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pattykimura

@pattykimura@beige.party

Poet, writer, composer, cheerful bureaucrat. Believer in things, curious about everything. Medicare enthusiast. I'm what happens when dull meets old age. 🏳️‍🌈 #AsianAmerican #kama'aina #ukulele
Left Twitter for the fedi on Oct 31, 2022, found the party going on in April 2023. Beige-bless, it's the best .party for bright eclectic weirdos.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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Why would MSM not cover Trump’s agenda and the extreme policies he’s planned to enact? Because that’s the United States MSM's oligarch owners want. Don’t be fooled by the gaslighting about horse races and ratings. You could get higher ratings by telling the truth.

pattykimura,
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@StillIRise1963 The US MSM was very successfully cowed by the deliberate attack on the MSM by conservatives decades ago to portray them as propagandists of the elite liberals, that they have spent decades to prove they were not liberal propagandists by becoming either overt propagandists for the Right (relentlessly publishing rightwing smears about Hillary and Hunter, endlessly devoting space to diner interviews with MAGA, printing Trump lies about crowd size as fact) or frozen in fear and suppressing reporting on actual RW facts that threaten actual liberty (Alito, Trump, ties to White Nationalism, corruption) that they have become actual propagandists for fascists.
Yes, truth has a liberal bias. So to seem unbiased, they deliberately suppress the truth.

Alice, to random
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I did a complete 360 and nobody noticed.

pattykimura,
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@Alice
I think when one says "I did a complete 360" they are required to say "Ta da!" And to do jazz hands.

Alice, to random
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The person sitting next to me on the plane is being SO rude. They won’t even give me enough elbow room to be able to open my can of tuna fish.

pattykimura,
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@Alice Fall asleep and fart like Trump, they'll wish it was just the fresh canned tuna and boiled eggs before the trip through your colon.

Alice, to random
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ATTN: If you plan to attend the Mastodon meetup at the Tampa Marriott this weekend and you are a VIP attendee, please ensure you bring your official VIP lanyard or else you risk being denied access to the VIP soup bar.

pattykimura,
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@Alice

What's this about a meetup at the Tampon Marriott and something something about free Ensure and Soap bars if you have a lanyard with VoIP?

Alice, (edited ) to random
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If you're smart enough to know when to use who vs. whom, you should also be smart enough to understand how they/them are used as pronouns.

Oh, that's right. This isn't about intelligence, it's about human decency.

pattykimura,
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@Alice Language and its rules have evolved and, as a not dead language, it will continue to evolve; When language ceases to adapt it will fade from usefulness, will be abandoned for that which more closely does what the purpose of language is: as a utility to communicate our experiences.

Those folks who fear or are enraged or claim they cannot adapt to gender changes in language use or to the world as it exists are Darwinian volunteers for extinction whether they know it or not.

I am old enough to remember being told a woman could never deliver the mail because it was "postman", and therefore a gendered occupation outside women's capacity.

If you can say "mail carrier" you can figure out they/them. And if you say you can't, you mean you won't.

GottaLaff, to random
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👍🏻 Via Kyle Griffin:

Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sen. Richard Blumenthal have intro’d legislation to enforce the Constitution's explicit language banning foreign by prohibiting the President, VP, Cabinet officials and Members of Congress from accepting payments from foreign governments without first obtaining the consent of Congress.

Officials would be prohibited from accepting foreign payments without Congressional approval during the entire time in office and for two years after leaving.

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff Add the Judicial Branch. Corruption is rampant. The unthinkable is now the norm.

ai6yr, to venturacounty

Shelter in Place for a bear lifted in Santa Paula.

pattykimura,
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@ai6yr

An elderly resident who moved to our rural town asked me if it was true that potato beetles from the farm next door crawled into your ears at night and ate your brain. I said "Only if you're Mrs Potato Head, otherwise your brain is safe."

🤷‍♀️

pattykimura, to random
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Why in the world would Trump think if he demanded each side take a drug test, that Joe would refuse, and would give Trump an out from the debate? The only thing Joe's blood test would show was elevated a1c from all that ice cream. Let's see Trump's jacked up adderall drug test.

RickiTarr, to random
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It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.

pattykimura, (edited )
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@RickiTarr After a nice dinner on my nephew's first date with a woman he really really liked, he suddenly had severe gastric distress while in her tiny apartment with thin walls. He urgently used her bathroom and was in there for a long long time making horrible diarrhea noise, and smelling up the joint. When he emerged he was terribly embarrassed, and she was like "??? You okay???" He thought, "She'll never go out with me, again." He told this story at their wedding reception. They now have two girls.

GottaLaff, to random
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Greg Sargent 🧵 1/…

Media coverage of Republicans stampeding to NYC to attack Trump's trial as illegit is marred by euphemism. This isn't just "currying favor" w Trump or "expressing loyalty" or auditioning to be his VP. It's placing Trump over rule of law

Rs are attacking judge, witnesses, prosecutors & trial as illegitimate. This isn't just helping Trump evade the gag order. The point is also to display in spectacle form that their fealty is to him over the rules that make the system function

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff The spectacle, the disruption, is the entertainment, it's the point. Entertainment meant to amuse, anger, rally, foment, distract...so lies are the feature. Trump was a moderately successful actor, even as he was a terrible failure as a businessman. He was successful as an illusionist for tv, which is where he honed is abilities to create a fictional character, and sell it to fans.

