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jfz9580m

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5. I am doing relatively well oddly
Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:29 AM
Aug 5

Having problems with work still..but I am still hopeful that if I can figure out a specific way to ..as you put it correctly..make myself immune to the daily flood of 😳 with a specific routine so I am not susceptible to it ..


I am doing better than I expected..I figure if one is stuck with Trump one should use the disinhibition that it induces to fight the good fight..to use a hackneyed phrase.

I used to be more superficially repressed..not deeply..but social mimicry and all…handicap of being a loner who always felt a bit out of sync..you are pro-environment and female so you would kinda know.

I feel bad for people who are liberal or left and still have jobs where they have to balance this reality with their views. You worked at CBS right? I have to imagine it’s really hard for democrats in jobs like that where the upper management is kinda mercenary and all the dems are kinda hostages.

Fires in Canada. Wow..that’s how tuned out I am..lol..
You like comedy as do..thought you might like this:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/08/03/epa-climate-change-trump-deregulation-emissions/85455461007/

I like Rex Huppke..How does he still have a job?

I am doing okay. I am just worried all the time about my closest friends I am not in touch with daily. And more broadly my colleagues.

One hopes to be anonymous enough in our high surveillance world to not have to censor oneself in stupid ways. Apparently you can’t listen to Enola Gay over there..that one was extra confusing..Is it woke to not be adequately pro Hiroshima bombing? Not clear why..
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/03/10/dei-enola-gay-wwii/

But earlier this year, I was scrambling to delete any traces of…lol..ever having had an opinion so my colleagues aren’t somehow impacted..if by nothing else some sort of broken machinic thing..That’s an added fear these days.And then I read these columns by Amanda Marcotte and Andrew O’Hehir and thought…you know this is too hard and would take forever..

Now I have to eventually build normal inhibition back ;-/.

Glad you are doing well..Did you see that Colbert thing? Isn’t it awful?
Are you in touch with old colleagues at CBS? This has to be rough on them..

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