IN 1864…
The all-Republican Arizona state Supreme Court decided in a 4-2 vote that a law from 1864 which bans abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger is in full effect. They gleefully proclaimed, “[P]hysicians are now on notice that all abortions, except those necessary to save a woman’s life, are illegal.” Here are some things I learned today that put this 1864 law into perspective for me. In 1864 A single man wrote the law that is about to be enforced in AZ AZ wasn’t even a state yet, it was a territory that would become a state many years later (1912) The Emancipation Proclamation had been announced only one year prior There were no cars, tv, radio, electricity, penicillin, birth control, anesthesia, space travel, or computers Women couldn’t vote Minorities couldn’t vote Doctors used horsehair for stitching wounds Doctors stored their instruments unwashed in velvet lined cases The 1864 criminal code’s reference to “miscarriage” was written within the context of male misbehavior The code focuses at length on dueling The law addresses poisoning (which is the part of the law being resurrected) The law also addresses cutting out tongues or eyes, slitting noses or lips, and rendering useless someone’s arms or legs Another law of the day made sure that “no black or mulatto, or Indian, Mongolian, or Asiatic, shall be permitted to [testify in court] against any white person” Another law of the day made sure that “all marriages between a white person and a [Black person], shall…be absolutely void” Another law of the day made sure that the age of female consent for sexual intercourse was ten years old I learned something else that put this 1864 law into perspective for me: it’s 2024.
Read moreSTATE OF THE STATE OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
I’m not at all sorry that I have a strong and sincerely-held belief that, no matter how well-intentioned it may be, a state of the state address by a state governor in a statehouse surrounded by state representatives and state senators and state cabinet members and state Supreme Court justices all paid for with state tax dollars should not begin with a prayer in Jesus’s name. There is no place for such a ritual in a public address.
Read moreI put together a quick playlist of some James Bond theme tunes.
Read moreMy old boss and mentor and now friend Beverly got this for me when I graduated from library school. It’s sitting now prominently in my office downtown.
Read moreAs he kisses goodbye in the morning, after having me set with coffee & water & meds & my lunch & getting my work stuff ready, Michael tells me, “Have a good day on purpose!” And I love him for it. Although if I’m ever to say it to someone, I will change it to, “Have a good hair day on purpose!”
Read moreAmazon: for when you need an ad to say you don’t have ads.
Read moreWHY OH WHY has Saturday Night Live not done a parody commercial with Biden selling Trump Sux vacuum cleaners in response to all of Trump’s product hawking?!!? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Read more❓ Does anyone know if there’s a way, through iOS shortcuts, that I could set up a weekly repeating omg.lol status update. I’d like to post a weekly disclaimer reminder on my LinkedIn. Right now I’ve got statuses linked to a 3rd party that pushes to LinkedIn, but I’m not sure how to repeat the same status each week.
Read moreDIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND RONALD REAGAN ON IMMIGRATION (1989) (AND ALSO TRUMP ON IMMIGRATION (2024))
There was a time not too long ago (read, “Thursday”) that I would have died before ever placing a quote by the notoriously cold, homophobic, and generally awful former president Ronald Reagan on a profile I use. That man let a generation of gay men die from AIDS. Rather than taking any action at all, his administration literally laughed in reporters' faces about the epidemic. (Look it up.) In fact, Ronald Reagan’s is a grave I would gladly dance upon.
Read moreOkay, so first he’s doin’ shoes, then he’s doin’ cologne, now he’s doin’ Bibles. How much more do we have to endure before he’s simply doin’ time?
Read more⛪ “Just today, Trump began to hawk Bibles for $59.99, plus shipping and handling.” 🙄 I’ve never been so tempted to buy something just to desecrate it. And I mean really desecrate it. Show ‘em a little separation of church and state 💩🧻🔥
Read moreFiling under, “Funny ‘cause It’s True”.
Read moreRSS readers make me want to jump into a vat of acid! — Keenan Opening an RSS reader is about the quickest way I know how to trigger a panic attack in myself next to Googling “colon cancer symptoms reddit.” Genius. Hilarious. And funny cuz it’s true.
Read more✝️ A sign that reads “Center for Christian Values” hangs now on the building where some Republican organization’s sign used to hang. For me it begs the question, what exactly is a “Christian” value and how does it differ from a “value” value? Is it the pleated skirts? It’s probably the pleated skirts.
Read moreSo not only are we forcing births through abortion bans, but now we’re also forcing births through disinformation campaigns. I do not understand this republican, right-wing, crazy obsession with fetuses and wombs and women. I mean it’s all about control and patriarchy and keeping women in their place, obviously. But I do not understand that obsession either.
