Becoming more convinced some of the many perimenopause "symptoms" being shared aren't actually related to perimenopause but are perimenopause ripping off every neurodivergent woman's mask and it feels related to peri because it is happening at the same time but...it's ND of some kind.

Ack. I was planning to go to Joey's (CPBPD) talk in Houston Sunday but just went to buy tickets and it is sold out. I'd waited to buy them because my husband ended up out of town for field work and return was up in the air, now it is Sunday early afternoon. But can't go now, waited to long! booooo.

I paid $8 for a small honey cinnamon latte the other day. I haven't bought coffee out in months, mostly because I've been using my own espresso maker and going that route. And will continue to do so because it wasn't worth $8! Pair this with Boba teas...and yeah, I don't go anymore.

Two years ago I spent a considerable amount of time digging around into a developer who was buying a previously-leased-from-an-energy-company state park here in Texas. It didn't take long to see that all the rich people know the other rich people, doesn't matter what "side" they are on.

Just hearing about the THC thing...gonna guess that Dan Patrick had something to do with this.

The reason the emails read like hot garbage is because they don't have to worry about being judged. These are not men who have ever poured over an email out of fear of not being taken seriously or not being treated professionally.

i know this isn't important in the slightest but this pedophile sure can't type

*heavy eyeroll* Someone at Bluesky is doubling down on something they screwed up on.

Today my therapist told me I live like 3+ lives and all I could think was yeah, that's definitely correct. I have no idea how to make it just one, though, and not sure I would want to. Anyway, the sessions you go into w/o much to talk about seem to be the most profound.

Pastel pink northern lights visible from my house in suburban N Houston area.

Anyone having issues with Instagram deleting DMs tonight? Have typed out long messages to two people and they have disappeared.

Please reinstate Sarah Kendzior, @support.bsky.team

Question for women/AFAB folks: has anyone else heard or been told you can stop getting a pelvic/pap at 65? My mom was told this by her PCP (new guidelines supposedly) but is incredulous about it. Is it, well, fuck it, you are old already who cares if you get cervical cancer? Or???

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Busy day today: 4 hrs of book work, Lowe's, grocery store for groceries, unload groceries + lunch, kiddo has a friend over, and I've been cleaning the last 2.5 hrs. Last thing to do is change my sheets and fold some laundry. Need to do more book work this evening. Oh, and make dinner.

Gonna have to reach to to my MARA friends about this BS.

Anyone out here have good water law info for Texas regarding a neighbor intentionally digging up a connecting line managing water flow between yards that eventually feeds into an adjacent creek/lake?

Who will be the first to sue an AI company for defamation when a fake quote is attributed to them? Of course we could all sue for plagiarism, all us writers....

Been sleeping all afternoon but all was well and I don't have to do that again for 10 years, so yay!

This is me every time I hear ads on Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't and then hear Joey railing against something that would have been in those ads in his next rambling when the pod cuts back in. I wish he would change his ad situation up. It is beyond obnoxious.

Tomorrow is my first colonoscopy (yay, the joys of turning 45!) so today is Starve Myself Day. Chicken broth for breakfast is not hitting the same as a breakfast taco would. *sigh*

45 seconds to F+M ticket sale and I'm already seeing how pre-sale went to resellers so I'm skeptical I'll be able to get a ticket now. *sigh*

Just watched and ICE stop outside my office. I didn't see the people pulled out of the car. Husband told me to come check out "this traffic stop". I knew what it was going to be when I went up but didn't take my phone for photos. Four unmarked SUVs. They were in and out quick.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

ugh. of course all of the Texas propositions passed.

Upped my Vyvanse to 40mg last Friday and FINALLY I think I might be in the right dose or close to it. I'm not fizzling/crashing out after 5pm anymore. I'm almost back to a "normal" evening feeling but still a bit tired but not like I was even last week on 30mg.

Making maps for this damn book of mine and going back and re-doing some of them because the generalized waters shapefiles I have *aren't great* and now digitizing off of LiDAR, which are helping all of the bridge points I have make more sense.

