grasping at visions

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

I have been reminded of:

I have now been informed of

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."

Halimede you've done it again

Halimede being a satire but also saying true and helpful things is confusing. People are always saying “Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize”, and I think Halimede fails to do that. Or maybe it’s obvious and I’m just obtuse.

The satire, at this point, is the idea of a cis woman who Really Does Care That Much. One who will never Quite "get it" or communicate entirely in a way that doesn't turn heads and raise eyebrows, but who does genuinely carry a ton of love for trans women in her heart, even if she expresses it awkwardly and often offensively. It's satire because it's a type of person you pretty much never actually encounter. In a real person, this behaviour would be threatening. The allyship of most cis women is often performative at best. Their faux pas can't be laughed off as lovable well-meaning stumbles, because that's not what they are, they're veiled insults used to other us. Signs that they don't Actually see you as one of their own. But being a character, Halimede is disarmed, and this behaviour is made harmless. Halimede also does not see trans women as being the same as her, but her love is real, and she often reaches the right conclusions about how their minds function and what they need. She's just also an idiot who says things you should never say to a trans girl's face. It's that lack of social sensitivity that allows her to state the quiet truths most leave unsaid.

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

Everyone should be aware of nitter.net