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 Watching the news tonight, seeing the amount of violent crime going on in the SF Bay Area, notably that which happens on public transit.What I think is happening is that homeless either on drugs or struggling with mental health have begun using busses and trains as shelter. Over the past 15 years, I've observed that the transit hubs and stations have been the places where drug

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 Father God,We come to You today, Lord, very shaken and sickened.I confess my sins of pride and complacency, I am really brought low and feel sorrow.I thank You for bringing us a speaker like Charlie Kirk, who had an uncompromising message for our country.Thank You for the speakers and politicians that stand up for what's right.Thank You for being with our country in the face of rampant

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 Psalm 40:1-3"I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of destruction, out of the sticky mud.He stood me on a rock and made my feet steady.He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God.Many people will see this and worship Him.Then they will trust the Lord.""Lord, I need *something*, but I don't know what. I'm just gonna ask

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In today’s socio-political landscape, navigating between conservatism and feminism presents unique challenges, particularly for those holding pro-life views. While mainstream feminism often aligns itself with progressive ideologies, conservative feminists reject the notion that the empowerment of women is inextricably tied to liberal policies. This ideological divergence becomes especially clear

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 How tacky can people be? Apparently, pretty tacky.It's no secret that things are tough all over, financially speaking.But to go to Etsy or Ravelry or wherever and *encourage* people to not pay for patterns, *and* to do it b/c the crochet designer is *nice enough* to post tutorials about her work on YouTube (which I happen to know isn't easy just doing a video where you blithely talk into a

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 Today was reading a book on journaling and was taken with how "privilege" oriented it was, if that's the word I'm looking for."Make a list of 50 things you're glad you did in life." presupposes that everyone has that many things that they even did in life, let alone 50 that they're proud/happy about. Because things like illness, depression, and other people controlling my life, I don't have

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What with the events of the past two weeks, I feel that this will be the year I go harder (or rather, more unmoving) on being politically conservative.X & Threads followers, hang on, or jump off as you will, I care not. And Even though I'm enjoying the RNC, I still won't be voting for Trump, but I'll be voting straight Constitutionalist, which I've been registered as since 2016, when I threw

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The feeling I'm having from last night is very similar to the one I had back in 2016, when I got angry w/Hillary, or whoever was working for her, refusing to let all votes be counted in the primary against Bernie.I was a Bernie bro, back then, thinking I would always be a lifelong Democrat as I had been since I was first able to vote in the 1980s. That was how my family voted, and it

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I didn't have it on my bingo card for June that people were once again gonna be trying to cancel Adam Driver (if that's not what's happening, I apologize, not my intent to harm anyone in the rat fandom.)I think (and this may be because a lot of us rats are on the younger side(not me I'm gonna be 58 this month)) people have trouble accepting everyone, and being a little gatekeep-ey about

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 The truth is this: in order to be a writer, even a good writer, you don't need the best grammar and punctuation in the world.You just need to be better than most, in order to have a good level of "understandability"™ to your writing. Having the best grammar, spelling, and punctuation (and especially syntax) you can possibly have is definitely a good thing, but if it's not effortless for you

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 Ok, so I actually missed a day on the very second day (Go me!)So what I propose to do about this is to spend today's 100 words on discussing what things distract me from setting up good habits.From the outset, I should tell you a few things about me: I am somewhat disabled, due to having operations on my feet & having 2 wait for a foot to heal in order to get a hip replacement.This has

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 Well, I found this thing on Tumblr, and it occurred to me that if I want to get serious about blogging again I need to start doing something like this.I've, always admired people that do NaNoWriMo every year, but I did question how people do it. I've actually been writing off and on since I was a little kid, and I couldn't write an entire novel in one month! 50, 000 words. Are some of them

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1. A Corvette2. Driving shades3. A garageThe presence of item #2 entails the idea of driving *music*, which I find to be very important.This raises the question, what DOES the president listen to when he’s driving? Does he play Credence or the Stones? Probably nothing heavier than that.I don’t think he’s a Metallica guy, I can’t see him blasting “Master of Puppets" out his car window, but “

