🤬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
So my kid’s Yoto audio player had a voluntary recall due to the battery overheating in some devices—not ours. Their solution is a “smart charging cable” (went from usb-c to a proprietary cable) so we got our “smart cable” and now the device battery capacity has been cut in half. The company has a 2 yr replacement policy of equal or greater value. I don’t want to throw a stink about the cable but I also do because we didn’t have any problems with this device until we got it.
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#FUNFACT - This is how effective thoughts and prayers are against bullets.
The day I stop hanging my bras and cardigans on the dresser drawer knob will be the day my husband actually shuts the closet door.
That’s never.
For me, it was Bridge to Terebithia. That book fractured my very soul.
What was the first #book you remember crying over?
6 year old was having an #asthma flare up. Hubs is prepping for a diagnostic procedure and is indisposed. Hot damn is it hard to wrestle a passed out 6yo into a position to administer her inhaler. 💦
But she’s good now. No more hacking. Glad my efforts came to the desired fruition.
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@MotherDucker It's a feature, not a bug. They want to deputize teachers to rule by fear, like they do the cops in that and other contexts. Obey authority or get shot, no appeals. They may say "no exceptions," but we all know whose kids are going to get deference.
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"As a feminist, organized religion holds no appeal for me. Men are not superior to women. Many religions promote this idea and I reject it. I see it as a problem interfering with social progress. The recent uptick in religious law being used in secular lawmaking as a way to keep patriarchy and certain forms of bigotry alive is particularly disturbing."
https://samuel-warde.com/2016/04/organized-religion-turns-off/
Even rumors of a gun carried by a teacher could mentally terrorize students. It shifts the balance of power even further out of a child’s control. So when a coach makes suggestive comments, do you think that student will feel comfortable reporting it when there are rumors that Mr. Gym Coach has a gun?
Oh but that could never/has never happened before, right, TN?
It’s difficult enough for many parents, not knowing if their child’s teacher is a good human who should be in a classroom full of children. This is a slippery fucking slope that could go devastatingly wrong a million times over the possible one time it could go right—if you call shooting dead someone in crisis right.
We’ve all become desensitized to acts of horror, violence and terror… but we have got to do better and not become used to it. Nothing about this is normal.
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Unimaginably foolish plan
It’s a removal of the need for humanity and empathy for students in crisis. Because you KNOW that when two hormonal teenagers start brawling in the hall that gun is coming out instead of de-escalation training.
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We're becoming inured to the problems flooding the country with firearms creates. They might as well just build more level 1 trauma centers.
Or you’re providing a weapon to a kid looking to kill himself or shoot up a classroom without him having to worry about how he will get into the school with a weapon.
All it takes is one TN teacher “feeling threatened” by a student before you have a whole classroom full of hostages. This is literally putting the fucking poison in the water.
Because we haven’t seen enough instances of American workers snapping under pressure. So yeah, sure, let’s let TN teachers have concealed weapons. What the actual fuck is happening in this lifetime?
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Shoutout to my eldest, child-less by choice, sister who lets my kid FaceTime her and talk for hours so I can have a mental break. If there were auntie awards, she would win by a mile.
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Apparently,
when the zookeeper said
“meerkats can catch viruses
like COVID and the flu”
the visitors happily put on masks
to help protect them,
so now you know
that if you want your friends
and family and coworkers
to wear a mask to protect you
all you need to do
is be a meerkat.
So annoyed. Went to lunch. With 10 min left on my lunch break, there’s a rapid response then a code called on my unit. So I dump my lunch and run. Because that’s the rule.
Turns out, it’s a mock code. This is why I would rather work the damn weekend.
🤬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