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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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pattykimura, to random
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Perhaps I am foolish (likely I am foolish) but something feels changed; the E Jean Carroll judgment, the collapsed Army of God Truck Caravan, the mocked rambling blathering of a "Nothing" 77 year old man desperate for attention, the rising Dobbs motivated voters in Red States, a father cruelly beheaded by his MAGA cursed son and broadcast on youtube.

It's been a terrible unspeakable horrific 8 years. Are we close to an end of the insanity? Are they running out of invisible steam?

LALegault, to Women
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🚨 Attn: in the and on we need a hastag like for each other when the trolls descend so the squad shows up. Any ideas what it should be? 💅

pattykimura,
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@LALegault @GottaLaff @flexghost @lisamelton @lisa @lmv1967 @lisapoettinger @fulelo @Mary625 @design_law @SarraceniaWilds @Gargron @blogdiva @jeze3D

I'm old. I was thinking something along the lines of Sisterhood is Powerful as the bat signal. Abbreviated to . You either know the acronym or you learn it pretty quick.

It's a worthy effort, whatever gets decided.

jilleduffy, to random
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Reading people's layoff notes the last few days, I would like to share some reminders:

  1. Work will never love you back.

  2. "It isn't personal." Ignore people who say that. Your salary, your sense of purpose and work integrity are personal, and when they are taken away without warning, it affects you personally, even if the decision to cut your position was only about money.

  3. Thinking about your emotions through a job loss as grieving can be helpful.

  4. Work will never love you back.

pattykimura,
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@jilleduffy Work also isn't a democracy.

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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I'm sure any truck convoy of armed-to-the-teeth American neo-Nazis calling themselves The Army of God traveling to Texas hoping to murder destitute brown people is full of nice people who genuinely mean well.

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality

Let them be met by US Marshals, the FBI, lots and lots of cameras and thousands of sedition hunters at their computers. This will be another J6 riot all over again. Time to round more of them up.

RickiTarr, to random
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Trad Wife memes are always like a traditionally attractive skinny blonde woman in a white dress, in a field of flowers, holding hands with their immaculate children. The text always says something like, Why are you working a job, instead of doing your true calling? This is Godly Motherhood!

This how I know these are made by people who have never been around children, or possibly even women, and also never had to worry about money.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Incels are fully engulfed in their adolescent teen-age fantasy of married life. Their trad fam memes are the equivalent of pre-adolescent doodling in the margins "Mr Zendaya..."

heidilifeldman, (edited ) to legal
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and have demonstrated the highest ideals of the American system. With tremendous skill and tenacity they used the law to demand and get civil justice for their client. Today, I am proud to be a scholar and teacher of American law, and specifically of law (, the gravamen of suit is a tort). May my torts students all do as much for justice as Kaplan and Crowley have.

pattykimura,
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@heidilifeldman Minor correction to an otherwise great post: "Shawn G. Crowley". She is a great young lawyer. Along with the great Roberta Kaplan who gave my marriage equal rights.

RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Am I curious enough? Fearless enough?
Strong enough to sustain so much loss? Open hearted enough to welcome more surprise, more joy?

I don't know. Maybe?

pattykimura, (edited )
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@RickiTarr

"If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?"

I've been thinking about this, your, question and the conditional responses it has elicited, including my own. It struck me that a lot of yes answers were, along the lines of, "but only if...I had the body I chose, the health I chose, the political or climate conditions I would like..." which really is a no. But isn't this what life is, a tomorrow or a millenia about which we do not have absolute certainty; and yet few of us would easily choose to say no to tomorrow. Perhaps my thoughts have been informed by my work with persons whose average age is 80 (even as I am old, myself), who often mourn their physical selves, who struggle with finding a place in a technological world they are no longer part of, who face the loss of loved ones. This is aging. We cannot be afraid of tomorrow, of life, if we are curious and open hearted despite our fears, if we realize each day we have existed proves we already have the strength to have survived years of unknown tomorrows we now call yesterdays. Living takes courage. And each of us already embodies that courage.

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the strangest thing you've ever purchased?

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr

A yodeling pickle. My beloved has been instructed to bring it to my bedside if I ever fall into a coma. If that doesn't bring me to...

pattykimura, to HashtagGames
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"Why you feed me poop? I can haz cover it."

