I really admire the creative genius of the Ukrainian military.

“Let’s tear this world apart and build a better one”

this + Tucker Carlson becoming irrelevant + Infowars getting taken over by the Onion + the contributing factor that Orban’s fall may have had to several of these things: happy May Day, we will win.

Welp a cryptic meeting appeared on my calendar.

mandatory anti-harassment training: 1 hr 25 minutes. this will be the 3rd or 4th time I’ll have done this training over the years.

On the one hand I’m feeling nervous about the VRA getting gutted, but on the other hand, with the way demographics and public opinion have been shifting it wouldn’t surprise me to see R’s lose seats trying to steal them.

Brain got extra autistic during Talmud class last night in a very frustrating way, where during recitation my brain could not manage sequence and my recall went to almost zero. The subjective experience of it felt like a shattering of consciousness, with parts drifting out of reach.

NGC 3607 - From Judy Schmidt (geckzilla.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/cXvHs3

this is catastrophically untrue, and the fact that it's even come close to picking up currency on the left is a complete disaster for leftist governance. if you expropriated the entire wealth of every billionaire in the country, you could pay for the federal government for one year. that's it.

Trans Girls! at the Climbing Gym

!!!

I’m not going to enter the fray re: the comedian bit going around but I hate basically every piece of discourse on it I’ve seen.

With the blessing of my psych, over the last year I’ve been stepping down my antidepressant, halving my dose each time. (I’ve been considerably more mentally stable than I have since I was a child.) This last week I tried to do my third step down.

I’m generally optimistic about this admin falling and the GOP getting harmed as a result, my main pessimism is that the Dems, once they regain power, will fail to: • hold powerful people accountable • fight hard to fix deep problems (gerrymandering, supreme court, etc) • take the offensive

I finished with my little Hebrew workbook for learning the letters so now I’m practicing by reading the Torah on sefaria, which is such a cool resource and toolkit.

Things feel very scary right now! Almost everyone I know is trapped perpetually on the edge of panic. And yet for the last few weeks I've felt curiously optimistic. You can listen to me explain why on this special episode of It Could Happen Here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Hey fellow Californians, this is a terrible bill and we need to help stop it

There are a few people I give money to, and one in particular is a real struggle for me, brings out very ugly feelings in me. It’s hard sometimes to distinguish what in me is ego and lack of generosity/compassion versus what is having appropriate boundaries.

showed this to my gf gf: “see? I’m normal”

Please know that if you use the Nazi/eugenicist word “degenerate” in a way that socially reinforces its meaning, I am thinking less of you.

“Claude Code? Oh, you mean Bobby Tables.”

Being autistic is weird because you just rub some people wrong — bus your body language or communication styles — and as the autistic person I can tell what and why but trying to communicate it to try and smooth things over never works well.

sudden childhood memory of my neighbor accusing me of making faces at her because I was squinting, because the sun was behind her as she was talking to me.

this is what I’ve been waiting for.

I am admittedly not particularly experienced with reading API docs but I actually hate when API docs read like marketing and not reference material.

Watching Babylon 5 in present day, present time is real uncanny let me tell you

those are MY NEIGHBORS

Hazy and Featureless - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/8m6WaN

people are hilarious

To critique all religion by generalizing from a specific critique of a specific religion is not possible. It is impossible to draw a line between religious and non-religious human activity. Political theology is a concept. Belief is not central in all religions.

L’Cha Dodi

Nearest grocery store to me keeps hiring security guards and is woefully understaffed. An alarm by the front door is broken and continuously beeping.

i am having the worst inertia today

also lol @ my last two posts TRAUMA: 1/2 weird kinks 1/2 continuously arguing with imaginary versions of people in your head

I think I might need to take a break from the internet. I’m finding myself getting into mental arguments with my mother increasingly often.

i’m normal i swear *breathing heavily*

Well, you have to put it in perspective. Those munitions were spent to get us here, in a situation that’s worse.

If you use emoji for bullet points and you’re not writing for children, I’m sorry but I will look down on you.

This is not a statement my reprehensible, sex-and-abortion obsessed parents would disagree with, and that’s the fucking problem I have with him.

then put your words into action and tell the Catholic hospitals in the US to stop banning trans healthcare.

“A tool that can only compromise unpatched, unmonitored, undefended systems is a better explanation of what’s going on in the Anthropic report, using their own words.”

First of all, this is an excellent interview and you should read it. I still haven’t read Maus and I should remedy that. Second, this quote about suffering and the idea it makes you noble — it occurs to me that at least some of the ugliness that occurs in the relationships between people …

Iran DDOSing Bsky is just kind of funny to me

Rose only needs $50 more, can you help make it happen?

I just want to point out something incredible: This capsule, returning to the atmosphere at 35x the speed of sound, was subjected to unimaginable forces. And yet some reflective stickers on the capsule survived reentry!

Virtually every character is written so well. G’Kar and Vir moving from comic relief to serious character with depth as we move from S1 to S2. The intrigue and mystery, the thorny ethical and political situations, the genuinely heartfelt moments — this was written incredibly well.

babylon 5 is an incredible show

Warning of my antidepressants (with my psych’s approval) and the withdrawal side effects just hit 🙃