Thank you!

Hey, please don’t use ableist slurs. It’s easy to criticize conservatives without doing so.

You’re better off leaving Rumble behind

Came here to recommend Behind the Bastards and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff!

I have a similar setup, and no. Once it’s configured, it’s easy peasy, but it would probably be a difficult and confusing process for a non-technical person to get through without help. Addy.io is a great service that a non-technical user shouldn’t have any issue using

My therapist has years of training to know how to appropriately and responsibly help people with their emotions and trauma. An AI can say words that might be similar to what a therapist would say, but there’s no way I could ever trust an AI to handle such personal and important parts of me

That was an excellent and well-thought out response, thank you for sharing it! It’s a thorny question for sure, and I appreciate your nuanced view

Littering, especially cigarette butts. Nothing sends me into a blind rage faster than seeing someone flick a cigarette butt out their car window. Not littering is SO easy, the bar is on the floor, and yet so many people just don’t care at all.

I am a trans woman who was raised Catholic, so I feel similarly. I’ve had to do so much work in therapy just to get to a place where I can accept myself for who I am. A lot of those old beliefs were baked in deeper than I realized.

I carry a lot of resentment towards my (very devout) parents for raising me in the church, but I also recognize my experience is not emblematic of every person’s experience being raised in a religious household.

Oh, not too bad. Feeling annoyed with my hair, today. I’ve been growing it out, and it’s about shoulder length now. However, when I started to grow it out, I did it with an undercut. Now I’m trying to grow the undercut out to have all my hair the same length, and it’s at an awkward stage right now. I can’t really put my hair back, because the disconnect is too stark and the undercut is awkward length. But my hair gets greasy after like a day, so wearing it down means I have to stay really on top of washing it. Not the end of the world to deal with for a few months, but just kind of obnoxious

Gang stalking is not real. I recommend reaching out to a therapist as a first step. If there are other resources you need, they’ll be able to help you get them too.

Right now, nothing, really. There’s a lot of confusion and volatility at the moment, so I’m trying to keep a cool head rather than react blindly. I’m going to keep my head down at work, keep contributing to my 401k like normal, not make major unexpected purchases, and maybe re-up on some bulk staples. If shit keeps getting worse, I’ll adapt from there

Ah shit, is there a ban on politics questions? Sorry. I’m almost always on mobile, so I miss stuff in sidebars a lot

To be fair, I don’t think being high around my coworkers sounds like a fun time. Drinking a few beers once a year at the Christmas party is more than enough for me

Fuck off, transphobe

Daytime: caramel latte with oat milk and an extra shot of espresso

Evening: Dark and Stormy (dark rum and ginger beer with a lime slice)

Kept me waiting long enough that I’m no longer a Proton user. Selfhosted Nextcloud goes weeeeeeeeee

One of the maintenance shop supervisors abruptly went on administrative leave. I was chatting with him one day, and the next, his boss was emailing all the other directors and people who work with him that he was on leave effective immediately. No clue why, but I’m super curious, because it can’t have been good. Last time something like this happened the plumbers had changed the locks to their break room, put gaming chairs and an Xbox in there, and kept faking their time sheets.

Play some Traveller with friends tomorrow, tidy around the apartment so it looks nice when my wife gets back from her trip, probably take my dog for a walk or two if the weather allows. If I’m feeling inspired, I want to print some zines on local foraging and go around putting them in Little Free Libraries. Should be pretty chill, and I’m not mad about that!

I work in commercial and institutional building energy efficiency. I notice myself paying way more attention to the infrastructure that normally fades into the background. Stuff like “I wonder how big the transformer for this building is?” or “Ooh, that’s a hefty cooling tower, I wonder how much chilled water they use?”