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December 7, 2021

Covid hits one of my younger cousins, and his wife...

Ugh.

They now live in a Rural Christian Community. Have two kids ?7 & 4. Love them a lot. He's funny, and she's very creative. Last time I saw them was '19 Christmas gathering.

He was rushed in an ambulance to the hospital a little while ago while his wife is home with the kids.

Hopefully he'll be given those monoclonal
(?) antibodies.

His mom is one of my favorite cousins. He's 40 something and has got two 2 younger siblings, both with partners both here in the NJ, NY area, as is my cousin and her partner in NJ.

My sis is feeding me the news by text.

December 2, 2021

If I want to post an image here do I need a ?photo, image hosting site...

I finally have internet service at home through my phone since the pandemic though I got on line through the library, and internet cafes back in late '95.

So I never got photo hosting etc

Thanks in advance for good info, advise! 👍

December 2, 2021

Has anyone seen a post, or heard from Lucky Charms today...

I happen to catch his post around 1:30AM EST. ..

He had a pretty bad fall - missed last 3 steps on the stairs. Nothing broken he said but started to really hurt. (no kidding)
Was going to go to sleep.

I'm concerned he might have had a concussion, or some else got bad later.

November 30, 2021

Xenobots - what Possiblly could go wrong?! 🙄

Xenobots, named after the African clawed frog, are synthetic lifeforms that are designed by computers to perform some desired function and built by combining together different biological tissues.
Wikipedia


So now it appears they can reproduce, too. 🙄😐😑

They used stem cells scraped from a frog.

One of the scientists said - (paraphrase)
It's not a new life form. It's a Robot.
A robot is something that humans tell it to what to do, and it does it.


Okaaaaaay....
July 31, 2021

A question for those who have an Auto-immune disease & been Vaxxed

my longest (and dear) friend from college who has
hashimodo's disease (maybe something else) is terrified of getting vaxxed.
She's in general a liberal so she's not gone off that deep end on beliefs.

Some doctor who had some Auto-immune disease she followed dropped dead a few days, or less after getting the shot.

Luckily she' left NYC (while still keeping payment for her apartment there) when cv19 began to spread, sequestered up in the hills of NYS (her old boy friend's house), only sees a few people, and gets driven into town for supplies. She's somewhat gregarious, so this also takes a toll on her.
She masks, distances, does wholistic health stuff (as do I), and worked in a hospital for ?30 yrs.

At some point hopefully she'll return to NYC.

In the meantime I tried w no success to convince her - but this Delta variant...

Could some of you share your vaxxed experiences.


Maybe I'll try again to convince her using examples from you folks.
She's a beautiful soul as a person, and talented, too, as a poet and artist.
Thanks in advance. 👍🙂
April 30, 2021

"Fold Marks"? Like as in Mad Magazine back covers? AZ ballot "Recount"!

Omg 🤪😂😂😂 on RM Show

Fold marks on the ballots will eventually reveal that "the former guy" WAS elected. Q stuff.

Commence more 🤪😂🤪

More serious stuff about that real election observers finally being able go in, and see wtf they're doing
.Former guy obsessed about UV lights revealing his victory

April 10, 2021

Got my first shot (Pfizer) yesrday afternoon...

(phew) on my way! Next one April 30th.

Had a (1-10 scale, 10 being the worst) .25 ache about 45 mins after shot for about 5 mins I remembered to move my arm around. About 8+ hours had more 2-3 ache but only lifting it nearer to shoulder height. Got Tylenol if i need it.

I figure if any more effects - that'll be in the next 24+ hrs.
So far, so good.

I know it's usually the 2nd shot where more might occur. I do know at least 1 person who had nasty effects from the first one.

Corrected my spelling of Phyzer in the title 😁
March 18, 2021

Sometimes I just have it up to the wazoo with...

So many men's effing violence towards women!!!!
Aaarrrrrgggggggg!!!!
😠😠😠😠😩😩😩😭😭😭😱😱🤪🤪🥺🥺🥺🥺 sigh

Sorry, I needed to get that out

(And I was feeling this a day or so before this lastest atrocity, and most likely add Racism into the mix)

why. Why. WHYYYY can't most men think of us as People
first!!??!!? ( pounds imaginary pillow )
I'm mostly being rhetorical here.

And not all women want children either. Motherhood is not the end all and be all of all women.
I *honor* women who undertake the intense, and joyful journey (and dad's who are committed to being a good dad). I remember the first time I felt a baby move inside the to-be-mother. Like...woooah!
Anyway luckily my parents never pushed me in that direction.

I have to find the articles that pose
"women put up with milder forms of sexism so they
can avoid violent sexism".
(as I'm adding this radio show on violence against women - about the same in the US. Sigh)

Obviously there's too many who experience increased injuries, and death.

Stay safe!

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Name: Catherine
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About electric_blue68

flaming liberal! :D Possibly progressive in some areas (not sure where the ?line is if there is one) Think FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Paul Wellstone, Ted Kennedy. Artist (Fine [drawing, getting back to painting, digital(!) art, artist books (where various book forms are used to make an art piece), assemblage sculpture] & Commercial [graphic, design, traditional pu & m, some illustration] , Crafter (unique wire jewelry, yarn work, occasional other crafts), Photographer. Loves the pursuits above, my city, cities, piblic parks & gardens, the deep countryside (been in the high desert of AZ, and up in The Rockies), nature, music, reading, cultures from around the world, space & earth sciences, science fiction, some history, food [:D].
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