khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 20hOTOH, Paxton is by far the worst person in Texas politics in the 3 decades I’ve lived here — I’m not sure people outside Texas fully get that. Worse than Cruz, Abbot, Bush, etc. 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 20hI get the impulse, but I’ve been following Talarico since he was running here in 2018. I guess I’d just say there are different types of religious people, and he’s not the kind I worry about. At all. 110
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I get what you’re saying — I so far was avoiding it thinking it would be a floor is lava situation (which … it was pandemic, we’re all excused…) Now I want to watch it to check out the sets. 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Side note, I never knew the ICC was in a Minecraft building. Fun! 000
Reposted by @khrizande.bsky.socialashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/10/2026if you don’t keep up with the youth i want you to know they’ve renamed “tramp stamps” to “cake toppers” which feels like the first advancement for feminism in a long time 5850601058
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My favorite part about being a poll worker is when we get to yell “first time voter!” and everyone cheers. Recently saw it happen for my eldest and likely will for my newly adult kid very soon. 020
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Missing the point that it’s about *interaction*. Not just the voice but the serve-and-response reactions, facial expression etc. That’s why putting a little one in front of TV or pushing buttons to hear a recording don’t substitute for a caring adult reading to them. Tons of research backs this up. 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 03/10/2026One of those newly-disabled-by-covid people is my teen, who has been in decline for 4 years now and went from honor student to dropping out of HS, no possibility of college, etc. I think most people don’t understand it’s possible to have your whole future just disappear like that from covid. 2305
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hmm, I guess they just forgot! What a totally random “oopsies” in this Republican-controlled state. 020
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My life, that’s more French knots than I’ve managed in my meager embroidery experience, total. I’m impressed by that alone! The overall effect is just perfection. 110
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We trained our puppy (the guy in my photo) to ring a bell to be let out. Turns out he thought the bell meant “I waaaant something!” And he used it accordingly. RIP bell 040
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Ohhh… that last one with the track of footprints that ends smack into an eagle print. Whoa. 040
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 14/09/2026🎶”Too late to be known as John the First; he's sure to be known as John the Woooorst….”🎶 030
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I love the corkscrew defeating the jack bit. That’s cartoon perfection. 091
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My Zelda-obsessed teen has been playing through all the past games, and I have been shocked to see the actual visuals are vs what remembered. I even asked “but why does it look so bad, did something happen converting it over or something?” “Mom it always looked like that.” The wisdom of youth. 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My husband is required to interact with sycophantic AI agents all day for work, and I don’t want it to warp his brain. If I ever need him to snap out of it, I jokingly shift to what I think of as “‘Masterful Gambit, Sir’ Mode”. (“Great question! Tell me more about these brilliant lunch ideas!”) 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Exciting news, you can join now and improve your odds of that happening! (Anyone 18+ can join) 011
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Ok, I’m definitely going to borrow your “1/2 a masters” phrasing. (Or 3/4? All the coursework, half a thesis, idk what that adds up to … other than not a degree! lol) 100
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It’s my favorite twitter-originated holiday, even above Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day. 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It also severely impacted the lives of millions of people who didn’t die but are now disabled — including my then 14 year old kid. Thank you for your efforts working in COVID wards. A great number of us haven’t forgotten and are forever grateful to you all. 020
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 31/08/2026My daughter is a counselor at a camp in central Texas, and she’s still so angry about all the girls who died in the flood (at another camp) last summer, because some adults involved didn’t follow the proper policies. I just sent her this so that she knows sometimes people do make the right call. 1220
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Not the main lesson here but an important corollary — don’t date cops. 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Agreed, and in the last decade as a Texas transplant I’ve even come around to defend the utility of “all y’all”. Thoughts? You: single individual Y’all: collective group All y’all: each individual in the group 341
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I’m a transplant to Texas, and raising kids alongside my British SIL we were known to collectively shout some combo of y’all, you lot, or you guys at the kids 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Well, if we were to focus on the part they got correct: they’ve recognized that the earth is not flat. 1321
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 29/08/2026And fun fact, their hips are wider than their head and shoulders 141
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 28/08/2026So it’s also a competition of sorts for the kit managers? Who’s best at stain removal, overall whitening, etc with techniques passed down over the generations… 030
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 26/08/2026That’s both incredibly funny and I imagine very effective. 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/08/2026🎶Well, set it down and gently tap it on its bum until it trots away, dear Henry, dear Henry…🎶 (Doesn’t fit the song, but is apparently is the correct next step for bucketed owls.) 150
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Stop saying it’s not a river. If you have an alternative to this traditional answer to the riddle, do share. But I guess that wouldn’t be good engagement farming. 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I mean, we managed the Berlin Airlift… I’m no military expert or historian but that seemed more complicated. 2131
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Well, there’s not even a fetus yet and the dog doesn’t speak fluent English, so I think they’ll all be okay. 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 29/07/2026IIRC the 5th book references the series as “the increasingly inaccurately named hitchhikers guide trilogy” 0100
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 27/07/2026We are apparently following you later this week (Austin to MN) and I will add this stop for my pie-obsessed kid. Thanks! 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/07/2026We always have a moment when loading up for a long car trip when I say “ok we’re ready now, where’s the dog?” And my husband says “he packed himself into the car an hour ago.” (With climate control on, don’t worry.) Very eager not to be left behind. 050
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/07/2026“Financial incentive” — yeah, the benefits will totally cover all costs of having an additional child, and then some! In fact, you’d be a fool NOT to have more children, maybe go for a dozen and then you’ll be rich! That’s how it works, right? 0130
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I think if it was blown up, there’d be little need to subsequently “take it down”. The blowing up sorta handles that part? 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I don’t know exactly what this, is but I’ll tell you what it’s not. It’s not a hairline crack showing water damage on a textured drywall ceiling. That’s not what it is. 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I can’t explain or justify this, but my immediate reaction to just the photo was: “ooh! dog salad!” 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 03/07/2026It’s like the Stanford marshmallow experiment but for adults. 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 02/07/2026What’s going on outside the mall? Is it a dense forest with people perched on the treetops?! 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Ok, I immediately took your advice and I have been sleeping on these sheets for 3 nights now. They are the best sheets I have ever owned, and I’ve been researching (and throwing money at the problem) periodically for a few years now. THANK YOU so much, this made my whole week. 🙌 010
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thank you for explaining this so clearly. I’m so glad you had the knowledge to get yourself through it (plus a little luck) — but what an ordeal. I’m furious about the contagious and unmasked doctor. What happened to “first, do no harm”? 140
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I looked it up on google maps — sadly the satellite view was taken during the wrong season. Oh well. 000
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Yup. She’s mourning the loss of a future she made up in her head, and how that impacts her and her alone. 020
khrizande.bsky.social @khrizande.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I see those words and immediately hear the theme song in my head… 0160
