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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I was around for that time, and yes in many ways the world is better now, it’s a mixed bag but:

    My kids were not beat up in school for being queer.

    The bay is much cleaner (though that is going in the wrong direction)

    Solar power has come down in cost so much that there is hope for the clean energy transition to accelerate.

    I was literally paid less than the men doing the same job I was doing, openly, in the early 1990s. And there was smoking in offices.

    Violent crime is much less prevalent than it was back then. My kids don’t have to be as careful or afraid as I was.

    Overall - I don’t think it is useful to be nostalgic, there are enough changes in a positive direction, sure we had more hope for the future in the 1990s but the reason we needed it was because things were kinda shitty.






  • I’m American. I regularly walk to the shop that’s 1.75 km, won’t drive it because it’s too close.

    The closest Real Grocery is 2.5km, that I take electric bike. Same for the Whole Foods that’s much farther (5.5km) but that I consider an adventure ride and certainly not a walk. The groceries would melt by the time I got home if I walked.

    All of these my husband drives to, and I think that’s more typical. I have hangups about driving short distances.


  • I don’t use my car much anymore, so would consider that liquid, and could make the kids pay some rent now they are working (not much), if I sold that and nothing in the house needed repaired or maintained (ha ha ha) I am at almost 3 years. So I guess if I had some fatal illness and was willing to run out all of both my &my husband’s retirement money I could stop working. Well, no, nevermind, I couldn’t, because the medical care would bankrupt us. But we would not immediately starve anymore. It only took half a century to get here!


  • I have eclectic taste in music. Mostly I give thanks for streaming services and radio - back when we had to buy albums I got literal anxiety because there was simply no possible way I could get even 1% of what I liked, and the thought of cataloguing it also oppressed me.

    So -

    I do read Brooklyn Vegan occasionally for stuff I might not have heard of, and tours, Pitchfork for live versions of songs.

    I also let the streaming algorithm have its way with my playlist often, when not listening to a whole album. And I listen to radio (literal FM community radio) shows I like, and sometimes my kids scoop me on some artist they think I will like. And understand that the universe of music I might enjoy is blessedly so large I will not get to the end of it.

    Oh and I go to concerts - often I have found bands because they opened for someone I went to see.