It’s absurd to say that asthma can be cured by inhaling vaporized oregano oil.
You also need to snort crushed croutons and use balsamic enemas—and if that doesn’t work, don’t go to the hospital. Go to the Olive Garden.
On Monday, Juice passed in my arms. He knew love until the end. He was truly a once in a lifetime cat, and my life feels incredibly empty without him. 🐈🧡
Juice is starting his final lap. What I thought might’ve been a sprained paw has evolved into a complicated neurological event. He either had a stroke or the cancer is in his brain, but he’s still fighting, so I will give him all the help I can.
> matched on a dating app with a very Slavic looking man with a very Slavic name
> bio says, “Bet you can’t guess my first language.”
> message him with, “Ты поваришь по-русски?”
> immediate unmatch
Well then.
A plethora of Indeed postings have appeared for specialized work that all require a bachelor’s degree, and they’re all paying less than $25 an hour.
I’m near San Francisco, y’all. This isn’t be tenable for most people.
I’ve not really seen anybody talk about the dread and frustration that comes out of being an adult and watching your parents enthusiastically make a decision that you know is terrible and short-sighted, a decision that you know you’d be criticized for making.
Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
I messed up because I could not remember which one it was. 😅
A state park!
Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god
I have a date tomorrow and the guy is driving quite a distance. He asked where it would be “reasonably safe” for him to leave his car because I’m driving into the national park we are going.
Oh my sweet summer child, this isn’t SF. Nobody will bother your car in my mountain town. I promise.
My startle reflex for night encounters must be improving living in the woods again because I just startled a rat in the driveway, it ran into my ankle in its confusion (I wasn’t scratched or bitten), and I was just like, “Ah well that happened.🤷♀️”
@charlottereulet.bsky.social enjoy!
Back with my densest Substack yet on the four different extremes I’m seeing in how men and women relate to each other. 😮💨
You might want to bring a drink and a snack for this one.
open.substack.com/pub/katekirk...
I, a literal trauma trainer, am required to sit in a training for trauma-informed care. It has on the whole about half as much material as I got through in half as much time.
She’s made a big emphasis on the agency’s “trauma-informed interior design”.
Hours of my life I’ll never get back.
I am wrapping one substack article in the next few days and immediately diving into another, because holy hell did I read something (in a different study) that absolutely broke me and needs to be discussed.
I have been encouraged to try again with dating and thus far it’s been one single, extended multi-day argument about Marxism.
No, this is not a weird metaphor. This has been an actual match and its ensuing conversation.
In related news, I, a literal trainer on the trauma-informed mindset, also have to sit through a two-hour trauma informed care training later this week. 😒 Hours of my life I will never get back.
We have a large indigenous population that I feel we are failing, in part due to lack of understanding. I was really hopeful we would get something impactful out of this. Instead we got “micro-aggressions for toddlers” and “baby’s first intersectionality”.
I had a training on cultural competency today and was in a breakout room with a guy who infodumped on Zoroastrianism. At the end of it, he said, no joke, “So ultimately the way I see it, we’re all just Catholic, but some of us took extra steps.” 🙃
I just spoke to a very enthusiastic, knowledgeable Mexican man as he infodumped to me on tires as best he could in a mixture of Spanish and English, trying to help me make an informed decision on which new tires to get. I love California.
I’m finally covering boymoms as an interpersonal authoritarian outcome for my Substack and my god I feel like a bunch of insecure enmeshed mothers are going to come for my throat.
If you don’t know how anything works everything seems like magic, but whether it’s interpreted as benign or malicious has to do with internal structuring. I don’t look at weird fog and immediately jump to cloud seeding. Rather, I just say, “Wow that’s some weird fog.” (3/3)
Half of this is engagement farming, but it’s preying on some kind of social unease and it’s allowed to promulgate through a lack of critical thinking and base understanding of how things work. (2/3)
I see daily on Twitter panic about standard atmospheric events. I have seen this particular thing with my own eyes several times. It’s called ✨resetting the radar✨, and I don’t know why technical issues aren’t someone’s logical first thought when they see something like this. (1/3)
New “don’t high-five your children” just dropped. 🤦♀️
This is from “Black Pill” by @ellereeve.bsky.social, which is a masterful piece of journalism, filling in a lot of gaps in my research and completely in alignment with Adornian principles.
I’ve never read Dworkin, but damn at this point I might have to, because damn this is spot on and deeply in alignment with trauma in women and the authoritarian personality.
I’m so sorry for not catching this sooner but I am not the right Kate Kirk to tag! I am in California.
I’m ending care with my amazing vet because I’m moving and I sent her an email to thank her. She emailed me back, “Thank you for always giving him the best care through all his strange diseases.”
Yes, my boy absolutely has some of the strangest diseases known to veterinary medicine. 😂