Betsy

raising a progressive interfaith family with my British husband, two kids, and Lab in our 1920 rowhouse in DC; arts fundraiser, enthusiastic nester

[Betsy @btransatlantic]

husband and I are boosted; kids are <5. I am 10% worried about one of us testing positive, 30% worried about having Long Covid after technically recovering, and 60% worried about the impact that needing to quarantine for ? will have on our jobs/marriage/general sanity.

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@fawfulfan same in DC

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@jonsteingart 9?!

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I have never called @CareFirst, my health insurance provider, and not gotten the “call volume is higher than anticipated…” recording. sounds like your expectations are fundamentally unrealistic, CareFirst, and you need to staff up your call center!

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@iamlaurasaurus @ClaraJeffery thank you! I was wondering.

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@AndyKroll holy shit. this dude was at least four years behind me in school but looks a good decade older. hate is NOT good for the soul, JFC.

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@capitalweather the lower humidity makes all the difference though!

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@dcfireems all well and good to be reminded that fireworks are illegal in DC, but there’s absolutely no enforcement of that!

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I mean yeah same girl same

[𝔸𝕪𝕝𝕚𝕟🍁★ɪʀᴏɴ ʟᴜɴɢ ᴇɴᴛʜᴜꜱɪᴀꜱᴛ🩸🫁 @_engineerPlier_]

How couldn't you

[Betsy @btransatlantic]

@capitalweather my pedantic 6yo will tell you that NO SUMMER DOESN’T START UNTIL JUNE 21 UGH DIDN’T YOU LEARN ANYTHING IN SCHOOL (which is what I got when I made an offhand comment about the summer heat)

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@SaraLFowler let’s do amateur trivia at @ANXOcider on a Thursday night :)

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@lingerie_addict arts fundraiser here. I love my job and completely agree with all of this.

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@ElieNYC I’m 37 - I’m not old!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is not a drill. He’s pledging it loudly and proudly. If you’re still voting for Trump after all of this, be clear: you’re voting for fascism and the end of American democracy as we know it. That’s not hyperbole - that’s simply paying attention to his own promises and plans:

[Betsy @btransatlantic]

I entered the Macbeth Lottery for $20 tickets on @TodayTix! Tap here to enter: https://t.co/u8SuEsKlNc

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@MichaelRWear needless to say 🔥

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thread.

[(((Rachel Finston))) @RachelFinston]

(I do not think this is an original thought, I am just having thoughts.)

I think the worst failure of Holocaust education for non Jews is the prevailing sentiment that it was a unique evil incomparable to any previous antisemitic violence. 1/?

[Betsy @btransatlantic]

@MClaudioLewis @shesbonky good point.

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@SaraLFowler like to satisfy your intellectual curiosity? or for job purposes?

[Cora Harrington @CoraCHarrington]

One thing vintage fashion sources show is that there has always been a wide range of human sizes, and that whatever size you are today, folks were also that size in the past. Most of us are not walking around with brand new, unusual bodies.