mentallyalex

mentallyalex, 10 months ago to random

Oh my god this is amazing.

Over 100 trans men enter Miss Italy pageant after organiser says only “women from birth” allowed

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/over-100-trans-men-enter-132230515.html

:blobcatchefkiss:

mentallyalex, 11 months ago to random

Someone just sent this to me and I can't stop laughing.

mentallyalex, 1 year ago to random

I have a friend who is... very unique. You know the type - the guy who always brings the out of genre movie that is just extra. Or he'll come to the meetup typing on his phone and you find out he's researching some obscure subject.

I love him, he's brilliant. His children are amazing, his wife is way hotter than him. This guy has a great life, be glad for him.

So he sent me this link... and I've been staring at it since yesterday and it just keeps delivering.

https://floor796.com/

I've found so many stories here. Star Trek, Aladdin, Spongebob, the little mermaid... they're all there.

mentallyalex, 1 year ago to random

Hi Mastodon.

Just a polite reminder that this place is managed by us. That means we have to rely on our individual efforts to boost timelines.

Favoriting will show you appreciated the 'toot' but only boosts push the toot further along.

Please boost often so that others can find and see the great content that exists out there.

Just a #feditips

mentallyalex, 7 months ago to photography

I'm not the best photoist, but spooky happened and I wanted to capture it for you. :)

I hope, if you are into this sort of stuff, you find the time!

#photography #spoopy #spooktober

mentallyalex, 11 months ago to random

I don't know who needs this today but please give yourself a moment to appreciate this joy.

#wednesday #today #selfcare #mentalhealth

The happiest golden retriever on the planet snuggling and wrestling with a lady in a T-rex inflatable suit. The dog is clearly enjoying itself. They are outside in a urban area with manicured trees. The video seems to have been shot from a terrace or outside patio in a high rise building.

mentallyalex, 6 months ago to random

Strive to be the person your coworkers feel safe talking about their community with.

mentallyalex, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

I am curious about something.

Regardless of your "generation" (Baby Boomer, GenX, GenZ, Millennial, etc.) do you play video games?

Which ones? I would love to know the names. Yes, even if you play 10 games constantly... I'm very curious.

Please?

mentallyalex, 5 months ago to random

I really need this on a mug.

mentallyalex, 2 months ago to random

Today would be an excellent day for society to fully realize we are all in this together.

mentallyalex, 7 months ago to random

Whoever left this Halloween candy with me...either has a lot more faith in my self-control, or access to additional candy.

mentallyalex, 8 months ago to random

My apologies to the retail worker who asked if there was something wrong.

I probably should have realized she meant with "my shopping experience". :blobcat_nervoussweat:

We had a great talk....

mentallyalex, 11 months ago to random

I really do love how the inventor of Linux made a post about how he doesn't want to support the ad-filled website that is NYTimes and his replies are people telling him about pi-hole and uBlock.

Ya'll. He wrote an entire Operating System without once having to Google or use StackOverflow.

He built GIT. You know the tool 300% of us use to remotely pull/push changes on virtually everything?

Ya'll, he INVENTED GIT so he could work on the Kernel of the Operating System he built from scratch with the rest of you.

I am pretty confident in his ability to know about blocking ads.

mentallyalex, 3 months ago to queer

Hi #LGBTQIA Masto - I need a favor. I have a friend, a very private friend who is looking for #trans resources in the general STL area. I believe STL is "St. Louis" so anything in that area? Specifically events, clubs, locals I can suggest and guide this friend to so that she can investigate her surroundings a bit as she creeps out of her egg?

I'm literally acting as an... escrow of sorts? She is aware of this thread and will see your responses.

To that point, if you're someone who feels this is a golden opportunity to be a bad person - be aware no one appreciates you.

mentallyalex, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I was just told I brush my teeth in the wrong temperature water. According to this person, I am a, "psycho" who chooses the wrong water temp.

I'm so curious now...which water temperature do you brush your teeth in?

Please boost for visibility. Thank you for your help!

mentallyalex, 7 months ago to random

So I was here yesterday...

mentallyalex, 7 months ago to random

I have asked Zara (my cat) three times very loudly while she slept if she would like to wake up and give me treats.

