Democracy of the Dead

Once I slid down the bannister in R.A. Torrey's house and broke it. Librarian married to an anarchist. Semi-provincial and anti-nostalgic.

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"The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to forge his papers. We must be wary of the trap."

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@NancyAFrench Yes, but I probably applied to 300 different listings. Only got a handful of interviews, and that was with around 10 years of experience. The place that hired me put their listing on Indeed with instructions to email a resume, presumably to weed out less serious candidates.

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@HannahGraceLong @LeahLibresco 😂😂😂

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Alternately, get your children hooked on mandarins. My 17 mo downed five yesterday 💀

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I remember my Silent Gen grandmother making a big deal about women's clothing having pockets, lol. It's not just a millennial thing

[duchess of arrakis @thisisnefertiti]

“It has pockets” is such an annoying millennial thing like it needs to die

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@MtnMommaljh @DoloresGMorris Ugh, my son's about that bad 💀

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Google tells me that 1-year-olds are supposed to be able to sleep through the night. Could someone please inform my baby

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@nienna121 @CivicNatalist My last library director gave birth for the first time at 42! It went well for her as far as I heard

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@ashleysbored It's just a bad slogan imo. Ends up pushing the "I tried hard to breastfeed, it didn't work out, and I need someone to reassure me that I'm not a bad mom" crowd in with the "Breastfeeding has no real health benefits, so why bother" stuff

[Quail 🪶🐕🩵 @GambelerQuail]

Fertility clock discussion is so stupid because so few normal women are involved. What if I told you that almost every girl wanted be married before 30? Most even want their first child before 30. No one with a brain actually needs a reminder about time.

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@delightsintruth Sunflower butter and jelly

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@lagerandgospel2 @AlaskanKate I've got a theory that parents with autism and ADHD have tended to homeschool at higher-than-average rates

Having poor social skills and trouble sticking to anything isn't necessarily caused by educational style alone

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Be careful who you marry

I had exactly no interest in video games but married a gamer (he wasn't doing as much of it then). Now I keep accidentally falling to my death in Minecraft 💀

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@CrankyFed @allie__voss And a lot of them already have summer jobs, or are SAHMing while their kids are out of school

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@drerincallaghan The doctor discouraged my grandmother from breastfeeding for longer than two months 💀

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I don't actually support banning this, but honestly a lot of the replies are confirming why I think this kind of testing (and our culture's tendency to highly gender all baby stuff) is bad

The Victorians many issues, but putting all tiny children in identical clothing is 👍

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@MattOsterndorf MINE TOO

Except I just make oatmeal anyway and get fussed at

What is it with little kids and Outside

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@adesertdryad @JillFilipovic As a librarian married to a welder...100%. People get too hung up on college as such, and forget that there aren't many trade-school-level professions geared toward women

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@theobronzor I hadn't heard of it before I saw the OP, but I went off and read it. Really good

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His dad was a twice-divorced alcoholic--not exactly a positive influence--but the loss definitely mattered

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Anecdotally, I noticed this when I managed to get ahold of my grandfather's elementary school transcripts. He did okay till the year his dad died; then his scores did a nosedive, he had to repeat seventh grade, and he ultimately flunked out

[Lyman Stone ��來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

this actually isn't true, we have several studies where indeed we can see a parental death, and yes, it causes quite notable drops in child test scores.