Leanna

13 Aug

I'm not the kind of therapist that thinks everything is automatically the mother's fault, but in my personal, individual situation, it is definitely all my mother's fault.

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Marko did a bunch of dry wall in the downstairs yesterday and I was not prepared for how terrible the house would smell today. Apparently dry wall smells bad? I did not know!

I'm trying to embroider Mary the Mother smoking a cigarette on a denim bomber jacket and lemme tell you. I did a great job on her halo but unfortunately her eyes are looking in different directions. 😭 Gonna have to rip her facial features out and try to do it over again.

Make nose smaller and nostrils closer together. Make lips smaller. Make eyes point in the same direction!! How?? No clue. They are a small knot of thread. How can it be pointing in a direction? Ahhhhh but it is!

I don't know what to cook for dinner. What if we just didn't need to eat. That would help me a lot!

I cooked bratwurst and mashed potatoes and sauerkraut with mustard. I cooked sauteed corn with kielbasa and onions. I cooked scrambled eggs with sausage and spinach.

Should I get a Nancy Drew tattoo?

@buriencatlady.bsky.social

If I started a formative-literature-to-me tattoo sleeve it would include Nancy Drew Toni Morrison's Beloved Dr Suesses' Go Dog Go Sweet Valley High Naomi Novak's Scholomance

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This is an extremely important read. If you spend 5 minutes in WA state political circles you can see how this network protects and promotes the deeply ineffective and even abusive democrats we have in power here. We must change.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.

"What kind of grownup are you going to be?" I ask the teen. He says he can't tell me. He doesn't know yet.

I posted about the dangers of photocopies on my insta stories and someone reported it for self harm.

My mom did this thing with our mess where she compulsively picked it all up every single day, which I hated. But my friend A does this thing with her kids mess where she never picks a single piece of it up, nor makes them do it, and I also hate that solution.

I mean moms are in a tough place and perhaps there is no good solution......

I tried to water the garden since the drought is so bad but the water just ran right off the parched earth. It's so sunny and warm every day. Poor earth.

Okay. It's definitely getting colder. I saw three different PNW gardeners take down their tomato plants this last weekend. Am I ready to call it and being mine in to ripen???

Had an ICE nightmare so I guess I'm up for the day. Ug.

I'm so sad about ICE. I'm so sad about the concentration camps and the deportments and the arrests and the poor poor children and the murders. The whole thing. I hate it so much. We are all terrorized by those villains.

Last year I started my cold weather cooking thread this same week. So now it's an annual rhythm I guess. First soup of the season: Creamy Potato and Corn soup with crispy sausage and black pepper onions.

Leanna@introvertedlala.bsky.social

Okay kicking off thread of Autumn Cooking Season with a big weekend dinner: Lemon chili poached salmon over mushroom risotto with garlic fried green beans and a green salad. Finished with a whole homemade cheesecake.

Miso brown butter baked cabbage with crispy white beans. Giant pot of sweet pepper and sausage spaghetti sauce. Some for freezing for lunches. Yum

The question for the first of October is exactly who am I hand making Xmas gifts for? Now is the time to start. It is not at all wise to first think about homemade Xmas gifts in November!

Yes I am hand sewing something for my cousins. Yes for my friend who always hand makes me a gift. I offered to make my man something but then he said he would need to think of a design concept and so that is a timeline pushed way way out. Maybe that will end up his father's day gift or something.

Performing historical poetry about masturbation at dinner to prove to the crowd that gen z isn't the most into gooning of every generation ever. I won the argument obviously.

Poetry tax. Harry Mathews

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I thought my buddy with the "disclose" patch was saying something interesting philosophically but it turns out it's the name of a band.

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The letter asks districts to take three immediate steps: Disable YouTube on school-issued devices. Disable Gemini AI on school-issued devices. Audit and asses student device use and share the results publicly. Learn more at openlettertoschools.com.

openlettertoschools.comAn Open Letter to American School Districts: Disable YouTube and Gemini AI on School-Issued Devices and Ensure Student SafetyDisable YouTube. Disable Gemini AI. Investigate student internet use on school-issued devices to ensure student safety.

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Brett Hamil

@bretthamil.bsky.social

They're not wrong. In a related example, the Downtown Seattle Assoc actually *wants* skateboarders sessioning Westlake Plaza because they add "eyes on the street"

The Stranger@thestranger.com

A group of local Seattle artists and cultural workers have drafted a letter to Mayor Wilson requesting that the city divert funds away from SPD and redirect it towards the arts. The main argument? Arts activations and cultural programming should be considered a form of public safety infrastructure.

thestranger.comWhy Can’t Seattle Fund the Arts Like It’s FIFA Every Year? - The StrangerThere’s a draft of an open letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and the Seattle City Council that’s been making the rounds on social media and racking up signatures over the past few days. The request: divert $8 million from SPD’s $68 million proposed budget increase and give that money to the arts. The reasoning? Art […]

So many moms in their Instagram stories, vowing that they personally will raise their sons not to rape. I am not interested in individualized solutions. Whyyyyy do Americans love to solve problems this way????

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Exactly the same as giving advice on what drink to bring to a job interview to the poor unemployed candidates surviving the worst job market since the republicans crashed the economy last time. No. We are not victim blaming. Stop it.

I will not engage in the teeheehee blaming queer people for having feelings and businesses and COVID consciousness. All of this is fucked up and I'm tired of smart people falling for it.

I am not interested in what women can do to prevent the problem of men rapping them. Don't talk to me about that. No.

"it's not a disaster if you still have a roof" Mom always said. It's not a tragedy. Not if the wolf gets to the last piggy's house and finds he can't blow it down." -The Annual Migration of Clouds

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@swilua.bsky.social

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

@ericacbarnett.bsky.social

I'm definitely not well, but I'm not super sick. I forgot this state exists. Sickish Peaky A little bit under the weather

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If you need more evidence that the mainstream press is insanely biased against Wilson, to the point of inaccuracy, here's a headline blaming Wilson for Barnes' and SPD staffers' decision to delay both the press conference and the release of information after 6:30 www.fox13seattle.com/news/mayor-b...

fox13seattle.comMayor faces transparency backlash over Bite of Seattle shooting delayQuestions over transparency continue to mount at Seattle City Hall after police officials revealed Mayor Katie Wilson’s office delayed public safety updates following a deadly shooting at July's "Bite...

I've gotta start shopping for a thimble. I am just beating up my fingers these days handsewing with this giant needle through a thick jacket.

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@bookbeaut.bsky.social

19 Sept

bro the conditions are bleak. We’re bleakmaxxing

@thebethocracy.bsky.social

I shouldn't have to work when I'm so full of snots.

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Beth Day

I'm happy to see not just funding in the mayor's budget for more Automated Traffic Safety Cameras themselves, but a whole heck of a lot of staff to support review and prosecution of infractions. And a bunch of that money will go to safer streets infrastructure, particularly around schools.

Don't really love the entire internet suggesting that all parents who just send their kid to the local crappy public school will live to deeply regret that decision. That lady has a right to her journey and I'm super supportive but I hope my story is different than her story.

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22 Sept

One thing I did really differently than the lady who wrote the article is that I started telling my kid as early as first or second grade that schools have totally different levels of resources, he was going to an under-resourced school and we could change that at any time if he or i wanted.

22 Sept

It does seem like her kid had to figure that out for themselves.

Might mess around and buy some secondhand wool pants for winter.

I think sending ones kid to a local crappy public school is a strong ass decision. I like that I made it. Anyone, of any race and class can do this. It's an act of class solidarity and investment in the village imo (and also so say many fancy theorists)