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oh my god my follower count keeps going up the longer i’m more or less inactive here and i finally just went and looked and 

you’re all pornbots

oh my word

“girls in your area!” “best Tumblr dating blog!” what is this

what is this
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wellllll shit (weather)

So yesterday morning it was balls-ass cold and the snow was deep and poorly cleared, right?
And then yesterday all day it was in the mid-40s and raining.
So last night I trudge/sloshed home through the thaw.
( lengthy description of weather conditions and their practical applications )

I like reading about other people's descriptions of things like the weather conditions and specific logistics of their commutes, in other parts of the world and even often quite nearby-- this is something I absolutely love, with social media. I love being able to say 'well I happen to know it's quite cold in Manitoba just now!' or 'did you know the tomatillos are just coming ripe in Australia', I like thinking about the sunrise in France as I look at my own sky while I'm walking, that sort of thing. So I hope people aren't bored by my fondness for cataloguing mundane details of my own environment; I like to think about it, is all.

I wish it was easier to post images on here. I need maybe to clear out all the images from the image hosting allowance I have on here, but I would have to figure out what posts they go to, and fix the links, and it's not worth it for how few people will look at those posts but I don't want to just break every image because I use my own archive, occasionally, to keep tabs on my own progress and life, and... anyway, if I get in the habit of just uploading my phone photos to Flickr, I guess, I could start embedding them in posts more. I should. I'll think about it.

self-representation and cold dead hands of mascara

so highlyeccentric had a really great (locked) post about the current and ever-present debate about whether feminists should wear makeup, and quoted this Tweet:

small brain: make-up is anti-feminist
big brain: make-up is empowering!
galaxy brain: the demand that women should question every little aspect of their lives in a desperate audit of what is or is not a tool of the patriarchy is, itself, a tool of the patriarchy

— Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley (@lottelydia) January 22, 2019

And I just wanted to relay a little side anecdote, more or less as a thought exercise, if you will.

So my dude, my partner for about 16 years now, is a software engineer. In his undergrad program in college, he went through a courseload that was extremely heavy at one point, and he had no time to think about much of anything besides work, food, and sleep. So he stopped cutting his hair, which was something honestly his mother had generally taken care of booking him appointments for anyway; he'd had a buzz cut through middle school, and just a generic short "man" haircut ever since.

That academic quarter, he just stopped cutting his hair, and it grew through a horrible in-between stage, and by the time he had time to notice it or think about it, it was long enough to put into a ponytail. So he bought a container of ponytail elastics, which was the first time he had ever considered such a thing in his life, and put his hair into a ponytail, and that is the sum total of attention he has ever in his life devoted to this.
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Anyway, I just thought it was a useful thought exercise to write all that out. Especially since the comment thread of that Tweet is all women justifying their own makeup habits in not very self-aware ways? I just thought i'd witter on not very self-awarely about something else, as a contrast.

Also, for something completely different, I wanted to say I love how many people took my last post as an invitation to describe the weather where they are and I am delighted by every response. <3 <3 <3

OK I should go do proper work now.