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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

Makes sense, tbh. People make friends at work all the time. WTF am I doing running my children to and from school and all over every other place, if not work.

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

But today was the day I realized we'd crossed that threshold, I guess

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

And then I was thinking about how even though I said I made friends in college, there's very little making about it. It just kind of happens. There's no "we are friends now" announcement, you just find yourself ignoring a fire alarm (for an actual fire) to play Mario Kart 64. It happens!

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

But with like, very few parts of my life that aren't about my children, I never considered "making friends" with the parents I was seeing every day. It wasn't "making friends" territory, it was "running these dang kids around" territory

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

(NOTE: last friend I made in person was @msmaladjust.bsky.social. I consider more than a few of you friends)

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

And I guess I didn't have a frame of reference for making friends after I stopped working. The last friend I made (@msmaladjust.bsky.social, it's you) was at work. Before that was school, college mostly

I didn't realize I was making Friends friends because my life is centered around my kids

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

And my brain was like "yeah dipshit, you've known these women for three years, you know their husbands, their kids, you've been in their homes, you've helped each other's childrenses, that's friends, you've made friends"

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

I don't mean this at all in a self-deprecating way, but I simply hadn't realized that I, Sarah Walsh, meant that much to any of them?

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1h

Anyways, every single one of them took the time, amongst all our insane children running around shrieking, to ask me how I was doing, to listen to me, to commiserate, and it was so fucking lovely?

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 2h

But so, as I've talked about here, this has been a fucking wretched year for people I love dying, and the wheels really came off in the last two weeks. I'm doing okay. Definitely not great though!

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 2h

Six went to the same preschool with the same group of girls for three years. None of us lived near one another. We only met through the kids being in school together. Until tonight, I'd have said that we were friendly, not that we were friends

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 2h

I've made some friends and I didn't realize it.

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 1d

Also? I've been a little fucked up about air-as-a-fluid, too. Like, that knowledge became a little too visceral and I haven't been able to shake it. Real "everything is made of atoms including me so what's the substantive difference between my atoms and the atoms of everything around me" shit

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2h

You best start believing in computers, Mr. Leto. You’re in one.

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 3d

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 7h

You have to have politics that aren’t just “fuck you, mom and dad” or else you’re going to have a bad read on how politics works, but many fail this simple test

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 7h

Right? My WWII age grandfather (he broke his back as a teen, however, so the military wouldn't take him) fucking hates Trump. It's my born-too-late-for-Vietnam Fox News brained father who is like "maybe America needs a strongman," not my grandfather.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8h

Should have been Woody Allen.

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 8h

Kid looks like a cunt

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

I understand the optics here but this is also literally why Charles met his end in Whitehall, either Article I means what it says or it doesn't and the Constitution is dissolved

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

So the Dems need to be clear again that any FMer carrying out direction to implement mil paychecks in the absence of appropriations will be subject to anti-deficiency act criminal penalties, because to be clear even with the reconciliation slush fund BS there is no way to legally so this, period

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 8h

Noooooooooooo

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 8h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 8h

I don't recommend standing in the ruins of your own life for any amount of time, but being able to go "well, I survived" is a nice feeling

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Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social · 8h

LORDT this is the truth. It does, eventually, bother you less. You know you'll survive it!

My rejection sensitive dysphoria and general anxiety are fuckin nuts and the only thing that's ever helped was failing so hard, there was no possibility of pretending otherwise.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 8h

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 8h

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 8h

Also? Getting comfortable enough with failure that failure no longer crushes you is like a basic survival skill if you’re hypersensitive/have anxiety, and the only way to do that is to just go ahead and fail repeatedly

human bean @humanbean.net · 8h

people don’t realize that there are things that they need to practice to get better at them

they think it should be easy so they keep just trying occasionally and then deciding it’s not for them

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