Why do I have all the fasteners for the furniture I disassembled *except* the bed frame? Now I have all these pieces of bedframe sitting around and nowhere to put them because they weren't going to be taking up space.

I'm so tired of moving. Including places I lived when I was a little girl, this is the 18th place I've lived. I'd really like to ( Read more... )

The people who encourage everyone to vote, no matter who for are well-intentioned, but still supporting fascism. I want everyone voting for Kamala Harris to get out and vote. I hope everyone else has their cars break down or they get lost on the way to the polls or something.

My home country may or may not be about to vote a party into power that ( Read more... )

The presidential immunity arguments at the US Supreme Court today:

The fact that the US SCotUS is even listening to this, and that some of the justices seem to think there's any shred of rationality to this at all, is literally enough to make my stomach hurt. The implications of the PotUS having blanket immunity from prosecution are unimaginable. ( Read more... )

People who know Canadian policy think-tank organizations:

I'm looking at a job opening with The Vanier Institute of the Family. In the US, it would be highly likely that an institute with a name like this would be right-wing bigots.  Miriam and I looked at some of their stuff: this publication describing the consequences of change to gender in the ( Read more... )

I just looked at Train Girl's Facebook page. I haven't tried to see what she's been up to in a long time because I have strong, conflicted feelings about her. She has unfriended me, so I suppose I don't need to worry about whether or not and how to connect with her. I don't really understand what happened, and I still have that 1907 book on ( Read more... )

Election results could have been a lot worse.

I'm so relieved that my parents, family, and friends in Wisconsin will have a Democratic governor. I'm grateful that three states amended their constitutions to protect abortion, especiallly Michigan where success was less certain and where I have other people I care about.

I'm relieved that that quack Dr ( Read more... )

Miriam and I are looking at reviews of books to use her expiring Audible credits on. One of the reviews of an Iron Druid book complained about the liberal politics, and said that "conservatives can be geeks too." As if the entire series hadn't been political.

It's a staggeringly oblivious comment. The entire setting and the main characters have ( Read more... )

Leftist pro-gun groups in the USA are sharing memes that suggest that parents of queer youth in the USA be armed and ready to kill people wearing body armor. The increasing validity of such sentiments is a primary reason that I will not return to live in the US for the foreseeable future. (Another primary one is the dumpster fire that is the US ( Read more... )

Sorry for not updating for a while; 20 hours of travel and lugging all those bags was rough!

People's attitudes toward Covid at Amsterdam Schipol vs the Lisbon airport where we had an eight hour (ugh) layover are night and day. Almost nobody was wearing their masks correctly in Amsterdam. Dicknoses, as Danae called them, proliferated. In Lisbon, we ( Read more... )

Dappled green and brown leaves are combining with a break in the clouds to give the scene out my window a golden, very Autumn, feeling. If the news out of the US hadn't been as good as it is, I would not be able to appreciate that.

I got no work at all done yesterday. Instead, I distracted myself with a game and waited for the bits and pieces of ( Read more... )