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"I may never find all the answers.
I may never understand why.
I may never prove what I know to be true
But I know that I still have to try."

Just to make sure I wasn't crazy about a term, I looked it up.

Yeah, I get it.

wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Acausa

... okay, yeah, maybe I should take my meds. I've only eaten six fun-sized candy bars and three mini-croissants on top of half a lunch today.

... okay, bird, you get to listen to Glosoli once.

Once.

If that doesn't cut it, maybe you should use your other tools.

I need a day to sit with my raw nerves and soothe them and kiss what parts of self I can reach and remind myself that what I'm doing _is_ Work, even if the form of its manifestation in the world isn't flashy or showy. It's investing in my own well-being and my own sense of self. The byproducts of that self-reification are the stories I weave, and those stories have touched people and made lasting changes in the world.

This is just going to be one of those days in which I feel like I'm two-hundred years too early to be seen for myself and a thousand years too late to be taken seriously as a lost alien.

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Is there a CVE yet for the vulnerability that lets a human use a computer?

Respect 

washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-

Stop trying to appease people who intentionally take your words out of context. Stop trying to make peace with people who deliberately misconstrue what you say for personal gain. Stop trying to find common ground with people who've made it clear they're spoiling for a fight.

Call them out for their tactics and do what you were going to do anyway.

I ought to get up. I have a full day of work ahead.

I just want to lie here and work on my worldbuilding.

tfw 

Cinnabar -- salt of mercury sulfide -- is hard to buy, toxic in powdered form, and expensive. It's the right tool and if I had all the spare time in the world and capitalism were a solved problem it'd be worth considering. I have to balance the practical with the effective.

I still want some. I just probably can't afford to use it in absolutely everything, for a variety of reasons.

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tfw 

... you realize that making the tools you really want to make as you want to make them probably involves handling toxic chemicals and your devotion to woo doesn't extend to literal madness via self-poisoning.

Oh yeah.

Monday. I'm in this world.

I have a day job, not classes.

That third-form vest is going to have to wait.

... no, it's okay. I can still see it. It's still there. I just can't touch it for a bit. I can wait.

mental health, weird shit 

@body@mastodon.social A woman whose voice I don't know but whose identity as "Mistress" seized me in the middle of a deep trance, corrected my performance, reminded me of the value of scheduling, and proceeded to spend the day instructing me on my paracosm's cosmology, cosmogony, and natural philosophy. I'm apparently late for my second-form dissertation. I got an extension today.

I doubt you have too much to worry about.

tired: marvel vs. capcom
wired: Longmont Potion Castle vs. Achewood

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