I’m going to delete my comments. You’re right about everything. I’m so sorry.

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Oof, been there. I live way up north. We’re very much flannel and hiking boots and folk music kind of people. There’s definitely an archetype of Midwesterners who wear cowboy boots and blast country music out of their pickup trucks that fly the confederate flag, and it’s weird. Like, are you lost, pal? Texas is that way.

I went back to my old MP3 player, and I love collecting CDs, along with a handful of other ways I’ve turned back the clock. I live like it’s 2006 and I’m so much better off for it.

Natural fibers are so important to me, and I wish companies these days would make them more. Polyester doesn’t breathe at all in the summer heat. And while I can mend my clothes, I want a good five years out of them first. Some clothes just aren’t worth repairing if they’re going to fall apart in under a year.

I’m also snobbish about boots. Thursday Boot Company is a diamond in the rough for selling Goodyear welt resoleable boots for women, when a lot of companies see it as a men-only or unisex thing. More of that, please!

Years ago, due to a combination of wanting to save money, learn a new hobby, and come to terms with a beloved coffee/sandwich shop going out of buiness, I decided, “Why spend all this money if I can just become the barista myself?”

So I gradually invested in a really lovely home kitchen setup. I shamelessly downloaded a PDF of the shop’s menu before it went under, and I got pretty good at recreating the same breakfast sandwiches and lunch combos. I also grind beans that I buy locally, do french presses and pour-overs, and when time allows, make lattes. I learned a lot of valuable skills along the way. It also retroactively made a lot of diners and brunch spots worse for me. There’s been a number of bad, kind of overpriced omelets I order at restaurants that I think I can do better at home.

Chai lattes, my favorite drink, has been my latest obsession to recreate after having a proper cup at a tea bar. Now I know if it’s not spicy, something’s wrong. I really didn’t realize how many coffee shops were just using powdered chai too, instead of making it from scratch. I can never go back. 🙃

I think there’s this narrative sometimes that being unpretty makes you invisible, which is good because that keeps more creepy men away.

I’m going to respond to that from personal experience by saying being unattractive didn’t prevent men from doing things I didn’t consent to in my childhood and teen years. It doesn’t stop drunk guys from saying creepy things to me in bars, and it didn’t stop the unwanted hookup requests from people who see me as desparate or an easy target due to my looks. I think predators and pickup artists don’t differentiate looks. They see people they think they can easily manipulate and choose those people.

It does seem like pretty women get too much male attention, occasionally positive but mostly negative, and unattrative women sometimes exclusively get the creeps with ulterior motives.

I’m genuinely unsure whether I’ll still be alive in three years.

It’s really sad we’re in a place where I also looked at this thread and had the thought, “Am I even going to get to be an old person one day?”

Skinny jeans must be protected.

First of all, I love everything about this, including her works cited page where she includes her own paper dated in the future on why her boyfriend is “Proof of Freud’s Darker Theories.”

Second of all, climate change kind of ruined winter. Where I live, it’s too icy to bike and too cold to go camping, but there also isn’t consistent enough snow for skiing and snowmen. So winters for me and my partner have turned into hibernation mode with slow-cooked meals and long RPGs.

Was Chad, um, right all along? 😅

I really hope Democrats don’t cave on this bill, but if they do, it wouldn’t stop all clinics from providing care (since not all clinics have halted care for trans youth), and it wouldn’t stop telemedicine organizations like Folx and Plume, whose funding model doesn’t rely on federal funding to begin with.

For the most part, with the exception of the military ban, Democrats in Congress have supported our rights. I think the odds are better than not that there will be a government shutdown and the bill won’t pass.

I was in a pretty dark place last night. I’m still really scared, but this bill is not the end.

Final Fantasy VII. Fans have made beautiful new models with better textures on Nexus, and it makes me wish Square Enix had bothered to do more than just up-res the graphics and backgrounds before calling it a day. That’s the only remake I ever wanted.

https://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy7/mods/4

Yeah, I think the most that would be possible is running Duckstation or something using a VR headset and controller, and not being able to turn in-game using motion controls.

Is it “bourgeois feminism,” or just the inherent limitations of Twitter/Bluesky as a medium and its inability to provide extended context to thesis statements?

No, it’s definitely both. You’re just not going to get an essay-length nuanced analysis out of a Tweet, so it’s easy to give people the least charitable interpretation. It’s unfair to reduce feminism and the larger points about divisions of labor to this one tweet, and then take the moral high ground. Twitter and Bluesky suck and have little redeeming value, but here is a chance to have more extended discussions without making snap judgments.

There’s a portion of Marxist men, certainly not all of them, who partake in essentialism and are reluctant to take women seriously, along with other cultural issues. The class struggle is a venn diagram with the rights of people in marginalized groups. It’s important, but it’s not absolutely everything.

Cool! I want to play Baroque on PS1 in VR someday, if that becomes possible.

I think this has people really worried, which is understandable, but I’m not concerned at this point for a few reasons. I’d just take a deep breath before trying to FOMO-buy a gun.

1. Nothing has actually happened yet. It’s just hearsay at this point.
2. It’s unenforceable. Conservatives used loopholes for years when Dems were in office to avoid filling out forms and being subject to background checks. People are still buying guns from unlicensed sellers at gun shows even though it’s illegal in many states. Chances are you know someone who has guns.
3. This is controversal even among conservatives. I’ve been seeing a lot of comments from saying this will set a bad precedent and repeated refrains of “Shall not be infringed,” often in all caps. It hasn’t been uncommon for a conservative to defend gun control targeting trans people, and then being called gun-stealing “Democrats” by other conservatives in the replies. There’s also some “I don’t like 'em, but we all the right to defend themselves,” sometimes including slurs. Accidental allies?
4. There’s nothing wrong with buying a gun, if you don’t have one and need to fund other stuff, that money would be better spent on a Go Bag or toward moving to a Blue state.

That being said, Republicans can never say “They’re taking away our guns” ever again.