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My middle sister has now outlived my oldest sister. In 2 years, I will have as well.

A guy I really disliked once said, “There’s always someone in aMercedes to ruin your day,” and damn I have to mentally give him credit at least once a week.

He later made me want to delete this tweet, but we’re very much back.

@PanasonicDX4500 Halloween III ????? Wut. That along with Halloween VI don’t need to be watched.

It's October so once again for the record: 1) Halloween (‘78) 2) Halloween (‘18) 3) Halloween III 4) Halloween H20 5) Halloween IV 6) Halloween Kills 7) Halloween II 8) Halloween Ends 9) Halloween VI 10) Halloween V Don’t watch Halloween Resurrection

Crawling out of the gutter to these streets I no longer recognize to share I wrote a little something about my dad open.substack.com/pub/ezsmallz/p…

@tylerblack32 The teachers are instructed to use it. Often, they are over-worked and underpaid, so I have empathy for them. Districts often lack the resources to invest in using tech to everyone’s benefit.

@tylerblack32 I believe the problem is in the way the tech is used. As someone who evaluated and observed students in public education, it was disheartening to see kids (esp those suspected for having a disability) be sat in front of a laptop and told to log onto some app teaching it to read

A great demonstration of what attention is in ADHD: attention is not necessary when the subject is interesting to the person. Attention is necessary when it is challenging and/or boring. Can't tell you how many parents deny adhd with "but they can focus on the TV" /1

Feels like panhandling on here, but if you’re looking for some wholesome reading material, I added a new post to my Substack :) open.substack.com/pub/ezsmallz/p…

@AniseNot Many of my friends and I just had babies in 2024. I’m about to turn 32 and would like 1 more. This thought creeps in my mind. A few have expressed they want at least 3, and I wonder if it crosses theirs.

Hungout with a group of women aged 35-45 tonight & all had 0-2 children We talked about why the childless ones had no kids & why the ones with 2 stopped at 2 3/4 of them had concerns over having a severely autistic child “I’ve got 2 perfect kids, don’t want to take my chances” was the most common reason, or the ones with severely autistic family members had decided to have no children & cited their fear of being saddled for life with the responsibility of caring for a high needs handicapped person Interesting. I suspect this is more common than just my friends

Jake Elliot

In 2017, I paid Cards Against Humanity to protect a pristine plot of border land from Trump’s racist wall. But then an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—stole my land and dumped his shit all over it. @ElonMusk owes me $100. #ElonOwesMe100Bucks ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com

Walz: And I got to tell you, I can't wait to debate the guy. That is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.

Did I just watch a 70 minute trailer for Season 3? #HouseOfThedragon

When you get off that international flight and be racing everybody to customs,

@jvn_97 @johnnyhockey97 😂😂😂 king of King’s

@emzurek @johnnyhockey97 This is my favorite tweet of all time.

every weekend I get asked if I go to king's. @johnnyhockey97 comes here once a semester & people know he goes to Wilkes. PSA he goes to psu

I feel like an expert in grief, recognizing the importance of forgiveness. Knowing tangible items are nothing and present real connections are everything. If I want to be happy I must keep moving and savoring the good & still this just sucks and isn’t fair and hurts so deeply

I lost another uncle this morning, in an unexpected, too soon way. My aunt and I spoke calmly over the phone as I asked why this keeps happening. Today I went through cycles of celebrating my husbands first Father’s Day and sobbing at the thought of my 7 y/o cousin w/o his dad

I didn’t know how to explain how my uncle was much more than an uncle (I gave the eulogy) and then my cousin, and then my sister within 5 mos. And that somehow I had prior experiences in traumatic deaths So I didn’t talk about it at all and developed crippling social anxiety

Me when I see a crock of buff chicken dip

My heart is broken💔: As friends & family know, my wife was pregnant with our 2nd child, & about to begin her 2nd trimester. A few days ago she had severe pains, & bleeding, and had to go to the emergency room. There, it was discovered that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Devastated doesn't come close to what that feels like. Unfortunately for people like us, because of the current laws in the state of Texas, that was only the beginning of this nightmare. Jess (my wife) had an "incomplete miscarriage", and what needed to happen, what was best for HER, and her health, was to terminate the pregnancy, and get the baby out. The doctor gave her a medication that would move this process along, and sent her home. Where, apparently we would be handling it ourselves. We were told it might take a couple of attempts before it worked. I'll let you decide how you feel about that. After a long, painful night of the equivalent of early labor, the baby was still with her. So, we went back to the Emergency Center to get the 2nd dose. A new doctor was on call. He was an older man. You could hear him in the hallway as he said, "I'm not giving her a pill so she can go home and have an ab*rtion!". Being well aware that our baby no longer had a heartbeat. Then, he came into the room to say, and I quote: "Considering the current stance. I'm not going to prescribe you this pill". Then, just sent us on our way. The "CURRENT STANCE"?! Did he really just say that?! No one should ever have to hear their wife say: "Get this dead baby out of me!". Can you even imagine how that must feel? The pain, and the bleeding continued. So, we decided to go to another hospital, about an hour away. There was a female doctor on call there, and we thought we might have better luck. I should probably mention, the procedure to get the baby out is called a D & C. It's scary, & traumatizing, but sometimes necessary in situations like ours. Especially in emergency circumstances. So we get to the next hospital. They take Jess in, ask her a bunch of questions, do a new scan... confirm that the baby is still there, with no heartbeat, and then disappear... for hours. Only to come back in and keep asking the same questions over and over. It's becoming clear that they're primary concern is NOT my wife's health. Instead, they seem to be worried about the legalities involved. So, they decide it is not "enough of an emergency" to perform the D & C. They do, however, prescribe another, stronger, final dose of the medication for us to try again... at home. So, we go home to try again. Another long day/night of early labor pains. Only to discover my wife UNCONSCIOUS in the bathroom. Having to pick my wife's cold, limp body off of that bathroom floor, not sure if I was about to lose her, is something I will NEVER forget. She had to be rushed to the hospital. By this point she had lost so much blood, and bodily fluid, her body gave out. They were able to stabilize her, give her the fluids she needed, and we came back home yesterday afternoon. We were also able to confirm that our baby was no longer with her. Now, not only do we have to live with the loss of our baby... we have to live with the nightmare of what we just experienced because of political and religious beliefs. MY WIFE'S HEALTH SHOULD HAVE COME FIRST. PERIOD! God knows what mental and emotional damage this has done. If you consider yourself a staunch "pro-lifer" ... 1) You've never been through what we just went through, and 2) You should take a long, hard look in the mirror and reevaluate your reasons for supporting such a cold, barbaric, ignorant point of view. It's not that black & white, and it's never going to be. If you think your "Pray To End Ab*rtion" sign in your yard is "Christian", I suggest you revisit the teachings of Jesus and try again. If you support these laws that make ab*rtion illegal, and result in people being put through what we just were, you should be ashamed of yourself. I've never been so angry, or heartbroken... and the devastation I'm feeling must pale in comparison to what my poor wife is feeling.