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Why do I have a day job again? I swear, the weather has been gorgeous every day this week. It's Saturday so of course it's gloomy. On the (relatively) bright side, it hasn't actually rained much since this morning, buuuuut it's looking pretty threatening still.

In spite of which, I walked into town today. Dropped off some pairs of Mr Diane's pants for mending at the quilt & alterations shop; totally forgot that she carries embroidery floss, AND that I need some more of a few shades. Back on that bright side again, I am the world's slowest stitcher so I can hold out for a while; but also, sigh.

I then found myself watching the Bennington Pride parade go by. I saw a sign that said "Pride is important because someone still thinks it's better to be dead than to be gay" and I started crying. A stranger from the parade came over and asked if I was okay. They gave me a hug and a flag. It was heartening to see so many people walking in the parade, and so heartbreaking thinking about everything going on in the world.

And now, stitching and tea and thinking about lunch. And wondering if I can somehow make a post-it big enough that I WILL ACTUALLY SEE IT AND PARSE IT that will say "Buy some DMC 517, 518, and 519 when you pick up the mending!!" Any bets?

dianec42

Working on another PigeonCoop design from the book Cross Stitch In The Forest - Upon A Star

Cross stitch work in progress - some trees so far

vvalkyri

John Tester on the Senate markup of the Reconciliation that includes selling 3 million acres of public lands. Except Montana, to get Zinke vote. That's around the size of Connecticut. And recreational and hunting use of public lands is a huge economic driver especially for small business.
Are you in an outdoorsy social media group? Make sure they know about this.
(I am listening to it oon1.8 speed, and it's about as fast as I usually talk if I'm a little excited.)

https://www.youtube.com/live/-Z24G0kcpIY

Trying to rush myself out up to MayDay so that I've gone somewhere before working on the apartment today. Eric Swalwell was fire and funny: https://www.youtube.com/live/KkenuPMgAbA

There's a lot to worry about today, and part of why I failed to go to bed last night is probably that. Trying to tell people to have situational awareness and I'm worried that what with a number of states calling up guard or emergency things will be far more tense with police than in the last several months.

And then there's the horrific news out of minnesota.

Got to get in the shower.

vvalkyri

There's over 2,000 listed NoKings.org events for the 14th, everywhere except dc. *

Which is amazeballs. It's actually closer to 2200.

Bad enough that the right wing crazies have finally gotten around to noticing there's a distributed protest movement and are acting threatening.

But I'm also seeing a number of states that have activated guard or emergency

And I'm seeing how a couple nights ago a bunch of people got arrested because they were prevented from leaving an area until after curfew.

And so the distributive protest movements have been absolutely remarkably unspicy.

I'm worried that's about to change. Maintain situational awareness and maybe do more of that protest prep than we have had any need for so far.
AltNPS essay on how did it escalate so fast

Meanwhile, also, I'm feeling really guilty for not going out to MayDay tonight since I've managed to stay up till nearly 4 for no apparent reason. And I haven't gotten much at all useful done on the apartment ahead of maintenance. Might still manage to get out to some of DC Joy day, which free DC put together deliberately to be somewhere far away from the parade.

* This is what 50501dc is doing: https://50501dc.com/event/louder-than-lies/

rmd

Here's a random and utterly incomplete list of some queer movies where there's a happy ending. Sometimes after lots of violence, sometimes after doomful awkwardness, and sometimes just happy.

Pride (based on a true story)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pride_(2014_film)
(Paramount+, Kanopy)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Priscilla,_Queen_of_the_Desert
(Amazon Prime, Peacock)
30 years after the movie, folks managed to track down the actual bus used in filming:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/11/the-30-year-hunt-to-find-the-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-bus-my-jaw-was-on-the-ground

But I'm a Cheerleader
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/But_I%27m_a_Cheerleader
(Paramount+)

Everything Everywhere All At Once
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once
(availble for digital rental etc, possibly not included on any streaming service's subscription at the moment)

The Kids Are All Right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Are_All_Right_(film)
(availble for digital rental etc, possibly not included on any streaming service's subscription at the moment)

Bound (The Wachowskis first directing credit, before The Matrix. Content note: the film earns its R rating with sexual content but also with some very intense moments of violence.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bound_(1996_film)
(Paramount+, Kanopy)

The Birdcage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birdcage
(Amazon Prime, Peacock)

Happiest Season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiest_Season
(Hulu)

Desert Hearts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Hearts
(Max, Criterion)

Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibly_True_Adventure_of_Two_Girls_in_Love
(Netflix, Kanopy)

Go Fish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Fish_(film)
(Amazon Prime, Kanopy)

Here's some queer movies I haven't seen that I keep meaning to check out that I think are probably in the same category or at least aren't too doomful, maybe?
Ammonite
Booksmart
Bottoms
Bros
Carol
D.E.B.S.
Fire Island
Love Lies Bleeding
Moonlight
My Own Private Idaho
Nyad
Power of the Dog
Red, White, and Royal Blue
Rustin
Saving Face
TransAmerica
Will & Harper

cz_unit

Was going to write a post about what is happening, but eh, I don't know if anyone cares anymore so I'll just put it in my diary.

