I’m an empty-nester getting back to the stuff I love: art, writing, photography, design. Here to learn things, have great conversations, and to experience opinions/positions that might not always match my own. Oh, & hopefully laugh at funny stuff too, because a good belly laugh cures a lot of ills.
01:10 PM - Feb 08, 2023
Great article. As I deal with my own menopausal hurdles, I continue to be just plain blown away by the way the medical community has ignored this phase of life for so long. #WomenDeserveBetter
12:50 AM - May 01, 2024
In response to Woke/Saying NO to polls.
A big difference between bear and men is they won't bother us if we don't bother them. Bear don't seek you out. They just want to go on their way being bears.
01:00 PM - Apr 29, 2024
A great collection of videos that breakdown the debate…
A note to add: it’s really sad we even have to have this debate. #WomenDeserveBetter
A note to add: it’s really sad we even have to have this debate. #WomenDeserveBetter
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Kayla 🌱 🥋 F 🤿 🦈 @MarineBioKaylaOk, Man v Bear Videos. I have some from women, and some from men. Some women ask the guys in their lives about their daughters.01:27 AM - Apr 29, 2024
I will be adding more, but it's almost bedtime tonight. So keep checking back to this thread.
07:53 AM - Apr 29, 2024
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Exactly. Any other way is wrong. IYKYK 😂
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Curtis Johnson @CurtisJJohnson1Whenever I make a sandwich, I take out two slices of bread and lay them down as if they were two facing pages in a book so that when completed, they fit back together perfectly.10:48 PM - Apr 28, 2024
11:12 PM - Apr 28, 2024
If you’re a movie buff (theater or streaming), this article is worth bookmarking. Seriously comprehensive. (Personally, I can’t wait for Inside Out 2!)
apnews.com
Summer Movie Guide 2024: All the films coming to theaters and streaming | AP News
Are you ready for some movies this summer? There’s action-adventure, romance, horror, franchises and anniversary re-releases of some of your favorites populating theaters and streaming services from May through Labor Day.
10:12 PM - Apr 28, 2024
Another problem that the article doesn’t mention is that not all practices pass on the increased profits to their employees. The company makes a ton, but receptionists who have been with the practice for years barely make a living wage. So it’s a problem on a multiple fronts…
10:56 AM - Apr 28, 2024
If the by product of your protest for “peace” “ceasefire” is hate, reflect on what kind of protests you're involved in. If one of the side effects of your protests is a rise in both antisemitism and islamophobia, again question yourself as to what you are taking part in.
10:27 AM - Apr 27, 2024
Ignoring the typo (it should be “jumps,” otherwise the S is missing), this is completely true…
09:40 AM - Apr 28, 2024
It’s always important to exercise your right to vote, but it’s beyond critical this go around, especially for women…
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MEAction NOW @MEActNOWBrian Tyler Cohen:
Samuel Alito is 74. Clarence Thomas is 75. Roberts and Sotomayor are 69. The next president may very well nominate replacements for multiple (if not all!) of these justices. If Trump is president, the Supreme Court is gone for the rest of our lifetimes.07:28 PM - Apr 25, 2024![Picture]()
12:18 PM - Apr 26, 2024
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Not every Evangelical buys FP45's bullshit, but we need more of those who don't to speak out about it.👇️
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Bad Hombre Resistor @BetaRayBobHow about that? An evangelical pastor actually worth a damn. Didn't expect that.11:50 AM - Apr 26, 2024
11:52 AM - Apr 26, 2024
This. ❤️
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Pamela NRed @PamelaNRedStrong women do not have attitudes;11:25 AM - Apr 26, 2024
They have standards and boundaries.
Don’t confuse the two.
12:07 PM - Apr 26, 2024
One Thing We Need to All Stop Doing - Tiny Buddha
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One Thing We Need to All Stop Doing - Tiny Buddha
"If there’s one thing we all need to stop doing, it’s waiting around for someone else to show up and change our lives. Just be the person you’ve been waiting for. Live your life as if you are the love of it. Because that’s the only thing you know for sure—that through every triumph, every failu..
09:13 AM - Apr 26, 2024
I was recently considering downloading “The Muppet Movie” soundtrack, because honestly there are a lot of good songs on there. But this one is definitely a favorite (and forever a tear jerker).
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ecsbrooklyn @ecsbrooklynAnd another. This one. I love it, and I can't sing it because I start to cry. Kermit. 💚10:46 PM - Apr 25, 2024![Video]()
A Special Performance of "Rainbow Connection" from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets - YouTube
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11:32 PM - Apr 25, 2024
If you have an account on POST NEWS, please extend an invitation to Spoutible. To the Spoutible helpers, expect new accounts to ask questions. We are here with open arms.
