Bellathorn 🌿🖋️✨

Frog knocked at Toad’s door. “Toad, wake up,” he cried. “Come out and see how wonderful the winter is!”

“I will not,” said Toad. “I am in my warm bed.”

A small holiday gathering was the right call. But I’m still trying to recover.

My Son's Hair is Part of a Thousand-Year-Old Tribal Culture. His School Called it a 'Fad.' | ACLU The school’s requirement is a rejection of who he is and a demand that he sacrifice his culture and heritage to conform to baseless and unfair rules.

In first grade, Logan wore his hair long to connect with his Native culture.

His school demanded he cut it, but after Logan and his family pushed back, the school updated its rules to allow for long hair on boys.

Native students have the right to honor their heritage in their expression.

Thank goodness my hubby stopped my meltdown when he did.

Now I understand why older generations don’t change OS even when it’s available because Microsoft might trap them in a loop referring to one window. I had to do more digging than a simple search.

And if they do, they fall for thinking they have to buy a new system bc it’s marketed that way.

I was trapped in a loop that kept taking me to the Windows update when I was trying to find the upgrade to Win11. If you accepted the security extension but didn’t originally meet requirements, it was completely gone.

The PC build was full of trails (I.e. moving Win10 and all files from SSD to m.2, updating to Win11, finding digital activation linked to account), but was a success.

I’m not a fan of Win11 bc of copilot, but I’ll be dealing with it soon.

Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell | ACLU ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition

ICE is using a new app called Mobile Fortify to scan people's faces and determine their immigration status.

The government's use of biased, unreliable facial recognition tech to supercharge its mass deportation campaign endangers all of our rights.

We are at the part of the new PC build where we must turn it in and dive into bios to assign monitors to graphic card and old SSD for boot up before we move to the new M.2. 🤞🤞

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

a cartoon of snoopy sitting on a ledge with his hands in his mouth and sweat coming out of his nose . Alt: a cartoon of snoopy sitting on his dog house with his hands in his mouth and sweat coming out of his head while he shivers

I am upgrading my PC. It’s like a giant puzzle but one small shock can ruin the whole thing.

Vaccines don’t cause autism.

Pass it on.

Guest bedroom foundation complete. All that’s left is to setup a small desk for chill streams away from hubby’s NDA meetings.

The guest space is looking nice! I’m so happy with the progress.

While I was working on my guest bedroom/streaming room, I played Epic on repeat.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

I despise time change.

This was toggled to on automatically for all 3 of my channels. If you don't want Youtube letting their AI play with your stuff - you can turn it off here.

It’s been over a month of struggling with ARFID.

I have started the process of prepping to paint the guest/office walls. I still need to wipe them down so there is no dog hair from previous tenant.

One of my favorite apps to keep track of all my books I’ve bought is LibraryThings. You can even take a picture of their covers if it doesn’t already exist.

I forgot I had restarted this game.

Honedge Pokemon. A ghost steel type that is an ancient sword with a blue ribbon holding its sheath. The photo is from Pokemon X.

While I love Aegislash the most, my first encounter with its early evolution Honedge solidified this Pokemon as my favorite. But I’m a ghost trainer.

I miss the choice to send money to your mom in Pokemon Silver/Gold/Crystal.

Pokemon trainer and Rust Syndicate Boss Corbeau. Pokemon trainer with purple hair, glasses, purple and black suit set that is purple poison with pink-purple drips

Corbeau looks like he could kill you but is really a cinnamon roll in Pokemon Legends Z-A.

Sherwin-Williams is having a paint sale so that means doing home projects I’ve put off. I’m gonna try to teach hubby how to paint since this is a skill I was forced to pick up from community theater.

When I said I want to hang out with my Pokemon on a bench, I didn’t want to watch them fall asleep every time.

A bench from Pokemon Z-A that features anti-homeless rails to prevent people from sleeping on them

Random observation from Pokemon Z-A:

It's kind of fucked up that they have anti-homeless benches everywhere in Lumiose City.

Oh. Hubby pointed out the lack of bike. I didn’t realize that was now a feature needed to be requested because it’s been baked in since Gen 1.

I’m trying to be understanding that my instructors are on fall break too but when assignments were due during the AWS outage, an update would be nice.