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@SCDC87

She/her, sconn.bsky

Northern VA Katılım Ekim 2012
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I chaperoned my 6 yo’s field trip today, which I love. Chatting with the kids is so fun and today I had this convo: Kid: “I learned that any last name that starts with ‘mc’ sound is Irish.” Me: “Yeah, a lot of them!” Him: “Like MacDougall!” Me: “So close…that is Scottish” 😂
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@Romy_Holland My husband and I will uber together but idk, I don’t really like taking Ubers alone. We’re just about 20 min from one airport and 25 from another, though, maybe shorter depending on time of day and traffic.
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@kyliebytes He forgot The Rule: if two people want others to move so they can sit together, the one with the better seat has to be the one to trade. Move 22 rows back and sit with your buddy if it’s so important!
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Kylie Robison@kyliebytes·
guy on the middle seat of my redeye flight bravely asked me if i would move from my exit row window seat to a middle row seat 16 rows back so his friend could be with him. when i said no, he asked the aisle guy, who just laughed
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@InlandCaGuy Having gone from a title I school to a wealthy district, I have many thoughts. Mostly not about students/teachers but resources. And I don’t mean public, per-student $$. Ex: our small city has a 501c3 that fundraisers exclusively for the schools—separate from PTA fundraising.
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daeveningglow@InlandCaGuy·
I've written before about how my public school (which I actually do have concerns about - it's a mixed bag!) really defies a lot of stereotypes about how people talk about public school, and also specifically conservative ones, despite being in a CA liberal arts town
Hannah Oliver@EruditeTogether

I am a Christian, and I have two daughters. Both my daughters attend public school. When my daughters were old enough to go to school I felt so much pressure from the Christian culture to homeschool them. I went to public school and had a really good experience, but everyone was treating public school like it was the devils playground. I tried to homeschool my oldest in preschool and I realized how terribly unequipped I was to teach. I didn’t have the discipline, nor the mental capacity to teach from home. I think public school is great. The teachers are all so intentional, the school counselors are lovely, and their principal remembers their names and things about them. We are very involved parents. We go on field trips, take them to school events, and go to all their conferences. Honestly, public school gets way too much hate.

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SCDC@SCDC87·
@MarkSharon_DP @kristenmag @NYCMayor I drive the speed limit?? I meant “under” in the same way as “under the law,” not literally under, as in “below” lmao.
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Mark Sharon@MarkSharon_DP·
@SCDC87 @kristenmag @NYCMayor Another wishful thinker with zero empathy for human limitations. How far under do you drive? Why? Should you even be on the road if the speed limit is too high for you to cope with?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor·
We're implementing the largest expansion of Sammy’s Law in city history: lowering speed limits to 15 MPH at every eligible school by the end of our first term. And we’re not waiting to get started. This year, we’re lowering speed limits at 800 additional locations to 15 MPH, bringing the citywide total for School Slow Zones to nearly 1,300 by the close of 2026. New York City’s streets should be the safest in the world - especially for kids - and City Hall is using every tool at our disposal to make that a reality as quickly as possible.
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@mattyglesias My theory is that these people just don’t want to have kids (fine! Great!) but feel like they need a more serious/legitimate reason than simply “I don’t want to.”
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Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·
Is the state of the world really so uniquely bad that you can’t have children? I think parenting actually helps pull people out of unproductive doom spirals. slowboring.com/p/worry-less-d…
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@meowingabyss @Cratscadle Exactly! Seems similar to many other things in life—moderation is key, and IMO better than unlimited OR a complete blackout ban.
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half empty girl@meowingabyss·
@SCDC87 @Cratscadle This whole thing is so silly to me lol. It's very easy to not raise a "screen zombie" you just turn off the tv sometimes
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@smalltown_wife @deestiv Yeah, growing up, my parents listened to their own music in the car—“driver picks the music!” 🙄😂 but I definitely still knew who the pop music stars were and also what they looked like!
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𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓢
𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓢@smalltown_wife·
I plan to homeschool my kids and so do most of my friends but I feel like we all have just a normal relationship with pop culture. my kids are growing up on old school country music and whenever it’s age appropriate we’ll show them classic movies. some of the things I learned about from other kids at private school were WILD, like people talking about sex acts in elementary school. that’s the kind of thing I’m trying to protect my kids from, not keep them from ever hearing about what’s going on in the culture (in general terms)
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𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓢
𝓜𝓻𝓼. 𝓢@smalltown_wife·
idk maybe it’s just me but I think there’s probably a good middle ground to be found where you at least know SOME basic pop culture references by the time you’re a teenager so you aren’t just completely clueless when you begin interacting with the world at large
Bethany S. Mandel@bethanyshondark

