@patrickrhone 💔such a hard loss. Sending love to you all!

@numericcitizen I like your write-up. many repercussions, indeed

@aa Yep, what @V_ said. I'm not IT but I do a lot of supporting content. our devs were talking about it a lot today

@gregmoore oh, same. didn't affect us thankfully but what a tough one.

@z428 they certainly have my sympathy. sounds like a mess to fix too.

how’s everybody in IT doing today? 😬 hanging in there?

community, community, community. So many questions keep leading me back to this same answer.

The gift of dissatisfaction anniemueller.com

@odd i'm sorry that's a large part of life, it's really difficult to live with/through. The more I pay attention to my self, the more I realize that the 'calm detached' persona I adopted early on was mostly a way to repress these feelings, a coping mechanism that I misunderstood as a personality.

@aeryn thanks for reading!

@ericmwalk i'm interested if you find a solution

@miguelmanalo oh good! Smooth like butter 😊

@ddanielson thank you, I appreciate you reading

@jarrod thanks Jarrod. We must keep imagining the world that we want if we are ever to build it.

I am adamantly opposed to urgency anniemueller.com

@numericcitizen thank you! I have a lot to be thankful for and i do a lot of overthinking :)

Just one damn thing after another anniemueller.com

@miguelmanalo I had to get a new SS card for my daughter and it was also months out for an appt. I made one but also went to my local branch without appt, saw someone in 15 months and new SS arrived 2 weeks later. Might be worth a try

@jordon just no winning anywhere tonight

well, that was awful

@mbkriegh i'm looking for positives and it's really hard to find

@jordon and "win" only at his own clubs

@jordon sadly that is accurate

@xxxx i have no words WTH

am i really listening to the potential leaders of usa insult each other over their golf capabilities and that’s what we’re doing? okay that’s what we’re doing

@stupendousman yep that's a good summary. he starts strong in the first 30 seconds and then just seems to lose his way

@jordon so bad, so so bad

@jordon ha! post it anyway, we'll be debate-despair buddies

watching the presidential debate of the united states of america and a key point is about ‘having sex with a porn star’ and so that’s where we are as a country

@kaa absolutely true

@Annie and convicted felon

@Annie hahah biden called him a whiner.

@jmanes ha yeah good point

biden needs a nap, donald needs a straitjacket

trump just called biden “a very bad palestinian” so okay

OH MY GOD CAN WE PLEASE PUT A WOMAN IN CHARGE ALREADY. IT IS 2024

dying throes of a colonizing empire sure are ugly

after birth? wtf is he talking about

donald is so dumb, biden is so old, i am so depressed

eye of the tiger catto

easy lunch: couple of cans of chickpeas + diced celery, cucumber, pepper + feta cheese + marinated artichoke hearts. Tossed in the oil from the artichokes + lemon juice. A little jalapeño bagel seasoning on top. So good.

Books I read through the divorce process. The progression is 🤣

How small that is, with which we wrestle,
what wrestles with us, how immense;
were we to let ourselves, the way things do,
be conquered thus by the great storm,—
we would become far-reaching and nameless.

What we triumph over is the Small,
and the success itself makes us petty.
The Eternal and Unexampled
will not be bent by us.

…growth is: to be the deeply defeated
by ever greater things.

Rilke, The Man Watching

Finished reading: A Life of Meaning by James Hollis, Ph.D. 📚

We swim in the mystery, and we have to track the movement of Divinity through the tangible world, to try to track the role of the unconscious powers—which by definition is something we don’t know—to see them as they manifest in our dreams, our bodies, our patterns; and to realize we are carriers, humble carriers of the life force that has little interest in our comfort or certainties.

Mandy Brown, Gather your gossips: "Capitalism needed to disparage women’s talk in order to bring itself about because women’s talk—that is, talk that is liberatory, reciprocal, and mutual—is a powerful antidote to the violence, oppression, and theft that capitalism ushered in. That same disparaging force is at work today, in the forces toiling feverishly to restrict reproductive rights and to reinforce the gender binary—because the gender binary is a load-bearing pillar of capitalism. But as the edict to prohibit “babble” attests, only by isolating women, by preventing them from talking, from sharin... annie.micro.blog

Observed while driving L to school: A young woman walking her dog. She keeps glancing at her dog with this sweet, satisfied half-smile like she's just so pleased and happy to have this particular little dog. School crossing guard dancing a little jig while waiting for more students who need to cross. B... annie.micro.blog

Finished reading: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson 📚 "I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected–an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows. That most moments were substantially the same did not detract at all from the possibility that the next moment might be utterly different. And so the ... annie.micro.blog

Knowing is a great strength and also a form of pleasure.

Currently reading: Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux 📚

Finished reading: As Nature Made Him by John Colapinto 📚

This one will stay with me. True story. Heartbreaking. An infant boy’s botched circumcision leads to him being raised as a girl, alongside his twin brother. The medical gaslighting is infuriating. Turns out forcing a gender on someone is bad.

So proud of her. Outstanding senior, academic honors, scholarship recipient, motivated and hardworking, grounded and kind, confident, hilarious, considerate, and takes no shit. Congratulations to my baby girl.