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hollie, 7 hours ago to random

BIKE RIDE! :D Glorious! Easy 7 miles on my electric bike. Hung out at one end of the park for awhile, saw good things: A very fit, very nervous woman (in her 50’s?), waiting for someone - he showed up! A talking-a-mile-a-minute guy, obviously bonkers for her, they set out down a path, nearly holding hands (I bet they are by the end). A little boy learning to ride his bike, awww! Gaggle of teens walking by, speaking rapid Spanish, laughing SO hard. A bee rolling around in a flower. Many dogs! :)

Vertical metal support of a guard rail over the river, someone has spray-painted white strawberries on it, three, stacked.
Yellow flower with a bright orange center, there's a bee rolling around in the middle.
A blue bike on a cement bridge overlooking a river that has the I5 bridge going over it in the distance. Blue skies, whispy clouds.

hollie, 1 day ago to random

Greg and I are at the park, I’m laying in the grass (see selfie) with my hat over my face, legs baking in the hot sun. Two kids just started playing a game involving “zaps” and “took 5 points of damage,” and I’m smiling at their conversation when I hear the dad, still unpacking the car, yell, “Hey! Boys? Can you stand away from the only two people around? Maybe try not to hit them with that stick you’re swinging with impunity?” Laughing so hard I had to sit up.

hollie, 1 day ago to random

I'm putting together a collection of women-and-the sea songs, and there is an Ingrid Michaelson song I love called Far Away I can't find. The album version is rubbish (no offense Ingrid lol), but there's a really beautiful live version on Apple Music and I no longer have access to that. I think maybe it's from an Apple event but I'm not sure? Is there anyway to BUY Apple-owned music? When I do a search on Apple Music it just shows me the album recording.

hollie, 2 days ago to random

A laudable contribution to the bear/man discussion. I loved it.

“There is nothing wrong with men. Men are lovable people with the same capacity for empathy, agency, and growth as any other human on the gender spectrum. But when men are socialized to identify their humanness as masculinity and to associate masculinity with power, we get some real problems. These are the problems of patriarchy.”

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

hollie, 3 days ago to random

One of my favorite movies of all time, and I can’t believe I didn’t know there was a CONSTELLATION IN THE POPCORN!

The bathroom mirror shot is amazing and I’ve always wondered how they filmed that. I also didn’t realize that they mirrored the stairs. How many times have I watched that and not noticed? It’s like the blue rag in The Abyss.

https://youtu.be/HQRu9cz5L9E?si=AMarBtK9wY1XwRAa

hollie, 7 days ago to random

Alt text question!

Should alt text be a complete sentence, like a period at the end? Like exactly the way you'd normally write it on a page? I notice some folks make it very short, no period at end. Wondering if I'm doing it right.

Also a lot of times I have quote marks in alt text and it breaks the photo on the blog page (though it doesn't break anything Mastodon), so I'm working on avoiding that.

#AltText

hollie, 9 days ago to random

Greg shared this with me and I love it, it's helpful! We had one long beach convo about my feeling so vulnerable to messages of doom (Greg is much less so). Mastodon used to help, but after the big migration a year and a half ago, it's doom 24/7 here, too. I'm trying to just check less and mute folks who don't CW doom, and it's helping, but I need to actively cultivate a sense of hope in myself about the world.

https://balloon-juice.com/2024/05/18/open-thread-against-doomerism/

Whole UU talk also worth a read: https://freeandresponsible.blogspot.com/2024/05/hope-denial-and-healthy-relationship.html

hollie, 13 days ago to random

Okay I want to go on a road trip with somebody where all we do is find cute little towns and then scope out their indie bookstores. When the car is half full of books is when we know it’s time to loop back around home. Also there should be a good deal of finding the best cafes, too.

hollie, 13 days ago to random

We were discussing the differences between sandy and rocky beaches and I took this photo of the very pretty pebbly and shell-y sand at the base of the rocks we were sitting on, and then cracked up.

Greg: What’s so funny

Me: It looks like you’ve just been murdered and I’m focused on the gravel

Greg: <laughs> “Will THESE rocks be enough to cover my husband’s lifeless corpse?”

Me: “Hmmmm…I don’t know, the wind could blow these right off the body…”

hollie, 15 days ago to random

Happy Mother’s Day to moms, weird Aunts, and other caregivers, and massive loads of love and empathy for folks for whom this is a difficult holiday. 💜 My day has been quiet and nice, chatted with both kids earlier, and Jupes sent me this illustration of Finnegan based on a photo I took. I love it! I’ve never had a pet who had this much fan art - drawn by me, Jupes, a friend, another friend, and Greg had a joke oil painting of him made. Quite the furry celeb. :)

hollie, 19 days ago to random

I stayed up until 2:30 am binging a show. Oops. Haven't done that in awhile.

