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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I don't know how I'd parent 2 little kids without 12hr Sudafed, mucinex DM, and the Costco bottle of Advil. You basically just stay on it through the first year of daycare.

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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

actually hate this chart because it was so obviously working and every attempt to keep it going was stonewalled

A line graph from Brookings titled "Child poverty hit a record low of 5.2% in 2021," showing the U.S. Supplemental Poverty Measure Child Poverty Rate (%) from 2017 to 2024.

The graph illustrates a gradual decrease from around 14% in 2017 down to under 10% in 2020, followed by a sharp drop to a low of 5.2% in 2021. The line then sharply rebounds to over 12% in 2022 and remains around 13–14% through 2023 and 2024.

Source: US Census Supplemental Poverty Measure via Brookings

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

But also some people are just ghouls. No accounting for that.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They need him to face justice and theres justice for men who murder their children. There's no justice for guys who were just kinda bum dads and partners.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I have this theory that a lot of women projected themselves onto her because they also struggled PP and didn't feel supported by their partners so they need to find a way to make her innocent and punish her husband.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm once again reminding these folks that if you'd like a child free restaurant experience you can simply make your reservation at 8pm. 99% of children under 5 will be at or nearing bedtime.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My kids are really good in restaurants for their ages but those ages will be 4 and 2 so I'm just looking for places that will be like "yea no problem you can have 7 orders of French fries and some buttered noodles" at 4:45pm.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ok I was more thinking about places with crayons and high chairs but good to know there's not one single human under the age of 11 in uhhhh Williamsburg, Brooklyn?

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I always forget the bizzaro world of Reddit childfree people when I search kid friendly restaurants in other cities and all the comments are like "Well if your toddler can SIT DOWN and SHUT UP and ORDER THE BEEF TAR TAR like a LOCAL" I suppose you could eat anywhere!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We built a gym in our basement and the thing I miss is the people watching. But we were at the Y so I was mostly watching men 60-70 hang out with their buddies. Gad should consider himself lucky to be at the Hot Babe Gym!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Babies are dying because there isn't enough energy to run incubators in NICUs.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Really worried my son will cut me off when he's an adult for the trauma of "making him wear a diaper and pajamas to bed". At least based on the level of screaming involved in that bedtime.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I went to college with a girl who now has 1.5M followers as well as some other micro influencers and honestly it's been really good for me to see how much of a job it is and also how much of it is fake.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Uhhh yea can I get a hard drive check aaaaaaand a Diet Coke? Extra ice

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This was my rec too. She's addressed Oster a little before, specifically around alcohol and prenatal vitamins.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Part of infertility is seeing others get easily or even accidentally the thing you want most in the world. That's really hard and can sometimes result in displaced anger. I really do empathize. But that's something she needs to work out in therapy like the rest of us! Not a transphobic rant!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've had 2 babies as well as extensive fertility treatments and never heard a medical professional use the term "pregnant people" but even if they did who care??? I was pregnant and also a person.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If your kids are like mine, they'd benefit by getting 6 lollipops instead of 2. Some may be willing to take that deal I guess.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

So instead of 2 half days, parents should take 6 half days off work for absolutely no benefit except upsetting your kid 3 times as much. Great. Awesome.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was only 8.5. I still have time.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Neat! When I was pregnant with my daughter, who has brown hair, my hair got much darker at the roots to the point where I was growing out a brown-ish stripe. My son, who is blonde like my normal color, had no such effect. Not as obvious as yours but my hairdresser noticed! Kids are same age in pics.

My and my daughter as a toddler meeting a snow leopard at the zoo. We both have brown hair.

