They say he died as a result of complications of heart surgery from 3 weeks ago.

Armstrong's family said, "For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request: Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."

Aww. And yeah, man, I can do that.

That's great.

I got a bunch of stuff done today, but nobody had any eggs. Not the kitchen lady, not the farmers market.

I slept all day. Like, woke up long enough to eat breakfast, then fell back asleep. Woke up long enough to eat lunch, fell back asleep. Woke up again at 4 PM and realized that I hadn't done any of the stuff I needed to do today.

I have nothing I need to do today. I'd love to sleep.

I'm about to run out of Rooibos Tropica from Teavana. I like Rooibos in general, and I find this blend to be quite delish with most baked goods. It's my backup tea to the dragon jasmine phoenix pearls (apparently they blend well too). Is anyone savvy enough about Adagio or Upton or any other good teac ompany blends to recommend something similar, or should I go back to the the extortioners of tea for my re-up hit?

Hello strangers!

It's taken me forever to catch up in natter.

So happy that msbelle found a nanny.

Just watched the King's Bishop. Anyone else see it?

The horse that won just ran and ROMPED in a stakes race 3 days ago. Wow.

Also, NYT tells me that Neil Armstrong has died. Sad. But he was 82.

Also: went on a yarn crawl this morning: I touched vicuna fiber! And got to try a "pocket wheel". It was fun.

Neil Armstrong used to teach aerospace engineering at UC, actually.

I'm looking for some non-privileged perspective on this ad. I'm seeing discussion that it's transphobic, but the premise seems to be that appearing to be a gender that you're not, and revealing your gender after the mislead is endorsing trans panic and therefore the murder of trans women.

Here's the first discussion of it that I saw:

The problem is that it still relies on the same old transphobic (and transmisogynistic) tropes, and this is a cis man that is doing an advert that involves a bigoted idea that ends up killing trans women (especially trans women of color), that trans women are tricking people over their gender, that their penis makes them male, as shown by the shock reveal at the end and a company owned probably mostly by cis men creating this advert to profit from that idea. In the end its just an insulting OMG that person you thought was female is a he advert, with high production values and some glitz but still transphobic at its heart.

Given that the ad's tagline is "Let's turn our butts to conventional knowledge" isn't there an "don't rely on first impressions or traditional standards" interpretation that we can take away from this that is progressive and not detrimental?

Is my general chafing at the gender binary seen as cis privilege and transphobic or counter to trans* equality?