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My kid. Take him to the park so he can find recycling to play with. 🤷‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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Every day gratitude

Not a day goes by that I am not so happy to work at my institution. It is so much more functional than my last one. The infrastructure to support faculty is what it should be. As a result, we can serve student so much better. My last job was an exercise in slow death.

I have been hard at work taking this (not very helpful) online class about online teaching. We have to do a pretend lesson, so mine is about two core concepts in linguistic anthro taught via a discussion (and ultimately creation) of memes.

Thanks to @kmtam who already HAD a whole meme lesson he shared with me!

So, I started my lesson making my own meme (top) -- and of course I had no idea who “woman yelling at cat” was, but I knew I liked cats, so I started there. Turns out, it is a very dark back story to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member who is “woman yelling” -- BUT, also turns out that the supply of iterations of woman yelling at cat is near endless, so that’s where my day has gone.

PS The cat’s name is Smudge FYI.

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I want to join the organization please help me

So here’s what you really need to know about antifa: 1) if by “organization” you mean the Antifa International social media collective whose blog you’re reading right now - we’re not actually taking on new members right now, but thank you for your interest. 2) but maybe you meant “the Antifa organization?” THERE IS NO SUCH ORGANIZATION!!! Antifa - short for “anti-fascism” is both a political perspective (in opposition to fascism) and a movement. There are groups within that movement, some of which maybe you can join, but there is no overarching, Official Antifa. Although we admit that the existence of the Antifa World HQ building seems to contradict this.

3) If you’re looking to find the antifa crew nearest you OR TO START YOUR OWN MAYBE here is the best advice & tips we can offer you. But before you do that - and please take this in the way it is intended - we would strongly advise you to do some quality reading about antifa, because if you did think it was an organization, you can’t know enough about it to be ready to “join.” We would suggest reading through our archive or picking up a copy of Mark Bray’s Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook or watching this Philosophy Tube video 4) Anyone who is a) opposed to fascism and b) willing to stand up and do something about it is antifa. That’s it. So if that’s you YOU’RE ALREADY ANTIFA, FRIEND!

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VARIOUS LOCATIONS AROUND THE WORLD - Following President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States is designating ANTIFA as a terrorist organization, the loosely connected individuals around the world involved in the movement to oppose fascism were surprised to discover that they are in fact all one big organization.

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Media switching

The Tall Man quit facebook some time ago. Now when his parents see something they think he will like, they post it to my wall or inbox me saying “show this to D”. I want him to explain to them that there are other ways sending what they see on Facebook to him, but I don’t want to seem rude. I also feel like I have to show him what they send, but he NEVER cares. There passing on of gags is likely at an all time high due to quarantine, but sheesh.

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wrong they’re all garbage. read the ingredients ! gross!!

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These American cookies! They don’t even have the classic sleeve of vanilla, sleeve of chocolate that I spent most of my youth hustling. Tall Man tries to defend this and boast about choice in the USA — but why have so many yucky cookies when you could have one decent selection!?

Complaining about the baby.

Last week was a little rough.

I called my fertility clinic to discuss #2. My longtime followers know that when Instaryed this project I underwent IVF with a known donor. We made two embryos which I froze. In the time it took to do that I met the Tall Man and put things on hold with the frozens. The time to go back to those two is now.

I switched clinics for my successful transfer and brought those two embryos as well as the pair that turned into 🦔. On the phone with the new clinic I learned that of the two remaining embryos I have, only one is good. The other, in there opinion, should never have been frozen.

My last clinic never told me this. I have spent five years believing I have two healthy embryos. I will say embryo grading is not a great science by any means, but this second one really isn’t where it should be. I was completely caught off guard. I assumed I had two chances. Now I have one. I feel as anxious and shitty as I did before baby. I’m right back to feeling filled with fear and like I’m a failure.

Babies don’t cure infertility trauma it seems.

I am back on the fiction train!

Almost done this one which I have enjoyed. It was recommended by a friend and I intentionally don’t read about books before starting them. With this one, if it had been described to me I would have surely dismissed it. Very eager to see how it ends.

I listen to audio books as I do the very repetitive tasks involved in being a mother to a 10 month old.

Selfies in different parts of the house — well

This is the same room in parts. Kid part and grown up part. When the kid is awake thé boundary crumbles and everything is everywhere and I can’t do anything about that.