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Adventures in #parenting. Migraine & chronic pain warrior. Lover of #birbs. Aghast onlooker of the daily global horror show. #Feminist. Occasional #politics.
Joined Apr 2022
@CarmenSlamdiego this is the answer I needed! Thank you 🙏🏻
@Tacitus_Kilgore you matter. Don’t step off it. Please.
The number of wearable jeans in my pants drawer is dwindling to critical. I feel like I am moments away from having to do daily laundry or needing to invest in expandable pants. Target today had literally nothing. Wasn’t ready for that to hit so hard so fast. 😳
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@MotherDucker From the POV of a meteorologist: The practice of putting reporters/meteorologists in the worst of the storm is dangerous grandstanding.
With the highest winds, you can't even stand up straight, nor can you be heard through your microphone, ultimately making the effort
useless.
Somewhere, sometime someone is going to get impaled or worse on live TV and the collective managers behind the scene will shrug their shoulders and move on to the next Live In The Storm report.
Getting my babe ready for school then getting myself out the door and back to #physicaltherapy for this crappy old c-spine. Gotta get it back into working order despite all its manufacturer defects.
@LnzyHou they sure do! I hope they have good benefits for AD&D.
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@MotherDucker Yep, scheduling both of mine today. Schools are petri dishes.
I'll probably get flattened by one or both but it's MUCH better than getting perma-flattened by either illness.
@GrandmaJ I’m pretty sure we all do. 😳But this one feels different. 😬
I’d better not be seeing any poor meteorologists being killed on live tv covering #Milton. The news outlets could set up some GoPro cameras and flee. This is some Day after Tomorrow stuff.
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@stueytheround good luck. It’s a good job, always in demand.
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Repair instead of throwing away. What was normal in the past is now out of fashion. The whole thing has become a problem. More and more smartphones, laptops and televisions are ending up in the bin and causing environmental problems. There is hardly any recycling. New devices produce large amounts of CO2 during production. That is why some countries in the EU are trying to encourage people to repair their household appliances with a repair bonus.
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We need to stop using so much fucking plastic.
Period. No ifs, ands, or buts.
There are other materials capable of performing the same roles plastic does in most applications.
They may be more expensive, and they may not function quite as well, but they won't infest our bodies (and the bodies of our children) with microplastics, and they won't devastate our land with horrific plastic pollution that can persist for many thousands of years & is nearly impossible to truly remediate.
@IrelandTorin my husband and I rage against this almost daily. We’ve been struggling to go plastic-free for about 6 years now, hoping that our child is a little less plastic contaminated than her peers but it’s actually almost impossible to do even on a fairly decent budget. The ubiquitous and sometimes redundant plastic food packaging at the grocery store is where we are thwarted every time.
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It makes me angry when people defend the use of plastic in applications like packaging with "we can't use other materials, it'd increase transportation costs/energy use"...
Cost/energy use are not the only consideration.
Babies are being born with brains full of microplastics (all their tissues are affected). EVERYONE's tissues, brains included, are full of microplastics. That issue - human health - MUST take priority.
The health impacts are serious, and occurring on a societal level.
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@MotherDucker Reminds me of the damage to pharmaceutical manufacturing when the hurricane hit PR. They're were 50 manufacturing plants taking advantage of the lower wages on the island. Why do we allow critical resources to be concentrated like this?
@Windyla77 you love to see it.
I got my flu shot yesterday at work (#healthcareworkers) and it mopped the damn floor with me. But you better believe I’ll do it all again in a couple of weeks with the Covid booster. Then in some months with that maternal RSV vax. Woke up feeling much better after a half dose of Tylenol and sleeping with my neck on an ice pack.
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@MotherDucker @corlin
More proof that monopolies need to be broken up...
🤬MotherTurducken🦃🦆🐓
Adventures in #parenting. Migraine & chronic pain warrior. Lover of #birbs. Aghast onlooker of the daily global horror show. #Feminist. Occasional #politics.
Joined Apr 2022