niqaeli torres, child of disaster

why the fuck in this, the Year Seven Of Our Pandemic, are there people dicknosing their masks. why. no one has had mask mandates in years. what do they feel they are accomplishing?? beyond baffling me, which they are accomplishing but surely is not the point for them?

The reason to mask is to protect yourself from whatever contagions others may be carrying or to protect others from contagions you may be carrying! Absent a mask mandate, presumably you are wearing a mask because you believe one of those apply! IT CAN’T PROTECT ANYONE IF YOU DON’T WEAR IT CORRECTLY

i am so fucking tired and filthy but my god am i victorious in the localised battle against entropy

hey chat is it a good sign when you dump 2.5 grams of sodium (thats one packet of hyper and two scoops of sport skratch) into 24oz of water and ice, and it doesnt even taste sweet it just tastes like vaguely fruity water?

I have survived Southwest’s godawful fucking seats without dislocating my hip, my gate-checked bag did not take eternity to come out, and none of the maniacs on the road managed to run us off it, so honestly that’s all wins as far as travel goes.

yes, dislocating my hip was in fact a risk, Southwest’s seats dislocated the damn thing 21 years ago, that’s *why* it’s my bad hip. it wasn’t a *big* risk, since I wasn’t in a middle seat contorting myself into a position such that I could sleep away my misery away, but yeah.

I can never fucking remember which side of T4 the A/D is vs the BC checkpoint, but one thing I will say for PHX is we genuinely have some great food and drink, both inside and outside the security perimeter. it is, of course, as overpriced as all airport fare is but at least it’s good!

Your #DCEUAoD cuteness for the day: the first time Lex stays overnight at the Kents, he wanders into the kitchen barefoot at like 6am and goes “Did… one of *you*… take my socks… ??” Martha and Jonathan crack up laughing while Clark says, “Oh, sorry! We forgot to warn you Sweetie steals socks.”

Sweetie is the black and white former feral cat who self-domesticated by jumping up on Clark’s shoulder like “that was fun! where are we going next, human?” when he went to release her back in to the colony of TNR ferals his family manage.

Your #DCEUAoD cuteness for the day: the first time Lex stays overnight at the Kents, he wanders into the kitchen barefoot at like 6am and goes “Did… one of *you*… take my socks… ??” Martha and Jonathan crack up laughing while Clark says, “Oh, sorry! We forgot to warn you Sweetie steals socks.”

Lex is not unconfused. “I might’ve thought it was the cat, but my bag was zipped shut,” he says, baffled. “How??” “She has little crime paws and little crime teeth,” Martha says, wryly. “Opening a zipper is nothing.” “But,” Lex says plaintively, “how did she even know they were in there to steal?”

what is your most niche random skill you’ve picked up from work?

ah, small towns, where the person checking you into the hotel goes "oh, I'm so sorry! I'd heard she was on hospice but didn't know she'd passed," when the answer to "what brings you to town" is "stepmother-in-law passed away, anyway that's my father-in-law over there getting us a table for dinner".

birthday has been celebrated with excellent drinks and good food despite this fucking week/month/year having been spectacularly shit, and my cats remain really cute and solicitously sweet most of the time so I guess I will stay the cleansing thermonuclear fire for another year

as ever: fucking fuck cancer

THINGS I CAN DO WITHOUT: A FUCKING BEE LANDING ON THE LIP OF MY FUCKING BEER

I occasionally wonder if Mamdani has made any progress on dealing with the rat buffets, because iirc that one is a pretty intractable problem politically/culturally! while being FUCKING HORRIFYING to anyone who lives in a modern city that does not build rat buffets every week.

sharilyn, as much as i understand why you gave the fucking political donor lists my email address instead of yours, I’d almost gotten off all of them and NOW I AM STARTING OVER FROM SCRATCH, so from the bottom of my heart I want to know: fuuuuuck you.

i swear to god one of these days I am going to snap and start translating chemistry and pharmaceutical processes into herbalism verbiage and vice versa

because I swear to fuck half the anti-drug attitudes out there are because people do not understand that “making a tincture” is the EXACT SAME THING as “extracting into solution using a solvent”. literally. l i t e r a l l y those are the SAME. THING.