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Didn't walk, did stretching exercises and keep applying heat and cold packs to my back - which I think I strained a muscle or caused a spasm while bailing out the toilet bowl Friday night. Most likely yesterday's walk exacerbated it? God knows. It just hurt like hell when I got up this morning, actually everything ached at 5 - so I took a naproxen, and then took another one around 10.
Possibly also caused by tension. As if there isn't anything to be worried about at the moment? I thanked Biden on Twitter for choosing to add a scientist to the White House Cabinet Staff and make science and the environment a priority.
I want three things from the new administration at the moment:
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As one long-term social media friend put it...65 more hours (he's been counting down til Trump's Eviction). There's apparently a Eviction Clock.
I posted the link to the profanity version. Sorry.
Spoke with mother, who is hanging in there. She keeps telling me what my brother is doing. Apparently niece has a bad smell in her closet - they think it is a dead mouse. Niece asked if they would find it for her - they advised that no, it was her closet, she could retrieve the mouse on her own.
Niece is trying not to go insane cooped up with her parents on an 11 acre farm.
I've been watching documentaries on Disney +. Discovered the National Geographic documentaries. One of the series is about a Yukon Veternarian who cares for domestic and wild animals in the Yukon Territory. It's a woman veterinarian. I cried when she had to put the night hawk down. (It had a wing that was half amputated and infected. The human thing was to put it asleep.) She also blew a tranguilizer into a Muskot from a fence, tried to do it from a moving van. Used a blow dart.
It's called Yukon Vet. I find these shows comforting. People are kind to each other, and saving animals. I can no longer watch violent shows for very long. I try and drift away from them. I tried watching an episode of Teen Titans - and Hawk was about to be tortured and I thought, uh no. And tried Gomorah, and they were plotting on killing a bunch of people - and I thought, uh, no. Then tried The Witches - and the evil Witches were plotting the demise of children and I thought, uh no.
I did enjoy the Connors, and James Herriot's All Creatures Great & Small.
I think I've grown tired of the nastiness. On my FB Kesington Neighborhood Page - a woman asked if anyone wanted to take a walk with her through Greenwood Cemetery. She's an activist and wanted to have some non-activist friends. And could bring her dog along, if people liked dogs - she has a service dog which is permitted (no others are). The comments started out okay, except a lot of folks were telling her she can't bring dogs. Then, one poster (Lisa) commented..."I'm more concerned with the RF being prefaced with TR, in which case no thanks." After that?
Poster 1: What does that mean?
Lisa: RF = Radical Feminist, TR = TERF - Anti-Trans
Poster 2: How do you know the person is that by this post?
Lisa: I checked her profile and likes.
Woman who asked for friends to walk with: If you are offended by my profile pic, I'm sorry. But you didn't have to say anything, you could have just scrolled on by.
Lisa: Just raising awareness.
Poster: I don't get it. How do you know by a few FB likes. People like all sorts of weird things that doesn't mean -
Lisa: If she'd apologized or clarified it would mean she wasn't. But she kind of confirmed it.
Moderator: The OP is a confirmed TERF, she can walk alone.
And I think...okay, I'm deleting my response about how Greenwood Cemetery allows service animals. And steering clear. Also, I really wish millenials would learn to not abbreviate EVERYTHING. RF could mean anything. TF could mean anything. TERF? It took me a long time to figure out what this stood for - I thought it meant terf - as in astroturf. Or Territorial Energized Radical Feminists. And what the hell is OP? Off-site Poster? Outcast Poster?
Frigging hell - the internet has made people incoherent.
I don't understand the TERFs and Radical Feminism makes me itchy. It made me itchy in the 1980s, when it was less nasty. I honestly think the radical feminists have set women further back. They aren't kind. And lack the ability to see past themselves. Also they like to play the victim a lot of the time. I've had friends (former) that were radical feminists.
But.
I don't think they should have treated her the way they did on the Neighborhood Page. It smacked of self-righteousness. And hypocrisy. There was a kind way to do that? I don't know. I've been trying to kindly educate trans-phobic coworkers for years. Sometimes it works. I remember telling one who was having issues with Caitlin Jenner - that a) not all trans were like Caitlin Jenner, and b) it's admittedly hard to understand, but try to imagine how hard it would be - to be born in a body that didn't fit who you were inside. Inside you are a woman, you think like one, you feel that way, but your body is a man's. Or inside you are more masculain or a man, but you have a female body. Gender shouldn't define you. What we are in the inside isn't always reflected by our body or who we are on the outside.
I got nowhere. Except that she never whined to me about it again.
[This was admittedly the same co-worker whose cousin works for Scean Hannity. But she is kind too. People are complex and hard to understand, I think. Cruel one minute, and kind the next. They aren't really good or evil, just...well selfish. ]
Back to the nice nature programs about people saving and rescuing animals and wild-life.
