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I used to be pretty convinced that voting couldn’t possibly matter for people outside of swing states because our system is so broken, but seeing the absurd lengths the GOP has been going to to try to tilt midterms in their favor in places like Texas, I am now de-convinced.

Anyway, apparently the GOP is holding an unprecedented “Midterm Convention” in my former home city of Dallas, and this is 100% because, instead of sticking with John Cornyn for their senate candidate, who has been a senator since 2002 and does not rock the boat in any meaningful way, they chose the batshit insane Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton. Trump endorsed him because Paxton kisses his butt far more proactively than Cornyn does, but a lot of more moderate conservatives in Texas are pretty pissed about this because, again, Ken Paxton is several crayons short of a box and has a career littered with scandal after scandal. The Democratic candidate, James Talarico, is a professing Christian who’s about as moderate as a Democrat can be and seems to be a pretty likable guy.

Anyway, they created a situation in which a bunch of Texas Republicans/Independents are probably just going to abstain from voting altogether, and now they’re panicking—probably because they realized that 42% of Texans voted for Kamala Harris, and James Talarico is a friendly white man who speaks openly and often about his faith and has been putting in the hours on the campaign trail. Centrist and even some right-wing Texans will have a much easier time voting for him. And I just don’t think they’d be panicking like this if voting didn’t matter at all, y’know?

#it me #us politics #texas politics

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I think I sort of knew that sometimes physical stimuli can seep into dreams and even inform the content of the dreams, but I also sort of thought it was mostly a narrative device used in fiction. Except, over the past few months, I’ve had this happen at lot. I’ve had a bunch of Dropout comedians feature in a dream because I fell asleep listening to one of the shows and hadn’t set my phone up to stop after the episode was finished, so the app kept autoplaying. And just now, I had some long, convoluted dream, the plot of which I do not recall, but I do remember having to pee over and over again in the dream. Like, I’d pee and then immediately have to pee again and it was becoming extremely frustrating. And I just woke up in the middle of the night feeling the need to pee so bad.

I know there are other examples because this has happened a lot recently, but I can’t remember the specific instances.

#it me

galactic-catnip

I can't find the document I need for some reason.

walkawaytall

For even more of a challenge, I suggest including “USE THIS ONE” or “FINAL” in the title of the third-most-recent copy of nearly identical documents.

#do I do this?#not with documents #but with SQL queries and Power BI dashboards?#…yes

macgyvermedical

Homemade Electrolyte Mix

Guess what, folks! It's summer! And it's gonna be a hot one, because they all are, recently :(

Did you know you can lose about a liter of water, a gram of sodium, and 300mg potassium in an hour of profuse sweating? If you're working outside in the heat, or even just existing in a very hot and humid environment, you're gonna want to replace the electrolytes you're losing, and you're gonna have to be purposeful about it.

But electrolyte drink mixes, while convenient, are surprisingly expensive for what they are. So I'm going to give you a top secret recipe that you can whip up for literal pennies that will replace what you're losing in sweat.

1 liter of water

1/2 tsp table salt (about 1g of sodium)

1/8 tsp potassium chloride salt substitute (about 350mg potassium. NuSalt is a popular brand, it's sold near the salt at the grocery store. If you don't have this, replace 6oz (180ml) of the water with orange juice or eat something high in potassium, like a banana, each hour you're sweating)

6-8 tsp of granulated sugar (you do actually need this and not a no calorie alternative- sugar helps speed up the absorption of electrolytes in the gut. You can omit if using orange juice for your potassium source, though!)

Lemon or lime juice for flavor, optional

Mix together and drink 1 liter for each hour you're profusely sweating. Adjust your intake so that your pee is light yellow.

If you want to make this mix ahead of time, put 1x the recipe of salt, sugar, and potassium, along with unsweetened Kool Aid powder or crystalized lemon or lime juice, in a small baggie. I do not recommend putting multiple servings worth in a baggie, as the ingredients settle differently and you might not get the right ratio.

