Gail Drakes
gaildrakes.bsky.social
Gail Drakes
@gaildrakes.bsky.social
Bad at bios, but I’m not a bot. 💁🏽‍♀️ 🏳️‍🌈

Trained as a historian, surviving late-stage capitalism by giving away Other People’s Money.
Thank you for your service. 🫡
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Mind sharing the details on the model?
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I hear you. (And “The Twilight Zone” is so good, so important.)

However, in related news, I read this and was like, “Wait. Is he dead?!?” 😯
November 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
For sure! Thanks for putting it out there. 💜

Love that the class was inclusive! I knew that kid CPR was a thing but I didn’t know much about how to save a choking child/baby.

THEN I found out the usual notion of what a drowning kid looks like is ALL WRONG!

Whew! This is why it takes a village! ✊🏾
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
And learning the Heimlich maneuver (and the variations for infants and children)…

…MUST be easier that years I’ve spent worrying about not knowing the Heimlich Maneuver (abdominal thrusts)!
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I hear you, but to my mind, Halloween 2024 was the end of an era. November 2024 we pivoted to this twisted timeline.

The Inauguration Day countdown clock was so disturbingly loud.

Many knew the storm was coming, but that clarity didn’t come with enough insights on how to prepare. 😔
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I’m cheering for all this!

I mean, I’ve loved Star Wars, but I’ve also spent a lifetime wanting it to be something it is not.

Decades of peering to the edges of the story they choose to tell…from “A New Hope” to “Andor.”

Don’t have to be a hater of that which has gone before to want new stories.✨
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
BJ’s has beaten Costco price-wise in many cases (including produce) , but the selection is different and the service can be poor.
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My 2c: We had a car an went to warehouse before COVID. Then we shifted to Instacart delivery.

Then we did free 2-day delivery for non-perishable stuff (👍🏾), and instacart delivery for the rest. Gonna try public transit to warehouse next.

BJ’s is cheaper, btw, but service can be poor.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I think we need to have more conversations like this. So many of the old norms/goals must be questioned now.

Homeownership, saving for college, retirement accounts, expectations of government vs community.

It is deeply destabilizing. I honestly don’t know what to tell my kids…😔
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I usually love learning new things…

…but what I’ve learned reading the responses to your question…

That’s the exception! 😱💩🚫

Say it ain’t so!! Black folks doing this?!?
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I see a lot of white folks in your comments blaming the stroke, but…

Word on the street it’s episode 453,526 of “Shoulda Listened To Black Folks.”

Apparently Black folks knew what was what and had been warning folks from the Braddock mayoral days onward.

(Search “Fetterman Black” #onhere 🤣😬)
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Ashamed?

My nerdy behind would probably be looking for ways to add it to my resume! 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Honestly, I don’t know how we get past/through this. How can this system ever function meaningfully ever again now that we know there are no limits?

How can the system work when there are states that happily elect people still living in 1995?

Do we need a reboot? I am at a loss.
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM