@aral@mastodon.ar.al“My body is here, but my soul never left the place that once held my laughter, my silence, my peace.
I miss the warmth of my home — the sunlight spilling through familiar windows, and the small joys I once took for granted: quiet mornings, fleeting smiles, the fragile moments that made life whole.”
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Concrete Rose" by Angie Thomas (I haven't yet read "The Hate U Give" but that's now high on my list of things to find). It's excellent, and in particular, an excellent treatise on positive masculinity in fiction form. It's not a super easy book to read emotionally, but is excellently written and deeply immersive. I don't have the perspective to know how it might land among teens like those it portrays, but I have a feeling it's true enough to life, and it held a lot of great wisdom for me.
CW for the book include murder, hard drugs, and parental abandonment.
I caught myself in a racist/classist habit of thought while reading that others night appreciate hearing about: early on I was mentally comparing it to "All my Rage" by Sabaa Tahir and wondering if/when we'd see the human cost of the drug dealing to the junkies, thinking that it would weaken the book not to include that angle. Why is that racist/classist? Because I'm always expecting books with hard drug dealers in them to show the ugly side of their business since it's been drilled into me that they're evil for the harm they cause, yet I never expect the same of characters who are bankers, financial analysts, health insurance claims adjudicators, police officers, etc. (Okay, maybe I do now look for that in police narratives). The point is, our society includes many people who as part of their jobs directly immiserate others, so why and I only concerned about that misery being brought up when it's drug dealers?
#AmReading
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cathe good news is yesterday i got half of our giant hedge trimmed before the battery died on the trimmer (seems to be a theme)
the bad news is, just before the battery died, my back tweaked.
I took some relaxants and it was ok last night, but this morning the muscles are very guarded. Full up on Tylenol back pain and Advil.
#yardwork #life #silentsunday
@cdarwin@c.imIn Sabzevar for the second consecutive night, angry residents held demonstrations.
The protest began at Farmandari Square and Abouzar Street, and protesters blocked Bahonar Street.
Women were at the forefront of the rally, chanting slogans such as:
“Don’t be afraid, don’t be afraid, we’re all in this together,”
“Water, electricity, and life are our basic rights,”
and “We don’t want incompetent officials.”
@detondev@social.linux.pizza'cause every night, i will save your life
and every night i will be with you
'cause every night i still lay awake
and i dream, of the great earth changes
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@davej@dice.campI don’t generally think of my life as boring, but I had a nightmare the other night wherein I couldn’t find an email in my Gmail account. I wasn’t terrified, but man, did I wake up anxious. #FirstWorldProblems
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialLast Sunday, the three of us went for a small hike in a natural reserve and came across a black dog that seemed to still be a puppy. The park rangers we talked to asked us if we'd be willing to take her in, as packs of wild dogs tend to become an issue for the wildlife.
We slept on it for a night & decided to go for it. Since Monday, Ohana is a big sister for Nina. Both seem to be adapting well to their respective changes in life circumstances. Guess I'll have to make a website for Nina too 🥰
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaWe decided it was night again, so we camped for twenty minutes and drank
another six beers at a Young Life campsite. O.C. got into the supervisory
adult's sleeping bag and ran around in it. "This is the judgment day and I'm
a terrifying apparition," he screamed. Then the heat made O.C. ralph in the
bag.
-- The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O.C. and Stiggs,
National Lampoon, October 1982
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@aral@mastodon.ar.alWere I not an atheist I’d get some comfort from knowing that this son of a bitch would spend eternity burning in hell. But because I am, I have to hope he gets his comeuppance in life instead. Him and everyone else who is complicit in this genocide. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldThere's ice in the house and my computer is back--again. See what else is going on this week.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/
@smashtie@mas.toI have a new phone with a mahoosive carbon silicon battery. Now I’m trying to break the compulsion of charging it every night.
The battery is at 89%, and I'm wondering if I should plug it in, just in case the apocalypse hits before lunch.
It's hard to believe that I spent nearly half my life without a smartphone.
#tech
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@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished “Frankie” by Graham Norton (yes, that Graham Norton!)
Frankie, elderly and recovering from an ankle injury, begins to tell the home care night nurse her life story while convalescing. We open as a child in Ireland, travel to London, settle in New York City, and eventually end up in London. And what a journey!
Really well done characters & dialogue. Norton is a really good writer, of which this skeptic was won over.
4.5/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
@cdarwin@c.imTwo Delta Air Lines regional jets collided while on the taxiway at LaGuardia airport in New York, injuring at least one person in what the airline described as a “low-speed collision”.
The wing of an aircraft carrying 32 people getting ready to take off Wednesday night to Roanoke, Virginia, hit the fuselage of an aircraft arriving from Charlotte, North Carolina, with 61 people aboard, according to a statement from Delta
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldCooling It Down
The house was completely silent—until it wasn’t. A sudden thud and rush of noise had me bracing for an expensive repair. From that small surprise to AI reviving legends, it’s been a week of odd resurrections.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
Today, we celebrate the #FallEquinox, not to be confused with the Chevy Equinox, which is an entirely different thing. The Fall Equinox means summer is officially over, and some of you missed 3 weeks of nice weather when you gave up back on Labour Day. Right now, day and night are roughly equal, more or less, across Canada, but our days are getting shorter for the next several months, until December 21st-ish. Start thinking about snow tires and Christmas shopping because the calendar moves quickly this time of year. If you're in the Southern Hemisphere, please ignore this message.
Some bonus content - your Fall 2025 #Horoscope. It's from the CBC, our national news service, so you know it must be accurate. I read mine (Virgo) several times and haven't got a clue what it means. So I've got that going for me.
#CanadaIsAwesome ##WinterIsComing
https://www.cbc.ca/life/culture/fall-equinox-horoscope-2025-1.7638561