The most homeschool story: My preteen daughter never got into Taylor Swift. At day camp last year they were doing an art project and another kid asked her to hand her a magazine with Taylor on the cover and my daughter as like “….i don’t know what she looks like.” All the other girls were 😮🤯. Fast forward and she happened to hear Fate of Ophelia. And she was as like “oh now I get it, she sings about Shakespeare! No wonder she’s so popular!! What other plays does she have songs about?!”

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@deestiv @smalltown_wife It’s always been a pet peeve of mine—the people who are like “Leonardo DiCaprio, who is that?? Never heard of him” bc they obviously think it makes them seem smarter. Well, you’d suck at jeopardy! 😂
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chaos robot 🤖
chaos robot 🤖@deestiv·
@SCDC87 @smalltown_wife I do think wearing pop culture ignorance as a badge of pride like some people do is very weird though, especially when it becomes part of the zeitgeist in which you're really experiencing the world around you.
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@deestiv @smalltown_wife Re: the story, my son has def known who Taylor swift is and what she looks like for a long time. But he’s also been learning Hamlet at school this year. When fate of Ophelia came out, he was like, “oh! This is about hamlet!” You can contain multitudes, pop culture and lit 😂
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@deestiv @smalltown_wife I think you’re right and I also think this is a purpose public school can serve (initiating you into more of a shared, common culture by hearing about things from other kids) vs. homeschooling. Not in all cases, obv, I’m sure plenty of homeschooled kids listen to pop music lol.
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@InlandCaGuy You can also follow my ILs track, which is: get the degree(s); have successful, interesting careers; use the money to retire, buy land, and start a hobby farm
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@KelleyKga Particularly funny bc the schools in my area that actually would be most in line with her original point are not secular (Sidwell Friends, Georgetown Prep, National Cathedral, St. Albans…)
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Kelley K@KelleyKga·
This is a very narrow view of private school that only applies to some families. MANY parents choose private schools to ensure their kids get a type of education that isn't available on public schools, whether that's more rigorous, or traditional, or religious, etc.
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@InlandCaGuy My parents are very much NOT handy—I think I’d probably used a screwdriver before going to college but def not a drill. Meanwhile I think both my kids have used both already lol (thank you, pinewood derby and furniture assembly).
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@HeyItsSinko64 Got me in the first half… (started dating my husband junior year of high school)
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SCDC@SCDC87·
@sade_pauline @DiaryofaSickGrl Idk, I just don’t think it’s that deep…I don’t see the difference between reimbursing the cost of something vs. with the thing itself, and if the woman paid $1000 herself, then that would be the amount suggested.
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Candace D.
Candace D.@DiaryofaSickGrl·
I don’t think it’s tacky at all for her to ask you to replace hers either with one of yours or with the cost of hers. Epi-pens can be really expensive unfortunately but she obviously valued your life first and foremost. (Now, do I think timing and tone are important—yes. Sounds like she waited til you were stable in the hospital when she asked)
chad, red lip cutie@endofanerajc

also the girl who gave me an epipen when i was doing the whole anaphylactic shock thing told me i could venmo her for the epipen and maybe i’m a bad person but i think she’s tacky for that

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SCDC@SCDC87·
@HeyItsSinko64 I’m pretty sure one of mine is trying to kill me because she has raced under my foot as I step down on stairs more than once 😅😅
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Sinko@HeyItsSinko64·
Your cats must be smarter than mine, who gets kicked on a regular basis (he has dark coloring and is impossible to see most of the time) and continues to make what appear to be purposeful efforts to get himself stepped on. Nothing bothers this guy.
loading…@sonikudzu

for both my and my cats safety, i simply did not stop walking because a cat got in the way. they get lightly kicked once or twice and never pose a trip hazard again. literally just stop training them to do that lmfao

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