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24 May, 5 tweets, 1 min read
ack when my mother was alive, she used to give me money for my birthday, but a few weeks before, so that we could have some nice meals out when we travel on Memorial Day.

If you'd like to help me keep this birthday tradition alive, please feel free.

paypal.me/alexandraerin
(Now with working link.)
...and in fixing the link, I screwed up the first word. Ah, well. Such is life.
I'm just a mess generally right now, but I'm trying.
me in April: End of May seems like a good time for travel.

me at the end of May: What was I thinking, this is too soon, how did I ever do this, how did anyone ever do this.

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23 May
Travel anxiety dream last night: dreamed I was up for a Hugo Award and we traveled to the unnamed-in-dream WorldCon only to find out that somehow it had also been picked as a destination for a class reunion for my high school.
There was also a subplot involving symbiotic shapeshifting aliens who were looking to bond with humans in such a way that it was like a hivemind of two identical individuals, one mind with two autonomous bodies.
That part started off as a full-on body horror nightmare but it was like my subconscious looked at the rest of the dream and was like, "Wait, she already maybe has to make a speech about whatever gay sci-fi thing she did in front of everybody she went to high school with?"
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21 May
I know the answer to this is that it was because they were just slapping political cartoon labels on a pre-existing narrative, but it says something that in the Israeli propaganda telling, Europe turns on Israel not because of harm to Palestine but accidental injury to themselves
Also, if you watch the original which has a longer start, the rock only begins to slide towards the town because the rock giant tried to balance it on top of the hill. The disaster they're trying to prevent is entirely of their own making.

And in either version it's clear that the town's defenses not only don't harm the stone giant but don't appear to harm or even mildly inconvenience them, leaving him to destroy the town in a fit of pique that it was not sufficiently grateful they mitigated most of the harm.
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19 May
All of this thread does a lot to explain why I don't think we're seeing aircraft at all. That's why the reaction is "meh".
Aircrafts that can defy the laws of physics including the ability to "cloak" or disappear from instrumentation... but that only works some of the time? They're carefully hiding their presence from us but doing stunts in our atmosphere?
I believe there are UFOs... well, maybe O is too specific. But sure, there are sightings of phenomena where we don't understand what we're looking at. But we don't understand much of what we're looking at when we look at the sky. Our brains aren't equipped to parse that stuff.
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19 May
Been a while since I used F.Lux (the Windows program that changes color temperature for time of day, for circadian purposes) and they added an "Emerald City" mode that makes everything Matrix colored.
And honestly, I love it. Sometimes when I'm trying to go into focus mode for writing or coding I'll change the UI I'm working with to be bright green on black background, because I grew up with a lot of that.
The color green is supposed to increase mental alertness anyway. Don't know how true that is or how big the effect is but green computer displays make me feel better when I'm blah anyway.
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19 May
Took a bath because I wasn't feeling well. Did not figure out that I was not feeling well because of overheating until I had sat in the warm bath for a while. This is how I know summer is upon us.
Now have wearable mini fans blasting at my face while one of my cooling scarves soaks.
...decided to put the evaporative scarf aside and try running my electric cooling scarf off my portable charger battery to see how long it lasts, as I've never traveled with it before.
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19 May
The existence of "stablecoins" (cryptocurrencies allegedly backed on a 1:1 basis by something real, like, for instance actual money) will never not be funny to me.
TetherUSD or USDCoin, "stablecoins" pegged to and allegedly backed by US dollars, are the kind of thing Dogbert would come up with as part of a crypto investment scam.

"If the volatility of cryptocurrency isn't for you but you wish to escape the tyranny of fiat money..."
It seems like the actual purpose/use case of "stablecoins" is to reap the advantages of moving money around using the fake-shadow-money intermediary of cryptocurrency without having to weather as many swings.
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