Julie C

Republicans: raising the minimum wage will hurt small businesses!
Also Republicans: TARIFF ALL THE THINGS! GOT A SMALL BUSINESS RELYING ON IMPORTS? TOO BAD. 🤷‍♀️

I got too used to wearing Fivefingers shoes. Now every non Fivefingers shoe I put on feels ridiculously long - like clown shoes. 🤣
I have no idea how regular shoes are supposed to fit now!

Staying quiet and choosing invisibility is so much easier than putting something out and getting crickets in reply.

See everyone in a few weeks, or whenever I once again forget how bad this feels.

(God, this is such a melodramatic MySpace-esque post.)

The longer it goes on, the more upset I get at those who didn't vote, or refused to vote out of protest.
The maga crowd are idiots. Many, in fact, revel in it, equating education with snobbery.

But you non-voting fuckers should've known better.

Can we please leave the country with the diabolical geese alone? (I'm 100% serious.)

I'm in such a bad head space right now. I feel so incredibly impotent, angry, unheard, & helpless. And I'm trying to compartmentalize, but even my current no1 fandom is stressing me out. (Why did you DO THAT, Outlander tv show??) 🤣

I just wish Nikola Tesla would come back to life, maybe as a zombie, and get revenge on Musk for dragging his name through the mud. Zombie-chomp decapitation would work, but I'd really love it if Tesla would use that mythical death ray of his.

Congrats, new administration. The need for wegovy and zepbound has been eliminated.

All anyone has to do to lose their appetite is read a few headlines!

Bonus - you can induce vomiting by heading to comments sections and seeing them call him "daddy"!

Not yet, as I've stayed away from all social media today (except BlueSky.) Was for both my mental health & for not giving the orange baby any of my attention whatsoever.

Thank you, #X-Files and Chris Carter, for teaching me - from a young age - NOT to trust the government. #DeceiveInveigleObfuscate

Ah, but if the turds flow too freely, then doggy will need a commemorative butt bath.

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

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When it went down, I did the VPN/new acct thing on an old phone. I'll now be keeping it to compare my UK and US FYPs.

Looking for a guy in finance 6’5 … or someone able to make an app as good or better than TikTok.

And I had JUST gotten my FYP to show me more Outlander and Scotland stuff, now that I've finished the books & am caught up on the show. 😭 I miss tiktok.

I go through periods of drinking tea/not drinking tea every year or so.
So I just found out that PG Tips discontinued their pyramid bags. Shock and horror.

I live in the USA. I was counting on some reliable UK tradition to help keep me from going totally batshit insane here. 😭

Does anyone have a higher res still of this screencap? Every time I see the credits, I could cry; it's so beautifully shot. (All the druids clips are, really) #Outlander

What happens when you're unemployed and get covid?

You read the entire #Outlander series in a little over a month.

I knew that BA in English would come in handy someday.

When you do something risky, then stand back and look at it objectively, and you're like "yeah, that WAS pretty fucking risky, you dumbass dipshit."

If one of my fandoms had to become real life, why'd it have to be X-Files? Why couldn't it have been Harry Potter (just nuke Voldie first).
At least it's not Supernatural, tho. I do NOT have enough salt in the house for that shit.

Me, an X-phile: the alliteration with the three Ds is nice, but "deceive, inveigle, obfuscate" just has a nice ring, you know?

Remember when that kid ran for class president and promised MORE field trips and NO homework, and then, once he won, gave the class savings to the football team instead?
No?
Well, folks like that cheese-counting lady are about to understand that situation on a national level. 🙃

All my IRL & online friends: ACOTAR, ACOTAR, READ ACOTAR!
Me: So I haven't read the Outlander series yet, but my interest is now bigger than my distaste at the author's hatred of fanfic, so...
Them: BUT ACOTAR!
Me: Sorry, Jamie's Jamie-ing, gotta go!

Hey, retailers. Thanks for bombing me with multitudes of Black Friday/Cyber Monday emails. It was just the kick in the pants I needed to unsubscribe! Byeeeee 😁
(PS - I bought nothing.)

It'd be easier if I wasn't so hellbent on having the auto wake feature, which needs magnets. :Insert relevant ICP song lyric here: (but I do actually know how magnets work, OK. Just not strength needed or placement.)

Am currently thinking of Frankensteining a tpu frame-type case & a magnetic case somehow. Still might be too thick, tho. & IDK if the magnetic case spine is wide enough.

I love my Onyx Boox Go Color 7, & it's wonderful to get away from Amazon, but the lack of cases is just sad. You get to choose btwn magnetic w no protection, a protective one that doubles the size of the reader, or one I kind of like but the fold is where the buttons go and that's just SO WRONG.

But do resist. #antifa

I don't care that it was written for a British Airways commercial; Helen Jane Long's "The Aviators" is my favorite classical song of all time.