Guerrilla Glue Gun

Oh no, not my expansive & fulfilling “social network”

Ok maybe I can hold space for politics after all, because from one angry white woman to another, this is a banger

I’ll never forget an interaction on Reddit that I had at the beginning of Biden’s term It was in the r/antiwork subreddit that exploded during Covid I replied to a simple statement: “I think Biden is as much of a fascist as Trump” I ratioed them in up/down votes until they just deleted it

God help me, the upstairs contractors are back Mute me if you want to survive this week with me too, because every time I hear a power tool I’m going to lose a new part of my mind And I actually have to work today, that’s the worst part

They are taking the last part of me that was able to critically think and I can’t hold any emotional space for politics until the literal hammers are gone from my life

How is this a real game

This is not the prophecy Kendrick & Bad Bunny foretold

This is bush league

wtf is that score, I warned you about my clique

This being said, I still fundamentally can’t believe it when I think about the many games I tailgated straight through to avoid the shame of watching (also because I was a drunk)

Well since I’ve been thinking about my origins all day, let’s go Brewlulars

I think the primary financial difference between me and my parents, both personally and generationally, is that I stopped seeking more money as soon as I had enough to survive The moment I realized I had enough, I started biting the hand that fed me instead of kissing its ring

I had a front row seat to the happiness plateau theory, and this is my takeaway

He tosses me a gift here & there, and his privilege has made my relative Millenial privilege possible, but their ideology as parents is not exactly democratic

I live like I’m 64, just no SSI I didn’t intend to do the FIRE method - and I’m not sure exactly I have (my savings is not to that level) But the housing market got hot during COVID & I moved from the west coast to the Midwest for a lower cost of living

He tosses me a gift here & there, and his privilege has made my relative Millenial privilege possible, but their ideology as parents is not exactly democratic

Two generations now, what a treat

At least I have a fucking condo - one that’s driving me insane today But I had to beg borrow & steal in a soul crushing industry so no biggie right Let’s just not even go into the personal life, tho, it was the sacrifice for the property

My rags to riches daddy came from the newfound “Reagan Democrats” who lived for this shit

This is even more harrowing once we start to discuss why my mom’s family, German immigrants of the late 1920s, were “always Democrats”

My rags to riches daddy came from the newfound “Reagan Democrats” who lived for this shit

They were decidedly not historically Democrats because of LBJ’s views on Civil Rights, let’s just clear that up shall we

I was born to be a traitor to my gender It has been relatively easy to be a traitor to my race (I was blessed with extraordinary schooling, in many places & forms) I have been an imperfect and slow traitor to my class I havent been a traitor to my country, not yet I don’t think, but I wonder