Babs

Yeah I'm on Hellotalk and I've had some pretty good conversations, but I'm in a weird spot where I feel like I should have more practice before bogging other people down with my baby talk.

App is great for just talking to Chinese people about stuff though, with the built-in translation tools.

I work in homeless shelters. It's union work, lived experience with homelessness or recovery is worth more than a degree, and there are lots of cool leftists in this field. We aren't solving the problem but we're doing good work.

The pay is...okay. Some agencies pay better than others, and some shelters are easier to work than others. It varies so much. I started working night shifts 6 years ago when I needed a job in a new city, and I couldn't imagine doing anything else now. I've worked everything from part time overnights, to managing programs, low-barrier, clean-and-sober, DV, all sorts of background roles if anyone has questions about the work or is looking for a career change.

I prefer the classic flag of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Green🟩

My computer is all pink and rainbow unicorn puke colored and I wouldn't have it any other way. The cat ear headphones are a defensive measure, to make anyone else using my computer feel silly.

Is this real? Not surprised that Hamas treated their prisoners humanely and the IOF gave them every reason to sympathize with their captors, but this is a glowing review. She doesn't even seem mad about it.

It's a start.

Hey if this weird righty infighting gives an in for anti-genocide voices to have a say, I'm cool with this. In the short clips I saw she was just letting Norm talk and I don't see the downside to that.

Every one that I got to name. We had 40 chickens and 3 ducks so there was a lot to keep in mind, but I got to name one of the ducks and a few of the chickens, and they were my favorites. Especially the ones I named after commies - my housemates never knew why we had a duck named Tito, or that Emma's and Rosa's full names were actually Emma Goldhen and Rosa Cluxemburg.

But they were all pretty special, and even the ones I didn't form a long-lasting emotional bond deserved better than being eaten.

I used to live on a homestead where we'd occasionally kill and butcher chickens after giving them a long happy life of running free on a large property - basically the "happy farm" every carnist likes to pretend they buy their meat from.

It was still wrong and I think back on that time really negatively - the killing at least. I loved taking care of those little dinosaurs and watching them run around while I smoked on the front porch. They should have just been pets.

All of Star Wars feels like a good story told poorly.

I keep hearing talk of a "pause so that we can get the hostages out". What's even the idea around that? Stop bombing just long enough to get rid of Hamas's only leverage before continuing the bombing? How do they think that's supposed to work? Do they think Hamas will just give up in return for a few moments to breathe before being killed again, or is it implied that we would attack them during the "humanitarian pause" to rescue hostages?

I literally don't understand what they mean by this.

Yes, I support Hamas in their righteous struggle to liberate occupied Palestine from the zionist entity.