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jaymalea · 2 days ago
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Yes.
it is november, and yesterday it felt like it was supposed to be snowing. in boston, november used a winter month, not a fall month. it is supposed to be chilly; rarely capping over 45F. it is a sweater-and-jacket month. it is a "maybe a scarf too" month. in my childhood, november meant blizzards and sleet.
it did not snow. tomorrow the weather predicts a high of 76.
i have spent so many years of my life studying the longterm possibilities of climate change - the culmination of capitalism wreaking havoc on the bodies of people, animals, plants - but every so often i am still shocked by something small and personal.
in a hundred years, when someone goes outside in boston - will they know the feeling of "snow in the air"?
i know it's a learned feeling, a sensation that maybe only longterm experience can teach. a few years ago, i was walking with my friend who had just moved up from the south. i said it smells like snow and she gave me this look like - what the fuck. i said it feels like snow too, which didn't help. she looked up to the bright blue sky and then back at me and then back at the sky. 12 hours later, we had 3 inches. you can just tell if it's going to snow.
except i can't tell, anymore. i stand outside in a tee shirt and watch my dog dance around a lake. we're in a drought and the skin of the water has peeled back twenty meters. the lake is tamed, quiet, puddlelike and sour. my pokemon go app warns there's a weather condition in my area.
my dog gets too hot from running and sits in the water and i want to laugh about his long frame and how awkwardly he sits - and i can't. some simian part of my brain is scratching the walls. it was supposed to snow. it was supposed to snow, but now it's warm instead.
during the last full solar eclipse, the dogs and the birds and the crickets went crazy under utter darkness. we laughed at them then, promising it will all be okay in a moment. but some part of me is still locked in that long night: some animal sensation.
something is wrong, my body says. i can't afford eggs or rent. i go outside to watch a sunset and listen to birdsong. i don't bring a jacket. allergies are killing me this season, allergies i didn't have as a kid. everyone comments that halloween has started to feel strange, offkilter. that it's hard having "holiday cheer." my body thinks it's april, and then it thinks we're in september, and then june.
something is terribly wrong, she whispers. go outside. it is supposed to be snowing.
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jaymalea · 2 days ago
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goncharov
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jaymalea · 17 days ago
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Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight
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jaymalea · 17 days ago
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“I must not check the early returns. Checking the early returns is the mind-killer. Checking the early returns is the little-death that brings total obliteration.”
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jaymalea · 2 months ago
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Have they instituted The Hunger Games while I was out sick with Covid?
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jaymalea · 3 months ago
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Just remember this forever: the conservative movement believes in nothing.
When you believe in nothing, you can steal/take anything.
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jaymalea · 3 months ago
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reminder to:
straighten your back
go pee goddAMN IT STOP HOLDING IT
go take your meds if you need to
drink some water
go get a snack if you havent eaten in a while
maybe wander around the house/stretch a little if you’ve been sat at the computer a while (artists especially: sTRETCH THOSE WRISTS)
reply to that text/message from earlier you’d forgotten about
maybe send a nice lil message to someone having a bad day?
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jaymalea · 3 months ago
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Things to remember…
“The Republican War on Women is idiotic, wasteful, disrespectful, ignorant, and most of all it speaks to their lack of planning as they’ve yet to pass a single law restricting a woman’s right to bear arms.”
— Keira Marcos
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jaymalea · 3 months ago
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Why, we sing the chorus, of course
La dah-dah didee dah
La dah-dah didee dah dadum
Those people who constantly reblog your stuff but you never really talk:
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jaymalea · 3 months ago
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Are you ready to VOTE Tuesday November 5?!
Pass it on, please
You can register to vote by mail or in person on Arizona’s election website.
How to register and update your registration.
https://azsos.gov/elections/voters/registering-vote/registerupdate-vote
Online registration deadline: Monday, October 7, 2024
Register by mail deadline: Must be postmarked by Monday, October 7, 2024
In person registration deadline: Monday, October 7, 2024
How to check your voter registration
You can confirm your voter registration status on Arizona’s election website.
https://my.arizona.vote/WhereToVote.aspx?s=individual
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jaymalea · 4 months ago
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Justin posted the 1956 house he and his wife bought in Jasper, Indiana. It is a complete time capsule. Absolutely NOTHING has been updated or touched.  
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Everything is still here- look at the appliances. All original. This is not like the classy expensive updated mid century homes we’ve seen before. 
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The furniture has to be the original pieces and sets the previous owners bought. 
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The wall hangings are aged.
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This is an interesting piece, this bar. 
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Look at the bathroom- pink fixtures.
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Those lamps!
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The master bath has a yellow tub and fixtures.
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A 2nd bdm. Even the bedding is vintage.
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And, this bath has blue Fixtures. Wow, I would definitely keep them.
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More cool lamps and original furniture in the knotty pine family room. 
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Wow, look at the built-ins in the office.
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The lower floor.
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The basement is cool- look at that floor! And, the TV. The bar is classic. I wonder if they were leaving any of this.
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Off the rec room is a 2nd kitchen. A pink fridge!
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And, there’s this room, too. Look at the stone wall.
for the love of old houses
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jaymalea · 4 months ago
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jaymalea · 5 months ago
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Blessings of the day
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This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 
If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 
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jaymalea · 5 months ago
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jaymalea · 6 months ago
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jaymalea · 6 months ago
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jaymalea · 7 months ago
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Something about the idea that voting for president only matters if you live in a swing state, and that all the people in blue states or red states can indulge themselves in principled nonparticipation because the outcomes are preordained, strikes me as akin to playing with fire.
Is it really coherent to say "both sides are awful, write in Mickey Mouse or burn your ballot or just stay home and get drunk, unless you live in Pennsylvania, in which case maybe consider taking one for the team and compromising yourself by voting for the lesser evil?" Is that really the message that will lead to a preferable outcome?
What it sounds like to me is a sign that 1) you take your local electorate for granted, and 2) you see avoiding the worst case scenario as somebody else's problem.
I remember when Florida was a swing state. I also remember when Pennsylvania wasn't.
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