Meanwhile, my 3-year old neice (grand niece? what do I call my niece's daughter?) taught me to play hide and seek.
Here's how:
💠 I tell her where I'll hide.
💠She closes her eyes and counts to 10.
💠When she reaches 10, she opens her eyes and looks for me.
💠It does't take long to find me.
💠Then we laugh.
I suspect I am supposed to tell her where I will hide so she doesn't feel scared when she opens her eyes and doesn't see me.
It took me several years to understand what I was seeing.
At first, I thought the problem was Twitter algorithms. I thought that was the explanation for why what I was calling rage-inducing simplifications spread like wildfire.
This is for the people who are angry about which way the justices were leaning (at least 7 of them, apparently.)
I can't say who because I don't have permission (it was a private conversation) but a several weeks ago a smart lawyer said this to me:
"I am so angry at XX. They helped to egg on a lot of these disqualification attempts and are lying to their audiences about their validity and likelihood of success."
The pundits with big audiences are not necessarily the smartest lawyers.
@Teri_Kanefield And this is fed by the ridiculous adoration of Harvard, with too many people believing that anyone who teaches there must be brilliant and know all the answers. Despite its opinion of itself, Harvard is not the repository of all wisdom and being a Harvard prof isn't proof that one is wise.
I know that lots of folks here don't like Bluesky (and I understand most of the reasons why), But now that it's open, I tried to explain the reasons why I am excited about it and hope it succeeds. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-opens-up/
A grand jury refused to charge the Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom.
Grand juries were added to the Fifth Amendment to check a potentially tyrannical government. (Not all states are required to use Grand Juries because Grand Juries were not incorporated through the due process clause but the idea comes from the 5th Amendment)
@Teri_Kanefield@mattblaze Especially horrifying how the hospital acted. Women will die because they're scared to go to the hospital in emergencies like this one.
@Teri_Kanefield The last time I read Silas Marner, I thought about what it said about class structure, small village social structure, and outsider vs. insider status (and also human redemption through love, because that hits me in the kishkes.)
At my December appt. I talked about my ME/CFS symptoms & gave him a copy "Diagnosis and Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" (link below)
At some point my doc said, "You must have a very severe case!" My response was no, severe cases are often bedbound, tube fed, etc
I can't work but I'm moderate. Doctors don't realize how severe ME/CFS can be
@ahimsa_pdx Years ago when I was searching for a diagnosis, a doctor told me I wasn't tired enough to have CFS/ME (back then people weren't talking about PEM). Reading this makes me realize he only recognized people at the severe end. I do wish this document included a description of mild the way it does for other levels.
@Teri_Kanefield Would you be willing to add page or sidebar listing your blog posts to your site, if it's not too difficult (and realizing nothing will be done until after your deadline)? The way it's now set up makes it hard to see what you've written about in the past. I also really miss the page you had listing the starting points posts we should read before proceeding - they're really helpful resources.
@Teri_Kanefield Looks like you didn't see one of my posts (I wish Mastodon were better for threading). I wrote "It would be great if at the top of the page, maybe between "Things to do" and "Find me on social media" you had "FAQs" with a drop-down menu with links to that General Criminal Procedure FAQ Page and the DOJ Investigations FAQ page. They're such useful resources."
What good is the 14th Amendment if noone is brave enough to use it 🤬
A Colorado judge on Friday allowed Donald Trump to remain on the ballot in the state's election next year, but found that he "engaged in insurrection" by sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. #AureFreePress#News#GOP#Politics#USA#Trump#MAGA#Republicans
@Teri_Kanefield So, caught up on the 5-parter series yesterday. Very good, have already linked it to some besties.
I am not totally convinced I should go on a social media diet. I am not a big ranter or dunker, more given to the occasional non-reply one-shot, myself.
But I'm a lot more convinced today than I was on Saturday.
@Teri_Kanefield@GeePawHill I've been very selective about who I follow, am now even more so, and it's mostly non-political. You, a couple of writers I really like so I'll know when they publish a new story, and the Bloomscrolling hashtag here. FB I use to keep up with my good friends' lives and get some laughs. Even more selective for the past month.
@Teri_Kanefield Excellent posts. In Part III, I think you have a typo. You wrote "When his prediction turned out to be accurate, he never questioned whether perhaps he overestimated how quickly a case like this could move" - did you mean to write "inaccurate"?