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heather 👩🏻‍🦰
@gingerfloofs.bsky.social
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Nerd mom to a teen & a dictatorial preschooler, two doggos, & our ginger cat overlord.
Yonsei, elder millennial/xennial.
Newly-minted Troy Dem Club Trustee 😎
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Mine was making a heart with his feeties earlier 🫶🏻😭
April 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
How is this NOT market manipulation? The flip-flopping announcements of tariffs then pulling back riiiight at the last minute or going back on terms just to then have the market rebound in some capacity feels intentional 😒 Like is every month going to be this way for the next four years?
Screenshot of two news headlines: The first from The Guardian: “Gulafdian Trump says he's pausing some tariffs for 90 days - but raising them for China” The second from CNBC: “Dow surges 2,300 points for biggest rally in 5 years after Trump pauses some tariffs”
April 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Since everything sucks here, I’ll share this view I snapped down in Aruba this last week 😎
A view of the sunset overlooking the Caribbean Sea in Savaneta, Aruba.
April 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
So 10 Dems voted alongside MAGA assholes to censure Rep. Al Green?! And Gavin Newsome did a podcast episode with Charlie-fucking-Kirk?!

This timeline fucking sucks.
Beral (California) Case (Hawaii) Costa (California) Gillen (New York) Himes (Connecticut) Houlihan (Pennsylvania) Kaptur (Ohio) Moskowitz (Florida) Perez (Washington) Suozzi (New York)
March 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Done!
March 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
"...it comes down to using your common sense and deciding what you believe is propaganda and what you believe is true." Then proceeds to list Newsmax and the new White House website is true, legit sources.

The next four years are gonna be wild.
Follow-up screenshot of a reply: Friend: "This information is very suspect. Do you have a source? It sounds at best missing context and at worst patently false. If you are comfortable with a group of a few dozen people, most under 25, all of whom completely unqualified, lacking a security clearance, with questionable intentions, operating at the direction of someone with deep conflicts of interest, who is also unqualified, who was not elected or given congressional appointment, and who has been granted illegal authority to act by a convicted felon president who, prior to being nearly bankrupt was saved by getting to play a successful businessman on TV, fooling a generation of Americans, has made a living ripping off contractors and bankrupted a casino, not to mention a total and demonstrable lack of any interpersonal decency or empathy, has shown hostility to our allies, kisses ass to our enemies, has stated plainly and publicly that he finds his adult daughter sensually attractive, and is generally and numerous other ways just genuinely awful, then I don't know what to say that could change your mind because to me all of that stuff is incredibly obvious, so it must be to you as well, and so you must be ok with it. So regardless of what you posted about, I would hope you can find a way to admit that it doesn't matter, you just like the vibe and would support what ever trump, Elon, and his goons would do." OP: "I guess in this time and age, it comes down to using your common sense and deciding what you believe is propaganda and what you believe is true. My source is the U.S. government website. Of course, I suppose it could be false, the Biden administration spent 4 years engaged in lies and cover ups, so government dishonesty is not unheard of. I could list 50 things more substantial to hate about Kamala and the Biden’s, but that’s not my point. One thing is undeniable:. This country is 36 trillion dollars in debt. Should we keep spending?"
February 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Let's check back in a month to see if my idea of FB Friend List-sourcing batshit right-wing takes and the boss replies shutting this shit down helps in my "research project" of "WTF Can Heather Do to Help Our Country Be Normal Again" 🙃😅
Screenshot of a post on Facebook: "Dear Elon Musk / Trump haters, Thanks to Musk and Trump, your tax dollars are no longer paying for: 1. Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund "irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan," benefiting the Taliban (WHAT??!) 2. Millions to EcoHealth Alliance - which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab leading to the COVID 19 pandemic. 3. Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation 4. 8.2 Million in subscriptions to left wing publication Politico. Subscriptions apparently worth 10k per subscription annually. Anyone you know pay $800 / month for a shit news Internet subscription? No? Ironically, the week this funding was pulled, Politico couldn't pay its employees, but "they're definitely not being funded to create propaganda by the federal government. That's crazy talk" (paraphrasing that) 5. $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt 6. $32,000 for a "transgender comic book" in Peru The list goes on and on. Please explain to me how Trump and Musk are evil for not wanting Americans to pav for this shit. I'd love to hear it."
February 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
My baby boy 🥹
A ginger cat lays atop his mother’s bed, napping. Toe beans.
February 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
I had a similar setup to these pics I got off of Pinterest (where I originally got the idea) and it was so helpful to have things in a centralize area that I could take between rooms.
A blue IKEA Råskog cart with three tiers, each holding baby items such as diapers, wipes, lotions, and swaddle blankets. A white three-tiered cart similar to the Ikea version; it’s holding baby items such as diapers, wipes, and lotion, along with a breast pump, bottled water, and Clif bars.
January 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
So I guess there’s a winter storm warning in effect in southwest Michigan because my dad called to tell me he hopped out of his truck to put his melting ice cream in the bed of said truck to keep cold while he waits to finally get off the highway 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 Stay safe, Michiganders!
Image is a satellite view showing Interstate 94 in Coloma via the Find My app where Heather’s dad is currently stuck on the highway.
December 2, 2024 at 8:34 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
I can’t tell if this is a way-too-early April Fool’s joke or Simplehuman is super seriously selling tequila 🤨
Screenshot of an email showing a bottle of tequila. Context: “Introducing our Limited Edition Simplehuman Tequila. For moments together. la historia de NOSOTRI TEQUI SIMPLE HUMAN TEQUILA BLANCO HECHO EN MEXICO ARTISAN OISTILLED Inspired by our soapwell sponge, we are proud to release our Limited Edition Simplehuman x Nostros Tequila Blanco.”
November 28, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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November 16, 2024 at 5:43 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Same 😭🤣
A sad, lonely Nintendo Switch sits in its dock awaiting the day its owner decides to play once more.
November 16, 2024 at 4:12 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Yep. Which is a fucking oxymoron since the 10th Amendment states that the fed/Dept. of Ed. leave the establishment of curriculum, standards, and establishing schools TO the states.
“Federal Authority Over Education The federal government has historically played a minor role in education. In fact, the federal government did not issue any educational policy until the 1960s. The federal laws with the most impact on education concern: • Equal access to education • Safeguarding students' constitutional rights • Safeguarding teachers' constitutional rights Education is not a constitutional right like free speech and assembly, but it is an important enough interest to warrant constitutional protection. Students can't be discriminated against based on race, gender, religion, disability, or ethnicity. The 14th Amendment protects students from this type of discrimination.”
November 15, 2024 at 7:13 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
I follow r/economicCollapse on reddit and there have been some insightful posts about what could potentially happen, but this one stuck out to me. I really can’t stand the “everything should go back to the states” shtick like the states can properly handle the immediate influx of everything.
“2.) Department of Education Disbanded -Schools can't get funds quickly due to pipeline changes. New agencies responsible for congressionally approved programs have to re-organize and figure out brand new systems of administration of obligations. Unable to support real-time demands with such a massive change in the short (1-2 years) term. -States scramble to fund federal programs while trying to receive federal funds through new pipelines that have hard kill switches of states don't comply with federal regulatory standards of curriculum. -Student loans go fully private. Many students lose access to federal programs that helped gain access to university. Loan forgiveness programs at risk of falling into private companies hands. -Head start programs die off. -Title 1 schools in highest needs area get crushed hardest. In the end, most vulnerable population of children and in the most formative years of their education get slammed.”
November 15, 2024 at 6:47 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Yes!
An orange cat wearing a Target shopping cart costume. He is unamused.
November 15, 2024 at 5:32 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
I’ve had this one saved for the giggles and now relevant to share!
Image of God in cartoon form with googly-eyes in confusion. Words beneath image is “Please Stand By. We’re experiencing technical difficulties.”
November 15, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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🤨🤣
Shiba Inu bonking another doggo and telling it to go to “horny jail”.
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
This seems appropriate 🤣
(Found via r/Target on Reddit)
Photo of an aisle at Target full of Christmas decor that is on fire. Kind of like chestnuts roasting over an open fire.
November 14, 2024 at 8:40 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Ok but hear me out: “dense, brain-dead pickle” got this dipshit to STFU 🤣
November 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Tapping into my Japanese heritage by breaking my hand learning how to write hiragana 🙃
Practice chart of hiragana letters A, I, U, E, and O.
November 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
Welp gonna be listening a lot to this album
November 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
I wish we could go back to a time when all the batshit political takes weren’t so frequent.
October 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM
gingerfloofs.bsky.social
This is so accurate. Example: the local newspaper of my hometown posted a story on their FB page about the local Kiwanis park initiative for an accessible playground, & a whackjob rightwinger hopped in the comments whining about how being inclusive means there’s a secret “liberal agenda” 🙄
“Most playground and green spaces nowadays are accessible to all. Receiving grants requires ADA accessibility. While I think it's great to create a park that anyone can use the verbiage used here is by design intended to push a different agenda. Critical race theory is often referred to as a "lens" by which teachers are indoctrinated to push a liberal agenda. Conservatives in this area need to be careful applauding projects that quietly normalize these ideologies. Again, it's wonderful that this park is moving toward being accessible to all. But most green spaces in our communities have been doing that all along.”
January 15, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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As a faithful Nerd, my first post shall be the legendary hello #macintosh128k
Classic Apple Computer “hello” in white cursive over blocks of purple, pink, and yellow.
July 28, 2023 at 4:28 AM