Grace Hill
@gracehill.bsky.social
not as good as I once was, but sometimes as good once as I ever was
#actuallyautistic #audhd
parent, caregiver, spouse, wfh
📍 central Appalachia, because I'm too stubborn to leave
matriarch, [redacted]
#actuallyautistic #audhd
parent, caregiver, spouse, wfh
📍 central Appalachia, because I'm too stubborn to leave
matriarch, [redacted]
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Federal audit says WV failed to properly investigate bulk of child abuse and neglect referrals westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/17/f...
Federal audit says WV failed to properly investigate bulk of child abuse and neglect referrals • West Virginia Watch
An audit of West Virginia’s foster care system showed the state didn’t comply with requirements when responding to reports of child abuse.
westvirginiawatch.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Federal audit says WV failed to properly investigate bulk of child abuse and neglect referrals westvirginiawatch.com/2025/11/17/f...
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A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child neglect and abuse cases.
www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...
www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...
Federal review finds issues with Justice-era Child Protective Services
CHARLESTON – A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child ...
www.newsandsentinel.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child neglect and abuse cases.
www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...
www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...
Last week, Child C, picking up the fiddle after a month off: this is awful, make me practice next time! I’ve forgotten everything!
This week, Child C, practicing fiddle for Friday’s lesson: are we done yet? How many more time do I have to play this song?
This week, Child C, practicing fiddle for Friday’s lesson: are we done yet? How many more time do I have to play this song?
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Last week, Child C, picking up the fiddle after a month off: this is awful, make me practice next time! I’ve forgotten everything!
This week, Child C, practicing fiddle for Friday’s lesson: are we done yet? How many more time do I have to play this song?
This week, Child C, practicing fiddle for Friday’s lesson: are we done yet? How many more time do I have to play this song?
extremely tired of folks who leave and use their sepia-toned memories as statements of fact, when in reality, their childhood home is not, cannot, be as they remember.
Adding all their youthful resentments to their judgments of the people they left behind is a real choice.
Adding all their youthful resentments to their judgments of the people they left behind is a real choice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
extremely tired of folks who leave and use their sepia-toned memories as statements of fact, when in reality, their childhood home is not, cannot, be as they remember.
Adding all their youthful resentments to their judgments of the people they left behind is a real choice.
Adding all their youthful resentments to their judgments of the people they left behind is a real choice.
I taught my children to use this question technique whenever the topic comes up.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I taught my children to use this question technique whenever the topic comes up.
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You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
You mean the company that's currently being struck by its workers and the company that's currently being boycotted because of its terrible DEI policy rollbacks? Why not just call this the Chocolate Mint Racist Scab Frostie?
I swear by all the pawpaws in the hollers...
My mom fell and the EMS charged her $100.
I set up a bank payment & got an email about a returned payment
Bank? 🤷
Billpay? 🤷
EMS? "We changed accounting systems, so you had the wrong account number on your payment, & the system rejected it."
Seriously?
My mom fell and the EMS charged her $100.
I set up a bank payment & got an email about a returned payment
Bank? 🤷
Billpay? 🤷
EMS? "We changed accounting systems, so you had the wrong account number on your payment, & the system rejected it."
Seriously?
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I swear by all the pawpaws in the hollers...
My mom fell and the EMS charged her $100.
I set up a bank payment & got an email about a returned payment
Bank? 🤷
Billpay? 🤷
EMS? "We changed accounting systems, so you had the wrong account number on your payment, & the system rejected it."
Seriously?
My mom fell and the EMS charged her $100.
I set up a bank payment & got an email about a returned payment
Bank? 🤷
Billpay? 🤷
EMS? "We changed accounting systems, so you had the wrong account number on your payment, & the system rejected it."
Seriously?
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That's the thing about editing in writing, movies, fashion, probably anything. The better it's done, the less you notice.
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
That's the thing about editing in writing, movies, fashion, probably anything. The better it's done, the less you notice.
it's so cold I wore a long sleeve shirt under my fleece jacket today, and today it's the "Stay Home, Read a Romance Novel" shirt from the Ripped Bodice back from 2020? Ish?
