Shaindel Beers 🍻
@shaindelr
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Poet, Professor, Animal Rescuer, Mom, Doing the best I can.
Joined April 2024
A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit walk into a blood donation center. The nurse asks the rabbit, " What is your blood type?". The rabbit responds, "I am probably a type O.".
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Name suggestions (that are kind & hopeful) for this kitty saved from a fire. He has lost all his whiskers, and his fur is singed, but he seems in otherwise good shape. We still might be transferring him to a more equipped shelter but taking name suggestions in case he stays.
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@unxpctdisvry I have a child who is a pescatarian and a husband who is allergic to most fruits/vegetables. I feel like I could become a project manager for something at NASA at this point.
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@signor_molevol I had a student's aunt once be like, "I helped her with this paper. I'm an attorney. How is this a D paper?". And. uhhh. I couldn't say anything, but maybe you're an attorney who can't write at the college level 😬.
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I need to buy a sympathy card for the family of a 13-year-old who died by suicide, and it feels like an insurmountable task. How can there be a card for such a thing?.
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I think a lot of the shock about Alice Munro right now is people not realizing that for a certain generation of women (especially), the family was a company that you worked in PR for. Your main concern was to protect the reputation of the family.
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@ask_aubry Abusers always do these things "as a joke" to show that they are in control. My ex-husband and I used to work together caretaking people's homes. He took away a ladder when I was cleaning gutters once and left me trapped on a roof a 106° day. I hope this woman gets away.
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Every time I post from the animal shelter account that a dog needs to be the only dog in the home or that a dog can't be around cats, someone asks why. Because he was convicted of identity theft and ran up $10K in credit card debt in another dog's name. That's why, Debbie.
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@anylaurie16 See also why no one of older generations wants to do 23andme or other genetic testing "for fun." Everyone was having kids with everyone else's spouses, etc.
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I had to unfriend a writer over her response to the Cormac McCarthy story. Can you even? I'm horrified.
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@colleen_eileen I once worked at a place where if our office brought in $100,000 in contracts for the week, we got to wear jeans on Friday. LOL. And people wonder why I'm never leaving academia.
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@arghavan_salles WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THAT IF I GAIN WEIGHT, MY HUSBAND WILL TURN INTO A CAT? OMG. This is life-changing!?!?
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@rajandelman I just remembered my son's favorite toy, "Baby Raccoon," which was a cheap carnival toy I had to resew all the time. We called it "Baby Raccoon's Surgery" each time. And Baby Raccoon had to be in a seat belt. Those were good times 💗
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@ask_aubry The reason he might not want her to do this is that he's still seeing her, and she has no idea he's married.
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@lyzl Ugh. Why would he bother? I can't imagine reaching out to a former student to say something negative? So cruel.
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@ambernoelle I actually had a flashback to "Sleeping with the Enemy" when he sees that the soup can is turned facing slightly the wrong way.
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This young person volunteered at the animal shelter, so I am buying a card for the shelter to sign 💔.
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@emilykmay @SamDailyShow Omg. These replies to you are unhinged. Men are SO AFRAID of women having thoughts and opinions. It makes them emotional and gives them the vapors. We really need to build more fainting couches for them :-).
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I like Phoenix because of rising from the ashes. Many pets died in the fire, so some of these names seem mean, to be honest 💔.
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@anne_theriault I think the giant western states in the US and Canadian provinces should count as different countries. How many Lichtensteins can fit in Montana or Alberta, for example?.
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Every time I see a Gen Z on here refer to the Millennials as the older generation, I crumple to dust. Fellow, Gen Xers, how do we handle this?.
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@JennyJinya We had two 14-yr-old littermates adopted so they could stay together forever. I'm so happy for them 💗🐾.
Happy Adoption Day to Sophie and Bear! These are the 14-yr-old littermates who had never been apart and needed to be adopted together! We're so happy that #EmptyTheShelters and @BISSELLPets could make this happen. Thank you! . #dogs #adoptdontshop #seniordogs
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Thank you for this tweet. I'm having emergency eye surgery in Portland. I love you all 😭💗.
@shaindelr @ambernoelle I hope you don’t have a detached retina. That happened to me at 57. Please get it looked at by a professional. Eyes are precious.
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@caitlincanahey I'm the vice president of an animal shelter, and people get very excited when a pet is on the same medication they are or has the same medical condition. It's very sweet. Once, the whole Walmart pharmacy crew was excited to meet Daisy after hearing they fill her prescription
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@lionel_trolling Once, I was at a party, and I was talking to this nice couple, Anita and Sheldon, and then all at once I was like, "Omg. You are AnShell Media!" and they were like, "Yes, we are. ".
