Curmudgeoness & Bluestocking. Politics indigo, language ultraviolet. Adrift upon the cryptic tides of life. Likes to use big words & play at being all intellectual. Retired engineer. Mostly harmless. Pronouns: she, her Avatar is not: me Avatar is: my cat, Osa Banner text reads: Respect my trans homies or I'm going to identify as a fucking problem
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Last Notes npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn It’d be kind of fun, though, to decorate the arrivals hall that way- as if all the passengers had “just dropped in.” 🪂 npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I think I remember reading somewhere that the first climate change warnings were published in 1880 or so. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Jeeez-sus. Every time I see yet another one of these once-in-a-forever storms barrelling in, I think "This is just what the climate change scientists were warning us about thirty or forty years ago." *longer than that, even npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Case in point: I have passed driver's license exams in California (where the power outage & intersection-blocking waymos currently are), Oregon, and Washington state. I *think* that non-functioning traffic lights are to be treated as 4-way stops in all three states, but I just realized I don't know for sure about any of them (including Washington, where I & my current driver's license are). npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn *TBF: to solve this problem, one would first have to establish what the correct response is to the chaotic behavior of humans when confronted with non-working traffic lights. In order to do that, one might first have to address the problem of a correct response to the chaotic behavior of humans in general. AFAIK, that has never yet been successfully done. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Maybe an interesting problem for IT people: How do you program a self-driving vehicle to respond correctly to the chaotic behavior of humans when confronted with non-working traffic lights? Many/most human drivers won't know/remember they're meant to treat non-working traffic lights as 4-way stops; and human response even to traditional, long-established 4-way stops can be quite chaotic. If you figure this out, please don't share your work with any driverless car companies. That sort of thing only encourages them. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn It doesn't mean what it sounds like: "expected to flood once/hundred years." It means: "chance of flooding in any given year is one in one hundred." Why such misleading nomenclature is used is beyond me. *also: Holy Hell. That's a lot of population to get evacuated, about 60 miles from me. I should probably be taking spare blankets to the National Guard Armory or something. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Telling someone struggling with deep depression to “Look on the bright side” feels to me like saying to a double amputee “On the other hand, it’s really great to have legs.” *I have never been a double amputee, so my apologies if I am misappropriating that experience. **And if anyone has one fucking word to say about goddamned lemons, so help me… npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn That's all three food groups. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Imagine spending a mere one percent of your disposable income on childcare for two toddlers (Denmark). I'm thinking it would feel like Scrooge MacDuck-diving into a pool of rose petals floating on warm melted chocolate. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn And maybe also the fact that *literal rapists are literally the ones running the country,* and nobody seems to give an orange-tinted rat's ass. And maybe also the wage gap. And maybe also... (now that I've gotten started with this, I could be here all night). npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Because we all want to hear the cool &/or wild welding stories, too npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Panic is weird, man. Shock, too. I’ve done things when panicked &/or in shock that I look back on and think: Who was that person? Cause I sure don’t recognize her as me. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn There is nothing like standing in a cool stream in a hot day, and scooping up cool stream water in your cupped hands to plunge your face into and drink. And I will never do that again. But I can't imagine being stranded on a riverbank and not finding a way to drink the water. If my conventional water purification methods were missing or had failed, I can see myself trying to rig up a filter from sand &/or charcoal layered into a bandana or something. I can also see myself drinking sandy, charcoal-ey water from the failed experiment & hoping fervently for the best. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn This is almost all fun & funny. The not fun & funny part: My sister is a recovering alcoholic. Drinking a can of this would end seven hard-won years of sobriety; and could easily put our whole family back into the world of lies, DUIs, and chaos we were in seven years ago. It's very rare, but it's possible to be allergic to alcohol, or to have alcohol intolerance. My mom was alcohol intolerant. Drinking a can of this would have made her violently ill; or could have killed her if she'd managed to down enough of it. *Mom died of alcohol-unrelated causes. **Alcohol intolerance is genetic, & alcoholism seems to be genetically linked. One of Mom's uncles was also a notorious alcoholic. We're a fun family. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn But hey, I handled the lead tinsel and breathed in the close vicinity of the asbestos Angel Hair, and I'm just fine 🥴 npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn And PVC is only dangerous when the house catches fire! :elmo_fire: npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Holy cow - that looks exactly like what my family used on our Christmas tree for a few years in the late 1960's. Ours was marketed under the name "Angel Hair." It may have been healthier than the lead tinsel it replaced, but it was not nearly so pretty- there's genuinely nothing like the drape and gentle sheen of lead tinsel. My mom didn't buy the "Angel Hair" out of preference - the tinsel was unavailable because so much lead was needed for bombs to drop on Vietnam.* It was only 2 or 3 years until PVC plastic tinsel strips became available, and our trees could be nearly as pretty again. *The moment Mom told 5-yo me that marks the beginning of my (nearly) life-long anti-war convictions. