Middle-aged, white queer. Backyard birder. Tea drinker. Puzzles and quiet games. Reads a lot. Kinda boring, really. Typos are a feature, not a bug. Green hearts = platonic care/sympathy. Black lives matter. Land back.
Avatar (yellow butterfly on purple flowers) and header (cloudy sunset sky) courtesy my 70+ mom. As will be a lot of the pics I post; with her permission.
[Was on PV pre-pandemic, under a different name. So if I seem vaguely familiar, well.]
| pronouns | they or xe |
| chronic | tremor, IBS, PTSD, migraine |
| on land of | Caddo and Witchita |
Could people please:
A) CW their posts about politics, even vague ones about the intersection of politics and social media? It would help me (and almost certainly others) engage with those posts in a way that maintains my mental health.
B) Reconsider boosting un-CWd posts about the same. Same reasons apply.
Both would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
good morning.
today it is the day to celebrate @CaribenxMarciaX whomst a fantastic person!
help Marcia out with expenses for a happy birthday: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-marcia-get-stable
🎂 
My spouse took this striking photo of an owl in a tree in our driveway tonight. I think he took it with his cell phone!
Andrew said I needed a website so now it has a website.
I'll ditch the iframe player for a suitably brutal replacement at some point, and @nowplaying will get wired back up at some other point, but right now there's 24 hours of blues shuffling on SPR.
Excise "slave" from your vocabulary. "Enslaved people" better expresses that slavery is not inherent to them but something done to them.
Normalize saying "slaver" and "enslaver" for those who supported and actively participated in the institution of slavery and its existence. They chose to support the enslavement of people and thus to define themselves by it.
Define people by their choices, not what they were forced to suffer.
Have you heard of the right to repair?
Increasingly companies are trying to lock us in and artificially pad their profits (while creating more waste, and dangerous e-waste in particular) by making it "illegal" for us to service the devices we buy.
From John Deere to Apple, it's a common move, and it's bad for people and the planet.
We need to enshrine the #RightToRepair in law here in the United States. We shouldn't rely on nonbinding promises for-profits make. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/farm-bureau-deere-co-sign-mou-ensuring-farmers-right-repair-equipment-2023-01-08/
The American Farm Bureau Federation and machinery manufacturer Deere & Co <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/DE.N" target="_blank">(DE.N)</a> signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday that ensures farmers have the right to repair their own farm equipment or go to an independent technician.
My PCP recommended estrovera to help with hot flashes (on top of the vit E I was already taking) and gave me a 7-day sample. It works really well for me, so I've ordered more but it might not arrive before the sample runs out. So I skipped this morning's dose.
Holy wow. Apparently, it's also what's had my energy levels hightened the last few days, because today I feel like a slug with brain fog--even after sleeping pretty well. I'd always kinda known that my energy was better at high-estrogen parts of the cycle, but really hadn't considered that this would be a (positive!) side effect to supplementation.
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