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I know I'll get hate messages for even using the word "patriarchy," but this is the patriarchy. Women living in this system have been using internalized misogyny against other women, including their daughters, because they were taught it as self-preservation.
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@thisone0verhere This then became the Midwestern "livin' the dream," which is also a cry for help.
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@ask_aubry I guess his mom is grateful for doctors now that she's still alive. Just think, they could have stayed home taking care of their families instead of saving her life. 😬.
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@emrazz A dude got mad about my bear tweet, hacked me, got my Twitter account with 22,400 followers deleted, and signed me up for a bunch of email spam. The fragility.
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These are generational patterns that so many women have lived through. Your main goal was to find a "good man," at least have the facade of a "good, respectable family." The individual didn't matter. All that mattered was the reputation.
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When I told her who it was, she basically said, "That's ridiculous. You were never alone with him," and that was that. Once, I tried to tell her something very painful to me, and she literally said, "Back to my plans about how to rearrange the garage," as if I'd never spoken.
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My mother's own denial about things that have happened in our family is so out there, it is crazymaking. When I told her I had been molested as a child, her only response was, "Was it your dad?" because she wanted something she could use against him.
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@HKBradshaw I was confused that there are adults making posters like a middle school science fair. But that's the sciences, I guess.
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Our shelter staff likes Phoenix! I just built his fundraiser:.
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After my grandmother passed away, my mom told me all of these family secrets, but her point of view was so skewed. Everything was told so that it was the women's fault. It was that women in the family seduced and had children with their husband's brothers to inherit farms, etc.
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And the people who have benefited from this are men. This is why we see men who expect to do the least possible work in the world and be praised for it. They expect women to fight to keep them when they do the bare minimum. And there are women who will choose them. Because that.
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Maybe the fact that so many people are shocked by this story should give us hope. Maybe it's denial that people don't realize that for generations, this is how families operated. I hope that future generations can be free. That they don't have to live with and carry these.
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@pippercorn My son used to draw T-rexes and then make me take a picture like had been killed by the T-rex.
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@EliMcCann Sometimes, I'm worried that my husband is living a double life as your husband. Today, my husband and I went to the same running trails. He had our dogs with him. One of our dogs found me, and he was like, "Whoa, that lady looks like my wife and our dog!". Because it was!
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@histoftech Buying kitty litter in 20 lb bags instead of 40 lb bags. My litter boxes are downstairs. Carrying 40 lbs downstairs was a chore 😬.
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@focusfronting There's a very strange place like this here where they basically had cheap little tables and chairs and finally they just put up a sign that says in all caps TAKE OUT ONLY. I was like, "Oh! Ok.".
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@ask_aubry I had a friend who had to leave her partner because of child neglect. He would get so into video games, he wouldn't feed/change their child WHILE SHE WAS AT WORK. Dear Men, THIS IS NOT OKAY. It sounds like this is the path this girl would be on. LEAVE NOW.
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When I call and talk to her, one of the strangest things is that she now has his Brooklyn accent. She's never even been to Brooklyn. From being with my father for so long, she has totally lost herself. She is 77. I don't think she'll ever be free. I don't know if she could.
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@thesarahkelly It is not low priority. I work in animal rescue, and I see dumped dogs DAILY. The other day, it was five dogs in one day. Many people can't find a place to live that will accept pets and just dump them to fend for themselves.
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Both my mother and grandmother - any time there was a divorce in the family, the man was a "good man," he just kept choosing "bad women.". The last conversation I had with my grandmother before she died, she told me how much she liked my first husband, that I should have stayed.
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@GinaGoesOutside I have friends with a dog named Tula. I asked what it was short for -- Spatula! LOVE. IT. I'm the Vice President of @PAWSPendletonOR , and with 1,500 animals per year, we always need help with names if you want to follow :-).
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@PopulismUpdates You must have a license to breed pets (dogs/cats); otherwise, all dogs/cats over 6 months old must be spayed/neutered.
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My mother is still with my father even though he charges her for gas money to drive her to work. They had the facade she wanted. She tried to leave once, and he promised to buy her a certain house that would have made the facade even more attractive. She came back; he didn't buy.
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@corsent I'm so sorry. My mother is very much like this. I think it is a strange generational need to "control the narrative." It's like the family is a business you are doing PR for.
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Parents today: I'm feeding my child naturally, ethically sourced real food with no ingredients I can't pronounce. Our parents:
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@ask_aubry Men who are narcissists will hate anything you love. I have seen men throw out their wives' embroidery. Anything that is not you worshipping them is a threat.
