summer showers where it's just absolutely pouring while the sky remains bright and still manages to maintain a blue hue are probably my favourite things to sit under an awning and just listen to and watch

absolute relaxation and beauty

when I accidentally load my instance while in a different container tab and see the feed presented to an anonymous user it reminds me how muting keywords and people here is 100% beneficial to your mental health

I'm not saying you have to remain completely ignorant of the goings on, but from what I see -- before realizing I'm not logged in -- this place is definitely capable of creating a doom-scroll session for people who want that

here's a shorthand: it fucking sucks and unless some key people drop dead it's not getting better and the worst people will keep being the worst and pointing out all the awful they're doing actually makes them very very happy because your misery is their pleasure

"did you see [the DOJ/SCOTUS/Government Agency] did [plain stupid and evil thing out of spite]?"

yeah, I expected that shit when people decided to abstain from voting for one candidate because of purity tests while millions of others openly desired this awful stuff, let all the people who couldn't hold their noses know they were going to do these things if they won, and made sure to vote for it so now it's happening

I just like to wonder how many of these "everything is awful" accounts were among those in the first group who are responsible for this whether they want to admit it or not

anyway, that's a dump and the moral is: mute and block and stay logged in, folks!

have I mentioned the AC died this weekend and it turns out it's a coil leak on the exterior unit and the part needs to be ordered and who knows how long it'll take to get it and install it?

coming up Milhouse around here I tell you what