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Tax Fellow. Former librarian. Mom. Writer? Sometimes. I'm a haus of crash and burn. she/her

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Also the staffing training levels are uneven af. a client called and got 3 different answers from 3 different staffers and each one incorrect

08.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a man in a christmas outfit with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' . ALT: a close up of a man in a christmas outfit with the words `` you sit on a throne of lies '' .

as an accountant

08.03.2026 21:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

08.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 3539 πŸ” 1288 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 18

(she voted for Harris in 2024. Helped her register to vote in 2020 for the first time so she could vote against the orange monster)

08.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Once in Lebanon in 2008, I bumped into a man trying to take a photo and I apologized. He called me a war mongering American. I told him I didn't vote for GW Bush and that I was sorry. He went doesn't matter if you didn't, your parents did.

Ouch
(also my dad did vote! my mom didn't vote then)

08.03.2026 21:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like Firefly has not survived my growing up. Mal's treatment of Inara is distasteful. The casual use of SA as a threat. The use of China as a cultural aesthetic without the actual culture. A reunion, fine. A show? Not for me.

08.03.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

DST is bullshit.
It was bright by 7am.
Sunlight mornings are important, esp getting the kiddos to school and for all the kiddos at bus stops. Now its dark again and will be dark until 8am.

ugh.
i don't need light at 7pm right now. It'd've gotten there eventually

08.03.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Lyric Video)
Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Lyric Video) YouTube video by florencemachine

Day 8 of my women's history month playlist.
This album was a powerful call to women's power and anger.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9B...

08.03.2026 11:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

im sorry i didn't put an asterisk there for ppl to understand that not every single driver in the US drives an SUV or a big ole truck. more than 50% of cars on the road are SUVs or trucks.

i don't drive one, but all of my neighbors do. and so do almost of the parents at my kids school.

07.03.2026 22:49 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the US is not walkeable, and everyone drives big ole SUVs.

07.03.2026 22:44 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9

Egg Companies Assure Customers Dozen Has Always Meant 9 https://theonion.com/egg-companies-assure-customers-dozen-has-always-meant-9/

07.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 3019 πŸ” 436 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 17
NaΓ―ka - 'My Body, My Choice' (Performance Video)
NaΓ―ka - 'My Body, My Choice' (Performance Video) YouTube video by NaΓ―ka

Day 7.
"Your body, my choice"-remember that tweet? Both C and c movements want to elide any bodily autonomy for women (and for men of color). Your body exists to further the ambitions of the state and nothing more.

No.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J75s...

07.03.2026 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

dows no longer over 50k too!

06.03.2026 22:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

grossssssss

do you have GoodRx? It saved us on the kiddo's brain meat meds when they went up

06.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A freaking excellent piece of writing

06.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
AI Chatbots still struggle with tax prep when accuracy matters most - A NY Times test put 4 AI chatbots through 9 fictional tax scenarios and found they frequently missed key details, miscalculating refunds or balances due by more than $2,000. Traditional tax software is built around if-then procedures; LLMs are optimzed to generate plausible texts and can drift when many interlocking rules and forms must be handled. For now, AI may be better suited to explaining forms and concepts than preparing a return without careful human review

AI Chatbots still struggle with tax prep when accuracy matters most - A NY Times test put 4 AI chatbots through 9 fictional tax scenarios and found they frequently missed key details, miscalculating refunds or balances due by more than $2,000. Traditional tax software is built around if-then procedures; LLMs are optimzed to generate plausible texts and can drift when many interlocking rules and forms must be handled. For now, AI may be better suited to explaining forms and concepts than preparing a return without careful human review

Duh. I also consume less water per query.

06.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation YouTube video by Sony Pictures Animation

Day 5!
K Pop Demon Hunters is feminist! The girls love and support each other so much. We love it! This is a power song and a "who we are" song and fit check for my napalm era is a line for all time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGse...

06.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh and at the oregon shakespeare festival we saw henry vi pt 2 and i cried a lot over hal and falstaff. it also made henry v much better, but i want my hal not kenneth branagh. (the actor who played hal was very nice to a bunch of high schoolers when we saw him later)

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I like Othello and I've seen it live. Anthony Heald (chilton of silence of the lambs fan) spit on me and some friends in the first row when he was Iago.

I also love Twelfth Night but I've never seen that live. Just the 90s movie.

05.03.2026 23:39 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Ohio primaries aren't until May

05.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

savages is such a loud dog whistle

05.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Linda Lindas - "No Obligation"
The Linda Lindas - "No Obligation" YouTube video by Epitaph Records

Day 5. I love the Linda Lindas!
Women don't exist for the consumption by the male gaze.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlEh...

05.03.2026 14:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Farmer, WW2 vet, then VP for 7up. worked as a garbage man bc 5 kids is alot. also had a newspaper route before office work.

dad's dad was army pilot. and a drunk apparently who had another wife in the UK. died before i was born.

05.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hubris sometimes can be the slowest teacher for the less astute

05.03.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

he's my congressman 😭😭😭

i called his office and just absolutely left a disgusted voicemail after this interview. he's generally coherent and fine for the region (just ok), but whew. primary in may. let's see what happens.

04.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

also there has been a concentrated effort in our city to tell him to vote no so he's just ignoring a large swath of his constituents

04.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ah. thats my congress person.

04.03.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

04.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 1486 πŸ” 547 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7

i think other than clips i have not seen it. my husband tried to show me a compilation of "best of" clips and after 3 minutes of it, i turned it off.

it wasn't funny.
i liked matthew perry in studio 60

04.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m just saying. If the main point against Jasmine Crockett is β€œTalarico is more electable because Whites & Latinos just aren’t going to vote for a Black woman” why in the world would you suggest Jasmine Crockett run again in 2 years against Ted Cruz when she will still be a BW. Explain that to me.

04.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0