Jennifer Gregg

This was and is me!

History has a specific way of losing women. Not all at once. Not dramatically. Slowly. Bureaucratically. Through delayed contracts and quiet firings and institutions that absorbed their work and forgot their names. Maria Telkes didn't disappear because she failed. She disappeared because she succeeded in rooms that weren't ready to put her name on the door. She turned sunlight into drinking water. In 1942. With soldiers dying of thirst in the Pacific. A man at MIT delayed the contracts. The war ended. The soldiers didn't. She kept working anyway. Twenty patents. A hundred papers. The first solar-heated home in human history. MIT fired her. She died at 94. Still working. We are still catching up.

Need something to look at while you work your way through 12 tons of Kit Kat bars

Duke has ZERO NCAA Titles (or Title game appearances) since 2015-16 despite having: Brandon Ingram Luke Kennard Jayson Tatum Frank Jackson Marvin Bagley III Gary Trent Jr. Trevon Duval Wendell Carter Jr. Zion Williamson RJ Barrett Cam Reddish Tre Jones Vernon Carey Jr. Jalen Johnson Paolo Banchero Mark Williams Kyle Filipowski Dereck Lively Jared McCain Cooper Flagg Kon Knueppel Khaman Maluach Sion James Cameron Boozer

Hang it in the Louvre 🖼️ #MarchMadness

no not rats having better access to reproductive healthcare than most women

Whenever I see someone trying to parallel park I avert my eyes and continue walking giving them the privacy they need because l'm a decent human being

UConn vs. Duke, as a masterpiece

Dave's log, Sunday. 7:00am: "Keith is not in the field. Keith is not on the barn roof. Keith is not in the yard, the feed store, the polytunnel, or the oak tree. I have checked all seven gates. All seven gates are latched. I am going to get in the car." Dave got in the car. Keith was in the village. Specifically, Keith was in the churchyard. Not, to Dave's relief, in the church: the door was closed. Keith was in the churchyard eating the grass from around the older headstones, which had not been maintained and which the parish council had been discussing at its last two meetings without resolution. Dave arrived at the churchyard at 7:45am. Keith was working a systematic grid, row by row, starting from the east boundary. He had cleared approximately eight graves' worth of long grass, dandelion, and dock. Dave stood at the churchyard gate for a while. Keith continued his grid. The Reverend arrived at 8:00am for early service preparation and found Dave standing at the gate watching a goat work the east section. Reverend: "Is that yours?" Dave: "Yes. Sorry. I don't know how he..." Reverend: "He's doing the east section." Dave: "Yes." Reverend: "The parish council has been meaning to do the east section for two months." Dave: "I know. He'll have it done by nine." Reverend: "Can he come back next month?" Dave looked at the Reverend. Dave looked at Keith. Keith had moved to the third row. Dave's log, later: "The Reverend has asked if Keith can come back. I told him I'd think about it. I'm adding a column. The column is labelled: Ecclesiastical." Steve's complaint number twenty-nine arrived that afternoon. Subject: ground elder again. Keith had apparently made a return visit to Steve's garden at some point between the churchyard and Dave collecting him. Dave's log: "I don't know when. He has a route. The route includes Steve. Steve is part of the route now." By 11am Keith was back in his own field, eating knotweed. The knotweed is at 6%. The east section of the churchyard is tidy. The Reverend has Dave's number. Dave added the column.

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In order to increase run scoring in Iceland, we are offering twelve runs for anyone who can hit the new obstacles on our outfield at Hamranesvöllur.

He doesn’t even get the irony.

A major issue brewing in our state legislature today is over what to do about property taxes in North Carolina. Pretty much since forever, property taxes have always been decided on the local, county level. Local elected officials - each county’s Board of Commissioners - sets its own property tax rate based on whatever it is their local voters want and need. But now, that might change. The leaders of North Carolina’s state legislature are now considering whether to take away local counties’ ability to set their own property taxes based on local needs, and lock them into a formula - set and controlled, of course, by the state legislature. For almost 150 years, voters in North Carolina have decided their own local property tax rates through local elections. Don't like your property taxes? Go elect some different county commissioners. People do it all the time. After all, it just makes sense that the people of Polk, Cabarrus, Clay, Wake, Bladen or Gates counties choose different tax rates, since the counties are all very different themselves. Local elected officials, who are closest to their voters, are usually the best-informed about their needs. But the leaders of North Carolina's state legislature are no fans of local control. Many of them seem to be of the mind that they - not the local voters most affected - should decide the matter. Through some combination of levy limits and/or assessment caps, state lawmakers may soon end North Carolina’s 150-year tradition of local control over property taxation. Here’s something for everyone to consider, though: it’s easy for our centralized state government to take power away from local counties. It’s very hard to give it back, and it doesn’t often happen. Power flows from the pursestrings. When counties’ ability to raise revenue is limited, they’ll become more reliant on the state legislature. More and more counties will need to pay for lobbyists to prowl the halls of our legislature; county commissioners will need to spend more time in Raleigh pleading their cases. Local elections matter. Tomorrow, they may just matter a little less.

Long ago, exactly 1 cat passed away from being fed 2 minutes late & cats have told their children of this for thousands of generations.

This story isn’t just about a payment dispute, it highlights how race, power, and immigration intersect, with Latino workers allegedly targeted by a white homeowner. Her actions were cruel, exploiting vulnerable workers and causing fear and loss. The outrage is amplified by today’s polarized political climate, and if it’s proven she called ICE to intimidate them, there could be serious legal consequences.

I am a million years old.

Apparently 12 tons of @KITKAT have gone missing in transit between Italy and Poland… and suddenly everyone’s looking at the one innocent kitty kat having a quiet lie down. Unbelievable profiling, quite frankly. 🐾🍫 *check the FC’s handbag

Met someone today and realized you just can’t disregard a person just because they didn’t have a successful career. So many sharp, knowledgeable people nowhere close to their potential. Not because of lack of ability. But because life wasn’t kind to them.

No way the fall of Rome was this cringe

in honour of clay season, throwback to sabalenka getting a phone during her match and taking a picture of the ball mark😭