NOTE: like any electrolyte drink, it works better if you sip it instead of chugging. If you chug it, you end up pooping out a lot of your electrolytes, even with the sugar.

Source: Where There Is No Doctor by David Werner

headspace-hotel

I had mistakenly absorbed so much bullshit about sports drinks being "unhealthy" that I learned the hard way that when you work outdoors chugging plain water will NOT rehydrate you properly. great resource thx

#summer #electrolytes #drinks

mooned-knights

is anyone else annoyed that "ai" encompasses both chatgpt and tools we train to do repetitive tedious work for us. and by the ripple effect of articles like "scientists develop ai to detect cancer early" that make people argue for the merit of chatgpt or become anti-medicine. and by the general state of the world and society

walkawaytall

Constantly. I will use the term “LLM” or “large language model” as often as possible to refer to things like ChatGPT because the generative AI that we’re being force-fed constantly is almost all LLM-based, and that is literally just one type of AI model. The ones used in research/medicine/analytics aren’t generally going to be LLMs; they’re trained on completely different datasets and instructed to do totally different things.

It’s like…if we pretend that the overarching category of machine learning is the concept of Medical Care, different models are different treatment techniques. If someone has a broken bone, you use orthopedic techniques; if someone is in cardiac arrest, you use cardiology techniques. These techniques are all a form of Medical Care, but they’re specialized to treat exactly what is wrong with someone.

In this analogy, Large Language Models like ChatGPT/Claude/CoPilot are bandaids. They’re highly visible, you can find them everywhere, but they’re really only effective at doing one specific task in a limited set of circumstances (that task is generating something that seems like it could be human-created by utilizing data from existing human-created works, to be clear. That’s the only task they can actually perform effectively consistently. They can’t reason or make choices on purpose; they just look at all the data they have access to and replicate the most common elements). Bandaids are helpful in a handful of cases, but you should not use bandaids in place of stitches or to re-inflate a lung or set a broken bone, and you certainly should not be relying on bandaids to prescribe medication or offer medical counseling. These things are all considered Medical Care, but bandaids are really only good at covering small wounds, and shouldn’t be used for other things.

#that may have gotten away from me #anti generative ai

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Excerpt from a phone call with my grandmother

(I need to be so clear right now: I do not and will never proactively bring up politics with my “I’m not MAGA, I’m Republican” grandmother, but my dad both forces her to talk about this stuff and is pretty mean about it, so I think she brings it up with me because she knows I’m not going to yell or whatever.)

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Grandmother: Your dad’s a socialist now.

Me: what? He said that? (Sidenote: my dad is a conspiracy theorist who was MAGA and I’m pretty sure once thought Obama was a lizard person, but he left QAnon, voted for Harris in 2024, and now I understand his politics even less than when he was super right-wing because he’s still a dang conspiracy theorist and believes too many racial stereotypes but loves Obama now??? Have no idea if he’s just accepted that lizard people are people too or if he’s renounced his Reptilian Elite beliefs entirely and I’m too scared to ask.)

G: Next thing you know, he’ll be a communist.

Me: He told you he’s a socialist? I don’t think he’s a socialist, at least not how you’re thinking.

G: that’s what he said. He said he’s a Democratic Socialist.

Me: okay, so that’s different than pure socialism. It’s not like what they have in Russia. (I did try to explain a little bit more of what I understand of democratic socialism here as well, but the explanation was brief and apparently lacking as you’ll soon see.)

G: Well, I don’t like what’s going on in New York.

Me: You don’t have to. You don’t live there.

G: I just don’t understand why all these people who hate it here so much don’t just leave.

Me: what people? It’s hard to leave even if you want to, but who are you talking about?

G: those people in New York.

Me: …are you talking about the primary winners?

G: yes. I just don’t understand why they stay here if they hate America so much.

