Gamer; mental health advocate; failed linguist; spreadsheet wrangler; lover of science, math(s) and logic. UCLA, Oxford Uni. đłïžââ§ïž Please do not DM with just "hello." FF14 posting: @maidenofletters.etheirys.social
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HEY. People with borderline personality disorder (& I hate that we call it PD) deserve RESPECT. These behaviors are born of trauma, survival skills to make it through the impossible. We, their community, need to make it safe to unlearn & relearn. Growth is messy & we need to leave space. Not okay!
American mutuals and English mutuals, letâs unite in what we can all agree on: Staring in horror at AfD
Might just take a nap. Got a bed, might as well use it.
Tried to play some FF14 to take my mind off it, but for some reason the game is not working for me today. bsky.app/profile/maid...
Kind of in a dark place right now, and idek why. Tomorrow I'll be getting on a train to somewhere else, where things will presumably be better. I should be happy, but for some reason I'm still just as much a mess as I've been for the last several months.
It's pretty undeniable. Black women (and men) are being hit particularly hard by job loss. Just look at that climb. Black women's unemployment rate in August (6.7%) is the highest in four years. We noticed this trend in July: 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...
It traditionally has been, but according to Lucky Bancho's survey (last updated late July) it's one of the fastest-growing servers on Dyna. One of the only Dyna servers growing at all, tbh, since many are shrinking now. (*looks awkwardly at Kraken*) Still small, but growing at a decent rate.
Currently on Golem there are: 200 available plots in Mist 146 in the Beds 330 in the Goblet 680 in Shirogane 1070 in Empyreum Nearly half the untaken land is in Empyreum alone.
Aw. I got my medium in Ishgard too, and I really like it. It's weird that Empyreum seems so competitive on Brynhildr, given that it's like the least competitive on Golem.
No kidding. Though, that's actually more than I expected. Guessing there must've been some autodemo recently.
F. I'd offer to lend you some but I only have like 4mil myself. (Just bought a medium for my personal use not long ago, still recovering.)
Though, even that doesn't really work, because the cutscene at the end of Dohn Mheg exists...
Does Maduin have a shortage of housing? Mediums are pretty easy to get on Golem.
"This spell only gives resistance to nonmagical drowning." Gods, this reminds me of the TTRPG communities on Reddit. Which...I no longer participate in, lmfao.
Yeah, I was about to come in here and say something about "kids are kids, was probably an accident." I'm not so sure anymore.
I feel like this is a valid point. If someone were to use "Katrina" as a benchmark, I'd understand that even though I was nowhere near the South at that time. But something like floods in Asheville are a lot more "local knowledge."
(Yes, I could structure the query to *only* return results on youtube.com. But as recently as a few months ago, that wasn't necessary.)
Google is now so enshittified that even putting the term "youtube" in the search query (without the quotes) returns 50% results that aren't YouTube. YouTube is owned by Google, yet in this case their own search engine returns a ton of TikTok and SEO-optimized LLM bullshit.
All this is Very Relatable except that Iâm the exact opposite. Iâm demisexual but wouldnât mind a romantic relationshipâbut also donât really care about not having that either. lol.
I still say that sometimes, though usually in jest
Anyway, this is your reminder that the US *public* spending on health care is equivalent to what some nations spend to provide care for everyone. The private stuff we pay for is just extra dollars for funsies.
The underlying belief here is that poor people are poor because they aren't as good as rich people, the reasoning is entirely circular. You know they aren't as good because if they were they wouldn't be poor!
Seems like the USA has become a great place to be if you are a wealthy con-artist, scammer or some other type of wealthy criminal. Honesty and hard work will just make you poor. đ€·ââïž
Does anyone know of a no-kill shelter in the Twin Cities, MN that would be willing to take in (by Mon morning!) + rehabilitate a potentially sick and not-housetrained ~14-yo cat? Its owner died and the family wants to euthanize it and bury it with the owner so that they donât have to âdeal with itââŠ
It seems like itâs invariably one of two situations: Either itâs liking new posts so fast they have Likes on them before theyâre even visible on my end, or itâs necroing stuff from eight months ago.
Iâm gathering that itâs pretty difficult to program a bot to spam Likes on posts without it being obvious that itâs a bot.
Anyway. I just sent down a rabbit hole. The wiki documents 21 galdjent. (As in, specifically galdjent, roe of the 1st.) Of those, 20 are named NPCs, and 3 - Andia, Colana, and Gracine - are female. None are major NPCs. Andia is a merchant, and the other two are minor NPCs in one or two quests each.
Side note: We have both misspelled "galdjent" here. Which is kind of funny, since The First only has galdGENTs, lmfao.
A college level trans athlete and their family in my hometown in the Bay Area, California are looking for a civil rights lawyer for consultations about playing sports at a junior college. Anyone know anyone or want to volunteer?
