Wandering Adventure Party

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe sounds like a good day. ​​

@peachymist@labyrinth.zone I wouldn't be bothered. We're all a CIA hotline tip away from this, if we ever really want it.

@ezra@problemeowtic.net I'm not sure it's not so much a desire to not let them see, as the fact that the realities and requirements of a city provide really bad soil for conservatism. I think in part, it really is that scary for them.

Cities demand compromise and shared space. The allure of conservatism is that it promises certain individuals personal power within their own space, of which there is precious little in a city. It's hard to control your wife and children exactly as you please when there is only a thin apartment wall between you and your neighbor, who is always there to judge or call in a DV. There is also the fact that you will not be able to isolate your fief from other cultures, ideas, and identities.

The hellscape design of American cities tries its best to blunt this, but it can only do so much lifting.

@waitworry@sakurajima.moe Last year I got the urge to try it, so I went and bought some decent japanese whiskey and had them for a bit.

It's a nice relaxation drink. My only beef is that despite trying it in many forms, I just don't like tonic. I tried it a few times then enjoyed it more making it with club soda, and eventually, topo chico (Because gods, I love my carbonation).

At the end of the day it's just Whiskey on the rocks with soda water and a slice of lemon ​​ but I'm kinda simple. Do recommend, but the price of japanese whiskey makes it kinda impractical.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net goodnight.

@mikoto@urusai.social That's understandable. One of my few graces is that I very rarely get sick, and when I do, it's only inconvenient. The humidity isn't too bad here either.

I did not know you were a hat person. I hope you still manage to enjoy the weather.

@mikoto@urusai.social I love the rain. Most times I don't even mind getting wet, so I will take a walk when it rains.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club don’t worry, you won’t see me. I just don’t sleep. We can stare at the river and watch the waters for everything but the faces we recognize… ​​

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club the difficulty is just my lack of enthusiasm for the premise. I’m ok with just jobbing this one and just getting through it. I usually do ok in contributing since I am instinctually combative with my books.

I’d feel bad but the book club has consistently picked genres or books of horror that I am just not into. I’ve liked one book out of about 7 so far, and that’s only because Shirley Jackson is a cheat code. I’m largely there to socialize.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club and I was wrong. 400 pages. This might be easier than I thought.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club The Hunger, by Alma Katsu.

I’m not really into historical fiction (I’d much rather read the actual history) so I’ve been dragging my feet.

I’ve been procrastinating all month. So now I have 2 days to read a 700 page book for book club…

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems that, and left wing authoritarianism always ends up taking up the conservative program, just with lipstick and a few nice words for the proletariat.

@sakurajima@sakurajima.moe

I wasn’t notified until this morning after a forums post.

I am sorry I didn’t put in a report sooner. I crashed almost immediately after getting off of work and didn’t wake until the early AMs.

I bought a 25lb bag of lentils with the goal of dry canning them and keeping them for a rainy day.
..but then there was a literal rainy day and my trunk got wet, ruining them.

At least for my purpose. An acquaintance is now in the process of boiling batches of that 25lbs of lentils for the purpose of feeding them to their 15 chickens.

@Ragashingo@starside.social I liked the message of this series a lot. I think it suffered from some pacing and narrative issues (episodes where the focus jumped a lot were not my favorite). I could have also done with our young MC being more of a character. She’s too often a blank slate for our perspective.

But the complexity of some of the relations and other things made it really enjoyable, even if the whole journal part isn’t actually important.

@AWanderingSorcerer@urusai.social outsider; but I feel like a fear of this is part of why they broke the taboo by electing an American pope - to guard against something like this.

The American Catholic Church is in an interesting place. They fall into many of the same positions of the evangelicals, and occupy many of the same information spheres. It’s kinda natural for them to fall into the orbit of what is “Christian” created by a largely Protestant country.

But suspicion of Catholics is deep into the DNA of American conservatism, especially its radical elements. I doubt they will ever be fully let “in”, at least not without a significant break with Rome.

From the outside it looks like there is a war for the soul of American Catholicism. I hope they break from the influences of the evangelical right, and find their own path. But American Christianity is nothing but a disappointment to me. I expect this to come to a head eventually. I think the chance of an antipope is extremely slim. But demographics of the church could easily flee.

@Chloe@catwithaclari.net @miawgogo@fedi.miawgogo.me I've also encountered situations where the stop cord was seemingly out of order.

This situation is especially hellish if the bus is full, and you have to somehow finagle your way to the front to ask the driver.You could hope the crowd asks for a stop ... but that's not me.

I am sometimes a bit disquieted when people refer to NB people as some combination of girlboy/boygirl. There are definitely people within that spectrum that identify that way, but it seems to exclude those who feel a third way, or people like myself who identify as ... not.

Not that I am asking for a purity test here. I meet people where they are, and I don't think any harm is meant. I've long accepted that my position makes me a curious outlier that sometimes breaks people's brains. Being agender is kinda like being the Bobby Tables or null pointer of the whole gender-identity discussion, and most people are not mentally prepared for your not-thing to be ... a thing.

@KitsuneVixi Pretty much the same idea I guess ​​