She has not been impressed. I don't think she has put together that this is revenge for doing the EXACT SAME THING TO ME around 5am this morning. :blobcathissing:

mentallyalex, 1 year ago to random

Oh this does not look good.

Google authorized a 70b buyback of company stock.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/25/google-authorizes-70-billion-buyback.html

This is only a quarter after they laid-off 12,000 employees?
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/google-to-lay-off-12000-people-memo-from-ceo-sundar-pichai-says.html

This is pure gluttony.

mentallyalex, 6 months ago to random

If we do not support our democracy, it won't fail us. We will have failed it.

Please go out and vote when you can, and if you are able - consider donating to democracy. Even if it's just your time, it might be the help we needed.

mentallyalex, 4 months ago to random

I never know what to say that doesn't sound hollow...

I wish there was an emoji or something that said, "Hey, I genuinely wish things were better for you and it sucks and I don't want you to have to do or say anything just know...like...I see you"

mentallyalex, 26 days ago to random

Please don't talk to me please don't talk to me please don't...oh thank god.

Ten seconds later

Please don't talk to me please don't talk to me...

#AlexGoesOutside

mentallyalex, 3 months ago to random

Is tonight when Taylor Swift wakes up to see her shadow and determine if we are going to have more weeks of football?

mentallyalex, 4 months ago to photography

I am not the worlds greatest photographer and have never sought that title. I often find myself fascinated by the mundane and try and see the story behind the scenes.

This is a unique button, it is mine but is sitting in stasis. I removed the button from a shirt long ago, and it has been sitting on a homespun tablecloth undisturbed for 15 or more years.

Untouched in a room filled with activity it sits ignored waiting to be readded to a shirt long since discarded. This button has not been disturbed by the passage of time that has removed the people from my life that had been involved in my life. This button was stripped from an outfit worn by an entirely different man. A man unconcerned with the Presidential elections, or airborne illnesses.

Small picture to be sure, but it was meaningful to me and I felt compelled to share.

#button #photography

mentallyalex, 3 months ago to random

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-invent-new-hybrid-food-by-growing-beef-inside-grains-of-rice

After a moment of screaming inwardly at the visualization of "meat and bone grown in rice" this is a very promising article for sustainability.

mentallyalex, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

I stare at the mirror before me. This isn't my first performance but I haven't been on in over a month and I feel rusty. The lines in my face seem exaggerated in this stupid mirror but I know it's just who I am. I'm not as young as I once was, I think to myself laughing.

Someone outside the door knocks softly. They need to alert me but don't want to disturb my process, I think laughing.

"Come in," I say to the mirror loud enough for the person on the other side of the door to hear, I hope. My reflection looks angry as I yell and I remind myself to relax my face if I have to speak loudly on stage.

A small boy, no more than twelve enters the room. He is dressed for the harsh cold of the winter streets, heavy layers of what look to be rotting and discarding cloth have been wrapped around his torso and limbs. His dark brown hair appears matted and dingy, shoved haphazardly beneath a hat. The style and form of the hat long ago lost under the crush of time.

I turn to look at the young man and notice he seems to be pale and underfed, his eyes hollow and haunted beneath a heavy brow. He licks his parched lips and fumbles for a boombox from the eighties in an anachronistic move that brings me pause.

Looking at me with a confidence brought by a short life of hardship, the little boy clears his throat and greets me in the high pitch of youth with a perfect victorian accent. I am in Chicago, and this is not a common accent to hear now.

Bowing curtly the young man, in a voice far more formal than warranted the occasion said, "Sir, a message for you,".

Holding the boombox in his tiny hands he held it aloft in a manner befitting a Cameron Crowe film. As he held the machine above his head and pressed play I heard from the box the following statement.

"Alex, you are on in five."

From there, the young man lowered the box and nodding to me again bowed and left the room.

I laughed, remembering the silly rider request and found myself more impressed with this theater than I had at first realized.

• Inspired by @GayDeceiver :blobcatgiggle: