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

Alice, (edited ) to random
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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/

pattykimura,
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@Alice

And you wonder why randos come up and say "Are you Alice from Mastodon?"

This is why you are Alice from Mastodon.

😁

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"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

pattykimura,
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@mentallyalex It was nice knowing you. Have you made arrangements for the disposition of your shreds?

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Via Obama advisor Eric Schultz:

wow - NYT reporter says their nonstop coverage of ’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,
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@GottaLaff

NYT is led by the penultimate nepoBABY AG Sulzberger.
With Donald Fraud Trump Sr as the ultimate.

AG should just let vengeful moron Don Trump Jr run the NYT.

Two incompetent smug white male nepoBabies together at last. What a tremendous ode to the superiority of genes.

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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".

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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.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr I knew an ED clinician who faced a tardy, indifferent male surgeon who became furious because she ordered pain meds for a patient with ovarian torsion in severe pain after she waited hours for the surgeon to come to examine her for surgery. My friend was livid because he dismissed the patient's pain as not serious and accused her of interfering with an accurate exam by him of "how serious" the condition was. She said that male docs routinely rx pain relief for men w testicular torsion. But not for people with freaking ovaries!

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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.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr What very good dogs!

GottaLaff, to random
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Stupid, yes, but also, willfully gaslighting/lying, propping up their loser

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?

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

pattykimura,
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@chemoelectric @GottaLaff Lol. Cohen, like Trump, isn't a boy scout. He has been very shady when he was hired by Trump to do shady things at Trump's direction. Trump paid Cohen a lot of money to lie, falsify, and do criminal things at Trump's orders for Trump's benefit, ie Trump was the "Individual -1" in the Cohen indictment and conviction and Cohen went to prison for his part in the crime. Cohen did the time to pay for his part in the crime. Now it's Individual-1's (the one who ordered and benefited) turn. See the Weisselberg, yet another dutiful subordinate, criminal Trump activity pattern? Cohen was also disbarred for his part.

The real question is why did DOJ refuse to charge the person who both ordered and benefited from the crime? I'd love to see Bill Barr supoenaed as a witness for Trump, then crossed by Bragg's team. Will never happen, but I'd enjoy it.

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@chemoelectric @TCatInReality @GottaLaff Hmm. Trump calling Brad Raffensperger on Jan 2, 2021 AFTER the November 2020 election on a recorded call, charged by Fani Willis as part of a criminal election conspiracy, in which the recorded call is evidence.
DOJ has allowed Trump politics to interfere with the fair application of justice, even as they do so out of fear of "the appearance of bias against Trump", they bend to fear of Trump, which he counts on.

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@chemoelectric @TCatInReality @GottaLaff
You could view it that way because Bill Barr/ DOJ chose to charge the hitman and not the mob boss, and protected the mob boss with The Presidency of The United States of America.
I'd say Garland chose to be an unwitting political accessory to the precedent set by Barr, allowing an injustice to fester, until states took action. Let me also say that I like Garland, and understand he made a judgment call. I have stood by his inclination to be free from the James Comer effect, however, I believe he (and I) misjudged how dangerous a Trump unfettered by a lifetime free of accountability to any iota of actual justice is a clear and present threat to our nation.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Remember numbers. I can super concentrate and remember viewed numbers as visual abstract images but I can't remember a recited number because numbers, unlike misspelled words, are objectively perfect in any order. I don't know why no one else struggles with this.

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Conservatives: Once again people are pushing the LGBTQ+ Agenda!

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr

Real manly men embrace harmful fluid residues that cause rough system operation and erratic shifting.

First it was the suspiciously named "Trans Am", now this.

GottaLaff, to Ukraine
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👏🏻

Via Olivia Beavers:

: aid pass 311-112

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff Good news for democracy!
A defeat for Fifth Column Putin Republicans, the enemy of the US.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

pattykimura,
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@Hunterrules0_o @chriskrchr @stephanie @RickiTarr

Funny? Sounds like you did a lot of laughing at bullying of others. Why not try Twitter? Their funny is just like that.

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@RickiTarr I wasn't bullied. I didn't find a lot of kids that interesting or kind in high school (I went to a large private school) to seek out. I have never had any major urge to belong to a group just to be in a herd. I passed on a few cliques that invited me to join. I found a small group by accident who ate lunch outside where I ate and read. They were interesting, kind, funny, low key, low drama, and invited me to sit with them, if I chose. Some were the horsey set, some artistic and creative, some kind and athletic, just reasonable nice very smart girls who weren't desperate for anything or anyone or for attention. We did high school girl stuff like sleepovers, lunch, hikes, swims, movies - I assume that's normal stuff, I have no idea. Remarkably secure for teenage girls, though. I liked them. We bullied no one, none of us were bullied, I am surprised now how terrible high school was for most. It isn't right.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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1/… I'll ask a favor of you.

This trial hasn't even started yet, not one witness. Yet...

I'm getting Doomers galore in my feed.

A Trumpy helped convict him in an earlier trial.

The prosecutors are vetting the jurors carefully.

I am not Dooming. Not yet.

