Auferre 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Birthday!

Hm, I could probably use another mug...

oh, we're not getting that out, ever

(or getting our deposit back)

that *would* explain a lot

I generally console myself with the knowledge that being condescendingly rude to @kathryntewson.bsky.social swiftly becomes its own inevitable punishment.

(that and blocking them, because I don't have her patience)

I'm almost happy I don't have a switch 2 yet, because I won't have time for the next couple of months and pokopia looks *precisely* aimed at me.

Simmons: i tell you, it's political correctness gone mad!
Simmons: why, it's getting so that you can't even be racist anymore!
Mary Shelley: hey
Shelley: aren't you dead
Simmons:
Simmons: wow
Simmons: too soon

This constantly annoys and angers me.

Criticize people for the terrible things they do, stop trying to shame them for the qualities they share with people who aren’t doing terrible things.

I can’t be trusted to remember that there’s stuff in there before I start preheating the oven, so definitely the latter.

Well, it didn't work for me any of the times I tried it.

(I might have learned not to try it again, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm a very slow learner about anything to do with myself.)

That sounds like a trap specifically designed to draw me in forever.

My favorite lists I'm on are "Shrill" and "Drama Queen."

why yes, I do sing opera, thanks for noticing

move slow and repair things

A koi betta eating some bloodworms off a big old cube

My naem is Ric
An wen i float
The plants an snails
Say I’m the goat
An wen my tum
Maek clear its toims
I monch the cube
I slorp the woims

I've been surreptitiously discarding decades-old unused things under the guise of cleaning and organizing my mother's shelves and closets.

(This accelerated after I cleaned her refrigerator and found some stuff in there that expired 15 years ago.)

Good luck!

(No sarcasm or irony intended. This place has desperately needed a good comms team for about a year and a half. It's going to be an adventure.)

This has led to me buying a bunch of books on bookshop.org, something I've been meaning to do more of for a while now.

I have laid in the wine I'll be drinking for the occasion!

(It's cheap wine, but schadenfreude makes everything taste better.)

Well, Amazon appears to be throwing a server error every time I try to look up a new book, no matter what the book is.

Time to buy a bunch of stuff on Bookshop.org

a nice looking sloth

a wet sloth, looking like some kind of demon creature that you might see in a nightmare or like, a republican primary caucus

march 1st 2020 march 2196th 2020

(I inevitably end up turning a random number of pages in a 300-page score because I moved my finger a fraction of a millimeter when I tapped to turn the page with the keyboard open. It’s incredibly annoying, and has been for years.)

About ready to code my own iPadOS score reader app in frustration because apparently “disable the seek bar” isn’t something the ForScore developers have ever felt the need to implement.

This orange cat thread was the timeline cleanse I needed this morning.

Dear local opera company:

I don't know who gave the chorus mailing list to a hypnotherapist/holistic wellness practitioner a few years ago, but I hope they get shingles.

Definitely a good sign when I start blocking the devs.

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories.

Men: What a scary time for men this is.

One of the things I love about the the genre is that even after reading it for 30+ years I can still abruptly realize "wait, this isn't just a one-off, this is an entire subgenre I can look for new things I haven't read in!"

I have a long rant about this and the "inevitable" takes that's been building up for a while, but I won't dump it in your mentions.

(It's a very situational tool that's only barely useful if you already know how to code the application you're using it for, basically. It can't replace expertise.)

USB-C to HDMI adapters are cheap (<$10) and easy to use - one of the big advantages of Apple switching to USB-C from lightning ports.

I assumed it was Narnia, but your explanation makes more sense and has fewer talking animals.

Shiny!

Also that's quite the side eye. 😂