If anyone could use a morale boost
Apr. 22nd, 2025 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rydra_wonghttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/04/protests-erupt-across-the-uk-after-supreme-court-ruled-against-trans-rights/
Many many pictures.
Also, more protests yet to come, apparently, with ones scheduled for Oxford and Cambridge.
Many many pictures.
Also, more protests yet to come, apparently, with ones scheduled for Oxford and Cambridge.
That girl was fine but she didn't appreciate him
Apr. 21st, 2025 09:05 pmbadfalconHappy cheap chocolate day!
I am a sadly lil llama after yesterday's tennis finals. Ben Shelton was in the Munich final and Carlos Alcaraz was in the Barcelona final - and they both lost 😭 Even worse they both lost to players I Do Not Like 😂
It was also the last year that David Ferrer is the Tournament Director at the Barcelona Open. I was thoroughly enjoying the Ferru spotting all week, not gonna lie.
The one very excellent tennis thing from the last week, however, is that we're getting closer to the end of Jannik Sinner's suspension. He's now allowed to practice tennis again, play on an ATP affiliated court, play with ATP players and work with his coaches. He's spent the last few weeks in the gym with Marco, his fitness trainer and... yeah, Marco's been working that boy hard. He is looking fine. Jannik's been training with Jack Draper last week - OMG so many people ship them and I do not get it but I'm glad they're happy. Me? I'm happy about the fact that him being able to work with his coaches = pictures and videos including Darren and Simone. (Mind, there was also Darren and Simone spotting in Monte Carlo the other week as well which made me all 😻)
This week is the Madrid Masters (and I hadn't realised Feli Lopez was the TD - between him and Ferru, especially with Juanki as Carlitos' coach) it's like a resurgence of the 00s Spanish Armada and I am here for it!)
Is it just me or is this a very ADHD coded post thus far with all the parenthesis?
Lets see... what else?
I spent most of yesterday refreshing my social media profiles (except, apparently, this one. huh. I should look at that). But I'm super pleased at how things now look at![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
tennisdadsaficionado, ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
bibliollama, (and https://www.threads.net/@bibliollama), and ![[twitter.com profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/e0caa790ec10/-/twitter.com/favicon.ico)
tennisdads
I cooked chicken ramen yesterday and it was so fucking good. I used an Itsu broth carton and Itsu noodles but have a recipe for making my own broth next time
Li made hot cross buns yesterday and they were a little doughy (yeast didn't yeast properly) but super sticky and delicious.
I think that's about it from me, so I shall leave you with my Music Monday offering which, as ever, is my most played track of last week. I had a couple of meltdowns last week and so I comfort played a whole bunch of pop/punk, because that's still such a happy place for me.
And then, of course, leads to many many happy memories of so many gigs and tours following Good Charlotte around the UK on multiple occasions 🧡
I am a sadly lil llama after yesterday's tennis finals. Ben Shelton was in the Munich final and Carlos Alcaraz was in the Barcelona final - and they both lost 😭 Even worse they both lost to players I Do Not Like 😂
It was also the last year that David Ferrer is the Tournament Director at the Barcelona Open. I was thoroughly enjoying the Ferru spotting all week, not gonna lie.
The one very excellent tennis thing from the last week, however, is that we're getting closer to the end of Jannik Sinner's suspension. He's now allowed to practice tennis again, play on an ATP affiliated court, play with ATP players and work with his coaches. He's spent the last few weeks in the gym with Marco, his fitness trainer and... yeah, Marco's been working that boy hard. He is looking fine. Jannik's been training with Jack Draper last week - OMG so many people ship them and I do not get it but I'm glad they're happy. Me? I'm happy about the fact that him being able to work with his coaches = pictures and videos including Darren and Simone. (Mind, there was also Darren and Simone spotting in Monte Carlo the other week as well which made me all 😻)
This week is the Madrid Masters (and I hadn't realised Feli Lopez was the TD - between him and Ferru, especially with Juanki as Carlitos' coach) it's like a resurgence of the 00s Spanish Armada and I am here for it!)
Is it just me or is this a very ADHD coded post thus far with all the parenthesis?
Lets see... what else?
I spent most of yesterday refreshing my social media profiles (except, apparently, this one. huh. I should look at that). But I'm super pleased at how things now look at
bibliollama, (and https://www.threads.net/@bibliollama), and I cooked chicken ramen yesterday and it was so fucking good. I used an Itsu broth carton and Itsu noodles but have a recipe for making my own broth next time
Li made hot cross buns yesterday and they were a little doughy (yeast didn't yeast properly) but super sticky and delicious.
I think that's about it from me, so I shall leave you with my Music Monday offering which, as ever, is my most played track of last week. I had a couple of meltdowns last week and so I comfort played a whole bunch of pop/punk, because that's still such a happy place for me.
And then, of course, leads to many many happy memories of so many gigs and tours following Good Charlotte around the UK on multiple occasions 🧡
UK people: disability benefit cuts
Apr. 21st, 2025 09:48 amrydra_wongRebellion is growing among Labour MPs, so if you have a Labour MP, now is a VERY good and important time to write to them to protest the proposed PIP and other cuts:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/20/the-whole-policy-is-wrong-rebellion-among-labour-mps-grows-over-5bn-benefits-cut
(If you have a non-Labour MP, hassle them too and see if they can be persuaded to do something vaguely useful.)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/apr/20/the-whole-policy-is-wrong-rebellion-among-labour-mps-grows-over-5bn-benefits-cut
(If you have a non-Labour MP, hassle them too and see if they can be persuaded to do something vaguely useful.)
Sending love and support to all my trans friends (and acquaintances) in the UK right now
Apr. 17th, 2025 01:36 pmrydra_wongFuck TERF Island, and fuck Rowling gloating over how she bought this. Solidarity forever.
ETA: if anyone wants to rage-donate, off the top of my head here are some ideas:
https://transsafety.network/
https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/
https://transaid.cymru/
https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/london-trans-pride-2025
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/
https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
https://lgbtiqoutside.org/
ETA: if anyone wants to rage-donate, off the top of my head here are some ideas:
https://transsafety.network/
https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/
https://transaid.cymru/
https://genderedintelligence.co.uk/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/london-trans-pride-2025
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/
https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/
https://lgbtiqoutside.org/
US people: Kilmar Abrego Garcia phone scripts
Apr. 15th, 2025 09:15 amrydra_wonghttps://magebird.tumblr.com/post/780824786697945089/hello-my-name-is-and-i-am-a-constituent
https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/305758.html
N.B. The Trump administration is now blatantly defying the Supreme Court, pretending that being ordered to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return doesn't mean "bring him back".
As Justice Sotomayor noted, the Trump admin's argument in the case would mean that they "could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia
This is time to start screaming in whatever way you can.
https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/305758.html
N.B. The Trump administration is now blatantly defying the Supreme Court, pretending that being ordered to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return doesn't mean "bring him back".
As Justice Sotomayor noted, the Trump admin's argument in the case would mean that they "could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia
This is time to start screaming in whatever way you can.
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Apr. 12th, 2025 07:35 pmbadfalconSo I ended up back at the doctor's on Thursday.
At the beginning of last week, after finishing the steroids, I felt okay, but as the week dragged on, I started coughing more and more and getting breathless again. On Wednesday, I barely stopped coughing all day.
On Thursday morning, I completed the online consultation form
I got confirmation that it had been received at 09:09
At 09:19, I got a phone call saying I have an appointment at 10:10
Which, first of all can I just say how fucking fantastic that is because my old doctors, you'd have to start ringing them at 08:30, ring them approximately 50 times to be told there's no appointments, call again tomorrow. So I'm already in love with this new doctor's office
So I saw the doctor and went over the issues I'm having, I'd had the full change of meds from preventer + reliever to MART and been on the steroids last week, but it was getting worse again. I'm taking the inhaler as a reliever like 4-5 times a day, whereas the beginning of the week it was 1-2 times. She listens to my lungs; they're still clear, but she says my cough is 'very asthmatic'. She checks my inhaler technique, which, btw, is 'perfect' (I'd like to think so, I've been asthmatic over 30 years LOL).
And now I have an additional drug - Montelukast which is a top-up to the MART, again I'll be taking this for the rest of forever same as the new inhaler, and it's to help stop my airways from narrowing. I get told that it will kick in 'immediately'.
Wow. They were not joking. I've had two days on it. I walked down and up the stairs this morning without coughing, without being unable to catch my breath and needing my inhaler. I haven't had to take my reliever inhaler today. Not even when I yelled excitedly when Carlos won his semi-final. And then I realised I could breathe well enough to yell like that!
I'm still exhausted. Like my bones are tired. I missed most of the de Minaur v Musetti final this afternoon because I napped. But I'm hoping over the next week or so that will improve
At the beginning of last week, after finishing the steroids, I felt okay, but as the week dragged on, I started coughing more and more and getting breathless again. On Wednesday, I barely stopped coughing all day.
On Thursday morning, I completed the online consultation form
I got confirmation that it had been received at 09:09
At 09:19, I got a phone call saying I have an appointment at 10:10
Which, first of all can I just say how fucking fantastic that is because my old doctors, you'd have to start ringing them at 08:30, ring them approximately 50 times to be told there's no appointments, call again tomorrow. So I'm already in love with this new doctor's office
So I saw the doctor and went over the issues I'm having, I'd had the full change of meds from preventer + reliever to MART and been on the steroids last week, but it was getting worse again. I'm taking the inhaler as a reliever like 4-5 times a day, whereas the beginning of the week it was 1-2 times. She listens to my lungs; they're still clear, but she says my cough is 'very asthmatic'. She checks my inhaler technique, which, btw, is 'perfect' (I'd like to think so, I've been asthmatic over 30 years LOL).
And now I have an additional drug - Montelukast which is a top-up to the MART, again I'll be taking this for the rest of forever same as the new inhaler, and it's to help stop my airways from narrowing. I get told that it will kick in 'immediately'.
Wow. They were not joking. I've had two days on it. I walked down and up the stairs this morning without coughing, without being unable to catch my breath and needing my inhaler. I haven't had to take my reliever inhaler today. Not even when I yelled excitedly when Carlos won his semi-final. And then I realised I could breathe well enough to yell like that!
I'm still exhausted. Like my bones are tired. I missed most of the de Minaur v Musetti final this afternoon because I napped. But I'm hoping over the next week or so that will improve
"'One of us is wrong here, and I don't think it's me'"
Apr. 11th, 2025 04:53 pmrydra_wongCourtesy of remnantglow, "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation by K.N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" by the author now named Cameron Reed is available for your reading pleasure:
https://remnantglow.tumblr.com/post/773043138539503616/hey-just-getting-into-reading-sci-fi-n-i-was
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVO8lbyi2_6M2n9-KVi0raWxLcWnuVR9/view
Published in 1998, btw.
Also Reed's comment about her two in-progress novels could not be more calibrated to appeal to me personally:
https://remnantglow.tumblr.com/post/767073967312912384/mar-have-you-seen-that-cameron-reed-has-announced
What We Are Seeking shows the influence of Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To ..., Janet Kagan's Hellspark, and The Left Hand of Darkness. Courting Hellfire contains DNA from Babel-17 and the Nero Wolfe novels.
ETA: the excellent bonus episode of Wizards Vs Lesbians where (in their new tradition of inviting authors they've featured to come on the podcast to talk about someone else's book) Cameron Reed joins them to talk about Samuel Delany's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand:
https://www.tumblr.com/wizardsvslesbians/777560065843544064/wizards-vs-lesbians-bonus-stars-in-my-pocket
https://remnantglow.tumblr.com/post/773043138539503616/hey-just-getting-into-reading-sci-fi-n-i-was
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wVO8lbyi2_6M2n9-KVi0raWxLcWnuVR9/view
Published in 1998, btw.
Also Reed's comment about her two in-progress novels could not be more calibrated to appeal to me personally:
https://remnantglow.tumblr.com/post/767073967312912384/mar-have-you-seen-that-cameron-reed-has-announced
What We Are Seeking shows the influence of Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To ..., Janet Kagan's Hellspark, and The Left Hand of Darkness. Courting Hellfire contains DNA from Babel-17 and the Nero Wolfe novels.
ETA: the excellent bonus episode of Wizards Vs Lesbians where (in their new tradition of inviting authors they've featured to come on the podcast to talk about someone else's book) Cameron Reed joins them to talk about Samuel Delany's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand:
https://www.tumblr.com/wizardsvslesbians/777560065843544064/wizards-vs-lesbians-bonus-stars-in-my-pocket