Embed this noticeNina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 22:55:11 JST
Nina PaleyI went to “Convenient Care” Sunday night because my cough (of 3 weeks so far) worsened and my temperature rose. I don’t have Covid, Flu, or pneumonia (at least not that shows on a chest X-ray, my first ever) but decided after that to take it as easy as possible until I recover more solidly. I had a vet appointment for my cat Lola this morning, and a friend to give me a ride, but just canceled it after some weighing of options. Lola's doing okay and I'm going to keep RESTING instead of doing more stressful shit.
I feel good about my decision. I'm going to spend today in bed or on the sofa binge-watching season 2 of "Severance" (finished Season 1 last night). And I'm gonna keep resting and binge-watching until I'm more stable. Because getting sicker Sunday sucked ass and frightened me, and if I'm meant to be sick for an unreasonably long time, so be it. I surrender.
@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.
"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.