Off topic: there are currently 3 people alive born in the 19th century. All women, and from Italy, Jamaica, and Japan respectively. As none of them were more than a year old in 1901, I’m guessing none of them took history classes in the 19th century either 
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If you’re a care giver you know exactly why I’m posting fuck today.
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Trump is still the president elect and is still telling lies on the twitters:
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Captain Mansell Edward Hosey, USMC Ret., who served with distinction in the Pacific theater of WWII and in Korea, passed away in Richmond on Monday at the age of 96.
He was a small, soft-spoken man who exemplified strength, self control, kindness and compassion all the years that I knew him. I’ve met very few people as plainly and obviously admirable as Eddie, and he will be greatly missed.
But since the funeral is to be held eight hours away from me on Friday morning, it’s basically impossible for me to attend. I would punch a wall and scream or something but I know Eddie would quietly disapprove.
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Nothing that affects me personally, but…
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Yeah, it’s dumb as hell. They have a new governor, but the legislature can still keep the bill in effect. The two rays of sunshine are:
- While elections haven’t happened yet under the new districts, the existing racist districts are indeed unconstitutional, and the legislature isn’t going to be so purely stupid in the future (hopefully)
- The bill is already losing in the courts, and the new governor will actually have significant power to choose not to fight that and let the bill die as the unconstitutional piece of shit it is
It’s funny how the only good things I have to say about North Carolina include the word “unconstitutional”
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Research Triangle?
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Moog Music (and Asheville), bbq, a few good friends and family.
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To borrow a phrase from Trump, nobody loves North Carolina more than me.
Unfortunately, as someone who never visits, my impression of the place is disproportionately occupied by bathroom police.
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Fuck this season.
I spend from Thanksgiving until the new year a stressed nervous wreck because of (inevitable) family drama, shopping stress, kids going nuts, and work being rough. I feel sick all the time, I don’t sleep, and I’ve been (and this is embarrassing, I’m sorry…) chewing my nails so hard my fingertips all hurt all the time. I realize in the GRAND SCEME OF THINGS these are little things, but stack them together with the lack of sun and my own… destructive… tendencies, and it’s not a good time.
I keep taking deep breaths. I might he hyperventilating.
I can’t even say “I want to burn shit down” because there isn’t really something I could set on fire that’d change much.
Fuck.
And every god damned day I have to hear about the asshole we’ve put in charge doing some other horrible thing and I’m left thinking that there seems to be nothing to stop him from doing this terrible shit. Does that mean that any of the terrible people that have occupied that office before haven’t done stuff this bad because of nothing more than self control?
Is a sense of right and wrong and decency all that stand between us and oblivion?
I’m just going to vomit and lay down until this is all over, I think.
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Cascading failure:
EC puts Trump in as president.
Trump nominates Jeff Sessions for AG.
So who will Robert Bentley choose to fill Sessions’ seat in Congress?
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It definitely, definitely is.
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Just make it one more day.
If you can do that 10 times, both 2016 and the holiday season will be over.
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We are so fucked.
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Yep. Yours is well developed which is why you’re a good person but also why it hurts.
Hell yeah. As I keep telling myself, “Not today, ya fuckers. Not today.” Fuck, I hate this time of year.
We got your back when you need it, 'k?
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Everything about this makes me want to break something, especially the cop blaming the mother for her kid being attacked, instead of arresting the racist (white and male) piece of shit WHO JUST COMMITTED AGGRAVATED ASSUALT ON FUCKING 7 YEAR OLD!!! AGGGH!
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This is entirely my own fault… but fuck today…
I had 5 ciders last night, and a half a bowl of fries for dinner.
Dear past-me, fuck you very much.
Today sucks donkeys balls.
At least its a half day and I brought my dogs to work.
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Don’t bother checking, folks: of course they’re exactly the skin tone you think they are. How dare black people complain about being aggressively attacked? What’s the world coming to, that black citizens think they deserve to be treated like human beings?
But no worries: Trump in office will solve all that.
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The Fort Worth police department said in a statement released on Thursday afternoon that they had reviewed the officer’s body-camera footage but would not be releasing it… [and] “We acknowledge that the initial appearance of the video may raise serious questions”…
No, really? Ya think? :wide eyed:
The money quote, though, is “If you keep yelling at me, you’re gonna piss me off, and I’m gonna take you to jail”
In Texas, it seems pissing off a cop is more jail-worthy than choking a seven-year-old. I wish I could say I was surprised.
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So yesterday I set my Macbook Pro down hinge side up leaning against a piece of furniture, and later set a cup of tea near it while shuffling some presents around, and managed to spill a bit that dropped down the fan vents. While it’s running fine, it seems to have mangled the battery charging. A dozen SMC/PRAM resets later and still no charge with multiple power supplies tested. I’m rsyncing/backing up everything I can think of-already have every .psd backed up, and am pulling the photo library which is huge but hopefully I’ll have sufficient battery to get it all (it’s 250G - slow going). I made a backup of the important photos, but would prefer to keep everything.
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