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May. 11th, 2026 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatHas anyone else been noticing that Google and MSN and other browsers are throwing FOX and CBS News stories, but one has to look for other outlets?
Or is that just me? I have to keep steering clear of them.
Also Paramount is blacklisting various actors now - who it considers too liberal. Meanwhile I'm blacklisting/boycotting Paramount and CBS. I won't watch either. At all. I blacklisted Fox News when it popped into existence. It's not that hard? I don't like anything on either. I watch ABC only on cable at the moment - which makes me wonder why I still have cable? (Oh right, I can't figure out how to get rid of the equipment - and they'll refuse to pick it up. What I need to do is come up with a deal in which they gain something by reducing my equipment and it's in their interest to pick it up.) I kind of miss spectrum news - but I refuse to pay $169 a month for it.
**
No news on the strike - outside of the fact that they are still negotiating. I honestly wish my vote mattered more than it does - because if it did, we wouldn't be even considering a strike. But alas, no one cares what I think. I want Universal Health Care, Affordable Housing, Rent Control, and Food for Everybody. They did put up a free grocery store or Polymarket in February, it was on 137 7th Avenue. I don't think it exists now. NY and NYC also have health care - entitled MetroPlus or HealthPlus, and if you are a NY Resident you can go to the CUNY and SUNY Colleges and Universites for free (these are the NY State Universities and City Universities.)
The problem with money - is people never have enough of it. They always want more, or what the other guy has.
**
Been comforting myself at work - listening to Charisma Carpenter's Bitch is Back podcasts of all things. I'm as surprised as anyone by this news.
She says things like:
"I'm sorry but you don't need a man to be happy. Or to be in relationship. I know a lot of single women who are perfectly happy without, I'm happy without. This societal pressure on people, both men and women to pair up or they are a loser or considered lacking - is preposterous and needs to stop now."
(Although to be fair, I got the feeling that was kind of the message in Buffy and Angel the Series? Because the romantic relationships were kind of toxic and unsustainable, while the friendships and found family were sustainable. It hadn't really occurred to me before now...but Buffy's happy ending was wandering off into the sunset with her friends and fellow slayers...not with a lover, which is actually a subversion of most romantic endings.)
And that she's not crazy about hugs, they make her uncomfortable, she's not sure why - maybe it's the breasts or previous trauma? I felt seen. Because I feel the same way. It's also kind of hard to hug folks when you are almost six foot with big breasts, and they are five foot two. It's just painful.
I mentioned this to mother, and she said that she could remember when I stopped wanting to be hugged and backed away from it. I was a child at the time. Not exactly what age I was, just remembered I was young and when it happened. She didn't know why. I don't either and don't remember that. My guess - is it was probably the result of some innocuous and unresolved trauma that was later suppressed. Then again, it could be any number of reasons. Which is how Charisma explains her difficulty with hugging - which is apparently an issue at fan conventions. Fan conventions are on my list of social activities in which the appeal is completely and utterly lost on me? I'm not a fan of conventions. The American Library Association Convention was enough for me - and I was happy never to have to do it again. (And that was just librarians and academic publishers).
I like being a fan in the comfort of my home, and on the other side of a computer screen and preferably a pseudonym. (Yes, I like to hide.)
Carpenter has also pointed out a few things that didn't occur to me previously? The Xander/Cordelia romance doesn't quite work? They are constantly insulting each other. Also the Dru character is highly disturbing and somewhat controversial. (I get the feeling that Landau and Carpenter don't exactly like each other. I don't know why - it's just a gut feeling? I think it's a personality conflict. Believe it or not - it's impossible for everyone to like each other. Some people just rub you the wrong way and vice versa. Often you have no clue why - they just do, it's not personal, it just is. I've learned to avoid at all possible the ones who don't like me. Honestly? I don't need the grief nor have the tolerance for it. Although you'd hope they'd learn to be polite in public and in a public forum? i.e - the internet? They usually aren't? But one would hope. ) And how Angel is the only one to bring out the softness in Buffy, she lets her guard down around Angel and is kind of kittenish or soft, where she isn't really with anyone else. (This is in the beginning of S2 before he changes. Carpenter has never seen the show - and is for the most part unspoiled - well except for the Spike/Buffy bathroom scene, Joyce's death, and Tara's death - which she most likely knows from being at the cons and on panels with the other actors. You can't be on a panel with Marsters, Kristin Sutherland, and Amber Benson - and not know about those scenes.)
Another thing Carpenter says that is endearing? "It's hard to be a human being."
