(Sorry for the dump: [Discover] tab showed me this, so we don't know each other. Both members of a shitty club nobody wanted to join.)

Daylight creeps back into your days. There's only been one book about grief that rang true ("I'm Not Ok, You're Not Ok, and That's Ok") and it was all "society doesn't know how to deal with it". Yup, there's no roadmap for it. So don't let people weird you out as you figure your way through it.

As a friend said: it never gets "better", things become different because they can't return to what they were, but adjust to a new normal with less them. I don't think we're at the point where we can actually *enjoy* much of life, but we're not being actively oppressed? So yay?

I found it hard because it was sad for him in a different way than it was sad for me. It was like I imagine having a limb torn off to be: searing unending awfulness every hour of the day. I was shamed & grateful for the 15 seconds between waking up and remembering he was gone and the mire returned.

(we lost our son almost three years ago, he opted out) I never liked the "stuck" frame. We spent six months in relentless agony from the loss, and I only feel like a rarely-disturbed normalcy is peeking through the clouds now most days.

WOOOO! NZ just got EVEN BETTER! 😍

You can understand why, with a story like that, they'd rush it into production and not wait for painfully slow processes like editorial.

"Food system"? That's a forage grove, my friend!

weird bot posting NZ Herald stories ...

Oh no! 💩 Kitchens and bathrooms, you can work around most everything else.

The food looks amazing, and so does the little three-prong thing for lifting the lid!

I am astonished every time the discource isn't "why does it cost so much to build roads?" instead of "why are we building roads to poor people?"

I submit that this is a medical necessity, not "hate speech". Without Grok's pornbot slurs, I can only achieve climax to footage of concentration camps. Alligator Alcatraz doesn't do it for me, so you're condemning me to black and white wanks. Is that what the Founding Fathers wanted, Your Honour?