What is it with BRD players and the ability to write well. I feel like there's some correlation there. (Deadpan aside, this is great!)
Holy crap this is outstanding. I didn't even realize it was pixel art until I saw who made it!
This is Arya erasure. >:(
I love this color combination!
Every time someone tells me physics is about studying reality, I like it less. Have you met reality, itâs miserable!! Factorization though, thatâs nice. Thatâs comforting.
« Un soldat » calls to mind the type of soldier who barges in and occupies your village for their own pleasure, abducts young women, etc.
Very interesting choice in the French localization, and one I completely agree with. In French, « soldat » technically means âsoldier,â but has a negative connotation. A soldier in a respectable standing army would often be referred to as « un militaire ».
Eh. Sorry for musing in your replies. I just wanted to compliment the character and the alt text!
Iâve encountered relatively few galdgent at all, tbh. Itâs not explicitly stated that thatâs deliberate on account on the lore, but it could be. It could track with the storyline in Il Mheg, assuming that most galdgent lived there.
Your alt text is great, and your character looks outstanding! You *did* just make me realize, though: Iâm only halfway through ShBâbut there arenât any female galdgent on The First, are there? I donât think Iâve encountered any.
I immediately got up and walked away, and she seemed baffled that Iâd be âoffendedâ by her racism. Like, the possibility that a stranger wouldnât appreciate her racism had apparently never crossed her mind!
âŠmake one of the most racist jokes Iâve ever heard. (And Iâve heard a lot; Iâm a former mod of a top-1% subreddit.)
I recall being in a McDonaldâs in Kearney, NE in late 2019 or early 2020âjust a few months before the pandemic startedâand striking up a conversation with a seemingly-nice older lady. Weâd been making benign small talk for maybe five minutes, when she suddenly thought it was appropriate toâŠ
So, Iâm trying to locate the provenance of a certain quoteâand the only source I can find is Googleâs âAI,â so massive grain of saltâbut I do recall a humorous use of âreturnâ to mean âvomitâ in English media, and according to Googleâs âAIâ itâs from the 1988 film Coming To America.
Gânight
Passed 1000 total achievements today
my other favorite is "maybe I wasn't clear: this trip is *all my time off for the remainder of the year*"
Gânight
Jesus Christ, I missed this whole part of the discussion. People suck, man.
I still use GameFAQs guides for some games. Everything from Baldurâs Gate I (even the Enhanced Edition) to Etrian Odyssey have outstanding guides on GameFAQs.
This is not to discount the point being made, which is bad enough.
Minor nitpick: Thatâs not exactly what the graphic shows. Half the humans who lived BEFORE THE MODERN ERA died as children. (The arrow on the graphic isnât pointing to âthe red section,â but rather to a specific area of the red section.)
I wonder if the person who invented the phrase âdynamic pricingâ is still alive and if they are I hope they step on Legos for the rest of eternity.
bsky.app/profile/nort...
Not "necessary," but would assuage my stress a lot.
Okay, booked through Monday morning. This is gonna overdraft me - which I can do without fees, but only by my bank's goodwill and I'd rather not squander that. So, if anyone is willing to toss me like $150 that I can pay the fee to "instant transfer," I'd appreciate it.
I have a transfer of $510 "pending," but it won't be into my account until Monday because US banks suck shit. I need money before that. Might have to use the overdraft.
That's a problem, because I only have like $200 at this moment. I can't afford even two nights once the $60 deposit is considered. (I could afford it, barely, were it not for the mandatory $60 deposit.)
oof, I actually may have misspoken. I can survive tonight out, but can't do more than 40-50 hours without sleep - so I'll 100% need to book a room for tomorrow and Sunday nights.
Iâm not going to use that overdraft tho. It feels bad. Iâll just tough it out tonight. Itâll be unpleasant but wonât kill me, probably.
Funniest thing is, itâs not even strictly necessary. Because of my excellent credit and good history, my bank gives me a $750 buffer. As in, I can overdraft by up to $750 without penalty. And the money actually will be in on Monday, I just could use it now.
But yeah, if I had like $150 more I could keep a roof over my head until Tuesday, but it's not *urgent*. I can survive being out tonight.
I'm not sure but I think both. On the one hand, we didn't get chip-and-pin cards until like 2016. OTOH, they clearly *can* do instant, since they will if you pay for it. So, I think both, but mostly the latter.
It looks like I may have an at-least-temporary place to stay, but I need to survive until I can get there: bsky.app/profile/nort...
I would only need $100 more if it weren't for the damn $60 deposits the motel ties up. bsky.app/profile/nort...
In order to book the motel through Monday morning, I'd need around another $150. I have a transfer pending from CashApp already, but it won't be in until Monday because the US sucks and I didn't opt for the "instant transfer" fee at the time I accepted the money.
