I'm not sure how what you said is anything *other* than an attempt to misrepresent reality in order to scare people, but I'm glad it's not!

Okay! Then now that you know what you were unintentionally doing, you can communicate differently. You said the exact same things the anti-vax people say in order to convince parents not to vaccinate their children.

If you say the same thing, folks are gonna assume you mean the same thing.

Trying to get people to panic about combined vaccines is pretty gross, stop

The cup is warm in my hand. The tea, a white blend with grapefruit from Adagio, is subtle and bright.

I have a lot to do today and the world is challenging. The bright moments stand out more because of it, and I'm grateful for them.

A photo of a ceramic tenmoku teacup, with iridescent glaze and a lotus blossom painted in gold at the bottom, filled with a light colored tea. A bright green Japanese enameled iron kettle sits behind it, and the sunlight has brought out a green iridescence the same shade in the cup, visible through the tea.

The sunlight agrees that it's good to take a moment and appreciate simple, beautiful things

There are many things going on in the world, but just now what I want to think about is how to celebrate my cat's 15th birthday.

He has everything he needs, a relatively delicate digestion, and is picky about treats.

He does like to tear paper, so maybe I can just give him wrapping paper 😂

A large brown tabby cat curled up asleep between someone's feet, with his paw and chin resting on their ankle.

I have so many pictures of him over the years, of course, but here he is now, just a couple of days ago, snuggling with me. He sleeps with me every night, and likes to have at least one paw on me. Such a sweet, sweet cat.

I'm lucky to have some baby pictures - he came from a feral colony my friend was taking care of. He was the last litter before she managed to spay them all.

A fuzzy brown kitten with white feet creeping under a wooden board.

This little guy turns 15 in a few days. It's hard to believe sometimes... He's the best darn cat.

He's having some age-related health problems now, and I'm cherishing every day.

The weight of this grief is very heavy and I can't seem to put it down.

People who love me are fine with my government trying to erase me, and I can't reconcile those things.

It hurts to give up on them.

I ingested something that did not agree with me even a little bit, earlier, so I was placating the digestive system with the least challenging food possible 🤣

I was Shin Ramyun when I first saw this, which I like

At this point I'd be Inoffensive Oatmeal 🤣

Like I said, feel free to block me if this makes you see me as part of the problem. We won't get along anyway.

I'm sad though. I guess I hoped we wouldn't be retreading this ground on this platform.

Ah well.

If you want to block everyone who follows whoever, go for it. I have zero opinion about how you curate your own social media experience.

I'm just not interested in having yet another really, really ridiculous online moral purity war, and I hate seeing people waste their energy on it.

Oh goodness half this site seems to be having the same tired argument from Twitter about whether folks should follow bad people...

My stance remains the same: if you think you should be policing who other people pay attention to, please just block me now and save us both the future conflict.

Also I personally got tired of wasting any energy on a random fake-compassionate transphobe and blocked them 🤣

But still, thank you for summing up the situation very well

This is a better response than mine 😂 well said.

Your initial comment was neither complex nor nuanced, so I don't believe you

We have people like you here too.

Please just stop hurting kids

Shin Ramyun, reporting for duty 🤣

How dare we help children

Hey world: stop asking me to pretend to be sad when terrible people die. I'm not going to do that.

You won't regret it 💙 Caro is brilliant!

I do think he interpreted it correctly as respect, so that's good 🤣

I've been listening to k-pop, eating Korean food, and studying Korean for a couple of years now.

Last night I was introduced to an older man I respect very much, and I shook his hand with both of mine and bowed my head. Without thinking about it at all.

Too bad he wasn't Korean 🤣

We've reached the time of year when the sun is at an eye-punishing angle pretty much all day

I'm walking west right now and can see nothing 🤣

Why is it unfortunate? If someone doesn't want to interact with me I'm fine with that. No one owes me their attention.

I am not going to act like my choices don't matter. I'm going to go ahead and act like all of it does matter, a better future is possible and we're going to get there.

-from me, on Flash Forward with Rose Eveleth, years ago. Thank you, Doug, for the reminder.

Someone just reached out via email to tell me that something I said on a podcast several years ago is helpful to them.

It was about hope.

I don't know if a message from a stranger has ever made me happier.

Most things we need to do will not be fun, but this one is: we need to embarrass the rich. A LOT. Hoarding personal wealth needs to be THE uncoolest, most shameful thing to do. Shitting your pants in front of the whole school? Who cares, everyone shits! But being a billionaire? Humiliating!