🌏🌱 hopecore & chill 🌱🌏

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

and for all of yall that are still figuring it out or aren't getting the support you deserve:

anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.

i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”

and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.

“What?” i say.

…relic…

monday, june 1st, 2026

it's the start of a new month! life has been in flux recently, but it's all good things. I landed that job I really wanted (!!!) and now I'm settling into a new routine. I have so much to learn, but I'm excited about it and I'm feeling good about the team I'm on. this job also involves less timezone shenanigans, so I actually have time to study or work on projects in the morning again! my brain works best in the morning so I'm really happy about this.

I'm participating in the june days of productivity challenge (post with my goals coming soon) but mostly I want to focus on getting back to the basics and building a good routine this month. my 3 big priorities are 1) reading 2) running + practicing yoga and 3) getting back into reading Malware Data Science, which I started months ago oops

progress towards my goals today:

I spent an hour or so reading Malware Data Science

highlights today:

my partner & I hung out in the international district in the evening! I bought a few stationery items & I got a red bean paste bun from a bakery there <3