Notices by GalacticTurtle (galacticturtle@spinster.xyz), page 5
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@Cousin_Isobel For the taxes question, I think I chose the "I can't think of another way this would work" answer. I debated doing the "it's part of the social contract but we can vote to change it" but didn't. Truthfully I don't even think I could define what a libertarian is. I'm guessing that's the "you do you, I'll do me" approach.
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@Cousin_Isobel Omg, good news. I'm now in my redemption era.
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@Cousin_Isobel It seems there is a follow up quiz for the small percentage of authoritarians out there to determine if I'm prone to locking people up in a mean way or locking people up in a nice way. Let's see what I get. But it starts with, "Authoritarians like you believe a strong central government is needed to manage the economy, build a strong nation, and protect communities from descending into chaos." Your honor, I believe this is my job description. So I'm going to interpret this as a personality test since I readily admit to having little grasp on political issues.
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@Piss_Ant My brave knight will save me from your savagery!
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Wow. Someone for real just said, "Men are taught from the time they're born to never hurt a woman. More than that, we're told we should die for women. So the fact that feminists say all these men are terrible is something I can never take seriously."
My brain is broken. It's cracked in two. It's spreading all over the floor. I'm mopping it up with shredded crime statistics.
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It's the OG Formula 1 race this weekend.
I'll make some tea as I watch speedy cars go zoom zoom. 🇬🇧
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It has occurred to me that, technically, I could get a Christmas tree right now and keep it up forever because my mom does not live here and can't tell me to take it down.... :eyes_opposite:
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I did it. I got a fake fireplace.
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Today I found myself in a very unfortunate headspace that I thought I had gotten rid of years ago but I guess not.
At one point in my early twenties, I did a complete overhaul of my wardrobe in an attempt to no longer draw male attention. I got rid of all my dresses and skirts, all my shorts, all my emo skinny jeans, and all but a couple of emergency short-sleeved shirts. I stopped straightening my hair and got rid of all my jewelry.
Logically, I know there's only so much that can be done. I know that at the end of the day, it doesn't truly matter what you were wearing. But it still felt good to make an effort, cutting down to purely practical things. Definitely saves me a lot of money. And sure a couple things have happened since then but largely my efforts seem to have been successful.
Today though, I'm suddenly being told in detail all the things that are apparently appealing about my face. Then all I could think about was that I really shouldn't have taken off my hat, that it didn't make sense to have taken off my hat. Then of course, someone went out of their way to completely mess up the way the production trailer was organized so even when I caved and went to go find my hat, I couldn't find it for a good five minutes and was legitimately freaking out.
Anyway, it all seems a bit silly now that I'm home. But the illogical part of my brain is still deeply ashamed by the way I guess I decided to present myself to the public. Another fault was the pins on the bag I carry. All sorts of comic book and Star Wars pins. It might not technically be jewelry but it obviously attracts attention. It gives people an opening to start a conversation and me being me I just jump right into it because I can't keep my mouth shut if someone mentions Star Wars. So I guess that's something to think about.
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@stingray @meowski Sucks to know he was young. But alas, I'm interested in how this will all play out.
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Encountered what I believe to be an interesting difference in perspective between my friend and I.
Over the years, she's done a few jobs with a specific touring company. One tour she did with them she considered a particularly transformative experience - enough to get her first "tour tattoo." Because the company has quite a large profile when it comes to entertainment logistics, most notably its own fleet of private jets, she's always said I might do well there.
I know another woman who was on one of the same tours as my friend for this other company. She didn't say much about it, just that the vibe was weird and that she liked touring with me much better. #EgoBoost
Since I'm currently looking to fill in my calendar, my friend took the opportunity to reach out to her main contact at the company to get us connected. I don't know the exact words he said, but she was very bothered by the cold tone he took with her essentially communicating that while yes they had lots of business and yes they were looking for people, he no longer looked at resumes and instead only took referrals.
I pointed out that it was a strange response because what she was doing was quite literally the definition of a referral. Wanting to confirm she was still on good standing with the company she reached out again for clarification. He said that while she herself is good, he's not going to take a referral from her.
I said his attitude kinda stinks of bro energy. She quickly assured me that women do reach high positions there and that she was never disrespected. I pointed out that it sounds like he did kind of disrespect her by saying yeah she's a fine crew member but not held in high enough esteem to even entertain the thought of considering a referral that came from her. She insists he must have his reasons even though I was correct in that "he is rather masc" which I found to be an interesting word choice from her.
Anyway, doesn't make much difference to me. Just has me thinking of different levels of tolerance when it comes to this kind of thing. The other woman she worked with obviously felt it. Whatever my friend went through on that tour I figure she interpreted as a bit of a rite of passage. I know this because after she did that particular tour and ended up on my crew once again, she got very upset when a problem came up at a venue and I didn't publicly shout at this venue guy in front of everyone until I got my way and wasn't cursing up a storm in the production office when I noticed a few line items were clearly wrong on a show settlement.
It was the first time she'd ever been genuinely upset with me so I explained to her that I approached the venue guy privately as work on stage continued, spoke to him to explain his error, and secured the thing that we needed. I also said that for the settlement, I simply looped in the Live Nation rep, presented my reasoning for why the settlement was flawed, and it was rectified without another word from the actual venue.
She said that the tour manager at this other company was always throwing his weight around, always yelling at people, and she found it desirable to present that type of show of force. I said that if he was screaming at people at every single tour stop it means he probably wasn't that good at his job because sure, things go wrong on the road, but the odds of every single venue being off their game is quite slim.
I should also note that this was the first tour that happened for her after she gathered herself up enough to walk out on her fiancee who was also routinely horrible to her.
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@DoctorDee I do wonder how anything ever got done with dudes throwing a fit to the finish line. The first few people I worked for were definitely like that but even if that hadn't been the case I'm not sure why behaving that way would be anyone's default mode. Would be interesting to get a historical record of workplace culture to see how it all got this way to begin with.
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Mood.
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@susansiens To be fair, I've never once encountered any American who had anything genuinely nice and relevant to say about Putin. In fact, to do so would strike me as extremely out of character. I figured the sentiment was mutual. US/Russia relations are the longest and most threateningly lethal dick-measuring contest to ever exist in the history of humanity. That's why dudes get all hot and bothered whenever the US President has to shake the guy's hand. So much analysis of the handshake and body language to see who established dominance over the other. XD
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@Fullycaffeinated @Piss_Ant @ninapaley The only place that wasn't a complete bore was Kingston. There seemed to be some type of military base right in the center of town and I contemplated sneaking in and causing an international incident.
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@Fullycaffeinated @Piss_Ant @ninapaley My memory was right then! I was also impressed by the architecture whereas places like Vancouver, Toronto, and I think even Montreal all have these hideous identical modern high rises that are all made of glass. Though I think the most aesthetically tragic place was Oshawa.
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@Piss_Ant @ninapaley I'll enlist in the misgendering infantry. I'll shout vile pronouns. And maybe some vile adjectives and adverbs too. Remind me to bring a bucket to bring some Canadian water back with me.
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@Fullycaffeinated @Piss_Ant @ninapaley I've been there! To Montreal at least. Done concerts there twice. Canada remains uncool but Montreal was less uncool than Ontario where I've explored quite a bit. If only they had the ONRoute rest stops.
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@Piss_Ant @ninapaley I figure the breaking point will be when Trump becomes president again, goes to Canada, and misgenders a politician's non-binary daughter.
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@Piss_Ant @ninapaley I can't wait for the US to become the industrial wasteland of Canada.
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