I'm still feeling pretty grumpy about some local stuff, but here's some candles being smashed by a hydraulic press because I still love you anyhow.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/ay6jt1/hydraulic_press_vs_candles/

Honestly, though, I only walked away from the poltical fooferaw on Telegram today with a grudge against one person.

And that was not for pol so much as laying into a friend of mine just for trying to be gentle. It was someone I didn't really know prior to this, and now don't really plan to ever speak with, so it's just fine.

As for the rest of you wacky queer leftist funsters... just don't become Leninists or anything? Or Auntie Rez will disown you, probably after quoting full chapters of and/or smacking you on the noggin repeatedly with my copy of Behind the Urals, mmmkay? >_<

@zebratron2084 Honestly the two main things that bugged me the most about that entire conversation were ones that were said before I jumped in, and before Val left.
One was from the person mentioned, saying to Val basically "you're feeling conflicted, good, that means you're thinking about it", which is real fucking condescending, and the other was taking an MLK quote vastly out of context--where the context is 'civil rights movement as a whole'. :-/