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“It is better to bend than to break”
I’m just a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made of stardust.
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Joined Apr 2018
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Good morning CoSo!
Today is a beautiful day to be alive, if for no other reason than the alternative is, shall we say, less than optimal
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I once went for a job as an exotic dancer and they were like do you have any exotic dancing experience? And I was like well, I once unpicked a wedgie with both my arms full of fishing gear, so, yeah.
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I wrote about Sudan 3 weeks ago, around its one-year-anniversary of brutal civil conflict. (If anyone wants access to that historical explainer, let me know.)
The crux of that piece, as with the one I wrote on Tigray two years ago, was reflecting on the work we can do even when we can't directly push for change.
The lesson from Sudan, where civic protests first toppled a dictator, is to *never* let militaries control a country's path to more democratic futures.
Today my new test socket for my prosthetic leg will be ready. I’ve waited weeks without being able to wear my leg at all so I hope (so hard) that this one is a good fit. It’s excruciating to just sit here helplessly day after loooooong day.🤞
@AnnetteTRemain my goal is to eventually finish a 5k. But short term I only want to be able to garden, practice sports with the kids, do the grocery shopping. All the things I took for granted for most of my life.
@AnnetteTRemain it really does. It’s hard not to spend all that time online. 😑
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@AnnetteTRemain thanks for thr support. The appointment to recast is next week. Then it takes a couple of weeks for the plastic test socket made from the mold to be ready, then if it’s right - another couple weeks to get the carbon fiber one back. So it’s a pretty drawn out process when you’re immobile.
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@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN all my love to you and especially your cousin. Human suffering is immeasurable and the capacity for enduring it is sometimes too much - I have been there. ❤️
@holon42 @th3j35t3r I like the one that says Satan was the first to demand equal rights … like is this supposed to endear Satan to my heart or not? 😂
It’s been 6 months with the prosthetic and I still can’t walk on it save for very short distances. Like a lap around the living area. Idk why mine gives me such pain but they’ve agreed to recast a socket in hopes of a better, tighter fit which is supposed to make it all better.
It’s been almost 7 years since my leg was destroyed. Patience is what I keep telling myself, but being stuck in a body that can’t move on its own is torturous for me.
I hope it’s able to be fixed. Soon.
@th3j35t3r I’m feelin called out here.
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There's some real fucked up weirdos out there folks.
@CJLavoie that should be the norm to have that option but unfortunately I got a lyin utility company that never ever got around to my “extremely important” call ugh
@nblumengarten another lie - “please listen closely as our menu items have changed” …. No. No they haven’t.
@nblumengarten that’s another big lie - It can’t ALWAYS be higher than normal.
Still waiting on hold - 43 minutes now. But my call “is extremely important” to them so I continue to ride it out.
beиt
“It is better to bend than to break”
I’m just a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made of stardust.
CoSoNaut #20876
Joined Apr 2018