1. Honesty with your partner about the "little" things is key to long-term relationship health; it makes honesty about the "big" things a lot easier. (Spoken from experience of 27+ years of marriage.)
2. Most clothing, if it gets shrunk in the wash, can be...expanded? again. Soak it for 24 hours in water and hair conditioner. The conditioner softens most clothing fibers, allowing them to stretch. After a day or so, rinse, shape, and dry flat.
"What the Epstein case is doing...is showing many more people that the men most likely to talk about protecting 'their' girls & women are the ones most likely to feel entitled to do to girls & women whatever they please....
" (T)he same patterns apply to ICE killings, racist policing violence, xenophobic expulsions, government abandonment of the most vulnerable people in our society, the course of genocidal wars around the world, and more."
I think I want to move my blog from Wordpress to Ghost.
From what little I've researched thus far, Ghost seems to have good tools for accomplishing this.
But I am utterly unversed in the ways of The Programmer and ignorant of 99.99% of technical jargon.
I also have ADHD and ***loathe*** new user interface. (One of the reasons I want to leave Wordpress is that the UI has become revolting over the past few years.)
SO.
Will this be easy enough for layfolk such as I to accomplish?
So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."
In her 7th grade English Language Arts class, their current unit of study is the so-called "Ain't I a Woman?" speech by Sojourner Truth.
Now, schools aren't allowed to acknowledge Black History Month anymore, but I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence. 😉
One of her main assignments is to compare the commonly known speech (publ. 1863) with the speech that is as close as we can get to the original (publ. 1851).
@bruces Alt text of Twitter (I refuse to call it "X" because it's stupid) post by Elon Musk:
"For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
"The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
"It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time)...
...Racists are angry about the halftime show? Good! Everything about our society *should* make racists feel alienated. How do we make racists feel even *more* alienated from even more of society??"
"The fact that MAGA is outraged about Bad Bunny in the halftime show should be presented as an uncomplicated positive, evidence that we are playing the cooperation game with one another but not with those who would murder us.
"Our response should not be 'This response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows how divided we are, how can we stop this polarization?' Our response should be uncooperative: 'The response to Bad Bunny's inclusion shows just how racist our society is....
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