•she/her • Mama Bear to 3 • Ally (always learning) • Floundering Artist • Bread Baker • Depression & Anxiety with some self-dx ADHD thrown in
North Carolina, USA
Joined January 2009
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Jennifer Olinger retweeted
For Americans who are new to trying to understand #Ukraine, I want to explain something, judgement-free. We all didn’t know things at one point in time, it’s fine.
Still, a 🧵
(All numbers refer to the core urban area & population, not including greater metro numbers)
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
<-bookmarks for use as example of toxoplasmosis
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Oh, methylphenidate, how I have *missed* you and members of your chemical families.
Concentration, focus, executive function, I’ve missed you, too.
Complaint:
ADHD should NOT be in the psych world. It’s genetic, it’s biological; it’s not behavioral. It’s a physical condition.
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
Word of the day is ‘spuddle’ (17th century): to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
I would actually be terrified to give past me any advice because I love the life she wound up with on her own and what if I change the timeline and I come back and discover that now birds are extinct or something?
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
it often seems. like the human is jealous of me. because of how happy i get. about the simplest things. i don’t know how to tell them. they can do that too
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
A good way to tell elder millennials from younger ones is to shriek-sing “PEACHES COME FROM A CAN” at them and see what happens
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
Hmm, you know, it occurs to me—for all you new gardeners out there, you know not to trust the plant tags, right?
...maybe we should talk about that.
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
Children love books about boarding schools because they love the idea of living with their friends in a single building where magical things happen. A school is just a plot device to create what many humans (young and old) crave: a walkable, close-knit community.
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
Tired of doomscrolling?
Binged every series worth streaming?
A video game, which is currently being developed, will let you skirt provincial stay-at-home orders while wandering the streets as a raccoon.
toronto.ctvnews.ca/i-want-it…
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
This is Fritz. Respectfully, no you may not have his ball. The last time you took it, you threw it very far. He doesn’t have time for that. 14/10
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
I don’t care what anyone tells you, you’re allowed to love children’s books and fairy-tales and dinosaurs and theme parks, you're an adult.
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
A great book. Review | Raised in a cult, Lauren Hough’s salvation was the discovery of her own inimitable voice washingtonpost.com/entertain…
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
Consider this your semi-regular reminder to read:
Past the headline ✔️
Past the tweet ✔️
Past the meme (which is NOT news) ✔️
The full article (& then search for more information if you're not sure of its credibility) ✔️
#NewsLiteracy
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
garlic is to cooking as vanilla extract is to baking in that the amount i add to my food is guided by reckless extravagance and utter disregard, verging on mild contempt, for the recipe as written
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
"I mistook my taser for my gun" is really a striking endorsement of not giving patrol officers guns in the first place. I mean, if your pharmacist couldn't tell an aspirin from fentanyl, it's not just something you accept as a occupational hazard.
Jennifer Olinger retweeted
ghana, gambia, cameroon, nigeria, jamaica, kenya, malawi, malaysia, uganda, tanzania, yemen, zambia, bahrain, qatar, belize, half the caribbean.... all were under british rule at the start of elizabeth’s reign. and that’s not even all.
