Lauren Brian @lbrianwrites@computerfairi.es
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
Yesterday I explained my knees to my doctor ("wow, that's weird.") and tomorrow I explain my knees to a physio and hope they have some idea of what's happening.
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In other news, MY day in court today went really well.
I wanted to get some acoustic sheers for my gaming room, but apparently I need to be a contractor to get ones that are less likely to be scams and have an actual NRC rating. (I'm looking at you, Ikea, grr.)
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@pluralistic: "The RESTRICT Act is a garbage law straight out of the Clinton era, a King Canute decree that potentially prohibits the use of VPNs to circumvent its provisions. America doesn't need a Great Firewall to keep itself safe from tech spying – it needs a privacy law."
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/30/tik-tok-tow/#good-politics-for-electoral-victories
I know you're not supposed to date straight boys, but, god, the number of them in my life that I'd like to broach the topic of QPRs to~!
(I won't, of course. But still.)
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"...it’s disinformation...an organized campaign of fear-mongering...I feel like the goal...is to push a reaction against sentient AI that doesn’t exist so that we can ignore all the real problems of AI that do exist...it’s...corrupting our policy discourse around the real impacts that AI is having...when Black taxpayers are being audited at three times the rates of white taxpayers, that is not a sentient AI problem. That is an automated decision system problem. We need to fix that problem."
I survived quiverfull vampires and that one author who took THREE SELF-CONGRATULATORY BOOKS to get to his inciting incident, but I might not make it through this one.
and between that and an extra high level of free-on-amazon basic-level grammar torture (as in, we're not talking intentional distortions to make a point or for art, but failures of the building blocks of elemental, bare, sentence structure), I'm not sure I'll make it through this one.
terrible euphemisms in context
However, in one book I have encountered both "he wanted to beat his fleshen tool into her maiden sex" and "hard pole of seeking invasion" in just the first two chapters, and
All right, I read crappy free-on-amazon sff ebooks, mostly for laughs. Free-on-amazon in sff usually means shifter romance, so I have become inured to a certain level of terrible euphemism. However --
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"Whether you're burying a loved one, getting dialysis, getting your cat fixed or having your dog's nails trimmed, you are already likely to be patronizing a business that has been captured by private equity, where the service is worse, the prices are higher and the workers earn less for harder jobs. Everyone has a stake in financial regulation. We are all in this fight, except for the eminently guillotineable PE barons, and you know, fuck those guys." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/27/walmarts-jackals/#cheater-sizes
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The American Library Association has released new data about book bans in the United States. The numbers shattered last year's records.
This page has a lot more explanation of what's happening, more images to share, and ways you can get involved.
https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/2022-book-bans/
h/t @elaterite
#BookBans #Books #Libraries #FreeSpeech #Literacy #History #Histodon
Well, there's a king-sized bottle of antacids in my office for a reason, I suppose.
Don't mind me, I'm just going to go spend the rest of my lunch in the far bathroom. >_>;
Sigh.
Me: I've had a shit week, I deserve a treat. I'm going to buy the cafeteria's roast beef sandwich that I've been curious about trying for a while, even through it's half again as expensive as any other sandwich!
Me: *takes one bite*
Me: *immediately regrets all life choices that led to this point*
Me: *Finishes the whole damn sandwich anyway because I paid good sandwich money for it, dammit*
Not one, not two, but THREE Bert I. Gordon movies have arrived from interlibrary loan for me today.
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JK Rowling: hello children
Poe: ok
Poe: JK
Rowling: you don’t ssssound very thrilled to ssssee me edgar
Poe: well it’s just
Rowling: perhapssss you’ll be more thrilled after you read thissss court order I bought requiring everyone to like me
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I just am not capable of believing he’s going to be arrested today.
You could show me a live feed of him crying in handcuffs and I’d assume we’ll find out it’s a deepfake in 15 minutes.
I don’t believe in bad things happening to bad people anymore.
I feel like I'm coming down with something and I'd really like to go home and take a test for it, but it's Monday and our normally 3-man-short department is a 5-man-short department, so I have to stay. Lean staffing can bite my diseased ass.
Two weeks to doc referral, and hopefully less to physio consult. It's all so dumb. Stupid knees, let me walk!
And now, my damn knees barely let me walk the length of my building, and my coworkers, bless 'em, are trying to sneakily do my needs-walking tasks for me. Because I look so bad staggering around.
Aspiring writer. old. incorrectly queer. General gloomy gus.
Joined Nov 2022
