mysoulishome

Somehow I was unaware until school started this week that the state I live in, Indiana, passed a law this year requiring the school to REPORT to the parents if a child requests to be called by a different name or gender pronoun than they registered under…and the parent has to give written permission for the school to use said name or gender pronouns. This has put a ridiculous burden on the teachers, of course. Today I got an email notifying me that my son, Ben, would like to be called Ben and not Benjamin. I signed a form. Thousands of other parents will do so as well.

This is absolutely fucking ridiculous in so many ways. The pursuit of eliminating trans people at all costs has gotten so out of hand. This is some Taliban shit.

Please…for fuck’s sake call my kids whatever they want to be called, have drag queens read to them…teach them that slavery was bad and gay people exist. Let the teachers teach. Help my kids to be smart and kind and call it a day…I trust our public school system. This is so infuriating.

To the people passing these laws, I hope your children and grandchildren are ashamed of you and put you in a shitty nursing home and never visit you…and then you die (of old age) and the next generation is better. This is disgusting.

I’ve been working on trauma recovery this year and decided to implement a mindfulness habit of stopping 3 times a day and just noticing what my body is feeling. This is a somatic exercise for CPTSD because when you pay attention to what your body is feeling you can train it to process physical reactions such as fight or flight instinct…then your nervous system can learn to react in a healthy way instead of the reactions festering into anxiety, depression, feeling numb.

Anyway…so I added reminders and tracking through streaks and finally settled on using Day One for this activity since I can pull out my phone to do it or do it on the iPad or computer…or even at work by sending an email. In the past few years I have tried off and on paper journals, Wordpress and Day One…my handwriting is terrible and my hands are getting more stiff in my mid 40s. I’m worried that Wordpress will go down someday and I’ll lose all my old stuff.

I created a second journal in Day One called daily feelings and just freeform such as typing what I’m experiencing my body…my wife got annoyed because I told her the wrong day for a meeting…my lungs feel hot…and sometimes summarize a day or some thoughts on goals and successes. Writing helps me process.

Sometimes a quick post becomes a longer post so I move it to the longer post.

So yeah not sure this is a bullet journal…you tell me?

Never seen this before and thought it was interesting, a feature of Mastodon apparently? Wondering if this feature might allow the moderator to note why they took such action against the account in question? I'm mainly curious. The account that brought this up is @alt_Budget_cuts and appears to be a person or bot to be bot that randomizes content (cool art, youtube videos) along with the same bright yellow posts about workers/companies/budgets to try and drive people to a "How to get rich" website...I don't really know what the this account is. Looks like they have a twitter account too but can't tell what they post on their because fuck Elmo. The website doesn't seem to be selling anything that I can tell...the ideology and what exactly they are trying to say is confusing...maybe it's bad (racist or something) and I am just too dense to tell.

The photos and etc that they post are actually pretty cool so I'm sure a lot of people follow back when they request to follow...I will definitely not...wondering what the mastodon.world admins saw or encountered that necessitated this? What types of reasons would you choose to mute and not ban?

Things I like about Reelgood: track movies I want to see and what is on the services I subscribe to. Marking things I’ve seen and like or dislike. The app is fast and has no horrible ads. Available on iPhone, iPad and has an AppleTV App (tho not very useful).

Things that could improve:

Recommendations are terrible. No ability to mark movies “not interested”

Alerts when something you want to see is added to a service you subscribe to

UI could be a better

Ratings by rotten tomatoes (certified fresh?) would be nice…maybe more tracking/labeling of awards like Sundance, Oscar’s, golden globes

Better ability to sort by rating/popularity

Community ratings, discussion, etc

Maybe follow other users that share your tastes?

Thanks for any tips you can offer.

Sad to even think we might not keep him but I can’t be mad personally. He deserves to be compensated for his talent.

(Clearly Clutchpoints has a very small budget for photoshop)

Text from the article:

The San Francisco 49ers have questions at quarterback. That uncertainty became evident this past season when San Francisco dealt with multiple QB injuries. Brock Purdy stepped in and kept the 49ers afloat though. 49ers legendary quarterback Steve Young recently dropped an intriguing take on Purdy, per Jack Hammer of 49ers.pressdemocrat.com.

“There’s a processing, I call it ‘the force’, it’s like a Star Wars analogy,” Young said. “It’s something you can’t describe. It’s just someone has ‘the force.’ And I think quarterbacking is so much that way. When I see someone who has the force, I don’t know how to tell you all the intricacies of what makes that, but you can just tell. Brock had it so thick. It’s like Luke Skywalker.

“Right away, he wasn’t the biggest guy, he’s not the fast guy, he’s not the strongest arm, but he’s got the force. Maybe as strong as anyone who’s playing.”

Young's take about the young 49ers quarterback is interesting. It appears as if he's trying to say that although Purdy may not be the biggest or fastest guy on the field, he finds a way to get the job done. Referring to “the force” in this situation will still leave some fans with questions.

49ers' QB situation heading into 2023

The 49ers will need to make a decision at QB at some point. San Francisco added Sam Darnold to the roster, but either Trey Lance or Brock Purdy will likely be the QB of the future. Darnold is a reliable depth piece, however.

Lance was expected to be the option at quarterback for years to come heading into 2022. He went down with an early-season injury though. After Jimmy Garoppolo also suffered an injury, Purdy took over and didn't look back. His performance has given the 49ers something to consider. That said, Lance still deserves a shot since he did not get to truly showcase his ability.

49ers fans will be sure to closely follow the team's situation at QB all season long.

I've been loving Lemmy and mastodon and feel they are coming along as good replacements for Reddit and Twitter. Outside the fediverse, I occasionally enjoy posting dumb little video shorts and I put them on TikTok, Facebook and Insta because I have friends, family and followers on each. (TikTok, Gen-Z, my daughter...Facebook, Gen-X, my wife...Insta, millennials, my younger sister). I don't browse them heavily myself, but it helps me stay connected and it's fun when something you make goes micro-viral occasionally.

I'd love to get more into the habit of sharing on the feddiverse and someday get rid of those others altogether (pipe dream)...so today I had dumb 22 second video of a rabbit, chipmunk and birds all around my birdfeeder. From my iPhone it's a 40 MB mov file. I put it up on TikTok, Facebook and Insta very easily. Figured I'd put it on...mastodon I guess, and start that habit?

Whelp, mastodon allows videos of that sizes but failed to process it 3 times. Next idea...might as well just sign up for pixelfed and use that to put it on mastodon, then use it as an Instagram replacement... I sign up and pixelfed doesn't accept the .mov video format...and I believe there is a file size limit of 15MB as well. I don't want to have to resize and reformat every video to post.

I could use YouTube or a YouTube alternative (peertube), but I hate the fact that regular video services are trying to make short vertical videos happen on them to compete with TikTok. I hate seeing TikTok style stuff on YouTube and Facebook...it's crappy and out of place. The epitome of enshittification.

Any tips or ideas? As far as fediverse platforms, I am committed to using and growing Lemmy and mastodon and I think I need to consider a 3rd service that is better for video/photos, whether it's pixelfed, peertube or something else...but at this point I got kind of stuck when I got frustrated with pixelfed and I'm not sure what to try next. I'd prefer not to have to resize and reformat a video just to share it...every time. And I'd prefer not to join something (another one I haven't heard of) that may not be successful. pixelfed seems like it's really exploding...that's why I figured that would be good.

Advice?