Omggggg
i have been able to sleep more than three hours the past three days without asthma attacks while lying down and i need you to understand im still tearing up from joy even thinking about it
(the followup is that the spouse got strep from the nibling which ballooned into a sinus infection (according to urgent care) which knocked him out for 2 weeks and which he shared with me, who thankfully did not get it as bad but still wasn’t fun, but, y’know. not the baby’s fault, baby still cute)
uhhh I might have been eligible for citizenship here since mid-last year?? I have to email to confirm I understand the fine details but if so!! citizenship!!
e: okay sadly my initial reading was correct and I still need permanent residency BUT that just means it’s likely less than a year until I can apply!
I’;ve had a hole in my wall for a while and the cats coulda gotten out through it. Today, my dad patched it so now the cats are not able to escape. :D
(rent) strikes work:
The complex’s residents went on a rent strike during the pandemic, withholding their rent until their landlord, Jason Korn, fixed the significant issues aggravating residents. They knew the road ahead was difficult. They were going against Korn, who had been named New York City’s worst landlord in 2019 and 2020 by the public advocate’s office. Korn’s 55 apartment buildings were cited by the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development with thousands of building code violations each year, accumulating fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
At the end of 2024, after more than four years of the rent strike, residents defeated eviction efforts by their new landlords, Gillman Management, who took over the building in 2022. Members of the tenant association and their legal representation used a defense of “rent-impairing violations” to ask for rent deferment for as long as the building continues to have severe breaches of the building conservation code.
A judge on Dec. 13 sided with the renters, finding that repairs in the building were necessary and waiving rental arrears from January 2020 to May 2022, which added up to $250,000. The period coincided with Korn’s tenure as the owner of the building.
i got to share in trans joy with one of our regular patients! he got an rx for t a few days ago and i unfortunately wasn’t the one to ring him then but i got to talk to him today and congratulated him on the t and he lit up and was telling me how happy it made him and talked about cutting his hair short for the first time and i just ;w;
SORRY TO DOUBLEPOST (I KNOW NO ONE CARES BUT I WORRY LOL) but i got to hear a customer who asked me a question, after i complimented her Wales hat, pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch irl and it genuinely made my day
Feels like bad times rn anyone have good news
My wife and I made build-a-bears together - she made ponponpurin and I got a chococat. After we brought them home we proceeded to pretend to have incredibly dramatic fights about mundane shit and then would exclaim that we shouldn’t be doing this “in front of the babies”
Does this count
This is older news at this point but after I went home for the holidays I was able to come back with some of my childhood stuffed animals. They were taken away from me sometime during middle school - there may have been a lice outbreak involved? Anyway point being one day they just disappeared from my bed and I was like “guess i don’t have stuffed animals anymore” and that was an abrupt transition out of kid things. But now some of them are back here with me and while I don’t care for them the exact same way I did when I was young, it’s still good to have them.
Absolutely, thank you
A rare California shrew was recently photographed alive for the first time! https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/elusive-california-mammal-photographed-20040772.php
the shrew, literally: YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!!!
now to tame it
Apparently they have a super fast metabolism so that have to eat every two hours or starve
damn they just like me fr
Listened to the January 20, 2025 episode of Today In Gay yesterday (I listen on Podbean and can’t link to it rn for some reason but here’s an interview about them because on principle, I can’t like Substack) and happy this podcast exists (I am notoriously Not Good with mainly audio entertainment so im really glad that this one is on the quicker side)
Thailand is officially gay
After a year of dating long-distance, my girlfriend is coming to visit me for a few days