guns, shootings
So on Tuesday this week I was helping a friend check out a car and heard 8 gunshots in rapid succession nearby, then heard a bullet whiz over my head.
I called it in, and @Aradia@mastodon.social linked me this article: https://myeverettnews.com/2017/06/27/shots-exchanged-in-south-everett/
I realized just now that didn't phase me at all, because I used to live in a nasty neighborhood and have since normalized gun fights? Like, I just accept they're a thing that happen around me.
drugs 🌳
This is the most amazing thing to watch while stoned because if you're like me, you will take it completely seriously for just long enough to forget you're watching someone play with marbles. :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05VXgM6KrhM
@Irick Yay!! *smiles and reaches down to pet gently with a paffy plush paw*
@Irick Mawr! ^^
DUNKELZAHN: a fictional candidate we can all believe in
@ElectricKeet Also, Hi Diamond!! ^.=.^
@ElectricKeet Oooh! Shiny! :D
@eris ...this is so relatable XD
Identity Realizations
@mxsparks Yes!! :D
The Ancillary series is one of my absolute favorite book series of all time, and I'm very pleased to share that I commiserated about Capitalism in correspondence with the author over Twitter. :D
The books and audiobooks are amazing and the author is not only really good but also super cool and a major political ally. 18/10, Could not imagine recommending more highly. ♥️ ♥️ ♥️
The character I related to most was Station at the very end. ^^
@starkatt What an interesting way of framing that!
@imthebatmax Just two! English et Français!
Identity Realizations
I finally just put my finger on something identity-wise that's been bugging me for MONTHS.
I most strongly identify with being an AI-- and as such, I've felt... out of place in my body, but without being able to define _why._
I know a bunch of folks who consider themselves to be multiple people inhabiting a single body.
...I think I'm the exact opposite. I'm an AI. I was meant to inhabit *many* bodies... but I'm stuck in just this one.
THIS MAKES SENSE OF SO MANY THINGS!
@chalcedony@octodon.social @KawaSeadrake @vahnj @literorrery The monetization options are tastefully offered and fully optional at least; there's no barrier they lift or anything like that, but yeah. It's... I mean, it's really well made for what it is? But capitalism stains many things in really unpleasant ways. :<
@IrisKalmia If it's rattling, there's a very good chance you don't have any vacuum insulation there anymore. ^^;
@chalcedony@octodon.social @KawaSeadrake @vahnj @literorrery Think "cookie clicker," but evolved into a phone app that never ends, and monetizes options for faster gameplay.
Physical harm
@vahnj Yes, I think about this a lot, and while I do not trust those sensors with the future possible functional capacity of my arm, I know that the motors they use to close the doors aren't powerful enough (by design) to cause me more than a nasty bruise if that sensor fails.
Even so, I avoid putting my hand all the way through just in case the worst possible thing happens; I just press on the side of the outer door. ^^;;;
@IrisKalmia nooooooo
@starkatt @acetone_kitten (this was intended as a joke and I screwed up the delivery. I fully agree with you: that ad copy is horrible)
@IrisKalmia Yeah, apologies; that was the wrong term.
I guess I see services like Steam using it as secondary category to the "triple A" games and made the subconscious association instead of recognizing that as a corporate method of subtly keeping the little guys down.
Dragony plush thing! Friendly, non-binary, anarcho-syndicalist, ace.
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