Could not ask for a more pleasing response from a beta reader 🥰

I had one "This phrasing sounds a bit awkward" and one "Oh, I love this phrasing!" for the same part hahah

Tell u wot, having stuff beta read is actually a lot of work! Gotta make a separate document for each one if they don't know each other, then go through and compare comments and make decisions about conflicting advice, make changes back in your original document.

We often just yell "Peace!" when we're leaving (for some reason). On his way out the door this morning my bf said "Peace in the Middle East!" then paused, came back and said "This is how we all have to say goodbye to each other from now on"

When we were going through our metoo event we were showered with support. It did not stop hundreds of death and rape threats pouring in, drowning out everything. People are so stupid and naive if they think support somehow cancels out abuse.

I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him) You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser

I had an ADHD joke but I forgot what it was. Oh, and I had an ADHD joke but I forgot what it was.

I have a fibromyalgia joke but it's a bit of a pain

I had an osteopenia joke but I cracked under the pressure

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

THIS SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE BUT IT'S TRUE. IT'S VERY STRANGE.

no sorry, we are NOT doing silent hill revisionism the real actual reason behind this "thoughtful change" was bc Christophe Gans thought that a man caring for his daughter to the point of risking his life was too gay and unrealistic so he ended up creating the mom as a replacement.

I’m not anyone you should look to for parenting advice but I really believe that if you want young people to be able to have good boundaries + speak up for themselves they need to be able to practice that on the adults in their home first and always.

My irregular disclaimer that I’m not generally one for posting about the clusterfuck that is the modern world, not because I’m not aware of how fucked to everything is but because there are plenty of more educated & eloquent people already doing this Anyway, back to the bullshit…

Ugh Grammarly uses LLMs now? I swear it was previously fine wasn't it? What do people use to check their punctuation in their writing nowadays? Years of stream of consciousness shit posting have melted my brain.

I just had insomnia, I was SO dramatic

I'm sure one day someone will light me up for not saying more than I do about the things that are happening in the world. But I am a stupid idiot. I don't believe in just adding to noise for the sake of having said something about a topic. I'd rather share what smarter people are saying.

the devil went down on georgia

Nobody will ever know how much I make myself laugh out loud at my stupid skeets every single day I'm on this earth

And funnily enough, he IS a big wheel down at the cracker factory!

Change the vibe of a song or band by slightly changing one word. I'll start: Chilling In The Name Of. ... .. . By Sage Against The Machine

I mean this is the guy who said nobody was introspective 400 years ago. 400 years ago. Hrm. What happened around 400 years ago? Something... enlightening?

Tired: They‘re NPCs Wired: I’m an NPC

Pictured: my boyfriend

Evergreen

the billionaires are not ok

One of the first times my bf and I slept together, many many years ago I rolled over the next morning, looking at his pretty face in the morning sunlight. His eyelids fluttered open and I said "Good morning, baby." He smiled at me and said "Good morning, you shitcunt." That's how I knew we'd last.

I just looked it up, it’s 19 homes per person ~15 million vacant homes ~0.7 million unhoused

capitalism will never end poverty/hunger/homelessness because it benefits from threatening workers with those to keep them in line we could end homelessness in the US with only 5% of vacant homes

The world would not be where it is right now if y'all hadn't collectively decided that glomping was cringe.

I know that Australianisms don't break containment much, but one I'm always surprised never got picked up by the kids is "cut sick". It's such a great expression. It basically just means to completely lose it, either out of anger or unrestrained fun. To go wild, basically.

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Its wild how NT people will choose EVERY insane explanation for autism before accepting its just genetic Like -Tylenol -Circumcision -Vaccines -Neglectful mothers -Smothering mothers -Gestational hypertension Are all more acceptable than "Damn dad DID only eat polenta every day for 30yrs..."

Food bank keyboard. Keyboard in bin. German roach in keyboard. No more keyboard.

sometimes I wonder why everyone on here is so on edge all the time and then I remember that we are all living with a constant stream of horrors going by too fast for any of us to process

Every article about Chalamet losing will do everything but, curiously, admit MBJ gave the better performance worthy of praise in its own right

the goal is now to save enough to facilitate taking advantage of the dutch-american treaty thingy. everything involved makes my head spin but it is far more achievable than most other options. still a huge undertaking. but it feels within grasp?

i'm feeling the "walls are closing in" panic again, so unfortunately, i'm posting this again. neither of us is in any immediate danger (though my state keeps me guessing every day), and there are people in *much* greater need. this is in case anyone passing by is able and willing to help us do more.

How come gifs are always blurry now? Did they get enshitified?

I just got an Eid gift of the most beautiful warm pastel purple hijab 🥰 I've never received an Eid gift before, my heart feels full ❤️

one promise the cyberpunk future failed to deliver on is me being a courier for 512MB of highly sensitive corporate data contained in my brain zip drive while i wear a nice suit instead of being a courier for burritos in a 2012 hyundai

I like to try to explain internally why things are difficult to let go, or cut particularly deep. Adults come with more baggage and sometimes something is just the wrong thing to say. Adults are also super busy and there is just sometimes not time to fully address hurts and harms for a while.

My friend's advice - who is a far better writer than I am - is "Don't resolve anything. Let 'em stay mad" 😂 I'm gonna try that.

Here's one of my biggest strugges with writing: resolving conflict like teenagers is too juvenile. Resolving conflict like sensible adults is too boring. What the hell is the middle ground? I have no idea.

I got an old ipad so I can ise Reading Eggs for my kid and I'm gonna die of angery. I hate Apple so fucking much. I factory reset this the other day. Set it up with my account. Now it wants a passcode that I did not set. Keeps locking me out.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

“…those who’ve chosen Anthropic as a pro-democracy signifier should reconsider their choice of mascot…”