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mooooooood

or at least, i don't, and people I've talked to mostly don't. we remember the story (if that, tbh!), and how much we enjoyed it, and *maybe* how seamless the telling felt, or how rough, or dense, or beautiful. we remember the affect, and the effect it had on us, and that's about it. ime!

i could tell you for my favorite books (because I've thought about it) and i can tell you for my current read (because the 2nd person was jarring and it took me a while to settle in), but for almost any other book? naw. i have a mild preference, but as you're pointing to, mostly we don't *remember*.

from above picture of four (really, there are four) itty bitty chicken babies all squished together into one floofy lump sort of in the shape of a palm. there's one dark with light stripes and one light with dark stripes and one dark one and one light one in the middle with a wing out over the others.

did you know that broody mama hens pull out their belly feathers to cover & warm at their newly hatched chicks, so if you have new bbs like these & you hold out your hand at their back height they will run under your hand & then fall asleep all huddled together in a floof pile and you die of cute?

from above picture of four (really, there are four) itty bitty chicken babies all squished together into one floofy lump sort of in the shape of a palm. there's one dark with light stripes and one light with dark stripes and one dark one and one light one in the middle with a wing out over the others.

did you know that broody mama hens pull out their belly feathers to cover & warm at their newly hatched chicks, so if you have new bbs like these & you hold out your hand at their back height they will run under your hand & then fall asleep all huddled together in a floof pile and you die of cute?

What is gay?

When a boy and a boy or a girl and a girl love each other like Mom and Dad love each other.

Okay. Why are we bombing Iran?

I don't know and no one else does either.

photo from above of four baby chicks of four different colorations, standing huddled together on a floor of pine shavings right next to their yellow plate heater that only works if they're underneath it.

dumdum babeh peep peeps!

thank you SO MUCH for sharing this, i am having the time of my LIFE!

THE SCREAM I SCREMPT i think my neighbors thought i was having a real good time and they were RIGHT I'm over here screaming YES!! YES!!!!

LOOKIT WHAT SOMEONE MADE ME

omfg i am never sleeping again onlee prompt larp prompt larp prompt larp youraislopbores.me

.....i am completely in love please go prompt!

photo of a purple pop up indoor coop, with clean fluff, a plate heater, tiny wooden roost, and chick-sized feeder and waterer.

twelve hours to peep peep time! 4 bebe chooks will be landing tomorrow morning. 🥰

leeeeegitttttt

stop making everything shitty, stop outsourcing thought to machines, stop paying for polished corporate crap that's going to get fed to a different corporate crap machine which will spit out crap that decides whether or not i get care and the only ones who win already have all the $$$$.

i don't even want to scream, i just want it to stop.

only therapist to respond to me that has availability, takes my insurance, and works with queer families... uses genAI for notes and won't take a non-consent for that.

huzzah.

yeah, but LATER. it takes longer to arrive, subjectively. real important sometimes, that "later".

I've heard way too many bad things from the provider's pov for betterhelp, alas.

i got a few recs from friends, and I'm trying to chase those down. thanks for the offer (and the red green gif!). 💜

i mean, lots of people do, but it's very much a Twitter alternative, not a fb. a lot of our friends moved to instagram when they stopped using fb, a move that seems real backwards to me but whatever. they want videos, not skeets. fb is how i get local connections; this is for news, jokes, politics.

You won't be able
to fix it all.
You will be able
to love.

- Helms Jarrell

(that is, i agree it's a problem, but it's likely about the money, not just arbitrary requirements.)

i do not know (i am in OR not WA), but a lot of programs for that age group are funded BY redirected public school funds. i have one kid in a college-based GED program, another in an alternative hs, both paid for by the school district because neither yet has their diploma. often it's about funding.

Knitting for healing, one stitch at a time A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ones are expensive.

Mary Mwangi "now makes knitted prostheses for other breast cancer survivors in Kenya who who have had an entire breast removed, known as a mastectomy, without the reconstructive surgery common in higher-income countries."

i know I'm asking for the impossible. but i have to ask.

I'm so fucked. i keep thinking i need to take this problem, of very suddenly not having a therapist, to therapy, which i do not have, because i very suddenly am without a therapist. and my lovely bipolar moods wete *already* starting to swing from impending ww3.

soooo... anyone in pdx have a lead on a rockstar therapist who takes insurance? virtual appts? lefty, gets that trauma from the horrors is inevitable & not individual but somehow we have to get through it anyway? isn't an intern nor retiring next year? maybe comes with winning lotto tix ana unicorn?

Eternal reminder that you can and should turn off the Internet and do something useful with your hands when there's not much you can do about a Horror in the immediate moment

one was NOT a Methodist preacher, which is at least part of why my grandmother divorced him, because she badly wanted to be a preacher's wife. she became a social worker single mother instead. (i legit don't know what he did do.)

the other was a spy for the u.s. army.

Don’t let them take silly away from you