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Ok peoples, enough fooling around. Bed - I'm signed up to play some RPGs in the morning :)

Ok peoples, enough fooling around. Bed - I'm signed up to play some RPGs in the morning :)

And actually, if I were to get another tattoo right now, it'd be something small. I think I want to have the same artist do something...

And actually, if I were to get another tattoo right now, it'd be something small. I think I want to have the same artist do something asymmetrical and related, but not the same, coming from the back of my other shoulder over my arm next year.

Your asshole brother-in-law is gonna be how they find out they need to be looking at you. The data is how they find and damn you. If fucking...

Your asshole brother-in-law is gonna be how they find out they need to be looking at you. The data is how they find and damn you. If fucking Dave had just shut his mouth, you probably wouldn't have been interesting.

LB: Another demonstration of the TWO prongs of the surveillance state:1) Ubiquitous data collection, and 2) Fucking narcsThe data is...

LB: Another demonstration of the TWO prongs of the surveillance state:

1) Ubiquitous data collection, and
2) Fucking narcs

The data is necessary, but not sufficient without narcs an awful lot of the fucking time.

(Smart men know this is both a highly-valued feature and an operational risk to be respected 🤣)

(Smart men know this is both a highly-valued feature and an operational risk to be respected 🤣)

People dating me are fools. I am fucking fierce. :)

People dating me are fools.

I am fucking fierce. :)

This guy was extreme (and not well), but guys?Maybe just DON'T. Some of us are broken, but few of us are fragile.This has been my Ted...

This guy was extreme (and not well), but guys?

Maybe just DON'T. Some of us are broken, but few of us are fragile.

This has been my Ted talk.

The first guy I'd actually say I was dating out of the gate when I decided to start again absolutely LOST HIS FUCKING SHIT when he found...

The first guy I'd actually say I was dating out of the gate when I decided to start again absolutely LOST HIS FUCKING SHIT when he found out about the tattoo, even though it had been planned for months.

"I can't support it," he said.

Me: "Um, you don't have to? I also don't care? This was planned well before you came into the picture."

"You're going off to Belgium just because it's cheaper and so you are going with your overpaid salary to get it done somewhere dirty, and when it looks awful and infected, don't ask me for sympathy."

Me: "Uh, her studio is fucking pristine, this is NOT cheaper than Switzerland - it is in no way cheap - and I am going to Belgium because she is a fucking amazing artist"

(I didn't address the overpaid comment - we can't all be useless buzzword evangelists, and that was his ego problem, not mine.)

Him: "Ask the people that got marked during World War II if that was any good for them."

Me: <internally, to self> nobody is good enough in bed for this bullshit. is he fucking serious?

Him: YOU WON'T EVEN SEE IT. THE ONLY PERSON WHO WILL EVER SEE IT IS THE FUCKER WHO'S FUCKING YOU.

Me: <internally, to self> and that ain't gonna be you anymore...

Just FYI, since I've gotten a couple of comments privately, I am a full-grown woman who has been through the shit in more ways than I...

Just FYI, since I've gotten a couple of comments privately, I am a full-grown woman who has been through the shit in more ways than I feel the obligation to explain. I don't do stupidly impulsive things.

If I am considering something impulsive, I own that thing and its consequences. I'm not somehow crazy and need to be held back.

I have a body that is very hard for me to perceive in a way I can understand right now. It is new (to me), and for the first time, I own it. There are very few things I could do to it, other than getting a face tattoo or something fascist put on me, that will ever impact anybody but me, and I know what I like and what I don't.

I appreciate the love and care of others - but at 53, understand that an offhand comment about temptation is not an invitation to infantilise me.

I have had to make horrible decisions you cannot imagine. And can make positive or fun ones - in my judgement - alone. I'm a very smart woman - I can definitely manage the consequences.

Please don't reply. I need that out there and I said what I said.

So I've followed @jon 's CrossBorderRail posts for a good while, just because I adore Europe and European rail, but this is actually...

So I've followed @jon 's CrossBorderRail posts for a good while, just because I adore Europe and European rail, but this is actually pretty neat overall:

https://gruene.social/@jon/114591698062813445

I managed about 5 hours at a con with thousands of people. I should not feel guilty about having headed back to my room!I wish being in...

I managed about 5 hours at a con with thousands of people. I should not feel guilty about having headed back to my room!

I wish being in public didn't require such a strong performative element from me. My mask is solid, but a little obnoxious sometimes and very exhausting. Inside, I'm just a snuggly kitten. With claws and an attitude, but still.

They really shouldn't have tattoo artists here. Or people doing piercing. It gives me ideas.

They really shouldn't have tattoo artists here. Or people doing piercing. It gives me ideas.

Will have a forbidden Lángos and Apfelschorle to cope :)

Will have a forbidden Lángos and Apfelschorle to cope :)

This is super cool, and I am trying reaaaally hard not to have a meltdown with the number of people #FantasyBasel

This is super cool, and I am trying reaaaally hard not to have a meltdown with the number of people #FantasyBasel

Yup, it sure is 4:30 in the morning and I am on a train back home to get my CPAP machine...

Yup, it sure is 4:30 in the morning and I am on a train back home to get my CPAP machine...

Crap. Forgot my CPAP, and this capsule hotel is kinda skeezy. Not dangerous skeezy, just crappy.I'll grab a few hours sleep and annoy...

Crap. Forgot my CPAP, and this capsule hotel is kinda skeezy. Not dangerous skeezy, just crappy.

I'll grab a few hours sleep and annoy folks with the snoring, head back home and grab the CPAP, and find alternate accomodations for tomorrow...

Bah, it's raining. Time to break out the Super Sekrit Librarian Rain Jacket to get off the train.

Bah, it's raining. Time to break out the Super Sekrit Librarian Rain Jacket to get off the train.

Well, frick.

Well, frick.

have food, now on my waaaaay (@ IR36 ➜ Basel SBB) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/5131617

have food, now on my waaaaay (@ IR36 ➜ Basel SBB) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/5131617

on the way to Basel...whee! (@ S12 ➜ Zürich HB) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/5131424

on the way to Basel...whee! (@ S12 ➜ Zürich HB) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/5131424