218.6 * * * A few days back I was thinking about what to say about an article I was reposting, reporting on President Carter's 1991 Valentine's Day address. What I came up with was "most human president". Sure, everybody's genetically human; in that sense it's an on/off switch. But there's also a constellation of markers for what it means to be human (e.g. social; cooperative; nurturing) as opposed to, say, an orangutan (asocial) or one of countless non-nurturing species where the young have a... (...more)

219.3

dish dish dish wash wash wash

10a team zoom
home stretch of stmts review/apprvs and start second-pass processing
tackle some recon

LJ wind-down 2008 continued
Reportedly "Alien: Romulus" is now streaming on Hulu, et al.

219.5 * * * Poultrynomics 110 Costco / Butterball 4x1.7# pkg label says "about 27" srv / container. That's for the whole 4-pack: : : 4 * 1.7 = 6.8 lbs 1 serving = .25 lb (i.e. 4 oz) ( 4 srv / lb ) * ( 6.8 lb ) = 27.2 srv That's a bit awkward, innit ... each 1.7 lb pack is .05# short of 7 servings. I crunched some numbers to refigure each serving as 1/7 of a pack; BUT if we're redefining a "serving" anyway, we may as well make it even more tidy and call 1/6th of a package a "ser... (...more)

219.4
protein cocoa, brekarito, the last corn muffin,

neverending dishwashing

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medium-long thoughts about a meme I've seen circulating in social media the past week or so:

"trans women don't owe you hyperfemininity
and their validity isn’t based on how well they pass"

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* * * A Dungeon and/or a Dragon We spent some time cashing out / divvying up magical loot that's been gathering dust over more than a handful of sessions, then forged ahead to our next adventure. A council of Mulmaster faction leaders gathered us to reveal that a coalition of remnants of the Cult of the Dragon and the evil elemental cults were suspected to be joining forces. The council tasked us with accompanying the svirfneblin spy Boddyknock east of the Glacier of the White Wyrm to investigate a stro... (...more)