Laura Pike Seeley

@RyzardL @alexadoingstuff My husband is pretty particular about food. I know when I get apples they need to be Gala or he’ll be bummed. Peanut butter has to be Justin’s. And when he goes he knows I like Fage Greek yogurt brand. There are other things like that we just know. Never an issue for us at all.

@alexadoingstuff Not what she said lol. Men are simply less particular about what they buy and the ones that are will likely have a different preference than you creating even more conflict. The best you’re going to get is a man who happily obliges your preferences and asks what you’d like.

I think as long as you and your partner align on division of labor it’s really personal preference but anyone who tells you you’re not gonna find a man who can like buy milk is coping for their choices

@victim_burn77 If it was an old white guy’s name it would sound like MAR-vul.

My dad pronounces marvel like an old black guys name

@sedderaside Look up drag bugs bunny

do y'all have good examples of drag/crossdressing being shown on mainstream television, but not being named as drag or queer and therefore not causing much controversy? think Mrs Doubtfire or SpongeBob in drag

@StevesRawMind @ctjlewis @Rafa_Schwinger Great point, but not just this generation though. Women have seen generations of abuse and decided that they aren’t safe at a man’s mercy. They need to prove themselves worthy of trust and devotion and historically they have not.

@ctjlewis @Rafa_Schwinger You have to show women that men can be trusted enough to make themselves lifelong dependents to another living human being. The current generation of men are not meeting that standard. Pretty simple.

@FrailSkeleton @New_E_Mom And once the third trimester hit, each day was worse than the one before!

@New_E_Mom Every day of my 5 pregnancies felt like the worst day of my life lmao

it's actually really a different thing to love the baby versus your own state of being while pregnant

@ElimDroflem @cowboyKal3b Small target. Gorillas’ balls are the size of a kidney bean, as I understand it. outsideonline.com/culture/love-h…

@cowboyKal3b My main takeaway was to kick a gorilla in the balls if I ever have to fight one

Just remembered I have an actual degree specifically in monkeys and am uniquely qualified to address the 100 men vs 1 gorilla discourse

@DrHizz @ElleLeeO @heroesahead @raeziIla If you can’t understand it why assume it’s not logical? That’s frankly not logical.

Trying to explain the complexities of female logic to another man in a way that makes sense to him, without offending women, is practically impossible lol. Men and women are different. I can observe how women think, but I can never understand it the way they can. And that’s okay.

you’d think men would be comforted by this but they seem so mad

@KelseyTuoc @laurashin That kind of feels like saying you want things cheap, good and fast. You can usually only have two, never three.

@laurashin But my aim is a world where goods are plentiful, cheap, and produced in line with environmental and worker safety standards, and where more people not fewer can buy all this stuff

I dislike having to plead with the public to make the case for the worthiness of the things I want to spend my money on; it's a free country, and it should be sufficient that it's my money. But I keep having conversations in which I say 'yeah I like cheap low quality goods and they make my life better' and people express incredulity at the very idea, or insist that I'm rationalizing what is obviously a deep void of meaninglessness, so let me describe what cheap goods mean to me. The first thing it means is that I can try things. If a hobby requires gear or supplies or books or whatever else, and there's no cheap version of those things, I know myself - I simply never dip my toes in the water in the first place. It's not worth spending $1000 to figure out whether my kids like camping. But if camping gear is cheap, we'll try it. We did some camping with cheap gear, we liked it, now maybe we'll upgrade and get good, long-lasting stuff. I started playing D&D with a $5 bag of dice. I've spent an embarrassing amount on gorgeous metal dice now, but if it'd cost that much to get started I would never have tried at all. 5yo developed an enthusiasm for armored knights and swordfighting, so we tried out some SCA events. Because it's easy to get cheap Viking tunics, I now own one. I was never going to spend hundreds of dollars on the nice version. (I was also never, realistically, going to find something that niche on the local buy nothing groups which I participate in.) When consumer goods are expensive, it's not worth taking risks and trying things you might end up disliking, or might not have the skill to execute on. We had an awful landing on our stairs where the door to the yard opened and the wood was badly damaged by six years of people tracking in water and mud. I wanted to try putting down vinyl tile flooring there, but I'd never laid vinyl flooring before and I'm not exactly a home improvement pro. I wouldn't have tried it if it was expensive, but it was $20, so I was willing to take the leap. It turns out to be very easy to install and it looks so much better now. With greater confidence in my DIY skills I've ordered wallpaper for the kids' rooms. The fact that consumer goods are cheap also lets me try out companies I don't already know and trust. If something costs $200, I'm only going to buy from a company that has a good reputation, where I trust the warranty, which has been around a while. For cheaper products, I'm willing to take a chance on new entrants just off seeing an ad and some credible good reviews. The second thing it means is that I can do crafts and experiments and activities at the microschool. It has ten kids now; buying ten of anything will start to pinch the pocketbook. But because consumer goods are cheap, I can buy the things we need for papermaking when we're learning about how papermaking works, or model city kits when we're talking about urban design, or play money for practice making change and running a business. I can buy a gumball machine so we can take it apart and look at the mechanism. I can buy so, so many books. Do you have any idea how expensive books used to be? Do you have any idea how many our microschool library now has? My children will never run out of good books to read because consumer goods are cheap. Or they were cheap, last week. I keep talking to people who have in mind huge swathes of the consumer economy that they're sure we don't really need. Big TVs, someone said to me last week. Surely you can admit we don't really need big TVs. I do not admit this. Sometimes six or eight kids want to crowd around downstairs in my home and watch a movie or play Smash together and they need a big TV. 4-cent bouncy balls, surely we don't need those. I do not admit this; I bought a bunch for a civics lesson last week. Would it be such a big deal if toasters were $100? Yes, because I would never buy one to disassemble and learn how it works. How about Shein clothes, surely no one needs those? Actually, I kind of like that I can attend costume parties! I have a cheap Victorian ballgown with an absurd hoopskirt my children like to hide under, and it makes my life better! I would not pay four times more for a better version of any of these things. I would just do without them; they are not important enough to break the bank for. But my life would be worse without them. It would have less spontaneity in it, less curiosity, less whim, less exploration. If you find that cheap consumer goods cause you depression, my condolences. I think that's a skill issue. Cheap consumer goods make it easier for me to live the life I want to live, surrounded by the people I want to live it with, while donating to charity and saving for retirement and living within my means. You can raise my taxes, but don't pretend you're really truly doing me a favor while you do it.

