Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

Where there is desire there is gonna be a flame
Where there is a flame someone is bound to get burned
Just because you’re burned doesn’t mean you’re gonna die
You gotta get up and try, try, try...

My rideshare driver is an early-60s-aged Greek man who does not have a similar voice to Pink, but it’s not stopping him from singing along to his radio without thinking about it. ^..^

(Also I like that song a lot and especially lately)

@lizardsquid https://m.imgur.com/gallery/vIf0lAD

Good news! My high heart rate and irritable pacing around today was adequate to meet my daily exercise goal, according to my wristwatch

Ugh, I can *watch* air quality degrading as wildfire smoke obscured the trees at closer and closer distances. :(

@KawaSeadrake it’s easier for a few people to make a spectacularly complicated machine than for six billion people to abandon their instinct towards divisiveness.

it’s amazing how many issues self-loathing can’t somehow solve, no matter how promising a strategy it looks like on the surface

not for the first time, I find myself resenting the way my emotions interfere with doing anything people need, want, or expect from me. y’all deserve better than I give you, I’m just a mess

it really doesn’t matter how I feel, I don’t have time to keep trying to coddle myself through difficult emotions; I need to get the fuck over it and at least do the basic fucking minimum to keep my household running instead of just running off and playing video games or spending hours in IM services

I don’t have much skill yet at just letting people around me have varied emotions and deal with the lows and stressful points in their own lives without my feeling absurdly stressed about it and guilty for not somehow preventing it in the first place

and for that matter,

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I am a tautological anti-egalitarian.

There is an important cultural difference between wealthy people and poor people, and it explains a very great deal about their unequal outcomes in life: wealthy people have more money

@KommaChameleon what’s unhelpful about it? After all, now that you 15

Browsing a thrift store in Redmond for personal amusement, exercise, and getting out of the house; getting amused by recognizing familiar things in the office supply section that are obviously misappropriated from Microsoft’s supply cabinets. I recognize the supplies they used when I worked there, and sometimes I can read the ineffectually scratched out “please return to office number XXX” labels in them as referring to Microsoft buildings.

@Jacel Yeah, I know. Just writing down a to-do list helps, even, because then I spend less time just worrying ineffectually.

Formally writing down today’s to-do list makes me abruptly realize why I don’t always find weekends particularly relaxing: this list is *not* shorter than lists for work days