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For a while, after I deleted my Twitter account and before I started using my Bluesky account instead, I was keeping my bits and pieces on my Tumblr, which I also no longer use. These are those bits and pieces.
01 - One of my least favourite things is humidity on a day when it's too cold to turn your fan on. Sweating or freezing.
01 - We went every week
To buy music, to walk streets
bathed in neon-hued people
02 - My new online curse will be: May the cream for your coffee curdle each morning.
02 - I wish people wouldn't yell at me from cars. I can't see you. I don't know who you are. Please just ignore me. I'd prefer that.
02 - I am unreasonably annoyed that paraphernalia has two Rs in it. I feel the second one is excessive. Grump.
02 - Yep. Still sick to death of Bridgerton.
02 - Lack of empathy
is the greatest enemy
to community
03 - I get to start my new volunteer position at one of the local food banks next Monday. I must have done something right, because they want me to start before my police check even comes through.
03 - If your world is small
and you chose it to be so
leave big things alone
04 - For the last couple of weeks it's been drills and power tools from 8 AM to 4:30 PM. Today it started at 7:30. Whatever it is, I wish they'd finish it yesterday.
04 - Rugged and hyper-individualism are only pushed by conservative, right-wing, and Libertarian thinkers because they don't want you holding the thing that's actually at fault to account - and that's anything systemic.
04 - Protest is supposed
to be inconvenient
Its place: In your face
06 - One of these days I should try and find out where the hell the expression "under the weather" came from to mean unwell. Which reminds me of weather persons and their "risk of weather". As if we had the option not to have weather.
06 - Why does the acrylic paint they sell at Dollarama smell like that.
06 - The Buzzcocks are touring. I'd be excited by this if Pete hadn't already joined the choir invisible. There's no Buzzcocks without Pete.
06 - I just added Buzzcocks to my browser's dictionary so it would stop trying to spellcheck me.
06 - Sometimes I miss baseball. Or, rather, how I felt about it when I was young and everything was exciting.
06 - Words that sound vulgar but aren't include: kumquat, pudding.
06 - An online friend was mentioning how she flip-flops between red wine or Dr. Pepper. I'm now curious to know what those two things would taste like together - even though I like neither red wine nor Dr. Pepper. Update: Apparently she said red vine not red wine. Oh well.
06 - I swear, someone just rode by on a bike listening to Die Antwoord.
06 - "My milk bag just fell on my foot," is not a sentence that would likely make much sense outside of eastern parts of Canada, and possibly some places just over the border in the apartment below.
06 - Yesterday did slip
From midnight until midnight
I forgot haiku
07 - I wonder if I can turn AC/DC's Highway to Hell into a lounge or smooth jazz song.
07 - Sometimes I text myself.
07 - Sometimes I wonder what evolution is up to. But then I think sometimes it's best I not learn.
07 - Heard online: "Where do bad rainbows go? Prism. It's a light sentence."
07 - Kawartha is my favourite name brand chocolate ice cream.
07 - If they ever remade The Boy in the Plastic Bubble what could they do to make it eco-friendly? The Boy in the Biodegradable Corn-Based Container The Boy in the Bamboo Bubble The Boy in the Canvas Carry-all The Boy in the Paper Sack
07 - I wish that Starbucks
weren't such shits, because I,
no lie, miss their shit
08 - Timothy Dalton is still the pinnacle Mr. Rochester. Also, it's still delightful when his Welsh accent peeks out.
08 - I have oranges, but sometimes I really want orange juice. Like now. Right now I want orange juice.
08 - While there certainly were enjoyable moments about Doctor Who since the 2005 moment, I never loved it. I never thought it had the capturing quality the original had. Adding the concept of love interest was definitely one of the things that ruined it for me.
08 - I came up with a joke word - kneesles. But now I need to come up with whatever it actually means. There's really not that much funny that you could say about spots on your knees.
08 - I wish federal Liberals did more door knocking. I'd like to have a word.
