Notices by Mishell Baker gladly (mishellbaker@wandering.shop), page 2

In a sense, my Mastodon timeline of boosts is like a locker collage or a mood board - the parts of the world I most want to see.

We all choose where to point our mental cameras. We cannot see all at once, and none of it is any more or less real than any other. When it's not time for helpful action, you have the right to return to a slice of reality that feels like home to you, so you can remember why taking action is worthwhile.

@annika Oh! Must find him.

I've never read the Percy Jackson books, but everything I've ever read about Rick Riordan gives me mad respect for him as a writer and human.

It's perfectly fine to think of your life as a narrative, that everything in it has meaning. You just have to consider that perhaps you are not always the center of the narrative, and that the meaning of any given event in your life might be more for someone else than for you.

It's easier to find a sense of satisfaction with the course of your life when you include impact on others as a measure of success and meaning.

I am baffled when people talk about "the atmosphere" on Mastodon. Here, there is no algorithm forcing posts into your feed. The atmosphere is the one you have personally curated.

1) Scan a person's feed before you follow.

2) Turn off the boosts of anyone you otherwise like who boosts stuff you don't want to see.

3) Mute anyone you don't want to hear from at all.

4) Filter out words/phrases you don't want to see (you will have to do much less of this if you do the first three steps right).

If you feel like you're having a bad day, just be aware that a woman mowing her lawn was recently attacked by a snake that FELL OUT OF THE SKY.

It wrapped around her arm and broke her glasses trying to bite her face.

And then A HAWK swooped down and clawed the living daylights out of the woman with its talons trying to get back the snake it had dropped.

Just in case, you know, she wasn't already a hundred percent certain that she had pissed off the universe.

My 13yo just saw Les Mis for the first time and was deeply moved but couldn't remember anyone's names. So she just finished telling me how she teared up when Fountain Pen died but really lost it at the death of that one girl, Ebony or Panini or whatever it was.

@mudasobwa My husband is a manager who has produced great value from home, gives brilliant interviews and meetings from home, and has been vastly more productive since he only has to waste time on a commute once every 1-2 weeks.

He also hasn't been sick in over a year and is able to make meals for for his wife who is on chemo, and even spend quality time with her at lunch during her last days, all with zero productivity loss.

Hey, answer me this, friends. If you were reading a book in which the protagonist spent 1-2 days riding through an unfamiliar rainforest/jungle with one person she was mad at and another she was intimidated by, what are some things you would definitely want to happen during the journey?

I did 21m cardio and showered, where is my FREAKIN medal

@vaurora GOSH that is a really nice thing to say. ?

I keep getting new followers who aren't just old friends tracking me down to make sure I'm still alive.

I'll have to start saying things that are interesting or something...

I feel kind of silly every time I start to feel sorry for myself about dying. It's nothing we don't all have to do at some point. Suck it up, Mishell!

#Today in #CancerBrat news: I am getting an awesome new end table for my apartment with a built in device charger and STORAGE SPACE, to go right next to my Brand New Couch, simply because I have been wanting both of those things for years and this year I Do What I Want.