Apparently one of my neighbors can't tell a very overweight doberman from either Mischief or Kaz so I got woken up by multiple police at 5 am bc they thought the lost dog might be mine.
Went out to see if I knew the dog, which I don't. Which means the dog is either not from this neighborhood, new, or never gets walked.
I wish I could explain to people that dogs that don't get walked in the neighborhood are less likely to get immediately returned. Like I've gotten a lot of dogs home in under an hour from when they first went missing.
Sweet dog, and the cops weren't bad.
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Okay this is gong to sound condescending on several levels but:
There's a kind of cliche about training a dog - that if you want it to always come when it's called, you should never scream at or punish it when it does. Even if you just spent twenty minutes getting increasingly panicked thinking it was dead in the woods! Even if it had been trampling through the neighbors garden! It is very important that it's direct association is 'stopping whatever super interesting thing I was doing to go back to human = being praised and rewarded'. If the association is instead being screamed at or punished, the dog will be less enthusiastic to stop whatever fun thing it's doing to run to that.
I feel like a great many people would noticably improve their own lives if they started applying the same logic to how they treated other humans.
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My favourite thing in the world is seeing folks act like real human beings around big celebrity personalities
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Sustaining a garden required me to get very comfortable with killing plants. I did not expect that going in - if any one warned me, I missed it.
And it's not just the weeds that are constantly intruding and need to be fought back. Sometimes it's the plant that the previous person placed precisely in that portion of the plot that gets the good sunlight and it's just the wrong plant to be taking that space. Sometimes it's the plant that was the right plant but was let grow so wild that it's suckers are going to destroy the rest of the garden unless it is removed. Often it's the many seedlings that were started because, hey, some of them will fail, but now you've gotten good enough that twice as many survived as last year and you don't have room for twice as many.
Plants grow. It's great and rewarding to watch them live out their cycle over the course of a season or years. I work hard to keep them alive and thriving when they're young and not yet established. But there's still so much killing.
listen man, u wanna know a great truth of the universe?
every plant person stands upon a mountain of plant corpses
i have killed endless plants, and once i've mastered one type i inevitably will kill a new type because so many plants have so many different requirements
y'all have no idea how true this is
I am a plant mass murderer
You have to try, and fail, and fail, and fail again. You have to try lots and lots of variations of different things until something works.
It's not even just the learning process, though. I'm trapped in an endless loop of: plant seeds or gather transplants-> plants grow-> too many plants-> some of them die of neglect-> need more plants -> and so on.
I usually lose about half my stock to overwintering cause I can never get arrangements for all my potted plants before the hard freezes hit...
I'm getting it under control though. I have lots of plant recipients now that are more skilled and don't kill my adoptees as much.
Right now my trouble is with the seeds. I launched a huge personal seed starting project this winter and I got HUGE success with some species (jack-in-the-pulpit had near 100% germination!) and huge failure with others (Not a single Scutellaria...)
If you plant 100 seeds you gathered from the wild, it's a reasonable estimate to expect maybe, like, 10-20 plants. BUT you might get 100 plants. Or 1 plant. Or none.
You don't want to be like "Dammit! I wish I had planted more seeds!" But you might end up like "FUCK FUCK FUCK WHY DID I PLANT SO MANY SEEDS"
Oh yeah and the eternal situation of setting out to grow an equal amount of several different species you want to work with this year, but with 1 species you have insane success way overshooting your expectations and with the others you have hardly anything
so you show up to the pollinator garden meeting like "hi here are 50 american bellflowers! and this is Dave. he is a coreopsis. probably"
Digging up a random fern or something before the meeting to round out the selection might make you feel a little less weird about it, but still.
guilty as charged...
Like heartbreak is the price of love, death is the price of life.
I have killed so many plants.
We have like three plants that come inside for freezes and then I have a plant cabinet full of dead plants. Ppl think I have a green thumb.
What I actually have is just enough knowledge of perennials. I've learned if I just plant them where the sun and moisture levels say to plant them then they may grow back. So I don't get attached and if they grow back the next year then yay!! Idk how many plants I've killed this way and I never will know.
