nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026you repeatedly list the activities required to throw a dinner party, including house cleaning and buying food, but you never list cooking! as we’ve all turned into foodies, our standards for what we serve are higher than ever. and time-consuming. and of course women used to do most of it. 010
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No established religion, no discrimination based on religion -- for 250 years! 201
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026In my profession, new members are expected to give presentations of their work at conferences. And the overwhelming majority get up in front of a much more experience group, and start with “no one has ever…“  with no historical context, how the hell would they know? 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Who does he think Allah is? He thinks there is a separate God for the Muslims? In which case his God isn’t God, is he? 011
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026what happened to the boycott of states that oppose DEI? 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026OK, let’s start with the commander in chief 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 16/07/2026But the FIFA game did not go into extra time! 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 13/07/2026my mother had polio when she was five and it affected her entire life. And probably contributed to her rather early death. 050
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The way you have written this, it says that France lost. Come on, we expect better of NPR! 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Already done by 14F, the federal, digital design service shut down by doge. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Wrong. When I think of the various low-level jobs I held as I worked my way through college, most of them could be done by AI and no doubt will be. 010
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2026There was a federal agency whose job was to help the various units of government create good quality, usable, privacy protected websites. It was called 18F. Trump shut it down early in the DOGE travesty. 061
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026looks fine on my laptop and iPhone. Didn't try their app. 010
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 16/06/2026And who is paying to tear down that ugly mess they have made for the fight last weekend? 2113
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 15/06/2026My mother was a polio survivor, as was a friend who was severely disabled for the rest of his life. There are fewer and fewer of us who remember polio but we’re not gone! 010
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 13/06/2026I watched the first episode and I am scared to go back. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 08/06/2026AGAINST 13 women? The way you (NYT - AI?) write this, it says that HE is alleging that the WOMEN assaulted HIM. This from the paper of record? 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The article does not say whether it’s a Visa issues with Mexico or with the US! Since their first game is in Mexico. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Doesn't this guy have a JOB to do? Or send him out onto the golf course. 120
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026PLEASE give us a printable list, preferably with our record of what we read. I tried to print from your website and it was a mess. I want to read at least some of those I haven't read yet! 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026how do they intend to make money? For example, advertising? 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Some of the people who claimed they hate Jews so much: how many Jews have they actually met? 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I am proud to be a former public librarian! 020
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026How do they make their money? Do they make money? 100
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026He has a job to do which we are paying him for! 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 26/04/2026go ahead and try it. And discover that, if women can’t protect themselves against pregnancy, these guys won’t get much sex. That’ll change their minds. 020
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 25/04/2026no VPN and working fine on my desktop machine. You angered the internet gremlins. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Hard to find this Trump quote today, but I heard him on NPR this morning. “As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person, and even I had no idea what the hell they were talking about in the Referendum, and neither do they! Let’s see if the Courts will fix this travesty of Justice.” 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Classic Australian hamburger! I had one of those, minus the beetroot, at some tiny hole in the wall some random place in Australia in 1991. I have never forgotten it, obviously. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I had a classic SF experience in the mid-70s. Watched What's Up, Doc? at the Balboa (I'm pretty sure). Full audience of San Franciscans who reacted loudly to the chase scene that jumped around town. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Well, we now know he's afraid of snakes. Some people might take this as an opportunity. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 17/04/2026If CNN had him at 100%, that had to have been his DISapproval rating. 110
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Hasn't she heard? She doesn't get to make up the laws. 000
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Not what you're looking for, but reminded me of a wonderful book, Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton. British woman teaching English in Japan. Each chapter is about a different Japanese onomatopoeic word (such as min-min, jin-jin, and hi'sori), mostly with subtle, complex meanings; & her life there. 110
Reposted by @nvanhouse.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help. 1218113042907
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 07/04/2026you have to let it show you a preview of your comment. Then the submit button appears. 110
nvanhouse.bsky.social @nvanhouse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026How does she know it's the Holy Ghost and not Satan speaking to her? "The greatest champion of faith"? 010