Tara Parker

I can't sink for the life of me lol am entirely too buoyant!

I know others who can hang out at the bottom of the pool with no effort and i have had to study hard and work to get there and hang out.

there was a mexican foods online store run out of paris - which was the only place i found some authentic mexican foods while there a couple of years ago

never found corn ones anywhere while i was there - you might find some flour-y wrap-y things though

or even the 90s -- it is amazing how this news is being treated now as opposed to in other times

this kind of news veritably makes me apoplectic

sorry helen

otherwise everything good with you? and family?

maybe now but not back then

i don't see it as politics but as humanitarian/peace & justice issue.

there isn't much to talk about it per se even but the lack of acknowledgement said a lot abt ppl (to me)

I believe this more and more each day.

- convo over that topic felt almost like a 'historical event' lol

here - i kinda didn't respect it here because everyone pretended like palestine wasn't happening (back when we all moved over to try)...

that kinda became my touchstone for ppl

it is really bad over there now - apparently black rock has invested 6bil into the XAI thing grok and lots of chatter about 'positivity' while a lot got deboosted and demontetized and shadowbanned and what not - just a full on sh*tshow - but it was also real fun here and there - the H1B indian thing

(or briefly i went with my actual name here then thought hte better of it)

you mean from sitara? yes

yes...James?

😂

that is some serious toggle space dilemma - really fascinating at an existential level

That place is pretty much over now, it seems.

*we all have TOO

The other place seem to really shutter talk that questions Luigi as the shooter...

Let's see what happens here.

My sense is that they are giving a very photogenic person to gather around rather than the ACTUAL shooter whose image we all have to, if not the face.

What!

Don't know the other person - but Téa Leoni is brilliant and *so* not to be confused with anyone lol

(been a fan since i first saw her in a shortlived show while in S.Africa lol. I know she used to be married to the X-files chap)
And then she did the Madame Secretary thing...

Excuse me, but in reality it implies the existence of Téa Aquarii

IYKYK

Absolutely...it really brings in the realm of the divine in the silence that speaks so much...

I treasured every one of those sunsets esp the one I had in the middle of the Namib desert one evening...stepping away from the rest of the camp I sat atop something and still the heart fills itself so

there are a LOT of idiot safari tourists

Lived and travelled all over africa for a year in the 90s. We were warned that Hippos by far were the most dangerous for they are extremely territorial...also on water, you don't see them and they attack your mokoros or whatever.

Others don't attack unless they are hungry or protecting babies.

😂 Suppose you have to keep yourself amused, even if the head hunter lady is entirely humorless...

and yes, thank you, i am doing alright :)

still mostly in the other place...

That, technically IS what the Hindus and Buddhists etc call MAYA, my dear.

Definition of it lol The alluring power of it.

I shouldn't have to watch a 10 minute video to be able to use well an app that is aimed at Everyone.

It should be intuitive and organic.

I think bsky fails at that.

What do I know, I am only a trained computer scientist.

🤣

best laid plans - what do they say - god laughs when we make plans or something

such a brilliant illustration of not being able to foresee everything...

I feel exactly like this, psyop-ed into coming over here (more) by you today 😂

case of first mover adv