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Hey Micro.blog friendos, I activated ActivityPub & can follow Mastodon peeps via M.b but how do I tell people to find me at @kimberlyhirsh@kimberlyhirsh.com? I’m not showing up in the Mastodon search on indieweb.social. TIA!
I’m like a toddler over here with big feelings, might cry from relief because my parents got my brother’s special needs trust and ABLE accounts squared away. 💞
🔖 Read ‘Y’all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time by David B. Parker (The Conversation), h/t @benwerd.
As my Latin teacher said when teaching us the 2nd person plural, “y’all” is a legitimate contraction.
Today has not been my favorite day, for reasons I may choose to detail more extensively in the future. For now, I’ll just say that the day began with poor sleep, a migraine, and gut issues and it hasn’t gotten better from there. (Thus far it’s been an okay day for family health.)
🎮 If you told me in 2015 that I would be really psyched about getting farming sims by 2022, I would have laughed at you. Yet here we are.
🔖 Read 1 in 4 hiring managers say they are less likely to move forward with Jewish applicants (ResumeBuilder), h/t @benwerd.
The convenience sampling used here is a significant limitation but these are still distressing survey results.
🖖🏻 I’ve been falling asleep to the TNG episode “Relics,” and every time Captain Picard says “Ensign Rager” it sounds like he’s saying “Ensign Raygun.”
🔖 Read Taking on the Feminine Labor of Creating Holiday Magic by Sarah Hunter Simanson (Catapult).
This year will be the first Christmas that my mom has leukemia, that she can’t walk. I hope we will have more Christmases with her. I think her household is in for an awakening about this form of labor. In our household, everyone is responsible for a little of the holiday magic - we decorate together and bake together. I’m hoping it builds a connection for our son while it also makes the labor visible and reduces my holiday stress.
🔖 Read PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet by Jamie Zawinski. (h/t @manton)
At the moment, if I can’t do it in a browser, I’m not doing it. Which is why my Hive account is almost empty and I haven’t joined Post.
Finished reading: The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo 📚
I love that Leigh Bardugo wrote this and The Language of Thorns to give us the immersion of reading the same stories that the characters in the Grishaverse read.
💬📚 “I don’t remember my own story… I remember only how I fell into books, never to rise from their pages, how I was never truly awake until I began to dream of other worlds.” Leigh Bardugo, The Lives of Saints ❤️ Saint of the Book
Thanksgiving 1: Plain black leggings, gray sweater.
Thanksgiving 2: Floral dress.
Thanksgiving 3: PlayStation T-shirt, Star Wars leggings
Locking myself in the bathroom at my parents’ house to get a break from overstimulation, happy Thanksgiving 1996 everybody.
🔖🌲 Read On Mother Trees: What Old-Growth Trees Taught Me About Parenting by Kaitlyn Teer (Catapult).
A gorgeous essay in conversation with The Giving Tree, How to Do Nothing, the work of Suzanne Simard, and climate change. Read it.
🔖🍿 Read The Mom in ‘Home Alone’ Is a Messy and Magnificent Model of Motherhood.
It’s easy to forget how hard Kate McAllister works to make sure her kid is okay. I probably need to watch Home Alone again. It’s been decades.
🔖📝♿ Read As a Disabled Writer, I Am a Rich Innovator by [Sarah Fawn Montgomery](www.sarahfawnmontgomery.com/l (Catapult).
This is my new favorite essay about being a disabled writer. I love it so much. It reminds me that the way I work is a way that gets work done.
Currently attending Dr. Anuja Cabraal’s session on emoji coding.
The analysis process and how we choose to analyze influences the results.
Well said, Dr. Cabraal!
Today is a day of widespread pain and miserable stomach cramps. Thanks a lot, chronic illness exacerbated by shifting hormones…
🔖 Read What is Jewish Spirituality?
Mystics have their experiences, but what matters is what they learn from them…
🔖 Read The Eight Genders in the Talmud.
Super interesting discussion of how halakhah handles things that don’t fit a binary.
🍿 I’m about 30 minutes into Disney’s Disenchanted and while it definitely doesn’t have the magic of Enchanted, Amy Adams is still a gd delight and I think if you’ve ever had postpartum depression or anxiety you’ll totally get Giselle’s feelings.
🍿 Watched Eve’s Christmas.
This & Back to Christmas have similar premises.
If I woke up to discover I’d had a successful second chance at romance but missed the time between when I traveled back to make the change & the present, I’d be sad.
Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb person and they have no API at present for me to syndicate to, I’ll have to manually syndicate & so will likely lurk/reply more than I post.