JackiesFridge

This is why I joined a track-a-week music challenge this year! I've been dabbling for 5 years and still have no idea what I'm doing musically (no theory or anything) but I figured cranking out a finished song every week throughout 2024 would force me to get better and it's really working!

I mean, I'm still cranking out garbage, but now it's higher quality garbage and I can make decisions faster, let go of ideas that aren't working without a second thought, and learn from other people taking the challenge.

As far as art goes, I've been drawing live caricatures for 15 years and I'm WAY better than even a few years ago. Definitely stick with it. Be too stubborn to give up. Keep doing the thing. Skill will develop the more you persevere.

Safer to DIY

So many STDs tho

"Boosting their numbers" in the single biggest election doesn't make them a viable party. Third party candidates got an average of 5% of the vote in the 2016 presidential election (unless you include Utah to blow the bell curve to a whopping 7%).

Getting that party's candidates established in local governments across the nation so they gain a following, experience, and momentum is what does make them viable. It's not easy, but it's the only way. Zero people care who didn't win the presidential election or why - it's winner take all. No message is received.

Imposter syndrome

Yuuuup. We had to babysit literally the Bestest Boi. Seriously the coolest and most well-behaved, well-trained, low maintenance dog who ever dogged. And I loved him. But I was SO GLAD when he went home.

I can't do the clinginess. I'm just getting up to grab a pen, please don't wake up, follow me across the house, and then follow me back. Don't stare at me when I eat. What are you loudly licking over there? How come you smell, you JUST had a bath. You KNOW you're not supposed to climb on the couch, and climbing on top of me doesn't negate that. Why are you so clumsy?? All of it.

I would pet him and then count the seconds until I could get up and wash my hands. And this was a dog I genuinely loved and would have adopted in a heartbeat if he was a cat.

I like dogs. I am 100% not a dog person.

The Birthday Massacre are so gooood

World's smallest cello

Not voting for them only "sends the message" that you are not their constituents, not engaged, and/or comfortable with the status quo. If you are not engaging, you literally have no say.

And all voting is of course conditional. If you help get them in office, you have more clout when you call their office and say "I knocked on doors and volunteered and worked to get you in office so you could convince Congress to stop funding genocide. Now get moving." If they don't, THEN vote them out.

Speaking of which, the president's hands are tied by decades of deals, agreements and other (largely misled) laws passed by Congress to support "our ally" Israel. It's a stupid, massive tangle that can't be easily undone, and Congress is not interested in changing anything because it'll make Jesus cry or something. We need better representatives AND a more progressive president before anything will move.

And finally I do agree with you - coming out and actually saying "hey I don't support genocide" is the bare minimum she can do and it's frustrating that she's not.

I am with you on every one of these points. The image selection process is terrible now, where before it was quick & simple. And in the past couple of updates, sending larger images and gifs was sporadic until now I always get an error. I was happy when they added message reactions, then puzzled when they just stopped at six, half of which are rarely useful.

I've been a paid user for years, but now I'm causally shopping for something else. If they're giving up on their app, so am I.

Apologies. "Straw bugaboos."

Kind of a fire hazard to have that many straw men in one place.