Found a way to keep people on the Internet from mispronouncing my name:
Mara, as in Umara Entangler. #mtg #mtgogw #phonetics
(Cont) OH! If you've got a fan on while you sleep, try not to have it pointing at your face. When your body is struggling to cool down, everything's a bit less effective. Irritation (such as from a cold breeze) of the CN7 facial nerve can cause Bell's Palsy, which is NO FUN (I speak from experience). This is why a lot of people who get Bell's Palsy are those who ride in convertibles with the top down.
Point the fan at your feet, try to keep your face free from having extended breezes upon it.
(Cont) If you can, take a brief cold shower every few hours and really focus on those 'hot' zones to cool them down.
There have been days where I've had to spend two hours in a cold bath with a book to keep cool enough to not get a migraine. Drought & water restrictions here mean baths are out of the question now so I've had to ramp up all the other things.
Ooh, also, suck on ice cubes. :)
I hear there's a bit of a heatwave in the UK right now. As someone from the UK who's been living in South Africa for almost a decade, some things I do to deal with the heat:
* Feet in a bowl of cold water
* Ice pack wrapped in a damp tea towel (especially good under your feet in bed at night)
* Damp tea towel around neck
* Spray bottle to spritz self with water
Keep your 'hot' zones cool; armpits, under boobs, crotch, back of knees. Having cool feet and neck helps immensely too.
It's been my observation that people tend to express affection in a way that they most need it themselves.
Some people are very touch oriented, and express affection through touches and being close, others might give give praise and positive encouragement. There are, of course, a myriad of ways to express affection.
Observe how the people in your life express affection, if you can express it back in kind it might just make their day. 😄
Testing out Pinafore.social to see if it takes up less system resources then the default client.
Really needs a better way to switch between instances, that doesn't involve me going to the settings menu. Possibly a row of buttons at the top-right, which is empty right now?
#Pokemon Art Challenge #581: Swanna, the White Bird Pokemon
Is it just me, or did someone at the Pokemon Company really misunderstand the story of the Ugly Duckling?
http://dialmformara.tumblr.com/post/175444030148/pokemon-art-challenge-581-swanna-the-white-bird
ugh 4th of july nightmares !! fireworks and patriotism give me terrible anxiety attacks 😖
I made a very simple corpus-driven chatbot that replies to you with the line of text from the corpus that comes after/is in response to the line of text most similar to what you just typed. here's a sample interaction where the database is built from the Cornell Movie Dialogs corpus... (my typing in green, bot response in blue; I typed the first turn and it alternates after that)
Some bi pride bracelets ready to leave. You are important and valid in the lgbt community, no matter the gender of your partner(s).
@DialMforMara
Lascivious still has some of that connotation in my mind, but less of it. And I'm not sure what other word is better, but definitely open to suggestions!
@zigg
The part of me that loves the alt-text jokes in web comics like xkcd and GWS is at war with the part of me that knows it's a practice that prevents accessibility.
Set aside time for a hobby. Gardening, drone building, knitting, do something for the pure pleasure of it.
i have a TON of toys from when i was a kid. i was the youngest in my extended family so i was kinda spoiled and also got every hand me down from my cousins. they're in good shape- i took very good care of them. i've been trying to donate them to groups that work with kids, but unfortunately most in my area won't accept used toys.
so fediverse. want some toys? for the kid in your life or for you! i'll send them for just the cost of postage, or for free if you're cash-strapped (& in the US).
#Pride Month is over, but I want to leave y'all with one thought about visibility.
When I was young, I didn't know what #bisexual meant—thought I was a broken straight.
I want people to see me and know that being bi+ doesn't have a damn thing to do with your ability to love as you will, including the possibility of being in an awesome relationship like the one I've had for over twenty years.
I want some young bisexual to know that and not beat themselves up for decades. I want them to love themselves. ❤️
My Canada Eve was surreal. My partner and his parents and I went to an outdoor show which turned out to be a pentalingual enviro-horror opera that gave me Ferngully flashbacks. I had to leave early and sit out with my partner
At least the admission fee goes to cleaning up the postindustrial wasteland the show was performed on (collab between the city and the local First Nation), and one of the languages was the Coast Salish one I helped write a dictionary for
Je souhaite un joyeux jour de Canada à tous mes amis canadien(ne)s et je leur souhaite des relations pacifique avec les gens des Premières Nations et aussi les réparations pour les derniers.
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Here's wishing my Canadian friends a happy Canada Day and here's hoping they can move forward with peace and reparations for the First Nations people.
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OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR pronouns!
