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Age: 20 

I mostly post about: My daily life, some stuff about my hexperiences regarding "mental health"/Madness. Occasionally I'll talk about media I've been into. 

My hobbies are: Selfshipping! DIY alternative fashion, customizing clothes & making jewelry. Ballet. Writing & art. Doll collecting. Soft toys. 

My fandoms are: Some Sword/Some Play (18+)! A very obscure little game that I love so much I've basically adopted one of the characters as my OC. Please I am so abnormal about these lesbians. Longtime Vocaloid fan, I think I'm coming up on 9 years now. I love Hatsune Miku (she's literally me) and recently Teto SynthV has captured my heart. Recently got back into FNaF (my favorite is Mangle!). Very normal about Neon Genesis Evangelion. Huge music nerd: love digital hardcore like Ada Rook, but also into stuff under the goth umbrella, industrial, shoegaze, new wave... I like a little bit of everything. I also love Emilie Autumn, Machine Girl, Nashimoto Ui, Chelsea Wolfe, and femtanyl. 

I'm looking to meet people who: Honestly, just looking for more interaction. People who post regularly and will comment on my posts. 

My posting schedule tends to be: Every couple of days, but sometimes I take a week off. 

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Those who follow Abrahamic religions. I am a staunch antitheist. I do have religious friends, I don’t blanket hate all religious people, but it is a turnoff. I am more receptive to other religious/spiritual people. Transmisogynists, racists, sanists, homophobes, other bigots. 

Before adding me, you should know: My blog is very much 18+ and viewer discretion advised because I am into a lot of dark and sexual things. I am Mad and hexperience things like plurality (one of my alters sometimes posts on this account too) and self-harm and intense mood swings. I am very critical of the psychiatric system. I am polyamorous and have 3 real-life partners and a whole host of fictional ones. 

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For today's "brief evergreen educational entry worth sharing next month," I'm sharing Vox explaining The House of Representatives is too small. Here is one way to fix it.

For more than a century, the size of the House of Representatives has been frozen at 435 seats; in that same period, the US population has tripled. This means that today, the average representative is responsible for more than 750,000 constituents. Scholars and politicians say this imbalance is why many Americans feel like Congress is disconnected from them.

So what if we…added more seats? That’s what Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) is proposing in a new bill because he believes it’s closer to what the country’s founders originally envisioned. While expanding Congress could make our ratio of voters to representatives smaller, it also raises a difficult question: Can a larger, more crowded legislature actually govern, or are we just adding more voices to the gridlock? Vox dives into the math, the history, and the potential future of a "bigger" American democracy.
I find all three formulas converging on one district for every 500,000 people encouraging. It also tells that my my support for the "Wyoming Plan," which has the population of every district being the size of the smallest population state, is well founded. It's also why I'm not terribly eager to add the U.S. Virgin Islands; their population would make the Wyoming Plan unwieldy, if not downright impracticable. Fortunately, the last referendum overwhelmingly supported territory status. It's also why I would be ambivalent about adding Prince Edward Island as the 62nd state, proposing it join Nova Scotia or New Brunswick first. Yeah, like that will ever happen. However, making the population of a district 500,000 and not that of the lowest population state would remove those reservations.

Vox advocating for multi-member districts and proportional representation is very on-brand for it. It's been doing so since Vox explains how proportional representation can solve gerrymandering and help minor parties in 2017 and again in Vox explains 'Why US elections only give you two choices' in 2024. I'm glad they're consistent on this issue; it will take repetition to get the idea to stick.

That's a wrap for today. Stay tuned for more Saturn Awards coverage tomorrow. Wicked Wednesday, anyone?
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Feb. 9th, 2026 11:25 pm
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[personal profile] dialecticdreamer is hosting Magpie Monday with a theme of "just a normal day."  Leave prompts, get ficlets! 

I got things done today!

Feb. 9th, 2026 10:41 pm
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Though I started by once again sleeping til 12:00. But then I got up and had breakfast and coffee.

Then I did what I am very proud of. I got the printer working again. Before I went to Arisia I tried printing out my to do list and discovered the computer wasn't recognizing the (wireless) printer. I had no time then to play with it so I let it be, and I hadn't done anything about it since.

