@FeartnTired It absolutely sucks to have Crohn's Disease which I developed post-Covid. However, other people developed CRAPs (Covid-Reactive Autoimmune Pathologies) that are thus-far undiagnosable and more mysterious, and get lumped into "Long Covid" which is considered mythical by many. I feel fortunate that my CRAP has a name and treatment and garners me lots of sympathy while others receive blame and contempt, insult added to injury.
The world of animation and film I came up in and competed in and won in, is no more. All these awards I have in my cabinet are from a world that no longer exists.
Embed this noticeNina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 01:13:50 JST
Nina PaleyUSAID seems to be rife with corruption and long overdue for an audit AND despite that, some of its projects are worthy and crucial AND smashing everything immediately is causing more damage than an orderly audit and paring-down AND the latter may not have been possible, hence extreme measures AND it's still causing harm AND what a mess
@polarisera It's not all cushy jobs. There are doctors and nurses and construction workers and well-diggers and so on. I don't know if a "right" solution was possible. It's all trade-offs. But it is a mess. Such is the problem with any endemic corruption.
VICTORY. I read up on tempering/dipping and made another batch of saffron-cardamom truffles and this time they all got properly coated with very little “distempering” of the chocolate even at the end. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER!
Embed this noticeNina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 02:18:06 JST
Nina Paley"We should not discriminate against trans-identified individuals in matters of housing, education, employment, etc. An employee who is a good employee and deserves a promotion should not be denied that promotion because he believes he is a woman any more than an employee who is Catholic should be denied the promotion because he believes priests engage in transubstantiation and turn bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus.
Cori and Nina “deform” a flag and it goes viral for a few seconds, thanks to the outrage of self-diagnosed autists. But hysterical online denunciations aren’t what they used to be, especially when you identify as an Asshole, as Nina now does to treat her kindness dysphoria. Many questions arise about Cori: how human is he? Will he sue his “healthcare providers”? Would he have died sooner if he hadn’t transed? Will he convert to Judaism? In sadder news, we mourn the passing of Cori’s cat, Harley. May his cute and fluffy memory be a blessing.
Lawyer and unyielding bicyclist Glenna Goldis knows the law, knows how to write, and knows women are female (ask her how!). After she describes her fancy road bike, and Nina lists her many recumbents, we move on to The US vs Skrmetti (also discussed here). Plus: cocaine, harm reduction, biker bars, the ACLU, propaganda, men in women’s prisons, “improper housing,” cults, academics, clergy, saviors, honor court, gay marriage, SOGI, judge trainings, and the nascent Gender Critical Law Society. Goldis reminds us, “the people who fall for a scam are the people who are targeted for a scam,” and asks the important question: will Kara Dansky “flip” for Cori? Tune in and don’t find out!
Both should be safe and legal. Hosts get to control their borders and say who gets in and who stays out. The needs, desires, and boundaries of the host take precedence over the needs of the visitors. If someone is turned back at the border, it might be tragic but it's not the host's problem.
Embed this noticeNina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 19:59:44 JST
Nina PaleyNothing like having your cat barf right in your bed at 3am, waking you up and leaving the stench of cat food barf in the sheets even after you do your best to clean it up with a handkerchief. Then lie awake another hour and a half trying to go back to sleep as she comes and goes, walking on your nipple with a clumsy yet intensely weight-bearing paw, hovering over your pillow. You must sit up to move her heavy body, dense with resistance, to the other side of the bed where, just as you relax enough to maybe go back to sleep, she barfs again. Now all bets are off, the lights are on, you're wide awake scrubbing at the sheets. Now you're on the sofa writing this and hating Life. Hating your cat, your heart; hating what you love most. DON'T LICK MY HEAD. DON'T WALK ON MY NIPPLE. Jesus Christ, Lola.
"Based-as-fuck TERF HOST" of Heterodorx.com"...that badass chick with a web comic who's a free software activist"Car Exclusionary Radical Bicyclist. Recovering heterosexual.Preferred pronouns: English.