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Rain Dog

Journaling, memories, mh 

An uncomfortable thing I’ve been realizing lately is idealizing where I was in the 90s is natural; the combination of life without obvious Republican control, obvious social crises, and unending poverty would be unrepeatable, even without adding in my age or Ann Arbor at the time. No matter how sane, skilled or loved I am, in what little time I have left, external circumstances are never going to be that good again, and I have to accept that.

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uspol opinion 

lest you were wondering, I would love it if McConnell retired and relieved the USA of his odious presence

and I'd love it if Feinstein fucking retired the way she should have 10+ years ago

it's possible to want to not be misgoverned by decrepit senior citizens beyond party affiliation

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@werecupine I got to hear a really diffuse chunk of it and didn't think that much about it at the time. *Now* I think she was very brave, very justified, and of course was treated like shit for daring to say abusive people are abusive.

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Minnie The Moocher youtu.be/_sSE0_RKhCI via @YouTube

why that's an outrage. For $2.00 you can get a record of Minnie the Moocher. For $2.75 you can get Minnie.

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random, includes all caps reference to popular song from the 30s and problematic author 

oh crap I listened to too much popular music from the 20s/30s and now REALLY want to play Elder Sign, Arkham Horror or Call of Cthulhu

with a long white beard and a crooked staff
he walks around while the folks all laugh
AND PRAY YOU NEVER MEET HIM IN ANY OF HIS OTHER THOUSAND FORMS

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doing the Squash and Stretch, the Anticipation, and other popular dance moves of the 1920s

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@frang or at least interpreting any and all new technology as new and awesome ways to keep us peasants in line making money for our social betters.

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re: -mh 

@mynameistillian tangent, is that written Khazak? I've never seen it before - that's a Ukranian looking i, but ғ, ұ and қ are completely new letters for me! This is so cool!

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today, playing with drawing anthro deer and anthro spotted hyenas, figured an off day was a good time to do something I don’t think I do well anyway, maybe I’d find out something? Nudity but basically work safe (obvious bits covered, but ass).

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@Oneironott i.imgur.com/4B1gHVk.mp4 omg

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nightmares, weird sleep, job hunt 

I was a doofus and remembered time zones exactly the wrong way, so my teams interview was at 0700 rather than 1100. Either I really did well or I botched this beyond all possible imagining, so I'm now *out* of interview outfit and cooking breakfast.

I woke up a fair amount early, too, thanks to this dream about The Beatles possibly committing a murder or at least joking about having done so; John playing it off as a joke about having secreted bits of his victim about the house during Christmas (I'm not sure why I apparently associate The Beatles with Christmas), Paul gleefully talking about eating the victim. Ringo just looked morose. No matter what actually happened it obviously wasn't his idea.

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Sage Sharp

uspol - trans health care rights 

Here's my script for calling my house representative:

Hi, I'm NAME, and my zipcode is ZIPCODE. I live in SENATOR NAME's district.

I'm calling to encourage Senator NAME to fight the anti-trans amendments to H.R. 4368 -- the FDA 2023 appropriations bill.

I am horrified by the attack on trans rights by senators who have introduced anti-trans amendments to this law.

Every day, I see politicans debate whether trans people have the right to receive health care, to be in public spaces, and to exist.

All trans people, including trans kids, should have the right to receive gender-affirming treatment. Their lives depend on it.

I urge Senator NAME to fight the anti-trans amendments to H.R. 4368, and all future house bills.

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today, playing with drawing anthro deer and anthro spotted hyenas, figured an off day was a good time to do something I don’t think I do well anyway, maybe I’d find out something? Nudity but basically work safe (obvious bits covered, but ass).

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@electrickeet this is amazing

8-bit Rite of Spring (full) [Famitracker, VRC6] youtu.be/GG2LR5wnKKM via @YouTube

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@WahFo Thanks! life has been difficult in general, recently in particular, and then the histamine release from some sorta stomach thing hit *bad* for a while there. I think *maybe* I'm recovering.

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re: making fun of James Horner soundtracks again? 

oh yeah full power has been restored to the warp engines so Vasquez and the rest of the Marines can escape

uh, why are we suddenly in "Til Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche"?

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making fun of James Horner soundtracks again? 

uh-oh, given the musical cues in this part of the Willow soundtrack I can only conclude that Mad Mardigan has entered the Mutara Nebula and all the sensors are down

and right when the Teutonic Knights from Alexander Nevsky show up, too, sheesh

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stuff I'm sad about today includes kittens, how I'm never going to get to another out of state convention, cute stuffed animals, the way we seem to not be able to avoid a huge extinction event, how the 90s are over, a couple of friends being dead, Leonard Nimoy being dead, etc.

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ph - 

feeling sick right now so sadly the hoped for visit to Barnes & Noble for air conditioning and looking at hobby magazines has been tabled in favor of feeling weepy, trying to draw and running back and forth to the bathroom

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re: queer narratives, racism/nationalism, transmedicalism 

@chimerror a counterpart rant, preaching to the choir here;

I'm not sure if you're old enough to have seen this but there used to be a LOT of gatekeeping with trans identity - a lot of having to be sure (or at least TELL the therapist you were required to have before you could get GRS/HRT) you were a girl back in childhood, and you had to say you wanted to/were trying hard to pass as a feminine cis woman. Hopefully this has eased up some.

I obviously see this as fallacious; why should something as complex as transness manifest in only one way? Where this is personal; for years I discounted the possibility that I was trans because I bought into this completely, and I don't hate my penis (I completely detest my beard and body hair!).

I feel like with a lot of identifiers there is a hard-coded genetic heritable aspect to it - but if there is such a thing the amount is pretty variable, it's not like Queerness or transness is this toggle switch where you ARE Queer or Trans by biological definition in only one way.

That it's so obviously an attempt to defend *a choice* is specious. Obviously ethnic stuff is a counterpart; our society wants ethnicity to be a nice tidy toggle switch, has tried to force anything that isn't an easily defined heritable break into the format of such - and completely flips its shit faced with how squishy and indefinable gender and orientation are, such that we're obligated to use this completely wrongheaded argument. Equivalent to how freedom to have an abortion has to be argued as a health thing rather than look, sometimes people are just not and may never actually be up for parenthood.

Last, my counterpart to Blackness here is Jewishness. Sure, bits of my appearance are definitely true to Middle Easterners, maybe some of how I think, but ultimately for me to say I'm Jewish, in a world where that can be a death sentence, has to be my *choice*, and the idea that no matter what I might do, I can never be anything *but* Jewish by unshakeable biological definition has some extremely terrible recent connotations.

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