November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
it's so cold I wore a long sleeve shirt under my fleece jacket today, and today it's the "Stay Home, Read a Romance Novel" shirt from the Ripped Bodice back from 2020? Ish?
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Soooo we were pretty sure there would be widespread interest in an environmental career fair at uky (I mean, that's why we are doing it) but had no way of predicting how widespread.
It's tomorrow. We have 180 (!!!) students registered. Registration is not required to come, so we expect more. 😱😱❤️❤️
It's tomorrow. We have 180 (!!!) students registered. Registration is not required to come, so we expect more. 😱😱❤️❤️
My research institute, the Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, is hosting the U of KY's first ever environmental career fair!
I'm really stoked about it -- we've got all kinds of employers, and students can really benefit from targeted opportunities like this.
I'm really stoked about it -- we've got all kinds of employers, and students can really benefit from targeted opportunities like this.
UK to host 1st environmental career fair connecting students and employment
uknow.uky.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Soooo we were pretty sure there would be widespread interest in an environmental career fair at uky (I mean, that's why we are doing it) but had no way of predicting how widespread.
It's tomorrow. We have 180 (!!!) students registered. Registration is not required to come, so we expect more. 😱😱❤️❤️
It's tomorrow. We have 180 (!!!) students registered. Registration is not required to come, so we expect more. 😱😱❤️❤️
The thing is… Charlotte is in NC. And I think there might be unforeseen consequences. “North Carolina has voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential election since 1980” and perhaps that bird won’t fly there. Or maybe it will: (note that Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County)
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The thing is… Charlotte is in NC. And I think there might be unforeseen consequences. “North Carolina has voted for the Republican candidate in all but one presidential election since 1980” and perhaps that bird won’t fly there. Or maybe it will: (note that Charlotte is in Mecklenburg County)
I.. I need this fanfic
For some reason I've been watching this show about game wardens in Michigan and I'm now picturing someone rolling up on a Predator and being like 'no man you don't have a tag to hunt humans and also you can't be using bait, we're taking your license for the season'
November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I.. I need this fanfic
New evergreen quote, imo:
“if you then chronically underfund your… institutions, and treat your…workers with contempt…you …are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only…workers you respect are the dead ones.”
“if you then chronically underfund your… institutions, and treat your…workers with contempt…you …are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only…workers you respect are the dead ones.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New evergreen quote, imo:
“if you then chronically underfund your… institutions, and treat your…workers with contempt…you …are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only…workers you respect are the dead ones.”
“if you then chronically underfund your… institutions, and treat your…workers with contempt…you …are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only…workers you respect are the dead ones.”
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Love this so much. 💜
November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Love this so much. 💜
Top five film genres:
- people who live in spaceships go to a planet
- extremely competent pretty people solve a moderately difficult problem
- silly action movies with dinosaurs/aliens/high-speed things/etc
- historical fiction drama with an intermission
- good people matter, actually
- people who live in spaceships go to a planet
- extremely competent pretty people solve a moderately difficult problem
- silly action movies with dinosaurs/aliens/high-speed things/etc
- historical fiction drama with an intermission
- good people matter, actually
Top 5 film genres
-one director’s quixotic and extravagant labor of love
-something awful has happened and nobody will ever know precisely what or why
-cool monsters
-this Hays code embodiment of a transatlantic accent wants to fuck
-I Hate The Upper Class But Damn They Know How to Dress
-one director’s quixotic and extravagant labor of love
-something awful has happened and nobody will ever know precisely what or why
-cool monsters
-this Hays code embodiment of a transatlantic accent wants to fuck
-I Hate The Upper Class But Damn They Know How to Dress
Top five film genres:
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
- pre-WW2 Hollywood comedy where plot’s tertiary at best, all vibes
- French or Italians lookin’ fabulous, talkin’ sophisticated
- your dad loves this movie & now that you’re 50 so do you
- porn is art when it’s softcore & everyone dresses nice
- L.A. Rebellion
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Top five film genres:
- people who live in spaceships go to a planet
- extremely competent pretty people solve a moderately difficult problem
- silly action movies with dinosaurs/aliens/high-speed things/etc
- historical fiction drama with an intermission
- good people matter, actually
- people who live in spaceships go to a planet
- extremely competent pretty people solve a moderately difficult problem
- silly action movies with dinosaurs/aliens/high-speed things/etc
- historical fiction drama with an intermission
- good people matter, actually
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
I’ve been parenting for almost three decades and I’m so done with teenagers I don’t even like to read stories where they’re main characters.
