laurie knaack

Find me somewhere else. I’m only logging in because I haven’t decided whether to delete this account. ❤️🐇🦆🧀👩‍🎤🪦

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

I quit Twitter for my stupid mental health, to stop doomscrolling early in the pandemic. I stayed quit because my stupid mental health got a little less stupid.

Only logged in so I can decide whether to delete this account on my own terms instead of getting deactivated.

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

Working, can hear my parents outside with my kid at the swingset. They are teaching him about Newton’s laws of motion but also seem to accidentally have taught him to gleefully say “shut up.” Whoops. He also sounds disappointed that senior citizens don’t want to go on the swings.

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

Have wanted my preschooler to just TRY taking deep breaths to relax for... only like a year and several books and charts of coping strategies... “Baby Siri” taught him in one day with “the snowflake” and now he wants to do it extra for fun. Why didn’t I think of this sooner

[Isabelle Thorne, Princess of the Pale Moon @Kalindlara]

"social distancing"
-boring
-assholes just ignore it
-lacks immediacy or bite

"staying out of melee range"
-conveys the appropriate sense of danger
-encourages tactical forethought
-teaches good skirmish tactics

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

@biverlycrusher no one is

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

We, the people of the internet, deserve a hug emoji that is solemn and sympathetic and doesn’t look like you’re mocking the person with jazz hands 🤗

[Alyssa “mostly updates” Cole @AlyssaColeLit]

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[Namira Islam @namirari]

Diversity is who is in the room.

Inclusion is who has influence in that room.

Anti-racism is a mindset, way of being, and goal for a group of people in a room.

These are not interchangeable terms.

[isha @ishadesign]

mentally i need a 2 month vacation, physically i need a treadmill, emotionally i need 2 dozen bagels

[gender of the day @genderoftheday]

The gender of the day is a fancy flannel shirt.

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

@beeurd @pokebunnie Yep, I’m old enough that “GLBT” was more common in my experience growing up (although not as standardized in journalism as “LGBT” today). Names of organizations founded in the 80s-90s like GLSEN and the GLBT Historical Society still reflect that order of the letters.

[cara.city elsewhere @caraesten]

damn it's almost like the idea of existential precarity being necessary to motivate work was a lie sold to us by capitalists with a vested interest in the exploitation of our labor! wild!

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

@Millerheighife It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a dead human if you count viewings/wakes, but I stayed with my husband as he died in the ICU (exactly 2 days and 2 months ago today, actually). Seeing death wasn’t the hard or scary part, but his continued nonexistence really sucks.

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

@NightSkyGames Embarrassingly, it’s “embarrass”. I forget the extra “r”. When that looks wrong I think it’s like committee which has three sets of double letters so I try to fit another “m”... Ok, definitely wrong. I usually can spell; what’s wrong with me, I’m so... the word I can’t spell.

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

Filmed at a great lecture 12 years ago and depressing how very true it still is

[Sofia ''Buff Girlfriend'' @sofiabuffgf]

@AgiaTheBun I don't want to come off as condescending but I'm speaking on a very real historical process of how gay liberationists push for lgbt rights and liberal politicians kneecap the movements. Leslie Feinberg really puts it well here:

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

I will never be able to unsee Pratchett wizards as frustrated tech folks now

[they/them causing jayhem @jaythenerdkid]

terry pratchett more or less did this when he based his wizards on the nuclear physicists he used to work with

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

Happy launchiversary, Voyager 2 💕🌟

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Congrats, Voyager 2! For 43 years, you’ve been a pioneer in the exploration of our solar system. It hasn't been easy but you make it look smooth. Cheers to your continuing journey revealing some of the universe’s secrets as you travel interstellar space. https://t.co/Na6jIcnYIT

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

@thatdangdingus @RachelWenitsky All these and Tacoma!

[laurie knaack @Knaackl]

@LuxAlptraum I don’t like it, especially if they say “mommy”.

There isn’t a good alternative in som cases, like if a teacher over Zoom is addressing me and my kid, since kid doesn’t usually call me by first name so I’m used to “Mama can hold the paper down. KidName, use the paintbrush...”