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Day 42 of furlough: healing myself with Schubert lieder, in particular this divine performance by Barbara Bonney
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O405...

regret to inform I am simply writing it and this manuscript at the same time because once I've given something a certain amount of thought I have no choice but to manifest it

what do you mean I have to write it

I've thought really long and hard about this fic so why doesn't it have any kudos or comments yet

I hope so! Arrogant and solipsistic character X narrates and is too self-absorbed to see the little love story with Y and Z happening in the background. I feel like if done right you could tease out the story just enough to drive readers insane in a good way...

I like writing stories that aren't the thing I set out to write about, I am very normal

the urge to write a short story where the A-plot is told like the B-plot because it's narrated by a character with little to no interest in the A-plot

Boy, I wish I was born with this kind of power. I'm sensitive to caffeine and generally have to split a Coke over two days, but this stuff is like unlocking your third eye. Shame about it being a dangerously addictive stimulant!

Day 37 of furlough: "Wow, I've never done so much writing in two days," I say, impressed with my newfound creativity and commitment, until I realize it's just the Sudafed for my sinus infection

Day 34 of furlough:

"Posting, liking, and sharing content are consumerist practices that intensify the narrative crisis." --- Byung-Chul Han

Day 27 of furlough: reposting this - if you have a dime to spare, please, please donate to your local food bank or pantry. We're about to experience an unprecedented surge in hunger.

But wait! Government shutdowns have happened before but SNAP has never been defunded, why is it happening now? - Because the government refuses to use the money available to fund SNAP. We do in fact have the resources and ability to fund it but the government refuses to do so, because cruelty.

What's going on? - The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will be defunded because of the ongoing government shutdown. This means recipients will not have benefits available November 1st. SNAP isn't small - about 42 million Americans (12%) use it, and roughly half are children.

PSA: unless your food bank specifies otherwise, PLEASE donate money instead of goods! They have access to significant bulk discounts that you don't.

our house is over 100 years old so we are part of a long lineage of idiots and every day during renovations our general contractor points out something and goes "why is it like this" and, sir, we don't know either

when you buy a home you are initiated into the sacred tradition of The Last Owners Were Idiots. this includes you, by the way. you are now an idiot. you will do colossally dumb things no one has ever thought of before

Day 21 of furlough: it's autumn, which means it's time to celebrate a masterpiece of uniquely American music---featuring legends of American opera, jazz, and theater

I am of course talking about Over the Garden Wall

Day 15 of furlough: (finished second nap, wearing pajamas at 4 PM) it's time for a critical re-appraisal of David Moo as Xellos

I would watch an entire movie about Sergio St. Carlos

Might pick up a cigarette habit at Thanksgiving if only so I can excuse myself at length

I am a firm supporter of this shutdown going on as long as it takes to determine whether Article I still exists and if not then you might as well send us all home forever. But I would have rather heard nothing than "sorry about treating you like hostages, have some soup and cookies!"

Hm, a care package is a nice gesture, I guess, but I would have preferred your husband not financing and fundraising for the operation that led to me and three-quarters of a million people going unpaid.

there are 10,000 reasons to be mad at bsky staff but this is not one of them! If the past week is any indication we can rest assured they'll botch something else for real tomorrow.

the staff on this site botched comms so badly that now people are freaking out over the use of AI to automatically filter images (a thing that all social media websites do because the alternative is making your mods manually review thousands of images of gore and CSAM per hour)

Day 1 of furlough: Just think of it like an unpaid vacation-slash-hostage-situation

Day 2 of furlough: can a Wegman's crumb cake fix me

I have been enjoying Bluesky thus far with the occasional bumps here and there, but I have serious apprehensions about the site's long-term viability if the CEO is going to behave like a teenager subtweeting her ops.

and she just doubled down. it's unreal. Genuinely shocked that she has this much contempt for the userbase.

it makes the pain bearable-ish, but that many stimulants are rough!

I'm still new to migraines and it amazes me that we're like "yeah a lot of people are frequently in debilitating pain, no we don't really know what causes it, do your best I guess?"

is slamming Tylenol and Zofran and chasing it with espresso and Coke Zero an acceptable substitute for migraine medication? no. but is it a safe way to keep yourself upright and productive when you have a ton of work to do? also no