links post!

Today I am waiting for a message back from someone on an old-fashioned posting board about sizing the sweater that I bought the pattern for. My arms and shoulders are much broader than the proportions of my torso size would lead you to suspect, from years of doing massage, so I need to know how to do the thing before I just jump in.

England is trying to make climate protest illegal, and it's citizens are left basically begging the House of Lords to help. Which is fucked up, so: if you are English or know someone who is, pass this along. Lots of sliding-to-the-right nations watch Britain and what it can get away with internationally to take ideas from it, so stopping this is very important.

Speaking of important: if you have Christmas money coming in or anything to spare right now, consider lobbing it at AbortionFunds.org. It is a relief to be able to do anything for anyone right now, and I wish we all had enough funding to cut the heart out of the minority-rule anti-abortion "debate".

If you want to see how far in the dust European cultures are leaving America, this is a good read on child-rearing practices by an American who lived in Berlin while raising one of her kids.

Even healthcare workers and doctors with long COVID are being dismissed by the medical community. But as they get more organized to reform the system, the tide may be turning.

And in a ray of sunshine: this week, an email from Elon Musk leaked warning his employees that a shortage of Raptor engines could cause SpaceX to go bankrupt. (Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!)

Ghost and I are still slowly looking into becoming first-time homebuyers in the next few years, so I am putting together research on that. And thinking of going to Half-Price Books and buying a dead-tree-worth of books on it.

"morning" pages (more like evening pages, amirite?) December 4th

Ongoing evidence log:
I did friend some new people and experienced connection and vibing with them which supports the healthy belief that I am not incompetent at peopleing.

Thoughts/feelings awareness log:
I felt connected (?) or whatever is the opposite of lonely, because I thought that I get to have a friend-gathering this week.
I felt aggravated because I thought ketamine assisted psychotherapy would be easier to research than this.
I felt pain because I thought that I could get away with eating a slightly higher ratio of carbs and sugars for a week, and no, not really.
I felt enlightened because I listened to a Brene Brown podcast on the cartography of emotions, and it explained some stuff about misidentifying emotions.
I felt kinda derpy and incompetent at feelings because I thought that I should have realized that misidentifying emotions was a thing that happens to people, especially ones who are not really well versed at emotions.

It is International Lolita Day, and I kinda want to go out in full gear, but I don't have the spoons to get dressed and THEN do stuff.