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How are you feeling...

I'm trying to not look at news and social media. Pretty hard when I come here and follow links and see how others are still reacting to Mango II.

So I'm trying to read short stories and mindless fiction and finally catch up to TV viewing (we just finished Season 2 of The Diplomat last night).
 
Despite efforts to distract and console myself, I still care too much right now and am infuriated the mainstream media practically obliterated our likelihood of remembering anything from the Biden administration except the Trump-centric highlights of that timeframe.

How weird to feel like Trump just won a f'g third term in office...

Laughing now in spite of myself, because I see the NYT has already had enough sense to drastically shorten the time in which they leave comments sections open. Tidying up for how they'll handle Trump 2.0 I guess. Too bad for The Snug. Whatever I might have vented in NYT comments might land here instead going forward.

Meanwhile along lines of trying not to care too much, I'm vowing to make more use of my PBS Passport and Film Movement apps. And not documentaries either, unless maybe about music and dance.
 
lizkat said:
Despite efforts to distract and console myself, I still care too much right now and am infuriated the mainstream media practically obliterated our likelihood of remembering anything from the Biden administration except the Trump-centric highlights of that timeframe.

How weird to feel like Trump just won a f'g third term in office...

Laughing now in spite of myself, because I see the NYT has already had enough sense to drastically shorten the time in which they leave comments sections open. Tidying up for how they'll handle Trump 2.0 I guess. Too bad for The Snug. Whatever I might have vented in NYT comments might land here instead going forward.

Meanwhile along lines of trying not to care too much, I'm vowing to make more use of my PBS Passport and Film Movement apps. And not documentaries either, unless maybe about music and dance.
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NYT is almost assuredly getting overwhelmed with comments about how they were complicit in this electoral fiasco. They moderate them, but I think when it gets too much, they just turn them off.
 
Like some of you, I've decided I will skip a lot of TV news for the next four years (with the exception of The Dailly Show), and get my news online where if I want to I can quickly skip having to look at that braying jackass's face or reading his deranged blatherings.

Fuck, if I could be put into suspended animation for four years like Buck Rogers and wake up when it's all over, I would. 😡
 
Thomas Veil said:
Like some of you, I've decided I will skip a lot of TV news for the next four years (with the exception of The Dailly Show), and get my news online where if I want to I can quickly skip having to look at that braying jackass's face or reading his deranged blatherings.

Fuck, if I could be put into suspended animation for four years like Buck Rogers and wake up when it's all over, I would. 😡
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The future hasn’t been written yet; I hope things won’t be as bad as our worst fears.

Avoiding TV news sounds like a good plan. I will stick to PBS, but probably not watch every night.
 
lizkat said:
Despite efforts to distract and console myself, I still care too much right now and am infuriated the mainstream media practically obliterated our likelihood of remembering anything from the Biden administration except the Trump-centric highlights of that timeframe.

How weird to feel like Trump just won a f'g third term in office...

Laughing now in spite of myself, because I see the NYT has already had enough sense to drastically shorten the time in which they leave comments sections open. Tidying up for how they'll handle Trump 2.0 I guess. Too bad for The Snug. Whatever I might have vented in NYT comments might land here instead going forward.

Meanwhile along lines of trying not to care too much, I'm vowing to make more use of my PBS Passport and Film Movement apps. And not documentaries either, unless maybe about music and dance.
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A perfect example of this: David French wrote a column about “Two Huge Problems Harris Could Nof Escape”

A flood of comments with various phrasings of “The 2 points: Racism and Sexism” dominate. So they shut it down. They can’t handle the truth.
 
lizkat said:
Meanwhile along lines of trying not to care too much, I'm vowing to make more use of my PBS Passport and Film Movement apps. And not documentaries either, unless maybe about music and dance.
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I have wanted PBS Passport for years. Maybe after I sell the house if I have anything left. So many good shows.

Oh and @Thomas Veil, your suspended animation idea sounds brilliant.
 
From noping to coping😀 they surely make this entertaining enough to replace my sense of horror with the curious fascination of a reality show that makes you dumber by the minute😀
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hi all, hope this finds you well.

i'm at UCLA Santa Monica hospital. i've suffered a series of strokes so please forgive any typos my right side of brain is affected plus a blood clot in my brain that should eventually dissolve. but i's going to take awhile for my brain to rewire itself. I can't move my left arm and leg. next step is to send me to rehab for PT. I'm out if ICU and now in a step down ward. mIss you all but at least Gaetz won't be around. YAY. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and don't get too fat.
 
shadow puppet said:
hi all, hope this finds you well.

i'm at UCLA Santa Monica hospital. i've suffered a series of strokes so please forgive any typos my right side of brain is affected plus a blood clot in my brain that should eventually dissolve. but i's going to take awhile for my brain to rewire itself. I can't move my left arm and leg. next step is to send me to rehab for PT. I'm out if ICU and now in a step down ward. mIss you all but at least Gaetz won't be around. YAY. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and don't get too fat.
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Holding a good thought for you, and surely hope the time with rehab-provided PT will get your mobility improved! What the heck do they serve for Thanksgiving in hospital, if you're still there at that point? I hope they make an effort that turns out successful. My definition there excludes Jell-O and imagines halfway decent pie. Keep them in line while you're there. Customer always right, etc. Believe it, teach it. 💕 🥳
 
shadow puppet said:
hi all, hope this finds you well.

i'm at UCLA Santa Monica hospital. i've suffered a series of strokes so please forgive any typos my right side of brain is affected plus a blood clot in my brain that should eventually dissolve. but i's going to take awhile for my brain to rewire itself. I can't move my left arm and leg. next step is to send me to rehab for PT. I'm out if ICU and now in a step down ward. mIss you all but at least Gaetz won't be around. YAY. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and don't get too fat.
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Miss you too, you will be in our thoughts….
 
shadow puppet said:
hi all, hope this finds you well.

i'm at UCLA Santa Monica hospital. i've suffered a series of strokes so please forgive any typos my right side of brain is affected plus a blood clot in my brain that should eventually dissolve. but i's going to take awhile for my brain to rewire itself. I can't move my left arm and leg. next step is to send me to rehab for PT. I'm out if ICU and now in a step down ward. mIss you all but at least Gaetz won't be around. YAY. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and don't get too fat.
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Don't worry about the typos...I do worse than that on any given day. Get well, my friend! Good luck with the PT and getting all your motion back.
 
Thomas Veil said:
Don't worry about the typos...I do worse than that on any given day. Get well, my friend! Good luck with the PT and getting all your motion back.
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Thank you The hardest part is not being able to use the shift key when needed b/c my left hand won't respond like it used to iv'e been using the microphone when avail b/c it takes me 20 minutes just to text let alone passwords. Just shoot me now
 
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Good lord. I've had this cold which advanced to a sinus infection for at least two weeks now, and other people I know have had it longer. This one is really laying me out. I'm miserable, like, 98% of the time, and a lot of the time I'm coughing hard or my throat is so congested I can barely talk.
 
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