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Been watching Band of Brothers. It's a great story, very well done. And it's sweet to bathe in the balmy air of a not-long-ago era when Nazism was unequivocally bad. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn 🤣🤣🤣 Was there someone lying on top of the refrigerator looking alluring? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn It’s left me with a lifelong desire to be pushed down the street in a brass bed. Or, at the very least, to have a cool brass bed like that. *my mom may have had to explain to me that brass bed locomotive wasn’t really a viable transportation option. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I was often up late with no supervision. I'd always get drawn in by the theme song, but was too young to really appreciate most of the segments. (Am I misremembering, or did the title sequence have a brass bed being pushed down the street with one or two enviable people lounging in it?) npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Have you ever tried to follow a high-protein, low fat diet (whether to lose weight or for some other reason)? For me, it takes just a couple of weeks before I start craving fat. Removing the skin from a freshly baked piece of chicken has sometimes felt like the hardest thing I've ever done. An adult woman needs about 3 teaspoons (14.7ml) of fat daily to avoid malnutrition; and most low-fat diets recommend a maximum of 5 teaspoons (24.5ml) daily (both amounts are larger for guys, but I've never had a reason to memorize that info). I have dieted a lot over the years; and, despite working very hard at cutting out fat, seldom ended a day having consumed less than 4.5 teaspoons (about 18.5 ml) of fat. And when I did, I was not just hungry- I was bug-eyed crazy hungry. The body Wants That Stuff. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn If everyone would just wear name tags all the time, I'd be fine 😏 npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I have pretty bad face blindness. If you're my smartly business-casual co-worker; and I see you at the hardware store dressed in your yard work clothes, you'll just about have to walk up and tell who you are before I get a clue. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Confused: was the firefighter traiing exercise in 2024 or 2001 (see image above)? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Operating the clutch in a car with a manual transmission. That was so hard to learn. At first it seemed impossible, and when I finally did it, effectively but badly, I thought I’d never get much better. Years later I realized that I did it probably hundreds of times a week, all smooth and sweet, without even giving it a conscious thought. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn 1. I think line drying & the sterilizing effect of solar radiation helped some. (Plus commercial diaper services, who could applies economies of scale to all the boiling & leaching required, where available & when affordable.) 2. A lot of people used to die from diptheria. Just, (perhaps) fortunately, not all. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn My grandparents were farmers who had to live on what they could grow and the money a few cash crops brought in. One year, grandpa's wheat crop failed and he had to sell what little he had and buy millet, which was cheaper. The family lived all winter on millet and whatever Grandma had canned & preserved from that year's garden. It. Was. Bad. I have plenty more stories that Mom told me about being hungry and having nothing. But the tl;dr: here is that pouring your blood, sweat, & physical wellbeing into a piece of land and hoping that land will return enough to sustain you is a mug's game. Don't get me wrong: home gardens, and small farmsteads, are great. But I have never known a small family farm to yield a comfortable "first world" lifestyle without some sort of outside income. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn You know, US commercial fishing vessels have their take and their bycatch ratios carefully monitored by the gover- ..oh, hell, never mind npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn "Ice announced that they arrested 84 people... ...[and] 'at least two' had criminal records." So, to put in baseball terms, ICE is batting 024* *at least npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I'm looking forward to when they can produce fiery explosions in the design phase. *I used to do some engineering design (although not rockets), and the idea of the plan sheets or a CAD file spontaneously bursting into a fireball that levels the neighborhood is amusing the heck out of me. **tbc, I would not want that in reality-- but it's great fun in imagination. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn That is pretty darned good. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I hate you. 😎 npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I remember going to a Sambo's* restaurant in the 1960's; in Davis, California. *not sure if uncles were involved npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I have known three homeless people very well. One was an addict whose hard-won recovery lapsed when they lost their housing. Another had been convicted of a non-violent offense. One was just a very unlucky guy. None were violent. The most destructive addict have ever known was a professionally employed homeowner & taxpayer. The most violent person I've ever known was a highly respected figure in their pacifist religious community. People are complex. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I remember being 5, maybe 6 years old; and my excitement & relief & trepidation at standing in a long line of kids to get my polio vaccine (this would have been in the late 1960s). Excitement and relief that I would get this shot and be free from the risk of contracting polio, which I already knew enough about to know was horrible. Trepidation at facing the needle; but because I was a Big Girl about shots even then, but I'm still not all *that* Big Girl about them. And then the "shot" turned out to be a sugar cube! That was a pretty great day in 6-year-old-me life. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Not the focus here, I know; but why does your festival workshop demand the uneuphemized use of adult words? Is it a Red Cunt Hair Splicing workshop at the Fuck This Shit: We're Going To Have An Assload Of (music? ice sculpture? finger painting? ...whatever the focus of the festival is)? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Love that the lab coat is buttoned crooked npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Well, no wonder UPS doesn’t have my tracking data. The package is coming via FedEx. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn So, lemme get this straight: 1) The Pogues wrote & recorded an iconic Christmas song in which the singer's highly vernacular lyrics compare her lover to a "cheap lousy [homophobic slur]." 2) The Pogues later realized that the slur was both hurtful & harmful, and recorded a new version of the song in which the singer remark is changed to "you're cheap and you're haggard." 3) The man whose portrait lives in the dictionary under "poo-faced," aka Laurence Fox, tweets a demand for the BBC to be defunded unless the slur-bearing version of the song hits the top of charts for Xmas 2020. 4) The authors of both versions of the song respond in the truest High Pogues fashion , by tweeting: "Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite." npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Linux is Lucy's little brother, right? The kid with the security blanket? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn At risk of, having swerved from philosophical novels into comics, swerving even further into memes: Always have been. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn "We have met the enemy, and we is us." npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn It's an internet archive that serendipitously forms a workaround for paywalls. The right letters to type the first time around are: "archive.is/(url of the paywalled page) npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn also- Hey, guys! I got the archive.is thing to work: https://archive.is/NdY1x *it is not difficult to get the archive.is thing to work, if you remember which are the right letters to type the first time around npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn What, is this guy working for the Childless Cat Lady lobby in Japan? We can only hope Japan has enough cats. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn And yet, Congresswoman Mace, you seem to have no compunctions about the leader of your party forcing his genitals into women. #USpol #NancyMace #SA #45 #Trump npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Thanks. I've been wondering if it was too "Valley Girl" of me, but it's as close as I've come to being able to articulate my reactions to the stupidity of current events. I"m glad you're enjoying it. 😊 npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Yes. I am here in Seattle and everything is destroyed completely. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but a blighted landscape of fallen fir trees and discarded Starbucks coffee cups. (Also, "Krikstofur," your macchiato's up.) /humor/silly/Seattle's fine, mostly npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn "Last week, Jessup was elected to the Hancock County Council as one of three Republican candidates. He received over 15,000 votes while both Democrat challengers barely cracked 10,000 each. Jessup, 49, has been held in Las Vegas since June 26 after being arrested in Hancock County and extradited to Nevada." All this was public knowledge. Based on, not what is said or thought or believed, but the empirical evidence of which candidates win elections & appointments, being a sexual predator is not a drawback int the GOP - it's an asset. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I had a friend in high school whose house had a swastika built into the chimney bricks. The house was built in 1913. Chimney bricks are a hard thing to change. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I remember asking a guy at a Backyard Bird Shop what I could get to deter squirrels. His reply: "A red-tail hawk." npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn & is that a diagram of a crudely bypassed fuse, & the beginning of a resulting electrical fire, at top left? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I like how Bayonet Guy is looking at his eponymous weapon in terrified shock, while the Man In White seems happy & amused. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I've known a couple sociopaths (& a fair few bullies). & I don't know about the problem of being forced to deal with themselves- I'm not sure there's any provocation that will force a sociopath to do that- but they *do not like it* when people (ie, the victims) threaten to deprive them of victims. That makes them fight like cornered snakes. Because a sociopath without victims is really just someone alone in a cave. And a person alone in a cave, being of no use to a sociopath, therefore does not exist. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Thank you. I've been looking for a calendar like this I could buy from a not-big-business artist (I think there's a better term for that). & your photos are lovely. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn So, if absolutely nobody's predicting that Russia might collapse soon- i.e. it's stark raving crickets in the imminent Russian collapse department- that's when we should be expecting the collapse at any moment? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Dear local McDonald's franchisee, My child, having taken apparent leave of his senses, would like to have his birthday party at McDonald's. Please let me know when you will be able to close the restaurant for that day. Please also make a few staff available at that time so my child can play at making fries; and later stand at the drive-through window accepting greetings from his well-wishers. I understand you offer this service free of charge, or for some agreed-upon amount to be invoiced but never paid. I look forward to your speedy and positive response. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Like @npub1s4l…u84z said, you may need a forklift. Especially since you need to be careful of lifting or hauling a lathe in a way that may knock its various gears & spindles, etc., out of alignment. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn A geologist friend of mine once remarked that rockslides prove that "Geology is not always a slow process." npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I think that 4000 liters includes water used to for crops & livestock, for maintenance of fallow & natural vegetation, & for percolation through soil as groundwater. IIRC, the writers might have been off to say that the amount of water needed globally for direct human needs, plus proper function of agricultural systems & the global environment, is "x" amount; and that dividing that "x" amount by the current population of the globe works out to 4000 liters/day. *alternate, more fun, answer: "What, you're not shitting in pools & draining them for lulz?I thought everybody was doing that." npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn It's a nice photo! :) npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Is that a "tide going out" sort of phenomenon, or a "pre-tsunami run like hell" thing? