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"Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today."

"My guitar, I sing of thee 'Tis with thee that I decoy And ensnare enchantingly the ladies I enjoy."

"When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful."

~ Pierre de Ronsard

fairyniamh

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"Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart."

"Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be."

~ Jean Vanier

olivermoss

It's happened a few times recently that someone has been all, 'oh I've heard of a great thing for you, there are all these new Sapphic Singles events here in Portland.'

When I say that's not for me I get hit with 'Oh, don't worry, they're inclusive.' I need to find a way to respond to that in a way that's polite, but also makes it very clear that no, it's not for me, please trust that I know what the fuck I am talking about.

There are a few problems with telling me I should go because they are inclusive. Ideally, everyone who has said this to me should have to deal with my giving them a half hour power point on why, but that doesn't work in reality.

( And here is the info that would be in that powerpoint )

fairyniamh

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"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

"If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life."

~ Leo Tolstoy

mific

We're in September now, and in the past week the sun's been hotter on the rare sunny days, a taste of summer (when it'll rapidly get to be too much!) Everything is growing and getting lush, and I need to call the guy who cut back the giant tithonia (Mexican sunflower) and the privets, last year, for a repeat trimming. Anyway, some pics!


ipheion (starflower) and a primrose	broad beans and general lushness

coriander, primroses, pansies	a bulb tub: oddly short purple tulips

daffodils and tulips starting	snowflakes, pansies

garden table: ipheion, primrose, mandevilla	primroses still going strong

crimson-flowered broad beans	peas, densely tendrilled, hopefully their max. height.

spuds are getting very lush

view from my garage/potting shed. Privets definitely need cutting back to fence level.

fairyniamh

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"If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth."

"This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!"

~ Sivananda

olivermoss

(Or, yes I do do other things than yell about AI and why the fuck don't most people find this shit unacceptable)

I still have a few crows to find, but now I've also got 20 Sasquatches to run down:

One down! And yes, I did grab a slice of pumpkin break before taking off. Didn't wind up eating it until I got home, tho.

olivermoss

AI stole unpublished work to solve a math problem first. Or AI spent 22mill to steal 1mill

They will do this to writing, too. This is why I don't use google docs. Google used gmail for training. You think they aren't going to shift your drafts, especially if you are a published author? The new Gamer's Nexus investigation involves smart TVs recording convos, and they aren't really focusing on it as an AI training scoop but that is one thing LG is selling the data scoops as. This is a very long video, but the bit that's relevant to this convo is LG saying in investor decks 'we own the glass, so we own the room' about how they are entitled to all data in rooms with their TVs, and mikes picked up stuff 70 feet away.

Why the fuck do consumers put up with this shit? I mean, we all make privacy compromises to exist in the modern world, but some are just like 'what the actual fuck?'

I wish the math problem story yesterday, so I could rant about how AI in labor theft on labor day. Actually, I didn't need that story, I just should have yelled about it

olivermoss

Since I moved to Portland, I've seen people excited to visit in all to go to a small town NW of Portland, where Halloweentown was filmed. I've never seen it and sort of tuned out all the fuss, mostly. A Halloween themed town sounds fun, but I've always heard the events were very much geared for nostalgia for this film specifically.

I finally watched it, and it only clicked with me at the very end when I saw some logos pop up why some people are so into it. It was a Disney Channel / Disney family thing. And, yeah, the whole production and humor are very Disney vibes.

I am still tempted by all the spooky vendors and stuff, but there is no shuttle or bus service, so it's both a parking nightmare and hard to get to without a car. Apparently, it's a hack to book the river cruise so you can use their lot to park in. I was thinking of taking a peek at it this year because I have other reasons I went to get out to St Helens, but it's probably not do-able. With the state of transportation, my plan to get out there was to uber out and just walk back. You can get cars to there, but chances of getting one back are slim to none.

On a map it's like right there but it's still complicated to get to

olivermoss

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So that's a thing that maybe, maybe not happened

fairyniamh

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"Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love."

"Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself."

"When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease."

~ Elizabeth I