Becky Chambers' books: -65% sheer delight -31% extremely challenging socio-political discussion -3% emotional sledgehammer to the entire soul -1% an event or depiction of something that I am sure Chambers did not mean to be offensive but that I always get incredibly mad at her about

Sorry if I've neglected to follow up with anyone or do something I said I'd do. I've been fighting a war with some health stuff and losing all of my battles lately. If I disappear for a while you can check with @/sphrog. Hoping it won't be needed, but some treatment centers don't allow phones.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

I have made enough progress in PT - after over a year - that my hand specialist wants me to start relearning how to write. Big pencils meant for little kids and everything. I have several thousand dollars worth of fountain pens & inks that have been languishing. I am both humiliated and ecstatic.

Well, bsky has now reached the level of Twitter Insanity where I am being accused of being an ultra-right-wing propagandist plant because I don't have a literally murderous hatred for every single human being who lives within the borders of Russia. Cool

I would bet every cent I have that whoever is actually behind the HHS slapping a label on Tylenol warning that acetaminophen causes pregnancy complications is a Heritage Foundation crank who believes the Bible doesn't want women to be able to manage pain because something something Original Sin

There are definitely a lot of difficulties living in such a remote area. Medical, political, educational, infrastructural. But sometimes, when the sky is particularly clear, the night is such a vast ocean of stars that it overcomes my visual snow. It feels like something I'm not meant to see.

I promise, no matter where you live, your local food pantry needs volunteers. This is a solid suggestion My mother runs the food pantry in my hometown. She NEVER has enough help, and she’s been there every week For Years. I help when I go see her. You can do this. And it legit helps other folx.

My spoiler-free Strange New Worlds s3 review: There was about half a season's worth of story that would have made more sense front-loaded. The finale felt like a mid-season Doctor Who ep. "Terrarium" should have been extended + more budget. It would have been more cohesive and felt like Star Trek.

Today during my hour-each-way drive to a routine doctor's appt I saw 0 regular police cruisers. What I saw: -Multiple DHS vans with people ziptied on the ground in the rain -MRAD with "[x] County Sheriff" on the side -Cop in a K9 van scanned my FACE with something while I was at a stoplight

I was able to call him again. He wasn't acting mean (to me) but he was PISSED. Still denies his right side doesn't work (common), but he was bellowing about how he's not getting PT so he can't leave. Even though that was contradictory and he's confused, he was legitimately advocating for himself.

PCOS is getting your insulin resistance under control, ending up with a hip-waist ratio of a Pixar Mom, and learning that a 4 size difference is HARD TO DRESS I put on a tailored vest that fit me in June and now it hangs off me like I'm wearing a linebacker's football jersey. Same pants though.

christ almighty what an example of minimalism in storytelling www.youtube.com/shorts/Tf5nW...

As made aware by @councilofgeeks.bsky.social, check your settings on YouTube. You may discover that even if you're old enough that your first grey hairs could vote, your account may have been set to Restricted without your knowledge, making you unable to even *see* uploads by people YOU SUBBED TO.

I've been NC with my family for a decade. I knew my dad (early 60s), has had so many strokes it's like someone blew through his mind with birdshot. I called him. He has no sense of time. The strokes seem to have removed his emotional walls. He was genuinely nice to me for the first time in my life.

If you are posting things and expect people to engage politically, but that engagement requires people take everything you say at your word with zero discussion, you just look like you are insecure in your knowledge of the issues at hand because you cannot, in fact, answer any questions seriously.

So like on Twitter people had AD accounts where they'd post/repost NSFW things. I'd like to propose PaD alt accounts here. "Politics and Doom." Quarantine that shit. Because this is JUST TWITTER NOW. ITS NJST TWITTER. I LEFT FOR MY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH AND IR S JUST TWITTER AGAIN

I wish we could friend-lock or set our accounts to private. There's life stuff I want to post about but everything is just politics and anger now. It's Twitter the way it was before Musk bought it.

I think I may have dug too greedily and too deep with that extended Shirley Jackson analogy

All the town elders posting on social media about how it's not fair Tessie Hutchinson drew the marked slip for the annual blood sacrifice lottery even though she was late for the drawing because she was on her 87th podcast explaining how the annual blood sacrifice is Worth It for a good corn harvest

I generally try not to be pedantic (unless an individual really deserves it), but the word folks are looking for is "secede." Talking about a region succeeding means something wildly different from that region seceding.

Everything surveils now, so folks don't really experience the coincidence of finding music about a book they love without knowing it was Algorithm™. Processing that the lyrics to this are about C Valente's "Orphan's Tales" duology was a MAGICAL internet moment 15 years ago youtu.be/4R2ub2laQiU?...

