I will never forget this portrait composed of the faces of healthcare workers across the world who died from Covid. These are the heroes who should never be forgotten.
@1goodtern Also at a conference for work - first outing of this size and involving public transit since 2019. Shockingly, 2 other participants in N95s (we’d nod to each other in the corridors like secret agents or something). And zero pushback. No questions. Heading home today. Cheers.
@MrLaugh68@doggintrump Cute. But please help me understand what whole kale and spinach are… especially odd when grouped with cabbage. Two of these are not like the other.
@brianluidog lol. The all women company doesn’t need 100 to accomplish the same goals.
Men’s “invisible work” is invisible because it only exists in your own minds.
@thecostofwork@MoundLore Wrong. My Kenmore fridge worked w/o repair for over 2 decades. This new garbage is what costs more to keep than pitch. Per the team that’s keeping my 18mo fridgedaire “working” while the extended warranty holds. Now *that* bit of paper was well worth it.
A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall.
That’s not what Sears was.
Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose.
It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit.
A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail.
That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things.
Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them.
People call it the death of a department store.
I don’t.
Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now.
Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl
We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). https://t.co/X27QJejNDt
Making children hug or kiss people they're not comfortable with is the beginning of people pleasing. It teaches our body is for others and that discomfort is something to endure not to address.
@RockyColo@BiankaB12 I’m sorry, but that’s not how it works. Vote? Sure. Be optimistic? Sure. But keep a keen eye to how Dems have soft handled everything these past 2+ decades… and just when you think checks and balances are out the window - BOOM! Veto. And they won’t have enough to override.