10:22 AM - Apr 19, 2024
4 Threaded Spouts
From Dan Rather and Team Steady’s April 18th Substack:
“The tired old argument that women’s sports in general and basketball, in particular, don’t generate the same viewership or excitement as men’s, has finally been busted wide open.”
“The tired old argument that women’s sports in general and basketball, in particular, don’t generate the same viewership or excitement as men’s, has finally been busted wide open.”
10:24 PM - Apr 18, 2024
Things my kids probably already know, but I’m still catching up on. (Sharing for those who find themselves in the same boat, so like me, you can avoid your kids’ inevitable eye rolls…)
https://wapo.st/446g498
https://wapo.st/446g498
01:31 PM - Apr 18, 2024
What a beauty?!!! This has to be the official picture of spring.
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Debbie Blair @djblair5I am going to #skirt the rules and post this photo of my favorite bird in a blooming redbud tree. Also posting late! #dailypicturetheme Follow @DailyPictureTheme09:47 PM - Apr 16, 2024![Male Eastern Bluebird in a blooming redbud tree. Bird is blue with orange breast and white tummy. Tree is magenta flowers]()
10:52 PM - Apr 16, 2024
In response to Ground Control.
All of us need to vote like our lives depend on it..
Because they do!! 🗳️💙
We need to vote in numbers too large to question..
Because they will 👁️👁️
Because they do!! 🗳️💙
We need to vote in numbers too large to question..
Because they will 👁️👁️
10:41 PM - Apr 16, 2024
2 Threaded Spouts
Great news for this particular trans athlete, who’s been participating as a female since elementary school. But the law is still enforceable otherwise, unfortunately, so other trans athletes can’t currently benefit from this ruling. (Hopefully this will serve as precedence down the road.)
03:40 PM - Apr 16, 2024
“He feels he has changed enough to fill this role — that being her voice can help other parents and kids avoid what his family endured. “Our kids,” he says, “are dying.” He thinks that because of where he came from, maybe people will listen when he raises alarms. Maybe.”
10:10 AM - Apr 13, 2024
I didn’t see this when it was originally posted, but it’s a punch in the gut even today…
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OriginalSinner @OriginalSinnerI literally started crying when I realized what this actually meant.
We can't keep living like this.
#ItsTheGuns11:09 PM - May 07, 2023![Picture]()
05:55 PM - Apr 11, 2024
Another reason why I’m leery of AI. But this isn’t just an issue about the abuse of AI. It’s also yet another example of where we have to do better teaching boys to respect girls.
08:22 PM - Apr 10, 2024
In response to Professor Kyle.
We can have a legit discussion about the COST of higher ed. Where I strenuously disagree is when people devalue the learning -- b/c broad knowledge, critical thinking, and just learning stuff should ALWAYS be valued in every society.
07:49 PM - Apr 09, 2024
Such an important perspective. Well worth several minutes of your day.
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Susan A. Kitchens @susan“Hello, my name is Julie Cordero. I’m working on my PhD…I’d like to talk about the European Catholic and Protestant Christian religious diaspora in the United States, as these are the traditions that have had by far the greatest impact on…indigenous inhabitants of this land…”
https://bit.ly/4as6XSm12:01 PM - Apr 09, 2024![Julia Cordero-Lamb
June 5, 2020
(facebook post)
I want to tell a story about an invisible elephant.
Once upon a time, when I was in graduate school at UCSB, the department of religious studies held a symposium on diasporic religious communities in the United States. Our working definition for religious diaspora that day was, “religious groups from elsewhere now residing as large, cohesive communities in the US.” It was a round table symposium, so any current scholar at the UC who wanted to speak could have a seat at the table. A hunch based on hundreds of years of solid evidence compelled me to show up, in my Badass Academic Indigenous Warrior Auntie finery.
There were around 15-20 scholars at the table, and the audience was maybe fifty people. There was one Black scholar at the table, and two Latinx scholars, one of whom was one of my dissertation advisors. The other was a visiting scholar from Florida, who spoke about the diasporic Santería community in Miami.]()
![But everyone else at the table were white scholars, all progressively liberal in their politics, many of whom were my friends. Since there was no pre-written agenda, I listened until everyone else had presented. I learned a tremendous amount about the Jewish diaspora in the US, and about the Yoruba/Orisha/Voudou, Tibetan Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu communities, and even about a small enclave of Zoroastrians.
As they went on, I realized my hunch had been correct, and I listened to them ignore the elephant, invisible & silent, at that table.