I'm by no means a fan? But I do like Carpenter and find her Bitch podcast comforting and entertaining
Or is that just me? I have to keep steering clear of them.
Also Paramount is blacklisting various actors now - who it considers too liberal. Meanwhile I'm blacklisting/boycotting Paramount and CBS. I won't watch either. At all. I blacklisted Fox News when it popped into existence. It's not that hard? I don't like anything on either. I watch ABC only on cable at the moment - which makes me wonder why I still have cable? (Oh right, I can't figure out how to get rid of the equipment - and they'll refuse to pick it up. What I need to do is come up with a deal in which they gain something by reducing my equipment and it's in their interest to pick it up.) I kind of miss spectrum news - but I refuse to pay $169 a month for it.
**
No news on the strike - outside of the fact that they are still negotiating. I honestly wish my vote mattered more than it does - because if it did, we wouldn't be even considering a strike. But alas, no one cares what I think. I want Universal Health Care, Affordable Housing, Rent Control, and Food for Everybody. They did put up a free grocery store or Polymarket in February, it was on 137 7th Avenue. I don't think it exists now. NY and NYC also have health care - entitled MetroPlus or HealthPlus, and if you are a NY Resident you can go to the CUNY and SUNY Colleges and Universites for free (these are the NY State Universities and City Universities.)
The problem with money - is people never have enough of it. They always want more, or what the other guy has.
**
Been comforting myself at work - listening to Charisma Carpenter's Bitch is Back podcasts of all things. I'm as surprised as anyone by this news.
She says things like:
"I'm sorry but you don't need a man to be happy. Or to be in relationship. I know a lot of single women who are perfectly happy without, I'm happy without. This societal pressure on people, both men and women to pair up or they are a loser or considered lacking - is preposterous and needs to stop now."
(Although to be fair, I got the feeling that was kind of the message in Buffy and Angel the Series? Because the romantic relationships were kind of toxic and unsustainable, while the friendships and found family were sustainable. It hadn't really occurred to me before now...but Buffy's happy ending was wandering off into the sunset with her friends and fellow slayers...not with a lover, which is actually a subversion of most romantic endings.)
And that she's not crazy about hugs, they make her uncomfortable, she's not sure why - maybe it's the breasts or previous trauma? I felt seen. Because I feel the same way. It's also kind of hard to hug folks when you are almost six foot with big breasts, and they are five foot two. It's just painful.
I mentioned this to mother, and she said that she could remember when I stopped wanting to be hugged and backed away from it. I was a child at the time. Not exactly what age I was, just remembered I was young and when it happened. She didn't know why. I don't either and don't remember that. My guess - is it was probably the result of some innocuous and unresolved trauma that was later suppressed. Then again, it could be any number of reasons. Which is how Charisma explains her difficulty with hugging - which is apparently an issue at fan conventions. Fan conventions are on my list of social activities in which the appeal is completely and utterly lost on me? I'm not a fan of conventions. The American Library Association Convention was enough for me - and I was happy never to have to do it again. (And that was just librarians and academic publishers).
I like being a fan in the comfort of my home, and on the other side of a computer screen and preferably a pseudonym. (Yes, I like to hide.)
Carpenter has also pointed out a few things that didn't occur to me previously? The Xander/Cordelia romance doesn't quite work? They are constantly insulting each other. Also the Dru character is highly disturbing and somewhat controversial. (I get the feeling that Landau and Carpenter don't exactly like each other. I don't know why - it's just a gut feeling? I think it's a personality conflict. Believe it or not - it's impossible for everyone to like each other. Some people just rub you the wrong way and vice versa. Often you have no clue why - they just do, it's not personal, it just is. I've learned to avoid at all possible the ones who don't like me. Honestly? I don't need the grief nor have the tolerance for it. Although you'd hope they'd learn to be polite in public and in a public forum? i.e - the internet? They usually aren't? But one would hope. ) And how Angel is the only one to bring out the softness in Buffy, she lets her guard down around Angel and is kind of kittenish or soft, where she isn't really with anyone else. (This is in the beginning of S2 before he changes. Carpenter has never seen the show - and is for the most part unspoiled - well except for the Spike/Buffy bathroom scene, Joyce's death, and Tara's death - which she most likely knows from being at the cons and on panels with the other actors. You can't be on a panel with Marsters, Kristin Sutherland, and Amber Benson - and not know about those scenes.)
Another thing Carpenter says that is endearing? "It's hard to be a human being."
I'm by no means a fan? But I do like Carpenter and find her Bitch podcast comforting and entertaining