I hope your stay does not have too much ::gestures vaguely:: Drew

It should be fine, but I'm just very aware. I'm on the balance between knowing that if I wanted to I could completely fly under the radar. I'm a white guy in a 50s whith a nice white beard. However, I also should NOT be one avoiding it. I'm wearing rainbow pride toppers on my glasses today. I mean, I'm not looking to start anything, but I'm also queer, and don't feel right hiding just because I can.

Yeah, the world is a lot right now.

I've gone back and forth about whether I should talk about this or not, because I don't want y'all to think that I'm missing Likes or running analytics on every post to see if the response I get back is proportionate or something. But pretend I'm Pam Beesley on Beach Day or something...it was good when she asked for what she needed(Although I'd argue she ended up in a pretty disappointing place anyway, but I digress.)

Which might be my overly-precious way of asking "Are we all right?" Because, on the one hand, my own concentration and attentiveness are not what they usually are, either, and I guess there are a few posts about my life that it's fine that we just chalk up to a venting with no response required, but some of it does take a lot to share(it goes against my grain, in a sense. I'm not trying to tell you that I was held hostage and you missed feeling bad about it.)I really would hate to think that I said something that bothered people here and nobody said anything. It's hard having problems that nobody understands, but "we dug coal together" (and, you know, if we're not really at "Real friends move bodies," anymore, I guess I'd rather know that so I can get my shovel back...um, maybe I said too much.)

Fuck everything about this motherfucking administration.

This is my housemate being interviewed on the street outside his office building after he and his entire department were laid off this morning: [link]

His office helped struggling children and families for Health and Human Services. Of course these fuckers shut it down.

Not hard to spot him for your people, Karl. In the best way. And I know I never really got to be a reporter, but when I watch one try to stick his finger in the wound as that guy did, it kind of makes me nuts.(Even though intellectually, in some really gross level I hate to know is there, I also understand "Maybe we'll go viral if he cries." but fuck that, too.) I would like to take that chainsaw and give Elon another sphincter...it bothers me how much.

I'm on the balance between knowing that if I wanted to I could completely fly under the radar. I'm a white guy in a 50s whith a nice white beard. However, I also should NOT be one avoiding it. I'm wearing rainbow pride toppers on my glasses today. I mean, I'm not looking to start anything, but I'm also queer, and don't feel right hiding just because I can.

Uggggggh I feel this so hard. Being visible is so important but also kind of terrifying. (And as a cis middle-class white lady with a husband, I am keenly aware that I could grow out my undercut and lose the rainbow dye job if being visibly queer were truly putting my safety at risk. That kind of stealth isn't available to everyone.)

erika, I haven't been bothered by any of your posts and I would absolutely still help you bury a body.

If there's a body to be buried, I'm here to help.

Always happy to help bury bodies. These days some more than others.

But really I am only here to recommend this photography book to Scola. One of my gigs these days is editing a ridiculously pretentious and jargon-y art journal but the book review of Camera Geologica actually made it sound interesting. The chapters are organized by mined materials but apparently there's a substantial section on the history of Eastman Kodak.

I'm not exactly sure where I stand, as it were, if sexuality is a spectrum, only not quite where I, say, left college at. When I read that people are worried that my cousin's son "might feel outnumbered" by his three sisters, I feel more queer(even if that might bug a Kinsey 1 feminist too) But in a truly queer writing space with pronouns I've never seen before, sometimes I think "Well, maybe not." But that just means that I'm cisgendered and possibly not all that hip...it doesn't mean I couldn't find the right girl(And most disabled people I know who have partners did that, pretty much.) Not getting to experiment only postpones the questions; it doesn't end them. ND, even if we arranged that, right here, right now? Still smarter than that Signal bullshit.

ND, even if we arranged that, right here, right now? Still smarter than that Signal bullshit.

Exactly

I would never, ever do that, though. Because I'm not Hegseth-level mess.