You know the session is going well when your usually soft-spoken and cheerful trauma therapist very clearly and firmly asks what constitutes a medical emergency because you have just fully exited reality

when gandalf isn’t with bilbo and the gang i imagine he’s in back to back zoom meetings

All y'all are missing out by not having any of this work of culinary art (except you, @spacebearsmo.bsky.social, you get a tupperbox of autumn) @sphrog.bsky.social is a wonderworker with vegetarian cooking and spices

a blessed international vulture day to you and yours 🙏🍖

One of the coolest things that has happened since we moved into a swamp was when we started hearing huge WHUMPs on the roof. A deer had died nearby and dozens of black and turkey vultures used our roof & trees as an Air B&B for a week. I got a picked-clean skull with half-grown antlers out of it

i'm not a sadist, i enjoy just being able to be witness of the loneliness and be a higher power in case there isn't one i'm not a higher power, i just live in the ceiling 'cause i'm lonely on the fringes, and it gives my life some meaning in the exile in my exile www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vfz...

Beverage of the evening (and all others out of principle)

My neck is so tense and swollen from the flu shot that I'm having trouble singing lol. This one's a doozy, glad I got vaxed for it

Start PT on my wrist early, hooray~ Should be able to draw again by the end of the month, maybe play music a few weeks after. I need a luthier to give my mountain dulcimer some love so I can fix to play nothin but Ghost songs on it, as the dahk lordt intendted (& my great grandma absolutely did not)

For the love of whatever god strikes your fancy, if you're going to repost untagged pictures or videos of war carnage, please post something immediately afterwards so that people who follow you can know to scroll past it if they're already teetering on the brink of a god damn mental breakdown

PCOS is losing 40 pounds and still having to wear the same pants because your hip measurements are the fricking same as before

Over the last month I've watched BlueSky turn from a place of mutual aid and good-faith snark into an unforgiving and howling vortex - the exact kind of ouroboros of reactionary rhetoric & unwillingness to listen to others that made Twitter such a miserable place in the months before Musk took over.

Every autistic friend I've ever had who has asked me, "Are you *quite sure* you're not autistic?" and who has received a dismissive (albeit increasingly unsure) chuckle and a "Nawwww" and then has encouraged me to get assessed all just lookin at me now that I HAVE gotten assessed like

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

I swear to god if the latecomers from Xitter make every god damn conversation here an argument for NO reason other than acting like a self-righteous bitch I'm going to set fire to every device capable of running a social media platform within a five mile radius

When your MAGA neighbors have been particularly het up, hickish, and rowdy lately, then get a new dog and name it Laken

Love doing a full beat to pick up ear wash for my dog in this rural hell, because after the incident last week it's a matter of time til someone acts on suspicions that I'm a trans woman (I'm AFAB NB) or Latine (I'm dark Welsh). Might as well be sparkly while being hate crimed or disappeared yanno

For friends who are seeing That Xitter Screenshot of an official-looking account calling for trans people to be reported, detained, interned, & studied: That guy is a troll and agitator with no connections or real influence (I hate having to say "for now" but we have to deal with stuff day to day)

They do this with my epilepsy medication. It is a medication that is not a controlled substance in any country except the United States. It is controlled here under the category of "habit forming." Yes I would say that remaining alive and not in a coma is a habit I have formed over time

Late August, or: Why Are All These Fuckin Hornets Attacking My Porch Lights Season

I have always bought so many holiday gifts from small creators overseas. It breaks my heart to think I won't be able to do so this year. I very much hope that the de minimis exemption will be reinstated soon. But if not, I will likely be throwing money at creators anyway to help offset lost income.

We all do harm by being.

I wish I was better at emoting IRL because I can crack a joke and people will explain to me why what I just said was Funny, Actually I wonder whether the physical therapist I will be seeing might give me pointers on forcing my face to say "I'm making a joke now" Dry as a fuckin dune, I tell you

So, my new ortho has my arm almost completely immobilized and is sending me to intensive physical therapy. She confirmed that it's not "age appropriate degradation," I have bad extensor tendonitis & weak connective tissue that was neglected by my prior ortho and got worse because of that neglect.

You’re telling me this guy is not a more desirable guy to promote than Gavin Newsom

Been fully back in the closet for 4 years, look the way I'm "supposed to," and I just got chased out of a gas station by someone who seemed ready to knock the door down because of "a man in the ladies room" I act and dress the way they want. Somehow they can still tell. There is no way to win.

As I've gone through my 30s and had no children, the difference in how doctors treat me has become stark. Today I was denied a pelvic exam even though I haven't had one in 3 years and there is cervical cancer in my immediate family. I am just a childless, useless eater to the US healthcare system.

Good morning! Just a happy little reminder that if you're not only willing to sacrifice a 1% minority to "fight fascism," but expect that 1% to participate in their own oppression because to not do so is "purity politics," you have lost the fuckin plot & need to fix your heart. Have a lovely day 💜