Honestly, the biggest issue here is that in the US, unlike pretty much every other developed nation, bank transfers aren't instant unless you're willing to pay a fee of ~10%. So, any money sent would either incur a 10% fee or would not be available to me until Tuesday-ish anyway. It's annoying.)
No. I can afford the train fare. It's just "getting through until Monday" that's going to be tight. But I can probably manage that. So, I'm not in urgent need.
Verified that checked bags do not cost extra on Amtrak. Nice.
Yeah, the train itself is cheap, but I still might not have enough to make it until Monday. Probably do if I forgo shelter for another night or two, but it'll be close.
Portland does allow checked bags. I verified. Not every station does, apparently.
Also, idk if my suitcase can be carried on. The one the shelter gave away could be, but the one they replaced it with is bigger. I might need to pay for checked bag service. (Does Amtrak charge for checked bag service? I'm assuming they do.)
Actually, no, I was wrong. Forgot to factor in train fare. No way I could actually afford through Monday.
So, 40-hours sleep deprivation through tomorrow. Last time for a bit I'll have to, though, maybe.
I already have $60 "tied up," but they wouldn't be able to transfer it over. They'd have refunded it this morning, though I won't see it back in my account for another week - so I'd have to put it back in again.
Still up in the air, but looking like maybe leaving Moday and arriving Tuesday. Ironically, I could afford to book the motel through Monday (knowing it would be the last time for a while I'd have to), were it not for the $60 deposit.
Looking like I might have a place to stay for a bit. Not in Oregon. Looking like probably early next week - which means I need to survive until then. Also have that call about that job which I tentatively have scheduled for Monday, but might reschedule if I'm on a train at that point.
Rhetorical. I know why. Just, shit, I wish I weren't so fucked up.
(I suspect the cause of this is that people who make less than $90k/yr struggle to survive here, and jobs that pay <$90k/yr struggle to fill their vacancies. Same reason San Francisco has a teacher shortage.)
Also, I'm very impressed that the Area Median Income is apparently around $90k/yr. The very highest wage at which I've ever been asked to interview here was still <$46k/yr! Many of the jobs to which I was applying were offering <$40k/yr!
...that's apparently ON TOP OF being age 62+, at least usually. If you're poor and not a senior citizen, Portland just does not have any housing for you.
...I'm looking at the links they sent, and pretty much all of them don't say that. They basically all say age 62+ is the ONLY way to qualify. Some of them also say that you need to be making less than 40-60% the area median income, which would mean less than around $53k/yr. But...
Looked into this a bit more, and essentially if you're under age 62 your options for any sort of affordable housing in Portland are VERY limited. The email said that for subsidized housing (which is one type of affordable housing) a disability would also qualify - but...
Gods, I can just hear Bloody Tears in the background of these shots. Outstanding work!
Dynamis has been having this sporadically for the last week, and I experienced it once during a FL game on Primal a few days ago too. DownDetector currently says âno problemsâ but also shows a clear spike in reports, so đ€·.
#FundFriday. #FundDayFriday. Drop your funds and links if you need a boost: - Mutual Aid - Abortion - Transition - Medical Bills - Access Needs - Moving - Whatever you need Please make sure youâre adding alt text and making your skeets as accessible as possible. Beware of bots and scammers.
Also of course still open to leads on work! âResumeâ in my pinned! Willing to relocate! PayPal: paypal.me/WynnThornton CashApp: $WynnThornton
I actually could use donations this time. Gonna have to book motels this week to not die (which is ~$95/night), and thereâs a good chance Iâm going to need to book a train and or a plane out of here within the next week or two. (Will be good news if I do, but still đž.)
Oh shit okay. Itâs apparently raining TODAY. With lightning too. That wasnât on the forecast.
(I have two A+ grades in two years on my UCLA transcript, both the first category.)
But of course this was risky, since a student asking for an A+ when they hadnât earned an A+ wouldnât precisely endear themself to the instructor. Still, getting rid of A+ does have potential to screw over students in the second category.
2. If a student *asked* for it. There were legitimate reasons a student might ask for itânotably, if they planned to do further study in certain fields such as Law, where an A+ often carries greater weight than an A.
There were only really two situations where A+ was ever used: 1. If an instructor wanted to go out of their way to let a student know how well theyâd done. Some instructors never did this, some did it only rarely.
âRemove the A-plus gradeâ Okay, anecdata: At UCLA, A+ existed as grade, but was rarely used. At UCLA, A+ and A were 100% equivalent in terms of GPA, so most instructors would simply give As to everyone who earned them. Understandably, since it was just easier for them and they had enough going on.
WTH
Shame the artist apparently hasnât been active here in four months. I hope theyâre okay.
This is gorgeous! One of the best pieces Iâve seen in a while!
2. âWaitlist less than one yearâ is notable, and may require tradeoffs. 3. Assuming unhoused people have a medical professional on-call.