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Not that I know many local folks here, but as I posted on Facebook:

I've been putting off getting more fem clothing because I'm not the shape I want to be long-term. But it's not like I'm going to spend 100s of dollars on clothes; I do thrift stores.

Would anyone who knows fem clothes like to go on a shopping trip with me and help me figure out outfits and what would look nice on me? Everything else fem that I've done, like nail polish or pigtails or the occasional skirt, have been greeted by the world in general with a big lack of notice, and I've been left wondering why I didn't do that years ago. I don't want to be saying that in a few years time.

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Republicans at the national level, including the President, are pushing for these coal plants to stay open. The TVA says that the capacity is unnecessary and, in fact, they sometimes lose money when operating. The Republicans say that the loss of jobs will hurt too many people.

So the anti-welfare right wants to, essentially, subsidize people's livelihoods by keeping them in their useless jobs while the managing bodies lose money operating unnecessary equipment.

Almost sounds like they want to, you know, basically give money away to able-bodied people even though they're not actually doing any important work.

Huh. Isn't that funny?

It seems to me that, all in all, the authorities involved would actually save money if they just gave them their paychecks and let them stay home. Surely the political right will see the sense in that?

But they won't. Irrational concepts of immorality inform their decisions. Paying people for working and encouraging people to work? Moral. Paying people who aren't working? Immoral encouragement of dead-beats. Who cares whether that makes any god-damned sense outside of their own heads.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/14/tva-trump-coal-plants-1170008

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Rufus, our foster Chihuahua, started a second seizure medicine a week ago. He had another seizure yesterday morning, but it was much more mild than the ones he's had before. Previously, his limbs would lock and spasm and he couldn't do anything but shake. This time, he was able to slowly move around, wobbling as though he was drunk, and was even able to eat a little if I fed him individual pieces by hand. It was a huge relief to see!

I don't know how long it lasted because I had to get to work, but he was doing well enough that I wasn't worried about putting him in the crate like I always do before work.

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I started playing this furry dating game that's free on Steam. I met a few interesting people in the intro where you're out at a social space. I followed up with this very cute writer/poet boy and went to a bookstore with him to listen to an author speak, then surprised him with a signed copy of the author's newest book. His response was so adorable!

So then my character was back home and I got the feeling that I was supposed to do more stuff before the end of the day. I could call another of the people I met, but it made me anxious. Am I supposed to be pursuing someone else when I just started dating writer boy? Does this game expect you to have multiple ongoing relationships? Will the writer boy be upset? He's so sweet and geeky and excitable and hopeful and I don't want to make him sad.

I got anxious enough already just picking through dialog options on our date, and now I need to make decisions without knowing whether they're going to hurt the person I already connected with and really like? (Yes, I know these are all fictional constructs. But I don't want to hurt them!)