@randahl Understandable except... whatever state that would be still contains a lot of people (usually a majority) who don't want that in the first place and who would be severely harmed and/or die as a result.
Now, I have always voted since I was first eligible in the '80s. But I want to post a reminder that there are massive systemic issues with our voting system.
We can each do our individual best, while also recognizing that systemic issues do not have individual solutions.
We do not have "apathetic" voters, we have massively, intentionally disenfranchised voters.
I've had a bad mental health day due to three nights of bad sleep in a row, and four days without a run. Both beyond my threshold! Wellbutrin can't hold it up alone.
Going to prioritize sleep tonight and tomorrow a run after dropping my son at school and before work.
And tonight, finally watching Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! (On Tubi)
You are just not going to find me expressing big opinions on any intra-community beef or discourse if it's a community of which I am not a member. 💁🏻♀️
This has to be the first Saturday in years. Years! In which I am not so stressed and exhausted from the week that I have to sleep until noon, NOR am I so harried that I am still trying to get urgent, crucial tasks completed in the morning.
Everything is still and wreck and I still have an enormous backlog of tasks, but nothing that will explode immediately if I ignore it for a few hours. I hardly know how to feel!
I'm seeing a sneaky thing Amazon just started doing, and that is lately when I order something it shows the order date as the *following* day. So for example when I ordered some food from a wishlist, my order showed as being ordered on that day's "tomorrow." I think it's a way to camouflage slower shipping.
I grew up in an era where women were newly blinking in the amazing sudden light of legalized birth control and abortion rights.
It was very much a time of excitement for the future where we would all finally be free to make our own choices, having come out of a long dark chamber of repression, control, and danger.
It has never been a given and that must never be forgotten.
It's been a week of not enough sleep and a whole lot to do. I have so much going on today. I awoke thinking it was Friday, which usually doesn't happen until Thursday.
My GP still hasn't responded to my repeated requests to refill my antidepressant, which in my case is crucial for staying awake longer than two hours at a time. It runs out tomorrow. I am stressing out so much.
It also means I will have to take the time out of my already stressfully packed day to drive all the way across and outside of town and march in there in person to demand--er, kindly request--a refill. 😤
Also as I may have mentioned, one of the big reasons I chose this apartment location in 2017 was it was close to my son's school AND to the neighborhood family medical practice we had attended for nearly ten years. Literally walking distance. Really important.
Then at the recent onset of the Big Consolidation (of medical practices and resources into mega-facilities run by insurance companies) our doc sold out and moved into a new mega-facility outside of town. I hate everything about it. 😠
I squeezed 40 minutes out of the work day, drove out to the practice, brought my nearly empty meds bottle with me, asked for a refill. They said my GP was there that day so I thought she would probably fill it. By the time I got home I had a text from the pharmacy saying my prescription had been called in. 🎉🎉
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