Also once you start gardening and saying hi to neighbors they will offer you free plants. Our neighbor gave us any lilac we could dig up bc she couldn't get it to bloom. We now need to dig up some we planted and give to other neighbors bc we over planted (wasn't expecting the tiny twig pieces to make entire bushes)
Gotta love when people don't understand what they are talking about.
Like I was talking about abortions and maternal mortality rates. Abortion restrictions raise maternal mortality rates. (And fetal and neonatal).
And this person was like 'well with more births there will be more deaths'
I...
Like ?
Mortality rates already account for that. Maternal mortality rates are the number of maternal deaths per a certain number of live births. Like 1/100 is 1/100 wether that 100 is 1,000 or 100,000?
Having anxiety makes me a much better 'debater' bc I will either Google or ask the other person to define the terms if I'm not confident that we have the same understanding of them.
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((Article from Aletheisthenes on Medium))
It sounds wild. Maybe even crazy. But every step is already in motion. I’d be happy to be wrong. But if this is correct… you’ll be ready.
On April 20, 2025, the United States may initiate its final steps into authoritarian rule.
That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically and allow Trump to impose martial law. (San Francisco Chronicle). Given Hegseth and Noem are the main “advisors”, the conclusion is foregone.
And as his two months in office has already shown, he won’t stop at just a legal opinion.
Expect an executive order even that same day or the next, officially declaring the Insurrection Act, restricting freedoms in the name of restoring control of the border and perhaps in blue-state cities, and setting the larger plan in motion.
Of course, this won’t be framed as an attack on democracy. It will be packaged as a necessary response to crisis — as authoritarian takeovers always are.
But once it happens, there’s no going back.
This will be the point of no return.
The roadmap for overthrowing a democratic government isn’t new or theoretical — it’s a well-worn playbook, tested and repeated across history by those who crave power more than liberty. After rejecting it initially, being incredulous, I have realized there is too much evidence suggesting this may be what’s happening now to remain silent.
Telling other people what may be happening, so they can recognize it and maybe together we can stop it, is my entire purpose here.
This is Part 1 of what has turned into a series: Their Coup Playbook: How They Quietly Kill the Constitution in the Coming Weeks and Months
This Is How Democracy Ends: Here’s their Playbook
It won’t all happen in one night.
Instead, the process will unfold in stages, each step making resistance harder.
Free elections, a free press, and the right to protest will disappear one piece at a time, until there’s nothing left to save.
My entire goal here is to make people aware, so you can recognize it, if it really is what’s happening, and maybe together we can help stop it. It’s all I, personally, can do.
Here’s how it will happen, step by step, after Trump invokes the Insurrection Act with an Executive Order:
1. “Resist!” Demonstrations Grow — Just As Planned
- Left-leaning and even more centrist people will be alarmed. Peaceful protests will be organized nationwide, as they already have been being organized now, with growing numbers of people joining protests each week.
- The calls to “Resist!” will grow louder, and large-scale demonstrations will begin forming in major cities.
- This is exactly what Trump wants. He didn’t invoke the Insurrection Act sooner because he needed his opposition to gather first — so he could use them as a tool for his next step.
- He also waited 90 days, instead of invoking it on Day 1 as Project 2025 recommended, so he would have his people in place, and remove those who would oppose them in the government, military, courts, and civil positions.
- His cabal is waiting for a strong reaction — they want massive unrest. They need a justification to kick off the next steps in their plan.
- their plan.
2. The False Flag Crisis: Turning Protest into “Terror”
- The protests will turn violent quickly. Maybe in a day, maybe during the next big protest the following weekend.
- They will turn violent not because of the protesters, but because they will have been infiltrated by agents provocateurs, from militia groups like The Proud Boys, whose goal is to escalate as quickly as possible and give Trump and his cabal an excuse to trigger the next stage.
- Expect “terrorist” bombings, targeted assassinations, or high-profile acts of violence, either staged or exploited, to justify the crackdown.