Oh, almost forgot - decided to make another quiche today. Spinach and onion this round, with gruerye and cheddar cheese. Also half-n-half and almond milk instead of heavy cream. So it's lighter.
Possibly also caused by tension. As if there isn't anything to be worried about at the moment? I thanked Biden on Twitter for choosing to add a scientist to the White House Cabinet Staff and make science and the environment a priority.
I want three things from the new administration at the moment:
( Read more... )
As one long-term social media friend put it...65 more hours (he's been counting down til Trump's Eviction). There's apparently a Eviction Clock.
I posted the link to the profanity version. Sorry.
Spoke with mother, who is hanging in there. She keeps telling me what my brother is doing. Apparently niece has a bad smell in her closet - they think it is a dead mouse. Niece asked if they would find it for her - they advised that no, it was her closet, she could retrieve the mouse on her own.
Niece is trying not to go insane cooped up with her parents on an 11 acre farm.
I've been watching documentaries on Disney +. Discovered the National Geographic documentaries. One of the series is about a Yukon Veternarian who cares for domestic and wild animals in the Yukon Territory. It's a woman veterinarian. I cried when she had to put the night hawk down. (It had a wing that was half amputated and infected. The human thing was to put it asleep.) She also blew a tranguilizer into a Muskot from a fence, tried to do it from a moving van. Used a blow dart.
It's called Yukon Vet. I find these shows comforting. People are kind to each other, and saving animals. I can no longer watch violent shows for very long. I try and drift away from them. I tried watching an episode of Teen Titans - and Hawk was about to be tortured and I thought, uh no. And tried Gomorah, and they were plotting on killing a bunch of people - and I thought, uh, no. Then tried The Witches - and the evil Witches were plotting the demise of children and I thought, uh no.
I did enjoy the Connors, and James Herriot's All Creatures Great & Small.
I think I've grown tired of the nastiness. On my FB Kesington Neighborhood Page - a woman asked if anyone wanted to take a walk with her through Greenwood Cemetery. She's an activist and wanted to have some non-activist friends. And could bring her dog along, if people liked dogs - she has a service dog which is permitted (no others are). The comments started out okay, except a lot of folks were telling her she can't bring dogs. Then, one poster (Lisa) commented..."I'm more concerned with the RF being prefaced with TR, in which case no thanks." After that?
Poster 1: What does that mean?
Lisa: RF = Radical Feminist, TR = TERF - Anti-Trans
Poster 2: How do you know the person is that by this post?
Lisa: I checked her profile and likes.
Woman who asked for friends to walk with: If you are offended by my profile pic, I'm sorry. But you didn't have to say anything, you could have just scrolled on by.
Lisa: Just raising awareness.
Poster: I don't get it. How do you know by a few FB likes. People like all sorts of weird things that doesn't mean -
Lisa: If she'd apologized or clarified it would mean she wasn't. But she kind of confirmed it.
Moderator: The OP is a confirmed TERF, she can walk alone.
And I think...okay, I'm deleting my response about how Greenwood Cemetery allows service animals. And steering clear. Also, I really wish millenials would learn to not abbreviate EVERYTHING. RF could mean anything. TF could mean anything. TERF? It took me a long time to figure out what this stood for - I thought it meant terf - as in astroturf. Or Territorial Energized Radical Feminists. And what the hell is OP? Off-site Poster? Outcast Poster?
Frigging hell - the internet has made people incoherent.
I don't understand the TERFs and Radical Feminism makes me itchy. It made me itchy in the 1980s, when it was less nasty. I honestly think the radical feminists have set women further back. They aren't kind. And lack the ability to see past themselves. Also they like to play the victim a lot of the time. I've had friends (former) that were radical feminists.
But.
I don't think they should have treated her the way they did on the Neighborhood Page. It smacked of self-righteousness. And hypocrisy. There was a kind way to do that? I don't know. I've been trying to kindly educate trans-phobic coworkers for years. Sometimes it works. I remember telling one who was having issues with Caitlin Jenner - that a) not all trans were like Caitlin Jenner, and b) it's admittedly hard to understand, but try to imagine how hard it would be - to be born in a body that didn't fit who you were inside. Inside you are a woman, you think like one, you feel that way, but your body is a man's. Or inside you are more masculain or a man, but you have a female body. Gender shouldn't define you. What we are in the inside isn't always reflected by our body or who we are on the outside.
I got nowhere. Except that she never whined to me about it again.
[This was admittedly the same co-worker whose cousin works for Scean Hannity. But she is kind too. People are complex and hard to understand, I think. Cruel one minute, and kind the next. They aren't really good or evil, just...well selfish. ]
Back to the nice nature programs about people saving and rescuing animals and wild-life.
Oh, almost forgot - decided to make another quiche today. Spinach and onion this round, with gruerye and cheddar cheese. Also half-n-half and almond milk instead of heavy cream. So it's lighter.