hanging my tomorrows on the bones of yesterday

fiercynonym put together an excellent Twitter thread of questions for OTW regarding its anti-racist work (still largely theoretical), and runpunkrun got permission to compile it over here and share it with us. It's her hope that if we ask these questions and keep asking until we get answers, the OTW might finally make an effort to keep us informed about the work they're doing to fight racist harassment on its platforms without us having to ask first. She asks us to pick a question we feel strongly about and ask the OTW Board for the answer.

Momentary and Pluto - Jake Wesley Rogers, prominent gay man, tells his relatable story in song. Excellent vocal drama.

Night In Tunisia covered by Grace Kelly, hot saxophonist. Also recommended.

For those not on the BaceFook, a PTSD study that I know some folks who might be eligible for

The Eggshell Plaintiff is a common legal argument in the US. It basically means that we are responsible for the real damages we do to others, not the damage that is expected or "reasonable".

The so-called "Tragedy of the Commons" is possibly not a thing. All it takes is community involvement and accountability and suddenly you have a whole stable resource management unit.

YANSS 248 – Temple Grandin’s vision for a world better suited to different styles of thinking podcast with the matriarch and forebear of the autistic neurodiversity movement. Nothing about us without us!

Augmented reality contact lenses are about to become a thing, y'all!

Fall Out Boy vid for Star Wars? YESPLZ! (One maniac at a time, we will take it back.)

WaPo article on the ways that we can avoid the catastrophic 1.5 degree celsius warming of the planet.

Ancient Egypt's treasures are almost all housed overseas. Why? Colonialism.

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking offer cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.

In other news, most of the house is clean, but now I have to cook stuff. Don't wanna.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xpv25ZCvvA harpist cover of Enya’s Only Time by Tracie Lin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gupUrQT_q-8 Blues played on the bagpipe! And it’s AWESOME!

https://youtu.be/YnM4yw7vwK0 Rick James vs Falco - Der Superfreak Kommisar

https://www.aclu.org/vote-your-values

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-work-dioxygen-difluoride

https://lifecoachestoolbox.com/FreeCoachingHealingTools/marelyejcmhmdlcbddahsac/Infographics/FightFlightFreeze-TraumaResponse-LifeCoachesToolbox.jpg Only legible on desktop. Alternatives to your triggered behaviors that are not Fight Flight Freeze or Fawn. It takes a long time getting to be able to choose a different response, but if you do, here are some things to aim for.

https://therapyforblackgirls.com/2022/10/12/session-279-the-power-of-shadow-work/

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148570/on-pleasure Poem about pleasure

https://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/

https://www.perfumersworld.com/specialty-bases-blends.php I need to decide what I am doing for myself for Yule, and buy/make some people some gifts. I don’t know what I’m doing this year. Augh.

What are y’all listening to that’s good this week?

I have been listening to music with deep lyrics and lo-fi this week. Lo-fi is so calming, y’all, I want to make a hygge playlist out of warm cozy music, I think.

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Trans people got jokes, y'all. Don't believe the haters.

This month’s theme on fancake is Team As Family, and I feel like I need to get off my butt and drop a million recs. I should do that tomorrow or possibly tonight when I'm done knitting.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/publicserviceloanforgiveness/
https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement/ Student loan forgiveness stuff I'm researching for a friend.

Skirt I really want to buy because it has The Seine At Lavacour by Monet, one of my favorite paintings on it. I need a million moneys. :/

I have been told that if I want books in the style of Terry Pratchett, that I should try Tanya Huff. Anybody else got suggestions for PTerry-esque books? I am intensely interested in having more politically-aware satire.

A Capella Fun on YouTube. This is not strictly without instrumentals but if it has any then it is always lightly instrumental to show off vocal performances.

In other news, I really need to figure out what I’m doing wrong on the jogless join to get this sweater to come out pretty, since the row changes show up a lot more in the chunky yarn. If you have a favorite jogless join tutorial, link me? And the friend I was going to teach about essential oils yesterday got T-boned by a hit and run driver. She is not fine, exactly, but it could definitely be worse.

Other than those, project stuff is going well. I have a lot of non-knitting stuff to do this week, car stuff, doctor stuff, vet stuff, being social this weekend maybe. I just realized that it has been a month since the last time I did my leg exercises, so I need to re-start that and see if I can form a habit. Brains. Why.