My question about his narrative for his criminal case is this: if his made-for-tv storyline is that he is the innocent victim, how does Mr "I only hire the best" (tagline) explain why he, for decades, continually hired, employed, praised, promoted, retained, and $2 Million severanced -- and repeatedly surrounded himself with -- convicted felons and perjurers like Allen Weiselberg and Michael Cohen?

The entertainment storyline we're now supposed to follow is that the ONLY CLUELESS man is spectacular business genius Trump?

These rotten apples (including convicted perjurer and felon Weisselberg whom Trump recently awarded a $2,000,000 severance for valuable services rendered) do not fall far from the rotted tree.

RickiTarr, to random
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OMG

https://www.tumblr.com/onlytiktoks/749880934722125824?source=share

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Brilliant.

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

It's McNugget.

pattykimura,
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@Alice Ah, more savory than sweet. 🙀

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

pattykimura,
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@Alice "Monthly subscription fees are due in full upon termination of follow."

DrALJONES, to Israel
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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

..

pattykimura,
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@DrALJONES Wow. Your bio claims you are "fact based", yet you cite as proof for an inflammatory assertion an "analysis" by Elijah Magnier who also asserted the the "US dragged Russia" into a war in Ukraine, Ukraine is choosing war because it has refused a "Russian Peace Plan" which required it to abandon any plan to seek NATO membership "in exchange for a tank withdrawal around Kiev and some armaments" ie Capitulation to a Fascist Aggressor Invader of a sovereign nation, and the same journo who praised the "Imma Dictator Day One" Trump.

There are definitely lies you are discussing.

StillIRise1963, to random
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When your gay friends are stripped of their marriages, tell them you didn’t vote because you wanted to make a statement about Gaza.

pattykimura,
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@jonquass @StillIRise1963

By being true to our shared commitment to democracy and justice and the protection of the vulnerable, abroad and at home.

I voted for Obama in 2008 despite his opposition to marriage equity, because I believed in his core progressive principles.

Joe Biden was the reason the politician Obama became the moral human Obama and supported marriage equity.

We are all imperfect beings, who need to be reminded that while we cannot allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, we must still strive our best to do good. The starving people of Gaza deserve our best.

I, too, will vote for Joe. As an American President, the GOP alternative is catastrophic for Gazans and Americans, Joe is our (and their) best hope.

Namaste.

Alice, to random
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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.

pattykimura,
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@Alice Ouch.

DeliaChristina, to random
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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.

pattykimura,
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@DeliaChristina Crazy racist people insisted Barack was a wild dangerous Black urban radical from Kenya. He is literally a mild, thoughtful, polite local boogie boarder from Hawai'i who went to a prep school and Harvard.
Biden is more radical than Barack.

GrimmReality, to random
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She wins the bear v man thing. Put respect upon her name.

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality This should be a profound learning/listening moment for men. Surprise.

Facts teach women that the real life chances for any women to be attacked, raped, or murdered by a bear are miniscule vs the high risk of the same from men.

Six women where killed by any type of bear from 2020-2024. Almost 5,000 women where murdered by men in the US in 2021 alone.

Oddly, men are also more likely to be murdered, attacked, or raped by other men, too, than by bears.

GrimmReality, to random
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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.

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality

Uh oh.
The No-Go-Go's are really in for its'.

GottaLaff, to legal
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#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?…

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff NFL lol. Michael Cohen takes out a line of credit in his name AND HIS WIFE'S NAME. If he was using this to payoff a porn star to hide his own vulnerability to adultery, why would he spill the tea by having his wife sign for the $130,000 payoff line of credit?

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff NFL
Trump got played by dragging Eric (who?) to Court. It damages whichever one is stupid enough to show up.
Don Jr cheated on his wife, so he can't come.
Melania refuses to be "like Hillary" "standing by her man".
Ivanka is laying low, bec Jared wants to survive Daddy.

Well Done Lawrence O'Donnell wherever you are!

Alice, to random
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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.

pattykimura,
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@Alice "I see you have enough money to buy tacos, but, well, me... I see you value tacos more than friendship. That's all I'm saying. I mean, I'm eating leftovers from home, because I care, but, you, well, whatever. Let's not talk, we can eat in silence. Your tacos are very crunchy. Do you mind eating more quietly, please."

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

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr My sister knew a group of middle aged men who used to meet once a month on the weekend in somebody's garage with whiteboards, to work on time travel. They were engineers and mathematicians during the week who had this monthly time travel club. One day, one says to her, excitedly, "We're close!"

pattykimura, to random
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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, (edited ) to random
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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,
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@RickiTarr Ah. A clinician who trusts you. To know your own body. To know your own life. To make and own your own choices about your own body. Hmm. To medically treat you like a competent adult with agency.

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