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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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RickiTarr, to random
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Who wrote this, a CAT?!

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr lol. I once watched two young feral brothers, tails entwined, walk together down a dirt driveway after a storm. Lovely, social, companionable.

Then one brother hip-checked the other brother into a puddle.

Cats are assholes.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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"Blood bath at " 1/...

"Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the RNC began the process of pushing out dozens of officials.

All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff, though the names were not made public. Additionally, some vendor contracts are expected to be cut" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/11/bloodbath-at-rnc-trump-team-slashes-staff-at-committee-00146368

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff If your goal is for the Republican Party to elect Republicans, you've just been fired. The sole purpose of the Republican Party is to exist solely to elect, fund, and swear total fealty to one man, der Fuhrer Herr Trump.
If you've missed the Nazification of the GOP, you haven't been paying attention.

pattykimura, to random
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@GabeMoralesVR
Says a person who is baiting an IRS audit. Good luck to you. Ignorance of the tax code is no defense. Advertising that ignorance is lunacy. "...for literally years and years..."
Instead of arguing that you've gotten away with it for "years and years", I'd declare yourself lucky, and delete this public admission.

pattykimura,
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@GabeMoralesVR lol. Get audited.

GottaLaff, to random
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Stay to the very end.

Then share like crazy.

nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI

pattykimura,
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@GottaLaff Brilliant.
I've never met Joe, but I knew a fellow, union shop steward, who had. He told a story about meeting Joe decades ago, when Joe mentioned playing football. He was asked what position he played. Biden says "Assback" The guys say "What?" Biden says, with a chuckle, "I rode the bench until I begged coach to put me in. I was sent in, and after one play, coach motioned me over. I ran up, "Yes, coach!" He yells "Biden! Get your ass back on the bench!" All those old working class guys all fell in love with Biden on that day because he's a regular guy. With a disarming self-depreciating twinkle.

RickiTarr, to random
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Something I've noticed a lot lately, is that especially Boomer women, but honestly, women in general, don't seem to ask for what they want or need in a direct way. I notice this a lot with my Mom and her friends. Instead of just asking for what they need directly they tell a story, to ask in a roundabout way. For instance, my Mom needed help this morning, and Instead of just saying, "Hey, I dropped my remote, can you pick it up for me?" She tells a one minute story about what happened, no ask, and eventually I get the point, and then suggest that I come pick it up. Or if one of her friends wants to do something like have a birthday party for a friend, they don't say "We should have a party!" They say, It's Sarah's Birthday coming up, you know she likes surprises, what does everyone think we should do?"

I often wonder if this is why older people think younger women are rude and demanding, because younger people often just ask for what they want and need in a more direct way. But also it's probably just straight up sexism, because men are supposed to make decisions, and women are supposed to make suggestions.

What do you all think? Is this just me? Have you experienced something similar?

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr lol. Boomer women are way more direct than our own mothers. I learned the roundabout "story language" of my own mom (born 1915) who never said "No." When she said "Oh. Mmmm. Oh. Maybe. Oh. Not so much." I understood she was actually waving her arms and screaming "No F*ing Way!"
Cultural traditions also factor in, as she was the child of immigrants from Japan who are notorious oblique language users.

Alice, (edited ) to random
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I’m spending way too much time thinking about how woodchucks can't chuck wood.

I bet everyone wanted to name it a "dirtchuck" for accuracy, but the little creature threw a temper tantrum so they settled on woodchuck instead.

pattykimura,
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@Alice Not a bad name for Trump, however.

Alice, to random
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Wendy's is introducing surge pricing? Next thing you know they'll be taking away the SuperBar!

pattykimura,
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@Alice Gee, back in the olden times, management actually meant managing labor costs by predictive scheduling based on a pattern of need. And then, failing that, requiring salaried workers to pitch in and surge with unanticipated need, and then re-evaluating the parameters of your data and correcting your predictions. It was what some did in the olden times and it requires actual skills. Managers don't learn management skills are actually a thing, and not an excuse to hire a brunchbro nephew, or an autocrat, or pass the cost of incompetent management onto your hourly workers or customers.

RickiTarr, to random
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Type "Women are..." and/or "Men are..." and let predictive text finish the sentence.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr
"Women are my favorite guy"
"Men are so lovely and dry"

This was both weird and hilarious.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I named a plant in the hallway Ursula. I told everyone in the house to say hello to her when they walk by. I'm in bed and I just heard my son's door open and him say "Hello, Ursula." 🤣

pattykimura,
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@StillIRise1963
My mother's life force was her fluid and complementary belief in Shintoism, Buddhism, and a loving Christianity, in the animating force in all things in the natural world. I grew up thanking stepping stones for carry the weight of my steps, saying hello to the wind, the singing birds, and being gentle as I climbed the limbs of trees. You see yourself as part of a whole, the whole as part of you, and thus always embracing and always being embraced by the world. Say hello to Ursula for me.

RickiTarr, to random
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I would say reincarnation, but both people are still alive, extra points if you can tell me who the person on the left is without looking it up!

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr I voted for Jimmy Carter, so I know who he is. I am not absolutely certain who the young woman is, I think she is an actor. Am I close?

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr I also believe that picture of Carter is from his senior year at USNA, based on the shoulder board which indicates the rank of Midshipman.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr lol. I looked her up. Scarlett Johansson.

GottaLaff, to random
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This. Was excellent.

