I still remember a 2014 attack as for the house rep for my area. Rep Southerland accused his opponent of voting for it and working with Pelosi* to pass it, with tons of cuts to “voters” scolding her for that.

We pointed out if they couldn’t move the money fine, but given the project was going nowhere to use money that wasn’t locked in to do other stuff since apparently some donors thought they were making general donations and were getting it shunted into that project. The real point was she was wasting time getting this…

I’d rather not say. I’m not sure if the director’s still in (given the board and locals were frustrated with her) and I don’t want to give it bad press.

Yep. I was a museum studies student a few years ago and we went to this small museum (it was a historic house/historic site) in Fruitvale for a class project. The project was essentially how to get people from the local area around the museum to visit more (there were three other groups doing this with other museum as…

Yeah, it was in earlier ones.

I’ve heard good things about it—except about Akamaru. Heard a lot of people complain that when he was initially made his own character there were issues since, well, he’s a tiny puppy so he had almost no hitbox, almost everything missed him, and you pretty much had to try and sweep kick him to death or something.

Nice.

Yeah, the one in the CA neighborhood I was in had this issue where you could hear it several streets away and still not pinpoint its location it was so loud. They toned it down to only about a block away but still, very loud, and no, it never seemed to stop.

Yeah, this one house I used to walk by had hens and a herding dog. Pretty quiet hens, except the one time they got out of their pen, then they were loud since they were excited to beyond the fence and exploring. My dog thankfully* noticed them and I went and told the owner. Like if you’d never seen it when the hens…

Reminds me of mom watching Million Dolar Listing yesterday where the guy noted that the apartments were a steal (they were still millions but like, a million less each than he’d expected, 4 mil instead of 5 I think) and it was because there was a construction site that one side of the apartment overlooked. People…

Nice! I remember when I was looking for apartments, we started closer to my school and while all of them were too expensive (Berkeley) the ones closer to our budget were almost all near BART tracks and mom was like “honey, how will you sleep?”

It’s actually a key strategy move by his team. They told her dad the more emojis the more people like the tweet, when in reality they’re trying to minimize his use of damaging words.

It gets better: I rung the doorbell and mom answered in her nightgown. She’d been doing the ironing while talking to my granddad on the phone. Hence her crying to him about being a horrible mother while I wrote dad a letter (in green crayon, again, first grade) trying to explain what happened in case mom was still…

Yep. Like the time I was in first grade and walked myself home because mom didn’t know that in CA every Wednesday was a halfday (in FL it had been once a month). She cried on the phone to my grandpa that she was a horrible mom and was afraid the school would report her and dad would be furious.

Hell, my parents got accused of sexually abusing me when I, as a young adult, was twitchy as hell during a pap smear (I have Asperger’s, don’t like being touched especially if I can’t see it, and my only successful pap exam was awfully painful). Despite my repeated statements that no, no one has ever touched there…

Yep. Key word is “can be” and then the caseworkers have to make the deicsion of whether or not it is an indicator in this case or, idk, mom decided to do the dishes after something else and just hasn’t gotten to them yet. It’s a clue, but not an indictment in and of itself and can possibly have another cause.

Yep. I know someone triggered by the sound of a garage door because when they were a kid that meant their parents were home to beat them. Now, they’re not CPS and if they were they wouldn’t like, go after anyone with a garage, but things that trigger abuse memories can be innocuous.

Eh, either way works for me but I think they’re both awesome. Plus something makes me smile at the idea of some of the GOP’s draft dodging rich boys going up against Duckworth. I will admit Franken’s latest book (Giant of the Senate) does make him sound more Biden-y than a lot of people think. He works very hard not…

That’s what the news I was watching last night said. They said any case he’s ever been on is now in doubt.

Yeah. I remember one time I had an emergency and had a guy doctor at the emergency room (we thought a tampon had broken off inside). Mom was surprised I wasn’t uncomfortable. I poinred out I’m uncomfortable with ANYONE down there (I don’t like it) and it was an emergency so I didn’t complain.