Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
Educator originally trained in political science. Immigrant. Pottymouth. Spoonie. Into cats AND dogs, bellydance, and cancer survivorship. She / her. Typos.
Joined Apr 2022
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@Minholkin
Multiply shipwrecked
I learned
That the ocean is on fire
And angels exist
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Talking to new ppl, so I will redo my #introduction: Hi! I am glad to meet you here. I am:
Immigrant woman
Political scientist by training
Working as a teacher
Spoonie due to autoimmune hell
In remission from cancer (hope not to rewrite this line!)
Hobbyist bellydancer
Rescuer of cats and dogs - our house is an animal sanctuary
In an interracial relationship
Convinced that toxic mascilinity explains a lot
Feminist till I die
Middle-aged enough to be running out of fucks to give
Pottymouth
#Politics
Weep with me: this is a former member of the Hungarian Parliament writing
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/23/trump-autocrat-elections-00191281
Went to #bellydance rehearsal and workshop. Forgot to bring my sword so I danced w a stick - which is a lot lighter and faster than a sword, so I lost balance, it began to fall, I grabbed for it, hit myself in the face w it and split the inside of my upper lip. Lesson: must not forget my sword.
This #Caturday I am excited to share that we were gifted a crochet cat bed! And it is going *great*
#DogsOfCoSo #CatsOfCoSo #Neville
#TeacherRant
I am so overwhelmed by vice principals sending me emails in which they assume the absolute worst about me that I need to tearfully plead: will someone, anyone, please believe I am not a psychopath running amok among teenagers without any semblance of ethics or professionalism? Also if admin are this unsupportive now, what will they be like once the dictatorship congeals?
Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
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COSO, there are 11 more days left till the end of this month. We are so close to 100% funding this month.
Are you able to help J cover the expenses this month? It would be a fabulous 7th year birthday gift to J if we could make this happen!
Please consider going PRO or donating a few coins if you can💜
#cancer follow-up surveillance visit done.
This follow-up hasn't revealed anything evil and everything looked good, which is awesome. But because I have been having cramp-like pains, I need an imaging study. CT w contrast in a week, then seeing my oncologist again on Dec 12 to discuss results and strategies. Fuck. My. Life.
Took an entire day of sick time because I will be going to my three-month #cancer surveillance later today. I thought I would get tons of work done before having to get ready. That was a mistake - and not a half-ass little oops either...
ISO background political TV during the day. With Joe and Mika selling out, we are gone from MSNBC; we tried CNN this morning. Lasted five minutes. Now trying Free Speech TV. Still hoping for some evening hosts remaining watchable on MSNBC but FFS this is getting hard.
Advantages of being Hungarian:
- you speak a non-Indo-European language
- you are familiar with navigating life under a dictatorship
- you know how to make a pasta bake w sour cream, cottage cheese, and bacon
These days I receive two types of emails in large numbers: one type screams that I should shop, in the name of capitalist consumerism and the coming holidays. The second type screams that I should help stop Matt Gaetz. My poor brain conflated subject lines and I thought I saw "shop Matt Gaetz" and now I need to lie down.
Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
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We're halfway through the month and we're at 37% funded. This place is and will always be free. No algorithm cramming content down your gullet. Your posts, art, thoughts, links... won't train an AI to turn you into a commodity (though @Alfred is fantastic). No data to be harvested.
If you can't, don't worry about it. But if you can go #CoSoPro because this is the finest community I've found and I've been internetting for over 30 years.
We're going to need places like this more in the future.
Goodnight CoSo! Even as I go to sleep, I have #Politics on the brain, and the question of what rabid anti-intellectualism and anti- expertise will lead this country into. And apparently I am not the only one wondering
Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
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Tristan Snell is reporting that Elon Musk had a SECRET MEETING with Iran's ambassador to the UN to discuss US-Iran relations.
The Logan Act prohibits private citizens from engaging in foreign policy undercutting the US govt.
Musk is NOT a govt official. If reports are true, this was a FEDERAL FELONY.
#TeacherRant
Hilarious interaction in a conversation w students today:
A Latino student was telling a Caucasian student that she was 'white white'. I made a face. He explained how he used it. I made more faces, then shrugged and said "whatev - my mother-in-law told me I could pass so I am okay". Latino student: "I guess you could pass as white". Me: "My mother-in-law is Black". Several students: "That makes more sense. You definitely give Black Mom".
#Politics
May I present my new guiding light
People who know things: could I host a CoSo call with ppl not on CoSo? Local organizing seems to be over longer distances than expected in MO ...
Goodnight CoSo! I am not getting all notifications when they happen, I can't figure out what the issue is, but whatevs. Here is a face that makes my heart happy, to share good vibes.
#Mozart #DogsOfCoSo
As I bid you goodnight, I want to highly recommend watching "Conclave" if you have not done so yet. It is a visual feast w exquisite acting and more suspense than I would expect in a drama. Also a great message.
Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
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When a a person says they want to protect you, what they mean is they want to control you.
When a person says they want to protect you whether you like or not, they want to own you.
The threat, the predator is person talking. This is the essence of abuse & trauma: the people who hurt you are the those that should be first to keep you safe.
It’s most insidious in child abuse, for the child is truly powerless & dependent.
Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores
Educator originally trained in political science. Immigrant. Pottymouth. Spoonie. Into cats AND dogs, bellydance, and cancer survivorship. She / her. Typos.
Joined Apr 2022