I'm watching #RogueOne for the 1st time since #Andor. Of course I notice all the inconsistencies. Probably because of the biblical history video I shared earlier today I'm enjoying an idea of this movie as legend. Maybe I don't suspend disbelief enough because of my knowledge of the business of Hollywood. If I think of these as 2 cultural products from the "same factory" years apart I get irritated at the inconsistencies. But if they're legends passed down... well those always contain mystery.
Weird. Fraggle Rock & NASA. My favorite 2 American institutions, together!
#Fraggles #FraggleRock #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter
Some say love languages are bunk—like nearly all typology is. I do find them useful. Today I reconfirmed that gifts don't register with me the same as for others. Previous partner was into giving & getting gifts. I learned that my present bf is too. Some things we exchanged on loan. If i never said the word gift he felt unsure. My attitude is communist! I think whoever gets the most use or need out of something can have it. I leave out thoughtfulness & just want to be told what my bf wants. 🙃
Anybody else in a *long distance* relationship? An idea we're trying, since our energy & concentration are often out of alignment, is a pinned shared note for wishing good morning & good evening messages with an estimate of how long we'll be awake. Tonight he's winding down & hopes to sleep in < an hour whereas I said that I'll be up for hours. So we know the state of the other. So we can store things for the other to read when ready. And to avoid irritating each other & ease the lonely times.
How depressing! Ah well these images offer me a good reminder that I have no business dreaming about buying a new domain. I already settled on 2 to keep forever. Yes they are both difficult to spell & pronounce & are probably horrible. But I lost my original dot com and it's owned by scammers now & I just need to accept the ones I have. Ok sigh.
Here are my domains:
Https://Rartsy.com
Https://humanissome.org
Maybe if I write a book or launch a business then I'll get a new one.
+ago—is not the capacity of their intelligence, it's what they choose to prioritize. Violence. Power. Us vs. Them. Greedy accumulation.
I've heard of studies that measure curiosity, willingness to learn, openness to self improvement & link those to left & liberal views & voting preferences. Problem is, that's another us/them hierarchy. To better ourselves is to better us all. Respect includes letting go of intellectual superiority. Intelligence does not convey greater moral worth.
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If I ever get well enough, one of my lifelong writing goals is to elaborate my views on intelligence. I believe that there is little benefit in discussing mental abilities the way that we mostly do, as a finite & stable measurement of capacity, like the total area of an apartment. What matters, to continue the analogy, is what we put in the space. Humans have enough "brain area" to do a lot but often fill their mind apartments with junk or even toxic waste! The problem with T—or W 25 years+
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Happy Easter to my fellow ex Christians! 🐰 🐣 🍃
An alt history of my recent life in a fictional ideal world: the moment pain made my life unmanageable I would check into a pleasant medical facility at which basic life care, visits with practitioners, scans, & changes to medication are provided freely & promptly until I return to functioning. It still might be the case that no causes or cures are found, & I would be sent home with the best possible treatment routine of physical & drug therapies—without agonizing delays, uncertainty, & expense.
Content warning:Lewd
In my adolescence I was intrigued by dystopian visions of the future like Blade Runner, Max Headroom, William Gibson. I consumed media from Adbusters & Negativland. A bit of world building that I imagined putting in a sci fi future would be a few seconds of hardcore (or soft core but unambiguous) sex, panning out to reveal that it's appearing on a screen somewhere in public like a waiting room or kiosk where it’s attracting zero special attention. Chyron fade in: "drink Pepsi!"
Emotional siloing | My bf & I both self soothe with media, often nonstop because the emotional emergency is constant these days. Effective dissociation relies on highly idiosyncratic choices; his do not work for me & vice versa. In fact our specific self-soothing choices have the opposite effect on the other. His put me on edge, mine irritate him.
This small scale interpersonal conflict of tastes that I'm describing, writ large, is the loss of monoculture.
If I could reform YouTube I'd have longer descriptions below each video in feed mode. Not the full description, but 3-4 lines of text. Some video podcasts are an hour long or more with one provocative line taken from somewhere in the video as the teaser title. I want more descriptive info on entertainment streaming menus too. Thumbnails do not provide enough reason to click. I think diverging from feeds & offering browsing by categories/tags/channels/communities would respect viewers' time more.
I'm moving to another country. Should I keep my DVD collection? (If you answer "some" please tell me how many/how to choose.)
#ScribesAndMakers 4/4: How do you answer if someone asks you what you do? Is your answer different in person vs. online?
I say artist.
I now like the vagueness that formerly intimidated me. It may prompt follow-up questions. And if the person isn't inquisitive then the umbrella term is the best to accurately indicate my outlook. I've been a visual artist primarily but I think artist applies to all creative thinking.
Lately I wonder if it's the "wrong" answer for government immigration forms.
Is there currently a US poet laureate? How can there be? How can there not?! 😢
I like limited series. I tried to watch one called The Outsider that features several actors I like. I watched about 2/3 of the series then stopped abruptly. They were drawing it out, as often happens, and I just couldn't handle Stephen King's cliches any longer. I think he's very cliche & that's why he's popular & that's why many of his stories make good adaptations to video. It's shorthand that taps into already known concepts. I like his politics but that's my opinion of his writing.
The video linked above is me talking to camera expressing my negative feelings about material transactions. A reasonable counterpoint might be that not all selling is predation. But I don't think that my feelings are inexplicable. Thus I believe that certain types of "hoarding" arise as reactions against our self destructive economy. I felt better about selling art once I made it available on a sliding scale, allowing the collector to choose the value. I felt better but my sales went down. 🙃
Hoarders = conscientious objectors to capitalism? (Latest #video)
I don't know if I'll ever write fiction. I aspire to explain in detail my vision of a society that I want to live in. The production of goods slows down as complex, widespread systems are created to reuse everything possible. Profit is an unnecessary complication that interferes with goods going to those who need & want them.
I think we resist change because materialism is one of few pleasures.
I love my rotating Lock Screen photos of Mexico!!
I wish that it was just blank instead of saying "no upcoming events"! That's so bleak lol. It's never true. It does mean that there's nothing imminent entered into the calendar. Yes I know that I can change what shows on the screen. Sometimes this configuration is helpful. Dual weather is also odd. They give me slightly different info & I don't like the other widget options & I don't like how it looks with just 2/3 of that row occupied.