Liz

I keep forgetting I have this app.

I can usually at least find one thing to talk about in therapy on any given week. Today instead we talked about why talking about ANYTHING feels like too much. Hopefully next week I can actually talk about literally anything I actually need to talk about. Because today I just couldn’t.

Yesterday my most attention seeking cat spent several hours fully pretending to have lost her voice. She was revealed as a faker when she made an annoyed meow that my dog was in the same room as her. Today is back to using her full volume scream meows for attention.

100%

This is how we resist. We stay focused and we keep them distracted. We make every single thing they want to do harder. Sand in the gears. Wrench in the works. No "common ground." No compromise. No surrender.

Even with an authoritarian, making bad policy takes time. Let's run out their clock.

Just gonna say it: no one should be starting brand new organizations right now. No funders should be giving millions to randos who say they're going to fight Trump.

Find organizations that are ALREADY DOING THE WORK and who are meaningfully accountable to a grassroots base.

Ask how you can help.

If you’re still not convinced you need to wear a mask, then wear a mask to protect others. Protect the disabled and chronically ill, for many of whom preventable infections are more dangerous. Protect kids who are too young for certain vaccines. Protect people you love. Protect complete strangers.

As an extra bonus, for those of you all across the US experiencing the recent cold temps right now, wearing a mask will help warm your breath, and keep your airway and lungs protected from the cold air!

A well fitting N95 or KN95 or KN94 are going to be your most effective mask options.

And for those who haven’t masked since 2020 - good news, there are a lot of shapes and styles of masks, making it easier than ever to find a mask that fits you well and is comfortable for extended periods of wear!

Friendly reminder that if you’re concerned about the actions this administration has already taken in regards to public health, it isn’t too late to start masking again.

Mitigation of the spread of airborne infectious diseases is an action we can individually participate in - tell all your friends!

It happened when applying the second coat, which is not something I always do.

So clearly this is actually a sign that one coat is actually always good enough

I wore mascara for the first time since… probably December of 2019.

Yes, I did stab my eye with the wand. Oops.

Oh noooooo!!!!

people keep tagging me in fuck around and find out content like I haven’t been talking about how pandemics lead to fascism since 2020.

The “find out” portion isn’t just for everyone who doesn’t consider themself a liberal—it’s for them too.

Haven’t masked in 4 years? FAAFO.

I think I need these 😍

🙀 okay but where did you get them?! I’ve been using the same boring white N95s I’ve been using since I switched from cloth and surgical masks to N95s back in 2021, and I literally chose the brand because I’d gotten the same masks from a hardware store once pre-2020 so I knew they fit my face.

I was opening up this app deciding if I should make a silly post asking whether I should make an unboxing video of my latest order of N95s (because I’ve never stopped masking) and first post I see is from a friend who has a coworker out sick with COVID, rsv, and the flu… so, unboxing vid anyone? 👀 😷

I was literally opening this app to decide if I should make a joke post as to whether I should make an unboxing video of my latest order of N95s, and this was the first thing I see… 👀 😷 (and maybe I should make an unboxing vid of my mask restock…)

To my able bodied comrades: It’s time to stand with disabled people and be in solidarity with us. Wear a mask and practice compassion and community care.
To my disabled comrades: I love you. ❤️

I mean, there is so much more that I could say on this. There are parts of me that are lost, too, that I can’t get back or even that I don’t want to get back. But at least some of the core of who I am, at least, who I have been reconnecting with? I’m glad to have found again when I did, is all.

After years of not, I’m trying to figure out how to feel like me again. Which, what a time right? Except, the me that I used to be is the exact kind of me these times need, so, maybe it’s okay that it took a while for me to get back here. I found me just in time, I think.

i hate to be that girl but we're gonna need to really quickly move past complaining that everything is "unconstitutional" or whatever and start talking about what we are actually going to do to materially resist fascist attacks and defend marginalized communities. laws are fake. lives are real.

Yeah, they don’t all work well for side sleeping. You could always try tying a bandana or scarf around your eyes. At one point I used to sleep wearing a thin beanie I’d pull down to my nose lol.

Oh yeah, sorry, I meant to type eye mask! As you may have guessed, I refer to mine as my sleep mask lol. Anyway, when I wake up a million times, only being able to see the darkness in the mask can prevent me from waking up enough to where I can’t as easily fall back asleep.

I also wake up constantly during the night. Obviously staying asleep would be ideal, but I do find that wearing a sleep mask helps me at least fall back asleep faster. Also visualizing the most recent dream I remember can help with falling back asleep. I wish I knew how to stay asleep though lol

One of my cats is convinced she has never received any attention in her life, and that any attention she does receive might be her last.

This cat was born in this house two weeks after we rescued her mother from life as an actual stray.

She has never known a life without attention.

I do miss when I had people I could talk to. Posting to an app just isn’t the same.

My world has gotten very tiny these last few years.

And, I’m not -not- concerned about what these upcoming years will mean, after today, after what we’ve already been told to expect…

Obligatory first post.