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Should I clean my teenager's room for him

Teenage son vaping in bedroom.

Should I was my teenager's laundry? I stopped because he wouldn't even put it away but I know he would be happier if he had clean clothes. But also even getting him to put it away is a struggle. I'm the other hand, he clearly has mental health issues that are bigger than just ADHD. So maybe we're asking to much?

I don't know.

bitchesgetriches

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Delicious. We love to see it.

tobaeus

@ralfmaximus

ralfmaximus

Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.

I love stories like this.

tacofriend

Get peer reviewed!

lierdumoa

moosepower

And then I have a colleague who I already kind of beef with (just a little, not a lot; I need to figure out how to let go of that) and they are annoyed about not being able to use Claude CoWork everywhere and on everything. And I'm tired.

localpubliclibrary

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

#scrambled eggs with some greens and cheese #and toast #or homemade granola #I alternate.

localpubliclibrary

If I ask nicely will people reblog this and tell me what their most common breakfast is? Not your favorite necessarily, just what you have for breakfast most frequently? 🙏🏽

moosepower

Honestly. I just don't want to have to work at all anymore.

I'm not good at my job and I'm not a good parent and I just hate all of it.

moosepower

I just growled and slammed a lot of doors because my kid didn't want to go toss his burnt egg in the compost outside. He wanted to do it tomorrow morning. But he won't do it tomorrow.

Now I feel like a shit.

But also I'm tired because I spent half the day trying to get us some kind of wrap services because we are coming apart at the seams and I hate it here. I can't really see wrap services helping but I also just feel like we're avoiding any kind of conflict.

Honestly. I just don't want to have to work at all anymore.

I'm not good at my job and I'm not a good parent and I just hate all of it.

imissthembutitwasntadisaster

I hope I'm not just a mutual to you, but someone you want to bring up in irl conversation so you have to awkwardly and cryptically say "my friend..." and refuse to elaborate on my origins or the origins of our friendships

redwoodmagpie

Me often.

bluesmomsadclub

@redwoodmagpie this was me bringing you up just today as my source on cool Arnold things!!!!

moosepower

That time that @on-the-precipice had to explain that James a) isn't named James; b) doesn't know that she calls him James; c) thinks we had met IRL before I came to stay with them. We had not.

I can smell the vapes in his room. It's just nasty.

We have to paint our house.

I'd like to move on from the lemon yellow, but we need to keep the red windows. I like the idea of blue or green as a main color but I don't want to much American Flag vibes or Christmas Tree vibes.

Where should I be looking at color combos?

tearsofrefugees

Two Utah court clerks have been dubbed "anti-ICE vigilantes" after they were allegedly caught "sneaking" immigrants out the back door of the

antifainternational

That's how you show real solidarity!

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!

moosepower

Now is a good time for everyone to start reading up on jury nullification.

So was yesterday, tbh. As is tomorrow.

When we got Meeko, the shelter was getting ready to move him to a rescue in the country. He had been at Animal Control for a month and hadn’t been adopted and big dogs are always harder to adopt in the city (we do not actually live in a city; I can walk to coffee shops and stuff but I can also walk all the way around my single story detached home, so “city” is a stretch but that’s not the point) They regularly transfer dogs out to rescues if they don’t get adopted quickly.

This week a story broke about a rescue north of us, a no-kill rescue that local Animal Control had been sending dogs to. There are hundreds of dogs that they claim they adopted out but can’t say to whom. They were just executing dogs. Hundreds of them.

I don’t know for sure that that’s where Meeko was headed but he could easily have gone there. I can’t even wrap my head around it. Was one guy doing this all on his own? Or was there a staff that knew what was going on?

This kid told me today that he doesn’t want to live like us. That our lives are boring and he doesn’t want this.

Which I already knew. He’s 17. I’m 50. And tbh when I was 21 I was a homebody and I wanted to take a pot of tea to my stoop and write letters.

But I would like a parenting gold star because I didn’t say “you dumb fuck. We could have been camping and surfing in Santa Barbara all week but you made such a show of not coming out of your tent for two days straight and asking if we could go home yet that we decided to go home. I would have loved to stay. I would love to spend the winter skiing every weekend but you refuse to go. I would love to have friends over but you make such a scene about the intrusion that I feel like I can’t.”

I don’t blame him for any of it (okay, i do a little) but I definitely find it rich when he says my life is boring.

Anyway.

On a call today I half apologized for wearing a bright orange boiler suit and a multi colored scarf that I bought at a craft fair last weekend.

I was just like "sorry, but I've been wearing louder outfits and every damn time women stop me in the street to say I look good so you can expect a lot more loud fits from me."

And someone was like "you do have amazing earrings. I was kind of jealous of the ones you were wearing last week"

Those were the earrings I worried were too much.

Also I'm reading this book, Never Search Alone and doing and professional soul searching. I'll get there.

Maybe this is the point of a support group, maybe it is not.

But a friend in my moms+substance abuse group is dealing with a kid who is spiraling on meth and not sure what to do.

My kid refuses to go to the dentist. He threw a fit over his last appointment because he doesn't like the clinic near us (it needs a refresh; there's another clinic in the same network that's like 20 min away vs 5 minutes, the farther clinic just got a big redesign and it is definitely more attractive). He flatly refused to go.

I sat with it a while, talked to him about it, convinced him that dental care is important, made a new appointment. For noon today.

They confirmed on Friday, I reminded him. He said "okay."

I reminded him again yesterday and suddenly he's concerned that this is his first day at his new job (would have been good info to have Friday; we've been trying to get him to tell us what his schedule is for ages) and he doesn't want to go. Tells me he doesn't need to go to the dentist because he already had braces.

I can let this go. I'm doing my level best to let this go. I hate it, it's ridiculous, but I can't battle with him on this.

And I have reminded myself thrice that if he were spiraling on a meth binge I would be wishing we could fight about going to the dentist.

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Actually, though, I do. This weekend I was walking with N and a woman passing us said "I love your outfit!"

It doesn't happen all the time, but it definitely happens. "The shape of that dress is amazing!" (It was a balloon) Or "that blouse is perfect" (I should wear it more)

#Instagram

jkottke

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.”

moosepower

This.

Even NPR had someone on who was like "hey, if you're going to gamble, remember you should only gamble with money you can afford to lose" and didn't say "It's hella weird that people are lining up to buy stock in a company that is burning money!"

memories-of-ancients

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif

An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.

Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.

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