These older people who want to have sex with one? there is something deeply wrong with those people
These older people who want to have sex with one? there is something deeply wrong with those people
November 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I’ve been parenting for almost three decades and I’m so done with teenagers I don’t even like to read stories where they’re main characters.
These older people who want to have sex with one? there is something deeply wrong with those people
These older people who want to have sex with one? there is something deeply wrong with those people
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The irony of the hotel interview is it was a step up on the old boys’ phone-a-friend to get your student a job.
And invite candidates to parties in said hotel rooms, sometimes not even suites, that you felt obligated to attend even though it was so uncomfortable and you would inevitably get waylaid when trying to leave by an emeritus hanging in the doorway who wanted to talk about Beasts of the Southern Wild.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The irony of the hotel interview is it was a step up on the old boys’ phone-a-friend to get your student a job.
Me—I want a big silly action movie for our date night!
Predator: Badlands—what if we humanize the predator, make it funny, and create an anti-eugenics morality tale about how true alpha wolves provide for the pack
Me—exactly what I wanted, perfect!
Predator: Badlands—what if we humanize the predator, make it funny, and create an anti-eugenics morality tale about how true alpha wolves provide for the pack
Me—exactly what I wanted, perfect!
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Me—I want a big silly action movie for our date night!
Predator: Badlands—what if we humanize the predator, make it funny, and create an anti-eugenics morality tale about how true alpha wolves provide for the pack
Me—exactly what I wanted, perfect!
Predator: Badlands—what if we humanize the predator, make it funny, and create an anti-eugenics morality tale about how true alpha wolves provide for the pack
Me—exactly what I wanted, perfect!
It is baked potato season. So I also bought sour cream and chives, because they’re a classic for a reason. If you give a mouse a baked potato, they’re also going to want some meatloaf (Heinz ketchup on top here!), if you have a baked potato and meatloaf, you need a veg, so green beans it is.
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
It is baked potato season. So I also bought sour cream and chives, because they’re a classic for a reason. If you give a mouse a baked potato, they’re also going to want some meatloaf (Heinz ketchup on top here!), if you have a baked potato and meatloaf, you need a veg, so green beans it is.
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PREDATOR: BADLANDS is very fun, in large part because it understands and accepts that it's quite dumb
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
PREDATOR: BADLANDS is very fun, in large part because it understands and accepts that it's quite dumb
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🎬 #Charlottesville: Join us for a screening of "A Beast Touch the Mountain" — a moving documentary about the fight to protect our communities from the #MountainValleyPipeline — on Friday, 11/21, at 7 pm at the Violet Crown.
https://loom.ly/o6MZJsg
https://loom.ly/o6MZJsg
A BEAST TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN Charlottesville Screening to Benefit POWHR
A fierce band of women on Bent Mountain, VA fight a corrupt natural gas pipeline to protect their land and way of life.
www.eventbrite.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🎬 #Charlottesville: Join us for a screening of "A Beast Touch the Mountain" — a moving documentary about the fight to protect our communities from the #MountainValleyPipeline — on Friday, 11/21, at 7 pm at the Violet Crown.
https://loom.ly/o6MZJsg
https://loom.ly/o6MZJsg
*taking notes*
A random asexual autist who’s like the undersecretary of Fish and Wildlife’s eastern Kentucky porcupine preservation division somehow becomes God Emperor of America by virtue of being the highest ranking official unaware of Epstein’s actions.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
*taking notes*
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Take your pick for a 60 mile trip in rural PA: walk it or take public transport. Same diff.
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Take your pick for a 60 mile trip in rural PA: walk it or take public transport. Same diff.