Thank you. I probably took it the best of everyone but it's not exactly an easy experience. On the up side, it has helped to highlight how many amazing people I have in my life, which is a big change from the last time I had any crisis.

ugh, I'm sorry to hear that.

But all week I've been thinking about how I need this outlet again, and I miss my pocket friends.

the sickest I've been in a decade, so I was mostly just unconscious. That took me like 2 weeks to get over. Then I had the joy of the worst PTSD trigger of my life, which I'm still not over, THEN my dad died in an accident. So I have not had energy for social media, to say the least.

I miss you too 🥰 I've actually been wanting to come back, but shit keeps happening. Been a rough year. I'll explain more in a main thread, but -- when you shared the basset puppy link I thought "oh sweet, just when I wanted to come back" but I was sick in bed at the time with noro --

I am fully reading this in the voices of George Costanza's parents.

Or to put it in other terms, "Fair or not, wife's insistence on wearing red lipstick angers her husband. Is her style hurting their marriage?" Trump wouldn't hit you if you didn't make him mad, world leaders.

THANK YOU. I was literally just reposting this headline, thinking, "literally everything angers abusers. That's what they do. Abuse. You cannot work with that." This is not something occult. How the fuck is this getting past the entire fucking board at the NYT?

The new center-right chancellor has apparently ruled out forming a coalition with the far right party (the AfD), but I have no doubt that they'll worm their way into more influence. We'll see how that goes.

He's retired from politics since getting fired and his party is basically dead again, so at least there's that. >_>

The libertarian-esque asshole's party, the FDP, was 12% of seats in the previous election. Basically 1 guy representing 1/10th of the population torpedoed the fucking government. I am so goddamn sick of these "free market conservatives."

So the government collapsed, and now thanks to this fucking ego maniac, Germany's far right party doubled its number of seats. They're almost 21% of parliament now.

"It said it was 8' long....oh"

There are a lot of good reasons to not order any form of domicile from Temu, but mainly I assume this is how big it will be when it arrives

Anyway I'm glad that her sentence has been reversed and she can't be retried. I don't know anything about her, but it sure sounds like she's a poster child for needing rehabilitation instead of imprisonment. And by that I mean rehab for trauma that's led to all of this other shit.

The prosecutor had witnesses testify that her husband acted 'totally different' when she was around. Evidently the volumes of meth and/or cocaine they were using had nothing to do with his behavioral change, it was all EVIL LADY MAGIC.

Her husband was sentenced to life without parole, and she was basically tried for her own attempted murder, on the basis that she was controlling her husband with lady blood magic.

In 2022.