Posts Tagged ‘life’

08
Jun
2020

I wear these Twitter blocks like a badge of honor.

categories: personal; word count: 158 words

A list of people that I have been blocked by on Twitter, by the way:
· Onision (on both of his accounts)
· Blaire White
· the casting director for Big Brother and several other shows
· Lori Alexander, The Transformed Wife
· the Catholic bishop of Tyler

I don’t think I’m missing any, but if I am I can always come back and revise this.

I tend not to block people myself unless they make it clear that they are attempting to gaslight in conversations or debates, or unless they actually invoke various Hitler fallacies. In instances like those, that is when (as the Generation Z kids like to say) I am “done”. Or if I politely ask someone to stop mentioning me on Facebook or Twitter and they continue, especially when my phone’s notifications are on, and they keep on doing it — especially when more than one of them do it and they “tag” people in. You can just get blocked.

06
Jun
2020

I can finally get prescription sunglasses, everyone!

categories: personal; word count: 246 words

I found out that I can finally get sunglasses off of Zenni Optical.

This is going to be great for my migraines.

Before, the lens strength only stopped at -6, and my right eye was -6.75 at last checkup, which meant that the lens made would not be strong enough to bring that eye to 20/20 vision. Strangely, they made single vision lenses that weren’t sunglasses in that strength, but… not sunglasses. So after I do get around to getting my eyes checked (I was actually going to do it when the coronavirus hit, and then decided to wait on that), I can get sunglasses in a strength that fits my actual prescription! This means that I can wear them whenever I need to, which should also help cut down on the frequency and severity of my migraines. We hope. They can’t actually hurt them, anyway… and that’s the most major thing. I’ve been looking at some of them on the website (it’s a shame that my pupillary distance is a bit small, or else my first two choices would have worked and would have been great, but it is what it is here, isn’t it?), so I have some picked out in my head that I might like to choose from. I’ll go from there once I get my eyes tested and can also get a new pair of prescription glasses if my prescription has actually changed. But seriously, this is going to be really great!

04
Jun
2020

A novel way to actually build credit for… free.

categories: personal; word count: 281 words

Please note that I am not actually getting paid to make this post.

Someone mentioned Kikoff on Facebook, and I decided to give this a try on my own since… surprisingly, I don’t actually have any credit. I’ve been the kind of person to only pay for things when I have the money “in hand” to make the payment, but I figured that if there were a way to start to work on my credit without actually taking tangible risk in the event that I needed to have good credit in the future, I might as well start now while I didn’t technically need to have good credit. So that’s what I’ve been doing. What Kikoff does is “lends” you $12.00 in their virtual wallet once you make an account with them, and you pay them back a dollar a month over the course of a year with them. As long as you stay current on payments, they report that “loan” being paid back to them to all three major credit reporting agencies in the United States. In turn, that actually gives you a credit score if you’re… well, like me, and you don’t have a credit score, or it improves your credit score if you’re someone who might not have the best credit score (this can influence up to 35% of your credit score if that is the case and you already have a credit score!). As long as you remember to make these single $1 payments on time, it’s all reward and no risk — you come out of it with an actual, good credit score, which you can later use to your advantage, or you actually improve your already existing credit score!

04
Jun
2020

It’s almost like you can actually bet on this.

categories: personal; word count: 211 words

You know, something tells me that Myka would not have “re-homed” her adopted autistic son if he were one of her biological children. It’s almost as though you can bet on that. And it’s not as though you can practically bet on the fact that she did so because his disabilities inconvenienced her, because even if he did have behavioral problems, there were services that she could easily have accessed at her family’s income level — having the income, and the resources, to do so — that would have allowed her to retain parental rights over him (such as a group home for whatever length of time might have been necessary, worst case institutionalization, or even respite care). She just didn’t want to take the extra time out to care for him at all and it really showed. Then she had the nerve to delete all pictures of him from her Instagram account (so much for “we miss him every day”), and now, as of the time I’m writing this post, law enforcement is trying to locate him. So much for her “re-homing” being legitimate. I am actually worried that something might have happened to him that hasn’t been said by her family. This sadly happens to a lot of autistic kids nowadays…

03
Jun
2020

A lot of things all in one post here, I guess.

categories: personal; word count: 264 words

Through slightly more careful observation, I’m speculating that the “first cousins” on my Ancestry matches page may be my mother’s (half-)sisters. Neither of them have responded to my messages, so it is what it is… for now. They may or may not know that she exists, or existed, if that is the case. Her father was never really in her life to begin with and actively avoided supporting her, although if I remember correctly my late grandmother had one picture of siblings that she had through him, and my mother told me that he died in the mid-nineties. But I have been talking to a more distant cousin of mine on Ancestry, and she dislikes organized theistic religion as much as I do, which is great. I intend on sending her a friends request on Facebook once I can, once I am done with this most recent post block and comment block. (And ironically, for Mark Zuckerberg kissing Trump’s ass not being willing to take a harder line against the shit he says on social media, a lot of people are quitting Facebook, which I think is good. Maybe Facebook will stop being popular.)

And since I’ve joined so many Discord servers, I’ve actually left some of the ones that I didn’t chat as much in to cut down on the amount of ones that I am a member of, because I couldn’t juggle all of them at once. It was (and is) nothing personal to the ones that I did quit! It’s just that I can’t juggle being in so many servers.

01
Jun
2020

It all seems to be a matter of control here…

categories: personal; word count: 389 words

It always seems to impress (Christian, religious) apologists whenever someone who was formerly atheist, or non-religious, converts to their religion, but it always seems to anger them, or incense them, when someone refuses “the call to conversion”, does not want to convert “in the face of evidence”, or turns from being someone that was particularly religious to someone that is no longer religious. I’ve become equal parts amused and worried by that as the years have gone on, although I would have to say that the “worried” part of it comes along more when it is men in positions of power exhibiting anger or feelings of incense or ire. It’s like their playbook, or rule book, doesn’t have a section in it for these kind of people — the “feel-good people” that “find God” or who “see the evidence before them”. And a lot of them actually say that “God has a plan for everyone,” and that “God will eventually call you to (church of their choice)”, so these are the very same kind of people who get angry when you continually reject their “call to conversion”, do not convert to the religion of their choice and… don’t come back to convert to their religion. They get even angrier when you speak out against it and do advocacy against the religion in question, or in my case, organized theistic religion as a whole. Maybe that’s why me finding Satanism when I did happened when it did. That’s not bad.

I can get behind the George Floyd protests, and even the riots, even though as a parent to two children who would be devastated if something happened to me I am neither actively protesting nor rioting (at least two people have actually lost eyes in these protests/riots alone, one being a journalist, and that’s frightening to simply type out… like, who thinks it’s a good idea to shoot someone’s eye out during one of these?!). I think I would make a good medic, though. Seriously. Police men need to stop killing black men. I hope to see these protests and these riots change the face of that, and for black men to stop dying at the hands of police men.

Especially in this country. Where it seems to be the only major problem, along with… oh, lack of gun control.

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