@LeslieBurns I am so bad at this; I get socially overwhelmed very easily. Even in email. -.-

If only all my neighbors would join fedi... :rainbow_left:

@blogdiva Relatedly, it always bothered me that the lead vocals for "The Archies" (most famous for "Sugar Sugar") sounded nothing like Archie's voice in the animated shows (early 1970s version, anyway).

My disbelief came unsuspended at pretty much that point.

@bstacey computer-parsable SCML (Senate Committee Markup Language) when

@NickGates @farah

Is this something I do or do not want to know? :blobcatthinking:

@catzilla Setting boundaries, and being aware of when they're being threatened or crossed, is something I've had to learn (with difficulty). :-/

As far as the question in the 2nd paragraph: if you've been gaslit to believe that your value lies entirely in how you perform in certain ways (be that academic/career or service to others), it can be very difficult to value yourself intrinsically.

If you don't feel valuable aka worthwhile, it can be difficult to feel like it's okay to allocate any resources to yourself, especially where that can't be justified in entirely practical terms (...or at least that has been my experience >.>).

Remember you are a cat, and treat yourself accordingly. [nods authoritatively]

@farah I feel like there should be a t-shirt with a picture of a possum and the caption "Never Stop Complaining".

Just sayin'.

@catzilla Wow. Okay, that sounds more like my "business associates" that I worked with informally in the late 90s. Everything was great as long as they could take what they wanted (which was within reason at first) because "we're all in this together", all while refusing to write down any of the agreements we worked out -- which later became "verbal contracts are binding in the state of Georgia!" (Sure, but only if both parties agree on what the contract was, you numbnuts.)

It sucks when people decide to be like that, and I don't understand it. -.-

@farah wow, the authoritarianism is strong in that one. >.<

@AndyIncarnate @RikerGoogling

bloody silver-spoon-heads

@EveHasWords Done reading!
🎵 and there may be many others, but they haven't been discahh-vard. 🎵 -- Tom Lehrer

@amcooper Wait, I thought all US science had been cancelled for being woke...

@EveHasWords "entity(|and the horses and driver)" (missing space, what is pipe for...)

@EveHasWords The one I spotted is "A slender figure in a peculiar figure"; not done reading yet... ^.^

I don't make the rules #emfCamp

(Sorry, I'm going to be posting photos from an amazing weekend as I find them)

@farah That sounds eerily like my mom defending my (mildly abusive / inconsiderate) dad: "He means well!" etc.

@Researchbuzz It's the one thing he's good at.

@farah You're allowed to have strong negative feels about relatives, despite there being a strong convention that biofam is all that and a bag of really good chips. ([/opinion])

@EveHasWords [press here for minor proofreading note]

@catzilla What I've found in workplaces is that there are some people who really respond positively to kindness, and those are the ones I enjoyed helping. ^.^

My tech boss always wanted me to be firm with people... but I always found that "the pig way" works better for me than "the wolf way" (cf. Babe).

@catzilla ...but that's haaaaaard! 🥺