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vvalkyriI haven't read any dreamwidth for a little bit, but over on Facebook I think there's only one non-jewish person I've seen say anything about the fire attack in Boulder on mostly elderly people walking in solidarity with hamas's hostages.
I don't have time to write it right now but I definitely want to write more.
This one's about right: gift link:nytimes - Jews Are Afraid Right Now
And this one is every time I read it a slight bit more infuriating, because it came out in an email blast from new republic, and barely manages to accept that nobody deserves to be hit with a flamethrower, but instead spends all its time on why the act was the opposite of politically useful, as well as a bunch of time on what awful Netanyahu is doing. Violence against Jews is tragic and undermines the Palestinian cause
Readers may remember an essay back in 2021,
Dear American progressives your Jewish friends are terrified by your silence, in which the author knows how so much of the time it seems especially in progressive spaces any attack on Jews is met with discussion of the Middle East.
Anyway, I'm out of time and finding that last reminds me I need to figure out an alternative for pocket.
I don't have time to write it right now but I definitely want to write more.
This one's about right: gift link:nytimes - Jews Are Afraid Right Now
And this one is every time I read it a slight bit more infuriating, because it came out in an email blast from new republic, and barely manages to accept that nobody deserves to be hit with a flamethrower, but instead spends all its time on why the act was the opposite of politically useful, as well as a bunch of time on what awful Netanyahu is doing. Violence against Jews is tragic and undermines the Palestinian cause
Readers may remember an essay back in 2021,
Dear American progressives your Jewish friends are terrified by your silence, in which the author knows how so much of the time it seems especially in progressive spaces any attack on Jews is met with discussion of the Middle East.
Anyway, I'm out of time and finding that last reminds me I need to figure out an alternative for pocket.
So much DCish...
Jun. 6th, 2025 12:12 pmvvalkyriVeterans Rally today at 2EDT on the Mall near Air and Space, so nearest Metros are L'enfant and Archives. It's also live streamed Unite4Veterans.org, and they've got the Dropkick Murphys.
Later today a vigil at WWII. Stuff with Cliff Cash the rest of the weekend, like at FOX 'news' and Heritage. And Non-cooperation training with FreeDC tomorrow.
Later this evening, I just noticed there's celebrating nonmonagamy with World Pride. I think I'm pretty much missing world pride?
Tomorrow, the World Pride parade. 50501 is walking in it. Acro at Franklin Park to watch the parade. I'm sure all sorts of really cool stuff in the evening.
Sunday, some sort of Pride March to the Lincoln.
Here, we will go to Food Bank in an hour ish, not sure for the evening. There's a kink place if you wanted to drive like over an hour and have sweetie be bored and I'm not exactly sure what I was supposed to do.
Tomorrow and Sunday nights I'll be mostly on my own because EverQuest. I do know a couple people in the city, but I think both of them are busy sunday. And borrowing a car I've only driven across town to drive well over an hour feels weird anyway.
We've watched a few episodes of The Last of Us. Last night we watched Constantine.
Wednesday evening into yesterday was very very nice.
There's been a lot of very very nice. Including shower time.
I attended a webinar by one of the people whose research gets us that 3.5% figure for how much of the population on resisting authoritarianism. Just got the recording and additional resources. I feel vindicated in my insistence for the last however many years that divesting oneself of anyone the other side of Center is incredibly unhelpful and one should only do for one's own sanity. Because you need to build Bridges and connections on values.
It's Moon time so there's only so much seducing I'm trying this morning anyway. We will have the house to ourselves for at least part of tomorrow, tomorrow morning at least. Need to figure out what's manageable.
Running out of time. Need to get some coffee into me.
Later today a vigil at WWII. Stuff with Cliff Cash the rest of the weekend, like at FOX 'news' and Heritage. And Non-cooperation training with FreeDC tomorrow.
Later this evening, I just noticed there's celebrating nonmonagamy with World Pride. I think I'm pretty much missing world pride?
Tomorrow, the World Pride parade. 50501 is walking in it. Acro at Franklin Park to watch the parade. I'm sure all sorts of really cool stuff in the evening.
Sunday, some sort of Pride March to the Lincoln.
Here, we will go to Food Bank in an hour ish, not sure for the evening. There's a kink place if you wanted to drive like over an hour and have sweetie be bored and I'm not exactly sure what I was supposed to do.
Tomorrow and Sunday nights I'll be mostly on my own because EverQuest. I do know a couple people in the city, but I think both of them are busy sunday. And borrowing a car I've only driven across town to drive well over an hour feels weird anyway.
We've watched a few episodes of The Last of Us. Last night we watched Constantine.
Wednesday evening into yesterday was very very nice.
There's been a lot of very very nice. Including shower time.
I attended a webinar by one of the people whose research gets us that 3.5% figure for how much of the population on resisting authoritarianism. Just got the recording and additional resources. I feel vindicated in my insistence for the last however many years that divesting oneself of anyone the other side of Center is incredibly unhelpful and one should only do for one's own sanity. Because you need to build Bridges and connections on values.
It's Moon time so there's only so much seducing I'm trying this morning anyway. We will have the house to ourselves for at least part of tomorrow, tomorrow morning at least. Need to figure out what's manageable.
Running out of time. Need to get some coffee into me.
After Camp ...
Jun. 4th, 2025 04:31 pmgrail76So, several things are going on.
We got a bill from MedStar for $479, which was a bit of a surprise. We called CareFirst, who reviewed it and stated that we were not liable for whatever the issue was and advised us to contact Medstar about it. We did. MedStar just said, "Oops, you're not liable for that. I'll correct it."
Between the two, it was over in less than an hour.
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I had trouble with the last donation because my back was holding one position for so long. This time, I took a pillow for my back. It helped, but ...
Last time, I jerked and felt a pain in my left arm. Having learned my lesson, I notified them right away. They got it lined up and the rest of the donation went fine.
But ...
I discovered I had a bruise that didn't appear for about 10 days. (I noticed it at Camp when someone asked how I'd bruised myself.)
Because the bruise was still visible, they performed a one-arm procedure, which takes longer. And longer doesn't work with my back.
I'm still looking for ways to keep my back happy while donating platelets, but this could make me end my two plus hour donations.
Sigh.
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Camp.
The day I managed to schedule and perform three massages. The rest of the time, I worked four in.
Rain and cold winds are not conducive to people wanting massages.
On Tuesday, we had a heavy rain in the evening. I mean heavy. The tent held up, but the roof began to seep some moisture through. We woke with the top layer of the bedding (a sleeping bag) wet. We had less than a quart in the tent, but it wasn't encouraging for further sleeping. Free ordered a canopy that was just a bit larger than the tent from Walmart. We had it delivered to the car and set up in a couple of hours. Setting up was easy. Moving it required two helpers, and in about another minute, it was covering the tent.
The next day, we mopped up all the water we could easily get to and took pillows, spreads, sleeping bags, and towels to a laundromat.
The Den has its own Oasis, and one segment held up fine while a second canopy collapsed under the weight of the rain.
I hadn't watched all of a pony show since I got word of my mom's death during one. I had some friends in it, and I watched the whole show, just focussing on the acts. It still goes on too long, but it was a nice show. I enjoyed myself.
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We got a bill from MedStar for $479, which was a bit of a surprise. We called CareFirst, who reviewed it and stated that we were not liable for whatever the issue was and advised us to contact Medstar about it. We did. MedStar just said, "Oops, you're not liable for that. I'll correct it."
Between the two, it was over in less than an hour.
----------
I had trouble with the last donation because my back was holding one position for so long. This time, I took a pillow for my back. It helped, but ...
Last time, I jerked and felt a pain in my left arm. Having learned my lesson, I notified them right away. They got it lined up and the rest of the donation went fine.
But ...
I discovered I had a bruise that didn't appear for about 10 days. (I noticed it at Camp when someone asked how I'd bruised myself.)
Because the bruise was still visible, they performed a one-arm procedure, which takes longer. And longer doesn't work with my back.
I'm still looking for ways to keep my back happy while donating platelets, but this could make me end my two plus hour donations.
Sigh.
-----------
Camp.
The day I managed to schedule and perform three massages. The rest of the time, I worked four in.
Rain and cold winds are not conducive to people wanting massages.
On Tuesday, we had a heavy rain in the evening. I mean heavy. The tent held up, but the roof began to seep some moisture through. We woke with the top layer of the bedding (a sleeping bag) wet. We had less than a quart in the tent, but it wasn't encouraging for further sleeping. Free ordered a canopy that was just a bit larger than the tent from Walmart. We had it delivered to the car and set up in a couple of hours. Setting up was easy. Moving it required two helpers, and in about another minute, it was covering the tent.
The next day, we mopped up all the water we could easily get to and took pillows, spreads, sleeping bags, and towels to a laundromat.
The Den has its own Oasis, and one segment held up fine while a second canopy collapsed under the weight of the rain.
I hadn't watched all of a pony show since I got word of my mom's death during one. I had some friends in it, and I watched the whole show, just focussing on the acts. It still goes on too long, but it was a nice show. I enjoyed myself.
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why does this piss me off so much?
Jun. 4th, 2025 01:20 pmvvalkyrithere's an emotions wheel.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Healthygamergg/comments/1axjiw8/emotional_wheel_a_resource_for_better/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Healthygamergg/comments/1axjiw8/emotional_wheel_a_resource_for_better/
For what it's worth it was okay
Jun. 1st, 2025 11:48 pmvvalkyriI feel like I should note that tonight's everquest was way shorter than expected and we'd be out aurora hunting now if there were aurora and that i'm definitely feeling some of the aerial stuff I did yesterday...
and Pkid taught me all about some of the airport history near montreal, which was kinda neat.
and Pkid taught me all about some of the airport history near montreal, which was kinda neat.