BlackDutchSnark

Retired, Gen-Xer, INF-J, HS English Teacher of 30 years due to health conditions (PsA, V-EDS, Diabetic) Finally getting to REST!!! Looking for my next chapter. Easily distracted by 🐈 🐈‍⬛ and 📚. “If music be the food of love play on.”

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2024-01-27 03:13:01

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@npub1mmf…eknq it’s better than not having any type of watchdogs. They are working on it at least.
https://forward.com/opinion/577694/icj-ruling-on-israel-genocide-was-correct/

2024-01-27 03:05:15

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@npub1mmf…eknq that’s why we have the UN to prevent that from happening. No country or countries should be allowed to do it ever again.

2024-01-27 03:00:15

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@npub1mmf…eknq I’m not defending Israel, but an estimated 25,000 killed is not even close to 5 million…

2024-01-07 15:08:08

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 @npub10fr…aw9l weren’t the Rethuglikkkans all worried about death panels n such when M4A was being discussed back in Obama’s presidency??? I guess it’s okay when it’s THEIR death squads🤔

2023-12-04 04:48:52

Finally got the tree decorated. I usually get it done the day after Thanksgiving, but I just wasn’t feeling well, so it’s a little late.
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2023-12-03 17:34:40

Off my front porch today… #SIlentSunday
#Photo
#Nature
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2023-11-19 22:34:11

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@npub132h…f594 sad day.

2023-11-17 13:58:57

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@npub1md3…dzzu @npub15sp…5e6q @npub1n4a…wzvg I totally understand. I just lost my cat that I had for 16 years. It was like losing a family member. She was “my” cat from the day we got her. She only tolerated the rest of the family. Including my husband.🤣

2023-11-17 03:37:25

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@npub1md3…dzzu @npub15sp…5e6q @npub1n4a…wzvg Married to a cat?? Or an artist?? Sorry couldn’t resist…darn those indefinite pronouns…

2023-10-26 17:06:24

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/robert-card-suspect-active-maine-shooting-b2436590.html
Shows just how fu@ked up our gun laws and mental health system are especially for military and vets. Our system is so broken for people who aren’t rich.

2023-10-26 16:56:31

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@npub14cq…k7mw If the people would stop voting for Reps & centrist Dems who are just Reagan Republicans at this point, it would help…a lot. No one who’s been in office more than a few years truly wants change. We need term limits & to get dark money out of politics so they aren’t bought before elected. 75% of my fellow Southerners SYSTEMATICALLY vote against their own interests because they’re still ignorant bigots at heart & don’t want anyone to have a better life, especially brown people.

2023-10-19 18:08:05

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@npub132h…f594 who does Sean Hannity think he is??? He’s just a hack journalist.

2023-10-01 03:57:11

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@npub1vkc…0wyj good news is that a lot of MAGAts will be dead or unable to go vote in future elections…

2023-09-21 17:56:37

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@npub14cq…k7mw just another way to keep people ignorant…eventually they will all be defunded in the red states.

2023-09-15 19:46:59

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@npub1zsl…0tu0 @npub1wpj…7m4z Forrest Whitaker and Keanu Reeves are obviously vampires.🙄

2023-09-15 03:20:19

Pennyroyal Tea…
No alterations needed. If you know, you know.
#MedicateASong
#HashTagGames

2023-09-15 03:12:55

Kickstart My Heart…With the Defibrillator
Actually inspired by the time when Nikki Sixx’s heart stopped due to an H overdose, and he was brought back by the EMTs
#MedicateASong
#HashTagGames
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2023-09-13 22:08:18

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@npub19ud…qvhk
Roller skating rinks
#ThrowbackThursday
#HashTagGames
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2023-09-13 12:06:16

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@npub1xyj…6rzz it’s 68 and drizzly here. First real rain we have had in probably a month an so much cooler. It would be such a nice day to just stay in bed…

2023-09-13 11:53:30

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@npub1xyj…6rzz Dottie’s morning energy=my energy

2023-09-08 20:13:49

So apparently ol’ Shuckabee has been committing a fraud…using the Arkansas state police plane for personal business… she learned the grift game from the best.
https://www.ky3.com/2023/09/07/arkansas-blogger-files-suit-seeking-records-related-gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-travel-security/
#Governor #GOP #fraud
#grifting

2023-09-07 15:38:48

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@npub1k4q…3lsq I know! They missed an opportunity there…but they aren’t really too smart, I don’t think. Ironically, we have to drive through Harrison to get to Eureka Springs, which is probably one of the most liberal spots in Arkansas. They decriminalized weed, long before medical marijuana was even a thing.

2023-09-07 15:29:21

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@npub1k4q…3lsq Harrison is where the grand-wizard of the KKK lives…so yeah…I don’t go there…This was being sent around a week ago.
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2023-09-04 02:05:06

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@npub15te…wdn7 Yes, she was. She lived to be 16 almost 17. She was the queen of the castle, and losing her was like losing part of the family.

2023-09-04 01:49:27

In honor of Jimmy Buffett
MilkofMagnesiaville…
#MakeaSongBored
#HashTagGames

2023-09-04 00:18:37

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@npub15te…wdn7 Elsa and my Luna could have been cousins…Luna had a lot of Siamese in her lineage. She was buff, blue and a bit of orange. She was a feisty, talkative kitty. She passed earlier this year at the age of 16. I sure miss her!!
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2023-09-03 23:09:11

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@npub189n…satx considering my great great grandpa went by about six different names, I’d say he was an absolute criminal as well as a racist fuckwad…He went by RG, but no one actually knows what that stood for, and he owned a suspiciously big store in a tiny podunk town in Arkansas. He was definitely shady as fuck…he wasn’t in the Civil War, but some of his brothers were…on the wrong side. At least the Irish on my mom’s side fought on the right side…

2023-08-22 20:18:10

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@npub1g02…umym our flowers are mostly hurting at the moment, but I have a couple of pretty camilla blooms and the lantana loves the heat!!!
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2023-08-22 16:26:12

Welp I hit the trifecta today…Sinus infection, ear infection and bladder infection…yay…
#ChronicPain
#ChronicIllness

2023-08-19 18:52:57

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@npub1c57…awu5 our 16 yo cat Luna who passed last Spring was also part Siamese, and she could get very spicy and talked a lot. She had opinions about everything!!!

2023-08-19 18:09:12

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@npub1c57…awu5 she’s a goofball!

2023-08-19 17:55:48

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@npub1c57…awu5 Doots looks a lot like my Myah…
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2023-08-18 00:46:36

Anyone know what the odds are in Vegas that Trump flees prosecution? I’m wondering if it’s worth getting in on.

2023-08-12 18:36:33

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub1k7q…3lrw I don’t really hate Spock, but he would definitely get on my nerves. What I really wanted to do was play with the cool medical diagnostic scanner he had… why don’t we have one of those by now??

2023-08-12 18:29:10

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub1k7q…3lrw I always wanted to be Doc McCoy…

2023-08-12 12:41:09

One thing I learned in 2020 was that athletics always will have priority, no matter what. The schools never stopped sports as usual when we were wearing masks and "trying to stop the spread" of Covid-19. Sports continued, and most of the kids who got Covid first were the athletes. Some no longer can play sports. One girl I taught has never been back to school because her immune system has been screwed up, so she’s being homeschooled.
How messed up is our system of values?

2023-08-11 18:57:52

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@npub1hd2…zm0u @npub10cl…d0zh as a 40 + person who had their first smart phone back in the 2Ooughts, wait til he discovers gifs…and memes.🤦🏻

2023-08-11 18:16:40

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@npub189n…satx yep. If they are moving to serious sofa investment, it’s pretty serious. My youngest and his GF have basically been living together since college, so around 9-10 years now. When they went and picked out a nice sofa together, I started including her as part of our family.

2023-08-11 18:05:06

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@npub189n…satx at least she asked before showing up with her laundry. It could be a bonding time for y’all.

2023-08-11 17:13:37

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@npub189n…satx my son did his DNA, & he came back with mostly white, 95% Scottish, Irish, English, Nordic, Northern European, 2.5 African, & 2.5 percent unknown, sooo. He takes after his Dad’s side more: ginger, doesn’t tan, he burns then freckles. My oldest takes more after my side of the family: more olive complexion w/dark hair/eyes, tans easily, rarely burns. The scientific community stopped recognizing race back in the 50s… we are all mixed at this point, pretty much.

2023-08-09 19:48:10

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@npub16kg…hh7t between this type of episodes and Covid, the numbers should be thinning somewhat.