So I decided to help her speak the hell up. “Hello, my name is Julie Cordero. I’m working on my PhD in Ethnobotany, Native American Religious Traditions, and history of global medical traditions. I’d like to talk about the European Catholic and Protestant Christian religious diaspora in the United States, as these are the traditions that have had by far the greatest impact on both the converted & non-converted indigenous inhabitants of this land.”]()
![Total silence. And then several “hot damns” from students and colleagues in the audience. I looked around the table at all the confused white faces. My Latinx advisor slapped his hand on the table and said, “Right!!?? Let’s talk about that, colleagues.”
The Black scholar, who was sitting next to me, started softly laughing. As I went on, detailing the myriad denominations of this European Christian Diaspora, including the Catholic diocese in which I’d been raised and educated, and the brutal and genocidal Catholic and Protestant boarding schools that had horribly traumatized generations of First Nations children, and especially as I touched on how Christians had twisted the message of Christ to try and force people stolen from Africa to accept that their biblically-ordained role was to serve the White Race, her laughs grew more and more bitter.]()
![The Religious Studies department chair, who’d given a brilliant talk on the interplay between Jewish and Muslim communities in Michigan, stopped me at one point, and said, “Julie, I see the point you are so eloquently making, but you’re discussing American religions, not religious diasporic communities.” I referred to the definition of diaspora we had discussed at the start of the discussion, and then said, “No, Clark. If I were here to discuss religions that were not from elsewhere, I’d be discussing the Choctaw Green Corn ceremony, the Karuk Brush Dance, the Big Head ceremonial complex in Northern California, the Lakota Sun Dance, or the Chumash and Tongva Chingichnich ritual complex.”
It got a bit heated for a few moments, as several scholars-without-a-damn-clue tried to argue that we were here to discuss CURRENT religious traditions, not ancient.]()
![Well. I’ll let you use your imagination as to the response from the POC present, which was vigorously backed by the three young First Nations students who were present in the audience (all of whom practice their CURRENT ceremonial traditions). It got the kind of ugly that only happens with people whose self-perception is that they, as liberal scholars of world cultures with lots of POC friends and colleagues, couldn’t possibly be racist.
Our Black colleague stood and left without a word. I very nearly did. But I stayed because of my Auntie role to the Native students in the audience.
I looked around at that circle of hostile faces, and waited for one single white scholar to see how unbelievably racist was this discursive erasure of entire peoples - including my people, on whose homeland UCSB is situated.
Finally, a friend spoke up. “If we are going to adhere to the definition of diaspora outlined here, she is technically correct.”]()
![And then my dear friend, a white scholar of Buddhism: “In Buddhist tradition, the Second Form of Ignorance is the superimposition of that which is false over that which is true. In this case, all of us white scholars are assuming that every people but white Americans are ‘other,’ and that we have no culture, when the underlying fact is that our culture is so dominant that we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking it’s the neutral state of human culture against which all others are foreign. Even the Black people our ancestors abducted and enslaved we treat as somehow more foreign than ourselves. And, most absurdly, the peoples who are indigenous to this land are told that we belong here more than they do.”
People stared at their hands and doodled. The audience was dead quiet.
And you know what happened then? The elephant was no longer invisible, and my colleagues and I were able to have a conversation based on the truths about colonialism and diaspora.]()
![We were THEN able to name and discuss the distinctions between colonial settlements and immigrant settlements, and how colonial religious projects have sought to overtake, control, and own land, people, and resources, while immigrant and especially refugee diasporic communities simply seek a home free from persecution.
As we continue this national discussion, it is absolutely key to never, ever let that elephant be invisible or silent. You are on Native Land. Black descendants of human beings abducted from their African homelands are not immigrants. European cultures are just human cultures, among many. And the assignation of moral, cultural, racial superiority of European world views over all non-Euro human cultures is a profound delusion, one that continues to threaten and exterminate all people who oppose it, and even nature itself.
I hope that this story has comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable.]()
01:23 PM - Apr 09, 2024
The k̶i̶d̶s̶ no longer kids are alright.
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Carole Tyler @CaroleTyler"A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights."09:43 AM - Apr 09, 2024
11:57 AM - Apr 09, 2024
100%. I fully admit the advances it could bring to medicine are awesome, but journalism & creative fields are both at risk for serious abuse by AI capabilities. If the “Grab ‘em by the p____” video came out today, Trump would be screaming it was fake & we wouldn’t know for sure ourselves…
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Christopher Bouzy @cbouzyAlthough AI technology is amazing, we need new laws to prevent the widespread misuse before it is too late.11:38 AM - Apr 09, 2024
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