In other news, there's a wasp in my office and it refuses to be corralled into the hall. Might have to just go open the back door for it to flee but it keeps going to my office plants, naturally, but my windows have screens so, no easy out there, friend.

Anything quoting Andy Davis should never be trusted. That said, I've never seen so many photos of masses of monarchs roosting in Texas than I have this year. Not sure where Monika or others are getting their info this season but it definitely isn't what I'm seeing on social media.

Instagram used to let you snooze posts you didn't want to see for 30 days. That options seems to have gone away.

My mind has really failed to catch the "LLMs are normal and it's normal to use them" norm. Every single time someone casually talks about using them I am surprised and uncomfortable, like someone has admitted to rolling coal or lighting wildfires bc it "helps them get more done"

Upped my Vyvanse to 40mg and damn if it doesn't really bring out the monotropism. Told someone I would be somewhere at 2pm but have zero interest in stopping work on my book now. *sigh* And yes, I'm going to go but getting out of the groove of this sucks.

Don't know that I really want to be the "Actually..." person but might have to start with the amount of NDs just blanket using AI without giving it a second thought. Seeing people dismissing power/water usage because "we already use it for other data", without grasping the actual situation.

Spotify now doing Free Press ads. Yeah, I know, I was going to leave. And I am but need some time to build up a catalog of music for an old phone to use as a iPod. And also, ICE ads were on normal radio stations, so what are people doing about that??

Found two county record plants today.

My spouse can’t get a job in Louisiana because college professors are paid Wendy’s wages but Brian Kelly’s gonna get $50 million or so for getting fired for losing football games.

Gotta say, since I'm re-watching The Man in the High Castle and the Reich is destroying American cultural icons for Year Zero, this is very apropos right now.

The AWS outage made it impossible to pay for parking outside the courthouse this morning. Amazon should not have that kind of influence.

When the generals wanted to take over in Chile in 1973, they had jets bomb the presidential palace. Leave it to a third-rate American real-estate developer to use bulldozers instead.

Really cannot wait for the day we have an atheist in office. It's beyond time. I have no problem with people being religious, I have a problem with it becoming so entwined into every facet of our lives where it has no relevance.

Some Vyvanse thoughts for today: Definitely harder to notice it on weekends when I'm out hiking and being busy. It feels like my mind just steamrolls over it during those times. Got back into the office today and I'm like, ohhhh, there's my quiet mind again. Anyway, any anecdata on that out there?

Seems like everything uses AWS.

Came across probably the actual worst situation of invasive plants I've seen outside of Florida this weekend...and that's saying a lot with how much tallow I walk through. Ok, ok, discounting King Ranch bluestem...which is everywhere you look....anyway.

Hey @hellabarnes.bsky.social : I think a while back you mentioned the book Something in the Woods Loves You...anyway, this was a great podcast episode with the author, thought you might like to listen: planthropologypodcast.com/home/jarodka...

rules about nighttime “quiet hours” where like it’s considered an offense to disturb people by being loud after 10 pm or whatever should extend through 10 am, and they only don’t because our society thinks anyone still in bed at 7:15 is a morally weak person

Not sure what to do about what looks like an impending collapse of Substack in the coming months as more writers leave. I really don't want to pay for a service but also don't think people will follow if I move back to a blog setting, which I already pay for. And feed readers are basically dead, too

I've been re-watching The Man in the High Castle. Currently on S3. Anyway, they have a whole Dept of Propaganda in that series for the Reich portions, which sounds a lot like DHS right now.

All this thread made me want to do is go thrifting in Paris. T-shirts or not. *sigh*

One thing I am glad this did (might not be accessible in the UK alas unless you have Means) is just absolutely go in on that nonsense "does it really count as starving children if the children are also sick for other reasons?" thing the Free Press did. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

I was estimating 12-15 miles mountain biking yesterday to collect data for my book. Just downloaded the gps file and I was pretty good...14.9 miles. I was wiped after. But now I want to go again.