Bette
Old enough to know better? Left Coast all the way.
Business owner. Mother. GrandMother. Wife. And, failed novelist. Can’t win ‘em all.
#patron ID: 5201
Joined Nov 2017
Bette
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Just a quiet reminder: After 3 years of vigilance against COVID-19, I was caught flat-footed about 10 days ago while visiting a friend undergoing cancer treatment. I thought what could be safer than two old friends who never go anywhere getting together? Bah! We are both on the other side of the illness now. And, thank science - fully vaccinated and antiviral drugs to the rescue.
Just a quiet reminder: After 3 years of vigilance against COVID-19, I was caught flat-footed about 10 days ago while visiting a friend undergoing cancer treatment. I thought what could be safer than two old friends who never go anywhere getting together? Bah! We are both on the other side of the illness now. And, thank science - fully vaccinated and antiviral drugs to the rescue.
I finally did it! Elon told me I had to pay $8 a month to keep my Twit account with 2FA. He can take that idea and shove it. I stopped going there some time ago, but that was really the very last straw. I have pay him to keep my account safe???!!!
@Alfred Can I use Ivory for Counter.Social on my iPad? If so, how do I add my account?
Bette
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Well, that was painful. 🙄
https://youtu.be/zVY0i7-Ryuk
For an astounding retrospective of censorship, racism, bigotry, autocratic and flat out hate, look no further than our own dear USA as we build up to enter WW1. I am reading American Midnight by Adam Hochschild and I cannot sleep at night. This is for everyone who is amused by our current crop of authoritarians on the rise. Yes, it DOES happen here. Past is prologue?
Tyre Nichols’ photographs are soulful, tranquil and beautiful.
https://thiscaliforniakid2.wixsite.com/tnicholsphotography
Such a loss to us all. 💔
So, my main link to Twit madness was a great app Twitterrific. No ads, always kept just the people I was following in my feed. First it could no longer access Twitter on iOS, but that’s okay. Still worked on Mac. Until this morning. No longer authorized!
But all that being said, I come here for the most part and that is fine. I was using Twitterrific to follow those folks who are not on this platform and that I really miss. I WILL NOT use the twitter app itself - deranged, I am not.
Bette
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I wonder if Kevin McCarthy is sick of all the winning yet?
I mean, if he wins any more, he's going be burying an ex wife on a golf course by tomorrow afternoon.
The only thing being accomplished in the House this week is showing millions of Americans that our government is NOT serious. At ALL. Well, at least the GOP is not serious EVER. I am dumfounded by this chicanery. Totally ridiculous. If this is what the next 2 years are going to be like, I might have to put my head in a closet so it does not explode.
All these memories of youthful Xmas! I suddenly was reminded that my dad convinced us all that Santa’s sleigh had come and we missed the jingle bells! But Dad said he heard them and then took us out to see the sleigh runner tracks in the snow! I think I still believed him when I was starting high school. So gullible. So happy! Merry Christmas to you all! May your memories be good ones. If not, make some up.
Bette
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: "People are giving birth underwater now. They say it's less traumatic for the baby because it's under water.
But it's certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool."
I listened to Maddow's podcast Ultra last night. I am amazed at how much of this is all breaking news to me. Clearly, I was either not paying attention in history class, or they never taught it. Something tells me it is the latter.
MAGA is not our first rodeo with people trying to over throw the US government. Too bad our collective memories were wiped.
I highly recommend this podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-maddow-presents-ultra/id1647910854
Bette
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Hello my friends.
Remember, there are still good people doing good things.
Don’t get consumed by hate. Keep on being a decent, kind and compassionate person.
Let hate consume the haters. Watch it eat their souls. 🖖
Bette
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An "incel," as the term is used today, isn't just a guy who can't get a girlfriend.
It's a guy who thinks the world owes him a girlfriend, but also thinks it's beneath him, as a matter of principle, to do the smallest thing to make himself attractive or interesting or agreeable or in any way worth considering.
And when that, predictably, doesn't do anything but make him repulsive, he decides that the entire female sex is to blame and/or is just evil.
Bette
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Quote I’m Musing
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully.”
-Steve Jobs
I’ve thought on this quote many times working though sprints, project timelines, vision statements, and identity management. As leaders, you absolutely must maintain the vision and way forward that takes your team, your organization, your company to the goal.
Bette
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#OffTopicThursday - The moment this young man learns that he has passed the bar exam.
@Kaysymmetry
Pretty is only on the outside. Beauty comes from within. So let it shine!❤️
Bette
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I said to myself…what if we stopped calling it gun control and referenced it as firearm safety legislation?
Think that would trigger the NRA and the gun lobby?
Bette
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Bette
Old enough to know better? Left Coast all the way.
Business owner. Mother. GrandMother. Wife. And, failed novelist. Can’t win ‘em all.
#patron ID: 5201
Joined Nov 2017