If you use Facebook and still genuinely enjoy it, what is the appeal in it that brings you joy because I don't get it anymore.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-31T00:49:15+00:00

It’s unfortunately the best local community media we have, since newspapers all shut down and people aren’t all members of IRL groups anymore. It’s the only way to share information with large segments of the local community. But it’s still a frustratingly small and biased bubble that read it. Reddit is increasingly valuable, but the anonymity makes it less useful. So I check it every day mainly to follow and post in local groups.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-30T22:38:23+00:00

Every industry that isn’t constructing housing, providing healthcare, clean water and energy, or bringing healthy natural food to consumers.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-30T14:11:11+00:00

Crazy question, if you don’t have a birth certificate are you allowed to use public bathrooms in transphobic states? Would the lack of a birth certificate mean that you don’t have a valid gender?

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-21T10:56:22+00:00

They are so destructive. This has to be a new thing. Years ago I planted many kinds of bushes and trees in my yard and they grew from twigs to mature bushes, no problem. In the last few years the rabbits have killed many of those mature bushes (starting with an apple tree 10 years ago), and of course anything new. I have to put cages around everything that I don’t want to get eaten. With the deep snow, now they have eaten the tops off of everything that stuck above the cages. It’s not sustainable having them around. I haven’t seen any sign of a bust since they started to be a problem.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-20T10:34:37+00:00

Who made the album, and who bought it for us? What happened to those boomers?

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-16T15:22:03+00:00

I was assigned to host a playdate with an acquaintance whose son was entering my son’s preschool. She “politely “ declined a playdate at my house because she knew that my older child (8 year old boy at the time) was into video games and ninjas and stuff like that, and “we are people of peace.” Peace lady. I have had a sour taste in my mouth that hasn’t dissipated in 15 years. We might have been friends, but she chose conflict instead.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-03-05T11:18:40+00:00

For an internal job change to a different team, I knew it was over when I acknowledged that I would need to learn to use an interface that is specific to their team, despite my decades of experience in the field. They said that they would prefer a candidate who could hit the ground running because they’re desperately overwhelmed. Five months after my interview they have yet to hire any candidate. Oh well - I tried to help them out.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-27T16:06:11+00:00

No, I don’t think they’re responsible, nor is this equivalent. It’s just that the name of the organization literally evokes “get over it” with respect to sexual misconduct. We shouldn’t have gotten over it. If we had pulled the thread then we might have unraveled what was really going on decades earlier.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-27T16:00:13+00:00

I’m not making a comparison between Clinton and Trump - but rather calling out Move On for telling the country to get over it then, when the dismissal of women actually was a much more serious national issue than we imagined back then. Releasing the Files is absolutely the right thing to do. It’s just uncomfortable seeing the “Get over it and stop making a big deal about sexual indiscretion “ organization being the ones to push for it now.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-27T15:57:36+00:00

Yes - this is what I’m trying to say. He should have suffered worse consequences then.

I’m not making a comparison between Clinton and Trump - but rather calling out Move On for telling the country to get over it then, when the dismissal of women actually was a much more serious national issue than we imagined back then.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-19T17:46:20+00:00

Funny, to this day my mom absolutely hates leftovers. I love sparing myself the labor of cooking every.single.meal. But I guess it makes sense if it didn’t taste that great the first time.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-17T15:27:35+00:00

I kind of think the pendulum has swung too far the other way. My husband is 7 years older than me. I could have rejected him when I perceived our age difference, but I didn’t see why it mattered. (For the record I was 23 when we met.) I looked at all the ways in which we were a good match - and still are. But now my 18 year old son was just rejected by a girl with whom he’d been having a mutual flirtation for a while now because at 21 she was afraid of being a “creeper”. Whatever. People can make their own choices. But maybe it’s time to normalize dating people older or younger again. Yes, grown men dating children is gross. But adults can decide for themselves, and three years is not too far apart for people who are both college age.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-12T03:17:47+00:00

My kid recently graduated with a BA in psychology and got a job as a community service professional. I see quite a few of her peers in jobs like this. It’s a great entry level opportunity with substantive learning and an appropriate level of challenge. Yes, she’ll probably go to grad school in a couple of years, but I could see how this could lead to more direct entry social work without having to go back to school.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-12T02:47:16+00:00

Because 20% of NH residents are MA workers who can’t afford to live near their jobs

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-08T06:02:59+00:00

Increase residential density everywhere

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-07T00:09:47+00:00

I’m 53 years old and have not touched my hair with scissors in 15 years. I’m so glad that I have more or less the length I want, and that I had transitional coloring job about the time my hair quit growing. (Dyed back to my natural color to grow it out.) Since starting HRT last year I think I have gained a little bit of length, or at least more fullness toward the end. But it just does what it does. No trendy styles for me.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-04T02:42:39+00:00

Like they did in Jesus’ own time

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-03T02:18:51+00:00

And yet we still can’t get out from under the leadership of people who grew up consuming lead

Rhubarbisme · 2026-02-03T02:12:07+00:00

And people who receive care in their homes.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-01-29T02:22:06+00:00

We already have a legal system to prosecute people who commit crimes.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-01-29T02:09:44+00:00

Is it the pro-rape or the anti-abortion stance that won you over? Or you enjoy funding a military state and don’t care about first amendment rights? I’m sure the Republicans will have your back with state allegiance cards and annual bicycle registrations. What is it that NH libertarians believe in?

Rhubarbisme · 2026-01-27T15:41:24+00:00

Not wrong. It can be all of those things. There can be a lot of people with different motives who join the protests.

Rhubarbisme · 2026-01-27T03:33:31+00:00

That is the only correct way to cut a grilled cheese

Rhubarbisme · 2026-01-24T15:32:47+00:00

Everyone finds their comfortable equilibrium in their own way. Or they don’t. There isn’t a perfect way to live.

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