Man, biking home from work in total darkness is kind of terrifying… 
And not because of the darkness, my route is well lit the whole way, but it’s the lights that are so scary… My vision is constantly bombarded with glaring bright orbs from the streetlights, cars on adjacent streets, and other cyclists, and everything just melts together into visual soup. 
I got jumpscared by another cyclist going the other way passing right in front and next to me today and I didn’t even see them at all because they were just one of 30 bright dots in front of me but at least I always keep as right-hand as I can and if not they probably saw me at least and would’ve slowed down and honked if I wasn’t… I’ll have to try to be more alert and I’m only gonna keep biking until later this month unless a cold snap hits earlier than that, then I’m putting the bike away until it’s warmer again.
Neat!
This reminds me, when I was looking up birds to defame explain to people, I decided to look up their calls as well. I thought it would take forever, but I found this site full of bird and other animal calls that researchers and hobbyists have shared, it’s pretty cool!
I rode a bike as my main method of transportation for a while and it was absolutely awful any time I didn’t have the chance to ride on the sidewalk. Once I did eventually get a car, it only made me more upset because then I got to see both sides of the equation on cyclists and cars sharing the road and it is terrifying both ways. Florida doesn’t usually have proper bike lanes, either they get nothing, or they put a little pictogram of a cyclist on the goddamn shoulder
Thankfully my route is 99% bike lane on wide sidewalks or park paths with the exception of a single hill where I have to just take a thin sidewalk and a single 20m stretch of street where two bike lanes constructed at different times don’t connect properly so I just have to swerve out onto the street for a second. If I had to bike in a city that didn’t have infrastructure for it I would die immediately just from the fear probably.
That’s rad, the website I got that from also has a database of noises and calls
(there’s an english option that I can’t turn on but should work for y’all)
just did a tarot reading for myself that completely read me for filth + is inspiring me to reach out to my work union and my therapist (for two reasons, one being the Obvious, and two, i see her through an agreement with one of our local queer orgs so i want to see if there’s anything i can do/anyone i can reach out to to like help Build Community).
Look Back is now available on Amazon Prime, and also nyaa.si
Go watch it
Slight Counterpoint: DONT watch it if you’re not emotionally regular right now this movie could very easily fuck you up (it’s great but still)
I did not want to come to work today cause I’m just not feeling it and as soon as I tried to log into a computer to print out a worksheet, things went to pot.
I asked my (american) regular watch friend is she wanted to, and she said No for that exact reason 
(in voice chat; friend A is getting ready to stream more umineko)
me: hang on a sec, I’ll get some water first
friend B: i’ll get some water too then
friend C: yeah i’ll get some water too then
friend A: (genuinely distressed) finnnnnnnnnne, I’ll get some water too >.<
my sis dropped a chocolate bar on me before she went back, she’s pavlovianing me every time she visits
me at 6pm: hell yeah friday night!! ladies and gentlemen the weekend!!! im gonna stay up late and do what i want!!!
me at 11pm:
Listen sometimes what you want is to be zonked the fuck out with nowhere to go.
In unrelated slightly funny news, during my car service today I tried to log in to Auldnoir from the dealership and couldn’t. The site blocked connections from insufficiently secure wifi, and the dealership’s network Wasn’t Shit. First time that’s ever happened to me, having a network I was on bitchslapped out of the way.
Management is gone, Desert Bus has started.
I’m very comfortable doing nothing during the last hour of my shift.
update: I ate the chocolate bar
Why is purple the evil color
eBayed a Sony DCR-DVD108 handicam. Hope it gets here before the Neopets event next week for a test run.
its the color of many things
I was thinking the other day that sometimes purple is poison magic but sometimes it’s green but sometimes green is recovery magic but sometimes that’s red but sometimes r