I would say I'm utterly speechless but it would be as meaningful as "pun not intended" in written form. Someone literally just donated the equivalent a week's net wages for me, to our gofundme. We will also now have shelter for a week because of it. Simultaneously I am stunned, relieved and ashamed by the magnitude of this anonymous generosity. To whomever just did this, nothing I could write would sufficiently convey our gratitude.. I don't know what to else to say besides thank you.

It's pretty pathetic when I can't even muster the spoons to write 6 characters for a content warning. Yet I have the spoons to pontificate endlessly otherwise. I'm sorry everyone if I've triggered you by my lack of CWs. That was selfish of me.

On my way to deal with Karens all day, passing all the maga flags newly popped up celebrating the impending apocalypse. Four more years at least of gaslighting, inhumane austerity, irrational bigotry, blind injustice, and above all heartless, sociopathic cruelty. These are not the values I was taught. I was taught to love thy neighbor, to comfort the afflicted, to seek a safer, fairer, world for everyone. I was not taught to scapegoat others for my own benefit. I was taught love, respect, and just basic civility. Fuck.

Whelp.. that was almost very very bad.. was dropping off my ballot and I was so confused by all these gigantic weird fucking roundabouts by City Hall that I missed the stop sign and went sailing across the main road here. Did I mention the police station is also by City Hall? Fuck that could've been awful for multiple reasons.

I've been fortunate to have had a tremendously positive experience here on the #Fediverse, which I realize comes from a place of privilege but they are my anecdotal experiences nonetheless. I've never been part of a more empathetic, non-judgemental, accepting and encouraging social group than here and I will ceaselessly preach about it. The mutual aid and support, the shitposts, the cat pics.. not even my beloved BBSs of yesteryear were this uplifting. This is how social media *should* be.

why do they even call the damned things "recorders" when they have absolutely no mechanism with which to capture or store audio