Kira 🌱

Hey. Were you ever told that you're "too much"?

I want you to know that they were wrong. You're perfect. You're the perfect amount. I love the amount that you are. 🩷

I love it when you take up space with your joy & authenticity & your honest feelings -- even the tough ones.

:boost_ok:

Is it

Fuck around ∧ Find out (logical AND)

or

Fuck around ⟶ Finding out (conditional statement)?

Executive function is so hard. 😭

I'm slowwwly starting to figure out systems that work for my brain, but it is very gradual.

A big thing that helps me seems to be "resetting" spaces, like my kitchen or bathroom, to a well-defined "good" state. I can walk in, see what's not right, and address it. It's kind of like the feeling you get when you have a git repo and there are no untracked files, no unstaged or staged files, and everything has been pushed.

A big growth edge has been figuring out how to do this for my digital spaces. Right now it's just a big mess of browser tabs, multiple workspaces, terminals, and vim sessions all over the place. 😵

Alone, we suffer.

Together, we recover. 🩷

Highlights from last night's dreams:

1. I lived in a parallel universe where "elementary" was spelled "elementery". (It was distressing.)

2. A cop caught me jaywalking and made me do a drunk test, except the test was to have multiple assailants attack me and see if I could use aikido on them. (Success!)

Hey, you! I hope you have a really sweet day, and are gentle with yourself. You've been dealing with a lot lately. 🩷

I made it! It was pretty cool. The techs (Eduardo & Charmain) were cool. Eduardo had a Snorlax(!!!) lanyard.

The earplugs and headphones they gave me were adequate.

I was nervous at first, but found it cozy actually. But maybe that's the 1mg Lorazepam (SL) talking. :3

Cool facts:

• The MRI machine's magnets are rated at 3 Teslas (30,000 Gauss)
• The machine had concentric rings painted onto the floor around it, with labels (5 Gauss, 100 Gauss, etc.) as you got closer
• The call button they gave me was PNEUMATIC :D
• The headphones they used to talk to me were also, somehow, pneumatic. This seems so novel and weird and I really want to learn how these work!!

Questions for the audience:

• Do the magnets interact with the trace ferrous minerals in body in any meaningful way?

I like Linux and BSD.

I think they are good.

Happy Saturday. Today I am grateful for:

- Fortified soy milk & nutritional yeast, 😋, giving me lots of my nutrients.
- Carrots & hummus.
- Oatmeal, loaded with seeds & dried fruit & peanut butter.
- Those precious few moments when I'm able to give myself permission to slow down, and just let myself be.

What are you feeling grateful for today?

I think you're pretty amazing. 🌸

Yep: you.

Can anyone recommend a ZIM archive (e.g. offline copy of Wikipedia) reader?

Kiwix just plain doesn't work properly on my machine consistently, and it's very slow.

Graphical or TUI are ok! :boost_ok: Thank you!

Reminder that Delta Chat exists: https://delta.chat/

Reminder that Cabal exists: https://cabal.chat/

Free, open source, private, decentralized chat.

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean —
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down —
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver

"A major analysis published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that, after one to three years of hormone therapy, trans and cis women have comparable levels of athletic fitness."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/trans-cis-women-have-comparable-athletic-ability-major-study-finds/

Wow! This is a really nice resource:

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

I've been learning more about other neurologies lately, such as Tourette syndrome (TS). It's been cool & interesting & humanizing!

Please enjoy this video about a 13-year-old, Penny. I love the supports she has in her life!!! 🥰 It gives me hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aVk5YXLt-8

Heard today: "The difference between healthy and unhealthy is accountability."

Hey all: how do I dull/soften the sharp edges of a tin can I cut? Ideally using hand tools.