Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 6h

yeah, as late as 1985 the town we spent summers in offered four-digit dialing within the town because it was just that small

2

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 6h

youtu.be/iwojZu7aVVg?...

Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows

YouTube video by Lesley Gore - Topic

youtu.be

2

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 6h

Not so much with the other side, but youtu.be/4cVpkzZpDBA?...

Harry Chapin - Flowers Are Red

YouTube video by SongsofHarry

youtu.be

1 3

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 7h

It didn’t seem weird with my grandmother’s generation, it was that or Mrs. Michaelson, but with my parents’ generation I was allowed to use first names, and nobody seemed to mind the lack of honorifics as long as I wasn’t OTHERWISE disrespectful. Content over form.

1

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 7h

Labanotation though? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labanot...

Labanotation - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

2

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 7h

One of my grandmother’s friends, no relation, whose husband ran the best shoe store in town, was always Aunt Teresa to me, again, generational respect thing.

My mom’s best friend’s kids called my mom Aunt Jill but we just called their mom
Lil, different family customs and nobody seemed bothered.

1 1

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 7h

no, it’s definitely not usual, my cousins had an Aunt Carol who was their mother’s sister, their mother being my Aunt Sandy who was married to my father’s brother Paul. I did not call Carol “aunt” and her kids were not my cousins, they were my cousins’ cousins

1 1

Reposted by Rikibeth

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

61 780 3.8K

Reposted by Rikibeth

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

38 340 1.4K

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 8h

I keep wanting to pull out the whole Trump Princess sequence these days. “Look at the quality!”

1 2

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 8h

The rotary dial had the letters on it but phone books and other official stuff did not list phone numbers with the letter exchanges. But my dad had grown up saying AL-4 for his home phone so when he called his mother that’s how he thought of it.

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve been reading them since I was about ten years old! Do you remember when PBS Mystery! showed the miniseries they made out of the first two Sid Halley stories? The title sequence that showed his career-ending fall was HARROWING.

1

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 9h

And when I saw it online with a doctor telling Weird Hospital Stories I was like I KNOW THAT ONE and the doctor was like yeah, I read it too, great book and great detail!

1 2

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 9h

(I can also do my grandmother’s phone number with the letter exchange because that’s how my parents said it, letter exchanges were gone by the time I was born)

1 1

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 9h

wait a minute.

Empire Carpets isn’t the same one as how many cookies did Andrew eat, is it? That’s a rug cleaning company around here, still in business

1

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 9h

now you’re making me think of parsing older Doonesbury collections when I was pretty young

1 4

Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 9h

Only 10pm here, and there’s a HUGE body of work, nobody can remember everything

although the oddest things will stick in my head, like calling urgently for a bedpan is a sign that a patient is about to code (it happens in Bonecrack when his father dies in hospital)

1 2