I'm getting people checking out my journal again, and I'm not entirely sure why, but hello!

This week I finished off the Mixed Methods socks, and they are soft and reasonably comfy if a bit loose. The cotton at the the toes and heels did not shrink at all somehow? Which is strange. I am now transitioning to sewing projects for this summer - I want to make a couple pairs of sleep pants and at least one set of ruffly bloomers to go with the lagenlook wardrobe I am eventually hoping to build.

Tomorrow I am going to a gardening party in Arlington, where it will be warm, and I will be outdoors, so I need to go pick up sunblock in a bit. And possibly some pruning shears, just in case. We'll see.

I'm not having much luck with focusing on things for very long this week, so therapy stuff has not really gotten much done. But I'm setting a reminder to meditate on Sunday, so hopefully that will knock down that particular pin.

This post looks rather plain. Let's stick a link to some Okinawan-inspired lo-fi music down here.

Okay, better.

Because of La Niña , it is going to be 84 degrees in a couple days here, at the END OF DECEMBER. I'm trying not to freak out, as that will do nothing productive.

Who wants a really good protest song? If you love it like I do, go thank sabotabby for her excellent musical taste.

Or maybe some gentle cottagecore vibes in classical music?

The book that I asked Mom for, for Yule is Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD. We'll see if I get anything like it, not that I'm fussed either way. I can afford my own stuff now that I have omfg $200 of yarn heading my way. I love my people, even the ones who don't give me money and gift certificates for yarn. Have I mentioned that knitting/crochet projects are how I'm not losing my shit right now? Yeah. Sanity: the gift that keeps on giving. I wish I could start a library of things for y'all so that we could just send each other helpful stuff that we aren't using, like bedside caddies and extra computer cord wrangling equipment. And yarn.

But I need to stop collecting more and more projects to do, as I am starting to get the too-many-tabs-open feeling continuously this week. Brains are weird.

Does anyone play Death Stranding? Is there any good fanart of it for sale? I want to get Ghost something nice for his birthday that he won't get for himself.

Also: a friend had a question - if you don't identify as neurodiverse, did you used to stand on chairs/sit upside down in chairs/sit on tables and counters/generally use furniture outside their standard uses when you were a kid? I don't honestly know whether that was a normal kid thing, but she implied that we just don't know any "normal" people. But is that statistically likely? I just don't know.

I have been sorting music and making playlists, like this one:
Unconditional Love. May we all find those who can love us like that.

I am trying to finish up the tone-on-tone slip stitch embroidery on rubyredro5e 's cropped cardigan. It is being ... recalcitrant. Or possibly I planned this badly, but we're not entertaining that possibility. Nope! Mom's sweater is about 1/4 done, and is gonna be fairly soft after a couple washings. Ruby's cardigan is already hella soft and feels like wearing a hug. I like this hobby.

Ghost is having some higher anxiety again, which is boo. We cancelled plans to go to the drive in and watch Bill and Ted Face The Music. Maybe he will do some journaling with me this time? I will bring it up tomorrow.

Soothing music to calm your overstimulation and lead you back into a renormalized headspace. Killigrew on Bandcamp.

A bunch of things white people can do for racial justice. Most of which are free or cheap, cause I know y'all broke.

Free first chapter of a book on social skills for autists.

Automate the Boring Stuff with Python! - a book on learning to code.

POTS reference that I will be referring back to for medical stuff.

Article in The Guardian on what we know, and don't yet know, about Coronavirus.

Lofi playlist for healing and self-care"

Start at 6:55 to hear Jacob Collier's rendition of George Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm. For rock nerds, jazz fans, and music aficionados.

Books 3, 4, and 5 in the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger

Blood Stained Tea by Amy Tasukada

David And Goliath and What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell

The Watsons And Emma Watson: Jane Austen's Unfinished Novel Completed by Austen, Jane/ Aiken, Joan (2008)

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble To Get Inside Our Heads by Wu, Tim (2017)

Wishful Drinking by Fisher, Carrie (2009)

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Boo, Katherine

Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

A Truly Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

Bonus music for those of you who read this far.