Enjoying the “new” version of @overcast.fm but everyone was right, muscle-memory is a bit of a barrier. 🤣🎙️🎧

🔗 LGBT and Marginalized Voices Are Not Welcome on Threads - MacStories // Niléane // macstories.net

Threads hasn’t felt like a breath of fresh air for all who tried to use it. In my experience as a trans woman, at its best, it has felt like Jack Dorsey’s old Twitter: a social platform overrun by an opaque moderation system, free-roaming hate speech, and a frustrating algorithm that too often promotes harmful content.

Yet another reason to avoid Threads, seems like Facebook (I refuse to call them by their “M” name) are just ignoring harassment, as they’ve always done. 🏳️‍🌈

Finished reading: Department of Dungeon Studies 1 by J Pal 📚
★★★★☆

The start of a promising series (I hope, sometimes authors just never write again), the magic system is complex and difficult to follow at times, as is the history, but this is a great book. 👏🏻

It’s too dang hot for coffee today, so I decided to make some “fast” iced coffee in my @atp.fm pint glass. 🧊☕️ Thought it was pretty cool, seeing the coffee melt the ice. 🤣

A friend was talking about sushi earlier in the week and thus, I had a bit of a craving…so, sushi for dinner!
😋 🍱 📷

#Flashback-Friday 📷 2018-10-30

My Partner and I used to go to a local pizza bar, they had a wood-fire pizza oven and made the best food. 😋🍕 “Had” in the sense they’ve recently closed; they survived the pandemic but never seemed to fully recover. 😭📷

I had to take my servers offline…the rain from Texas has arrived and my basement is now flooding. 😭🌊🖥️

Every time I try to use the iPad for anything other than a reader / video viewer, it’s an exercise in frustration… 😔 Why can only one sound source be active? 😱 #RoadTrip

Finished reading: The Undying Caverns by Shane Purdy 📚
★★★☆☆

#Flashback-Friday 📷 2013-04-27

If you think the flooding is bad this year, back in 2013, large portions of the riverfront were soaked & closed. Something not pictured, directly to the right of me was a parking garage with a few cars stuck underwater. 🌧️🚗⛈️

I ate far too much at “the girls” (my lady-friends from college) annual 4th of July barbecue party; everything tasted great but I ended up with a stomach ache afterwards. 🤣

Finished reading: Kingdom of the Fallen by Shane Purdy 📚
★★★☆☆

#Flashback-Friday 📷 2019-08-19

We were walking along the beach in Florida (my Partner wanted to hit the lower 48 states before he turned xx) and stumbled upon some sort of battle in the sand…with no one else around; it was just us and figurines, with the ocean slowly encroaching. 🌊⛱️☀️

Went out to grab some lunch with a friend / coworker. 📷

Today would have been Grandma’s 102nd birthday… 💔