My work is very mobile so I have a lot of stuff with me, but the essentials are: Backback with laptop, water bottle, pen, post-its, paper, snacks like nuts/trailmix, masks, disposable gloves, hair brush, chargers and their wires, a nose insert thingy that masks smells.

Pockets have: Keys and id card in my neurodiversity lanyard, phone, home keys

Lib balm

Pastilles (xylitol)

Nasal spray

A CPR mouth cover in my keychain

Pack of handkerchiefs

Bluetooth ear buds

A reflector or many in my clothes in the dark months

It's completely expected, but still so absurd and outrageous that the word alleged is used in this headline.

It snowed a lot yesterday and today here and it's just so quiet. Just so lovely, snow puts the world on mute.

Same experience here, but am a bit older and the people around me have become very anti-capitalist. Including older previously very turboliberal ex-hippies. But most still are Nato leftists at best and discuss Ukraine or any actually important topic from the national news pov. They are still entirely sold on the myths of equality, social democracy and electrolar politics. There is a lot of petition signing, lots of bourge media consumption, lots of sending money to ngos and also a lot of brunch.

And lots and lots of voicing discontent as long as the current outrage lasts and then going back to brunch and forgetting about it.

Most have work, studies, kids, lots of dept and no time or energy to engage with any of this on a serious level.

How to get these people to really care is the big question for me too.

New cold war warming work from the Wired: "The result is an ecosystem that operates in full public view where, for as little as a few dollars worth of cryptocurrency, anyone can query phone numbers, banking details, hotel and flight records, or even location data on target individuals."

I struggle to see how this is so different from the country I am in where you can search who owns a vehicle from a license plate, search phone numbers by name and so forth. And where all our data is openly sold to the highest bidder and Google knows more about me than my relatives.

Link to Wired

Always played both sides because I am nuanced like that.

First time entering the Elwynn Forest here. Must admit, those were fun times.

Not the Onion?😭

Still gets me a little bit exited to go forth and adventure just thinking about it.

I have so many of these so going to just share my very first one. When I even think about this old gem the song starts playing in my head.

World of Warcraft log in screen music is the one that is the most burnt into my brain probably.

I did this stuff actively for a long time and enjoyed the focus parts and skill parts of it. Am fairly competitive so did a few competitions as well and enjoyed it. It was also good for my physical self-esteem, but that I feel could have come from any sport I like. The actual physical stuff can be pretty fun and challenging. I think it's a bit of a neurospicy catnip that kept me humming pretty well in everyday life.

But, the people doing these sports were often not the best people, at least not where I am from. Cops, violent men, misogony and just all that. I participated in these sports as a woman and it always took me twice as much effort to get the belts or whatever "the boys" got very easily. I was also ostriciced a lot due to my gender.

There was lots of stanning for Japan and a lot of the sort of weird male hierarchy that felt very uncomfortable. Eventually I quit and just instructed fitness boxing for others, just as a sport for all kinds of people, genders and bodies.

I sometimes miss the actual sports, but not the clubs and people. I still practice at home and do some online martial arts combat classes sometimes, but just for covid alone I would not go back to doing this face to face anymore.

No way to be clearer in showing how they think the Asiatic Hordes are colluding to bring down "the core".

What makes this even more pathetic is the fact that Finland was never really apart of Europe and this was always a big problem for the local ruling class.

This area of land was occupied by various peoples that were ruled over by Sweden and Tsarist Russia. Most of us are very much Asiatic Hordes ourselves if we really bother to look at where we are from, but the national bourge (they were in fact largely european) have always had such an inferiority complex over this that they have managed to infect the people with that same complex and this imo explains a lot of the anti-Russia sentiment today. I've spent my entire life listening to people whining about Finlands place at international tables. The EU was sold to us on this premise and this is what got us into NATO as well.

In Finland news:

They are now trying to blame China for the cable damage.

Hilariously at the same time there is reporting that Finnish boomers love Temu.

Thank you.

Good post!

Oh so this is the framing? Not that I have followed the situation that much, but pretty sure the ones standing againts negotiations have not been Russia.

Anything good to read about Somalia that you could share? Saw this newpiece about the area in our local news, but don't know much about the situation currently.

My partner is a morning person and us both being neurospicy we had a deal when our kid was growing up that he did the mornings and I did the afternoon/evening parenting. Best deal I ever made.:D

The world is just softer at night.

Empire of Normality, it needs to go.