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I'm not a competitive person at all. I'm just very chatty.

It's such a thing. And all these Michigan people chose to move to New Jersey. They should learn to talk and drive faster.

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I just use it for groups and for marketplace because my whole feed is crap like this.

Happy for everyone telling me that I'm stupid for still having FB but unfortunately it's the way to stay connected to town stuff especially when you have a little kid and our town buy nothing group is amazing. Congrats on the moral superiority though I guess.

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People think it's rude but like sorry I'm enthusiastic about what you're saying I didn't realize this was a group therapy session with no crosstalk.

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Yeah absolutely don't know how you do it I moved to a town that's half Jewish so I could be sure everyone would always be talking at the same time.

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I've been spending a lot of time with my best friend from high school and I realized that when we get together we both just start talking and there's not a breath of space and, like, that's how you have a conversation.

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I've been a member of a progressive Dutch Reformed church full of Midwesterners for more than ten years and I've never really felt like I fit in and I realized today (as a person raised by fast talking Irish and Italian New Yorkers) it's because nice Dutch people don't get cooperative overlapping.

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I think I'm the kind of person who is totally their target -sahm, kinda crunchy, had birth complications, kid has a delay (speech in her case not autism) but I'm well adjusted enough that I'm not looking for someone to blame.

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So my Facebook page is suddenly all antivax autism Tylenol shit and all these ~holistic mamas~ are sure to point out that it's not just Tylenol and vaccines. It's formula and epidurals and prenatal nutrition and all kinds of things that mothers are doing wrong. So fun.

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Obviously there was no Lilith Fair documentary when I was fifteen but the video store had a promotional video with all the videos from the Tori Amos album Little Earthquakes and my best friend and I rented it *a lot*.

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Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Very excited that Chris and I are gonna party like we're 15 years old tonight as he's going to play Risk with some friends and I'm watching the Lilith Fair documentary.

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Yep. If you tear (which everyone does) they recommend spraying it on there which requires holding a can at a very odd angle and does not actually make it not hurt.

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

They give it to you to spray on your vag in the hospital after you give birth and I was absolutely not a fan.

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Live that my stupid MAHA former family friend is posting about how she knew 8 years ago during her first pregnancy that Tylenol caused autism so she's never taken it while pregnant but *checks notes* her oldest kid has autism.

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Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Going apple picking with my mom today, can't wait to hear all her opinions about Charlie Kirk, a person she'd never heard of before his death.

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Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Fevers are dangerous when you're pregnant (and maybe cause autism who knows everything is fake) so it's good we have Tylenol for that. Taking meds when you're pregnant is such a fucking minefield every choice seems wrong.

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I'm so mad about this autism Tylenol thing. This administration is hell bent on raising the birth rate but also wants to make pregnancy as miserable as possible for women? How does that make sense?

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Well I guess the only good thing about this NJ gubernatorial debate is that I'm pretty sure almost no one is watching it.

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Heck yeah Mike Sherrill coming out as pro phonics on the gubernatorial debate!

He's more eloquent than I'm comfortable with even though the things he's saying are absolutely batty.

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I've been going to 4H and county fairs all summer and fall and I'm so over these events having an absolutely rocking GOP tent and almost no Dem presence. I was just at Sayreville Day and there was an LD-19 tent with Coughlin signs but where's the MCDO or Sherrill campaign?

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Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

...Is this the church I used to work at?

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Parenting has such odd tensions. I just packed up a bunch of Amelia's stuffed animals and was like "what if I threw all these in the garbage?" But I'm also extremely pumped to take her to Build a Bear to build a bear on her birthday.

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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Interviewed myself about my new book for my newsletter, v easy assignment philipchristman.substack.com/p/publicatio...

philipchristman.substack.com

Publication Day for "Why Christians Should Be Leftists"

an interview with myself

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Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Definitely agree with the last line about DSA meetings. I've been to a few of those and I'm a democratic committeeperson in a super progressive town (whole council and mayor are Dems) and those meetings are lol.

I am hopelessly addicted to my phone though it's terrible I'm considering throwing it into the ocean.

I grew up in a PBS no cable household and I know my brother and I were very excited to watch Cartoon Network and Nick at Nite at my grandparents but now I am raising a PBS child and pretty much never watch TV alone. It just doesn't occur to me.

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Well Mr KB2YFF has no such hesitation.

My dad still swaps postcards with people on HAM radio and it's wild that he's just putting his address out there into the airwaves.

There's a lot of jingoistic ~Never Forget~ shit out there so don't mistake this for that but I bought a headband in the Strawberry's in WTC basement mall while back to school shopping with my aunt who lived in Tribeca in 2001 and I still have it.

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As someone whose adolescence was punctuated by 9/11 in a big way (friends losing parents who worked in WTC, first responder family members getting sick, the smell of that big cloud of smoke, violence against my muslim neighbors in my super diverse town) I'm glad J.D Vance isn't at the memorial.

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Chris is actually on here and we have a bunch of mutuals but since he's a secular person he misses out/does not care about some of our really wild discourses.

I have a spouse who lives in another part of the Internet so he tells me jokes he reads on reddit and I...well I don't repeat the things you people say on here.

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It's awful. I'm sorry. I also have an uncle who is FDNY, lost his vision for a while and had to retire before he was 50 because his lungs are so shot.

My aunt lived on Warren Street and so many of her neighbors have died from cancer.

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It drove my parents crazy. I would eat all the peaches before they were ripe.

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Yep I love a hard crunchy peach I don't know what's wrong with me

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I hate when the apples are super soft because I don't like soft food. I can only eat super firm apples and peaches before they're ripe. Mapo tofu is the only exception.

Pretend this is a gif of "You are wrong and always have been wrong" from the Confrontation in Les Mis

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Oh I like it when the apples are pretty al dente rather than applesaucey.

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What about apple crumb? That's not a berry (and it's the best pie)

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I have one. How's that supposed to work with the stroller?

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Are people that gung ho off Bluesky? He seems like a massive tool.

Lizard @lizardtown.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Considered this but she just wants to lay on the sidewalk/pick up every rock she sees/run into traffic.