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sciatrixThe anxiety weasels have returned, but I should manage a linkspam this week. It has not been a great mental health week for me, but I think I have identified the issues with my sound chambers for now (need more base-line microphone amps, peering at the chambers I )
Made the mistake of accidentally kicking off my own exclusionist trauma issues on a Metafilter post, and will be taking a break from there (have locked myself out of my account for the rest of the week). I am reminded why I tend to view lesbians with guarded suspicion until they demonstrate that they don't hold with the TERFy and SWERFy corners of queerpolitik, and regret bringing up both that particular article and tensions in queer-female-and-adjacent communities more generally.
No, seriously, the word lesbophobia is a dog whistle, and doubling down on it when I go "are you--are you intending to communicate this?" and insisting I'm speaking in bad faith is, ah. Fun.
Also today, I had a horrifically-ill student attempt to isolate his own DNA with a cheek rinse and fill it with so much phlegm that I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing wrong when he showed me his sample. I did not, however, find this out before that student helpfully tried to dip a micropipette with no fucking tip into his cup of filthy sick spit-water and draw up a milliliter of fluid, and then get confused when the tip didn't fit on the micropipette afterwards. I think I got it dried out enough not to bleed everywhere, but I'm not sure. I definitely went back and splashed ethanol all over that sucker after he left.
I can only hope he had the same nasty bug I did a few weeks ago, so maybe I can fight it off before he infects everyone else.
Made the mistake of accidentally kicking off my own exclusionist trauma issues on a Metafilter post, and will be taking a break from there (have locked myself out of my account for the rest of the week). I am reminded why I tend to view lesbians with guarded suspicion until they demonstrate that they don't hold with the TERFy and SWERFy corners of queerpolitik, and regret bringing up both that particular article and tensions in queer-female-and-adjacent communities more generally.
No, seriously, the word lesbophobia is a dog whistle, and doubling down on it when I go "are you--are you intending to communicate this?" and insisting I'm speaking in bad faith is, ah. Fun.
Also today, I had a horrifically-ill student attempt to isolate his own DNA with a cheek rinse and fill it with so much phlegm that I couldn't figure out what the hell he was doing wrong when he showed me his sample. I did not, however, find this out before that student helpfully tried to dip a micropipette with no fucking tip into his cup of filthy sick spit-water and draw up a milliliter of fluid, and then get confused when the tip didn't fit on the micropipette afterwards. I think I got it dried out enough not to bleed everywhere, but I'm not sure. I definitely went back and splashed ethanol all over that sucker after he left.
I can only hope he had the same nasty bug I did a few weeks ago, so maybe I can fight it off before he infects everyone else.
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Date: 2019-02-20 11:25 pm (UTC)OMG you are hearing rumors about Wendy? I thought the gubernatorial run had burned out all her enthusiasm for statewide office. MJ Hegar I don't know as well--talk her up to me? I've been a little out of the loop in the last couple of months.
Those FUCKERS re the voting bullshit. I'm lucky, Kirk Watson is my state senator and I'm really excited about Sheryl Cole going to rep us in the House now that Dawna Dukes has finally stepped down, but then again I also now live in Lloyd Doggett's district of Austin where they've corralled all the broke deep blue folks. (Can't recall if you were around when I moved?)
(I have a friend at the Lege in one of the nonpartisan offices and she is perpetually exhausted and furious when the Lege is in session. She's got a lot of gossip about certain state reps and senators, and it's nice to know that Watson at least is just as much good people behind the scenes as he is in his letters.)
All that said, I would crawl over broken glass to vote for a rotting potato over Cornyn. I hate him more than I hate Ted Cruz for a personal immigration reason (along with Mike McCaul, who I canvassed against last season). I hate him enough to leave nasty reviews about him on his office's Google Reviews page. I hate him so much and I would die of happiness if we could pop him from his perch like an impacted zit.
Man, I gotta find the cash to donate to the TCRP. We had a bumper sticker from them for our car, but it got totaled a few months ago and the new one has been in two fender-benders since (none our fault) and is currently hanging out in a body shop getting itself a new bumper. Replacing it would be good, though. They do good work.