Fortunately, my wife has taught me a lot about HRT. Unfortunately, I feel like she and I are aging rapidly in opposite directions. 😅

Re: Perimenopause
"Nobody sits you down at 40 and says, 'Hey, estrogen was doing about 47 jobs you didn't know about and it's about to start quitting all of them.'"

Drawing of a skull with a speech bubble saying, "The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now. It's never now." Quote is from Samantha Harvey's book, Orbital The skull has a candle on its side, sticking out of the eye sockets, burning at both ends.

Part of a larger journal page. I like this guy.

Rachel: Should I post this?
Me:
Rachel: Posted!!

Recurring event in my life: I'll try to look up a quote from a favorite book, end up on Goodreads (ick), and see that it has a bunch of 1-3 star reviews saying the book has "no plot."

This doesn't bother me, exactly, but it's a peculiar experience to keep having.

Now I'm down 50HP and I still have to finish my shopping.

I didn't flee the country just to keep hearing John Mayer's "Daughters" at the grocery store.

Journal page showing a multi-colored self-portrait with hair drawn with black pen. Above the portrait is written, "my hair turning gray among strangers" (quote by Leroy Quintana)

Every new sparkle of gray in my hair is a reminder that there was once someone who loved me who is not here and I am not there, either.

She gets to hear all of my secrets.

"The painter’s wife drinks coffee, a popular beverage in the 1800s. In 1775, De Vaderlander magazine called in vain for a boycott: ‘Unfortunate calloused fists had to work the ground for the coffee and sugar that you now hold in your delicate little hands. They were murdered to meet your needs.’"

Journal page featuring the quote "The planet is shaped by the sheer amazing force of human want, which has changed everything: the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the skies... a planet contoured and landscaped by human want." From Orbital, by Samantha Harvey. Also on the page is an illustration of a Blue Tit and an altered painting of "A Dutch Girl at Breakfast", from 1754, eating a meal from McDonald's.

"The planet is shaped by the sheer amazing force of human want, which has changed everything: the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the skies... a planet contoured and landscaped by human want." From Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

I'm sending my wife.

@momfriend64.northsky.social

SAD: I can't take good pictures of my pets sleeping on the couch because we're a No Big Light household.

MA'AM

(respectfully)

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of his birth, I'm reminded that Langston Hughes wrote what for me is the most compelling response to the false dichotomy of patriotism vs the brutality of our national history.

I'm privileged to hear you read posts like the aloud, with the voices and everything.

That... was a depressing read. But very informative!

Letting moderates claim they were always against this blurs history. It hides the many ways we got here, which is in part due to the fascists themselves — but in larger part due to the centrists who conceded to fascist rhetoric. We could have prevented all of this. We need to remember how we didn't.

A truth that should be more universally acknowledged: once you accept that *some people* deserve to be killed in broad daylight, you accept that *anyone* deserves that fate.

I saw this in the folded comments on a TikTok video and I felt it needed a wider audience.

"Kelly Clarkson was the first person we as a country actually elected democratically, so she should be president."

Page from my journal that reads: "ICE isn't like the Gestapo, culturally and historically, ICE moves like slave patrols. Paperwork is treated like morality and family is treated like inventory. We didn't take notes from Nazi Germany; it took notes from the Unites States."

We keep making Gestapo comparisons with regard to ICE, but the darker truth is that the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow laws in the U.S.

One reason I need a job is so I can pay for redesigning our house to look like Sophie's Tacky Little Hatter (aka Howl's Moving Castle).

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

I'm married to herrrrr

Steven, if there is anyone in the world who should read these books, it's you.

I highly recommend the books! They're basically all it's internal monologue, which is part of the reason I'm even wondering how the TV show works.

Holding The MurderBot Diaries Volume 3 in my hand

The MurderBot books are my Sanctuary Moon.

Should I watch the TV adaptation, or nah?

Correct!