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I love museums and history. ★ bed-tethered disabled! AuDHD, POTS, MCAS, and ME/CFS. ★🧑‍🦽★ I miss traveling and being in nature and sewing.

#1 Lizzie W. Champney fan (2025)

location: Jacksonville, Florida
I've been reading Greg Grandin's America, América and it's got some interesting discussion about this, and Anglo-America vs Latin-America in general. I highly recommend it!

This passage is from the introduction, addressing the demonym "American" specifically.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
i read this earlier today in America, América and wanted to share it, but now I can't remember why! other than jfc capitalism is a scourge.

first two are page 115, third is page 117
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I didn't realize the "Noble Savage" trope went almost as far back as 1492. Mendieta here isn't even the first to suggest a special innocence in 1556 (the year he arrived in Mexico. the quote may be earlier or later).

(America, América, p62)
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The book shifts from Las Casas to others of the time who were grappling with expanding their understanding of the universe to include this heretofore unknown place and people. Except, whether they're people was an actual problem for some of them, who wanted an excuse to conquer and enslave.
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
another bit of the intro that is also extremely my interest. what is it to be American? What is America?

and the way the USA separates ourselves from the rest, too, how does that affect the answers to those questions.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
i have just finished the introduction to America, América, but Greg Grandin, and ot feels like a starter before a good meal. From the Conquest to now, how Spanish and Portuguese America and English America saw each other, influenced each other, and, well, this quote.
November 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
lol mine stands up, too, except my hair is straight. 😂 I think of it as the Jimmy Neutron days.

this was right after a trim. it's very swoopy Jimmy right now, lol

and *definitely* the nonbinary cut 🤣
November 20, 2025 at 3:49 AM
went with the canned stuff with beef broth because i didn't want to have to pull out the flour, etc. just pour the can in and wait for it to get the cooked onions saturated with the flavors.

was low on cheese, too, but shredding it takes a lot of exertion and not today, no.

still, look! yum!
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
i regret i saved this without saving the artist's name, because it makes me giggle and i always think of otters as cat mermaids now 😻
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
but can your pocket be looped around the handle of your briefcase? (checkmate!! 😂)

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This was my sling, knitting in progress. :)
Eventually i realized knitting is TOO stretchy, so added a column of crochet slipstitch at the upward points of the chevron. (and used it to reinforce the strap, too)
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Chapter 9, "The Conquest of the West", in The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic has me looking askance at Three Vassar Girls at Home. Champney's choice to visit St Augustine and Fort Marion at the beginning was more significant/layered than I had realized.

(this chapter is very good)
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Here is my beloved casserole, and for comparison my square corning ware and the other one i got at home goods (too high on the shelf for me to reach tonight)
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Finished chapter 8 of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic today, mostly about the Supreme Court undermining Reconstruction and the 14th & 15th Amendments. got a bit of whiplash/déjà vu, because really ?? suddenly extremely clear what the "Heritage" Foundation refers to.
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Here's the results and conclusion from the abstract, as posted to the RECOVER site (to save you a click).

The test they used to measure outcomes is the Everyday Cognition Scale 2 (ECog2).

And if you'd like to see the abstract: recovercovid.org/publications...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
wow i am SHOCKED that none of these helped, though apparently some participants did improve across the study. Just not clearly attributable to this stuff. (possibly pacing better? lying down more ?)

sincere q: is this BrainHQ effective for *anything*??
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i might have seen one in the distance when we were in Lucerne, Switz., but not that I'm aware of! but i just read last month a book with a lot about glaciers from like 1890, loads of pictures.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
this bit does make it sound like they're trying to build on the Gemini brand and using LLM code, but it's not really the same software?

if it's only able to offer results from a specific (albeit broad) database...
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
ah, yeah, someone else mentioned the Mariel Boatlift, and that's it.

The wikipedia page even mentions that it was rumored that the immigrants were from mental institutions or prisons. 100% this is stuck in Trump's brain as his main reference for asylum seekers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_...
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
OH! This might be the answer to something that has perplexed me for 2 years, that he was involved with Temperance.

I couldn't figure out this odd little defense of him in the middle of a 1920ish book. It's so fervent but random??

(Marjorie Dean, College Freshman)
November 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
ah, not really kicking him out. Charles will still pay Andrew's rent, and he remains in the line of succession. maybe for Eugenie and Beatrice?

a pity.
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wow. I didn't think they'd actually kick him out of the family, but that's effectively what's happening? Despite the Mountbatten Windsor name.

Do you think Charles has long wanted to do this, but Elizabeth refused?

www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
October 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
right?! i think that's why it was so memorable to me, plus the farthingale! And of course, it's hard to hear in the clip, but Elizabeth would have had the biggest, so as to require more fabric, and thus show her wealth/power.

bumrolls/padding were used for ages, and in fact still are!
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
aw, yeah, love this near the end!

and i love Lindsay Adams's art throughout the article! it's so good.
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Also, this, about "high functioning" - being able to mostly mask because i was forced to, or having learned ways of stimming that aren't obvious (or whatever) - and it denies the disability, both medical and social models.
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM