Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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Cuddle Party

Everyone needs contact comfort sometimes. Not everyone has ample opportunities for this in facetime. So here is a chance for a cuddle party in cyberspace. Virtual cuddling can help people feel better.

We have a cuddle room that comes with fort cushions, fort frames, sheets for draping, and a weighted blanket. A nest full of colorful egg pillows sits in one corner. There is a basket of grooming brushes, hairbrushes, and styling combs. A bin holds textured pillows. There is a big basket of craft supplies along with art markers, coloring pages, and blank paper. The kitchen has a popcorn machine. Labels are available to mark dietary needs, recipe ingredients, and level of spiciness. Here is the bathroom, open to everyone. There is a lawn tent and an outdoor hot tub. Bathers should post a sign for nude or clothed activity. Come snuggle up!

Hoppy Easter!  Decorate some eggs.  Or enjoy some colorful natural eggs (raw or hard-boiled).  Check out these recipes for eggs, chicken, duck, lamb, and spring vegetables.
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  • 5 comments
elenbarathi

elenbarathi

March 13 2019, 20:14:42 UTC 2 years ago

Heya, did you hear about this? An Illinois bill leans into the most contentious part of the Green New Deal
ysabetwordsmith

Well ...

ysabetwordsmith

March 13 2019, 22:34:33 UTC 2 years ago

While I favor green energy, I don't favor doing it 100% because I require a vehicle with minimal electronics. Machines don't like me, electronics hate me. That means if all the cars become electric, I would no longer be able to travel. Even if the government gave me an electric vehicle, which seems unlikely, they can't force it to keep running. The chance of it not running with me inside is high. The chance of an electric vehicle malfunctioning in my general vicinity is also substantial, creating a road hazard from and for other neighboring vehicles.
elenbarathi

Re: Well ...

elenbarathi

March 13 2019, 23:02:43 UTC 2 years ago

If your household appliances, computer, cell phone and car are all functioning, there is no logical reason to think an all-electric vehicle would not function just as well. The car or truck you already have has a computer-chip 'brain' run by electricity, exactly the same as the 'brain' of an all-electric car would be. The motor of an all-electric car is run by electricity the same as the motors of your refrigerator, freezer, washer and dryer, hot water heater, heat pump and well pump (if you have those) - all of which have computer chips in, if they were built this century. If you're able to live in a modern house, you'd be able to travel just fine in an electric car or train.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Well ...

ysabetwordsmith

March 13 2019, 23:25:04 UTC 2 years ago

I will spare you the laundry list of things that go wrong with electronics around me, and just give a few examples:

I kill cordless mice in 2 weeks. The cord is necessary to protect the signal.

I make timepieces go haywire just by being in the same room with them. One time I walked in and a few minutes later none of the three were showing the same time anymore.

To some extent I can, and a few other people can, adapt personal equipment such that it survives my field. This extent is not sufficient that I wish to stake my life on it, nor anyone else's. I have seen things fail around me far too often for that, frequently in ways that leave normal people wailing "But that can't happen!" With me it can. If I want to get by, I have to account for the way the world is around me, not the way it is for other people.
elenbarathi

Re: Well ...

elenbarathi

March 14 2019, 07:40:49 UTC 2 years ago Edited:  March 14 2019, 07:41:31 UTC

*shrugs* Cordless mice and timepieces, sure - those glitch out for a lot of people, and not always those who identify as fae or otherwise 'other'. I've never had a cordless mouse keep working - mine has a cord - and my history with watches has not been successful either. They are fragile devices, easily disrupted by a lot of perfectly ordinary factors.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs." In a lifetime in the esoteric community, I have seen an extraordinary number of people who believed all sorts of extraordinary things about themselves, with few or no proofs to back them up. Not that anybody has to prove anything to me, of course - even if that were possible over the Internet, which it surely is not - but you will forgive me for saying that in the absence of any such proofs, my inclination is to take all extraordinary claims with a grain of salt.

One of the books I used to assign to my Initiates in their first year of training was How To Think About Weird Things. if magick is founded in truth, it will withstand the tests of critical thinking, and if not, then not.