2023-08-06 02:30:27

The restroom sign we need to see more of in the world.
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2023-08-05 00:04:30

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teaching.
It is very difficult to fight negativity when you are never thanked for anything and are ignored by people who should appreciate what you do. The first chapter also talks about this using the bucket and the dipper metaphor. I will admit, my bucket is empty. I feel like I have poured everything I have into this school, including my health, and have gotten little to no appreciation or even a “good job” for all the hours, days and years I have spent working for this

2023-08-05 00:02:31

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on top of the concerns and fears of teaching and living through a pandemic. While people around me seemed not concerned at all. I have tried to fight the negative feelings I have, but it is becoming more and more difficult everyday. I try everyday to think about the positives. The students are a huge positive in my life. These students are some of the brightest and most empathetic students I have taught in a long time. I tell the truth when I say they are literally the only reason I am still

2023-08-05 00:00:25

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as we are blamed for society's ills, and not one person ever thinks to put even one drop into our buckets. The last three years have been a very negative time for me and for many of my colleagues as well. Personally, I have dealt with the death of both my parents, the assumption of a responsibility I knew I had to do, but wasn’t emotionally prepared for, and no time to grieve. I have also dealt with the breakdown and betrayal of my body with injuries and chronic crippling illness,

2023-08-04 23:56:14

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That prisoner of war is exactly how I feel most days these days, and I don’t like it. Although this book is geared toward businesses, and how it lowers productivity in the business world, I know this is even more true in the field of education. We teachers have worked for so long without anyone filling our buckets. It feels like everyone, students, parents, our own families, society as a whole are dipping out of our buckets as we are expected to give to our students constantly

2023-08-04 23:54:04

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This was the first installment…. Chapter One of How Full is Your Bucket discusses how negativity can kill businesses, how it makes people less productive, more likely to have accidents, be sick, and take more sick days, run off customers. I believe this is true. I believe having had an empty bucket for so long now is literally killing me. At one point, it describes a prisoner of war that just comes in and lies down and just gives up, to die two days later.

2023-08-04 23:32:42

So the last yr I taught I got “in trouble” w/the principal when a parent complained abt what I said in class abt some things going on in the district. I acknowledge I should’ve kept my mouth shut, but as a result I was made to read a book called “How Full is Your Bucket?” & write responses to each chapter. Did I mention I’m an English teacher? Soooo the titles of my “reports” were called “Empty Bucket”1-5. The principal & superintendent did not realize what they were getting themselves into. 1/

2023-08-03 21:38:01

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@npub1zak…d6uu the judge made him wait on her…about 25 mins, or so😈Also told him he had the right to remain silent🤣🤌🏼🤣🤌🏼🤣

2023-07-28 18:30:18

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@npub139m…6cf9 these like to build in porch overhangs, in garages, in sheds, or shrubs very close to the house. etc. We had a couple build a nest and lay eggs in a wreath hanging on our garage door one year because my husband left the garage open a couple of weekend days for a project. We had to crack our garage door that spring so they could get in and out. We moved the wreath to the closet door right next to the garage door so we could use that entrance. This year a couple used a shed.

2023-07-28 18:22:19

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@npub139m…6cf9 yes It’s a house wren that has a nest in One of our bird houses. They build every year. They are spunky little birds!!

2023-07-28 18:15:50

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@npub139m…6cf9 all of mine from the feeder are giving the side poses.
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2023-07-15 07:22:02

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@npub1zak…d6uu @npub17u7…kdm5
Oh I drank plenty, but still rocked those tuckrolled baggy Lees with a popped collar polo like a boss and my scrunch/sock/chunkybelt game was chef’s kiss A+!!

2023-07-15 04:57:16

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@npub1zak…d6uu @npub17u7…kdm5
Exactly…remember the 80s when everyone starched and creased their jeans and button downs??? Good times!!

2023-07-15 04:10:36

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@npub17u7…kdm5 there’s a system. Once you learn it, it’s easy-peasy. I taught my husband and my boys. They are experts now.

2023-07-15 03:30:51

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@npub1kja…e5gq I watch a lot of true crime, and I have always wondered how seemingly intelligent, careful women could be tricked and abducted and no one see/hear them go. It makes sense that a ruse like this would work especially with women of color. The women I know are more maternal I think, personally, and more likely to help an unknown child than most white women I know. That’s just a subjective judgment based on a lifetime of experience, as a whitish woman with several brown friends.

