I don't think we should always have to include the "upswing" in struggles we share
When you're in the shit of it & all you hear is upswing, you can feel more alone—that you need to "suck it up/be positive." And I find that toxic
Still, I have BIG feelings about sharing my suck with so little upswing
...cause I'm a hypocritical asshole when it comes to myself🙃
Full thought:
Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art
— sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles.
Case in point:
A Day Without a Mexican,
the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi,
in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze,
leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run …
So, my Valve Index arrived. As you may know, it officially supports Linux.
It works, sort of, but dear god what a mess that was to get working.
Within the span of one evening, I have seen it all: GPU freezing, failing to aquire a DRM lease, firmware updates crashing, latency, and some weird swap chain flickering issue.
It works, though. On Linux. And I have a plethora of paths to get it perfect. This weekend will be awesome.
This is absolutely the right messaging.
Obama made a deal that everyone was following until Trump killed it. It is 100% Trump’s fault that we now have a de facto war with Iran and that it is undeniably an illegal war by any interpretation of international law.
Just like the economy, Republicans in this century have an unequivocally worse record in recent decades on war vs. peace than the Democrats, even with their record being shabby (unlike on the economy…)
It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / #Monday! 🌛
"Jupiter, assuming the form of Diana, followed the girl as if to aid her in hunting, and embraced her when out of sight of the rest. Questioned by Diana as to the reason for her swollen form, she replied that it was the goddess' fault, and because of this reply, Diana changed her into [a bear]"
Hyginus, Astronomica …
Will do a proper #FieldDiary tomorrow but suffice to say, today went even better than hoped. Instruments behaved, weather cooperated our local hunter friend got us smoothly into the field. Looking forward to seeing what it all means now...
(Background: http://sternaparadisaea.net/2025/05/20/falling-apart/)
Feeling like moving this account to a GTS instance, would delete my Bsky and bridge it there and make it a one-for-all, but I want something like WP to tweak not GTS. It'd be cool if @… would consider a 10 buck a month plan for something like ClassicPress w/ ActivityPub, I imagine that's pretty light.
Little one has reached an interesting stage of personal hygiene. She wants to shower instead of taking baths, but can't do it fully by herself.
So i have to poke my head and arms around the shower curtain, soap up her head, rinse her hair without getting water in her eyes, and try not to get myself completely drenched in the process or fling too much water around the bathroom.
IF YOU EVER FEEL HEAVY
BECAUSE YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT INJUSTICE, SUFFERING AND ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION,
REMEMBER THAT A TRILLION
DOLLAR PROPAGANDA MACHINE
WAS BUILT TO MAKE YOU NUMB
AND IT DIDN'T WORK ON YOU
-- Natasha Jay
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/1147281
Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…