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nicoleintheforest.bsky.social
Nicole
@nicoleintheforest.bsky.social
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Talk with me about thrift & vintage; cozy forests; learning useful skills (home repair, food preservation, "make do & mend", etc); and how we maintain love, justice, wonder, & beauty in this crazy world.
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Last Thanksgiving my husband and I went to my parents house early on Thankagiving day. The rest of the family couldn't make it so it was just us four. We watched the parade and made a feast.

As the calendar turns to "first holiday season without mom" I'm grateful for the memory.
I am an idealist, I know. But what's the point of not being one.
You know not to take every impulse of your brain as solid truth. But, from what I can tell, you give the water-hungry circuit boards far more authority than it deserves when it too is often just making crap up and bad at admitting it.
And perhaps you say, "But I don't know what chatGPT knows!" And you are wrong. You know so much more. You know context. And you know when you are lying to yourself and making up info or at best pondering hypotheses as you mull over various things you've heard before.
But I wonder if you know it is exercising a muscle. When you consider options and make value judgements and choose between info: you are problem solving, building the story of what matters, committing the info to a longer term memory by the act of manipulating it with your mind
I know that formatting data and making a pro con list of a few options is not the world's most important task, that perhaps you truly believe and maybe it is true that your 10 minutes are better spent elsewhere.
I have this guttural ache when someone tells me they used AI to craft the most basic of task and saved themselves 10 minutes.
I have once again been diagnosed as old. After the indignity of needing bifocals/progressives, I've now been told I have arthritis. . .in my shoulder.
I tend to just make eye contact with a small smile or nod or say hello if I feel like I need to interact. I don't really understand why an observational statement is a better option lol, but I hear and affirm your goal!
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Note: This is me — I asked this question.

You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?

MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
Is this small talk that everyone hates? I don't think I grew up with small talk. I don't think I knew what people were talking about when they said they hated it.
I *hate* when I'm doing something like taking out trash and people nearby say, "trash day again!"

I get i shouldn't be that annoyed by it but WHY does this happen? 😭

I'm left with silence as a response which seems rude or a "yup." which also seems rude. What in the world is happening.
Read an article that said ppl who sent AI to mtgs and skipped it themselves made more money.

Article also indicates the AI notes OFTEN missed *important* context.

THIS STORY IS ABOUT UNNECESSARY MEETINGS HOLDING PEOPLE BACK, NOT THE BENEFIT OF AI.
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A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
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So I've been working on a bit that really should be a TikTok, but I have zero video creation or musical instrument skills so you're getting the text based form instead.

I call this the Horny for Jesus worship medley (or the Jesus is my Boyfriend Medley if you're feeling less risque)
Oh man. Cracked up. These lyrics are so intense.
I kind of hate "exciting" adjectives. I briefly thought this was a weird me quirk and then remembered that "show not tell" is a whole thing.
Found my copy of Open Veins in Latin America and it is selling ok on th resell market but feels like something I shpuld keep before its no longer allowed.
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Had a phone Dr appt this morning. Scheduled for 8 am. A week ago the text reminder said they'd call between 7:30-8:30. Ugh, but fine. It is now 8:22 and still waiting on the call. So annoyed.
We have a small kitchenette in our apartment and access to the full kitchen a floor below which has a dishwasher. So I have carted dishes up and down the stairs hundreds of times. For the first time ever a bag handle broke and all my dishes went crashing down the stairs and three mugs broke. 😭😭😭
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
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There are the "feed 100 in case 1 of them would otherwise starve" people.

And there are the "Starve 100 in case 1 of them doesn't actually deserve their food" people.

Far too many who claim to follow Jesus fall into the second camp.