But today I fiddled with it and discovered that somehow something called the MP driver had gotten uninstalled or something. Then I had to find the MP driver (not the printer driver, mind you!) and install it. Allow me to say the Canon website was only marginally helpful. Yes the drivers were there to download... but difficult to locate that MP driver. I did though and got the printer working.

Then I added water to the turtle tank. And then I cleaned the cat pan.

Then I tossed on some clothes (sweat pants and my thermal shirt) and took the dirty kitty litter and the two Valentines for Middle Brother and the Kid, and ventured out into the cold. It's actually warmed up a bit but still was below freezing.

Anyway, I took the litter to the garbage, and walked around the block, and to the mailbox and mailed the Valentines. So they should arrive before Saturday I hope.

Then I had something to eat. And I went to the bedroom and lay down for awhile and played solitaire on my phone.

Meanwhile my limited edition Stephen Colbert Funko Pop has not yet been delivered, although the tracking said it was out for delivery yesterday. So I looked up how to contact Funko and I sent them a message.

Then I Teamed the FWiB. We were going along fine, over an hour, when the Teams crashed and kicked me out. We got back on, but it was annoying. Don't know if it was Teams, or my wretched computer.

The Funko people answered! They said it was normal to have a delivery delay and I should wait a few days before panicking. So I will wait.

Then I had dinner, a Lean Cuisine frozen pizza for World Pizza Day. Tasty. Then I went to the bedroom again, and played on the phone til pet feeding time.

And so I got some stuff done today.

Gratitude List:

1. The FWiB.

2. Got the printer working without too much trouble.

3. Got the Valentines out.

4. Heard back from Funko.

5. Have Samsung Health working on my phone now to count steps.

6. Pizza.
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Posted by Mike Glyer

(1) ON THE FRONT. Alex Shvartsman has given readers The Best of All Possible Planets cover reveal! This book is a space opera take on Candide written as a series of Futurama episodes. Coming July 28, 2026 in hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, … Continue reading

Economics

Feb. 9th, 2026 08:43 pm
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Consumers spend much more when making digital payments instead of using cash

The use of digital payments has led people to spend more than they do when using cash, according to survey evidence from more than 1,200 consumers.

The shift reframes everyday purchases as moments where restraint weakens quietly, long before shoppers notice any change in their budgets.



This is why one of the most effective ways to save money is to buy things with cash, and thus, one of the many reasons for protecting the use of cash.

Poem: "Libraries from the Ashes"

Feb. 9th, 2026 08:23 pm
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This poem is spillover from the February 3, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by prompts from [personal profile] kengr, [personal profile] librarygeek, and (Anonymous) IP Address: (46.110.23.207). It also fills the "Take a Class" square in my 2-1-26 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles. It belongs to the series Daughters of the Apocalypse.

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Poem: "A Never Failing Spring"

Feb. 9th, 2026 05:56 pm
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This poem is spillover from the February 3, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from [personal profile] readera. It also fills the "Do What You Love" square in my 2-1-26 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles. It belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "But an Empty Shell," "Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful," and "Filled with Things You Don't Know" ($49) so read at least the first two or this won't make as much sense.

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Feb. 9th, 2026 07:04 pm
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Funky dreaming... again.

Feb. 9th, 2026 06:31 pm
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I had another really funky dream...

In my dream, my bf, me, and his mom lived in a rusty, grungy, disgusting trailer. Not even the apartment. I'm the dream I kept trying to scrub the tub and it was just flaky rust. When I cleaned the poopy toilet seat, the poop came back immediately every time I cleaned it. Bleh...

She's so entitled. She said she was withering away waiting on us to cook dinner. She's not a child. We're not obligated to make her meals and clean her messes. She could have gotten food any time today. Heaven forbid she even scrape off a dish. There's no garbage disposal.

I can't even escape in my sleep.

Also, the other day while we were taking her to work she admitted that are kicked an officer and called them the n word plus accused them of being gay sleeping with each other. She said she was justified as she did nothing wrong. Uhhh... Yeah... I don't know how lawyers can feel okay when they represent people that blatantly do crimes like that. I hope the officer had a body cam. He didn't deserve to be kicked for doing his job.

Birdfeeding

Feb. 9th, 2026 05:33 pm
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Today is partly cloudy and cold.  Patches of snow remain, separated by stretches of bare muddy ground.

I fed the birds.  I've seen a large flock of sparrows.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 2/9/26 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.

EDIT 2/9/26 -- I did more work around the patio. 

