I'm sad you had to return a dress with pockets.

Cute but distressingly short. Too much wind up me nethers.

Getting the cats used to the cage is a great idea.

In some ways I'm sorry you're not going to have co-drivers, but it's not like you haven't done the trip before.

I turned off Facebook and spent my afternoon/evening in the land of Marie Kondoing my bedroom (verdict: I have much more sheets than I thought I did, plus nowhere to put them) and watching Avatar The Last Airbender animated. Aang is super-annoying.

k-pop fans and tiktok, apparently. So pleased.

I spent some time yesterday discussing the current situation with one of my medical office managers, who is Jamaican-America. She was saying that the increased involvement of youth is the most encouraging sign. Of course she still worries about the Bros voting 3rd party or writing in Bernie, and she was discouraged that the black vote went down after the uptick in 2008. BUT, from the activity we see here from the Parkland kids, and the demographics apparent in the protests here and throughout the country, the younger set is more involved and motivated than they have been in many years.

Short version, k-pop fans give me hope as another sign that apathy is on the decline. There are many factors that gave us Trump, but apathy was one of them.

Yes, I should be packing.

Timelies all!

Happy Father's Day to all the Buffista dads and father figures!

(Cookies and I am tired and it's been a really long day, So I hope the post below is coherent):

k-pop fans and tiktok, apparently. So pleased.

There's something I thought of a few months back. Do you remember Dana's wonderful post, "Fandom Through the Years: The Dark Side"? I realized that I can probably map most of the chapter names there to the political discussion in my country: anything from "Who Says You Have To Know About Economics To Write Economic Critique?" to "Psychotic Fascists I have known".

I am terrified by the combination of politics as entertainment and Opinionated Fans, but it looks like some fandom knows what they're doing.

Tik Tok teens and K-pop stans, beating Tr*mp at his own game: controlling the narrative. They made the Tr*mp team believe a million people had snapped up tickets to the rally. Brad P*rscale was absolutely giddy on Twitter, posting as the numbers went up. Even knowing only maybe a third of people who grab free tickets will actually show up, Tr*mp team still fully expected a massive crowd. And they can't pretend they didn't, because they had a stage set up outside the venue to entertain the YUGE crowds who couldn't get in (the venue holds 19,000 people). A bunch of teenagers, using a social media app most old conservatives have never even heard of, manipulated Tr*mp team's expectations and set them up to believe a huge crowd was coming. If P*rscale had known only 6611 people (final official count) would be there, he would've booked a small venue and blamed it on the rona or the protesters. Instead he booked a big venue for a tiny crowd and made Tr*mp look pathetic.

Those kids had a plan. All it needed was about 400,000 people to grab one or two or four free tickets with a fake email account. And it worked. The older generations could never have even imagined that that many young people could come together, all over the nation and maybe the world, completely under their radar, and pull off a devastating epic troll of the master of narrative manipulation. Tr*mp looked totally exhausted when he got off the plane in DC last night. I hope I live long enough to see the 14-year-old Machiavelli I encountered on Twitter last night become President.

We still love a pink gingham.

THE JUNTA LIVES!!!!

okay, didn't need to say it twice

Oh man. Now I miss ita.

I just went and test drove a car. I'm contemplating getting rid of mine--it's 20 years old, so although it's got very low mileage, it's banged up in a few spots and creaking. But dang, driving a new car I was like "There are too many buttons and screens and options and bells and whistles!"

THE JUNTA LIVES!!!!

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