Jeff

I got a job at a Chinese restaurant and honestly it's pretty great

Weirdly I woke up this morning and my first thought was "I wish I had a dog to snuggle." I've been missing mine since the ex-wife took Walter but I think I'm just about ready to start considering getting one again...

@jlbalistreri I'll try and post more regularly

@JeffHisDudeness Hi Jeff! Glad to see you back around here!

Haven't spent any time on twitter in a few months, kinda hard to dive back in after it introduced me to dangerous sociopath, more so when all I read about it lately is how much more it sucks. But I miss it, so this is to let yall know I'm hanging in there, and hope you are, too.

@Eric_MN_ Not really, still in poor health, but I've basically given up on ever feeling "normal" again and just focus on making the best of things every day

@JeffHisDudeness I hope you're doing well.

I dig running the restaurant. Like all customer service gigs it can be rough, but I feel well-valued in my tiny kingdom of soy sauce and sugary chicken, explaining to people that no, actually, chow mein is shredded cabbage and celery, not noodles, you want the lo mein

The boss's kids like me

Love it

@observantjackie I have an uncle there, it's mostly all right but has more than its fair share of right-wing whackjobs, and also probably going to be in danger of not having water for the next several hundred years. cheaper to live in and closer to family probably trumps all else though

I’m thinking of moving to downtown Phoenix in upcoming years because Phoenix is the affordable mom approved place to live because I have family there. And because someone I follow gave me a good impression of it.

I actually almost pity Walker. He's a tool being used, and his untreated mental problems relieve him of at least some culpability for his actions. I say "almost" both because I get the sense that he is happy to allow people to use him, and because his politics are monstrous!

It's not even really about politics, Warnock's no more popular than democrats generally here- just that there's a couple points worth of Republicans who balk at putting a guy they wouldn't trust could tie his own shoes into federal office!

Taking it easy before I spend the next six days on my feet for 12 hours straight, but I just wanted to take the time to predict that Walker loses to Warnock tomorrow, for the simple reason that Walker is obviously brain-damaged by years of getting hit in the head for a living

So the good news is that boss likes me so much he wants me to work next week tuesday-sunday, 11-10, while a co-worker visits family. The bad news is that...well, he wants me to work tuesday-sunday, 11-10. I'm still in only ok shape, hope I'm up for it

if ur constantly being told that you alone are responsible for your life, that if you learn how to scam people right you win, and that the only thing holding you back is the woke losers who dont get business, i think ur inclined to support horrible political things in the future

Some literally say things like "yes, it's ok to be anxious that the world is increasingly broken and on fire, sounds like you need someone to talk to!" What we really need is to work collectively to stop the world from collapsing, but oh well, guess there's no money in that

This is just vibes, but I get the sense that as society in the US has continued to unravel us all into a series of atomized individualists incapable of the sort of collective action that could actually make the world a better place, ads for therapy and psychiatry have exploded

Still, I hung in there and eventually became well enough to work and live a mostly normal life; maybe the same sort of thing will happen to me mentally. It would be nice to be able to trust again!

Is there something about me that just makes me fundamentally unlovable? I don't think I'm such a bad guy, but maybe I am, because I don't feel as though I've ever really experienced someone who really knows me loving me, at least not for very long.

It's nice to feel a bit better physically, but mentally I'm in this weird space where I both crave and fear social interactions. It's frightening to think about discovering the truth about all the people in my life I thought I could trust, but I miss having people to talk to!

It's depressingly common to hear liberals describe democrats like this. I'm not excusing racists or fascists, but it just absolutely is not the case the party has working people's economic interests at heart, and digby ought to know better

Still, seems I was wrong when I predicted twitter wouldn't get worse if taken over by Musk, but would instead remain about as terrible as before. This IS worse!

there was and still will be plenty of abusive, hateful sociopaths on twitter who evade bans: the difference now seems to be that they will no longer be flagged when they use words easily caught via algorithm, but it's still possible to be hateful without actually tweeting slurs!

It seems as though this hellsite is experiencing a resurgence of people tweeting nasty slurs and hate speech, but it seems to me the main difference is mostly in kind, not degree.