Unfortunately alive. USAmerican, gay

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Cake day: February 23rd, 2024

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  • Rainy week. Shirley’s upset because I won’t make it stop raining for her walks.

    Basically she meows at the door, I leash her up and take her out, she’s appalled by the rain and drags me back inside, resumes meowing at the door.

    I have stepped on and a few of her toys lately, so I bought her some new ones. Hopefully she’s able to entertain herself indoors for a little while now, because most days I come home from work and she’s hyper and stressed.







  • I work for a big fucking store that shouldn’t exist and it makes me mad every day.

    Holidays are the worst. At Christmas the two big things we push are electronics and cheap chocolate, aka the two things almost universally made by slaves. Imagine your religion’s flagship holiday being a celebration of slave labor. Wild.

    Every season we stock countless shitty synthetic t-shirts nobody’s going to buy, of some overrated cartoon character with a different accessory badly edited on. The amount of plastic going into landfills in the name of Stitch or Charlie Brown makes me sick to think about. Don’t come at me for calling them overrated, neither is worse intentionally destroying a planet for.

    The amount of plastic waste we make on the job is awful, too. Half the time I bag an order, the bag splits and I have to grab another one. Do you think we’re always in reach of a recycling can? Nah, that shit’s going in the trash, along with the “paper” (plastic) we use to print our labels that misprint 90% of the time, the extraneous plastic bits that fall off the milk jug, and so on.

    But it’s the best wage I’m getting. So I silently fume for eight hours every day while I contribute to the ruin of a planet I ostensibly love. Oh well!





  • I left reddit over API stuff, obviously.

    Twitter had a few weeks where the algorithm was so broken people were getting recommended gore videos. Just a description of the most common one set off my OCD trying to avoid it. It was always kind of a shit website and not worth having an episode over, so I just deleted my account.

    Tumblr’s nsfw ban also nuked a bunch of communities that aren’t inherently nsfw, but have large factions that are. Think like the furry fandom. I just woke up one day and my tags didn’t work and my favorite creators were gone. PLUS the wording included the phrase “female-presenting nipples”, which just sounds wildly transphobic and has no definition so they can ban whoever they want. And they doubled down on it a week later. Immediately uninstalled, heard they’ve only gotten more overtly transphobic since.

    I don’t even remember when I stopped using Facebook. I don’t like being stalked by every heterosexual mom I went to church with as a teenager, so I never used it long.