im so tired, headache wont leave, panic attacks like 3 days in a row, not good. i want to cancel plans but i shouldn't.
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I still don't have power, so I spent a lot of time at this cafe that is open late just to ensure that I have a full battery. I stayed there until they closed.
As utterly fucking frustrating as this is, it seems as if Tuesday/tomorrow is the latest I can expect to have power. So many houses around me already seem to have it.
I might be able to actually sleep with ease again as my room won't be disgustingly hot anymore. I could complain about it for ages, and I could get a lot more vulgar too, especially considering the whole fucked up context of the American government being more invested in putting in billions to fund fascist operations in Isn'trael and UKKKraine instead of providing relief to their own citizens that just endured the wrath of a very rough, cheek-clapping hurricane.
Ay, ay, ay...
How are you all doing?
Yeah, get some rest, tovarsh 
reading war of the flea and I reached the part about isr*el, cognitive dissonance
nine sols is such a good game but the ppl around it saying it’s based on taiwanese mythology are so annoying lol. no, it’s chinese mythology that han chinese people brought over, not indigenous Taiwanese mythology from any of the indigenous Taiwanese peoples. it’s literally just mainland Chinese mythology and people are insistently calling it “Taiwanese”. that’s erasing indigenous Taiwanese people and also just plain wrong.
"Taiwanese", huh from that rogue province?
"Taiwanese" to me, strikes me as a broad term for provincial self-identification in Taiwan
Could refer to waishengren (usually pro-unity), benshengren (usually it's separatist proponents) or indigenous people (yuanzhumin)?
going out to touch grass today gonna be... hard, physically and emotionally. also... theres minor drama in the org nothing that cant be overcome by people sitting down and actully listening and... ok maybe learning Spanish. i gotta learn spanish so fucking bad, we cannot keep relying on our 2 Spanish speakers the way we have been its not fair.
best of luck learning spanish, it's such a beautiful language and i love the r trill
i liked using duolingo for a bit of spanish, in conjunction with latin. it's so cool i can kinda guess at the history of a word and not be too off.
e.g. guessed virile came from vir cuz of werewolf (literally man-wolf) and middle/old english had wifman (literally woman) and cuz i learned of the phrase vir letterarum (man of letters) and was suspicious of 'vir' being a masc coded term but yeah it seems to be. did a cursory search of notable women thinkers but they seemed to have special titles instead of the term 'man of letters'
I love my people to the core but I hate when Black folk use Malcom X, W.E.B. Dubois, or lite Pan-Africanism as inspiration and aren't even at least a socialist. Like what are you even doing?
So sorry you're going through this Angel, hope the power comes back on for you soon.
Well, I'm busy being disabled I guess. I'm pondering whether or not I can go to my school's communist theory meeting today or if I'm still too crashed out to do anything.
In tiktok i saw a drama from dragon's den that was about some 
s trying to sell gentrified bobba tea saying all others were unhealthy or had unknown stuff in them.
Crakkkers love to steal stuff and then say the original is bad
at least they didn't bring up MSG right
I SAW THAT!! when they did the opening pitch they said that boba was sugary and we "dont know whats in it" like.. so so openly racist. ans the fact that the black guy and the indian women (her the most) WERE GOING TO BAT FOR THESE CLOWNS SAYING SHIT LIKE "not everything has to be traditional" FUCK OFF FOREVER. simu lui did a pretty great job in that moment i gotta say.. (hes sooooooo cute hes soooooo cute i can fix him hes soooooooooooooooooo cute) oh oh oh and the worst part was the online backlash becasue he said that boba was apart of his cultural heritage. and then the libs ROSE UP TO SHRIEK "YOUR CHINESE BOBA IS TAIWANESE SO YOURE THE REAL CULTURAL APPROPRIATER"
Typical shit. Best boba I’ve ever had was in Canada in a random viet mini mall food court stall, it was cheap and delicious and they gave me free ice cream too :)
I've been seeing this around too. My question is, literally what makes their tea more special than going to a shop and getting it fresh? It's literally tea, why do they act like they're inventing something new.
its only because its canned and bottled its not even the first company to do it, they implied that all other boba tea has strange and unknown contents and theirs is safe because its bottled
also they said "its not an ethnical product anymore" as a positive
They should have been laughed off the stage.
THEY GOT A MILLION DOLLARS FROM AN INDIAN WOMAN!!!! oh but some good news is that the internet bullied her into taking the money back and she make some WIERD comments proving she missed the point and complaining that people say chai tea and naan bread, like it felt like she was trying to turn this around and make it an east asian vs south asian thing, when SHE was the one getting called out for being a sell out clown.
leave it to an anglo to bust out the divide and conquer tactics as soon as they're catching some heat
You know what's funny? I partially become more aware of this issue because a former coworker commented on the story, on LinkedIn nonetheless, saying something along the lines of free speech, first ammendment, and he eats at chipotle and is Mexican. A completely obtuse and reactionary response. But I guess every minority group has them so what can you do.
Wtf
I hope you get power soon angel
I hope you find some power!