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people keep telling me to listen to my body but I’m sincerely unsure if my body is a reliable narrator
I use #Metatext mostly but I can’t give up the #toot! trumpet, so I keep both just for the notifications.

Has many one considered a para-civil service, like a paramilitary, but for human services? Mail delivery, libraries, healthcare, even sanitation?

https://mstdn.social/@geekaren/109702016466533885

karen (@[email protected])

Madison County (VA) School Board bans 21 books from high school library. The Handmaid’s Tale The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Perks of Being a Wallflower Shatter Me series of 6 books Tar Baby The Bluest Eye Sula Love The Tale of the Body Thief Interview with the Vampire Snow Falling on Cedars Empire of Storms by Maas Bag of Bones 11/22/63 It Furyborn https://madrapp.com/madison-county-school-board-bans-books-from-high-school-library-p4501-221.htm

Mastodon 🐘

I cackled so loud I scared the cats.

Classified documents discovered at home of former VP Mike Pence

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/24/pence-classified-documents-home/

Classified documents discovered at home of former VP Mike Pence

A lawyer for Pence, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, found the documents during a search of the former vice president’s Carmel, Ind., home, according to letters to the National Archives.

The Washington Post

Let’s assume I have an unlimited phone budget (I’m still using my iPhone 7 ffs), iPhone Pro Max, or iPhone Max?

I’m interested in photo quality and versatility, and in staying power. I’d love a phone I can use for the next six years. On the other hand, the Pro doesn’t come in red, which is an important consideration.

apple.com/iphone-14-pro/specs/

“That powerlessness—the need to rely on whisper networks and health providers and the restraint of prosecutors was the very opposite of liberty. So much so that it was ultimately deemed unacceptable in Roe. Now, we are back there, trying to figure out whose rights still exist, in which states, and who will be investigated and who will be charged. This, too, is a return to being un-free.” —Dahlia Lithwick (@Dahlialith)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/roe-anniversary-politics-power-amidst-uncertainty.html
#Roe #Dobbs #abortion
The Chaos at the Supreme Court Has a Clear Point

It’s not just the repeal of abortion rights that make the new order clear, it’s everything else that has come with it.

Slate
My fourth word was my first choice for my second word, which was third rate.
Really thought my awesome city council member was threatening to sweep the leg
I can’t believe I’ve never solved this problem, but I need to track down the opening bed from today’s Fresh Air and it’s not on the website, it’s not part of the podcast, and if there’s a trainspotter out there who keeps track of these things then I haven’t found them.