I am done for the night.

2026 TAFF Race Begins

Feb. 9th, 2026 11:05 pm
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Game Bundle: No ICE in MN

Feb. 9th, 2026 03:11 pm
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No ICE in Minnesota bundle at itch.io: 1400+ games for $10 donation that goes to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota.

Notable items include:
  • Baba Is You (video game)
  • A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build (video game)
  • Calico (video game)
  • ECO MOFOS!! (TTRPG)
  • Bump in the Dark: Revised Edition (TTRPG)
  • Tangled Blessings (solo TTRPG)
  • Be Seeing You (GM-less TTRPG)
  • Rosewood Abby (Brindlewood style TTRPG)
  • Three Magic Eyeland collections (...nobody else may care about stereograms but I love them)

so close

Feb. 9th, 2026 02:49 pm
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Something is about to happen in Iran - but then again this is always true, we're perpetually on the verge.

The question now is - is something really about to happen - as in the next 5 days?

There are stories of multitudes of military cargo planes heading that way - but that could be just to get the story out that there are multitudes of military cargo planes heading that way.

Netanyahu is visiting DC in the next few days - which is also something that always seems to be true - but it could mean something this time.

There are also stories (and they absolutely could not be true) that some higher up in Iran claims Trump offered a small staged war. Odd if true, but more odd if true and that deal wasn't taken. Sounds like a tremendous deal some are saying the most beautiful deal ever.

What say you?

Something happens by Saturday - or nothing happens by Saturday?

Poem: "Books That Bite Back"

Feb. 9th, 2026 02:28 pm
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This poem is spillover from the February 3, 2026 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by [personal profile] janetmiles. It also fills the "Respect Limits" square in my 2-1-26 card for the Valentines Bingo fest.


"Books That Bite Back"


Some books are easy reading,
while others really are not.

There are the vindaloo cookbooks
and the guides to growing hot peppers.

There are the essays about ethics
and the history books written by losers.

There are the comparative religion texts
and the papers on quantum mechanics.

Just like food that commands respect,
there are books that bite back.

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In the run up to the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette was accused of diddling her own son, the Dauphin and the heir to the French throne. Even the most basic of searches reveals Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake”, yet the phrase has been welded to her identity since at least 1787. She did not have to utter the infamous quip because she lived it. She had a mini-farm built called the Petit Trianon and massive gambling and fashion habits. Meanwhile, to be a regular person in 18th century France was to be “virtually without worldly goods” reports Owen Hulton in The Poor of 18th Century France, 1750-1789. Often, “a bed, a cupboard, a few cooking pots, bed-clothes, shirts and shifts progressively patched and worn constituted the entire assets of a working family.” Marie’s huge menagerie of domestic animals, including the ones on her show farm, included an array of tiny dogs that crapped and pissed wherever they wanted in the Versailles palace, chewing holes in embroidered damask that cost more than a laundress would make in her entire life. The 18th century equivalent of tabloids (called the libelles, compare the word to libel in English) accused Marie of molesting her own son. At her trial, Marie refused to dignify the accusations with a response, stating “if I did not respond, it was because it would be against Nature for a mother to reply against such an accusation.” Her son the Dauphin was isolated, groomed, and tortured into accusing his mother of incest by Jacques Peré Hébert, who once skipped town at the age of 23 when he was rightfully convicted of slander and was fired from his theater job at the time for stealing. His contemporary, the French historian Ferdinand Brunot, called Hébert “the Homer of filth” for his talent for appealing to the lowest common denominator with his rumor-monging and false accusations. Hébert became quite the demagogue in his day, launching a movement of Hébertists whose goal was to de-Christianize France and to force priests to marry. Hébertists organized the first Festival of Reason, renaming the Notre Dame the Temple of Reason. For Hébertists, unlike their modern couch potato keyboard warrior equivalents, often launched physical attacks on those they felt were “too moderate” such as the Girondins. Even Maximilien Robespierre was considered too moderate by the Hébertists in 1793.

The Reign of Terror saw about 17,000 elites separated from their lives. Though I am sure it felt good to see the formerly be-wigged marching to their dooms after being scooped up in wooden carts, the revenge of the common man does not seem to have done much to stop subsequent Marie Antoinette wannabes from going about their rich and clueless lives.

