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@NicksWorld Congratulations on your citizenship! It's a rough time to become an American, but no place is safe right now, so you might as well be here. We're going to need to rebuild after all this nonsense. If you can still love the U.S. after seeing it at its ugliest, the future of the country truly is yours. Try to make other people's paths easier than yours, if you can. ️

I find that on pretty much any topic someone says the U.S. is silent about, I can just stroll over to MS NOW and pull a link or six. People should probably examine both their sources and their prejudices.

This vaguepost violates my usual mantra "If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it," but I'm tired of seeing this argument. And yes, there's a whiff of "not all men" because a common European stance is "yes, literally all Americans."

If you want me, an American who's fairly well informed, to explain anything that's happening here, I'm willing to help you toward a more nuanced understanding.

If you hate Americans, you hate me. You hate my mom, a charming old woman who can coax a bird from a tree. And you hate my son. That's not acceptable.

Please block me if you hate all Americans, because I will block you, either before or after I read you to filth about your country's recent history and present. No country is innocent, especially not in Europe.

@bimmer He is BEAUTIFUL to behold.

@TheBreadmonkey It looks like a society person's home on Columbo.

@MissGayle Could you reserve your snark for enemies? You could have mentioned cloth pads - also my favorite! - without being condescending. There's also cotton involved, so the industrial price trends will still affect prices for women who use cloth.

Also, the main headline is that pay parity between genders has already eroded in the first year of trump 2. That's sobering. We've got to get this ship righted. And we won't do so by arguing about every small thing while big things slip by. Alright, team?

@amydiehl

@anathema_device Awww ️

@anathema_device Imagine how fun it must be to be my neighbor.

@Eetschrijver I do the same for my human friends, but this is the first time doing so for a non-mammal.

@spytfyre She knows I love her.

If anyone is wondering how I'm doing, I just corrected myself out loud in the Target for misgendering my house plant Bianca in a conversation with myself. She wasn't even there!

@georgepenney "Show it your sandwich and see" is so epic. Love this installment. ️

@webidebi That's a great photo! Thanks for sharing both it and your intriguing words.

@TheBreadmonkey At the end of the month, I will be 16 years older than Mr. Glover was then. ️

@Catawu Thanks! No rest so far, but mostly that's because I feel like I'm on duty with the kid. I napped a couple times today (well, Sunday), so my husband was feeding him most of the day. Now that his work day is starting soon, maybe I can lie down and dream of the ocean.

Stabby temple headache tonight for a change. Good. I was getting bored with the ring headaches. #ChronicIllness

@davidnjoku Thank you for warning me. I am too delicate to watch that, I think. I've seen enough in real life - I don't need to see it any worse.

@ferrix @argals @soatok I will shout that every time it's applicable. Thank you so much for saving me the effort! Means testing is a scam set up to discourage qualified people from applying.

@catsalad Way ahead of you

@datn I still can't believe it. He seems so alive still.

Not me crying at the dog park. https://sfist.com/2026/03/13/joe-kukura-lover-of-san-francisco-longtime-voice-on-sfist-dies-at-55/