Posts by elana@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #Ad7DwW7CHa2k4B5Mfo by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-23T00:08:29Z
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My computer just swooned and said, “you want me to have multiple programs and browser tabs open AND print something?? absolutely not, you tyrant” and turned itself off and sulked in a corner, and now Apple Mail just won’t show up for work at all. Ladies, ladies, you don’t need to be such a microcosm of the real world
(DIR) Post #Ad7DwX90SL5JG4wK8G by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-23T20:32:31Z
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Totally underrated materially constrained time-saving feature: having a fast computer. I sat down to do a couple of things and next thing I knew I didn’t have time to shower before the next thing on my schedule. How do I make my computer fast? How do I enfastinate it??? Where is the little window that will tell me what bits are dragging it down? It is costing me in lifespan 😫
(DIR) Post #Ad7DwYkcTylYF1XsOm by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-23T21:10:02Z
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@Njord I actually really appreciate this insight 😄 I'm using a desktop Mac, though, which are famously resistant to being mucked around in, if I even knew how…
(DIR) Post #Ad7DwaFUuf3kt503AO by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-23T21:24:43Z
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@Njord I love Apple, I've been using their stuff since I was a wee babe hahaha, I'll never change! they mostly work beautifully for me for years and years and years, which is why I'm quite astonished that this one is giving me a hard time
(DIR) Post #Ad93fbNiq1F8Fg1wvI by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-23T21:38:05Z
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I cannot believe how poor the penetration is for this story. It feels like I’m manually telling everyone I know, and they’re each hearing it for the first time.The free rapid tests that Shoppers Drug Mart has been distributing are duds! They throw a false negative at everything but the highest viral loads!! A negative result from one of these is basically zero information!!! Do not rely on them!!!!Tell your friends, save lives.https://globalnews.ca/news/10183219/covid-test-supplier-canada/
(DIR) Post #AdFkVF9w4EKHPbeGu0 by elana@mastodon.social
2023-11-12T13:57:37Z
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finally having a chance to slow down and reflect on this trip, and I keep bursting into tears—especially when I think about my grandmother, and how vulnerable she is, and how I exerted the entire force of my will & privilege to do everything I could to keep her safe, and how everyone alive deserves that same treatmentand how I promised to see her again later in the winter, and how I would do it all again, because I realize that nothing is more important.
(DIR) Post #AdFkVG78W7gINDLYB6 by elana@mastodon.social
2023-11-14T10:02:05Z
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well, my jetlag has stabilized to having me wake up at 5 AM for the past few days. that’s fine, I don’t mind spending my evenings in a sleepy daze with Meow Meow curled up and attached to me like a furry barnacle
(DIR) Post #AdFkVGwBSKVwvXEJkG by elana@mastodon.social
2023-11-16T19:13:32Z
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The big box of stuff we sent to ourselves has arrived. I tried to pick it up yesterday but I couldn’t manage it on my own.In Japan I could have takkyubin’ed it directly to my house, or at least the staff at the post office would have lent me some twine. Here, the postal worker KICKED my box out of the storage area, and was like, “how are you going to get this home” while making awkward intermittent eye contact with me in my Flo Mask.J-M is upper-body-strength-ing it home for me today.
(DIR) Post #AdFkVHjSV7vhOMHfY8 by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-03T21:44:12Z
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My PhD defence is coming up, but I feel like I already got my passing grade in the final project of my four-year degree in surviving a pandemic with my loved ones: this trip to Japan with my mom 😁I feel extremely qualified to be the advisor for J-M's band that is trying to make it through the next four months covid zero so they can actually rehearse to high fidelity and fulfill a touring opportunity without disabling themselves 👍This degree comes with so much "employment" opportunity 🙃
(DIR) Post #AdFkVISpmQE3f5VuHA by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-16T23:39:10Z
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Tonight we're visiting my parents for a little celebration after my PhD defence (combined with a certain dear someone's birthday). I haven't left the apartment (apart from one journey to the post office) since returning from Japan in early November. My laundry bottleneck is, unexpectedly, bloomers!!!! (I wear them under my dresses and over my tights, to prevent chub rub.) Guess I'll crab-walk to my parents' place 😆
(DIR) Post #AdFkVJBV6LxFtcPZtg by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-19T18:31:22Z
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Stumbling out of the post-PhD defence fog, I’m thinking about returning to Japan in February. J-M has been dreaming about Japan throughout all of these hard times, and I want to show him the quiet, covid-safe Japan life and how beautiful it can be. I want to buy him so many treats!!! And I want to see Hokkaido for the first time, and discover if it really could be our respite from the boiling atmosphere here—both literally and figuratively.