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 My favorite book of all time, the one that shaped who I am *before* I read the Bible and had my world turned around, is “Harriet the Spy", by Louise Fitzhugh.You open that book up, on the first page, this girl is PLANNING A CITY. You can’t get more “grab the reader & run with them" than that.I was introduced to this book at a very early age, in the summer school session, after first

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 Working thru a book called “Anybody Can Write” by Roberta Jean Ryan, & thought I’d share this one exercise about #writing misconceptions. Interestingly, these can also apply to Tweeting, or even sharing the Gospel:• Writing is only for when you have the time.• Writing is for people who have something “interesting” to say.• Writing is only for people w/beliefs & values that

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 At least not currently. I use TikTok as a before-going-to-sleep thing, so I mainly just look at stuff that’s relevant to me as an internet consumer: Adam Driver stuff, Christian stuff, planners, drawing, creative writing stuff, and such. So I do a lot of ForYou page scrolling.I don’t delve too deep into BookTok, because they read stuff I don’t really wanna read, too much contemporary

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 I always enjoy taking BART. I live down in the BA Peninsula, which is no slouch when it comes to things to do and places to go and scenic surroundings while you're there, but sometimes there are events that take you a little further from home.Always a bus trip to get there, me being a long time public transit person, I am pretty good at knowing how to catch a bus from anywhere to

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 Here's a crazy idea: just stop with the Oscars already. Stop with the pomp and pageantry, stop with the ridiculous outfits (looking at you, Timothy Chalamet) stop with the cheesy music numbers and just cancel the Oscars from ever happening again. Instead just have a little stretch of red carpet, put Adam Driver in a tux and just have him walk up and down. For the guys you could get Jessica

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 So, new things are going on with me in the whole learning WebDev thing.What’s going at this juncture is that since I am slightly disabled, with a pending hip replacement surgery, wt I have to do is have an onramp to employment where I don’t have to be on my feet (I also had bunionectomies on both feet–everything all came down on me, mobilitywise, over the past two years.)I use a walker, and

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 I want to write the way great movie directors directed.Stanley Kubrick: Maybe he made his actors run through 40 takes, but he got what he wanted on film.Tarantino: Didn't have a lot of money, but got people to believe in his projects.Hitchcock: Wasn't well liked, thought of as a weirdo, but made some compelling films.Orson Welles: Not a favorite of Hollywood executives, but had a loyal

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 Binge-watching that Halston series on Netflix (soooo good!!!) Late 60s to Disco era. Sent me looking on YouTube for perfume reviews. When I get rich, I want to wear original Halston scent, which you can get at Marshall's and Gucci Premier which can be gotten at Sephora.This put me in mind of my favorite perfume, Red Door. I once went into Niemann Marcus in the City (2024--what with all the

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 A new dawn, a new day. He is risen, hallelujah. Easter afternoon. Many things to do.Fog lifting from coming off pain meds. New agenda, get ready for life–the proverbial “new normal”, which is going to be what?New job? New home? Will people get in my way again? What will the people on the outside be like?What to do to get ready? Be ready for anything. Get writing again. Get working again.

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 I’m going on I think my 3rd re-watch of Girls and I’ve arrived at season 2, episode 1: It’s About Time. Wherein Sackler has gotten hit by the truck, because he was standing in the middle of the road, engrossed in telling Hannah off about everything he thinks is wrong with her.  I really love Girls more than part of me thinks I should, and stuff like this is why. Because it puts me

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 The gal in the other bed across from mine has been moaning in pain for at least 2 hours now. Always a moan, never quite a scream, sometimes a spontaneous cry, but never quite making it there.This reminds me of a bizarre thought I have when I hear children crying– I always secretly wish for them to cry absolutely as hard as they can, maybe because I want to punish the parent of this

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 The PreparationThe What: All kinds of pens, meticulously tested and reviewed (even watching YouTube videos –about a $2.00 pen, go figure!) Every paper binding device I could get my hands on (just saying “notebook” doesn’t convey it.)I’ve been piling up these supplies recently, even getting a job at a big box store to gain greater access to the stuff (The number of writing

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