2023-07-15 02:26:55

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@npub1kja…e5gq i have heard about people using a recording of a baby crying outside of houses or turning on outside taps to get people to open their doors, but a whole-ass child is a new one. I hope they find the missing woman alive and unharmed, but I have bad feeling they won't.

2023-07-15 02:06:17

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@npub1h8s…cvp3 I love those!!

2023-07-11 22:35:00

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@npub189n…satx it would be interesting to find out if a foreign agency is bankrolling him.

2023-07-08 19:19:56

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@npub1w3z…j6a7 as opposed to…meat based beer???

2023-07-01 19:22:16

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@npub1683…f0qg my kids always called them “urban assault vehicles.”

2023-06-10 03:12:40

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@npub15ef…n95r Definitely problems with verb tense like someone whose first language wasn’t English. I’ve had exchange students who write like this. The part about the plane being filled w/luggage makes me think it could be her.

2023-06-10 03:04:21

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@npub15ef…n95r Melanoma??Maybe??

2023-06-09 23:33:32

Tell you what, if we end up in a civil war over a thin-skinned, moronic, orange-colored conman…Putin will be laughing his a$$ off. Dang!!

2023-06-09 23:06:45

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@npub1uxk…ptq5 and that’s what the know about….who knows what he sold before they got them all back…

2023-05-14 03:36:55

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@npub1d56…t94y 78 F, (26C) 89% humidity here…at 10:35 p.m. 😭we skipped spring and went straight on into summer once again…

2023-05-11 19:32:16

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@npub15gn…gx9s love it!!

2023-05-10 05:04:10

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@npub18lj…80hq this is not a lie… my favorite restaurant sells a margarita for 9.00 that will get 4 people drunk by itself…I swear it’s served in a half gallon glass. I have a high tolerance for alcohol, part Scotch-Irish, but one is plenty.

2023-05-03 20:41:36

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@npub1t95…0kzy @npub14mp…g73q they really are…I love Canada…never been there, but I do appreciate them having our backs even though it’s been like living above a meth lab neighbor these last few decades…

2023-05-03 20:39:40

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@npub14mp…g73q @npub1t95…0kzy it probably should have been burned down after tfg got ousted…I sure hope they thoroughly disinfected and fumigated the entire place. Imagine living in 45’s and malaria’s orangish dead skin-celled bacterial wastes…ew

2023-05-03 20:36:51

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@npub14mp…g73q @npub1t95…0kzy true, true!!!

2023-05-03 20:30:44

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@npub14mp…g73q @npub1t95…0kzy no need to rub it in…we are still “the land of the free, home of the brave,” dammit…we can still come up there and kick your maple-loving asses…lol, jk, no we won’t.🤣🤣The govt. can’t organize a car wash, these days…shit, can I move to Canada???🤦🏻😬

2023-05-03 20:22:24

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@npub1kkq…mcd9 @npub1t95…0kzy well, teachers can’t do all the triage by themselves. Those kids gotta start pulling their own weight…🙄💯
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2023-04-27 18:51:05

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#[0] he's pretty fit, and has the best healthcare in the nation. I'm betting he can make it another 5.5 years. (I wonder what the odds in Vegas are.) You are right about Harris tho. The dumbasses put a known rapist and philandering con-man in power over probably the most qualified female or (male) candidate to run in the last 50 years, at least...just because they didn't like her...and she was white.

2023-04-26 20:48:13

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#[0] the other Democrats better stand up for her!

2023-04-26 19:41:46

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#[0] #[1] same, same… that shit hit diffrrnt!

2023-04-26 19:35:50

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#[0] me wearing this shirt, “welp I guess this is our last date…”
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2023-04-25 23:57:22

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#[0] I am still wondering how his handlers made that 13 year old go away…

2023-04-12 22:32:43

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#[0] I'm in US 7b 8a. If we water them everyday they stay green, but with teaching i always had to give up around end of Jul/ beginning of Aug due to school prep starting. The driest/hottest part of the year. Maybe this summer...

2023-04-12 22:07:37

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#[0] ours usually die back around then. I love that they just say "nope, too hot, no water I'm out...see you next year."

2023-04-12 21:45:40

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#[0] that's what they do. They die back and make babies!!

2023-04-06 04:32:49

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#[0] I think back to my 1994 ACER desktop with 256 MB RAM and 50-75 ms dialup and just laugh and laugh…