- There may even be an extremely high profile assassination of a leading right-wing leader that changes everything in a moment… and the “woke radicals” will be blamed, and the country will rally around more extreme measures to bring back order and control.
- The media will be flooded with images of chaos, pushing the public into a state of fear. Calls for “order” will follow.
3. Trump Declares Expanded Martial Law — And Calls for Militia to assist the police and Military
- Trump has already invoked the Insurrection Act — so now he now declares even more extensive and repressive martial law, and orders troops into major US cities where most oppose him, branding protesters and opponents as “seditionists,” “traitors,” and the “woke mob”.
- He will call on “good Americans” to grab their guns, like the patriots of 1776, and join the militias forming to “restore order” and “take back control” from the leftist threat. Using militias also gets him around resistance from military leaders who might oppose his orders.
- The militias already exist — the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, and others — and they are not some distant fringe. They were at January 6. The most extreme and radicalized are all released from prison now. They are ready to roll, and to answer Trump’s call, which they were waiting for four years ago.
- The militia members are your neighbors. The difference between them and you? These neighbors own and have been training with AR-15s. You and your friends? Not so much.
- This will be framed as “helping the police” and “keeping order.” Law enforcement will quietly welcome them — or, in some cases, will deputize them, with Trump’s support.
4. Mass Arrests of Opposition Leaders
- Journalists, Democratic officials, and activists will be arrested under charges of sedition, terrorism, or “inciting violence.”
- Expect Mark Milley, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger to be arrested quickly and with great press coverage. How long the show trials take is probably a good measure of how much control Trump has established over the courts.
- Key Democratic governors and attorneys general will be removed first, ensuring no state-level resistance.
- Law enforcement and military ranks will be purged, with loyalty tests ensuring only Trump-aligned officers remain.
5. Military & National Guard Take Over Major Cities
- Expect deployments in Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and other blue-state strongholds.
- Curfews and lockdowns will be imposed, justified as measures to “restore peace.”
- Checkpoints and military policing will become the new normal. Expect them in particular along major highways going to Canada or Mexico, and in red states — to identify and detain seditionists, traitors, and people of questionable loyalty.
- Trump’s building of detainment centers in Guantanamo, and expansion of the 106 other ICE detention centers, was not actually intended for illegal migrants. And just a few days ago, Blackwater founder and Billionaire Erik Prince offered to help Trump “privatize deportation camps” as has been being done with prisons per Trump’s Day 1 Executive Order. So now Trump has an extrajudicial place to store the disloyal and those who resist, in for-profit camps guarded by militias and loyal military. Until he decides what to do with them.
6. Press Censorship & Total Media Control
- Independent news outlets will face shutdowns or takeovers. Those that resist will see their journalists arrested or harassed.
- Mainstream media will be forced into compliance. Blackmail, corporate pressure, and legal threats will ensure they toe the line.
- Social media platforms like X (Twitter) will amplify the official narrative, drowning out opposition.
- Other social media and lines of communication will be turned off. The Internet will be monitored, people identified from this monitoring for arrest, using Palantir technology. Peter Thiel, who I’ve written about before, is co-founder of Palantir. We will fully enter the surveillance state.
7. Borders Close & Dissidents Are Trapped Inside
- Passports will be revoked for critics and opponents. If you’re on a list, you’re not leaving. Especially if you’re of Draft age.
- No-fly lists will expand to include activists and journalists.
- ICE and DHS will be weaponized — not just against immigrants, but against political enemies.
8. Elections Are “Postponed” Indefinitely
- The 2026 midterms will be suspended under the excuse of national security concerns.
- Red-state legislatures will eliminate Democratic-leaning districts, ensuring permanent Republican control.
- By 2028, Trump (or his handpicked successor) will run unopposed. Elections will be a formality, probably still held. But rigged.
Project 2025 and the Insurrection Act: This Was Always the Plan
This isn’t speculation.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 lays out a detailed strategy for permanent right-wing control.
