mdlbear | Done Since 2022-06-26 (Reply)

Not a good week. Or month. I don't know whether it's the Supreme (Kangaroo) Court or the proximity to the first anniversary of Colleen's death (a week from this Tuesday), or generic chronic depression and anxiety, or something else, or more likely a combination of all of the above. All I know is that I've been sleeping even less well than usual, and spending too much of my time worrying and getting very little done.

And trying (with only partial success) not to get sucked into reading the news. (I do read subject lines on email notifications a little too often for my blood pressure; that's where the "partial" comes from.)

On the other hand, I have been gradually easing back into exercise (three days this week) and music (band practice plus guitar), and I set up a laptop for K, so I can't say that I haven't gotten anything done. So there's that.

Ending on a cheerful note (or trying to), here's this week's heartwarming queer news story from MPR about 'Lesbian goth foxes,' the story of Esmae and Mala.

Notes & links:
0626Su PrideFest Seattle Center * litter boxen
x Seattle PrideFest -> no; I'll be on
Whidbey. Especially considering the expected heatwave in Seattle.
* up 6:30ish; S=6:10;
@ Kingfisher & Wombat on Twitter: "Pennyroyal—and a lot of other abortifacient herbs—as
toxic as fuck. Get the dosage exaaaactly right and maybe it kills the fetus before it
kills you. Get it wrong and enjoy massive cascading organ failure! So what’s the
dosage? I don’t know! And neither does anyone else!"
@ Emily Crockett on Twitter: "Oh Jesus, I didn’t even think about travel. Pregnant
people who live in pro-choice states can no longer safely travel to states that ban
abortion, because if they have a miscarriage, they cannot expect to get proper
emergency medical care if needed."
@ Malnormalulo on Twitter: "Signal's protocol literally cannot work without "does this
phone number use Signal?" being an answerable question. The mere fact that you use
Signal is not meant to be, and cannot be, a secret. If you really want that, install
it on a burner."
@ PLAN C: Learn to access at-home abortion pill options online
@ The Emerging Health Benefits of Genmaicha Tea
@ Flight attendant bluntly shares travel tips: ‘We will not help you if you are
mean’
@ Remote Song Swap with Amy McNally - YouTube (from yesterday -- excellent,
especially the discussion of mental illness)
* laundry

0627Mo
* up 6:45; S=7:15; exercises; shower; fold laundry
Nice cuddle with Ticia before exercises
-> wearing Colleen's cat blouse over boxer shorts
@ danieldwilliam | On Useful Technologies for a World Experiencing Climate Change -
First Draft (andrewducker | Interesting Links for 27-06-2022)
Ollas: Unglazed Clay Pots for Garden Irrigation
@ Why Hope is Important in the Discussion of Climate Change ->
" there is documented evidence that Exxon has been doing active campaigns on
social media and through various publishers of media to discourage action "
Harvard's study highlighted the complex, strategic, and hidden nature of the
discourse by both Mobil and Exxon
Reducing your carbon footprint still matters.
" People don’t spring into action just because they see smoke; they spring into action
because they see others rushing in with water. "
@ TIL: New England-style hot dog bun - Wikipedia "top loading" or "split top"
(via Regional Hot Dogs | NHDSC)
* charge Molly
* The water will be off from 9 AM to 4 PM -> actually more like 3pm
* set up Starlight for k.
* shrink Win8 partition to 100G
* download mint 20.3 (the Ventoy stick and sable both have 20.2) -> fix
~ new ventoy stick doesn't work. The small one does but doesn't boot as UEFI. WTF?
~ the small one works if you press the "novo" button to the right of the power button
that lets you select the boot menu. Weird.

0628Tu
& awake 1:30ish;
* up 630ish; S= ;
% naproxen, heat
@ Google Dorks List 2020 - A Complete Cheat Sheet
@ Privacy’s time is now | Below Radar
(4) @davesmyth@mastodon.social on Twitter: "Privacy’s time is now. There’s never
been a better time for businesses and marketers to start adopting privacy-conscious
marketing approaches
@ Jeeyon Shim carved a new path in crowdfunding for her keepsake games - The Verge
* The water will be off from 9 AM to 3 PM on Tuesday
* continue setting up Starlight. Should maybe have offered Sherman or Raven, but
Starlight is currently in the best shape of the three. Raven needs a new drive;
Sherman has a bad display and a problematic optical drive.
* 10am Healing Center Memory Keepers grief support group
* go down to Seattle afterward
* a little guitar practice
* deliver laptop to k
% 17:40 left shoulder aches -- probably from mousing posture
@ posted: Exploring at Home - GoingSideways.blog
Signal boost: * DW, * FB, * TW
% naproxen with pm meds. p~=4 from standing up too long doing teeth, etc. -> heat
* genmaicha (in teabag)

0629We
* up 5:00; S=6:17, W=204.8; naproxen
* a little guitar practice
@ Understanding SD Card Speeds, Types and Important Symbols
Speed Class | SD Association
@ How we think about browsers | The GitHub Blog No JS? No problem.
" while 0.0002% of you are using your Tesla to merge pull requests, a Model 3 won’t
fit into our testing budget! "
* walk: end of block
@ Payment Data Could Become Evidence of Abortion, Now Illegal in Some States - NYT
* set up autoload on new ORCA card
* KF band practice: Lord of the Buffalo * some work on tracklists
* guitar practice: For Amy
% Getting very little done today (except singing which I wouldn't have done on my own)
% hot cocoa. Hard to say which of the three -- cocoa, genmaicha, cocoa -- is better

