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[strictlydelicious]

super cool how wacom decided to update all the tablet drivers and kill my tablet specifically haha

[canisalbus]

I feel like modern au Machete would really like watching/listening to asmr videos to relax. Nail tapping, wood etc, no mouth sounds (because they would freak him out). Vasco would be more of a rain/fireplace sounds kinda asmr enjoyer

Mmm, maybe? Asmr is a pretty varied genre, and I feel like there's a lot of irregular/messy/gross/unpredictable material that would have an irritating effect on him rather than relaxing.

Machete might occasionally give mindfulness exercises and audio guided meditation a honest try, thanks to his therapist's recommendation. He'd be secretive about the whole thing because of his own scepticism and embarrassement about having to resort to such "unscientific methods" to keep himself stable. His results would vary, but it would be vastly preferable to his previous favorite coping habit of stress smoking.

Vasco would be a rain/fireplace sounds enjoyer, yes, and I can imagine him layering them with his music of choice on occasion. But he's also a natural-born grass toucher so if he needs a moment to clear his head, he might just go for a walk. Lately I've been envisioning him having an interest in vinyl records and (film) cameras, so he might not be overly reliant on screens for fun and relaxation as a person.

[rainyfestivalsweets]

3/16/25

189.9

I am sighing in relief as the terrible bloating I have been experiencing dissipates. The doctor says I am going thru perimenopause, but that is a huge weight fluctuation and is very uncomfortable.

Uncomff.

I am done with my class and I gave myself a day to fuck off. I am going to get to chores now, my house is a pit of despair.

To everyone out there.... this is a long process. This is the first time in my life I have had a smidgen of success. The only way I am getting thru is literally to keep resetting.

I am now the weight that most people start at. But it doesn't matter, I am just going to keep moving forward and not give up.

Focusing on health, happiness and balance.

I am so proud of myself for not going ham on the cake last night and not allowing a metric ton to come home with me. I don't know why I did not grow up with a capacity for moderation. It seems weird to be learning moderation in my 40's. But I am going to keep working on it.

It's ok to have cake.... just not the whole cake. It's ok to have a little bit. The party should be more about people and presence than food.

I am giving myself grace and compassion ✨️ for all my flaws and working on moving forward.

You were doing the best you can. Keep working on it 💪 you deserve a healthy life ✨️ and love ❤️ and compassion and grace. You are not a total screw up.

There were 2 birthdays 🎂 I started with 1 piece of cake and 1 piece of the cookie cake. There was a big emergency so I stayed longer than planned. When I got hungry again, I had cool ranch doritos (my favorite), some queso potato chips (to try), an apple, & another piece of the cookie cake.

I took a shot of ACV to get the taste of sweet out of my mouth. I took 1 piece of each home for mom. All these things are wins. This is a lot of yapping to say to all the folks with a higher starting weight..... you got this. You will learn from mistakes. Just keep going. You deserve the life you are dreaming of- playing with your kids, not getting winded on the stairs, maybe even a bikini or flattering swimsuit. You are greater than your obstacles. You deserve to love yourself enough to do better. Things will turn around. The process may be longer than social media would have you think but it doesn't matter, the time will pass anyway.

In my 30's at one of these birthday parties in March, I was 317 pounds and miserable. I couldn't imagine living another 10 years. I feel so much better. Take care of yourself. Go for walks. You are worthy of love & self-love

[columboposting]

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[juniper-clan]

can I ask what this discord server is if you don't mind sharing? been looking for a clangen community to interact with, but Tok nervous to go out into the main clangen server

I use /fallenclan's server, everyone there is great

[moripartylove]

Holy shit i have pre-cancer and need to have my uterus removed 😳😳😳

[elfreek]

I like to think im honest with alot of the writing i do and ideas i present but i can never bring myself to write something purely fantasy, its always gotta be Sci-fi to some degree hidden or otherwise. I've got trouble being earnest about things without bringing out the technological ethics questions. Its a real bad habit of mine that id like to correct or at least address at some point

[brbgensokyo]

tbh im enamored by that anon's use of yank;, beyond being illiterate, nothing marks you more as an American then using Yank.

[gaster]

04APR2024 "CAUTION: BUMPING PANEL MAY CAUSE SCRAM" and "CAUTION BEFORE PULLING SPLINES BYPASS CRITICAL RADIATION ALARM"

[rry2k]

[i’ll be home for the holiday, i promise.]

No. Shut up. Shut up. Shut your fucking mouth.

Don’t EVER fucking say that again. In fact, I think you've forgotten about our favorite goddamn game AGAIN!

THE QUIET GAME.

[There seems to be an error attempting to connect the ask box to local servers. Try again momentarily.]

Wh. What’s wrong with the-

The emails aren’t working.

No emails? No uhh no email bros-?

No, ev-everything’s fine! I can take care of it, it’s

…It’s my job.

You uhh, sure buddy-?

(He can’t see me this is fine this is fine.)

Uh....

[fideidefenswhore]

Do you have many hopes on Fox & Guy's upcoming "Hunting the Falcon", about Henry & Anne? (To me, it seems a lovely idea that a real-life couple of historians delve into the Boleyn marriage, but I'm afraid the book will fall into the old tropes of "she manipulated him, he only wanted sex, they were both horrible and KoA is a saint", TBH)

Time will only tell. I did note a sort of shift in Julia Fox’s views on the Boleyns btwn Sister Queens & Life of the Infamous Lady Rochford , I think switching perspectives might have broadened and deepened her empathy on the subject. Guy has been traditionally pretty cynical about them, but he has never underestimated AB as a political operator. Most of the reviews on NetGalley look promising, only four thus far but five stars across the board.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[rainyfestivalsweets]

3/23/25

Today was good. I did some nagging chores, left the house for a LGBT meeting, played some pokemon, did a Walmart pickup and came home.