Read moreLove this! 🐲⚔️🕺🏻
Read moreSAVE DEMOCRACY ISN’T THE BATTLE CRY WE NEED
🦅🇺🇸 Don’t trust any organization with the words “freedom” or “liberty” or “heritage” or “patriots” in the name. Those organizations are never any of those things. Those organizations took those words, twisted them, mashed them, molded them into something insidious, and then resold them as hardly veiled nationalist, oligarchical rhetoric. Their buying audience is an all to an all too eager and ignorant one. ⛪️💵 They’re the mega churches of the political landscape.
Read moreTHIS IS A CHICKEN 🥚
Posted to LinkedIn: This is a Chicken. Despite what the liberal media would have you believe, this is a chicken. Immediately upon fertilization (and cryo-preservation) it is a chicken. All rights of chickenhood are bestowed upon it because it is a chicken. It can peck and eat insects and seeds, it can preen and take dust baths, and because it cannot sweat, it cools itself by dunking its beak in cold water or flapping its wings.
Read moreAN UNDECIDED VOTER’S DILEMMA OR MIRANDA NEEDS OUR HELP, YOU GUYS
NPR Watched Biden SOTU Speech with Undecided Voter Who ‘Wasn’t that Impressed’? | Snopes.com The funny thing about this (not funny “ha ha” but funny “omg we’re all doomed and if I don’t nervously laugh about it I WILL have a meltdown and I WILL take you there with me”) is that any American is “undecided” on who she’s voting for. What else on this entire earth do you possibly need to see with your own dull, listless, hollow eyes to make a decision?
Read moreCHATGPT IS A FRIENDLY ROBOT OVERLOARD AND WE DON’T QUESTION THAT NOW DO WE
I asked ChatGPT to analyze one of my favorite pieces of writing I’d done about a moment between me and Michael. Here’s how it responded. Not bad advice, and I especially appreciated the complimentary tone of our new robot overload. I feel much better about future assimilation attempts as generative AI continues generative-ing and readies itself for complete global domination, probably by this Friday, or Monday at the latest. Your piece, “Who are you?
Read moreAnd I’m sorry but in this whole entire populous nation, Trump and Biden are the best we can come up with? Really? That’s scary.
Read moreHonestly, the first question I have for Obsidian experts is how many vaults do you recommend a person have. Just one master vault? Or like, one per project? One for personal one for professional? If you make separate ones can the info and knowledge you capture still be linked?
Read moreFixed my “reply by email” button on MB. Also I found that the Wayback Machine did archive some of my Twitter posts under my first username. Can anyone point me to instructions on how to import them here? I saw something about that some time ago but couldn’t get it to work.
Read moreLyric videos are lazy. I mean, I wouldn’t say that to the designer who actually does all the work. Just the musician. Even my favorite ones.
Read moreMAYBE I SHOULD START TAKING THE LONG WAY AROUND
I have 420 iOS shortcuts, according to what the iOS shortcuts counting shortcut told me. My god, I collect them like friggin Longaberger baskets filled with Beanie Babies used to keep Precious Moments porcelain from cracking. A portrait Thomas Kinkade most certainly forgot to paint. I am so obsessed with them. But over 400 shortcuts? Maybe I should start taking the long way around. [Launcher] Camera [Launcher] Goblin Tools @AP-Get App Icon @IM-Base64 Images @IM-Copy Key Colour Code From Image @IM-Icon Generator @IM-OCR To Drafts @LO-What3Words Current Location @LO-What3Words Current Location (no Data Jar) @NO-Add Note to Obsidian by File @NO-Add Note to Obsidian by URL @NO-Dictate to Obsidian @NO-Last Tot to Drafts @PO-Fetch Show Notes @PR-Scriptable Bookmarks Example @SC-Shortcut Info @UR-Open Useful Shortcuts Related URLs @UR-Read Me a Simpsons Quote #DH-Screen Lamp #DT-Time to Decimal hours ␗ Unpaywall ␗ ♫ Song To LOL 📲 Add To Launcher Activity Report Add Cover To Audio File Add Icon to Folder Add list elements Add More from Artist Add Portrait Effect Add to an existing note Add to App Store wish list AM to Insta iOS 19 AM to Insta iOS Test An Ins Downloader Animate Text on GIF App Icon Downloader Append to Note in Apple Notes Append to Ulysses Sheet Apple Frames Apple Music Embed Apple Music to song.
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