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Alice, 20 hours ago to random

I feel like I need to come clean and let everyone know that my last name isn't actually McFlurry.

It's McNugget.

Alice, 21 hours ago to random

I like when people tell me they unfollowed me as if I’m a subscription service that's somehow losing money as a result.

DrALJONES, 2 days ago to Israel

Just more lies from the genocidal duo:

The so-called weapons pause actually helps Biden & Netanyahu at home

How? It placates many of Biden's critics, & it helps Netanyahu draw the war out as long as possible.

Analysis by Elijah Magnier

The weapons pause applies only to intelligent bombs, not dumb bombs - of which Israel has plenty.

8.45 GMT MAY 10 AJ UPDATES

#Israel #US #Rafah ..

StillIRise1963, 7 days ago to random

When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

Alice, 8 days ago to random

I dated a guy for about a week when I was a teenager and I just googled him and found a YouTube video of him doing standup comedy which is interesting because I don’t remember him being particularly funny and the video serves as proof that he still isn't.

DeliaChristina, 8 days ago to random

I swear, having a Black president literally made America go insane.

When I think about how utterly wiiiiild everything is, I think, Hm, what was the catalyst? What was the thing that made half this country go completely bonkers?

Barack Obama.

GrimmReality, 8 days ago to random

She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.

GrimmReality, 10 days ago to random

I am editing a book for someone and, while it is my job to clean this up, I would like to take a moment to step outside this immediate task and IMPLORE everyone this might apply to to stop using apostrophes to indicate plurality. Thank you in advance.

GottaLaff, 12 days ago to legal

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #legal #Trump 1/…

👀Via Katie Phang:

Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…

Alice, 13 days ago to random

Everyone seems to be obsessed with passive income but I’m set on passive-aggressive income, so you should probably pay me back if you care even the slightest amount about our friendship and how much I thought it meant to you.

RickiTarr, 13 days ago to random

I'm time traveling to the future, I'm just doing it the slow way, because I don't take shortcuts.

pattykimura, 13 days ago to random

Trying to find a Samoan song I was taught as a child, includes the lyrics " kua fiafia". If anyone has a link, that would be great. Google doesn't recognize it as a song.

It's a delightful simple tune I have sung now for decades to the confusion of my New England neighbors. My grade school class sang it at our school's May Day celebration which, in Hawai'i was a celebration of all the different cultures in our state. We learned Bon dancing, square dancing, hula (of course), Filipino stick dancing (tinikling), the Kamehameha waltz, etc, and songs from around the Pacific.

Internets? Can you do your thing?

RickiTarr, 14 days ago (edited 14 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.

pattykimura, 14 days ago to random

To our friends in the Midwest and Plains states: Be safe. Thinking about you. 🙏

fkamiah17, 14 days ago to random

WEEK 30: Just a member of staff at Indiana university escorting two snipers to the roof of an administration building.

#FreePalestine

Alice, 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago) to random

Nearly 20 years ago, I made a Craigslist post looking for a roommate.

This guy named Justin responded saying he wasn't looking for a roommate, but he liked my ad and the interests and music I'd listed and thought we might make good friends.

I ended up exchanging a series of emails with him and he was really cool and interesting.

At some point, I learned his last name was Franchi, so, being the absolute creep that I am, I googled his name and came up with a series of articles and bulletins about how Justin Franchi was wanted by the FBI for terrorism.

I was like WTF? but I was so curious about this guy so I continued talking. I brought it up to my friends and one was like "Yo, stop talking to that guy!" and the other was like "Keep talking! There's a REWARD!"

I was like "Y'all, I’m no narc. Besides, he's an 'ECO terrorist' so maybe he's not the bad guy?"

My friends were now even more invested than I was so we pored over his well-written yet strangely cryptic emails trying to figure out details on his whereabouts, reading into EVERYTHING as if it had a secret meaning.

At some point he said he would be "Coming from the west" and we were like "WTF, we're in Michigan, he could be ANYWHERE!"

He eventually gave me enough information to figure out that this Justin Franchi was just a normal guy from a suburb of Detroit and just happened to share a name with an eco terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list.

Even though I was no longer going to get a reward, I ended up meeting him and he was super cool and I remember hanging out and driving around in my Jetta listening to Swedish indie pop and we remained friends for several years until I moved to Chicago and changed my phone number and lost contact.

Just wanted to say hi (if you're out there) Justin Franchi (the indie pop one, not the terrorist one).

https://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20081119/fbi-offers-50000-reward-for-eco-terrorists/

mentallyalex, 16 days ago to random

"This morning Zara cat has been roaming and purring and calling out as she runs through the house.

I'm going to pet her tummy and see what happens."

• Eulogy Alex

#AlexTriesHumor

GottaLaff, 17 days ago to random

Via Obama advisor Eric Schultz:

wow - NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of #Biden’s age is retribution for not giving their boss an interview:

“It’s A.G. He’s the one who is pissed [that] Biden hasn’t done any interviews and quietly encourages all the tough reporting on his age.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/04/25/new-york-times-biden-white-house-00154219

pattykimura, 18 days ago to random

When I was seven, I had elderly parents who talked often about old age forgetfulness. I wrote a letter to my future older self: "Dear Patty, Don't worry about forgetting things when you are old because you can't remember anything now. Sincerely, Patty."

I just called Sloppy Joes "Messy Sams".

RickiTarr, 19 days ago to random

It insane to me how often women are not given pain management for gynecological procedures, because many many years ago a male doctor who's never had a vagina, cervix, or uterus decided that there weren't enough nerve endings up there to hurt significantly. I think it's time to put this fallacy to bed. It most definitely does hurt, and people who have literally no experience with female equipment don't get to decide this for me. Trust me docs, you don't want to taste your own medicine on this.

RickiTarr, 19 days ago to random

These are some of the oldest surviving pictures of dogs. It just goes to show that humans haven't changed too much. We have to get pics of the cute pups!

This is a white fluffy poodle, it has a bow on it's head, and it's just exhausted by this whole ordeal and having a wee nap
This is a white dog with dark patches and floppy ears. It's seated in such a way that it looks like it could leap up at any moment joyfully, but it's trying very hard to behave for the photo. It has a big ole open mouth doggie smile, and definitely seems to be making eye contact with the human that is having it sit still to have it's picture made.
This dog has that kind of silky black and white fur that you just want to pet so much, big floofy floppy ears like a border collie. It is laying down like it's napping, and I wonder if it's human decided to try to take it's picture while it was napping, but it woke up to a camera and looks mildly perplexed, worried, and put upon.

GottaLaff, 21 days ago to random

Stupid, yes, but also, willfully gaslighting/lying, propping up their loser #DefendantSleepyFlopSweatMcBrainspurs

Brad Moss:

& then he falsified the biz records in furtherance of effort to viol campaign finance laws.

Are these folks really this stupid?

Bash: We actually have the reimbursement checks… Are you comfortable with this?

#Noem: #MichaelCohen worked for #Trump. Pres Trump paid his legal fees, he paid his Michael Cohen legal fees & bills & that's what this trial will bringing fwd