Cal
calnelson1.bsky.social
Cal
@calnelson1.bsky.social
50+yr old mother, midwesterner, librarian. Always knew I had a lot to learn. Can’t believe there’s still so much more.
Damn!
May 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Seeing you and sending support.
April 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Reposted by Cal
There's apparently a subset of people that desperately need success to be a sign of intelligence, and, strangely, inheritable.

Just, idk, sometime success comes form having enough money to be able to fail a bunch, and acknowledging this is somehow bad, if not apocryphal.
February 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Catch up. 🙄

Your confidence that this isn’t climate change is as well-informed as the rest of your comment.

“In fact, the city’s fire budget increased more than $50 million year-over-year compared to the last budget cycle …”

www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Wildfire response threatens to end Karen Bass' extended honeymoon
The Los Angeles mayor returned home from Ghana on Wednesday and said she was in “constant contact” while abroad.
www.politico.com
January 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
That’s just for 8 days, right? Year-to-date for 2025. The point is probably valid, but requires a different time frame.
January 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
When Costco is willing to take the heat, but not the Washington Post. Is journalism still a profession with ethical expectations?
January 4, 2025 at 2:57 AM
… if you slam it on your friend’s hand, he will pretty much lose the top of his finger.

ER was really pretty good given how drunk we all were. And my friend’s finger pretty much still works!

Thanks NYC ER!
January 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
My NYC NYE ER story involves six good friends safely celebrating in a small Brooklyn apartment. The “girls” were trying on different outfits in one room while one of the “boys” was trying to get us to hurry and opened the door.

Turns out those old wood interior doors are not messing around and …
January 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Intriguing. I can google around, but do you have any recommended resources about understanding this difference (or more of your ideas) that you’d be willing and able to share here?
December 19, 2024 at 5:51 AM
I’m figuring out that the autism label isn’t that helpful. It basically just means that, if the world was built for me, it would be different. So we’re all finding our ways to navigate a world that wasn’t built for us. (But the label could be helpful in finding community w folks like you.😊)
December 19, 2024 at 5:38 AM