Can we wait for the trial to be in full swing before predicting the worst possible outcome? Or do people thrive on constant pessimism? I just don't.

Thanks so much for listening. Let's try to be hopeful.

More…

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff

He's on trial! This is a win. It's a criminal trial. He's forced to sit his orange ass there under penalty of arrest.

We sometimes forget to take a win.

We often let the perfect be the enemy of that orange criminal is on trial right now, after trying desperately to dodge and foil this one date with Judge Marchan and the State of New York. This is an actual good.

Dozey Don, the King of the Drool.
Noice!+

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Via Ryan Reilly:

You’d expect your average American not to know the outcomes of these cases, but quite something for a justice to just say something factually wrong on the bench when it’s about incidents that happened in their own workplace.

Lawrence Hurley:

During argument today, Justice Alito said people who have disrupted Supreme Court proceedings have not faced jail time. That's not correct.

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff

What an incompetent idiot. Lol. Three people were arrested and charged with two federal crimes for yelling at SCOTUS to protest their decision to overturn Roe in 2022.

The three were arrested in Nov 2022 for:

"Make a harangue or oration" in the Supreme Court building, and

"Demonstrating with the intent of interfering with the administration of justice"

Yup. Arrested for Way Less than J6 Trumpers urinating and defecating in Justices chambers or beating a court police officer with a metal pole, or threatening to hang Sam Alito, er, Mike Pence.

He claims it didn't happen because he makes no laws based in fact.

Alito is a joke and a hack. And he has a lifetime appointment to ruin this beloved nation.

LinuxAndYarn, to random
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Marco Rubio was just on CNN claiming activists were celebrating the Iranian attack on Israel, echoing DJT's bullshit about Muslims dancing on Jersey City rooftops on 9/11.

pattykimura,
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@LinuxAndYarn What does Russia have on JDVance? He went from avowed never Trumper to Koolaid SS in a weird nano-Nazi salute.

gutenberg_org, to books
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American marine biologist, conservationist, and writer Rachel Carson died in 1964.

She is best known for her groundbreaking book "Silent Spring," published in 1962, which brought attention to the environmental impact of pesticides, particularly DDT, and sparked a global environmental movement. The book is often credited with inspiring the modern environmental movement and the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

pattykimura,
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@gutenberg_org My mother read Carson's book in 1962 and with that forbade all of her children from the popular game of running into the DDT fog that Town trucks would regularly spray to reduce mosquitoes at dusk. We watched instead, from inside behind closed windows, all the other kids and teens happily running through the poisoned mists.

Alice, to random
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Don’t mind me, just posing with someone else's bad purchase.

pattykimura,
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@Alice Elon made an Edsel.

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me what this is, no cheating:

This one is similar to the first, but more glowing with lights. It's surrounded my a circle of metal bars
This is hard to explain more almost like if a robot made art out of robot parts and wires and knows, it's beautiful in a hard technical way

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Lovely.

Alice, to random
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I’m grateful for everyone who learned English as an additional language because I tried to learn other languages but it turns out I'm really dumb.

pattykimura,
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@Alice My parents and sibs are all polyglots. English, French, Hawai'ian, pidgin English, German, Spanish, three dialects of Chinese, Japanese... meanwhile I struggle for life long sufficiency in the only language I allegedly was born to.

Meh. I can say (with an Argentine accent) "The cow is in the library." which is an essential emergency phrase if a cow is ever in the library.

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Another all too barren spring in NYC. There should be so many insects, so many ants, so many tiny creatures filling the parks, hitting the windshields of cars.

Remember when bugs used to hit the windshields of cars because the air was so full of life?

I guess most people think this is 'improvement' but they are wrong. There is a campaign to put the American bumblebee on the endangered species list!

We are living in an eerie lifeless netherworld and I don't know why more can't see it!

pattykimura,
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@futurebird A neighbor had a problem with ants. Rather than simply use a pesticide, we identified the reason as water. We found a leak in her roof that wasn't enough to pour through her ceiling but enough to wet and soften wood and...attract ants. Roof was fixed (an unrealized significant threat) and ants went elsewhere.
Insects are the "canary in the coal mine" we ignore, misread, poison, or kill at our own peril.

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It's almost like the hereditary aristocracy never went away, they just rebranded and retitled themselves as "billionaires" and "nepo babies".
https://mastodon.scot/@LordWoolamaloo/112215348092487717

pattykimura,
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@cstross This myth of merit is essential to the consolidation of inherited wealth and power as justified by "exceptionalism" "hard work" "luck" "great timing" "genius" "charisma" "good genes" "5th dimensional chess grandmaster", rather than the more accurate "nepobaby".

They push the myth of their own unique earned exceptionalism and erase the truth.

It's not just billionaires, it's those elected to great political power. "Name recognition."

Both Trump and JFK, Junior are nepobabies, the babies of great unearned wealth. Joe Biden is not.

Romney, McCain, W Bush, Gore, HW Bush were/are all nepobabies.

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@cstross Albert Gore Sr was a poor man who earned his wealth and power through merit, his son Al went to prep school, lived at Embassy Row, and grew up as a son and namesake with unearned access.

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