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rothko

@rothko@beige.party

☕️ :bisexual: :leather_flag: ♏️ lake superior owns my soul so i finally moved to duluth. interfaith/interspiritual with particular fondness for inayati sufism and the episcopal church. trained spiritual director/companion, non-judgmental holder of sacred space. gen-x, fond of single malt scotch, r.e.m., bob mould, doctor who. minnesotan, german speaker, genealogy dork, band geek.
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RickiTarr, to random
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If you could have one new skill starting right now, what would it be?

rothko,
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@RickiTarr i would like to somehow be able to keep from cluttering my entire fucking living space in the briefest span of time. i don't know how it happens or how to stop it.

NunavutBirder, to worldwithoutus
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So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.

I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin.

rothko,
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@NunavutBirder oh COOL!!!

RickiTarr, to random
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If you get mad when you see employees at a business you are patronizing laughing, enjoying each other's company, and goofing off, you're a dick. Empathize with people working a shitty underpaid job, and let them enjoy what little fun they get.

rothko,
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@kerouac666 @RickiTarr when walmart tried to expand into germany, the workers were like "what do you mean i don't get a chair? how do you expect me to stand all day, this is ridiculous." and the unions in germany don't mess around. ultimately walmart just gave up and pulled out -- we'd rather pay our cashiers super shitty wages and make them stand all day than accommodate you snooty europeans who think you deserve to be treated like humans even though it costs us more. the nerve, honestly!

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

rothko,
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@futurebird consider: the bald eagle is a symbol of the US, its mascot, imaged on money, official seals and all sorts of government stuff. to let it go extinct would have been a national embarrassment -- therefore the phenomenal effort to find the cause of its demise (DDT) and eradicate it, despite any concerns about lost profits to whatever corporation was manufacturing it.

would a similar effort be made today?

RickiTarr, to random
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Y'all, I'll never get over this still from my husband's Workplace Harassment Seminar. They knew what they were doing, no way they didn't!

rothko,
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@RickiTarr somehow i'm unable to see alt-text on my phone with either a browser OR a client. clue me in?

msquebanh, to random
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Part of our members & us, with our (holding new paddle). We train every Saturday morning, from .

Today, we worked on more race stops, transitions & on improving team timing/synchronization.

I led a good warm-up before we started & was put into front near end of practice. Our coach is also training me on doing drumming/calling out paddle beats so I can go on multiple boats for races. Our first race is May 26th!

Me with 4 other female team mates & our coach (she is on far right, holding black paddle) on upper wharf at Fairway Gorge Paddling Club. The Gorge Waterway is behind us.

rothko,
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@somcak @msquebanh yeah, i'm surprised they listened! maybe because it's canada? :canparrot:

Alice, (edited ) to random
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I grew up pretty poor and my husband grew up well off, but he's in denial and this conversation just transpired:

Me: Your parents built a brand new house before you were born so you'd have somewhere nice to grow up.

Husband: They didn't build it themselves!

Me: EXACTLY! They paid people like my father to build it.

rothko,
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@Alice oh man, those relationships can be awkward AF. hope y'all can navigate it well.

rothko, to random
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semiotics 101:

the_etrain, to random
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I'm no scientist, but if a bird transmits the flu to a cow that is now the cow flu.

rothko,
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@the_etrain and apparently also it's the cat flu.

rothko, to random
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dyani, to random
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Finally published my blog post about sleep!

I have sleep issues. So everything I have to do in order to sleep, I figured out through trial and error over the years.

Hopefully something I wrote helps someone.

https://dyani.bearblog.dev/how-to-sleep-trial-and-error-over-the-years/

rothko,
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@dyani i've never actually tried using antihistamines. my main problem isn't getting to sleep, it's staying asleep through the night without waking up every couple hours. if i don't get the really deep sleep happening, i remain drowsy throughout the daytime.

weighted blanket didn't do that much for me. i'm not great about the basic stuff like no screens before bed or cutting down on caffeine. i do try to avoid caffeine after 2 or 3pm, but that's about the extent of it.

rothko,
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@dyani thanks for this. i've been on some heavy-duty pharmaceuticals for many years and i am trying to reduce but it's tough. i got rid of seroquel because it's a terrible drug, but i have trouble sleeping all the way through the night without it. i still take 4mg of lunesta, and 75mg of trazodone (which i increased from 50mg to make up for the absence of seroquel), but i'm afraid i'm gonna have to bump up to 100mg because i am just not sleeping well these days.

my new psychiatrist is not thrilled about my massive drug regimen (i also take 3 antidepressants and a mood stabilizer) and wants me to cut down on things. i'm like, if it worked, i'd be glad to, but... 🙄

rothko,
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@purplepadma @dyani oh man, that sucks... i am toying with the idea of finding a different psychiatrist, but i suspect they're all gonna tell me the same thing -- i'm on too many meds and i need to reduce. dammit, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!!

Alice, to random
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Thinking about renting a Cybertruck for a day, buying the rental insurance, and then spending the entire day driving in a loop through a car wash.

rothko,
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@Alice until it breaks down inside the car wash, trapping you there for five hours.

