Notices by Ginny Bee (fixiemama@mastodon.social)

@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/

_Oh rascal children of Gaza._
You who constantly disturbed me
with your screams under my window.
You who filled every morning
with rush and chaos.
You who broke my vase
and stole the lonely flower from my balcony.
Come back,
and scream all you want
and break all the vases.
Steal all the flowers.
Come back.
Just come back...

-Khaled Juma, Poet, 2014

Everyone. Please, watch this, and if you're in the U.S. call your Representative's office to demand a full ceasefire, now. The strategy of targeting Palestinian children has been a tragedy of the Israeli occupation of Palestine for much longer than since Oct. 7th. It is a genocide. It has been a genocide, slowly but steadily, for far too long and we in the U.S. are complicit.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2hGnsprHVI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

THEY'RE BOMBING THE HOSPITALS

BOMBING ALL THE MOSQUES

LAUGHING ABOUT IT YOU FUCKING PSYCHOS

WILL YOU STOP WHEN YOU REACH 20,000 CHILDREN DEAD

It's a fucking genocide, they're being exterminated! What are we doing🇺🇸? Blind eye. Paying for it! 💸💸💸 And what can I do? Vote. Cry. Protest.

@potus How can I vote for you? How can I not vote for you? I'm begging you, make them stop! How many dead children is enough? Full ceasefire now!!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

#freepslestine #fromtherivertothesea #ceasefirenow

I have a feeling this will bum me out way too much for a morning watch. Saving it for later… https://social.dino.icu/@reesericci/112456774500488468

I’m heartsick knowing what’s going on in Rafah right now.

#freepalestine

@WarnerCrocker Just a note on content, video discusses suicide.

I remember talking about Mr. Wannabedictator in 2015 w/someone who loved "The Apprentice" and they were all, "But he's a successful businessman!" and I said "No he's not! 11 bankruptcies?! Just abt every business he's ever owned went belly up v spectacularly?! He's famous for not paying any of the people who do contract work for him!?" but I think it fell on deaf ears. Amazing how powerful the sheen of popularity can be.

@firetotheprisons Bless you. This rings so true for me. It's a relief at least to have more clarity of purpose in fighting against them (even if all I'm doing is calling my US representative's office every day to beg her to push for a ceasefire).

@MediaActivist Aww 🇵🇸🙏🏼-- funny thing is, that was in a women's room at a bar, I think I took that picture in like 2016. And I used it for my Masto banner on a whim, way back in the spring when I started to make the jump from T.A.F.K.A.T.! Now it's very apropos. Just so happens!