Notices by Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online), page 7

That said, I did start dating again this year. I’ve met some great people and forged some connections that meant a lot to me. I’ve learned a lot about myself and what I now expect from relationships. I did host two sapphic events this year and attended a couple local events. I tried speed dating for the first time ever. I showed up for friends in crisis and they showed up for me as well. We had the big friend group go to pride. And I attempted with mixed success to host my favorite holidays

I think my major takeaway from 2023 has been accepting change, readjusting my expectations, and taking stock of the good things. Lots of things did not go according to plan. I didn’t do a lot of what I set out to do. But there are so many things that I did get to do and learn and I have so much to be proud of and happy about. And ultimately I feel fulfilled in my theme of being a person that I think is attractive. More confident, dedicated and capable, and feeling more at home in my body

I did bounce back after surgery though and set my longest ever move streak of 204 days! I was really dedicated to fitness this year and did lots of walking, cycling, kickboxing, yoga, weight training, completed a couple of fitness challenges, and I think redefined for myself my ideas about fitness and feeling good in my body. I’ve also spent more time working on my relationship with food and confronting disordered eating patterns and shame around food. So I do feel accomplished

I had this really ambitious goal of getting in the best shape of my life this year and I was so close to achieving my weight goals but surgery really set me back here and I gained a lot of weight afterwards. I think a big part of this was hormones being readjusted, but I also got into some poor eating and exercise habits during my recovery. I am within 0.1lbs of where I started last year, so I did not achieve the goal I had in mind.

I keep thinking about what my goals are for 2024 and all I can think about is:

Just wanted you to know that you are the chosen few, the elite, the top geniuses of our society. Because some guy on Reddit said mastodon is too complicated for normal people to understand

It’s like kind of a bummer that folks only get really vocal about how transphobia is bad when it also affects cis women

If you call your product “freedom” or “liberty” something and use overtly patriotic imagery in your marketing, it’s extremely sus and I’m gonna need you to immediately follow that up with “fuck fascists. Fuck Nazis. Fuck white supremacists”

It’s so frustrating how every algorithmic social network is constantly trying to feed you right wing Christian conservative bullshit and you have to actively fight it. No matter how much leftist content I engage with, no matter how much I block and click “not interested”, it’s like an infection that keeps coming back

I got mine at Target like a couple years ago but the artist is Jenifer Prince and she sells her designs here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/31029155-busy-thinking-about-girls-no-bg

I also have one of her prints and I think @rooster has her prints too haha. Great sapphic art

lol I mean you’ve basically described my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danirabbit

No cooking today though. I had electro and it hurts and I’m curled up on the couch watching Spice and Wolf

Deadnaming is never okay. This is completely inappropriate and hurtful. Imagine if someone got married and their family kept calling them “Ms. MaidenName” behind their back. That’s obviously inappropriate and they should be angry about it. IMO there’s a very short grace period for deadnaming and then it’s no contact. Nobody ever comes out with a bunch of excuses about “oh it’s so hard, I’ve known you as Ms. MaidenName your whole life”. It’s easy to respect someone’s identity

I don’t have strong opinions about init systems, but my feeling is that people that are opposed to systemd are just being weird. Every major distro uses systemd. It feels uncontroversial to me

I’m A/B testing

It’s the law! In Sacramento all rentals can only increase their rate once a year and only 5% + CPI https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Community-Development/Code-Compliance/Tenant-Protection-Program

Baxter you know I don’t speak Spanish

Probably Freiren. I’m excited every Friday for a new episode. Solo Leveling has also been fun. It looks like there’s a new sci-fi mystery series on Apple TV+ so might get into that

The last movie I watched was Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. That was great. I still haven’t seen Oppenheimer. Been wanting to rewatch The Matrix lately

Thanks anon 🥰 after spending a lifetime feeling ugly and hating my body, I now feel really good about the way I look. I’m proud of the work I put in to have the body I want and I feel really capable of expressing myself with my clothing, hair, makeup, jewelry etc. I’m the most myself I’ve ever been and it’s hard not to feel really good about that!

lol somebody tried to be a shithead and say I look like a man. I dunno bud I just found out one of the regulars at my pub thinks I’m super hot. Gonna trust their opinion over yours 😂

I think it’s normal to feel like different things are important in retrospect. If that’s what you felt was most important in that moment, I think that’s okay! You really cared about a thing. Whether you did or didn’t make an impact, the act of championing a concern is something I think you can feel proud of :)