I have a cold too 
also negative for COVID. Will ask my spouse to get some elderberry syrup when he goes to the grocery store later.
I need to try to work for a few hours, luckily from home. All I want to do is go back to bed
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Woke up at 4am and had panic attacks over and over til 6 imagining all the different ways Trump could destroy our lives. I’m not a superstitious* person, but like someone saying they had a vision, out of nowhere Stevie Wonder came in my head to offer some words
*not on purpose, I swear
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I’ve been there. My go-to inner calming tune is performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers:
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Yes! So much better for that than Bobby Mcferrin’s “Don’t Worry” song (much as I love that Bobby otherwise).
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My cold got worse, but is getting better. I still have laryngitis though. Very weird; I don’t think I’ve ever had it before that I remember. Of course my memory sucks and that’s something I wouldn’t want to remember particularly.
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Thx all, I think I just needed to take break from news. As a friend txted me, “I already know enough about how bad it will be, I don’t need to put myself through it before it happens.”
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I’m torn between being sad that I don’t really get any sort of holiday because being an Alzheimer’s caretaker means never truly getting a day off and my family consists of two people now (one of whom has the Alzheimer’s), and happy that I don’t have a huge family full of racists and transphobes that I need to dread sitting down to dinner with. Mostly everything just feels bleak, unending and pointless, though.
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Big hugs!!
Holidays like this one can feel like shite when you don’t have a cozy, warm and fuzzy situation like the stereotypical ones projected at us from all corners every five seconds.
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I like this as an antidote.
“This is my family. I found it. … It’s little. And broken. But still good. Yeah, still good.”
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And I had to watch Lilo and Stitch
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Actually, I’m coming to realize, the family member that isn’t stricken with Alzheimer’s is more of a bigot than I care to admit. She’s always been uncomfortably close to being a TERF, and just now a short conversation revealed that her understanding of poly relationships is about on par with a creationist’s understanding of evolution, complete with all the prejudices that implies. I really hope I don’t have to rely on her too strongly during the next few years, because I’m having serious doubts I can. She’s very anti-Trump but when I think about who I can really trust not to go Nazi, she’s nowhere near as solid as a family member ought to be. 
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I don’t remember the last time I’ve felt this sick.
I only felt my usual amount of sick, when I went to the hospital for a blood test. But I had to go without eating.
I had scheduled a return taxi. But the hospital has 2 entrances at opposite ends, with the same address. So I waited at one, they weren’t there, I tried to find my way to the other, and the cancelled. My headache was getting much worse. I managed to schedule another taxi, with a specific place to pick me up. But they didn’t show. I managed to get home by bus, but they had this sado-scrolling screen in the bus, so I got a lot sicker, fast…
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Checking in this Thanksgiving weekend. Hope everyone is ok. I miss the BB BBS but have found the break from regular Internet commenting to be healthy for me.
Still very bummed out here about the political situation. I’ve been following the news because I have to stay informed, but it’s just been a cavalcade of horrors: the appointments (grifters, trolls, woo peddlers, sadistic thugs, bigots, vandals, Xtianists, and/or sex pests – all of them bootlickers); the anticipatory bending of the knee by supposedly anti-MAGA establishment figures; the alienation of the international community; the general ungraciousness of the election’s winners; and, behind the scenes, the Project 2025 Eichmanns busy staffing up and preparing to consolidate power.
In order not to sink into a morass of doom, I’m limiting myself to two print news sweeps a day via my RSS feed and a morning and evening listen to radio news. This means I’ve had to give up my public radio stations as background while I’m working, but I’ve used podcasts on a variety of topics to fill in that gap.
My only way to cope with the constant stream of bad news I do hear is to repeat my mantra of “what else would you expect from these inflamed arseholes?” and to take cold comfort in the fact that rank-and-file MAGAts will end up suffering a lot more than I will. Seriously, they deserve every last ounce of bloody misery they get from their choice (unfortunately, my schadenfreude is tempered by the fact that others – including a number of people here – might also be subjected to even worse misery).
Otherwise, I am out of the country until at least the first 100 days are over, planning next moves.* While I know there’s no such thing as “away”, there are degrees of safe remove and I’m grateful I have the privilege of not being trapped in the States (and that most of my family members live in the saner States). I’m still anticipating increased conflict, Russian mafiya style corruption, detention camps and children in cages, and a new culture of informers and denunciations under the MAGA regime. Honestly, if I didn’t have family in the U.S. I’d seriously consider not returning until the fascists are out of power. That’s how bad this could get.
Apologies for being a downer, but here we are. I hope our American members were able to enjoy Thanksgiving with friends and family never-the-less.
[* With a view toward trying to preserve the lifestyle to which I’ve become accustomed in the first half of my life as best and ethically and sustainably as I can for the last half of my life, despite (and to spite) all the angry little men who want to see the world burn.]
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