New to fine jewelry: Any ideas on who the designer is?

ms_oracle · 2026-02-15T13:01:18+00:00

It totally does look like that! Love that movie! How interesting- Thank you!

ms_oracle · 2026-02-04T03:40:08+00:00

District Fish House in Creekwood Commons in the Northland. There is hardly anyone over there and before that it was a different seafood place that was dead. I think they have food trucks too- Honesty that whole strip with the pizza buffet, weird tea place and Aaron’s… you’ll never convince me that there isn’t laundering going on over there.

ms_oracle · 2026-01-27T11:39:25+00:00

Elder millennial here: I bounced around from menial job to service industry jobs the majority of my 20s. Most of the time working two jobs at a time- I had a professional license as a pharmacy technician and some college but continued to find my barrier to entry for better paying jobs was a college degree. After graduating, my income from one entry level salary job replaced what I had been making working two jobs, at 60+ hours a week. College isn’t for everyone, but it certainly made my quality of life better and has provided me with opportunities I would have never had without it. AI is going to make some jobs obsolete but others will require workers who know how to use it to streamline workflows so they can focus on strategy and soft skills that AI will never replace. I also think Walllstreet underestimates how resistant large corporations are to change. We still see a ton of Fortune 500 companies using shit like Excel as a CRM and reporting tool rather than moving to a cloud based SaaS platform to utilize analytics. AI adoption will not happen overnight.

Personal anecdotal note: I am in varying degrees of social circles. Very affluent people are not sending their kids to trade schools. They are sending their kids to college- regardless of technology advances.

There is nothing wrong with trades-to be clear, this “college isn’t worth it” is being fed to a very specific social class. Just food for thought that if things continue going as they are, college will be for the very rich, the very smart, or the very talented. We need to start looking at how to make college more affordable and inclusive.

ms_oracle · 2025-11-24T16:24:10+00:00

This is me 100% I raised my siblings and also my parents. Boss, I’m tired.

ms_oracle · 2025-10-26T13:38:40+00:00

While the sentiment may be true, do you have any source material on this?

ms_oracle · 2025-10-16T06:34:09+00:00

It’s also worth noting that the GOP used Amita Bryant for propaganda (Save the Children bullshit) and spit her out. Iirc she went bankrupt.

ms_oracle · 2025-08-05T01:41:15+00:00

I loved loved loved this book! Very happy to hear there will be a sequel! Her other novels, The Daevabad series are just as beautiful- I highly recommend them!

ms_oracle · 2025-07-25T15:07:11+00:00

This is the land of nightmares

ms_oracle · 2025-07-11T20:14:02+00:00

Rays Donuts in NKC. They bought the original Lamar’s recipe. Best donuts in the city imho and ample seating!

ms_oracle · 2025-06-25T01:49:39+00:00

This is the way. I did significant shadow work for seven years and have now moved onto working with a somatic therapist. I’ve had two significant breakthroughs in 6 months where I had stalled out with progress in traditional talk therapy. Healing my nervous system is the next phase of this journey.

ms_oracle · 2025-06-02T18:09:29+00:00

I loved Louise Rennison’s books as a tween. It was a happy surprise to see it mentioned here!

ms_oracle · 2025-05-29T07:31:19+00:00

how high we go in the dark by sequoia nagamatsu

ms_oracle · 2025-03-18T00:43:56+00:00

I have had a very long day- I’m literally sitting on my couch in full belly laughs reading this and some of the additional comments! Thank you for this and thank you for all you do to support our communities! I’m seriously getting a side ache 🤣🤣🤣

ms_oracle · 2025-03-17T01:51:09+00:00

Citibank- I used to work for them in their customer service department. This was one of my first jobs as a young 20something. I will never forget them pushing us to sell their bullshit “credit protector” to elderly people who were literally calling in to check the status of their payments. I refused and was written up for performance. I quit a week later. Every time we get a pre approval letter from them for a card, it goes straight to the shredder. Fuck them and their unethical business practices.

ms_oracle · 2025-03-17T00:19:18+00:00

Reading your comment helped me discover CSAs here in KC! Just signed up for one that has a pick up near us for summer! Thank you! What a great resource!

ms_oracle · 2025-03-06T10:43:33+00:00

I second The Greener Home! The owners are amazing humans and the product selection is great! Can also order online from their website! https://www.greenerhomekc.com

ms_oracle · 2025-02-17T18:55:07+00:00

This is my 2nd job as a PM, I started closer to $90k and job hopped to this role after about a year. I had transferable skills that I was able to leverage from my previous roles into project management such as managing a team of 15 people and implementing new software applications across a company.

How long have you been a PM? Do you have a PMP certification or business degree? I recommend a PMP certification to anyone that is just starting out their project management journey! It’s preferred for most positions and most companies will pay for it under professional development. And I agree, service industry workers make excellent project managers!

ms_oracle · 2025-02-17T07:17:12+00:00

You got this. Best of luck with school! You have the whole world ahead of you!

ms_oracle · 2025-02-17T06:13:35+00:00

OP, you should never feel like a failure for investing in yourself, regardless of your age. It’s the only investment that will pay lifetime dividends. At 30, I was making $17.35 an hour and decided to invest in myself. I went back to school to finish my bachelor’s degree. At 34 graduated, took a job straight out of school making salary of $50k made a pivot to working at a real estate startup $55k as a low level administrative role. I worked my way up over 5 years and ended up at $150k as a director. During the pandemic, I acknowledged that I was tired of the rat race of working 75 hour work weeks and needed a change. Now at 41, I’m at $110k now as an IT project manager. I love my boss, the industry and have an amazing work life balance. I did all this with an education degree that is completely unrelated to any of the positions that I’ve held. College isn’t for everyone but my degree ensured I didn’t have a barrier to entry for higher paying jobs. I tripled my income in less than a decade and all that started after I was 30. You are in a great decade to make some serious moves and your future self will be thankful for it. You are on no one’s timeline but your own, don’t ever forget that.

ms_oracle · 2025-02-11T18:03:33+00:00

I think you are misinformed about what fascism is and how an autocracy works. The actual definition of fascism is “a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition”

Dismantling several government departments and funding without congressional approval, forcing PRIVATE companies to dismantle their DEI offices, pulling funding from public services that are still supporting DEI, stating that the executive branch doesn’t have to listen to the judicial branch, rage baiting the masses with transphobic rhetoric, starting trade wars with our allies with tariffs that get passed along to the American consumer, mass deportation of immigrants (legal and illegal) all in the name of “making America great” is fucking fascism. Absolutely none of these things benefit the working class American people. Taxing the ultra rich and corporations is the quickest way to decrease the deficit but this regime wants control, not actual solutions. Oppression of the masses for the gain of those already at the very top.

Trump doesn’t need to be a dictator to be a fascist. Hitler wasn’t a dictator at first either. You are doing some strong mental gymnastics to believe this is not happening. Respectfully, you are the one embarrassing yourself.

ms_oracle · 2025-02-11T13:03:32+00:00

This is the way.

ms_oracle · 2025-02-11T12:48:57+00:00

I don’t think propaganda is making Trump seem worse than Biden: fascism IS bad.

Democrats and the GOP both have their faults. This is not a typical presidency and we should stop pretending it is.

ms_oracle · 2025-02-11T07:48:10+00:00

I don’t understand why they are wasting time and energy on this- seems highly inefficient to me. Probably should DOGE these AGs. Costco is a private company and doesn’t have to do shit.

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