I just heard Obama is catching shit for saying aliens mathematically probably exist... in spacetime

shit people are so fucking stupid and self-centered

Whenever there is a Scientific Question, assume the correct answer is the one where:

  • the universe is big / we are smol
  • everything doesn't "go around us"
  • the universe is old / we are young
  • human's aren't "the only sentient species" across spacetime and no we won't meet aliens "in your lifetime"

#exasperated

Many of us left Twitter or Facebook very intentionally. If you must post screenshots from those hellscapes, at least label them as being from Twitter or Facebook, so we can filter that crap out of our timelines. But also just don't screenshot them at all, especially text that ought to remain as text.

#Exasperated

I'm at a point now where I need a stronger word than "fuck" to react multiple times a day both at work and when reading the news.

#exasperated #tiredofthisshit #wtf

To be honest, I just feel really pissed off today. The United States is tumbling into darkness. I'm angry about the time I'm going to spend fighting back, and whether I win or lose, that's time I've permanently lost to doing things other than fighting back for future generations. Why has Newsom been so slow to respond to bird flu in the California herds? Why do I feel like Mastodon is one of the last places where people care about other humans? #exasperated #frustrated
Is there a name for the particular brand of gaslighting where they report on a "new study" that confirms something that was already proved years ago?
#Exasperated

Why do so many highly intelligent, well educated people think that being vaccinated against COVID means you absolutely cannot catch or spread infection? We know that isn't true. Why doesn't everyone know?

#Exasperated #MaskUp

Gah… WTH!? Stop telling me in the morning that I need to restart my PC. That's why I left it on overnight. Just freaking do it! If some app is "preventing" it, just kill the app!!

#Exasperated

I freaking hate that any time I try to Google anything (even an abstract concept) the first thing that comes up is a list of products for sale that Google insists my inquiry was really about.

#Exasperated

Most of the new research about unexpected horrors of COVID19 infection are just rehashing old information we already knew in 2020 but refused to listen to then. Will "new" research really convince people when the original did not?
*sigh* #demoralized #exasperated

I'm finally! done with the white part 

I'm using odds and ends of hand me down floss for this project, and the whites in particular have been tricky - since it's one large swathe of colour even minute changes in tone are obvious at a distance. I carefully tried to make a seemless gradient (in the off-white part) from almost white to slightly more beigy white, flanked by the darkest of the whites in strategic places to soften the edges.
It went pretty well, actually, untill I ran out of my pre-sorted strands with about a centimeter left. I think I've redone that last part more than five times? Desperately trying to find a colour match among the leftover floss that didn't look too bright nor dark. I think I finally managed it. Either way, I'm calling it done.

#crossstitch #fullcoverage #whiteisatrickycolour #exasperated