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn So, there seem to be two problems here: 1) You feel disrespected, your mom's intentions not withstanding 2) Your communications with your mom are vague & unclear. Can you work with your therapist on ways to respond to your feeling disrespected; & on ways to clarify communications with your mom? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn In 1979, they did admit me; & I've had some reasons to be bitter about that. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn As a UC Davis alumna, I'm not sure whether to be proud or what. I guess UCD doesn't have time for military weapons, being too busy with fistulated cows & the musical ensemble that calls itself "Hell, yes, we're the Cal Aggie Marching Band - Uh!" npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn (Stupid Art Question: Uh, am I mean to take some deeper political or cultural message from this; or is this just a pretty cool & interesting photo?) npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Between childess cat ladies, and concern about the purported eating habits of immigrants, this election is just going to be all about cats, isn't it? 🐱 :blobcat: :blobcat_flamethrower: :catjam: :catto: :blobCat_rave: npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Yeah, in the 1970s, it was newly-emigrated Vietnamese refugees who were being accused of stealing pets to kill for food. I've also heard this alleged against Chinese & Korean immigrants. I'll bet it's a slur as old as the practice of keeping pets & other livestock not intended for consumption. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn So put an aluminum processing plant next to the solar generation facility. Or a server farm. There are plenty of industrial processes out there that can soak any extra electricity they can get. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Watermelon sky npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Sending moral support and vibes of strength & resolve. Good on you. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I can help you with that https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/812/496/200/103/773/original/89be895533da334e.jpeg npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn My high school English teacher joked about a student once calling her “Mrs. ‘Be Specific.’”I think that teacher might have had a pretty good alternative career as a marriage/relationship counselor. If you want me to call you at such-&-such a time to tell you I am, as agreed, awake & ready to go; you need to tell me that. If you told me to “just call me whenever you’re awake and ready to go;” it is *not my fault* if you were expecting me to call 3 or 4 hours earlier than I did. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Please do not be a White K-any letter at all-K *letters between J & L being especially problematic npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn That’s only if you get the “Crunchy“ variety npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn My cat is a rescue, & so when I first brought to my vet, they just arbitraily assigned her a birthday. I could never remember what what day was until I learned than April 25 is also Portuguese Independence Day. I have no idea why this coincidence makes me happy, but it does. https://media.beige.party/media_attachments/files/112/720/381/462/971/886/original/419f107661a4f37c.jpeg npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn But vegans don’t consume animal products like eggs & dairy, so why would honey be different (even without anybody getting crashed)? npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Ricki, I think you should marry that man. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Not every straw will keep you afloat; & sometimes, the sea seems empty. It's time like those when we need a different metaphor. Or some real help. Once, there was that one time when I need 10 days in the Psych Unit. *If your lowest points are not a thing of the past, please feel free to DM me. I can only do so much to help, but I do have some other metaphors. :blobcathuggiessad: npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn That has saved my life a few times- not being able to “ideate” it out to a scenario that wouldn’t cause too much too trouble to others. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn “Living for myself” would mean- to me, when in an emotional state involving suicidal ideation*- making myself into exactly the sort a selfish person unworthy of existence that my early religious educators had (presumably inadvertently) trained to fear that I am. FWIW, Ricki, I’d miss the hell out of you if you weren’t here. ❤️🛟🫂 *tbc, this is not necessarily what “living for oneself” means in any other context, for me or for anyone else npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn IMO, any straw that will keep you afloat until you can get within reach of a twig, a branch, or maybe even a life preserver, is the right one to grasp at. “You need to learn to live for yourself” would be exactly the wrong thing to say to me. It’s nearly meaningless to me outside of a lot of early childhood propaganda about the religious value living selflessly & centering my life & my reasons for existence around service to others. */ npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Any chance that you are her girlfriend and you just haven’t noticed? 😜🤣 npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Remember, if you die because a cucumber bit you; that means the cucumber was venomous, not that it was poisonous. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn I Stubbed My Toe In The Bathroom This Morning. Here’s Why That’s Bad For Biden. https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112680623399252867 #sheesh npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn This is absolutely one of my favorite books ever. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Quakers still exist, & still get up to various Quake-ey things. I was raised in the Friends Meeting, and used to Quake quite a bit (before being overtaken by …reasons). If you look at the more peaceful forefronts of the Social Justice Wars, you’re bound to find someone out there Quaking away. npub1dvjqhy87nn0snzst68kfmaj9r2ry4hxdjf30sen4pgnynnwnlvnsy8ptk9 "Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn Folks, we have a winner.