0630Th
& Awake 4:30; S=5:54; exercises
* walk: W. 2 blocks to park
@ Kelli Garcia on
Twitter: "I’m seeing a lot of posts saying people will die because Roe has been
overturned. That is... true. But perhaps not for the reasons you think." (@rowanf)
@ Here are your odds of your bag being delayed or lost on each airline
: a box of mangos arrived from (financial advisor)Jerad. ??!
-> sent thank-you email, combined with: * contact Jerad about payments.
@ Post-Roe, Her Facebook Group Went Viral - The New York Times
-> USA Camping Resource Center (of course its cover is blown but may still be useful)
-> Post-Roe, ‘camping’ has become code for abortions. Activists say it may put people
at risk. -> has suggestions from the activists.
-> Mountain Access Brigade on Instagram
planned parenthood toronto on Instagram:“ WHAT *NOT* TO DO IN RESPONSE TO THE
OVERTURNING OF ROE V. WADE: A GUIDE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN CANADA”
% itching. Mostly hands. This was after doing some dishes, so...
% also, I've been jaw-clenching. Not surprising.
* 15min: hauled (flatpacked)bookshelves out to studio. Hand truck wheels too small.
@ WordPress Themes Team Releases New Plugin for Creating Block Themes – WP Tavern
Create Block Theme – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org
@ The Rise of A.I. Companions [Documentary] - YouTube Replika (chatbot app)
see also, Silk and Steel and Demon Lover
% meloxicam, heat with pm drugs; p~=4 mostly left hip
@ 'Lesbian goth foxes,' the story of Esmae and Mala | MPR News (copied from 7/2
because it belongs in Pride Month)

0701Fr
& awake 4:30ish; failed to get back to sleep. congestion, politics
* up 5:20ish; S=5:52;
* guitar: Bad Guys, QV, Millennium's Dawn intro
% left hip still hurting -> heat
@ First Images From NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Coming Soon | NASA
@ Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from 'buttface' to 'wankpuffin' (andrewducker)
GitHub: Analysing patterns in English noun-noun pejorative compounds on Reddit
@ A Visual Guide to the Aztec Pantheon
@ elf: Filk: Family Health Clinics
" The right to a choice is the right to be free. "
@ siderea | The Second American Civil War [US, curr ev, Patreon]
" The threat model is not that a bunch of military larpers will decide to try to
overthrow the federal government. The threat model is that a conquering-minded,
anti-democractic movement will take over the federal government, and then as they
subjugate the states that resist them, send in federal troops. "
@ Furikake - Wikipedia
furikake is the Japanese rice seasoning/sprinkle I keep forgetting to look up.
(Turns out I _did_ look it up -- in 2010!)
@ ysabetwordsmith | How to Handle Dysphoria not just gender: opposite of euphoria
Dysphoria - Wikipedia
* Order new CPAP supplies - nosepiece and both kinds of filters - from Norco/Resmed
@ FASTEDDIE – small god of CYBERPUNK | Lee Moyer
" This is the technofuturistic hellscape he promised us. We just didn’t want to
listen. We thought we could have the neon and the chrome and the aesthetic, and
still keep having those fragile, communally agreed-upon things we like to convince
ourselves are inalienable human rights... "
@ cow-parsnip: Heracleum lanatum pretty sure that's what I have on Whidbey
same genus as giant hogweed, but native to the area. also called Heracleum maximum
-> Still can't rule out Heracleum mantegazzianum (giant hogweed) - Wikipedia
Don’t touch these plants! | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
this page [PDF] has
pictures that show some (not much) purple on the stems of cow parsnip. GH stems are
mostly purple and have deep ridges.
@ Nate - by ND Stevenson - I'm Fine I'm Fine Just Understand coming out as trans
% very long wikipedia dive or series of dives, possibly started from attempting to
identify the mystery plants at RE, re-started from Dungeness crab in GS/about-us
% left shoulder hurting; almost certainly mouse RSI
% left hip hurting. Really need to replace this bed

0702Sa * litter boxen
* up 5ish; S=6:50; exercises
* throw sheets in laundry
@ How To See Webb’s First Images!
@ Citation: Maria do Rosário Monteiro, “From More’s natural Utopia to Cordwainer Smith’s
artificial pseudo-utopia”, Spaces of Utopia: An Electronic Journal, 2nd series, no. 3,
2014, pp.27-40 <http://ler.letras.up.pt> ISSN 1646-472 [paywalled]
Spaces of Utopia
Paul et Virginie - Wikipedia
Paul and Virginia | gutenberg.org
* edits needed to Bells of Norwich, October Country -- scripting (from kf band practice)
@ Pack up my old guitar Frank Ford, 1998
* guitar: Eyes Like the Morning, Where the Heart Is
* drop litter deliveries down to, e.g., 3/month for now.