08 - Soften a book title:
- A Clockwork Clementine
- To Ill A Mockingbird
- Animal Garden
- The Snapshot of Dorian Gray
- The Shortstop in the Rye
- A Tale of Two Rural Allotments
- The Grapes of Frustration
- Mediocre Expectations
- Timid Old World
- One Stumbled Past the Cuckoo's Nest
- Peace and Peace
- A Weed Struggles in Brooklyn
- Moby Duck
- The Tolerable Comedy
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Small Village Where Grandma Lives
- Twitter Posts of a Geisha
- Hill
- Heart of Dimness
09 - Every time I binge True Blood I keep wondering how anyone went after Jason Stackhouse. He's a dumb as a box of hair.
09 - Watching Starbucks tank warms the cockles of my dead GenX heart. I might have a feeling about it. I think it's glee.
09 - I wish people would stop saying "incidences" when they mean "incidents".
11 - "History: A series of men not knowing how to regulate their emotions." - Unknown
13 - When I was poorer
I would crave hamburgers and
pineapple. Not at once.
14 - "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." - Federico García Lorca
14 - I feel like there should be bigger juice boxes, ones that are two to three times the size of the ones they usually give kids. I have an adult juice box thirst.
15 - Like most folks, it annoys me when you can tell in film/TV when someone's holding a cup that's supposed to be full but you can tell is empty. The other thing that annoys the shit out of me is when a character knocks on a door and it gets answered right away. Like that's realistic.
20 - That was the kind of rain that makes me wish I had a balcony.
20 - I deeply hate a lot of auditory ASMR, like the tapping and brushing and whispering. It irks me and makes me incredibly impatient.
20 - One of the few pluses of being legally blind, is that sometimes I just don't have to see what I don't want to see.
20 - I finally figured out a use for my Wise account. Now, if only more people would move to using it instead of PayPal, I could stop using Paypal altogether.
20 - The shocking lack of empathy displayed by humanity is never not going to make me gag. Lack of empathy is our greatest enemy.
20 - we're supposed to have a thunderstorm, so the asshole across the street with the loud mower is naturally out there making this fucking echo chamber of noise unbearable. Why they don't put mufflers on those things is beyond me.
21 - Once in a while I watch the two-part Downton Abbey story of when Edith finally gets married. There's one part in there that always irks me a bit, and it's when Rose is telling the maid who's about to give birth that birth is hard but it's "such fun after". Right. Because the parenting life of a maid who has no servants is going to be the same as a woman with a title and a rich husband. That whole bit annoys the shit out of me.
21 - People tapping on shit drives me insane.
21 - It baffles me that people keep screaming about smaller government. I don't know why they think smaller government means better, more efficient, or more responsible. We are talking about a group of people who can vote money around at will - including bumping their own salaries.
21 - If the past 9 months has taught me anything, it's that the very second you think someone can't get any lower, they will.
22 - My hands smell like potato chips.
22 - o/~ Boom boom boom, let's go clean my room, we can tidy all night, and fold the laundry just right o/~
23 - I look at my medications and consider that I have to put things in my body that I can't even pronounce.
23 - Even though I don't do it, I love the idea of junk journalling. The only thing that bothers me about it is the number of times you have to hear the word "spread" when watching videos about it all.
24 - "She looks like she smells like oranges."
26 - "To give a fuck is an act of liberation." - johnnylavie on TikTok / IG
26 - I loathe strategic voting. I've never done it. I find it weak and morally bankrupt.
26 - I don't like racists. Fuck off.
26 - Philanthropist is a dirty word. It's a gaslighting term for rich folks' egos. Consider that some of these folks have so much money they could just solve a problem rather than merely buying bandaids for it.
26 - I need to learn more how to deliver my rage with a gentler hand over imparting it with a cudgel.
27 - Well, would you look at that. I was wondering if there's a ruthless, was there a ruthful. And it turns out there is. Ruthful: Full of sorrow; rueful / Causing sorrow or pity / Pitiful; tender.
28 - Wearing lipstick that makes your lips disappear is ... weird.