Alice, to random
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    rothko,
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    @Alice well hey i just crushed a 16oz can of delta-9 soda so let's get this party started boiiiiiii

    DamnInteresting, to random
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    Chicago Removes the World-Famous “Rat Hole” From Its Sidewalk
    https://mymodernmet.com/chicago-removes-rat-hole-from-its-sidewalk/?utm_source=DamnInteresting

    rothko,
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    @DamnInteresting nooooooooo

    rothko, to random
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    just reviewed my timeline and realized i'm one of those people who basically just boosts and doesn't really post anything original. not that that's a terrible thing necessarily, but when i look at someone else's profile and see that, i think "boring" and don't usually follow them.

    which gives me pause.

    mostly i just sit here replying to my fellow beige partiers. sometimes i dig the "social" part of "social media" more than the actual "media."

    here, then, is a photo for the sake of posting some content. hah.

    the_etrain, to random
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    Got some iris blooms

    rothko,
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    @the_etrain oh man i love bearded irises. my mom had a bunch in her flowerbeds when i was a kid. all different colors.

    bryanhansel, to photography
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    Sunrise over Lake Superior

    rothko,
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    @bryanhansel super windy and stormy in duluth today... i live up the hill in the trees now, so i haven't seen the lake, but i bet it's super scary down there. same for GM today?

    rothko, to random
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    Happy birthday@alice !!!

    rothko, to random
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    so... we closed on a house in duluth today. here's me putting the finishing touches on the mailbox.

    GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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    Athena would like to take a quick moment of your time to have a discussion about snack frequency.

    rothko,
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    @GrimmReality omg what a gorgeous baby. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

    rothko, to random
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    so, , here i am in nowhere, minnesota, sitting death watch for my younger sister, martha. she's 48. triple-negative metastatic breast cancer, which came back two years ago even after a double mastectomy in 2018. she was at thanksgiving dinner with the family yesterday, weak but hanging in there. today her fiancé had trouble waking her up and called the hospice nurse after a while, who affirmed that yes, it looks like this is it. 1/n

    rothko, to random
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    happy birthday to the fabulous @RickiTarr !!!

    rothko, to random
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    @RickiTarr so speaking of magic moments... there was a moment a few years back that inspired me to write a fan letter to bob mould. which was odd, but fucking perfect -- and later i got to deliver it by hand.

    December 5, 2018

    Bob —

    I don’t really write fan mail. Never have. And I’m 47, so it’s kinda weird to be writing this now.

    I am just a bit too young to have been around for Hüsker Dü. I was in junior high when you guys were big and in 1985 I lived in the middle of nowhere (southern Minnesota, ironically, just two hours south of where you guys were busy changing the face of rock and roll), listening to stuff like Styx and Night Ranger. Fortunately my tastes matured over the next couple years, and when I was a senior, someone lent me their copy of Workbook, which had just come out. I was utterly transfixed.

    I went to college in St. Paul (Bethel, way up the street from Macalester) from 1990-94 and your first few solo albums made up my personal soundtrack through some really heavy shit. Lots of religious crisis, emerging bipolar disorder, etc. (I’ll spare you most of the agonizing details.) I think I went to see you play at First Avenue just about every time you played there during those years.

    Later on, once you had formed Sugar, I was so excited to hear your songs again. Copper Blue was fucking gigantic and still is and always will be. Fast forward like 20 years after going through hell getting my undergrad degree in theology and then completely walking away from religion altogether... I have somehow ended up in seminary doing a Master’s in Spiritual Formation. (Gonna be a hospital chaplain if things go according to plan.) It’s been a bizarre journey already and I don’t know where it’s leading, but it just fits, y’know?

    Anyway — all of this is to say that I finished the last class of my first semester tonight. It was this writing class on Wednesday evenings, taught by this mild-mannered yet secretly fierce woman who somehow got all of us writing from this super-deep place in each of us, very sneakily and surreptitiously leading us down the path to find our own authentic voices and claim their authority. Absolutely unreal. The stuff we shared with each other tonight was phenomenal. Super emotional and seriously transformative in major ways for each one of us.

    After class, I got in the car, put my music on “shuffle,” and what comes on but “Hoover Dam.” As I picked up speed on I-35 in the late evening traffic, it was like the song had become the end credits of a movie rolling up the darkened screen as I drove home. And it was perfect. I have taken a huge risk by leaving my comfortable part-time barista job and starting school again after 25 years, and suddenly I’m already finished with my first semester, which has been amazing in so many ways. Driving home listening to “Hoover Dam,” thinking about that metaphor, being on the precipice, in this weird liminal space between my old life and the new one starting to form — and the song was absolutely the perfect song at the perfect time. It’s so ANTHEMIC.

    I got to wondering about your way of songwriting and the stories you tell. Did you have to work at it much? Did it take lots of discipline? Did you tear up a thousand million drafts before you got it right? Or are you just a natural storyteller? Whatever the case, it clearly comes from somewhere real, somewhere true, and I am always drawn to authentic expression; I don’t have the time or the patience for anything that isn’t. It’s what I live for, real connection with others. And after all these years, I still feel a deep connection to your music. You and your songs are SO important to me.

    Your live performances are something I rave about to all my friends. “Dude, Bob Mould’s coming to town and you have to see him, he’s amazing, he’s fucking unstoppable!” I’ve been in Austin, Texas since 2004 and I’ve seen you play at Mohawk a couple times; most recently at ACL Live when you did that solo electric show. Your energy is phenomenal — how the hell do you do it? I’m 47 and I can’t imagine putting on a show like that, not even once, and definitely not several times a month traveling all over the country and around the world. My usual bedtime is 9:30 these days.

    I will wrap this up now — after my drive home blasting “Hoover Dam” with the movie credits from the first half of my life rolling up the screen, I just wanted to let you know what a perfect moment it was, and how much your music has meant to me over the years and still does today.

    So thanks. For everything.

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