Notices by Ginger (she/her) (fixiemama@mastodon.social)

no one is talking about the link between the scarcity/price of eggs and bird flu.

am i making stuff up or is this a thing? it seems like it would be a thing??

#sfba
#publichealth

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.

#freepalestine 🙏🏼🕊️🇵🇸

p.s. let the too-good-to-be-true government taking shape in Syria stay true. 🙏🏼🕊️

OK here's the follow up article on the racist Oklahoma cop who threw an old man on the ground and broke his skull.

‘Abuse of power’: OK lawmaker, attorney question AG dismissing assault charge against officer https://www.yahoo.com/news/abuse-power-ok-lawmaker-attorney-121500710.html
https://mastodon.social/@fixiemama/113748301918287752

At least, we bear witness

#freepalestine
#apartheidisrael

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDCgar8K7lV/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

a worthy little diversion -- a Glass Armonica!

https://youtu.be/cVqqNigImtU?si=ybIZY6ws6UV58MMX

Wow. 😳 Super bummed for all those affected.

(the cynic in me says, well at least it wasn't shot down by Russia)

https://youtu.be/NKxrGovEVAg

they knew it was coming, made it worse anyway, and now they're trying to get out of paying for the consequential, catastrophic events. woof
https://mastodon.social/@GOGREENECOWARRIORSS/113482694397389461

@skinnylatte honestly sometimes I feel like the neurotypicals should start trying to learn to be more like us, not the other way around.

@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.

@Bronwyn i think @kingrat is talking dyl about the NorCal Hobbies & Racetrack http://www.norcalhobbies.com/

but there's also a battle bots events company out of San Jose that I've worked with before, https://teamworxteambuilding.com/team-building/battle-robots-2-team-building/ -- it is definitely a blast.

#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/?)

5/n #losingmydad

it happened. he's already gone.

at least, i was with him at the time. ❤️

it was yesterday around 1pm. his heart just finally gave out. it was scary but it was quick and i'm just so damn proud of him. warrior to the end.

i think that's all i've got for now.

Love you Dad. forever. 😭

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

I keep coming back to this, the Jordanian FM Ayman Safadi speaking abt the peace process w/ Israel. He calls out Arab nations in particular but Iran is also one of the members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the group of 57 countries he's referring to.

It's not only that Netanyahu wants to stay in power. It's also all the people who would have to give up their homes to move out of occupied Palestine to make this plan work.

#freepalestine
#apartheidisrael
https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/113225386903213393

Sounds like a very bad time https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/a-patch-microsoft-spent-2-years-preparing-is-making-a-mess-for-some-linux-users/