starless @starless@pixie.town

Happy disability pride month! 💙

Just ordered more adapters for my cyber ear. Thankfully, the adapters are pretty inexpensive, so the accessories for my commercial sound processor come out to about $4/week.

If your hearing is currently not a subscription service, take a moment and enjoy your ability to hear sounds while in wet environments like rainstorms, at the beach, and while showering. In case you didn't know, most hearing devices aren't remotely waterproof and will be totally fried by exposure to liquids.

Also, your hearing probably is actually a subscription service. Go check that you've got some earplugs on hand. Not all hearing loss is exposure related, but sufficient exposure will cause hearing loss in anyone.

The more you know! 🌈✨

Anyone who wasn't upset about this before, place kindly upset yourselves? Surrounding a man and his date in a nice neighborhood with unmarked vehicles in plainclothes and opening fire is not 'keeping the peace'. It's a execution without due process. This. is. not. okay.

For folks who don't live here, this happened in uptown, a predominantly white, kinda yuppie area. Winston Smith and his date were probably one of two black couples their server saw the whole night. They likely paid $75-150 for a nice date together, and had only been dating for a few weeks. Uptown is a lively, bustling area. It's a place where people want to be, at least a little bit. And this.. It just seems like they were killed in cold blood for being black and parking in the yuppiest parking ramp in town for a nice date night. This is egregious. Our police department would never do this to a white couple. Small, incremental reforms just can't unseat this kind of stark racism. There needs to be a fundamental change in how the department functions.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/07/01/passenger-officers-didnt-id-selves-in-fatal-smith-shooting

So, I read pattern recognition by Gibson.

Cayce Powell puts in a tampon, then never takes it out. She spends what appears to be the following week drifting in and out of consciousness. I know the author is glossing over things, but our girl got kidnapped and knocked out by the Russian mob. How tf did she not come down with toxic shock syndrome?

If you're going to bother to write women, please stop making your action heroines kill themselves via lack of education about their own sex organs. This was stressing me out the whole book and it turns out the author just forgot that leaving a tampon in a vagina will kill someone.

/rant

Have a little mycelial pal.

#art

I painted a little mtg token. It's wurm.

#watercor #art #mtg

Today, I made a chocolate orange antoccino to match the chocolate orange Milano cookies I had. It turned out really well, though maybe it's too close to how the cookies taste to be the best pairing. 😅

1. Make espresso in aeropress
2. Add some baking cocoa powder to espresso, maybe 3/4 teaspoon?
3. Add five drops of orange essential oil, add a little sugar if you want
4. Whip espresso, chocolate, and oil together with frothing wand
5. Steam milk in columnator thingie and add that to cup
6. Drink!

Today, I logged into a social media account I haven't used for a while, now. Mostly local folks I know, not so relevant during the pandemic.

I learned a couple things:

1. Holy shit, it is full of reposts.

2. My chunk of the community there is super wholesome and I'd totally forgot.

A friend (larger person, big beard) asked about where to find a sundress in their size. There are forty six replies with info like 'torrid is where I get mine' and suggesting cuts that work well with larger shoulders. No single person is posting a gazillion things, and there's offers from plus size transfemme folks to go shopping together.

It was really nice to see and reminded me that there's good local folks. At the same time, it's still big corpo media.

My relationship with social media is maybe necessarily complex. I love people and I love communities, and social media gives folks the opportunity to be super wholesome like this. But, it's also a corporate engine that people pour compassion into and revenue for a third party comes out.

Anyways, I have a vanilla latte making rice crispy noises, so I should get back to that.

Good morning, I hope your day goes well! 💙