Such a waste

 I know this guy in my social group has a crush on me. Sadly, I don't find him attractive or even enjoy his company that much. I wish I could find someone with his level of admiration that I actually want to fuck.

America divided

I keep getting in this same fight with people who say "we've never been more divided." 

I point out that America has always been divided - did you see "Hamilton"? Do you know anything about the labor movement in this country? What about the 1960s? And we had a civil war that lasted EIGHT YEARS - more Americans died in that conflict than any other war Americans have been involved in.

Plus, that is an incredibly privileged observation - if you are Black, or Latino, or indigenous, you've experienced division in this country all along.

And the idea that we are in information bubbles also requires scrutiny. Cable news, social media, and the internet have allowed us to select our information sources, but white Americans have always been in an information bubble! In reality, we now have easy access, more than ever before, to alternate points of view.

Anand Giridharadas just posted a terrific short essay "This is a revolt against the future" that reminds us to keep fighting and keep looking forward.

2026 is doing me dirty already

Well, we are a week into 2026 and it's not been an auspicious start.

Had a date on the opening weekend of the year and it went about the same way as most of them: spent almost 3 hours listening to this guy talk. He didn't ask me a single question. I wasn't adoring enough or, more probably, just don't have big enough boobs. Anyway, I don't expect to hear from him again. No great loss. 

Another guy ghosted me in the middle of setting up a date at a local winery. I assume he was married and got caught on the app. Or maybe just skittish, there seems to be a lot of them. Either way, probably a lucky escape.

And finally, exchanged a few pleasantries with another guy on the app when he told me I looked good for my age. I gave him the ole heave-ho...that is most definitely not my vibe.

I hope we're getting the dross out of the way early, but I fear this is a harbinger of what's to come - more wasted time and energy.

Pluribus Season Finale (spoilers)

Pluribus has often seemed to be in conversation with other postapocalyptic stories. Here, it’s injecting nuance and ambivalence into the overarching theme of The Last of Us’s first season, which ends with Pedro Pascal’s Joel massacring health researchers and foreclosing the possibility of a cure for the disease that decimated humanity, just to save the life of his surrogate daughter, Ellie (Bella Ramsey). While we may, yes, empathize with Joel’s choice, its wrongness is obvious. 

What’s thrilling about Pluribus is its moral uncertainty. Some things, like the future of humanity, are more important than one woman’s happiness, it suggests. But in a war between billions of pod people who’ve achieved world peace (never mind that they subsist on human remains) and two fallible, self-righteous curmudgeons with an A-bomb, who are you rooting for? 

 This recap by Time Magazine suggests that Carol decides to join Manousos becasue she wants to prioritize humanity over her personal happiness, but that is not what happened - she realized that Zosia did not love her (because there is no such indvidual person Zosia). 

Also, why the bomb - Manousos is trying to reverse the Joining process (which we know is possible) and SAVE humanity, not just destroy the aliens. 

But I did love Time's observation that Joel saves Ellie and sacrifices humanity because THAT'S WHAT WE DO.

I hope Pluribus Season 2 is great.

 

White with boobs

 

Can you imagine having the balls to post something like this as your dating app profile?! And this guy is like a 6. Maybe this works for him? Maybe he thinks he's funny?

We'll see???

Maybe I get irritated too quickly, but this lack of enthusiasm is so off-putting to me. 

 

 

Veteran interview

I have only the very vaguest recollection of participating this interview. It's not dated but I'm guessing about 10 years ago.

Veteran Storybook Project — Danielle Masursky  https://share.google/fSxcXlGL5TvWHMENk