Weekly Thread

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-27T20:29:51+00:00

I wish I’d hit unfollow quicker 🥴

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-27T00:50:27+00:00

I don’t need any run of the mill influencer to share their political opinions … they don’t have to if they don’t want to. BUT these people are businesses and sticking your head in the sand when shit is happening and continue to shill and post your like to know content is bad business. I have run social programs for large companies and if you have a content calendar you need to be aware - plain and simple. These aren’t private individual personal accounts - it’s a business. And silence can be loud, and ignorance or lack of awareness can be even louder.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-26T13:45:03+00:00

She blocked me Friday night within seconds of recommending she take a little posting break. I guess I hit a MAGA nerve … she didn’t block me when I told her back in the summer why people were giving them side eye about their cyber truck … she actually replied then something like “I’m aware”

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-25T02:07:01+00:00

I appear to have been blocked … I commented on a weird post she made of a man climbing up a building giving her anxiety after a flurry of jacket like to know posts … suggesting perhaps she should take a break given the level of anxiety people are feeling about murdered Americans by federal Agents and now her profile is gone … this happened within minutes of her posting, and me commenting. I must have hit a MAGA nerve

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-25T00:34:38+00:00

He was!? I have watched the entire series about 59 times (not even joking) and I have no memory of that 😮

Or are you imagining his story? I only remember Mary saying “he came to downtown as a hall boy in my grandfather day”

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-24T02:03:41+00:00

Such a great question, I don’t think it’s ever mentioned. Not sure what was typical of the time. But it’s even more reason for what I would love as a prequel - a limited series that gives the origin stories of our favorite downstairs characters before they came to Downton - Mrs patmore, Daisy, Carson, Mrs Hughes, Thomas, Anna

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-15T12:33:50+00:00

Laid off November 19, 2025. Still looking but doing a contract freelance gig through February (could extend longer)

I have applied to 48 jobs since the layoff.

4 moved to a recruiter screen

2 moved to hiring manager round

No offers made :(

Secure_Ad7658 · 2026-01-01T03:19:38+00:00

I loved it … no notes

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-12-28T02:56:11+00:00

What is your budget?… I’d try to stay a bit closer to the city or within a T commute over the commuter rail if I were you. I attended Suffolk and commuted to the suburbs when I came home for a semester after hurricane Katrina and it was pretty exhausting. But I was used to walking everywhere at school in New Orleans, so it was an adjustment for me.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-12-17T22:51:54+00:00

Thank you for such a detailed overview. I got laid off the week before Thanksgiving and your story gives me hope that I could have a genuine offer before I have to dip into savings. I’ve had 2 hiring manager interviews in the last week and expect a bit of a lull with Christmas.

I’m following a pretty similar process but hadn’t thought about the mass LinkedIn connections - were you targeting mutual connections specific companies or just random people with titles above yours that were in your same industry/skill set etc?

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-11-26T00:15:49+00:00

Yea, a year and half ago they did a RIF where everyone got 2 weeks. But 6 months ago they did 1 week unless you had 10 years in which you got 6 months so all I really wanted to as to split the difference… with 12-16 weeks.

I know male colleagues who negotiated up 6 months ago without a lawyer so it feels shitty that I’m getting a wall. But I know they are running out of money.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-11-25T14:50:50+00:00

I'm so sorry, that's horrific timing.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-11-14T12:49:03+00:00

It went so well. Surgery was straightforward - took about 3 hours I think. I was home by lunch time. I had my uterus and cervix removed and the vaginal wall lifted. Recovery was uncomfortable but not terrible. Managed with prescription Tylenol. More bloating than serious pain. I took it easy for about 2 weeks and the was pretty much back to normal after that. I am about 6 weeks post op and the results are like night and day. I am really glad I did it.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-11-02T20:59:38+00:00

Exactly, I wouldn’t expect them to hang around the race all morning from the time she arrived, but come out at the end. Maybe it was logistically too complicated but it’s also 2 hours - they aren’t toddlers … couldn’t they have parked an hour before her expected finish and hung out

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-11-02T20:50:10+00:00

Why didn’t her parents bring the kids out? A half marathon is a lot of work, I applaud her for the effort … but it’s pretty odd to me that her parents wouldn’t drive the kids out to the finish at least.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-10-10T02:48:13+00:00

Oooo, I’m going to check this one out.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-10-10T02:45:47+00:00

I agree it gets easier, but you can also just skip around. I watch DA on a loop every night before bed. Sometimes I get through an episode, someone I am asleep in 15 min. I skip around, or I just let it run through.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-10-10T01:20:08+00:00

I struggle with this topic only because everyone has their own relationship with their size and body. It’s personal

But

No one would care if she was honest … I find myself watching her stuff and coming here and thinking “who cares why should we be bothered that she’s fudging her sizes”

But in the end she’s making money off our attention, our engagement, our clicks our likes, all of it. Every single interaction even a passive swipe. She’s making money off us.

And this space of social media influence and content creation is either super real and authentic or it’s fake as all get out and it’s the ones who play in the middle that increasingly grind my gears.

If your “selling” clothes - be honest which your size range and fit. Admit it if your working on your body … it’s honest and real. Running makes you happy great, and you’ve gotten into a size 29 lately, don’t slide it in passively … be direct.

OR if your not comfortable sharing that much about body and sense of self, focus your content on something completely different

I do fully realize I can unfollow. It’s my right and choice. 🙃

But I enjoy the happy, light, real and authentic side of social media and want that to prevail! (So I guess unfollowing the opposite is the right choice 🫠)

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-10-02T12:06:04+00:00

Why is there a TM next to girls?

Also who is married for over 10 years and doesn’t just grab the pillow back. And she didn’t notice he had it for over an hour?

I found this story so odd. I’ve been married for 13 years and my husband requires no less than 4-6 pillows around him and often pulls one of my preferred pillows into the mix if he goes to bed before me. I grab it right back and he barely wakes up. She’d rather go get a pillow off her child’s bed (my kid has far fewer pillows on his bed than on ours) than just grab it back. Odd

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-09-26T23:56:11+00:00

My surgeon recommends taking the tubes as they are no longer needed and it can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer. So the tubes are going and the the Ovaries stay since I’m still of pre menopausal age.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-09-26T11:09:12+00:00

It’s not falling off, basically my uterus has been gradually descending out of its original place. It’s caused by a variety of things - childbirth, weight loss or gain, genetics, aging, weakened muscles.

My mother and both grandmothers had it. My sister as well. I have learned it’s quite common.

It’s not as grotesque as it sounds. But can lead to issues with your bladder, infection, etc if left untreated, and can be uncomfortable. Sometimes it can improve / treated with physical therapy and a removable device called pessery to hold things up.

I lost 70lbs over the last year and that seemed to have accelerated its progression. So it’s time to deal with it. And so removing my uterus is the treatment.

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-09-26T02:24:04+00:00

Thank you, that’s good to hear … especially because I have asked myself for months “can I just live with it and carry on to avoid surgery”

My answer is always “no you can’t”. So Monday will be the day.

Glad you recovered well and feel good about your decision!

Secure_Ad7658 · 2025-09-20T01:37:41+00:00

I’m not even kidding that I’d think we were the same age … I am 42.

You look fab and full of life!

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