Melissa Ann Singer

Still no Hugos. Is anyone surprised?

I did have a cat who got medication and a treat at bedtime, who was an efficient and appreciated alarm clock.

I have cleverly avoided this issue by not having a set time for meals. I have built a window of roughly an hour for both breakfast and dinner and this has saved my sanity more than once.

I also love fashion as art. And craft.

While I wouldn't say I'm a fashionista, I find fashion fascinating precisely because it sends messages about power, culture, beauty standards for all genders and ages, etc.

Even if we think "it's just clothes," it's not.

Mamdani's suits are a deliberate choice.

I've definitely seen it used that way in fashion coverage.

At this point it's hard to tell if I want Mamdani to win more because I genuinely like him and his politics or as a fuck you to the racists

Libby status report from OverDrive, reads: Identified: We have identified an issue with Libby "tags" resulting in some functionality being impaired for users and are working on a resolution. posted November 1 at a little after 8 PM EDT

the message is vague about exactly what functionality is impaired, but yesterday my shelf would not synch at all, though I was able to return a book.

I haven't opened the app today.

here's the official status report:

Maybe wait a bit? They're working on fixing things.

Libby is having problems so this might be because of that.

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That probably explains why my shelf would not synch at all yesterday. Hopefully it will today.

Used my "extra" hour to sleep (yay, been sleeping badly lately).

Just finished HORSE by Geraldine Brooks, which I liked a lot. Currently reading THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST by @premeemohamed.com, which is creepy & unnerving, so I am happy.

That is cool!

Ruby Dee is one of ours.

My high school has a long list of distinguished alums. Once or twice a year I choose a name from the list and read about them.

(I do random reading too but I like structure.)

We read THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA in 7th grade and I've not been able to look at Hemingway since.

I was at the grocery store last minute purchasing candy for tonight when some loudmouth went off on how glad they were SNAP benefits were stopping.

Friends, I was so angry. I just gave two neighbours grocery gift cards because I know they use the program. Everyone deserves food.

I'm still not seeing how that justifies saying that people with mental illness are evil.

Plus it stigmatizes mentally ill people right here and now.

If someone is struggling with anxiety or depression or OCD or schizophrenia, saying that they are "evil" dissuades them from seeking help and can encourage loved ones to ostracize them.

I'm not saying he isn't evil; I'm saying that "mental illness" does not equate to being evil.

Saying that people who are mentally ill are evil or have no moral compass has led to bad things in the past--institutionalization, forced sterilization, experimental treatments aka torture, and more.

Agreed. So many people, including me, have mental illness but are not evil.

It may be that evil, like narcissism, is a specific mental illness, but that would be a subset of the whole.

Can confirm: I took my kid to very local protests when she was little and bigger ones when she got to middle school but was very selective about what we went to, always looking for very low risk of violence. (She was born when I was 36.)

Harrisburg’s Catholic bishop apologizes for ‘notorious symbol of hate’ on Halloween float The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg apologized Friday for a grade school’s Halloween parade float that included imagery with deep connections to the Holocaust.

More Nazi shit.

The school is K-8, so kids aged ~5-13.

Which means adults were involved (or older teens).

The float was towed by a cleaning company who claims not to have known what the symbol was (per a different news story).

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I'm sorry.

A few weeks ago I spent 11 hours in an ER getting my mom a blood transfusion. Should have taken 7.

I don't remember the first time I saw Lawrence's work but I have loved it for a long time now. Used to have a print of Pool Parlor hanging in my office in the Flatiron.

Gift of Hermann Waldeck

Fernande Olivier
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A friend discovered she was allergic to the dye used for a medical test under those circumstances.

She's fine and wears a MedicAlert now.

Or Chanukah!

I read it from the library but am thinking of buying the paperback since I know I'm going to want to reread it.

A round sticker with an illustration of the Unisphere in the center and the words Queens Votes Early around the edge.

Exercised the franchise. Got my sticker.