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Supreme Court of CA Allows Disability Bashing

One would think I would be buried with my face in a pillow after opening a letter tonight from the Supreme Court of California stamped DENIED. But…why am I not in shock? Because lawmakers continue to ignore the Americans with Disabilities Act after 35 years. This ruling was not about a discrimination lawsuit. I’d had wrong side and type of surgery, left with a disfigured and dysfunctional nose,…

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F*ck Dry January. Just Commit 100%.

The 2025 New Year is just around the corner, and here comes the hype about Dry January, which is a trend of not drinking for 31 days. People are recruiting buddies, spouses, and relatives, to jump on the bandwagon and stop for a month.  Why only a month? Is it a psychological trick to see if you’re an alcoholic? This trend began as a movement in the UK to trim the waistline, save money, and…

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Gearing Up For The Paraolympics

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Hear that? We can all eat at Chick-fil-A again!

If they now accept all walks of life, I will end my decade+ ban. Who wants a milkshake?

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Natalia's Stolen Grace

Warning, sensitive content and spoilers. Oh boy. After diving into the new docuseries The Mysterious Case of Natalia Grace last night, I binged too many episodes and called it a night just before they went into the mother’s trial. If you haven’t heard anything about the story, Natalia was a Ukrainian orphan girl who has dwarfism with deformed feet and hands, adopted by an Indiana couple who had…

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Get Up Girl! You are Worthy

Watching someone else get your promotion, a breakup, a friend breakup, a lifestyle change, getting laid off, illness, scars, loss of independence, narcissistic abuse, PTSD, grief, these are only some of the things that can have us feeling like we’re not good enough. Our self confidence and self esteem feels like it’s on the floor. The last date you had was with Lester Holt at 9pm on a Friday…

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Powered by Human Contractors Paid $15 Per Hour

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Powered by Human Contractors Paid $15 Per Hour OpenAI’s ChatGPT Powered by Human Contractors Paid $15 Per Hour

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The Scary Monster Under The Bed, Named AI

Side Note: The paranoia sets in. As I re-opened this doc to finish it in Word on my desktop, I had a popup letting me know that it will be shared across all my apps and everything connected to my 365 account, since I’m logged in. I tried logging out, and a popup (or the AI monster) said that if I do, the apps will be removed from my desktop, and I’ll have to reload them when I log back in. WTF?…

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So, I Bought A Percolator

Fueling up to start the day.

And just like that, another high-priced coffeemaker with extra bells, whistles and raving reviews bit the dust. Let me start by mentioning that I’m the coffee snob. I can skimp on my other groceries, but my coffee has to be organic, fair trade, whole beans. If there were a label that said “cruelty free”, I know I’d buy that snake oil, too. Any special stamp or label added that the other bags are…

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The WGA Is On Strike And You Should Be, Too

While the Writers Guild strike is going on for film and TV writers to get paid their worth, there’s an entire demographic that is being kept from getting paid their worth, with or without a strike, and the fault lies on both sides. A lot of times if a writer is writing about a historic event, place, or job occupation, they might hire or find a free consultant who is an ‘expert’ in that field to…

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Revisiting Judy Blume's Deenie

After watching the Judy Blume documentary on Amazon, I decided to get a copy of Deenie. It was one of her books I’d not read. In the doc they mentioned she finally starts saying No and standing up for herself. Something that took me until my 40s to do. I wish I’d read this book in my teens. Maybe I wouldn’t have grown up to be a highly successful people pleaser. I’ve filled a lot of my adult…

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Opinion | I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating - The New York Times

Retinitis pigmentosa is a complex journey of vision loss and Edward Hirsch skillfully describes a great deal of what it's like, and how the public perceives us.

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The Endangered Push-Up Bra

I don’t know the name of my generation – I believe it’s Gen X. It’s the generation of the late 70s to early 80s, new wave, punk, and Pizza Rolls were invented. Nike, Smurfs, ET, aerosol Aqua Net, paint splattered fabric, and glam rock. Texas Instrument calculators and the one, intimidating MacIntosh computer that suddenly appeared in the classroom, and you no longer finished your work early,…

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The Opposite of Self Love

We hear it daily. We hear it blatantly. We hear it applying for jobs. We hear it in public places. We hear giggles. Worldwide, society has an opinion on people with visible disabilities. We have the people who think we ‘can’t’. We have the people who think they need to talk to us like a toddler. We have the type on social media who post inspiration porn or a photo op with someone they barely…

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Hollywood Residents Left in Fear After LAPD Downplay Aspiring Mass Shooter

Hollywood in Fear

*All names are being kept anonymous for public safety. What began as a typical day of running early morning errands, a resident of Lumina Hollywood, the location of the suspected planned mass shooting, tells us she arrived home around 10:30 am Tuesday morning to find a SWAT team surrounding the building, the side street was blocked off with police SUVs and she was not allowed to enter. She…