Tonight was the night for that bundt cakes.

I split with mom and enjoyed. I am reminding myself that it is ok to have treats, I just need to fit it into the rest of the day/week/month.

I have not binged.

And that my friends, is progress.

[ceescedasticity]

I'm not sure they should be in the street, either — all the problems of a self-driving car but more likely to be run into accidentally.

The problems being highlighted in this post, at least, seem to be less due to the 'motorized' part and more due to the 'bulky object with no consideration for other's needs or behavioral flexibility'. You could get the same problems from a very rude person with a heavily loaded shopping cart. Those just aren't common.

Not that the motorization isn't also a problem — speeding things on sidewalks are dangerous. You also get that from bicyclists but at least those have humans steering them.

In conclusion I'm not sure anything should be on the sidewalk or the street without live supervision in case of unforeseen situations requiring judgment calls.

Edit: Without being capable of observing and communicating with others, exercising judgment, and modifying its behavior accordingly — even in foreseen situations.

Edit 2: I would venture to guess that we wouldn't be very happy if the sidewalks were suddenly full of delivery people with heavy handcarts, either. Is this transportation space for people or for cargo?

[joy-haver]

Something I’ve noticed is that leftist movements tend to turn practical, thought out tactics that were part of a larger plan for liberation, and remove them from their context. Then we often use these tactics as symbolic ways to mark our distaste for empire and harken back to older movements. However, these tactics are often already accounted for by the system, and sometimes are actively encouraged as ways to harm our people and defang our processes.

Here is an example;

In the Civil Rights struggle, getting arrested en mass was seen as an important part of the process of freedom. The civil rights leaders realized that the areas they were in did not have large enough jails to confine them all, and that if they filled the jails up, the police simply could not confine everyone else in the movement. Getting arrested in coordinated ways was a noble and helpful sacrifice that kept your brothers and sisters from getting arrested. Due to less strict sentencing at the time, and the ability of the movement to scare the police into releasing people, getting arrested often wasn’t the utterly disabling and free-life ending process it is today. (That’s not to say getting arrested was easy on people; the police brutality of the time was incredibly intense.)

Those who spent time in jail were given almost a reverent status. That had gone through much suffering to keep others from the same fate. Often, their ability to taking confinement completely off the table for the rest of the activists is precisely what allowed for certain other actions to be successful. Paying for legal defense and moderate bail costs was something of a drain on the movements scant, resources but it could often be worth it due to the role arrests played.

However, the state responded to this, and turned it to their benefit. The next fifty years saw a prison boom. Now, economically deprived small towns were made to bid and beg for prisons to be built in there areas; not only to lock people up, but also because working at the prison was presented as one of the only jobs left in rural America. Additionally, thisdrove the labor minded population to be further in conflict with other movements in some areas.

As the capacity of the government to capture and confine increased, the capacity of the movement to fill up the jails and prevent further arrests did not. Now, the system was hungry for more and more bodies for its endless rooms. It further instilled and mechanized the capacity of prisons to force labor, undercutting labor movements. Sentences became longer, parole became stricter, fines and restitutions increased to exorbitant amounts. Those who went in for petty arrests often never came out.

But, the feeling that getting arrested was a noble and venerable goal did not leave the movement. Some transitioned tactics; instead of filling up the jails to allow others to act without recourse, they sought to get arrested in test cases, as they had seen work occasionally before. But this too became more and more difficult, as the legal system realized it did not have to play by its own rules. Slowly but surely, the legal mythology that because it is written and because it is fair, it will be ruled so, began to overtake the minds of activists; even as they failed time and time again to win this way, they still threw countless of their friends into the mouth of the enemy, and condemned them to life in prison.

Even this had become a shadow of itself by the 2000s and 2010s. Arrest became an aesthetic goal instead of a practical one. The most radical in the movements were culturally encouraged to throw their lives away for petty protests that none would see, and would have no material impact on the operations of the system of dominion. The reality that getting kettled at a non violent protest could land you with the same jail time as a political assassination did not dawn upon these activists until long after hey were already in jail, and already disconnected from the movement. Their friends would gather all their meager savings towards bail funds, oftentimes going into debt, or otherwise extracting money from the rest of the marginalized communities supportive of the activism. Those funds would then go to the government in the form of bail, and then right back towards operating the same policing systems that targeted them. In this way, the main economic output of the leftists movement of the time was to fund the very systems of policing that they sought to destroy; and to get themselves and each other locked in cages in the process. Instead of developing practical systems of change, radicals were taught to emulate key aspects of the tactics of prior generations that had specifically been recuperated into the goals of the state.

Those who saw the futility in this were readily pushed towards the defanged and self acknowledged pointless marches of the nonviolent liberal movement, which never had any goal other than to once again emulate the visual aesthetics and personal emotional fulfillment of past movements.

We see this pattern play out all the time. People insisting on the radical importance of a leftist print newspaper in a time when print journalism is dead. A fetishization of industrial unionism in a town where no factory has been for three generations. Arguments over whether to support long defunct governments and long dead leaders for some tactical benefit which will never arise from reality.

It is long past time for us to realize that the process of achieving human liberation does not come from symbolic actions, nor from following the playbook of past movements. We must learn our history, yes, but not to emulate it; instead we must learn it to understand its failures and its successes, and, most importantly, how our movement ancestors interacted with the material conditions of their time to create multifaceted plans that met the needs of their people and made successful guerrilla war upon dominion.

We need to imagine ways of making change that are suited to the times that we are living in, the problems we face, and the opportunities that we have. This utterly necessitates that we get deeply embedded into the places and communities around us, that we listen with open ears to the problems our people are facing, and that we fold those ever more towards opportunities of liberation and care for one another.