Me: what did they say they hate about America? Because I’ve been told I hate America, but I don’t. I have a deep appreciation for our Constitution and the system that was set up, but I also don’t agree with how things are being run now.

G: Well, I don’t know. I don’t like that mayor.

Me: Mamdani?

G: yes. If he hates how things are, he should just go back to where he’s from instead of making everyone change.

(I need to interject to emphasize that my grandmother has absolutely no ties to New York City. I’m not even confident that she’s ever set foot in New York state and no one she knows lives anywhere near there.)

Me: Well, people voted for him because they liked his ideas and I’ve been hearing a lot of good things from New Yorkers.

G: He doesn’t need to change everything. I don’t like how things are, either, but if you just wait a while, they change eventually.

Me: … …

Me: well, but they change because people who care enough to do something about it actually act to change things. Things don’t just change all on their own.

G: I just think if he wants to be a socialist, he should go back to wherever he’s from and be in their government there since he likes that so much.

Me (as I frantically look up what sort of government Uganda has): I mean, he wouldn’t be able to be in a socialist government in Uganda, either. They have a parliamentary system. (At this point, I’ve abandoned trying to explain democratic socialism and am just working from her worldview, which is that the commie-socialists, probably led by Known Socialist Zohran Mamdani or an AU Communist Kamala Harris, are going to take over the US and plunge us into the depths of despair.)

G: he might as well go to Iran.

Me: you think a democratic socialist would be allowed to lead in Iran? They’re a religious dictatorship right now.

G: well. I just don’t like him.

Me: again, no one is asking you to.

#i love my grandmother #but 9/10 of our conversarions lead to me calling my mother to repeat the exchange that took place #and this isn’t even my mom’s mom #but my dad and grandmother have a very enmeshed and weird relationship #and he like…revels in finding fault with her #so i try no to say anything negative about talking with her to him #because he will bring it up to her for the next decade #it me

Me: Hi, Coworkers Who I Expect to Have More Tech Knowledge Than Me on Account of You Being an IT Specialist and a Programmer Respectively While I am Merely a Lowly Data Analyst, I’m having issues with converting an XML file to CSV format. Excel is doing something wonky, so I finally just had CoPilot do the entire conversion and I thought that conversion worked until I was parsing through the data in PowerBI and realized some of the data didn’t covert properly. Can you help?

Two (2) different coworkers: **inserts whatever answer CoPilot gave them when they typed “Convert XML file to CSV”**

I think…I think I need to hibernate until the AI bubble bursts.

#it me #work #this is honestly worse than telling me to ‘Google it’#if you don’t know just tell me you don’t know!

fairycosmos

a small thing i learned from my sister dying is that i really would rather the people i love be a burden than be whatever the hell else they'd be if they weren't. yes even if it's messy and not always fair and hard completely inconvenient for everyone involved. even if it's weird. even if i'm rolling my eyes a bit inside sometimes. i just want you to bother me. please always bother me

fairycosmos

like "it's rotten work" "not to me not if it's you" actually sometimes it's still rotten work. even if it's you. and i'd still do it a million times over

0-summersun-0

Luke and Leia! I rewatched empire strikes back

#star wars #star wars art #leia organa #luke skywalker #space twins

Recent non-selfie pics! Tagged by @otterandterrier

1. Rare sighting of Posey and Winnie sleeping within a foot of one another (Winnie fell asleep before Posey hopped up there, so she was unaware). 2. Some flowers that I took a photo of in hopes of trying to paint them. 3. Watercolor of a weird photo of Winnie. 4. Some prints in an antique store that I’m positive someone in my family owns.

No-pressure tags:

@diplomaticprincess @joybirdsworks @virtie333

#it me #photos #my cats

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fic authors self rec! when you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. let's spread the self-love 💗

Oh, thanks for sending this to me! Though, I’m finding it difficult to get the list down to five favorites simply because I always interpret “favorite” to mean “favorite now and forever” for some reason, and I think my opinion shifts sometimes. So, I’ll just say these are my current favorites, I guess?