Maybe no one will care about that either in time. Hm.

gingicat

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dianec42

As it was written in the spreadsheets, so it has come to pass.

New project: Upon A Star by PigeonCoop Designs from the book Cross Stitch In The Forest.

Have I learned my lesson about dark Aida, many similar shades of one colour, and fractional stitches? No. Have I learned to check HOW MUCH of each shade I'll need when using threads from my stash? Also no.

Floss toss to confirm I still like the colors:

Colors of thread against the fabric for Upon A Star cross stitch project

The first few stitches.

First project to clear off the backlog: 1960s mod lady for the cover of my sewing notebook. There will be text "Sewing Notes" vertically in the blank area on the right. I did the French knots for the eyes a while ago and they have gone horribly wrong - the knots have both pulled through to the back! Lesson learned, don't do french knots as part of a tour of traveling backstitch. I am just going to do new knots over the top of them.

Cross stitch work in progress of a 1960s mod lady

Bonus, I found the missing small Permin kit tucked away in the folder with the mod fashion lady! I guess this was my emergency backup stitching when we moved. Way to go, Past Diane! You put it in a safe place all right.

Cross stitch kit of an outdoor scene in shades of green

Current Mood: blah

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vvalkyri

I haven't read any dreamwidth for a little bit, but over on Facebook I think there's only one non-jewish person I've seen say anything about the fire attack in Boulder on mostly elderly people walking in solidarity with hamas's hostages.

I don't have time to write it right now but I definitely want to write more.

This one's about right: gift link:nytimes - Jews Are Afraid Right Now

And this one is every time I read it a slight bit more infuriating, because it came out in an email blast from new republic, and barely manages to accept that nobody deserves to be hit with a flamethrower, but instead spends all its time on why the act was the opposite of politically useful, as well as a bunch of time on what awful Netanyahu is doing. Violence against Jews is tragic and undermines the Palestinian cause

Readers may remember an essay back in 2021,
Dear American progressives your Jewish friends are terrified by your silence, in which the author knows how so much of the time it seems especially in progressive spaces any attack on Jews is met with discussion of the Middle East.

Anyway, I'm out of time and finding that last reminds me I need to figure out an alternative for pocket.

vvalkyri

Veterans Rally today at 2EDT on the Mall near Air and Space, so nearest Metros are L'enfant and Archives. It's also live streamed Unite4Veterans.org, and they've got the Dropkick Murphys.

Later today a vigil at WWII. Stuff with Cliff Cash the rest of the weekend, like at FOX 'news' and Heritage. And Non-cooperation training with FreeDC tomorrow.

Later this evening, I just noticed there's celebrating nonmonagamy with World Pride. I think I'm pretty much missing world pride?

Tomorrow, the World Pride parade. 50501 is walking in it. Acro at Franklin Park to watch the parade. I'm sure all sorts of really cool stuff in the evening.

Sunday, some sort of Pride March to the Lincoln.

Here, we will go to Food Bank in an hour ish, not sure for the evening. There's a kink place if you wanted to drive like over an hour and have sweetie be bored and I'm not exactly sure what I was supposed to do.

Tomorrow and Sunday nights I'll be mostly on my own because EverQuest. I do know a couple people in the city, but I think both of them are busy sunday. And borrowing a car I've only driven across town to drive well over an hour feels weird anyway.

We've watched a few episodes of The Last of Us. Last night we watched Constantine.

Wednesday evening into yesterday was very very nice.

There's been a lot of very very nice. Including shower time.

I attended a webinar by one of the people whose research gets us that 3.5% figure for how much of the population on resisting authoritarianism. Just got the recording and additional resources. I feel vindicated in my insistence for the last however many years that divesting oneself of anyone the other side of Center is incredibly unhelpful and one should only do for one's own sanity. Because you need to build Bridges and connections on values.

It's Moon time so there's only so much seducing I'm trying this morning anyway. We will have the house to ourselves for at least part of tomorrow, tomorrow morning at least. Need to figure out what's manageable.

Running out of time. Need to get some coffee into me.

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Yet another rainy Saturday

WIP Upon A Star

On Senate markup selling public lands

Shit's getting real

HEY THAT MOVIE IS TOTALLY GAY

My life was spent in support of Science and Reason. Interesting to watch it fall apart.

Fundraising via crosswords

Meanwhile in cross stitch land

Waxing moon on the 6th of June...

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So much DCish...

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