It’s Hollywood, baby

Jews were expelled from Russia during its Revolution after throwing in their lot with Bolsheviks and other revolutionaries. The Jews who escaped to America founded Hollywood. In the 1800s, newly arrived Jews joined their brethren in the garment trade and vaudeville live theater. Both of these industries were largely overlooked and dismissed by wealthy whites. Live theaters were gradually overtaken by cinemas, and since Jews dominated the theater trade, the transition to film was natural and smooth. Many Jews in the garment industry founded the major entertainment houses: clothing salesman Carl Laemmle founded Universal Pictures; furrier Adolf Zucker founded Paramount Pictures; glove seller Samuel Goldwyn began his own moving picture studio.

Nobody could accuse the founding Jews of Hollywood of laziness. They worked hard, they became entrepreneurs, collaborated, sacrificed, and clawed their way up to do it. We can witness the hardy Louis Mayer, a poor kid who was born in the Ukraine and quit school at the age of 12. By the time he was a young adult, he renovated a vaudeville theater in Massachusetts before moving to Hollywood and founding MGM Studios. One of his producers, fellow Jew Arthur Freed, was famously accused of sexual harassment on several occasions, including by 12 year old Shirley Temple. Freed pulled out his penis and began to fondle himself in front of Temple on her first day on set. Temple claims to have laughed it off before running away in her autobiography. Sure.

Hollywood was a great success, and it has always been disproportionately Jewish. What the persecutors of the Bolsheviks and other revolutionary Jews failed to realize is that Jews thrive on persecution and they hope to be punished. Like Christians and Muslims, the fastest route to heaven for a monotheist with one life is to die for his religion. Nobility and the erasure of the most hideous of sins is conferred via martyrdom. Look at the grisly fetish that Jews have made of their own holocaust, seeking to relive the “experience” of progroms, ghettoes, and gas chambers in their various holocaust museums. I argue that wanting to relive a holocaust (I refuse to capitalize the word as holocausts happen every damn day) is barking, drooling madness, and that is why we don’t see modern Cambodians LARPing the Killing Fields or Rwandans basking in the glory of the Tutsi slaughterhouse of 1994.

You could round up all the Jews better than Hitler and you would still fail to eradicate the hidden forces that make them into a menace. For instance, if every Jew was suddenly and permanently raptured, do you think pedophilia would screech to a halt and no child would ever have to worry about being sodomized, tortured, or sold to ravening human ghouls for money ever again? LOL if you think that; clearly you do not know much of the world and will be forced to learn the hard way.

Chemtrails

This morning, the beautiful blue sky was marred by a giant X where two planes had deposited a cloudy, aerosolized mixture of poisons called chemtrails or contrails. About 30 minutes later, the entire sky became overcast. Speculation abounds concerning chemtrails, which were simply not a thing when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. One hypothesis has it that they are doing weather modifications — Marjorie Taylor Greene believes that Hurricane Milton was in part caused by elite creeps playing God via chemtrails. I don’t think she is wrong. Chemtrails also seem to contain an array of biological poisons and nanobots designed to hijack healthy creatures via the air they breathe and the water they drink and make them sick. Remember that a healthy populace is not as easy to enslave and dominate as a perpetually ill one.

I would be lying if I claimed I do not have fantasies about shooting a surface-to-air missile at a chemtrail plane. I would smile as I watched it plummet to the ground, knowing its pilot was screaming his last words into the com. I hate chemtrails and I vicariously hate their pilots, which are the kind of just-smart-enough goons who fail to connect poisoning the Earth with poisoning their own children. There are campaigns to encourage regular people like myself to go to chemtrail airplane hangars to try to talk sense into the pilots. The idea that a chemtrail pilot bro who just follows orders would immediately abandon his well-paying job because some woman shows up at his work asking him to stop is hilarious and tragic. We all know the only thing that stops these people is a special sort of vest and a one way trip to Paradise for everyone in the vicinity. We also know that the second we complete our final boss in this game, there will be 10,000 missions of a nearly-identical variety that only others may complete because we will be dead.

Oh, the futility!

