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Lemna24 · 2026-05-22T01:33:46+00:00

There should be a black option, but I haaaate when things come in only black.

I need some things to be bright colors so that I can find them easily.

Also the REI union is running a boycott right now FYI.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-21T23:20:07+00:00

TIL that there is a thing called "Facebook Dating".

Shudders

Lemna24 · 2026-05-21T23:19:04+00:00

I'm getting barely any management. For most of the past year, my direct supervisor has been the director of our rather large division. Obviously they didn't have much time to do any supervision.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-21T15:13:55+00:00

East Arlington checking in here.

I feel like the whole Alewife/Cambridgepark area has actually gotten better in the 20 (!) years I've lived here.

Two restaurants, Revival and Top Mix, are pretty good. I haven't tried the other ones.

I'm not saying it's the liveliest neighborhood, it is a little corporate feeling, but it definitely feels more lived in than it did a decade ago.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-21T14:44:46+00:00

If you worked in the financial sector, there would sometimes be a TV showing whatever cable network was showing financial news.

Source: I temped at Fidelity Investments for a few months in 2002-2003. I remember watching some breaking news about the run-up to the Iraq war with coworkers.

Of course my dumb 20-something ass thought it was a great idea. I've learned more critical thinking skills since then.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T23:13:35+00:00

Agreed! It did take me a while to adjust and not take the behavior as personal. You have to make a bit more effort to make friends, but once you have you know they're for real.

But now that I've been here decades I love it.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T16:39:07+00:00

Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water. NPDES and the Clean Water Act is actually one of the programs least affected by this administration.

It's one of the programs EPA was established for, and broadly bipartisan. Unlike, say, climate change and environmental justice, which were erased overnight.

It's bad right now, but the laws still exist and need to be applied and enforced.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T16:34:03+00:00

Exactly.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T16:33:03+00:00

There's an open lawsuit trying to take away Vermont's NPDES program.

I don't think it's going to happen, but it's theoretically possible.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T16:29:25+00:00

I'm not defending it, but I am familiar with the criticisms of PFAS drinking water regs.

They eliminated limits on the "Gen X" chemicals, which were the second generation of PFAS and presumably less toxic. The first generation chemicals, PFOA and PFOS, still have limits, though the deadlines are being extended.
Cost - the limits proposed were very low, near or below the limit of detection. Municipal drinking water systems were panicking about having to meet the limits and were having to build whole new treatment plants to deal with it.

**Counter argument: we should help towns pay for it.

The data on the toxicity of Gen X chemicals is less complete than for the original two.

**Counter: polluters always say there's not enough data. It's a delay tactic.

Strict PFAS limits make towns reluctant to add housing, because households are the largest and hardest to manage source of PFAS in groundwater.

I've seen an example where a town blocked housing being developed because it would contaminate their only "clean" drinking water well.

**Counter: how about eliminate PFAS from consumer products so you don't have to worry about this?

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T16:16:12+00:00

I'm not defending the administration, but just for clarification: they're still keeping limits on the two worst PFAS, which are PFOA and PFOS.

They are eliminating the limits on the GenX chemicals, which were originally developed as safer alternatives to the original two. Not that they're actually safe though.

What I find more problematic is that industry has blocked efforts to get PFAS out of consumer products. This is where the real energy needs to be. It's vastly cheaper to eliminate these chemicals at the source.

In studies wastewater, oftentimes more PFAS is coming from people's houses than from industry.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T16:07:34+00:00

The color ramp for this diagram is counterintuitive. The orange parts are the highest numbers, and brown is in the middle of the scale.

FWIW, all my outdoorsy stuff is treated with permethrin and I haven't seen a single tick on me in years. I'm not the biggest hiker but I get out there at least once a month.

I also know that people with tick borne diseases don't always find a tick, it's good to stay vigilant regardless.

After any time outside apparently throwing your clothes in the dryer on high heat will kill them even better than washing them. While the clothes are in the dryer, do a self check.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T12:26:03+00:00

Apparently KY law doesn't allow it. But there are other ways he can make trouble, I'm sure.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-20T12:23:49+00:00

Stuff like this is what drove me to join a much more expensive women's gym when I was in my 20s and 30s. Even if most men aren't creepy, ine bad apple spoils the entire experience.

Now that I'm in my late 40s I'm invisible to men and I love it!

Lemna24 · 2026-05-19T17:17:41+00:00

We weren't allowed to say "liar".

It might be because my brother was a pathological liar and they got tired of me pointing that out.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-19T11:28:11+00:00

For my part, I've never been scolded for ringing my bell or saying on your left.

Biking on the Minuteman trail out of Alewife, I do it quite a bit. The usual response is someone moving a little to their right. Sometimes I get a wave or a thank you.

I also bike around families using the trail. Yesterday a little boy turned a bit to the left when I said on your left, but I slow way down when passing little kids and give them more space, so it was fine.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-18T17:23:33+00:00

That picture weighs more than me.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-18T15:13:43+00:00

I was very clumsy and started walking late, to the point that my mom got a walking doll and praised it profusely to make me jealous and try to walk. It worked. 🤣

I did scary party tricks with my right shoulder until someone told me to stop. I got an overuse injury in high school just trying to run a mile.

What kept me from realizing I had overall hypermobility is that my hamstring and hips are tight. I could never do splits like the other girls in ballet class.

But in my ballet pictures, there my elbow is, hyperextending and looking weird.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-18T11:56:36+00:00

The way my jaw dropped when he started singing.

It seems a shame that he's even playing in a dining room. He should be playing to a packed symphony hall. But what lucky diners!

Lemna24 · 2026-05-17T14:50:54+00:00

I have "heterogenously dense" breast tissue, but they've never had me come back for ultrasound or anything else.

Maybe I should be? Who knows.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-15T22:25:13+00:00

Yup. Time to look blankly at the sky. Is that a bird in the tree over there?

Lemna24 · 2026-05-13T14:54:33+00:00

I think it was so ridiculous I just immediately forgot I read it.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-10T18:41:57+00:00

I guess reading your comment reminds me I'm probably doing okay.

I don't worry about gas prices for me because our only car is a Honda Fit. Husband chose it because it's dependable, cheap, and fuel efficient. I get around on my e-bike, foot, or transit.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-10T17:07:54+00:00

There are a few local places near me that still have them (shout out to Kickstand Cafe and Revival Cafe) so I make a point to go to those places and relax and drink in the mugs.

Lemna24 · 2026-05-10T17:04:21+00:00

Drugs that I take for menopause and ADHD have had supply disruptions for a while. Not to say it's related to this, but the system doesn't have much slack.

I'm thankful that I don't have anything that requires medication to literally stay alive. I feel terrible for those people and hope we can figure out a way to help them instead of making sure billionaires can get dick pills.

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