My son and I picking blackberries. We both have blond hair.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

You could take every dollar of wealth from every billionaire in America and it would fund the government for like maybe 9 months. You could cut the entire military budget and it wouldn't pay for the social services budget. At some point we've gotta raise taxes on people making $100k not just $100M.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

No one likes to hear this but the American middle and upper middle class pay very very low effective tax rates. It sounds good for politicians to say "middle class tax cuts" but at some point you need a tax base that's not 100 billionaires in NYC and LA.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Had a Hyundai dealer get so pushy about the extended warranty I almost cried and they only backed off when I told them i was pregnant and they were scaring me which was true!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Obama was a Columbia and Harvard Law grad and worked in the same law firm as Michelle. They were in the same social class even if she was out earning him at the time.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yes much of what gets coded as beautiful are also class signifiers. Perfectly straight white teeth ain't cheap!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh yea our daughter looks just like him but no one ever asks if I'm really her mom when we're alone together. The weird thing was our niece and son look a lot alike and are only 4 months apart. They could reasonably pass as twins and it was our son that was crying.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

*redacted* this man into the sun in Minecraft

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My husband was out with our son and our niece who's the same age. He had more than one person ask where their mom was and if he was "sure they're both his". Because our son, 20 months old, was crying as he was being put in the car seat.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

But like the jay-z/Beyoncé metaphor, I don't think you can extrapolate the behavior of a few ultra wealthy, ultra famous people to the rest of plebes. There will always be outliers. It doesn't change the fact that most people date and marry people in their social and economic circle.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

When you're a billionaire the dating pool is slim. You can really only date down economically-speaking. But she was also a Emmy-winning news anchor and we'd have considered her "wealthy" in her own right. She wasn't outside his class even if she was outside his economic circle.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

No youre right. It actually proves the point. Cinderella would have had the class mannerisms and social graces that would have been legible to an aristocrat as someone he could marry and not a someone he could employ.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I forgot about that! Even in the fairytale Cinderella would have still had the mannerisms and social graces of nobility that would have been legible to an aristocrat!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jay-Z might have been out earning Beyoncé when they married but they were both extremely successful music industry professionals. They are in the same social class attending the same events and traveling to the same places. And her star was obviously rising quickly, he just had a 12 year head start.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I caught that too! And while I don't think the behavior of an extremely small subset of ultra celebrities can be extrapolated to society at large, even on its own merits the argument fails.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

No i sympathize with this lady. I was also dropped on my head as baby. Luckily we had linoleum.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Can't imagine dating in my 30s. What if you really like someone and they have a bad credit score?

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

That's a good point. I'd be interested to see how much of that gap disappears when you control for race. I'd bet quite a bit! We can't face the very real issue of suspensions for boys without addressing the presence of police in schools and racial inequality in school disciplining.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Right! It just literally isn't true. Even for the very very wealthy who can afford to support wives who don't work and still have childcare. Most of those women have college degrees and were raised in that life as well. They were not plucked from the ashes of their evil step mother's homes.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Exactly! The cute girl driving the snack cart at the country club is making eyes at the lifeguard her age and they both have the jobs because their parents are members. That's who she will marry!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Of course exceptions exist and family money is a factor but you can pull IRS data and see who is married to whom. The vast majority of men putting up mid 6 figures+ are married to women doing the same because they met in law school or med school or whatever.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Now that women have stronger workforce participation and make up the majority of college degrees that gap is closing even more. If a woman wants to marry a high earner her best bet is to be a high earner herself so she's in those men's social circles.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is just a middle aged divorced guy fantasy. They imagine impressing the hot 18 year old driving the snack cart at the club and getting to be the Prince Charming to her Cinderella. The vast majority of Americans marry within their economic class and marry people within 5 years of their own age.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The data doesn't bare that out. The vast majority of Americans marry within their economic class because that's who they're socializing with.

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is completely unsubstantiated. The vast majority of people marry within their social class. If women want to marry high earning men, their best Is to be a high earner themselves. Cinderella is a fairytale for a reason!

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Toddler version of bottle service

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kellymb.bsky.social @kellymb.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We had a version of this here recently because there were several church fires in a row. So strange in an area where there's literally a church every 4 blocks and they're all between 100 and 200 years old and unoccupied for much of the day. Must be antifa.

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