I had the pleasure of joining Three Dots podcast with the wonderful Siobhan Fagan to dive into a topic close to my heart: the balance between connection and focus in the digital workplace.

@NinjaSocialist @ask_aubry Is it not for a salad? Tell me they are making a salad with some of that lettuce

@ask_aubry Raisins? Why?

We've all seen those employees who are perfectly suited to their roles; they naturally thrive and help those around them succeed. I believe we've also all seen the opposite . . . reworked.co/employee-exper… #employeeengagement #strengths @GetReworked

@realkmmag @Pioneer_KS Thank you for sharing!

Because You Need to Know – Balance of deep work and meaningful connections with @LPikeSeeley With thanks to @Pioneer_KS realkm.com/2024/08/20/bec… #km #kmers #knowledgemanagement #connections

Information overload is real, as is it's impact on employee experience. #digitalworkplace #knowledgemanagement freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisu…

It was wonderful to chat with Edwin Morris about one of my favorite topics—balancing deep focus and meaningful connections in the #digitalworkplace. #Knowledgemanagement realkm.com/2024/08/20/bec…

@CartoonsHateHer @peepsaregood Right is outdated, left has bad proportions. Typical for them imho. Sadly these two want to sell the updated looks but they never hit.

@peepsaregood *braver* both are bad

I don't think the left outfit is better than the right. They're both fine. Follow me for more very brave opinions.

Oof. "It’s still hard to imagine letting AI handle meetings — and not being offended when a bot shows up instead of the human we were expecting. Unless, of course, we evolve to a future where every meeting is full of bots and we’re all at the beach." #ai #bot #digitaltwin

@RichA99522238 @BeatTheCult Can you poke holes in the golden rule? Why is it more complicated than that?

@BeatTheCult Atheists have no reason to act right. Because right is whatever they want it to be. Who defines what is right for the atheist honestly?

@Razroam @lady_amilia It is rude to send a meeting invite without an agenda and objectives. Very entitled.

@lady_amilia That's impressive. I had a similar experience, but he was more rude but professional. he'd ask to send a full agenda and objectives of the meeting or he won't accept.

I have a colleague who never shows up to meetings. But we all just pretend like it’s normal 😂😭! We no longer add him to the invite list most times and if we do and he doesn’t show up we don’t bother chasing. The gag is he is so knowledgeable and can’t be dispensed off easily because the day he leaves we are basically screwed, we just get on with it. I am hoping to reach this level of invincibility. No he is not the colour you think he is which makes this even more impressive. Dont try this at your place of work, results may vary.

@xm_muva @talkn3rdytome33 They say men invented everything. Not them of course, brighter men. But when you point to male violence they say “not all men.” You can’t claim the good things about your gender as a whole and refuse to claim the bad.

What's your favourite misogynistic contradiction? Mine is that women mature faster but men are are leaders 💀😭

@IceManCRYPTOS @CollinRugg Our world is safer and less violent than ever in history. People have been committing vicious acts for millennia. This is nothing new.

@CollinRugg I hate hearing these horrific crimes, it really makes me question humanity and where we are going. Where have we gone wrong as a society? This is so sad

NEW: Alabama mother tortured and forced to perform s*x acts on four men and four women before being executed by a gunshot wound to the head. Death penalty: All of them. Mahogany Jackson was shot in the back of the head at a Birmingham apartment. Jackson was handcuffed, stripped, beaten and forced to perform s*x acts at gunpoint before being executed. At 8am on February 25, Jackson texted family members that she was being held hostage. She was killed soon after and her body was later dumped at an illegal dump site called "Dead Man's Road." Video footage shows Jackson being stomped on and spit on before getting dragged by her hair, naked toward a car's trunk. She was then tortured which was filmed by the thugs. Jackson was forced to perform oral s*x. Giovonnie Clapp, Blair Green, Teja Lewis, Sinya McCall and Airana Robinson were charged with felony murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree sodomy.