it starts, and that's saying something given how flawless the pilot is. I'm incredibly envious

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It is frustrating to have super embarrassing information about a truly awful person, while simultaneously having too much integrity to make that info publicly known

It almost feels like integrity is being leveraged against me

[To be clear, this isn't about unlawful behavior or continuing abusive behavior. I'd go public about that stuff immediately. But it is really embarrassing, and bog knows this guy deserves it.]

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On vacation with my kid, my brother, and his kids. My kid and I did the grocery shopping, they unloaded the car and put stuff away

We can quibble over whether onions or clementines belong in the fridge, but what kind of sociopath puts an opened stick of butter in there?

[To be clear, it was opened during the tasting portion of 'putting groceries away']

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Please help me settle a bet

WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP
What is the next line in this song?

She'll only come out at night
The lean and hungry type
Nothing is new
I've seen her here before

Watching and waiting
Ooh, she's sitting with you
But her eyes are on the door

So many have paid to see
What you think you're getting for free
The woman is wild
…?

kims, to random
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A friend is having surgery at Cleveland Clinic to treat his cancer

He recently transferred to CC from MD Anderson. When I visited MDA for ten days back in July, they would not let anyone in the bldg without a mask — not staff, not patients, not visitors — even back then when Covid numbers were reasonably low and it wasn't RSV season. That policy remains in place

At Cleveland Clinic in December where they're doing incredibly invasive surgery on cancer patients? Masks are optional

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Did Clay Shirky leave his Vice Provost position at NYU sometime in the last week? His page comes up 404

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To put the Hunter Biden prosecution into perspective...

How many arrests were made here? Much like the Jeffrey Epstein case, the bank paid the fine and the tax evading criminals walk free

"Swiss private bank Banque Pictet has admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide more than $5.6 billion from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department, federal prosecutors said on Monday."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/switzerlands-banque-pictet-admits-hiding-billions-us-tax-authorities-2023-12-04/?fbclid=IwAR3XjBHjV709--2IoCi28zfcIZsI2pqYBKSlH4G0sqxByVZ7_ILZN-AYJS0

parismarx, (edited ) to random
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💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥

2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH!

🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW: https://forms.gle/xqcDPSXB98gA4udn9

kims,
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@parismarx
That so many people think this is a walk-off for Musk says a lot about just how dangerously smart Peter Thiel is...

GottaLaff, to alexjones
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I wondered why “HE’S BACK” was trending on the hellsite. Good grief.🤦🏻‍♀️

Via Shayan Sardarizadeh:

Conspiracy theorist has had his account on #X reinstated by Elon Musk.

Jones was banned from in 2018 for breaching the platform's rules on abusive behaviour.

kims,
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@GottaLaff
That ban a year ago led to this exchange, which reminds me that he is capable of rewriting history in his mind to make himself both hero and martyr in even (what should be) the most unforgettable and tragic circumstances

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