Jess W-G

Whatever awful consequence I can think of, I want worse to happen to them. No.’worse. More suffering. In public.

A live edge bench in the back of a very messy family station wagon

Doing my part to keep the local art gallery open and the local woodworking scene alive

Inside Out is one of our absolute favorite movies of all time at my house

Fox and the Hound lurking around the corner

This is not a brag. I live in Chapel Hill but have no tie to UNC or Duke so the Duke UNC game is a complete surprise to me every year. It explains why Franklin St was so busy last night.

I can confirm that it was certainly not

The people who owned my parents’ new house planted English Ivy. Recently. Whyyyyyy

What a magnificent gift to leave behind

Grandpa I was in the Battle of the Bulge, landed in Normandy a few days after DDay, and liberated concentration camps.

Immigrant family tenant farmer who left school after eighth grade to support his family, lied about his age to join the Army in WWII, then gear smith

WWII Navy and electrical engineer

Oh my god

I can afford to teach in NC because my husband makes 2.5x my salary and we are in the 40 year old range, not just starting out.

Election Day!!!

Sign me up for the zombie band!

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

But, yeah. I bet his pronounced midwestern values include folks who wish they were part of the veiled prophet nonsense.

Everyone should know about the veiled prophet. St. Louis honed its racism in such wild ways.

Then he got racist about Chicago AND needled and asked if that crossdressing teacher still works at my workplace. Just wow.

I had to directly tell him to stop talking and to leave the house.

I recommended that he read The Broken Heart of America and referenced the Delmar Divide and policies that forcibly removed people from their homes and then subjected them to violence and poverty and then he finally got to it. “So The Blacks live there.”

Wow

Small potatoes but I’m helping my parents get bids from contractors a la @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and, yesterday, a painter found out I’d lived in St. Louis and spent five minutes trying to get me to give him a racist reason to explain why St. Louis is so violent (his take).

Saw it at 3 am when the toddler woke up. Guillotines now

The CEILING FAN I bought last year has its own wifi. The ceiling fan.

Same

This is A+ local content. Currently eating the dregs of my toddler’s Wegmans slice. Putting it on the list.

Who is sending out native plant catalogs in NC? I’d love to get on that list

You’re a bot?

JFC these people are monsters now. Also. The most recent antibiotics I got that saved my kid’s hearing cost $1.76. That’s pretty fucking cheap.

Oh no I looked at the internet again and the people are idiots

And treating a fever means annihilating the bacteria causing it with nasty toxins (the real kind, not the woowoo kind) that disrupt all of the pathogen’s cellular processes and attacking the bacteria with repeated doses of specialized poison.

Peace. There is no peace as treatment for a fever.

This is such a bad take. Someone I knew simply spit at the ground walking by a cybertruck and the cybertruck owner went and claimed assault and demanded that the owner of the parking lot take action against the spitter and also screamed running at the spitter. A kid was there.