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adjective: industrious - diligent and hard-working.

adjective: industrial - relating to or characterized by industry.

About two weeks ago, Fort Worth housing sent me an email about applying this year. I forgot to reply with a message telling them to shove it.

Once again, I just checked the weather forecast. I want to know for how many days it's been 100 degrees or more. I have just been out here a-suffering, I see. 👀🤔

Comments are dumb as usual.

However, if she really did this...what was her problem? Some people see their spouse viewing porn as cheating in a way. If she saw things that way, then it would NOT have made her the first woman to be cheated on by a spouse who viewed porn (even if it were gay porn) recreationally. I think some people live in echo chambers or tunnels or bubbles or something that shield them from the things people do outside of what is "respectable" or "standard" or whatever values they hold dear. I say that as someone who exists in his own whimsical, fairytale world daily.

Y'all remember the crazy God Warrior woman from "Trading Spouses"?

Anywhore...I'm glad nobody checks my phone. 😆💯 Ya boy is one of the humans walking the Earth who is comfortable with his sexuality when it comes down to it. 🍆🍑 #FreakyTales Where my sexy homosexuals at? Fuck THAT!👌

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I finally looked at the weather forecast after months in the dark. I only looked at the weather once this whole summer. Why is it going to be a 100 degree high everyday for the next week? How long has it been 100 degrees everyday?

Keeping feral cats as pets is risky, I know. They could die in any number of ways or become the prey of larger animals. They can also wreak havoc on the ecosystem. However, it's nice to have that companionship for however long it lasts.

If you have something to lose, you have to be careful about putting your hands on somebody. If you don't have something to lose, then knock yourself (or somebody else) out.

I've never been a physical fighter for sport. I don't mind being levelheaded, either.

...and I've been prodded, poked, provoked, instigated, egged on so, so many times.

I placed ice in my ear the other day, because my body refused to calm down and relax despite the sun being gone and my feeling exhausted.

Well, I cooled down. However, the trade-off was my vision spinning exactly like how the simulation is presenting vertigo. My vision spinning like this was one thing, but it was accompanied by a feeling of nausea and it took it to a whole 'nother level. I thought I was on my way out of here.

It's not the first time I've experienced vertigo like that. However, I'm making note of when and how I experienced it.

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The English teacher I had in 11th grade was reading an impromptu paragraph writing assignment she asked my 12th grade classmates to write about something along the lines of what they were planning to do after school ended for the year.

She was a nurturing, soft-spoken woman. However, she caught a bit of an attitude after she read through a few papers. Still holding one of the papers, she made a snarky announcement about how she couldn't send students off to college who didn't know to do things like capitalize the first letter of the word that starts a sentence. I was shooketh, but my classmates didn't seem to take her complaining seriously. I think they may have cracked a few jokes and shrugged it off.

People who don't know simple grammar or can't do simple math, even after spending year after year in K-12, became adults in my life who derail serious discussions, try to boss people around in group settings, hog the floor in discussions, take control and more. Some of them are the people (or trolls) who I have had to argue with about facts or educated opinions on the Internet.

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Some meek and humble people--old or young--have lived lives where it's like, "Whoa! You went through that?! That's not someone in the Bible's story? Why haven't you killed somebody yet?" while other people who are more mean, entitled, conniving, backstabbing, stingy, shit-talking, arrogant, shady. etc. appear to have attained a certain material quality of life more easily. 🤔

People love telling you "no" whether you're down and out or have money, I think. However, especially when you're down and out they love to tell you "no" and that "they ain't got it" and then then later ask you why you're not "in motion" in general or in some specific area of life. We call that gaslighting in intellectual/psychology spaces.

Me in 2016: "It hurts my pride to ask, but I need a blow dryer."

People: "I don't have one or any money for one."

Also People (Ten Years Later): "I see you everyday. So, do you have a plan for life?"

Me in 2026, ten years later: "I don't plan anymore, but of course I have *had* plans, like auditioning for things. However, I need a blow dryer. Even after 9-to-5 jobs, I still haven't had money for a $20 or $30 blow dryer because I was trying to responsibly save and pay off debts...knowing that's not how people get financially stable or rich. With a blow dryer, I would be able to style my hair myself for headshots, rather than pay a hairstylist or ask them to style me for free. With the right hair style and decent headshots, I could audition professionally and with confidence."

Also People: "You haven't been able to afford a blow dryer in ten years?"

Me: "Yep."

Also Them: *Doesn't Loan Or Gift Me Even A Used Blow Dryer*

Me: *Doesn't Take Headshots Or Auditions*

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Backyard Olympics, Chicago, Photo by Art Shay, 1958

I used to stay neutral if not somehow disagree with pompous individuals, like teachers, who used to say things like most humans are mindless robots. However, a little bit more living has had me reach my conclusion about some of y'all really coming off as mindless robots...or followers who really don't have any opinions or interests of your own.

I'll see Johnny-come-lately followers of a certain pro-reparations movement that started *after* another pro-reparations movement gained traction in political conversations using talking points against the first one that the first oned used to defend itself against attacks.

...like...damn... Not only was this movement intentionally a copy of the first one, but some part of life will really have supporters of the copycat movement unaware of its shady origins arguing against the first one using the talking points the first movement used to defend itself against naysayers and detractors.

...thieves without even knowing it consciously...trolls...agents of chaos...absent-minded individuals who just act haphazardly without thinking.

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GUILLAUME

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I want this beat all to myself despite it having been shared for many people to duet.

In the early morning hours of August 10, I browsed TikTok to find soulful beats music creators shared. A beatmaker who I dueted twice had uploaded a new modern soul type beat. I swear to God I heard the beat for the first time and, in under four minutes, came up with a melody and lyrics for a chorus. I then came up with a verse. I rehearsed harmonies and phrasing several times throughout the day before I made this demo. I almost had it uploaded last night, but the phone died.

What inspired it? On August 9, an elder relative, unprovoked, said some cruel things about me as if I were not sitting there. I've never had an argument or any similar kind of situation with them before then. I suppose, if you're religious, it's the devil at work. If you're not religious, then let's say it's just some general dark side of life at work. Despite having heard about it, I had never seen their crazy side in action until now. I exist in a different form of reality apparently, but I digress...

That being said...after somebody told me the family member had cussed them out earlier in the day, I realized how maybe it's a little deeper. I wonder what they're going through, because still waters run deep. I can also be scornful like that with ease, but I try to remember to understand the power of the tongue. They should know, though, how it's "once bitten, twice shy" for me.

Lyrics:

"Chorus: Love, something's on your heart. You've been through some changes...and I wonder why you hurt. ...something's on your heart. You've been through some changes. I think someone's hurt your soul.

Verse: I'll never speak to you again. It's your human right to go though things...I said changes from time to time. ...but when you talk to me, you gotta use a more sensitive attitude. What you said just crossed the line."

I see I can face people experiencing bouts of mania or depression whether I'm living squarely on the streets or securely indoors.

We're all human at the end of the day. However, there's no need to cross certain lines.

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