Annnnnyway, I feel like I stick Just Tauntauns on these sorts of lists all the time because it’s the fic where the gap between my personal appreciation of it and the readers’ appreciation is the largest. It’s a silly fic, but kind of sweet, and I really like how it turned out. Terrible Taste and In Their Absence are both shorter vignettes that I really like.

I think Hearthstide is my favorite multi-chapter that I’ve written. Purpose of Heritage was more of a feat, obviously, but there are some elements of PoH that I would change/get rid of if given the chance to write it over, whereas I don’t feel that way about Hearthstide. (and I know you’re probably thinking, “Chelsea, you have the chance! You’re the writer! You can fix whatever you want!” But I made myself a promise when I started writing fic again that, barring typos, I wouldn’t change my fics once I posted them because for me, that’s a recipe for every fic being in Editing Hell forever. I’ve broken that promise once by changing a sentence right after I posted a one-shot—guess which one!—but that barely counts. I cannot fix the stuff I’d want to fix in PoH while maintaining my sanity, I fear.)

#wat answers #joybirdsworks #fic recs #self rec #star wars fanfic #hanleia fanfic #hanleia fanfiction

vbdulrvhmvn

imagine thinking I’m quiet because you don’t have access to the premium personality package

#people who know me probably WISH i was quiet sometimes #jk my friends love me #but i do love to yap with people i’m comfortable around

I wish Tumblr had a mute function the way AO3 does because many times, I actually don’t mind if someone wants to see my posts; I just really, really don’t want to read their in-depth imaginings about being romantically involved as themselves with a fictional character whose tag I follow. (Or, even better, if I could mute specific tags for specific users? Like, I get that secondhand exposure to our fandom-in-laws is a part of Tumblr culture, but I already end up blocking whole tags when sometimes I just don’t want to see one specific person’s thoughts on a specific topic, y’know?)

#it me #tumblr

This morning, I saw a physical therapist who specializes in working with hypermobile people for…honestly, like the entire lower half of my body, but primarily my Achilles’ tendons, feet, and hip. Anyway, your girl has hips that are off-kilter enough that there’s like 3/4” difference between my right and left legs, and cried over the prospect of needing a lift. I think because I quite literally go barefoot as much as humanly possible because I don’t like shoes, so the idea of needing to be tromping around my house in any sort of footcovering is frustrating. But, also, this is one of those things that might just always be like this, which sucks. I know other stuff can improve, and that’s the goal, but my left leg may always be shorter than my right, which is just…something to process.

#it me #so what you’re saying is i’m indestructible

pochayun

spin the wheel and assign an animal to prev

#hummingbird

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I have found all of the videos on TikTok of Europeans exploring the States and rating our food while here for the World Cup really adorable and wonderful, but for goodness’ sake, I have also seen three different posts in which the person posting rated Raising Cane’s 1000/10 and I’m beginning to worry about the quality and flavor of food across Europe.

#raising cane’s is some of our worst fried chicken #i admittedly haven’t had it in years #but i recall biting into an UNSEASONED piece of chicken #and the people I was with who were big fans of the place essentially confirmed that that was typical #and that you have to really love Cane’s sauce to enjoy a meal there #i personally think Cane’s sauce is…fine #which is crazy because I love a mayo-based sauce #also their fries sucked #toast was legit though #and while *I* haven’t eaten it in years my mother has #and it sounds like it’s all the same as when I had it

luna-azzurra

Hemingway stopped writing every day mid-sentence on purpose. So he always knew where he was going when he sat down the next morning. I thought this was torture. i tried it. it is torture. It is also the reason i no longer stare at a blank page for forty minutes wondering what comes next because the sentence is already half there, already pulling you forward, already open. The blank page is the hardest part. He just made sure he never had to face it. I am begrudgingly a convert.

#writing

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