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I got to see her perform a few times when I lived in Chicago. This is a great loss and she will be missed.

Tom Hiddleston attends The Olivier Awards at The Royal Albert Hall on April 06, 2025

This is how it was for me too. I sacrificed my family, health and personal life for years. Then COVID hit and I found out that the company did not prioritize me in the same way that I did them. I crafted my exit plan then and was retired within a few years.

It took me most of a year to relieve my body of the work stress and loosen my joints that were in a permanent state of hunched over a computer.

Now in my second year of retirement, I have started going to the gym and taking classes. There was never time for that before. There was always a crisis.

JONATHAN BAILEY as FIYERO in WICKED (2024)

I am XXY.

So demoralizing.

“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year

Self portrait by Norwegian painter, Adolph Tidemand [1814–1876]

Portrait of David Lyon painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence, circa 1825. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Spain.

Bukovac Vlaho - Portrait of Dr Stjepan Miletic - Czech Republic and Slovakia School - 19th Century

Bradbury & Bradbury

Cecilia Beaux - Man With The Cat Portrait Of Henry Sturgis Drinker 1898

I get these in the form of ocular migraines usually a while after some strenuous activity. They are not usually accompanied with a headache, though sometimes a real whopper of a migraine follows.

Person with migraine aura today: Ow ow ow my head hurts and all I can see is TV static :(

Nineteenth century doctors describing migraine aura with the manic horror of a lovecraftian horror protagonist:

At first it looked just like the spot which you see after having looked at the sun or some bright object; I thought it might be an eyelash in the way, or something of that sort, but I was soon undeceived when it began to increase…

When it was in its height it seemed like a fortified town with bastions all round it, these bastions being coloured most gorgeously... All the interior of the fortification, so to speak, was boiling and rolling about in a most wonderful manner as if it was some thick liquid all alive. (Hubert Airy, 1856)

TILDA SWINTON Tim Walker ph. for W magazine (2023)

'Rose and Lily' (1893) textile length by Morris and Co

Wool and silk twill.

Image and text information courtesy LACMA.

Green, 1951, Ellsworth Kelly

https://www.wikiart.org/en/ellsworth-kelly/green-1951

I have this one in blue. Bought it new and it still works. Recently came across it and put it in my gym bag and now use it all the time again. Simple and easy to use

This sums up my mental state perfectly.

My desire to stay informed on the current state of American politics because I live here vs. my desire to remain mentally stable for longer than five minutes: Unstoppable force vs. immovable object

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande singing “Defying Gravity” together at the Oscars

Sometimes we must blur the world to endure it.

Rex Whistler, self portrait 1934.

William Morris Textiles circa 1880

Similar to Sargeant, I recognize a Boldini whenever I see one on my dash and feel the need to repost. This is the artist Whistler, or more formally James Abbott McNeill Whistler, painted by Giovanni Boldini in 1897.

I am XXY and am posting because this is so validating.

Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, uaing the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

The Ladies Alexandra, Mary, and Theo Acheson

John Singer Sargent

1902

I have been a long time supporter of Google and they are very entwined into my online existence. I realize my voice is probably of very little consequence, but this enrages me.

After writing to them to express my displeasure, I am going to start the process of disentangling myself from them. My phone is a Google Pixel, but there are things I can do. I am already using Duck Duck Go as my default browser and email address. I am investigating Proton.me as an alternative email and storage client.

I have already divested myself of Amazon (except for my Kindle), and Instagram. I have stripped all my content from Facebook as I need to use Messenger to be in contact with relatives. Now Google. It is a sad world today.

Seriously, Google? You actually changed Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Google Maps?

What the fuck?!