@AnnaAnthro Christ. idk if it's eugenics when it's neuro-atypical related instead of raced based but this is some seriously eugenic shit right here. Puberty blockers??? drug not approved for use in the U.S.??? do we have a clearer example of why police protect only property, than this one of our collective failure to prevent harmful health "practitioners" from doing evil shit?? i'm seriously reeling right now.
my happy new years wishes are all for Palestine. may there be lasting peace, real peace. let the Israelis lay down their arms and walk away from tormenting the Palestinians in Gaza. Let them extract themselves from the occupation and break out of the horror show they find themselves in.
Let their eyes be unclouded. Let them know the truth and let them rise up against the true injustice.
@pluralistic this motherfucker. i always knew he'd betray us. despite all the good stuff he's made possible he's always going to be the asshole who got Clarence Thomas confirmed. and this just cements it for me. what a way to go out.
@carlmalamud i was not prepared for this. it's a bleak outlook this morning.
i'm terrified that we're running off a cliff on climate. looks like it's going to crumble out from underneath us before we even get the chance to leap off.
@br00t4c you what's funny to me about this headline, my dreams of a feminist future has lots of men that are strong in it, only difference is they are strongmen who are kind to me and think of me as an equal, confident in their place and purpose in the world, instead of really insecure (ie Trump) and defensive of or misguided about their place and purpose. just feels weird to be so close, yet so far.
#losingmydad there are 4+ vehicles, two lawnmowers, weed whackers, pumps, an engine crane... this is where i get really sad bc i'm going to miss the way he could explain everything, anything, vacuum pump to quantum mechanics. so much. 😞
so yeah it's slow going. there are a bunch of household fix-it projects that also need to be managed. but my sister is helping and the kids and my mom too.
nice to get some of my thoughts out of my head and onto this page. thx for reading. more later... (3/n)
#losingmydad i'm a pacifist, so this reality has a special twinge of pain for me. bleech. i don't know how else he wldve afforded college. but I'm really glad he did go to school because he's a brilliant chemist, computer scientist and hacker. right now he's committed to re-submitting his PhD dissertation, which he always intended to do someday.
besides visiting him everyday i'm also going to attempt to catalogue all the equipment, tools, parts and whatnot he's collected over the years. (2/n)
I'm #losingmydad. skip over this toot if you don't want to get sad about it with me. 🥀🧵
it sucks, it sucks a lot. he's been fighting a blood disease called myelodysplastic syndrome which is a scientific way of saying "not cancer _yet._"
it is now full blown acute myeloid leukemia. he has weeks to live.
the part about this that sucks the most is how the final chapter of his life is being stolen from me. he has this disease bc he served as an Airman during Vietnam fueling bomber planes. (1/?)
Ok this is 4/? of this🧵... today's teacup tempest is whether or not Dad's palliative care treatment plan includes blood transfusions when his hemo goes <7. He's getting transferred to the Martinez VA CREC today. He called me this am upset, is the liter he received yesterday his last? Mom has already been in contact with the CREC doc so she's dispatched to ask. I want his hospice to be at home but qualification for the VA to pay burial costs etc. is more difficult that way. Whew 😮💨 #losingmydad
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