(DIR) Post #AdFkVK6DhTKCjWwsIy by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T01:23:50Z
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We booked it: we return to Kyoto in February. Because travel rightly begs justification these days:- returning to Japan was the dream that kept J-M going during the hardest times in chemo in 2020–2021. Remember when everyone thought the pandemic would be over by winter? This post-chemo celebration has been postponed a LOT.- I need to keep my promise to my grandmother that we'd be back this winter.- we're scoping out neighbourhoods to move to so we never have to fly again.
(DIR) Post #AdFkVKCbJkQf3JvyFc by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-21T09:23:51Z
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Sharing a little fashion secret: the best bloomers ever come from a little Etsy shop called Ichigo Black. Made-to-order at a small business run by a mom and daughter duo, super size inclusive, really nice construction (I especially appreciate the satin ribbon along the elastic seams so they're soft everywhere and never chafe), durable, machine washable!! Absolute daily driver bloomers, I want them in every colour 😁 https://www.etsy.com/shop/ichigoblack
(DIR) Post #AdM8VnVQSmpluuUcN6 by elana@mastodon.social
2023-12-30T20:45:11Z
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Look! A coherent substitute to me flailing and yelling "institutions lie about covid all the time"! A systematic breakdown of the PR / propagandistic / fallacious moves to try to make us all swallow plague over and over forever.https://open.substack.com/pub/howtohideapandemic/p/how-to-hide-a-pandemicIt broke my heart to hear how appeals to collective responsibility actually inhibit action. This is why I Hate Everyone. Except for the people who are actually motivated by the moral responsibility to protect others. You can all stay.
(DIR) Post #AdadIIfjbmUXJbnVvE by elana@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T03:24:32Z
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@rchusid in the narrowest, purely academic understanding, yes. in practice, no. I know of couples with interfaith marriages in Israel. they are common. people just make a quick jaunt somewhere else, like Cyprus, get married in a civil service, and come home. It's perfectly legally recognized. Even Wikipedia acknowledges this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Israel ). Apparently people even get married remotely with an officiant aborad.What you are saying here is basically misinformation. It's tiresome.
(DIR) Post #AdccA1darr3r9jV5pQ by elana@mastodon.social
2024-01-07T21:32:11Z
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@alastair I deleted my post because I realized I really didn’t want to debate, but here you are.Ron’s original post implied that interfaith marriages were illegal, impossible, maybe even prosecuted. This is a misrepresentation of the reality in Israel. You don’t have to like it, but it’s not what things are really like there. Israel is a flawed country but it’s not what people say, either.
(DIR) Post #Adcgc4HN2VibH1jVqa by elana@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T03:11:10Z
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@rchusid you never said it explicitly, but would you really be surprised if that was what someone took away from your phrasing? You know exactly what you’re saying, what thoughts and feelings and associations you are bringing up in people who don’t know better. It’s a choice. 🤷♀️
(DIR) Post #AdchSPBYYWBpAgyBns by elana@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T03:20:37Z
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@rchusid okay buddy. I deleted my original reply because I did not want to fight with you or with any of your little followers. If you’re so confident that what you say is perfectly right, then it should be able to stand on its own without needing any defence, especially if I am so grossly misrepresenting you. Let’s just conclude with that.
(DIR) Post #AdciDyHtrcVZeLcOcC by elana@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T03:27:40Z
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@rchusid lying??Sigh. I suppose you never saw my original reply.All I said was that according to the narrowest legal interpretation, you are correct, but in practice, interfaith marriages do happen in Israel, in a manner that is perfectly legally recognized. Implying otherwise is a misrepresentation.Pretty benign stuff, really. You can stand down.
(DIR) Post #Adck4tzAgnfhbpf3lA by elana@mastodon.social
2024-01-08T03:50:00Z
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@rchusid oh, I wish I’d screenshotted it before deleting it. I apologize if it was rude. I really, genuinely, with all my heart, regret having an interaction with you about it.