I did hear from Amal thankfully. She's been feeling unwell and her blood pressure dropped sharply. The campaign is still quite sluggish and she really needs to raise the money for Naser"s medicine soon. ❤️🙏 gofund.me/4fd2dfc05

Everything sucks and the best I can manage to help me deal with that is dissociating away all of my free time. I miss feeling like an actual person.

ICE agents are state-sponsored domestic terrorists, and every single person that works for the agency must be tried for their crimes against humanity. And that's the *moderate* version of my feelings on this matter. 🙂

Use this one!! www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-gi...

"Is it limerence? Or is it ADHD hyperfocus on a person? Or is it BPD favorite person? Or is it CPTSD trying to prove my worth through another person? Or am I pathologizing my basic need for human connection?" - rollinperry, on TikTok. www.tiktok.com/@rollinperry...

Sometimes you just need to scream into the void. Doesn't fix anything or make anything better, but it's nice to let it out anyway. Also, Dick Cheney is dead. That's nice.

Local No Kings Protest was a great time. Despite the weather there was a fantastic turnout on foot & an incredible amount of supportive traffic. Ran into a bunch of friends & coworkers. Wish I'd gotten pictures of all the amazing signs I saw.

"Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment"

The Phantom Liberty DLC for Cyberpunk 2077 is without a doubt some of the best content in the game. Finished one ending already and I'm working on the other now. My heart breaks for Songbird.

Thanks to a glitch, I've enjoyed free Amazon Prime shipping for over 15 years. The feature that allowed the glitch to exist is being discontinued, so I'll be losing free shipping. Oh well. I feel really good knowing I cost Amazon even just a few thousand dollars worth of lost revenue, honestly.

Had a pretty fantastic weekend. For the most part. Went to lunch with a friend on Friday, which ended with them being shitty. They've since apologized, but change is the best apology, so we'll see. After that I had to waste a few hours & way more money than I'd wanted on having some car work done.

I wish I were more of a Clark Kent, but without a doubt I'm actually a Reed Richards. Good with problems, less so with people; being myself hurts people I care about in ways I would never intend; and I wouldn't wish my brain on anyone else ever.

"Sorry I didn't answer your text. My proclivity towards the melancholy rendered communication impossible. Not unlike an unmoored ship drifting out to sea, my grasp on reality has become increasingly untethered, but thank you so much for reaching out!" - @ryanciecwisz on TikTok.

Made psilocybin mushroom tea this weekend, and it was without a doubt my favorite mushroom preparation I've ever done. Mushrooms normally tear my stomach up & that really negatively affects my experience. The tea made me feel very, very full, but there was none of the stomach pain I normally get.

I saw "Sinners" this week and I have SO MANY THOUGHTS. Stunning barely begins to cover it. I've already written mini essays in conversations with friends talking about various aspects of it. There's so much going on, and it's all so beautifully done. If you appreciate stories, you need to see it.

I no longer keep any social apps on my phone, so I likely won't see notifications in a timely manner. Apologies.

Feel like an extended social media break is due. Seeing the endless stream of despair-inducing, horrific news on Bluesky is extremely depressing, and that's really all this place is. The social media sites that seem to be more about sharing personal stuff though are ethically compromising.

Had a really good weekend. Played a bunch of Baldur's Gate 3, saw an incredible burlesque show that was entirely Bjork-themed, had a productive lunch talking through some issues with a friend, and had a great afternoon hanging out with some friends I don't hang out with often.

Some friends have been encouraging me to get my passport renewed, but I don't really see the point. I don't have anywhere to go or any way to get there. The family I have are all here. I don't blame anyone for leaving, if they have a reason to & a place to go, but not everyone does.

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Just read the Silent Hill 2 remake did so well, Konami is letting Bloober Team do an original game in one of Konami's existing franchises. Hasn't been revealed which franchise but if it's not a new Silent Hill game then I kinda hope they let them do a new Castlevania.

Just saw the real name "Richard Pickle". His parents definitely did not want kids.

Unexpectedly got all of this past week off due to weather. Had a fantastic time curling up on my couch with my cat, and playing Baldur's Gate 3. Kinda nice being back at work though, just to be around people again.

This was the best Valentine's Day I've had in a very, very long time. I'm glad I at least have friends to spend Valentine's Day with.

Mitch McConnell lays on his back, his belly baking in the hot sun, beating his legs trying to turn himself over, but he can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

It's never too late to be yourself. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.pride.com/coming-out/b...

Just found out, you gotta turn this option on separately for the website AND the app, in case you use both. The setting doesn't carry over from one to the other.

There is nothing more decorous and proper than ejecting Nazis from a space with as much rancor and force as is necessary. If you value decorum, the correct thing to do is to fight them, loudly, tooth and nail until they are gone.

The playbook for the Trump administration is Project 2025. Have you read it yet? Like horror comics? Here's your explainer with colorful pictures. stopproject2025comic.org

India doubled its tiger population in a decade Efforts against poaching and habitat loss as well as raising the living standards of communities near tiger areas, India has grown its tiger population from 1,706 individuals in 2010 to almost 3,700 in 2022. https://buff.ly/3CTZeRw #ShareGoodNewsToo

Solar overtakes coal in Europe for the first time in 2024 Renewables supplied 47% of the bloc’s power in 2024, while fossil fuels accounted for 29%. That’s a significant shift from five years ago, The EU has halved emissions since their peak in 2007. https://buff.ly/40O0Iov #ShareGoodNewsToo

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

If you're on BlueSky you're already probably on the lookout for more ethical choices to the internet's bigger services. This website has you covered for those choices: switching.software

I assumed this was fake, maybe an AI creation, but I looked it up and I can find multiple articles from 2009 from multiple different sites I know talking about this. And now you know this too. Sorry.

We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee. Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it’s just such a mess around here, you know.

The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request. Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting.

Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren’t compromised. It should take a couple weeks.

We figured, what’s the fun in just telling them there’s nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause. We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act.

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

“We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow. That is the point of a transgenocide, the loss of life, and it doesn't matter how it happens.”

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fox, with the win. Don't know yet what app suites might be in here, but this looks like an incredible place to start on looking for alternatives to Google, Microsoft, Meta, and more.

One day I'll submit a multi-post thread without having to take down & redo the last post in the thread multiple times... But today is not that day.