hag island 4eva

[wordybee]

“There are three things you must ask yourself before you say anything…”

[circe-rising]

A reminder.

ETA: Actually takes on a whole new meaning today 11/5/24.

So the answer is yes.

[circe-rising]

My porch. My garage. And likely the soil.

[circe-rising]

I just won't ever get over the fact that we moved into this house built in 1890 with very wee children and didn't test then.

The house itself has vinyl siding. So I know I didn't worry about that. Everything else had been painted over (and over again evidently) and of course the property disclosure on lead being present is always "unknown."

I think we just figured that decades of latex repaints would suffice? Or we just had so much else to focus on? Or that we rarely use the porch and our children don't eat paint chips? But the invisible microscopic dust from this stuff is no joke.

I will never forget how horrified I am right now to know I've been exposing my entire family to lead poisoning for the last 9 years.

[circe-rising]

My porch. My garage. And likely the soil.

[theroyalgardens]

Great Chalfield Manor, Wiltshire, England

[nudityandnerdery]

Just off the top of your head, don't need to try and look it up to check out anything:

Can you name a web search engine that you used before Google?

Yes

No

Don't know/just want to see the results

Remaining time: 3 hours 21 minutes

The book I'm reading suggests that Google became so market dominant that most people couldn't name a search engine that came before it, so I'm curious.

[neitherducknorpenguin]

Altavista

[akamuffintop]

[circe-rising]

I was thinking was it yahoo? And then @akamuffintop reminded me we all used to have a white butler.

[64mpg]

probably feels good as fuck to retain imformation

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

After "Political Terrorism" Summit, U.S. Names 43 Americans + Groups

Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union

“Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history — from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses — can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence,” the report says.

As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit. It names people like Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame), Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass, media figures like Amy Goodman and Hasan Piker, and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Amazon Labor Union.

The implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the “blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions” of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.

The 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” was released this morning.

[circe-rising]

Hmm.

Huh.

None of this makes sense, of course. In particular the bit where he denounces his own heritage.

[theonion]

Saying the nation had enjoyed a perfectly adequate amount of dribbling, passing, and loud chanting, a new report published Tuesday confirmed that was enough soccer for now. “Welp, that was fun, but we’ve got our fill,” the report read in part, adding that after a couple weeks of watching men from places like Italy, Bulgaria, or wherever kick the ball back and forth, Americans were ready to thank everyone involved and move on to something else.

Full Story

[circe-rising]

Guys (n), if you're watching the game on Fox, first - don't. Second, even if you're on Telemundo, the picture quality is shit. It's being compressed. After messing around with the settings, I found on my (Roku) display settings it was better by turning auto-smoothing off and changing the picture to Vivid. Just in case anyone else is experiencing this.

[circe-rising]

Look, Oreos are delicious (I'm talking to you, too, Hydrox). Yes. And I hate frosting but I still love 'em.

All I'm saying is that if I had a box of just the cookie part my blood sugar would be in trouble.

[circe-rising]

Same, girl, same.

[catharticscream]

Remember in 2010 when Taio Cruz said "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes"? I appreciated his restraint. You can't just throw your hands up in the air whenever. There's a time and a place, and that time was 2010, and the place was the club.

[onceuponawhine]

if you were supreme ruler which would you institute

Permanent daylight savings

Permanent standard time

Keep the status quo (clock changes twice a year or your state's exception)

Nuance /results

Voting ended onJul 23

[hopefulmisanthrope]

Before you vote, do the math on what sunrise/sunset would be in your city on June 21st without DST and on December 21st with permanent DST.

[circe-rising]

@canwestopforrocks could you please weigh in?

[torpublishinggroup]

summertime is here

get in losers we're reading

crush those tbrs

[yesornopolls]

is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJul 21

[circe-rising]

Mick Jagger is not happy.

[circe-rising]

I'm sweating parenthood bullets right now.

And I know this is going to make me sound like I indulge my kid's moods and tiptoe around her emotions. Stay with me.

My daughter is incredibly intelligent and endlessly interesting. Everyone who meets her ends up laughing in genuine amazement at the things she says and understands. I call her an old soul because sometimes she has the wisdom of a grandma.

(She also happens to be riding the emotional rollercoaster of puberty.)

Lately she's had some disappointing results in activities she loves. We think she'd do better if she pushed herself more (duh), but any encouragement to try harder makes her shut down. She gets frustrated, angry, and then... doesn't try harder. I gentle parent the shit out of the situations, even if she takes it out on me. I also have told her to buck up numerous times but that makes her cry and then my heart breaks either way. I think I have coddled her and also have lost control of my frustration. Let's say I have a hard time knowing which way to go with her. She's a bit mercurial.

So she's been doing theater for years and absolutely loves it. Most of the time she's in the ensemble, which is normal. When she was younger she landed a couple of lead roles, but once the productions combine age groups, the leads almost always go to the older teens. That makes perfect sense. Occasionally a younger kid with exceptional talent gets a featured role.

Here's the rub.

Her best friend recently joined the troupe. He's one of those kids who can pick up any instrument and just play. He can also sing. Like... really sing.

In their last show, he and another friend got the leads. She tried to be happy for him, but she was so disappointed she almost didn't want to do the show at all. We talked it through every possible way. Her therapist didn't get much traction either.

Now I'm paying through the nose for this summer theater camp. And of course her best friend signed up too—because he genuinely loves it, and he should.

The cast list came out tonight.

He got another leading role. As a young kid. Pretty big deal.

I haven't shown her the list yet, and all I want is for her to shrug, smile, and get to the part where she remembers she loves being on stage.

But the drama of this...

...pun fully intended.