“Pundits suggest replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee because they don’t understand the job of the presidency or how conventions work. Lawrence O’Donnell gives a history lesson in governing in the age of television.”

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-on-what-they-don-t-tell-you-about-the-dump-biden-fantasy-204684869613

pattykimura,
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@donaldball @GottaLaff Your timeline is off. There is no Dem corollary to Trump in June 2015. That person would have already qualified for the ballot, entered, and won the 2024 NH & SC primary contests as Trump did by 2016.
Dean Whatshisname? Gavin Newsome?
There isn't a Perry Mason moment for a consensus Dem rival, if you believe so, well...

w7voa, to random
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The supermarket that astonished Tucker Carlson in Moscow? It’s not Russian — it’s a Russian outlet of Auchan of France.

pattykimura,
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@w7voa Spoiled richie rich manbaby discovers where cook gets his food, French supermarket.

RickiTarr, to random
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I was exploring down a gravel road, and stopped to take a picture of this Donkey sitting in a field, but it got up, and decided it wanted pets, and then three dogs, small, medium, and large, also came running from across the road, to get pets too. They have a whole racket going on!

He starts to stand up
He's walking over!
The Donkey and one of the dogs having a chat, they are friends!

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr It was the classic "Bait and ....omg...cuteness...me, me, me...pet me, me, me.."

the_etrain, to random
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Mr. T designed these. It's the only explanation.

pattykimura,
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@the_etrain

If these aren't old man orthotics with 4 inch lifts, these are fake Trump shoe knock offs. Sorry.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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A word about left-wing conspiracy theories.

Yesterday I sent about 10 people to this page because they were saying the same untrue things about Merrick Garland that I disproved here with facts:

https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-iii-an-msnbc-cnn-conspiracy-theory-and-the-perils-of-legal-punditry/

That's when I realized a new Merrick Garland conspiracy theory had taken hold.

My initial reaction was pure irritation.

A knew what it would take to disprove it. . .

1/

pattykimura,
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@Teri_Kanefield I like Elie Mystal but he's been feverishly and wrongly blaming Garland without every noting one clear truth about Garland DOJ's decision to start with the individual criminal J6 insurrectionists -- fear of arrest, fear of an FBI trap, fear of conviction and years in prison changed MAGA's certainty that they will never be punished. This averted riots at Trump hearings where he threatened thousands would show up (they didn't) and the recent anti-migrant 70,000 God's Trucker Army that never materialized. We haven't had another J6 because of DOJ arrests and convictions. The paramilitary PBs and Oathkeepers have been neutered. Garland. Garland deserves credit.

purplepadma, to random
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Whoa, Miss Cinnamon was just in the kitchen and she let out an unearthly war cry. I rushed in and she was staring at the patio door, her tail enormous, huffing and puffing around the edges of the door at some scent. I quickly turned on the light but couldn’t see anything. I’ve never seen her do the huffing and puffing before, I’m wondering what an earth the scent was. Could be a tomcat spraying the door (yuck) or maybe a more threatening garden intruder? A fox?

pattykimura,
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@purplepadma I don't know what area of the country you live, but if your door is screen, you might want to close the solid door for the week or more in case it's a predator whose interest in Miss Cinnamon is deathly. A neighbor had a similar reaction from her cat, we found claw marks and rips on the screen window and the siding outside. Best wishes.

GrimmReality, to superbowl
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I don't really have a dog in this but I guess if winning means a bunch of dumb-as-dogshit white neo-Nazi pricks will be sad and think the world is ending for the twelfth time this week because they've been convinced the delightful talented pop music star schtupping the tight end is a primary component of a Deep State psyop to destroy white nationalism and Jesus and make America communist, I would be pretty ok with that.

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality Or the woke homosexual San Francisco 49ers from Communist California. Either way, they lose because they hate everyone. Lol.

GrimmReality, to random
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"Try to be less of a dick next time."

  • the Buddha, paraphrased-ish
pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality

"A dick, be less of, next time, try."

The Buddha of Jediism

pattykimura, to random
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I did a bad thing today. I am cleaning up the house and preparing for Saturday Dump Day when I take the trash and recycling to the Town Transfer Station. So, I cut up all the boxes, including the big one the cat has been sitting in. To my surprise, she mourned the box by pawing at its pieces, and trying to push herself underneath the pile. I am a bad senseless inconsiderate human.

randahl, to random
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Screen shot from an actual campaign video, from MAGA Republican candidate for Missouri Valentina Gomez, in which she promises:

“When I’m Secretary of State, I will 🔥BURN🔥all books that are grooming, indoctrinating, and sexualizing our children. MAGA. America First🇺🇸”

I remember when the Nazis burned books. I also remember what they burned next.

pattykimura,
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@randahl Notice these Nazis never quietly burn or shred books alone at home using a regular propane weed torch on a gardening debris pile or a shredder - this is always theater, books are stand-in props for human beings they find worthy of extermination by immolation. There is no subtlety to the violence of the threat.

GrimmReality, to random
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If Forever stamps aren't accepted as standard currency in the post-apocalypse, I am gonna be pretty pissed.

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality

Forever stamps may prove to retain more intrinsic value than crypto.

pattykimura, to random
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Trump won 51% of Iowa caucus vote.
Trump won 54% of NH primary vote.
He is the GOP incumbent

Joe Biden is currently winning 97% of the SC primary vote.
He is the Democratic incumbent.

So tell me again, who has the support of his party? Trump-o barely breaks 50%.

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