JR Maxwell

Lent snuck up on me this year, whoops, but anyways last night's Ash Wednesday sermon included the phrase "ICE is just a new incarnation of slave catchers, my friends."

So yeah I'll see you on the other side ❤️

JR: I have a playlist called 'fun stuff' and I think you're the only person that would really get it. There's Kris Kross on there and Breakfast at Tiffany's just came on

Work Bestie: That sounds like a FANTASTIC playlist
Work Bestie: does it have Two Princes by Spin Doctors

JR: UM ACTUALLY YES

😍

never underestimate the power of earnable badges in a boring app

'Wintry mix' is my second favorite weather forecast term, right after 'sunbreaks'. The former, here, basically means 'You'll probably see snowflakes but it's like 38F outside so don't get excited bc it will mostly be rain esp if you're at sea-level.' Which, I mean. Fair. hashtag microclimates

I'm on a medication that works for me for the first time in six years so of course my insurance company isn't going to let me have it any more.

I fucking hate this country. Have I mentioned that? Well. I will always say it again: I fucking hate this country.

Every morning, I have this fight

So the funny part is that I super don't mean this to be about anyone in office. I'm just very gay and very over 99% of dudes. And I've had to watch friends be in unequal relationships for years. And years. And years.

A pillow, with a needlepoint cover, pink, white and red reading “Dump Him”.

Dear America, on this day, as much as any other day:

And also, like, a person is going to feel feelings and that's fine, but to actually form and announce an opinion that aims to erase a human being? Is uh. Bad.

At a knitting convention (no, really) and when I got here, the number of (unrelated) people with short purple/pink hair was greater than those without. Knitters are punk and you will not convince me otherwise.

fuck i hate my job

well played, @batmasterson.batfu.ink 😂💀

(I work in tech and even *I* don't have the spend for tools that do more than like, 70% of the job. This is basically my workday in miniature. Which is probably why it frustrates me so much.)

Yeah that's pretty much what I assumed. Frustrating on all levels.

I've been in eating disorder recovery for nine years and I still, STILL feel a flash of shame when I give in to hunger. I think it's going to be part of me forever, and feel shame about that, too. So many shame sweaters. No wonder I'm never cold.

Let's be real here, I have been *incredibly* spoiled by the beautiful efficiency of AO3, and anything less is just... Well, is capitalism. Where everything is an advert, and nothing just *is*.

I would totally LOVE to use Libby. Too bad the UX is AWFUL.

Maybe it's me! Maybe everybody loves seeing stumps of reviews instead of summaries, seeing "# in series" instead of author's names, and having search results be either fruitless or only vaguely related to the search parameters.

I'm finally at the point I've been avoiding in revising bk1 -

Editor: Um this is too vague, what does it actually involve?
Me: okay but what would you say if I told you I haven't the foggiest

😭

(I know WHY it happened and why it MATTERS in the story, but sometimes that's not enough.)

We just really, really like easy instructions for impossibly complicated things and it exhausts me.

hi yes okay you don't have to be in a relationship to be a fully formed human but guess what! you also don't have to be single to be a fully formed human!

weirdly enough this rant is brought to you by a sapphic romance novel I just finished listening to that very much pushed a Mandatory Single Era

They actually *encouraged* us to work from home today, because of the sportsball parade-aganza or whatever. Something something the city is preparing for a million people, which sounds like a nonsense number in this context -- where would we PUT them all? -- but idfk.

As a PK I can vouch that that is the kindest way possible to describe clergy taxes 😂

My dad's been retired for fifteen years and somehow it just keeps getting more complicated. If I ever have to act as financial PoA I am in trrrrouble. 😅

Sometimes I think what's so hard about being alive right now is that there IS still beauty around, and the cognitive dissonance is fucking exhausting.

Anyway, South Sound folks, the mountain is out and absolutely god damn stunning.

A Ring recorded Manny Ellis getting murdered and all three cops were aquitted. They're not using it in the service of good, y'all.

and while we're here...

Delete your meta accounts.

I... thought the Discord thing was old news. I deleted my account months ago because of it. Huh.

Every time a coworker says 'Can you jump on a quick call?' I want to answer, 'Sure, but I *promise* you I'm much better in text and you will only get more frustrated.'

A picture of a whiteboard in an elevator that says 'go for it' in anonymous handwriting

Today's work elevator wisdom

A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.

Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.

Every time I'm like 'oh hey I actually like this Bach that Pandora is playing for me, let's see what it is' it's the god damn Brandenburg Concertos, because of course it is. The X-Files were just that formative. 👽