It openly advocates using the Insurrection Act to crush opposition and dismantle the administrative state.
Trump isn’t improvising — he’s following a script.
We Can’t Wait — The Time to Act Is Now
We can’t sit back and wait for Trump to fire the starting gun — because once he does, it will already be too late.
We need to prepare now.
We need to plan now.
We need to dismantle his plans before they begin.
We have one month.
That’s it.
The Only Way to Stop this Coup is by Exposing It
The only way I can think of to stop this conspiracy, which is in final planning stages, is through exposure.
If people see the playbook in advance, they will be less likely be manipulated when it happens.
They might question the narrative. “Wait. This is what they said would happen. I thought it was crazy. But maybe…”
We need to spread this narrative far and wide so that when the moment comes, no one can claim ignorance.
Maybe we will be proven wrong.
Maybe we will look silly.
Or maybe… we will have derailed the plan, by telling people what to look for, to recognize the playbook steps as (if) they happen.
Here’s what we must do before April 20:
- Empower the press, law enforcement, military, and elected officials to recognize the game that’s being played. They need to understand what’s happening before they are pressured to go along with it.
- Share this post, or write your own. Do your own research. Don’t take my word for it. Talk with your friends and family about this crazy conspiracy theory that can’t rally happen… can it? So if and when the steps actually happen, people recognize it for what it is.
- Prepare the public so they don’t take the bait. Trump and his cabal want protests to explode into chaos. They want violence in the streets to justify their crackdown. We must be ready to outmaneuver them — to refuse to be used as pawns in their game.
- Stand up to the militias — and stop friends and family from joining them. The Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and other armed groups will be mobilized as Trump’s shock troops. They will be framed as “restoring order” and “helping the police.” We need to be ready to counter this, to make sure our neighbors, friends, and family don’t get sucked in.
- Inoculate our fellow citizens against the propaganda. Most Americans are good people — but good people can be misled. They can be scared into compliance. Our job is to make sure they see what’s happening before it’s too late.
The only way to stop this plot is to expose it, reject it, and make it unmistakably clear to every American what is happening. We must stop these malign forces from enacting their will on our country, the world, and each of us and our families.
What if we Don’t Stop It?
If it is not stopped, and Trump enacts the Insurrection Act, at that point we probably only have 48 to 72 hours to try to stop everything from happening after the Executive Order.
Once martial law is imposed, there will be a tiny window — no more than three days — before resistance becomes nearly impossible.
Stopping it before it happens is the best option.
But what if we don’t?
In my next post, I’ll outline peaceful, strategic ways to resist — while we still can. And what our reduced options are if it still happens.
If we don’t act before April 20, then by April 23, it will already be too late.
The next post lays out a concrete action plan — exactly what you can do to try to stop this. See Part 2: If the Shit Actually Hits the Fan.
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when you refuse to vote from the left, the message sent to politicians is that left-leaning people are not reliable voters, that is why they court moderates after elections like this.
right-leaning people will vote for whatever idiot they put up, they are reliable voters.
so don't act shocked when you don't vote and the Overton Window shifts right
WHEN YOU REFUSE TO VOTE, YOU ARE ACTIVELY MAKING THE GOVERNMENT OF THIS COUNTRY MORE CONSERVATIVE AND YOU NORMALIZE THE ABSOLUTE MONSTROSITY THAT IS AMERICAN RIGHT-WING POLITICS.
if you don't vote for the candidate who will do the least harm and sit home or throw it away to a write-in or third party, the results will NOT be what you want. Even Ralph Nader eventually acknowledged this.
These tags tho ☝️
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If doctors use the same portal software I don't understand why I have to go in and add all my history.
I have so many allergies and so little time
Spent an hour today adding in my allergies to all the new charts.
Trying to get the last push of doctor's appts done ASAP in case I lose insurance in the near future.
Honestly the medical history and family history sections are easier bc we only have rare illnesses that all get typed into one box vs having to be individually entered.
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I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know
I think...you might be right
what the fuck