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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I dragged my introverted ass to 10 houses on my street in an attempt to find a shred of US political solidarity in a red state. I got 7 no answer, left 1 Ring Camera message, 1 polite declination, and 1 prison guard who “doesn’t really watch the news”. I felt awkward as hell but I remain excited about talking to enough people to find 1 or 2 who are like “You think this is all insanity too?!” This isn’t the “topic” OP solicited but as an introvert it feels valuable to share here that I felt good after forcing myself to break that ice.

    I am easily spun up talking about myself. Getting me talking isn’t too hard, but I start to feel introvert exhaustion once I think maybe I’m talking too much or I find reason to doubt the person wants to talk any further.

    Movies/shows have been good topics for me. Enough people have seen Spaceballs, Interstellar, The Pitt, Marvel that people’s inner nerd pops out like a Jack in the Box when their fandom comes up. A coworker and I once had nothing in common, but I brought up Mystery Science Theater 3000 offhand and she cut me off to shout “I LOVE EMMESSTEE THREE KAY!!”







  • Thank you for this image.

    Years ago I saw a pic of a puke-inducing sunlit living room with “Home is where the heart is” superimposed over the image. It looked like a soulless ad for overpriced white-woman-instagram furniture.

    And someone overlaid an image of THIS MAN but with like 1% opacity, like it was a ghostly face haunting the scene. You wouldn’t even notice it if scrolling too fast.

    I loved it and I miss it and this brought me back.