Notices by Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)

@skinnylatte

This joke tickles me quite unreasonably

@skinnylatte

Tangiential topic to Chinese restaurants in the US: there are apparently (or were; don't know how much of a thing this still is) a string of family-owned Chinese restaurants sprinkled through the Rockies, which seems weirdly random until you realize they are a legacy of the immigrant labor used to construct the early railroads. I'd always thought that would be a wild road-trip, track those down & try out the ones that still exist.

@skinnylatte

FWIW, it's hard to make deep adult friendships in a place you •did• grow up in. I live literally about two & a half miles from where I was born; have lived in this town all but six years of my life, & in my current neighborhood for 40 years—& I have maybe a half a dozen solid friends, two whom I'd call close, only one of whom is local, & they live in the next town over.

So, yeah. strong adult friendships are hard.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@idzie/115879615196969527

Welp, I know what my next library check-out's gonna be—!

@kims

My very shy & timid guinea pig let me pet him yesterday. Just for a moment, & only in the middle of his crest. But it's the first time he's allowed this in the two years he's lived here.

@futurebird

I was lucky in that my mother was very savvy as a household finance manager. (My dad was...rather less so. Which may be why my mom was so fierce about it.)

Every year, we got a gift certificate from Monkey Ward for keeping our bill paid up,* which she'd give to me, & point out the reason we got it.

I cam out of childhood regarding consumer debt roughly as dangerous as heroin. Haven't had reason to change that assessment.** >

Revisiting this essay from @pluralistic & I am reminded of a primary school teacher I happened to fall into coversation with. She mentioned that there were a number of #Native kids in her class. She was struck, whenever there was a lesson or an exercise that called for kids to compete against each other, the Native kids just Would Not. Their way was to arrive at a consensus, & there was just no way to shake them loose of that.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/three-freedoms/#anti-fatalism

@sand @RickiTarr

I will push back (more politely than I feel) about "excuses," though. That's part & parcel of this whole "hustle" ideology.

Struggling to get all the Life Shit done is exhausting. I've had to fight really hard to give myself grace if I don't manage to get All The Things done, the way you're "supposed to."

There are •only• so many hours in the day. Sometimes it's just NOT FUCKING POSSIBLE.

@sand @RickiTarr

Largely the same here. If I can manage to get an early walk in (basically the easiest, minimalist excercise I can reliably manage), the whole day generally goes better.

Two things get in the way: I'm a night owl, so I sleep best if I can sleep into the mid-morning. And Too Damn Much To Do, which means just •making• that hour is a major effort. >

@sand @RickiTarr

Oh. Right. Excercise. I'd gotten out of the habit in the last year after losing a walking buddy....

But also: often hard-to-impossible to find that extra hour in the day....

@paul_ipv6 @bmacDonald94

😂 Yes! 👍

@paul_ipv6 @bmacDonald94

Or, more succinctly:

"Head of State" has multiple meanings

@skinnylatte

Oh gawd. How did you survive??

@skinnylatte

I feel this so hard. Probably a piker by Singaporean standards, but the Protestant Work Ethic™ was strong with my mother, & I came out of my upbringing feeling like if the meter wasn't pegged in the red all the damn time, I just wasn't trying hard enough. Which I knew in my heart was bs, so I fought it more effectively than many I know. But it still messed me up, & I struggle with rest and self-care (never mind doing spiritually nourishing things) to this day.

@cstross @Richard_Littler

Industry coerces lawmakers/courts into magically voiding their liability in 3...2...1...

My explanation:

—Credit: https://theawkwardyeti.com/

@bmacDonald94

Corollary Kosh quote from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5: "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."

Building a News Community with Jim Acosta & Heather Cox Richardson >

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgp0gnXKOKA

#USpol #HeatherCoxRichardson #JimAcosta

Jim Acosta with Historian Heather Cox Richardson and Indivisible's Ezra Levin

https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/historian-heather-cox-richardson

#USpol #HeatherCoxRichardson #JimAcosta #EzraLevin

@petrillic

"Yes, but if I do have to reinvent it, how many corners should it have?"