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Charlotte Riggle

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Accessibility professional. Disability advocate. Lover of saints. Builder of ever-larger tables.

Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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And here's the link, which I somehow managed not to include earlier. sethabramson.substack.com/p/we-now-kno...

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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You know, I'm not a huge fan of Seth Abramson's writing, but he always seems to be able to back up whatever he says. And what he said today suggests that it was worse than a mere dereliction of duty.

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It's 7 pm, and it's 94 degrees outside, and we don't have AC because it's not supposed to get this hot in the PNW, and I'm afraid my front porch geraniums are dying because I didn't think to water them a second time today until just now, and, yes, I had a Coke float for supper because it's too hot.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Even if they agreed she were legitimate, there are apparently a thousand other ways that the Convicted Felon and his allies could use the courts to tie up any replacement.
www.stonekettle.com/2024/07/ragg...

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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My 28YO daughter has used a cane for years. She has chronic vestibular and hemiplegic migraines.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Thank you, Charlene! I'm still figuring out how this site works and how to be more active here. Your thread helps.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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All the folks talking about replacing Biden - how many of them know how campaigns and elections and laws around political donations and such actually work? Jim Wright seems to understand the problems, and this essay from him is well worth reading. www.stonekettle.com/2024/07/ragg...

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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I'm so sorry. She's been with you for such a very long time.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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I mean, if it were me, I'd put on The Princess Bride. (And I'm sorry it's covid. Hope you feel better soon!)

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Ah, sorry. I have a life-long tendency to take people at face value. It can be a cause of some embarrassment.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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That seems like exactly the right strategy. That said, how can an ordinary person who isn't politically connected encourage that to happen?

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Oh, wow. Until so very recently, it was standard to give kids tylenol when they got a vaccination. And just about everyone gave their kids tylenol for teething discomfort, or for earaches. If tylenol is indeed detrimental to the development of babies and young children, that is terrifying.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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And the variants have changed a lot since the 2023-2024 version, so the earlier shot might not be as protective now. If we're careful through the summer, we can get the new shot when it comes out, then make sure to get it again in 6 months so we don't have this conundrum next time.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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I can't tell. The online schedulers just say COVID-19 or COVID-19 (2023-2024). They used to list Moderna, Pfizer, etc.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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If our last dose was October or November 23, should we get vaccinated now, or wait until the new one comes out?

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Given the 3-part question, maybe some people agreed if they agreed with any part of it? Or disagreed if they disagreed with any part of it? I think it's impossible to draw any conclusions based on the answers to this question, because it's impossible to know what the respondents were responding to.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Make dog treats! Slice the zucchini into circles (about 1/4" thick, or a bit more). Put the slices on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Stick the pan in the oven at about 150 degrees, and leave it until the slices are completely dry. Dogs love them! (You can do the same with sweet potatoes.)

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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That is so cool! I didn't know they could climb trees.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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There are 3 stories here. Two are lovely stories about gifts and giving. The first story, though ... is America what Trump thinks it is?

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Thanks for the link. I am happy to know that this isn't AI, and I'm sad because I have started to assume interesting images are fake until proven otherwise.

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Awwww. So sweet! (What do the kitties think?)

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Q. Pheevr's avatar Q. Pheevr @qpheevr.bsky.social
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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I've seen the quotes. I was hoping for a full transcript, but if it's not available, I'll take what I can get. Thanks for the links.

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Thank you. I was hoping for a full text transcript, but I'll take what's available. I appreciate it.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Do you have a link to a transcript? I looked and couldn't find one.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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They are! I was working on a captioning standards project at work when I first saw it, and the team had been talking about how to render unintelligible speech in captions. Sometimes "unintelligible" really is the best you can do. But this -- it's perfect. I love it so much!

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You absolutely MUST watch it with closed captions on!

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#Occupy4Gaza's avatar #Occupy4Gaza @anonopsunited.bsky.social
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You know what would be "tough on crime"? living wage fully funded schools guaranteed access to healthy food affordable housing universal health and child care care instead of incarceration for people with substance use disorder and mental illness

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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My grandmother and I both had our 21st birthdays in the same month of the same year.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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That's brilliant. I've been working on a bit of historical fiction lately, and I've worried that, if I put the wrong food on the table, someone, somewhere would see the mistake and throw my book across the room. So I did a bunch of research, but I didn't think to use paintings.

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I mostly stick with NPR, Heather Cox Richardson, and Beau of the Fifth Column. I'll add Washington Post and Talking Points Memo when I'm feeling up to it. Occasionally the BBC or the Guardian, if I feel like I need an outside-the-US take.

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Charlotte Riggle's avatar Charlotte Riggle @everphiloxenia.bsky.social
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Pick your sources carefully. Choose sources that are calm and rational, that aren't playing to your emotions. Go for news you can read (or listen to) rather than watch. Choose sources that don't provide infinite scrolling - choose news that comes in chunks that have a beginning and an end.

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Wishing a blessed Lent to all who are observing it. Your Orthodox Christian friends are not (yet) observing it. This is one of those years when the Western and Eastern liturgical calendars are way out of sync. Here's why.
charlotteriggle.com/calculating-...

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Fergal's avatar Fergal @fergalc.bsky.social
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Was talking about this just this morning. The Internet was supposed to make available the world's knowledge. Search engines were supposed to help you make sense of it. But if all the big players are invested in generating AI gargage, what good is it to anyone anymore?

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I once spent a long weekend at a cabin about 100 miles from Seattle, at an elevation of 6000 feet. It was a new moon, and it wasn't just that we could see the Milky Way. The sky was so bright with stars that the starlight cast shadows. It was incredible.

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