Back around 2020 my hometown was paying about 30% of the entire city budget to the police department. Unrelated: they still don’t have safe drinking water after about a decade of inaction

Ha, I totally get it! I think I read more total pages in a two week period recently than I had over the previous two years

Don’t worry, it’s a hundred miles away and 25 feet up a tree. Even if I wanted to I couldn’t

Anyway let’s manifest some good news this week whatever that even looks like these days

Ansarallah has been kicking ass and taking names pretty consistently lately. That’s where I’m looking for good news, barring the unforeseen and unexpected

Goddamn, leave some theory for the rest of us! I don’t have any helpful suggestions, I’m just impressed!

ive done my shot and will not go to work tomorrow running on mpty (cause no E, get it? Eh? yeah ok I’ll show myself out).

Mods, tagline, please!

Good news: I found them online, and they’re vegan!

Bad news: there are several options! Do I want smoothing base? Long-lasting? Peely?

It feels like when you go to a restaurant and they ask you “soup or salad” and then when you say salad it unlocks a flow chart of further questions.

Jokes aside I think I’ll go for the quick drying base, and thank you again for the help!

Edit: I just realized I responded to the wrong comment in the chain, ooops

Have you considered that being smug and happy about spreading this doomerism might make it more correct? You never know until you try a thousand times

Thanks for doing it, I agree and it’s nice to see your (and others) well thought out responses pushing back on the uninformed dooming.

I only really have the information posted in the newsmega to go on, but consistently the doomers have less information and report their doom with glee. Even if they were all well informed and correct, their constant fucking tone of “I’m right and happy to be so” in the face of the suffering of the Venezuelan people pisses me off

I spent a season working in an orchard in the Central Valley and I think I saw more confederate flags than where I grew up (in the former confederacy). I’ve been told by family that lives nearby that since maga has taken hold you do see fewer confederate flags because they’ve all been replaced by trump and q-brained stuff

tying your country to a sinking ship just feels like the wrong decision.

During the First World War, as the Austro-Hungarian army fell apart and needed more and more support from Germany just to stay in one piece, the common saying amongst the Germans was that being allied to them was like being shackled to a corpse. I always liked that phrase, and it’s nice that I get to use it more and more these days.

I hope all the vassals of empire go with it into the dustbin of history so that the rest of the world can flourish

The solution to pollution is dilution!

That sounds like an awful and interminable weekend, I’m sorry. I hope next time you have to deal with family it goes better

i should probably go journal instead of using the mega but i hope it’s interesting/useful to somebody

I’ve been thinking and doing the same lately! It’s been easier for me to write stuff out knowing someone might read it, idk why.

I really empathize with your last paragraph too. I’m mostly just experimenting with presenting more fem so far, but it’s hard and scary

Ah noooo, I was afraid of that! I was hoping I could keep doing the bare minimum and just make it work through sheer force of will ( ). I can’t go past about a week because I usually chip holy hell out of my nails and they need to be redone anyway, but I’m guessing the whole system you’re describing will help with that. I’m also so bad at painting my own nails that so far I’m quite happy to get them cleaned off entirely after a few days.

I do think I’ll look for some base and top coat next time I’m able though, I know it will make things easier and then I’ll wonder why I ever tried to do without them in the first place. Thank you for the info, I really appreciate the advice from people I trust on here. When I try to look any of this stuff up online you can find a ton of contradictory advice from a bunch of random people and it can be both unhelpful and overwhelming

I painted my nails, put on mascara, got dressed in a skirt and pink striped top and went to an art museum! It was by far the most fem presenting I’ve been in public ( ) and it was really nice and only a little bit scary ( ).

I remember you mentioning this elsewhere in less detail, and more details make it even worse. You are absolutely justified in being upset, and I think you have way more room to be way more upset before you have to worry about being justified. I can’t think of anyone who I would want to treat that way no matter how badly they had treated me

I didn’t, no. Just a single coat of the red. I think the remover I’m using is old and less effective as well, which isn’t helping. But it was able to fully remove the last color I used about a week or two ago

Well I would have liked to paint my nails a new color this time, but apparently the red I used won’t come off all the way. So I have weird pale pink nails now. Guess more red it is, and I’ll worry about it next time

I know this already, but for some reason it’s been so hard to apply to myself. Thank you for saying it

That rules! I’m trying to choose between two right now and that seems hard to manage, 11 is downright heroic