some days are better than others

[mistersmearcase]

[deleted some whining. Apartment hot, hard to sleep, need to change diet and maybe avoid wheat forever. Possibly should cut drinking down to one a week or something. Not thrilled about any of it.]

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Twitter remains absolutely baffling to me. I wish I'd stayed off it but now I find it engaging in certain ways and less aversive since I developed some ability not to respond to stuff. Anyway now I'm following some gays in their 20s and 30s and they just are such space aliens. They post nekked pics with their faces in them, or just sorta "gosh, I took off my shirt, I'm so pale, I bet I look really bad!" bizarro humble-brag thirst-trap stuff. I'm glad that they're so liberated and so willing to show me and the universe their junk but also feel like the ones I'm finding have nothing else apparently going on unless maybe just a slightly funny version of the universal Twitter sense of humor that I generally find grating. Usually involves those dialog jokes that involve the phrase

"Me: "


It's better than big Extremely Online Left arguments, though. Whatever their other faults and virtues, these young, hairless exhibitionists don't seem to spend a lot of time weighing in on who is "problematic."

I think what I'm doing is just following people and then following people they interact with until I find the seven people on twitter who do not feel like space aliens to me.

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WB is going to stay, did I mention this?, in the back yard "casita" of friends who live in a small town in Colorado, for three weeks, probably leaving Saturday. I can't go and don't really want to, but I'm feeling weird about three weeks alone and anxious-attachment-styley about him wanting to go away for three weeks. I have a weird time on my own after 7 years of cohabitation. I enjoy it some and feel crazy some. I should think of stuff I can do while he's gone like play harpsichord more without feeling like I'm making an inescapable racket. I think I'll set up some zooms with friends even though zooming with friends is inherently awkward and unsatisfying. We could do a big former LJ zoom and look at each other in terror.

Comments

[ioplokon]

ohmygod it's been sooooooooooo hottttttttttttttttttt. It was 95 inside down here. Too Hot!

Also yeah, twitter is a weird place where normal people don't talk to you and celebrities show up to yell at you bc they were vanity searching and you made a mildly negative remark. That is to say, you're probably in the best circle of twitter now. Other than birdperhour. birdperhour rocks.

[mistersmearcase]

I think there are several cute-animal-per-hour feeds and I should look around. Some people I know are into hourly possum but possums are not very cute to me.

I was THRILLED to be sitting outside last night at 8, comfortably not wearing a jacket, but our apartment gets a ton of sun and the living room is the worst of all and it just turns into a bit of a furnace.

What celebrity yelled at you??

[ioplokon]

oh, just a wrestler. it was dumb but kinda funny, mostly because I'm such a non-entity on twitter.

And yeah, if this were a normal summer and we could all go chill at the beach or Russian River and truly appreciate suns out guns out weather, that'd be one thing but... trapped at home, no workout, no tan... sigh.

[sabotabby]

I have some young Extremely Online Left friends who also do the shirtless thirst trap thing. Best of both worlds???

[herself_nyc]

I would zoom with you.

What's your Please follow me on Twitter if you want. Mostly I post about what I'm reading. I'm nancykayshapiro

[villagecharm]

I feel about Twitter the way my friends who have been quitting smoking for years feel about cigarettes. I hate this dumb thing and know it's terrible for me, and I also need it several times a day. Why can't Trump ban this instead of TikTok??

[maeve66]

An LJ Zoom is an interesting idea! A little bit of a scary one, but interesting, too!

Play that harpsichord! More FB videos of you on the harpsichord! (Hm. Or was it LJ?)