Haven’t been on here since I had a psychotic break in December. My brain is still fried. I’m trying to find a way to occupy my understimulated mind because all I do is pace.

I blocked all the fun things on my phone a few days ago. I went to my 20-year high school reunion and asked people I had good conversations with how to best keep in touch with them. I had them write it down on a piece of paper.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

Accidentally set incredibly strict Bluesky screen time conditions last week. I got a lot more work done.

Everyone is right. It’s a goddamn tragedy that Kaos got cancelled.

I started a blog to figure out what I want to use my voice to say.

resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

Also, my horizons will be broadened by the ppl who voted for the senile fraud who picked sex pest chowderhead Matt Gaetz as AG and RFK Jr. to watch over the nation’s health? I’ll take a big passaroonie on that. They’re already gonna ruin the country, at least let me keep them out of my mentions

Yep. They need an audience first. They need engagement. Without that we roll them.

Turns out, the mean girls at my mom’s work are into planners. I’ve never been more prepared for a battle in my life. “I have a bunch of planner sticker packs I haven’t opened, you can use them for coolness and friendship!”

The biggest difference in my perspective circa 2016 and now is that, before, I felt like “I’ll just stay inside until this passes.” Now it’s clear that I can’t bank on that; I need to find community.

So many mixed feelings!

I’m not sure what the DNC is going to do about the AP Stylebook.

Listen up newskies. We call them flarts here. Retweets are called flippin a jimbo. DM are BMs (blue messages not the other thing). When you reply you say you sucked them off 👍

Since Twitter died, I wanted to post my most popular one. Something like 120k likes.

Even without reverence, if you support a general set of policies, it should be okay to assume they mean the more positive aspects I want a leader to lift millions out of poverty and invest in public infrastructure that benefits as many people as possible, not be racist towards Japanese people

Billionaires “saving” Detroit.

It makes me really happy to see all the amazing things people share here.

All these “I voted for Trump because everyone is mean to white men” takes just amount to “why won’t you people hold still so I can build my success on your backs like my father and grandfather did??”

Our aim is to help you find the right strains, cultivators, and types of cannabis, while learning about the people behind the businesses.

men would rather pretend they’re relevant in 18 consecutive presidential campaigns than go to therapy

"Odd thing, ain't it ... you meet people one at a time, they seem decent, they got brains that work, and then they get together and you hear the *voice* of the people. And it snarls." — Terry Pratchett, Jingo, p.151

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[desperately trying to use my English Lit degree to make sense of it all] Ah, yes. I see. It's because of the metaphors.

You know what would make us all feel better? A big boat getting stuck

“You catch more flies with honey” No. You catch more flies with SPIDERS

It's funny (?) because this whole thing is the closest we've come in years to having a precedented time. Many things are unprecedented but this one, boy, we know all about it already

Also what year was that?? 2015? What are we doing? “Women poking men on trolley cars with their hat pins is getting out of hand!”

For the millionth time, people being annoying online is not something politicians in the Democratic Party can do anything about!

When you put it that way…

That's so interesting. patreon.com/lowqualityfa...

I feel like if hearing “men are trash” on TikTok or seeing those “the future is female” tee shirts in 2016 was really enough to turn all these young men into little Hitlers, then they were probably looking for an excuse to go fascist anyway.

“The social invisibility of women’s experience is not “a failure of human communication”. It is a socially arranged bias persisted in long after the information about women’s experience is available.” How to Suppress Women’s Writing by Joanna Russ

For levity.

Now Democrats and Kamala Harris voters are asking: What the hell went wrong?

the leopards will eat well

The thing is, this isn't even what they're doing, which is far worse. The implicit ask in any of these calls for amity across the aisle is for the most privileged portions of the Democratic coalition to sell the more oppressed members out to make peace.

well, everybody, this is going to suck, but we’re going to follow the blueprint of every monster movie with a 2 in the title: take a little time to disbelieve that this is happening again, then use what we learned last time to fight hard, protect each other, and survive for as long as we can.

if you blame anyone for this other than the fascists who voted for a fascist, you’ve already begun helping the fascists

I kept a positive thought until it was over, and I’m glad I did, because it felt better for longer. But now I am so sad and angry to have my worst feelings and assumptions confirmed about the people I share this land mass with.

I’d really like to stay home and sleep for at least 2 days but I’m still on my “probationary period” and, thus, cannot.

looking out a train window listening to “Party In the USA”, is this what being in the pilot of a CW teen drama feels like

without downloading anything, reskeet or respond with an image that expresses how you’re feeling

Slept for 12 hours. Now Pilates. Then today’s Neighborhood Listen episode… I shall be periodically checking out how long the poll lines are and eventually accepting it will be long and I will be in it for a while.