Epstein had his hands in an impressive amount of torture and blackmail. The one nice thing that can be said of the guy (he is probably still alive) is that he is a good multitasker. The big outrage is now that nothing is being done to the pedos. Prince Andrew was dethroned but he obviously is still alive. There are some disgraced diplomats who were obligated to resign/apologize. Trump is still alive and President of the United States at the time of this writing. Except for Ghislaine Maxwell, nobody is being held accountable for Epstein’s crimes, and it is highly doubtful that Maxwell is suffering as much as the average prisoner. Epstein and his pals seem to have done horrible things to infants and children, including literally eating nursing infants whose raw intestines apparently taste like cream cheese because they are full of fermented mother’s milk. Mark Tramo, a UCLA professor of biology and physiology, was caught in a convo with Epstein commenting that infants suck harder when they hear the sound of their mother's voice. He has since been “cancelled” and his web page on the UCLA website has been removed. In other words, he was lashed with a wet noodle and told to sit in a corner for ten minutes.

If we hauled every Epstein associate into a quick tribunal and then dispatched them to public hanging squares or Pay-Per-View torture chambers where they could be creatively assaulted by their own victims’ families, the spectacle would be extremely satisfying. There is no doubt that Epstein’s team of baby-eaters richly deserve to have their own skin flayed off in strips. We should then salt them, roll them in tar, and drop them in the middle of a desert with just enough water to make things truly miserable. While we were at it, we could gather up the chemtrail pilots and more importantly, their masters, and boil them in hot oil, immersing them slowly, taking them out, and then dipping them back in again a little further each time. We would, of course, surgically remove their larynxes first so they could not scream. We would feed these crispy, deep fried critters to imprisoned private equity, health care, and insurance CEOs. For laughs, we would remove the tongues of these CEOs first so they could not taste what they were eating. They could suffer the kuru without enjoying the behavior that results in kuru. We would then feed the CEOs to hungry pigs and alligators, or maybe sharks depending on what was available. We would do this while they were alive. Or maybe we could just leave them in the bottom of a pit until they starved and went fully insane, their driving Wendigos of unearned wealth having become impotent. Basically, we would make death the best outcome for these people. They would beg for it and we would not give it to them.

We could slay them all and there would be more of them within a generation at most. Humans are not all that smart and many of us start out in life extremely depraved. Not all monsters are made; some are born.

“So what do you propose we do, Kimberly Steele?” I will talk about that in next week’s essay.

Stairway to Heaven

Feb. 9th, 2026 07:11 pm
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Unlike many songs released over five decades ago, Led Zeppelin‘s 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven” has managed to remain culturally relevant.

The song, which is off the band’s untitled fourth record, has been ranked as the number one “best rock song of all time” by Shortlist(More details: https://www.shortlist.com/lists/the-best-rock-songs-403324). The list, updated in January 2026, also highlighted several other notable rock tunes, such as Queen‘s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” released in 1975, Jimi Hendrix‘s 1967 “Purple Haze,” Metallica‘s 1991 “Enter Sandman,” and AC/DC‘s 1980 hit “Back in Black.”

The publication explained that the number one spot went to “Stairway to Heaven” because of the song’s strong lyricism, as well as the swell and intensity of the guitar.

In an October 2014 interview with BBC News, Led Zeppelin’s guitarist, Jimmy Page, explained how the band’s arguably most iconic song came to be. He said he had “wanted to try to put something together which started with quite a fragile exposed acoustic guitar.” In addition, he said the use of recorders in “the early part” of the song gave the tune a “slightly medieval feel.”

Page also said that “the idea of ‘Stairway’ was to have a piece of music, a composition, whereby it would just keep unfolding into more layers and more moods.” In addition, the musician said that the song was composed to “actually accelerate as it went through on every level, every emotional level, every musical level.”

“So it just keeps opening up as it continues through its sort of passage,” said Page during the BBC News interview.

Page also remarked upon the song’s lasting popularity. He said he believed “Stairway to Heaven” has remained so beloved because the band, which consisted of Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham, had recorded the song with authenticity.

“I think the lasting quality of this music over all these years is the fact that everyone’s playing so honestly and with such conviction,” said Page in the interview.

I was listening to an audiodrama

Feb. 9th, 2026 10:47 am
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(Mission Rejected, if you're curious)

and they took the time at the start of the most recent episode to talk about a charity in Minnesota that will bring food safely to people. I don't have the name of the charity, it's not on their website right now.

But what really struck me is that they spent a few minutes on this and never once mentioned or even alluded to why some people might need food to be delivered safely.

I'm not sure what I think about that, but I'm sure I don't like it much.

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