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I've lost my optimism. I just want to give up. But I can't. Not yet, at least. I have to keep going, to take care of Dad. It's just such an endless cycle of work without anything achieved, nothing beyond keeping things in a holding pattern at best, knowing the next day the mountain to be climbed will grow just a little bit more. The depression is as bad as it's ever been, there's nothing that brings me more than a fleeting moment of content, not pleasure, just, ah, OK, this is Not Too Bad. As usual with depression, I've lost interest in the things that used to make me feel better, that I used to enjoy. It's just all something to do that isn't as important as all the very many things I have to, need to do.

And that's why I've been quiet. It seems pretty pointless to talk, when everyone else's world is going to hell as well, in ways similar and different. I can't even enjoy petting the cat without thinking of something I should be doing instead, but for what? To stave off the inevitable miserable ending? Real ray of sunshine, aren't I?

In the end, it's the same old story, the story of me: nothing I do will ever be good, be enough, be good enough. It never could, because I do it

bitterlee

I'm fucking terrified. I can't imagine how much worse it is for others.

#real life #is it a coup #so many people are going to suffer and die

oldshowbiz

If you don't buy this magazine, we'll blow dry this lion

sometiktoksarevalid

It's a new little sort of improv project with Trace Beaulieu from MST3K and The Mads Are Back (he's good in anything) and puppeteer John Jennings, who worked with Trace on the web puppet show Vermin (also available on YouTube) about a decade ago. Check it out, first episode dropped earlier today 8/19/24.

#mst3k #The Mads Are Back #trace beaulieu #puppetry #what is it with Trace and puppets?!?

oneheadtoanother

#kamala harris #2024 presidential election #us politics #harris 2024 #vote blue

wildgifthorses

objectivistnerd

myrthrilmercury

To be fair, it's an improvement over what they normally eat.

monkeypretzel

Me being surprised the burger isn't boiled.

#gratuitous brit bashing #seriously who eats baked beans for breakfast

Joel Hodgson: Making Mike Nelson's fashion choices look good since 2016.

(Photos from the MST3K Discourse Forum)

#mst3k #blobfest #joel hodgson

byjove

I’m an “I do not like children” person but not an “I hate children” person. I do not want a child. I do not particularly like being in the company of small children. I am not interested in babysitting. I do not think society’s view on procreating being necessary to fulfill one’s life is healthy. But I think kids are people too and they deserve all the resources, time and attention they need to successfully grow. I think the welfare of children is fundamental to society. I smile at babies in public. I try to be sympathetic if a child is having a meltdown in public. I think being cruel to children is one of the worst things a human can do.

This puts me in a strange middle ground because I absolutely cannot get along with the “I love babies, I need to have kids, my kids are my world, having children is sooo beautiful, the world should cater to children always” crowd or the “I think children are like disgusting little rats, I hate them, they’re subhuman” crowd.

locuas642

"I am not a person in possession of the required skills and/or mental headspace to handle and endure being around and taking care of children" is a necessary thing to recognize

fontonascreen

A day late, but Happy Forth!

monkeypretzel

About 30 seconds later, Tom is sobbing in Mike’s arms because Crow was waving around the sparklers and one of the sparks landed on the top of his dome and gave him a teeny, tiny burn mark.

Also, Mike burns the deck (again) with illegal fireworks.

fontonascreen

monkeypretzel

Because this may be my favorite fan art of the Bots, ever.

Happy 4th if you celebrate!

(Turn down your sparklers where applicable)

#mst3k #mike nelson #4th of july #crow t. robot #tom servo

naamahdarling

Friends, what is the best way to go about finding out what a piece of now-public land used to be?

My father says that part of the park across the street from my childhood home was a graveyard before it was a park.

I need to confirm whether this is true or not.

How do I most efficiently do that?

naamahdarling

Thank all y'all for reminding me that public library researchers exist. I should have thought of that!

I just talked to the coolest woman at the library's research center.

Her mom did gravestone rubbings in old gold mining graveyards in California back in the day! She knew about the carnival worker graveyard in the south part of the state!

There's like 89 cemeteries/defunct cemeteries INSIDE MY CITY!

She was the first random person I reached!

The research department will look into it for me!

SUPPORT YOU LOCAL LIBRARY!

scifigrl47

Man, I bet that librarian is vibrating in place she's so psyched to be asked about this.

You just made her day.

archaeo-geek

This is awesome! Also:

There's a former park in my nearest city that has between 800 and 2,000 unmarked graves in it, up to at least 1844 and maybe as late as the 1860s. It was transferred to the city in the 1870s as a park, with explicit instructions that nothing should ever be built on it.

The city built a library on it in 1951.

The point here: sooooo many parks are old cemeteries, and a lot of them get forgotten to the point that the dead are not respectfully treated (e.g. memorialized, properly moved, etc.) when someone decides to build something on that "open ground."

Thank you for taking the time to look into yours!

galadriel1010

When my town were relocating the library into an old church, my grandma went along to the public meeting, and asked what they planned to do about the graves. The council staff told her that there were no graves on the site because it had never been licenced for burial. She insisted that she remembered burials at the church when she was a little girl, back in the 20s.

So when the builders found the first grave, they had to down tools for several weeks while archaeologists came in to catalogue them all, because apparently 100 years is short enough to lose a graveyard

sapphicfandompirate

If you are in the US, check out one of my favorite things, which is Sanborn maps! They are fire insurance maps of nearly every town in the US from between 1890-1940. And they tell you what materials the buildings are made out of! It mostly covers buildings, but some has parks and graveyards as well!