#Teacher, #librarian, #writer, #reader. #Neurodivergent. Former NY State Senate candidate. Advanced degrees in #literature, #education, and #library & information science, but none of them are doctorates so it doesn't count. I teach students to understand and make strong arguments because it's the best I can do now for #democracy and the #climate. I love #journalists, #historians, #scientists, and other truth-seekers. Oh, and I've written two novels and raised two children. She/her
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Last Notes npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…ffgk No, my favorite omelet and a pot of tea! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I spent my first morning of retirement having breakfast with a friend at my favorite diner, the retirement dream of every trueborn daughter of New Jersey. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg The “I voted for Trump to do X, not Y!” posts are horrifying/fascinating. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg The real ones are retiring. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg America voted itself right out of the Enlightenment. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg More on this as the publication date gets closer, but I'm thrilled that a short story I wrote will be published in the feminist journal of my dreams! I've been hoping to be published in CALYX for years and years, and sometime this year, it will happen. #writing npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…6ej3 I'm usually not a prescriptivist, but sometimes, you have to lay down a boundary. "Upskill" is an ugly word and nobody should use it. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…fecl I’m not an attorney, so can you please help me understand— even if this were reasonable, wouldn’t that be civil, rather than criminal? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg “Our last election was a referendum on the price of eggs” is a hell of an epitaph for a democracy. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I know a lot of you are really looking forward to the finding out phase, but I think you’re going to be disappointed with it. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg People’s complacency right now is the result of the Trump administration using the “flood the zone with shit” tactic. Elon Musk’s gaining access to the Treasury Department’s payment system becomes just another wild news story amidst a stream of wild stories. It’s a coup hidden in plain sight. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg From a friend: npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I try not to be alarmist, but you should actually be alarmed by this news, especially if you receive any federal funds, including Social Security. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg “Mainstream media journalists are calling this ‘temporary’ or a ‘pause’. But that’s like saying you’re ‘temporarily’ shutting down Congress or ‘pausing’ elections. ‘Temporary’ isn’t a meaningful term in this case.” npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Only in the wild fascist imagination do opponents cower, capitulate, and kiss the ring as soon as the Big Man growls. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…pp8p That’s what I’m wondering—how to make that easy and enjoyable to access and use. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…55qd Sounds good! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Okay, all you techie people of Mastodon whose posts I rarely understand, help an English major out: npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Shouldn't the price of gas be about $1 per gallon today? And I expect to get a dozen eggs for about 75¢. I understand the President controls all the prices. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…cpcg "If my four-year-old reads a book about two penguin dads raising a baby, they will abandon their 100% natural, God-given heterosexuality!" npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I'm curious if people under...40 or so?...know who Leonard Peltier is? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…ps99 His sentence is commuted to home confinement, which is still unjust, as far as I'm concerned. But at least he won't die in prison. Biden could have just pardoned him. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…z22s That's why I can concentrate today! I thought it might be something else. But you're right. It's definitely the two opossums screaming inside me. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…85tn I believe you can do this on Friendica, but I'm new to it, so I can't say exactly how. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Elon Musk just did an actual Nazi salute on live television. He did it twice, so no one could explain it away. This is really happening in our time. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…ldvq @nprofile…eznj Good. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg His sentence was commuted to home confinement. Not good enough! Why could this 80-year-old not have been pardoned and freed? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…eznj I don’t really understand cryptocurrency, so I have only one question: will these people lose everything they ever worked and saved for? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Leonard Peltier is going home. I never thought I’d see the day. Shame on Clinton and Obama for never doing what Biden did today, and Biden sure as hell could have done it before today. #LeonardPeltier npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I have been an avid Facebooker for years, and due to its increasing evil, I’m now trying to journal more and post less. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg For people asking why activists aren’t organizing as much now as in 2017: npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Why does RFK Jr.’s skin look like that? Is he addicted to tanning? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…asgf I believe it! When I bought it new, the car came with an 8-year, 100,000 mile warranty. The dealership tried to sell me a warranty plan, but the salesman could not tell me what was covered in the $1600 plan that wasn't covered free with the car. "Oil changes," he said. "This is an EV. It doesn't use oil." npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…xm42 @nprofile…kvue Last time, he didn't win the popular vote. This time, he did, beating a candidate who is superior to him in every way. A lot of people who got really involved in 2016 (and I count myself among them) feel helpless now, especially women. A country that will vote for The Worst Man in the World TWICE over a qualified woman doesn't seem worth fighting for at the moment to many people. I think that will change soon, once the actual damage begins. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…kvue I agree that those are the issues people are concerned about. The right wing talks about those issues, too! They blame immigrants and "DEI." Just like Brexit. They believe that if they got rid of immigrants, all these systems would be less stressed and there would be more of everything good to go around for native-born whites. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…jrg9 I've never loved a car, and I love this car. I'm worried about subjecting her to the tender mercies of the dealership! But there's no choice. I'm not equipped to run diagnostics on it. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Called for service on my electric vehicle. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…kvue I'm afraid those grassroots movements will be/are right wing movements. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Two contradictory ideas I’m holding in my mind in this political moment: npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Here's the dream: npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…h9qy Not that I’m a fan of any generative AI, but Gemini seemed better than ChatGPT. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg As I prepare to leave my job, I'm going through some very old computer files. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…jhfw I imagine she was magnificent! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I’d never seen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” until tonight (the 1990 Great Performances production from City Opera is free on YouTube), so I had no idea that the character who sings “Send In the Clowns” GETS HER MAN A FEW SCENES LATER! Would you have guessed that from the thousand times you’ve heard that song? I didn’t. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Many women are taught to place others' *preferences* above their own needs. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…4nwn I'm so sorry. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…xm6z @nprofile…y35d I was wondering the same thing. I'm sure most men he worked with never knew, just like a lot of men don't realize the women in their lives experience street harassment because harassers don't try that when a woman is walking with a man. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…4nwn Yeah, that's so true. I had a boss like that once, and he was two completely different people, depending on the audience. I assumed the "nice" version was fake. But an artist can't fake art, and the books NG wrote felt like they came from some kind of wellspring of goodness and humanity. So I continue to be puzzled and upset. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg The Neil Gaiman story breaks my heart. What are people? Is there one Neil Gaiman who tells magical, humane, gorgeous stories and another who uses human women as objects and throws them away? What is the relationship between those two men? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…y7zy It’s Shehecheyanu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shehecheyanu npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…y7zy As a religion reporter, maybe you know that in Jewish tradition, there’s a special prayer to say when your mind is blown by a phenomenon you’re seeing for the first time? (It’s used on other occasions, too, like seeing a rainbow or celebrating certain holidays). It’s a lovely custom. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…aev3 Thank you. I’m pretty sick of that. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg The key to understanding a lot of strange toddler behavior is to see that they are attempting to imitate us (since that’s how they learn), but they don’t understand what we’re doing or why. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…yj5c https://friendi.ca/ npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…6qar That would not be an effective strategy for small community organizations run by overworked volunteers. There’s no “allzyagottado” here. If there were, we would already have done it. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…ut0z They do, but they post updates and create events on FB. I didn’t mean exclusively older people, incidentally. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I don't see myself leaving Facebook. Without it, I don't know how I would find out about anything going on in my community. All the local arts groups, political organizations, and nonprofits in my community post there exclusively. And there are people I'd genuinely miss who are never going to be able to figure out an open-source social media platform. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Has anyone tried #Friendica as an alternative to Facebook? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg For anyone who has forgotten what the War of 1812 was about, or last heard about it in an American high school #history class, here’s a great article I found today explaining the American, British, Canadian, and Native American perspectives on the war, and how our view of the war has changed over overtime. Good stuff! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…53gv I think most of it is just The Trump Show. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…jdhx No, I’d never seen it before! Hilarious! Thanks for sharing! (We’re always taught that the British burned Washington, but I doubt our textbooks distinguished between Canadian forces and British forces, since they were all under one command at the time. But if the Canadians deserve the credit, they should take it!) npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…gaq2 I do intend, if possible, to outlive whatisname. One day, we will wake up in a world without him. But the damage he has done and will do will far outlive me. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg We settled that Canada is definitely not part of the U.S. in the War of 1812. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…lcmg Maybe my replacement will be an upgrade who has that feature! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg My library is ice cold today. They don't need to freeze me out! I'm already leaving! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Wishing you all the epiphanies you can use without giving you the blues. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg My 3-year-old grandnephew told me, “You’re the best cousin!” Keep your Nobel, your Pulitzer, your Oscar! I’M THE BEST COUSIN! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…args Here in the NY suburbs, environmentalists aren’t even saying how much we think this is a good idea because people left, right, and center are so angry about it. This is partly because this is such an expensive area to live in, and partly because the New York counties surrounding the city have an ongoing dispute about paying a tax to the MTA with few improvements to service here. And of course, nobody likes increased prices for anything, ever. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg “A story must be exceptional enough to justify the telling. We tale-tellers are all ancient Mariners, and none of us is warranted in stopping Wedding Guests (in other words, the hurrying public) unless he has something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man & woman.”—Thomas Hardy, 1893 npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg The gratitude that terrible people demand you to express that at least life isn’t worse than it is, and the genuine upwelling of appreciation for the goodness in your life are not the same. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg It’s wild how anxiety turns ordinary tasks into life-threatening emergencies, according to my brain. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg 3-year-old grandnephew asked for his sparkling apple cider in a “shampoo” glass! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…jhfw I’m reading “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” and it’s a minor point, but two characters are big Liberace fans. I was remembering what’s strange phenomenon he was. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Do you ever think of Liberace? npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…qe0w Thanks! They’re meringue. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…qe0w npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…pr33 Good to know! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…hf08 You never know! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…qe0w I’ll know this afternoon! I hope so! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…x58h Thanks! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I repaired my stand mixer in the midst of a big baking project today. I ran into a snag when I needed a magnetic screwdriver, but didn’t have one. Then I remembered what we learned about magnets in elementary school—any bit of steel or iron can be magnetized. I grabbed a fridge magnet, rubbed it on the screwdriver, made it weakly and briefly magnetic, got the set screw back in, and resumed the big baking project! My dad would be so proud. This is the most my dad thing I’ve ever done! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg And yet, a school administrator told me we would save money by throwing out all the books and “going electronic.” npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…wheu Happy holidays! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…s3u7 I like it! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Wonderful news from around the world this year about renewable energy, endangered species, providing clean water, curing HIV, and much more! “If it bleeds, it leads” is the motto of most #news, so we don’t hear stories about progress and healing as much as we should. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I don’t want to think of myself as the kind of person who dislikes holidays, but maybe I am. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…vy9f Ha! My grown son refused to play, and my husband took a while to get into it. My husband’s side of the family is VERY competitive! Early in our relationship, we went miniature golfing, which I’d always thought was just for fun. Nope! They tracked every point! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…dcmy Yes! I had forgotten this scene from when I read the book, and enjoyed revisiting it on your blog. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…zvev Yes, I was thinking of that, too. But the people I’ve heard say things like this are American suburban white Catholics and Protestants, who, if they are engaging in a form of ancestor-worship, do not come by it honestly. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…0gfn Condolences on your death! Welcome to your new job as a lobbyist! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Also, I wish my dead were watching out for me, but they did everything they could for me while they were alive. It seems ungrateful to expect more. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg I understand the idea of eternal life, but I don’t get the theological assumptions of people who believe their dead loved ones in Heaven become something like minor gods, influencing events that happen on earth. “Mom, I know you’re in Heaven protecting us and making sure we’re okay.” What theology tells someone that the dead have powers? Even the saints can only intercede. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…dcmy As long as they don’t break into “Holly Jolly Christmas” at the end, I don’t see how anyone could question the authenticity! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg The game comes with instructions for at least 12 ways to play, and they invite you to invent your own. There are competitive ways to play, but do we always need to compete? We do not. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Testing out the game Ouisi. It can be played in a variety of ways. This is one of the non-competitive versions. It’s a relief to play a game you can’t “win” or “lose.” The goal is to make connections among these beautiful images and talk about how you think they connect. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…tz0s Always! But now accelerated by fascism and technology. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…vexp Maintaining a home and keeping a family clean, healthy, and fed is simply very hard, unglamorous work. It certainly has its pleasures and rewards, but it’s not “pretty.” People don’t look decorative or sexy doing it (at least, I don’t). I hate how everything upon which fascism turns its hideous gaze becomes part of its twisted ideology. Ugh! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg Am I cleaning out the refrigerator? Or am I tradwifing? Hard to imagine, but the Internet has even ruined tedious household chores, and they weren’t great in the first place. npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg @nprofile…gaq2 Fact check: True! npub1nktm7rd4ysr08svfkzmh7l8d75qvayvwanjxsa0drr5npqp5zquskm9the Julie Goldberg “There's no real-world tradwife trend. It's better understood as an online fantasy, which attracts so much attention precisely because it's so foreign to people's lived experiences.”
