Another month passes through
Nov. 1st, 2023 12:10 amLet us begin with How to Get On's guides to living a great, disabled life, which may have come back around to being relevant again as more and more people continue to suffer long-term consequences of novel situations.
From there, we head to the concept of executive function theft, where one entity offloads things they consider unimportant onto some other entity they consider unimportant, freeing up their own time at the expense of loading someone else down with having to do more, and expend more of their own executive function to deal with the increased workload that has been thrust upon them. The most common example of this is the belief of some privileged men that their spouses have to take on all of the housework and child-rearing tasks so the man can Think Big Thoughts and work toward getting himself promoted and chasing his dreams. He thieves his spouse's executive function so that he can do what he considers more important, rather than participating in the work of maintaining the partnership. (You can see certain men who want to "return" to an era where women have no independence practically salivate at the thought of being able to steal all of their wife's executive function without ever having to feel bad about it or give any of it back to her.)
Beyond that, we have a return of You feel like shit, an interactive self-care guide written in Twine, and resources from the Free Mindfulness Project, in case they might be useful to you or someone else.
At 81 years of age, Richard Roundtree, most famously known for his role as John Shaft in the Shaft! series of movies, has died. He was also an advocate for getting yourself checked out for breast cancer, since he'd gotten it. (And played a role in Roots.) If you've ever enjoyed a post-1971 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie, you can thank him, as the success of Shaft! made $12 million USD off of a $500,000 USD budget.
Matthew Perry, a man who struggled with a drug addiction and used a lot of his fame and proceeds from the acting he did to help others with their drug addictions, died of an apparent accidental drowning at 54 years of age. He gathered a lot of fans and fame for one specific role, but he did a lot of work trying to avoid being a one-hit wonder for that.
A reminder that while Dreamwidth has no inherent scheduled-posting features, you can take advantage of post-by-e-mail and your e-mail provider's ability to delay sending messages to schedule posts to Dreamwidth.
The Republican Party elected a new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, from Louisiana, someone with a relatively low profile in the House, but who is far more of a true believer about Christofascism than the nominal leader of the party. So I'm sure he would have loved to have been Speaker while Mike Pence was in charge of the Senate. They could have accomplished so much in the way of imposing theocracy on the rest of us together. Expect quite a bit of messaging and not a lot of work.
( And off we go into another entry )
Last out for tonight, I got to do one of my favorite rituals of 31 October - sit at the door, admire the costumes, and distribute the sweets and stickers. The numbers were up significantly from last year, which is good, even if I'm a bit concerned about it all, the groups that game were all pretty well groups that came, so hopefully they're not trying to pass anything amongst each other or to anyone else, for that matter. For those who are turning the wheel of their year over, I hope your rituals go off without a hitch and they always land at least in the vicinity of your aims.
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From there, we head to the concept of executive function theft, where one entity offloads things they consider unimportant onto some other entity they consider unimportant, freeing up their own time at the expense of loading someone else down with having to do more, and expend more of their own executive function to deal with the increased workload that has been thrust upon them. The most common example of this is the belief of some privileged men that their spouses have to take on all of the housework and child-rearing tasks so the man can Think Big Thoughts and work toward getting himself promoted and chasing his dreams. He thieves his spouse's executive function so that he can do what he considers more important, rather than participating in the work of maintaining the partnership. (You can see certain men who want to "return" to an era where women have no independence practically salivate at the thought of being able to steal all of their wife's executive function without ever having to feel bad about it or give any of it back to her.)
Beyond that, we have a return of You feel like shit, an interactive self-care guide written in Twine, and resources from the Free Mindfulness Project, in case they might be useful to you or someone else.
At 81 years of age, Richard Roundtree, most famously known for his role as John Shaft in the Shaft! series of movies, has died. He was also an advocate for getting yourself checked out for breast cancer, since he'd gotten it. (And played a role in Roots.) If you've ever enjoyed a post-1971 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie, you can thank him, as the success of Shaft! made $12 million USD off of a $500,000 USD budget.
Matthew Perry, a man who struggled with a drug addiction and used a lot of his fame and proceeds from the acting he did to help others with their drug addictions, died of an apparent accidental drowning at 54 years of age. He gathered a lot of fans and fame for one specific role, but he did a lot of work trying to avoid being a one-hit wonder for that.
A reminder that while Dreamwidth has no inherent scheduled-posting features, you can take advantage of post-by-e-mail and your e-mail provider's ability to delay sending messages to schedule posts to Dreamwidth.
The Republican Party elected a new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, from Louisiana, someone with a relatively low profile in the House, but who is far more of a true believer about Christofascism than the nominal leader of the party. So I'm sure he would have loved to have been Speaker while Mike Pence was in charge of the Senate. They could have accomplished so much in the way of imposing theocracy on the rest of us together. Expect quite a bit of messaging and not a lot of work.
( And off we go into another entry )
Last out for tonight, I got to do one of my favorite rituals of 31 October - sit at the door, admire the costumes, and distribute the sweets and stickers. The numbers were up significantly from last year, which is good, even if I'm a bit concerned about it all, the groups that game were all pretty well groups that came, so hopefully they're not trying to pass anything amongst each other or to anyone else, for that matter. For those who are turning the wheel of their year over, I hope your rituals go off without a hitch and they always land at least in the vicinity of your aims.
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