StefanThinks, to random
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Bay leaf, the one ingredient that I'm pretty sure does not affect the flavor of a dish, but I am too scared to omit to find out.

pattykimura,
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@StefanThinks Pro-bay leaf. We had a little bay leaf bush in our yard as a kid. Fresh bay leaves have an added delicious effect on beef stew.

GottaLaff, to Zelensky
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Bluff called.

“President Volodymyr has extended an invitation to Donald to visit Kyiv, with a specific condition attached.

Speaking with U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 News, Zelensky said that Trump would be warmly received in the capital under one stipulation: the former U.S. president must demonstrate his ability to bring an end to the war with Russia within 24 hours, as he once promised.”

https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-invites-trump-to-ukraine/

pattykimura,
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@kithrup @joeinwynnewood @GottaLaff

The bluff called is that Trump's "brilliant plan to end the war in 24 hours" is Complete Capitulation, the Neville Chamberlain Plan. Trump won't say that quiet part out loud because it's Hitler, er, Putin, er, Trump & his MAGA 5th columnists' plan.

Zelenskyy is a wily and nimble fellow who has no Fs left when it comes to fighting to save his nation. He's been used once by the treacherous Trump for that pathetic photo op, he'll never be used again.

bhawthorne, to USpolitics

Here are the real results out of Iowa.

Est. Population: 3,207,004 (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/IA/DIS010222)
Est. Adult population: 2,482,221 (same source)
Registered voters 2024-01: 1,518,210 (https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/VRStatsArchive/2024/CoJan24.pdf)
Registered Republican voters 2024-01: 594,533 (same source)
Voters participating in 2024 caucuses with 99% counted: 109,405 (https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/primaries-and-caucuses/results/iowa/republican-presidential-primary)
Votes case for Trump: 57,260 (same source)

That means that in the Iowa caucuses:
2.3% of the adults in Iowa voted for Trump.
3.8% of the registered voters in Iowa voted for Trump
9.6% of registered Republicans voters in Iowa voted for Trump

Over 90% of registered republican voters in Iowa chose not to show up and vote for Trump.

That is the real story.

pattykimura,
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@dangoodin @bhawthorne Trumpism is a cult, the MSM fuels the invincibility of its adherents in their single-minded goal to prove loyalty to their God Trump by routing out the MINOs and voting "even if sick" despite the subzero temps and blizzard conditions.

But, truth is, they're neither invincible nor have all Republicans lost their minds in blind fealty to Trump.

He got just over half the votes. 51%. That's barely a majority. He's the only former President running.

What happened his magnificent majority? His relentlessly reported 82% favorability among GOP (YouGov Jan 9, 2024)?

The peril is in both ridiculing his core support and in over-estimating Trump's inevitability.

He's neither as weak as we'd like, or as strong as we fear. He's beatable.

pattykimura,
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@dangoodin Not underestimating Trump, I am the "y'all" who is directly in the Trump MAGA Nazi death cult crosshairs. I don't get the luxury of straight white male smugness, thanks.

pattykimura,
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@dangoodin Is everything about you? What a weird reply.

pattykimura, to random
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Hearing Christian Evangelicals idolize Trump as King David, a flawed lascivious murderous King who was chosen by God to be King. David was not actually a Christian, he preceded the life of Jesus by 1000 years.

Curious that "Christians" would forsake the believed actual Son of God Jesus Christ who led a life not characterized by pussy-grabbing, adultery, lying, encouraging assassination, to justify the idolatry of Trump.

Why not support Jesus values?

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, so I'm going to type out a sentence, and I want you all to finish it, but instead of doing deep thinking about it, just type the very first thing that pops into your head. I know this will be hard for many of you, but try it! LOL

If I could do whatever I wanted to right now, I would _________.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr Erase Trump from our timeline.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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AT&T is sending out letters warning they want to kill virtually all landlines (and perhaps related data circuits where fiber is unavailable) across essentially their entire coverage area throughout California. This would have devastating effects. Related CPUC meetings will be taking place through March.

Landlines provide crucial services for individuals, businesses, and other organizations in a wide variety of situations -- not just emergencies when cellular and Internet service tends to rapidly fail, but also for vast numbers of people in areas with poor, unreliable, or in many cases (even in large sections of major cities!) NO cell service, NO fiber, etc.

Landlines often provide the only available communication in a wide variety of security and safety situations, from elevators to interior spaces of all sorts where cell service simply doesn't work.

Many disabled and other persons have crucial equipment that depends on landlines. Often they are not tech-savvy and do not have friends or relatives to help them through forced technology changes.

AT&T has been shirking its public safety responsibilities for years, while still leveraging their effective monopoly on services in so many areas.

Their new effort must be stopped. I'll have much more to say about this as the situation progresses.

pattykimura,
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@lauren 1934 Communications Act, 1996 Telecommunications Act were the gold standard that ensured equal access to modern communication systems to all parts of the nation. Equal telecommunication access allows equal health, economic, educational, public and emergency services, access to all Americans with the cost to corporation for the more expensive maintenance and expansion included in fees spread to all users in one of those mandated fees that appear in every phone/cell bill. (When rural MAGA complain about government taxes, remind them that they are the beneficiaries of this universal tax every time they use a cell or landline.) There was a rule change lobbied by telecom to change "full coverage" to allow "95% coverage" as full coverage, and expand the coverage area to create a larger denominator to increase the 5% exclusion/unserved raw numbers as the numerator.
In the East and Southeast US, we have seen the abandonment of landlines and the refusal to maintain the remaining copper wiring, threatening our health services, educational access, and economic viability. Landlines, ironically, are a consistent profit center if you don't maintain them: the plan is to sell them off to small vendors to wring out remaining profit then abandon.

GrimmReality, to random
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I HAVE SHOVELED ALL THE SNOW. I am like Paul Bunyon except with a snow shovel and somewhat shorter. And a lot drunker.

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality Not to detract from your magnificent achievement, but I understand Mrs Paula Bunion has drunken feet issues and a GoFundMe.

GottaLaff, to DC
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FYI: will air this live in minutes, audio only.

Trump’s only there for 2 reasons: To show how aggrieved he is and to use the photo opp to spew more lies and smears to incite his base… all to get votes to stay out of prison.

in court to argue for immunity from January 6 case – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/jan/09/trump-immunity-hearing-jan-6-case-dc-politics-latest-updates

pattykimura,
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@rjblaskiewicz He clerked for Luttig who has taken the opposite view of his former clerk. Sauer is a true believer and has forsaken the law for his God Trump.

dgar, to random
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Follow me for more recipes.

pattykimura,
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@dgar Seppuku. My forebears would be committing seppuku at this moment if they were alive to commit seppuku, as I boost this.

RickiTarr, to random
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What do you think is a subject that most people misunderstand, and if they were more educated in the topic it would probably change their mind?

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr The role of government regulation and funding in every part of their lives that they take for granted or assume is a right, while whining about "welfare cheats" and "takers" and "those people" without any awareness that they are, deeply, those people.

pattykimura, to random
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I woke to realize how few years, statistically, I have left on this earth. Time to get cracking!

Less years, even, to continue to work -- I better get my files in order for the next person. Clean up the bedroom. Love the cat, and my beloved wife. Learn new things, unexpected things.

I am not afraid of aging, I am more curious about what life and the world might be if I outlive my statistical end and get to see 100. My mom made it to 97, my grandma to 105.

Curiosity has always out weighed fear, in my life.

Happy New Year to the curious, the fearful, the undecided, all!

RickiTarr, to random
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What are your true opinions and thoughts on marriage?

Just for fun, this is a photo from my wedding day (ignore the reflection of my phone lol) I was all of 21.

pattykimura,
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@RickiTarr I never thought I would marry. The whole LGBTQ not a legal option thing for the majority of my life. Then I met my beloved in my 50s, and darn, that was it! We could marry in our state, even if denied federal protections and marriage rights in most states. (I was alive when Loving finally offered interracial marriage protections). The right to marry hasn't been universal, and may vanish again for some of us. Even if it does disappear, I am glad to be married, and to have to known this great unexpected joy.

GrimmReality, to random
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My sister came down to go to the Costco because she had a $100 coupon that expires on the 31st so we went to the Costco and one of the sample-desk people had these Italian meatballs and she got us a couple of those and said "Oh my god these are great" so we went down the next aisle and came back to where we were near the sample desk and she said "OK now you have to go back and get us two more meatballs" so I did and then I went off to look at some stuff and had to backtrack to find her and when I did she said "I have a plan. You're wearing a mask so, if you go back to the meatball station and take off your mask, they won't know it's you and you can get more meatballs" and I said "I don't think it is in their job description to police the meatball line" and she said "I didn't ask for input on the plan, just its implementation."

pattykimura,
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@GrimmReality lol. We never stop being ordered around by bossy sibs, no matter how old we get. And they don't care!

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