I just woke up (so that's 6 whole hours of sleep) and I feel soooo awful, lol. Today will be fun! :D <involuntary zombie noises>

hollie, 23 days ago to random

My feed might become nothing but cute Cal photos.

hollie, 27 days ago to random

When you yourself are not healthy enough to protest (i.e. you know you'd be a big liability) but wish that you could, what are good ways to support the folks getting out there?

#protests

hollie, 27 days ago to random

Hello from me and Finn!

hollie, 1 month ago to tea

Our electric tea kettle has died after just a few weeks - sprung a leak. This is our third kettle THIS YEAR. Manufacturing is basically crap now, I know, but I really, really need my tea. I gotta solve this. I'm thinking a stovetop kettle? But we have an induction stove.

Any #tea lovers have a favorite teapot/kettle that works on an induction stove?

(feel free to boost) #fedikettle

hollie, 1 month ago to random

Classic Hollie move: my pen-pal of several years, who I think is awesome, recently sent me a card and asked if I’d want to exchange actual email addresses since we’re both busy and tend to go too long between sending snail mail. Her card contained her email address. Would I like to write her there? I absolutely would!

And guess what? I’ve lost her card.
Am now sending her a postcard with my email address.
(It’s a miracle I kept track of two children for 20 years.)

hollie, 1 month ago to random

At Covid booster today, the guy puts the needle in, takes it out, then gasps and says, "Your skin just pushed it out!" And sure enough, clear liquid is dribbling down my arm. He yells for pharmacist who says I'm probably fine, "you probably got enough". He said he absolutely can't dose me again.

Greg just found this from the CDC, it says in the case of a botched vaccine the person should absolutely be immediately given a second dose. We'll go in tomorrow morning. 😤

https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118363

hollie, 1 month ago to lotr

SHUT THE TINY ROUND FRONT DOOR!

It's a new game called Tales of the Shire, Greg just sent me the link, I can't even, I'm still too busy squeeing....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VA0uGtHqQI

#LoTR #Hobbits #TalesOfTheShire #Games

hollie, 1 month ago to random

I finally found an (available) IFS therapist, and she sent me this link to a YouTube series that introduces Internal Family Systems. It's great! I'm impressed, she's doing a great job giving examples and making the concepts clear.

If you've read Richard Schwartz's book(s) and enjoy getting the same things explained in a slightly different way, or have friends asking you what the heck IFS is and want a link for them, check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCJ2fBBavCJEoQPzbMIOuQ2luJDHrWPSL

#IFS #InternalFamilySystems

hollie, 1 month ago to random

I can’t handle much Instagram but I logged on for a bit tonight and it was so cool to see so many guys knitting and crocheting! White, BIPOC, straight, queer, there was an amazing and beautiful variety of menfolk doing the fiber crafts and proudly showing off their yarn-y makes, I love it! :) 🧶

hollie, 1 month ago to random

“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”

hollie, 1 month ago to random

A post just went by dealing with world geographical details and as I was hitting "page down" all I saw fly past was a colorful graph and then what I thought was the phrase:

"HOBBITABLE LAND."

And there is nothing remotely rational about this but my heart still flipped over really fast, this micro-second of hope that someone with means had the brilliant idea of turning some huge swath of land into burrow houses and and bare-footed farms with giant pumpkins, and here was their prospectus.

hollie, 1 month ago to random

Dinner conversation was me and Jupiter coming up with responses for someone seeing their scars and asking about their (gender affirming) top surgery. I laughed so hard - my favorite was, “Shark attack - the shark got one, and we had to remove the other so I’d stop swimming crooked”.

Next favorites: “I fought ninjas and this was all they took,” and finally, “Lost a bet with the Devil, turns out I’m terrible on the fiddle.”

hollie, 1 month ago to random

On a non-Masto site I just saw some unfriendly (and unwelcome) comments about a pregnant woman's shape.

First of all, don't do this. Like, ever. It's exhausting to field random subjective statements about your body.

Second, just FYI - super tall people often don't look pregnant even when they're very far along. Longer torsos give the bebe a lot of room, so their little bodies don't round outward as much. It's still normal. Be delighted by neat anatomical variety. Privately. To yourself.

hollie, 1 month ago to random

If there was a setting for, "Don't show me any image without alt text," I bet we'd have a LOT more alt-text written in images.