Bluesky is hornier than Tumblr??? 👀

Oh great, now we can look forward to the inevitable "our research shows that autistic people do not feel pain."

I hit a major milestone today. After years of hard work, I have reached the weight I was before I met my abusive ex. They wanted me fat and unhappy so I was easier to control. Now I feel like I've completely lost the person they shaped me into. 🎂

As somebody who was just in an ER as a patient, I can say that wait times are not too bad if you have a life-threatening emergency; I was whisked right into a bed. A system that makes poor people go to ER for urgent care/instead of primary care is very broken and hurts people with real emergencies.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

I have a prescription for lorezepam and they give me 90 pills at once (90-day supply, in theory, though in practise they go bad before I use that many). And for reasons that are never quite clear, they put them in a bottle that is easily 10 times larger than necessary.

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

As is the custom of my people, the next hour will be spent talking about the earthquake. I will say this one was close to the biggest I've been through here. And every time we have one I am relieved to be on a modern foundation.

Been feeling light-headed during exertion for a week or so, and yesterday the chest xray showed pneumonia. Mostly just a cough right now, but that 80/50 bp was very dramatic: lying down on the street in SF unable to sit up without blacking out, ambulance, 5 hours in ER, 2L fluid. 0/5 stars.

The milkweed patch is finally mature enough that we have a real population of monarchs in the garden.

How is the network connectivity on my 3D printer making me nostalgic for token ring networks? Bambu Labs you have a lot to answer for. It should not be this hard for me to 3D print from bed.

did i just write the song of the summer?

Buying a 6-pack of beer for my dad with a note when I was 8. Just walking into the corner store with a note from my dad and walking out with beer. 8 years old. They'd also have sold me cigarettes for him but my mother disapproved.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.

I don't know anybody who designs safety clothing for women, but I do know that whoever is doing that job is obsessed with boob pockets. I have never used a boob pocket. They look stupid, interrupt the reflective tape, and are basically useless. So why does EVERY high-vis shirt have one?

I recently signed up to be a DSW -- Disaster Service Worker -- doing second responder work at disaster zones. (Second responders don't save lives or recover bodies, we assess damage and tag buildings.) a thread on disaster response: 1/

Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

I want to feel as accepting of where I am as these pigeons.

Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

Something I will never understand. Why does every airline mash my first and second names together into one horrific multiethnic shitpile? I rarely get offended by the random jumble of letters people make of my first name but every time I see this abomination on a ticket I feel fury inside.

The heartland is wherever an American heart beats.

Mine started an affair as soon as I needed his support both emotionally (dealing with elder parent care) and medically (cancer diagnosis in progress). In sickness or in health only went one way for him.

Somebody broke into my office last night. Clearly they were disappointed by my ancient tech and lack of cool shit, because, they piled up a bunch of my stuff in a box and took only one measuring tape and a $10 microphone. The stuff they piled up was all the old zoom equipment I was getting rid of.

It took me 22 years to realize how abusive my ex was. Abuse changes your ability to see it from close up and teaches you not to tell other people what is happening. I still question my own perceptions of what was going on.

Outside of a vague aesthetic gesture, I increasingly see that no good comes out of the concepts of "masculinity" and "femininity." What feature is exclusive to either? Strong? Smart? Kind? Empathetic? Organized? Creative? Powerful? Gender should free us, not trap us.

I took a class in college which was a yearlong class called "The Languages of the Bible" which was a comparative literature/language class in which we did deep textual analysis of the Bible and the evolution of religious language and apparently nobody ever came out with their faith intact.

What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates

Found the cat.

"Like Amazon, but with human beings."

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

That price is beyond reach for a lot of Americans, even not considering it comes on top of the cost of the rest of the trip. Privatization is theft.

Definitely not knitworthy

We do: it's called a recirculating system and I have one in my house. When I turn on my water it is hot right away. They're just more expensive to install (I think mine added $3000 to the price of repiping 10 years ago) so most homes don't have them. They save water but use more power.

So you ask how upgrading the house server is going? Me, in office: chilly. Put on sweater. Me, in basement machine room: warm. Take off sweater. Me, a week later: what happened to all my sweaters??

I went to Curious Flora in El Sobrante with a couple friends and it was lovely. Annie's Annuals was one of my favourite places and I'm so happy they managed to save the nursery. They have fewer plants right now than Annie's at its height, but are well worth a trip.

My working theory of a lot of NT people is that they are far more rigid than autistic people, because I can generally explain things rationally to an autistic person and we can work out something, but many NT people will cling to rote acceptable behaviour they're not even aware is a choice

The magnolia petal drop is always lovely. As a note, the alt text always contains more context for my photos in addition to just an image description.

I ran around at lunch stealing French fries from my friends and causing chaos. Also a very hot costume.

I put sunglasses on the sun.

I was briefly a lobster but the costume was too hot.

I’m back from my annual week of chaotic good.

I wish I were half as good at anything else as I am at growing bone spurs. #health

You don't need to get within 20 feet of a cow to know that cows sleep lying down like normal people -- you can see them doing it from a car driving past. If they are standing up they are not asleep, they are just chilling, waiting to kick a douchey suburban cowboy to death for trying something.🐄

The last 24 hours was without a doubt the most insane travel day I have ever had. I drove from Tacoma to Oakland, and in those hours I was sideswiped by a joyriding car thief, startled by a deer in a rest stop bathroom, locked out of my accommodations, and helped a lady give birth at a rest stop.

This is door blocked

Moose has decided that when I am in an online class, she needs to perch behind me and attack my head if I talk. This has added an extra frisson of excitement to Portuguese class.

Apparently the one in Alameda is staying.

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In my 20+ year abusive marriage, my abuser frequently sabotaged my efforts at weight loss and getting in shape. He didn't want me (he had multiple affairs and physically rejected me over and over) but he didn't want me to be wanted by others, either.

This is, in part, why folks like Sherman and Sheridan advocated for the total destruction of the Confederacy. They were fully aware that anything short of its complete destruction and the prosecution of former Confederates would lead to the maintenance of the ideology of the CSA.