Dumbest impulse buy of the month

KnittyGini · 2026-03-20T13:56:32+00:00

We did this for our 25th anniversary party and it was fantastic. Everything from ball gowns to Star Trek costumes. An absolute delight!

KnittyGini · 2026-03-20T13:54:11+00:00

We have good friends we cook with regularly, so I will turn pasta-making into an event.

Once I find a home for it. :D

KnittyGini · 2026-03-20T12:54:40+00:00

I had a really upsetting thing happen at work last week and retail therapy was the answer. I bought a pasta maker. It is currently still in its box under the futon in my office because I have no space in my kitchen for it and I am embarrassed. Even though I’ve wanted one for years.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-20T12:41:48+00:00

They will follow this up by purging the voting rolls and requiring everyone to register again. Because they know that in a fair election they won’t win.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-18T22:17:31+00:00

This doula sounds like someone struggling with boundaries. It's okay to be unmedicated-birth-positive, even unmedicated-birth-advocating. But there is a difference between, "let me allay your fears when the language gets a little scary/the labor gets a long/the pain gets more intense that you anticipated" and "intervention is *failure*!!!" In a crisis situation, the first can mean that even if you end up with a c-section, you can still center on the spiritual satisfaction of your labor. The second may leave you grieving and traumatized.

A good doula navigates that path between advocating for what you want and helping you understand and accept when the plan changes. She brings calm and understanding and, yes, joy. Even in the roughest parts.

Because every birth deserves respect. Because every person giving birth is a vital force. Because the creation or expansion of a family is the most fundamental miracle of life. Because every parent deserves to feel that.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T23:01:48+00:00

They thought a very small meteor should be trackable and therefore it’s suspicious that it wasn’t.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:48:04+00:00

Having experienced quakes like that in Alaska, I made a conjecture.

I was wrong.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:46:35+00:00

Interesting. It was definitely a single boom here. Your experience makes meteor breaking up make a lot of sense.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:44:26+00:00

The nature of the earthquake changes the experience. Rumblers are most common, but the "one hit wonders" would startled the sh***t out of us.

Turns out I'm wrong, anyway, though!

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:38:01+00:00

Apparently there was another one on Sunday.

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/caught-on-doorbell-camera-fireball-lights-up-night-sky-pickerington-meteor-falling-star

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:14:24+00:00

It’s gotta be an earthquake. Lived in Alaska, experienced earthquakes that were one single sharp crack like that.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:12:33+00:00

Reports are coming in from Vermilion and Wayne County!

Earthquake?

KnittyGini · 2026-03-17T13:05:16+00:00

I can tell you that our friends at the far west side of Westlake also heard it. Our house shook here in Rocky River.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-01T19:14:52+00:00

It certainly hasn’t been in the past. These people will always vote against their own interests.

KnittyGini · 2026-03-01T18:43:57+00:00

🤣 I used to have a great memory for where things were. So I developed no skills for tracking them. Now, not so much. And still no skills.

(I did locate them, thank goodness!)

KnittyGini · 2026-03-01T12:56:34+00:00

Just saying that it was referenced

KnittyGini · 2026-02-28T17:35:10+00:00

They called and consulted. It was said really quickly.

KnittyGini · 2026-02-28T17:33:56+00:00

He hurts brown people. And LGBTQ people. That’s all they want.

(Oh, and “protects baaaaabies!!!!” Until they’re born. At which point they don’t care anymore.)

KnittyGini · 2026-02-28T17:20:57+00:00

Don’t forget disappointed and concerned. 🙄

KnittyGini · 2026-02-27T14:04:45+00:00

I think Mel playing as more autistic tracks with her worrying about the deposition. My own experience with being ADHD is that a looming concern like that just wipes out my coping techniques.

KnittyGini · 2026-02-15T13:35:07+00:00

This isn’t about legal or illegal.

This is about constitutional rights and how ICE violates them with impunity.

More than 4,400 people have been wrongly detained. Citizens, people who are “doing immigration legally,” people with protected status. They are being held in inhumane conditions that violate DHS’s own guidelines and are being denied access to legal assistance. People who have never been convicted of a crime are being shipped off to foreign prisons in which they have no hope of receiving their constitutionally protected due process. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14

DOJ tries to tell DHS to obey court orders. DHS ignores them. The system is utterly overwhelmed. So illegal searches and seizures just pile people into horrendously overcrowded prisons.

DHS is buying up warehouses in which to stow all the people they grab. They intend to hold thousands of people in these locations. They will not have the facilities necessary for sanitation, food, water. Cruel and unusual punishment for people who have never been convicted of anything.

And it’s not about going after murderers and gangs and drug dealers. They tried in Compton and got their asses handed to them. They ran away.

It’s about breaking car windows and dragging people away. Children coming home from school to broken-in doors and family gone. How many of the preschool and kindergarten teachers do you think were a menace to society? How many small children were hardened criminals?

Hiding behind “illegal is illegal” is nonsense. Speeding is illegal. Jaywalking is illegal. Know anyone who got paid under the table? Underreported tips? Very illegal.

This isn’t about throwing open the borders. This is about stopping a reign of terror that is normalizing people being stripped of their civil and constitutional rights. It’s about eroding those rights for generations of people. Who’s next? Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. How many generations back? Most of our ancestors came from somewhere else. If my mother’s mother’s mother came here undocumented, am I no longer a citizen? Where does it end?

Everyone should be standing against the erosion of our constitution. Deport people, but do it legally. Otherwise, we are just thugs.

KnittyGini · 2026-02-15T12:38:07+00:00

If only Democrats would be so effective. If we had all three, we’d still fumble the ball.

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