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@piper4missouri They just want women to be financially dependent on them so they can be in control.
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@PeterTwinklage This is such a sweet story! And omg. What was up with all the Boomer parents (or older grandparents) taking kids to Hooters? Almost every guy I know my age has a story of "Mom taking him to Hooters for a birthday" or some other relative. It's SO WEIRD.
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Animal rescue is so weird. We have a WAITLIST of people who want to help the light colored puppy and no one has mentioned the other puppy AT ALL. They are both puppies! They are both ADORABLE!
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@ask_aubry I started dating my husband when he was living in an RV in a trailer park because housing for professors is hard when you move across the country to start somewhere new. Also, he is wonderful and 100% not an asshole 💗
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@fawfulfan I live in Eastern Oregon where it has been both -14° F and 117° F since I've lived here. Sorry to say that I will need both heating and air conditioning 😬. I try to be responsible, though.
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I spent WAY too much time searching for this picture of the time seven years ago when I adopted a kitten and a puppy the same week so they could grow up together 💗 (I was just sharing because I thought we could all use some cuteness to start the new year.)
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@ambernoelle Maybe this is one of those words like "fanny" that has a different meaning in British English?.
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@anne_theriault My kiddo has gone next door to sort feeder insects for pet reptiles. He has not yet been trusted with the children :-) He has also raked pinecones and shoveled snow.
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@steph_teasley Every year our town rents goats, and I mean like 750 goats to eat weeds. Occasionally the goats escape and destroy something. Occasionally the goat guardian dogs attack other dogs they think are a threat to the goats. The town is divided into pro-goat and anti-goat camps.
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@woernerAF My husband is a PhD in a sociology-adjacent field, and he is always like, "American women complain about men so much because it is a bonding ritual," and I am like, "OR. " *while my head explodes* 🤯.
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@thereisnojayjay "Don't worry, we'll get you a nose job."."You would be really pretty, if your hair and eyes were a different color.". Oh, man. The list is endless. Checks out!.
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@RachelGlickler My husband came home with the 2 cups of cheese package instead of the 2 lbs of cheese package I asked for today, so we will have to circle back to cakes later 🙃.
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@janecoaston When my student loans were forgiven after teaching for TWENTY-THREE years, a whole contingent of men on Twitter wigged out because I should have been f*cking old men to pay off my loans. I guess since I'm in my late 40s, survival sex is going to be with men my dad's age?.
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Once, when my son was little, I went to a conference that he couldn't understand, so I took his dinosaurs with me and took pictures of them doing things so he would know what I was up to. Just sharing. I hope you have whimsy, even when things are hard.
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@EliMcCann My son is on the middle school cross country team, so now he's learning to run everywhere, which is actually a great way to learn directions. 💗. You learn a lot when you see everything on foot. A lot of kids are driven everywhere and look at their phones the whole time.
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At first, I was feeling weird having an Olympic crush. (I mean, where else was I going to find an age-appropriate Olympic crush?) But this sort of seals the deal :-).
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@defnotadino I said that this sounds like the instructions I leave for pet sitters. THAT'S why it's off-putting.
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@ginnyhogan_ Grrrrllll. slippery slope. Almost no adult men should be tried as adults. My husband just asked me what he's allowed to eat based on the sodium content and his blood pressure meds. He has a PhD. I hope he can read labels.
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@PattyInHD @anne_theriault I'm on the desert side of Oregon where it's been 108° this week housitting for neighbors vacationing at the Oregon coast where it's in the 60s. In the same state. Most people from small states/countries could not comprehend.
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It really is happening. I'm in an online mom group where men are asking their wives/partners questions like, "You're really not voting for that, B----, are you?" . GAH. The level of misogyny women deal with daily is unreal.
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F---. It's started. One of my friends went out to do a trail run, and there was a right-wing militia group out there "practicing maneuvers." Be safe in the wilderness, everyone. I love you.
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@Zer0DarkFlirty1 Because I'm competitive and a bitch, I would just reply with better looking food. (Poached pear in caramel bourbon sauce served with ice cream ;-) )
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@timgill924 My community college has a farm and greenhouses, so I get to visit horses and flowers at work 💗 One of the many perks of working at a rural community college.
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Just sharing because it's cute. Please don't @ me with nutritional advice 🤣
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@maggiekb1 I have a spot IN MY EYEBALL that could turn into melanoma. Wear sunglasses, too, my friends!.
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@ask_aubry Uhhhh. She looks like a woodsprite now, which I think we can ALL agree is the hottest gender.
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