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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Jan 30

I post about Zen Buddhism, politics, digital privacy, art history. I studied global political economy and art in protest movements, and my husband studied asymmetric warfare, so I am posting about these things a bit lately because they are dominating quite a few of our conversations for ...reasons.

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · May 9

Beloved f/sf author Diane Duane could really do with help for funeral expenses right now. See details below for how we can help:

Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · May 9

Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · May 9

Hi I'm still alive. I was super sick for a few weeks and then we went from, "maybe we should buy instead of rent?" to cleared to close in three weeks to the day, and now we're moving. I see everything has continued to be the expected level of terrible despite my absence from Online.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Apr 4

Having a really wild Friday night of mid-90s Law & Order eps on Hulu, NyQuil, and going to bed at 6 pm.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Apr 4

The irony is that this administration's policies are going to inadvertently push American consumers into drastically more environmentally sustainable consumption habits.

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Yvette Cendes @whereisyvette.bsky.social · Apr 3

The true lesson of the past few weeks has been how hard it is to build good things, and how easy it is to destroy them.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Apr 3

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Apr 3

I've been sick in bed with the worst bronchitis for almost a week, but it was nice to have something more pressing than the downfall of America to attend to.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 27

Will add that my husband texted the group chat to let them know I got home okay but my phone was out of commission and they spent the day speculating that I literally Hulk crushed it in a rage at the Signal leak story--that was a pretty good hypothesis; my takes are too spicy for primetime.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 27

My phone battery exploded on Monday and I just got it repaired, but after two full day hiatus from being extremely online I'm gonna see what I can do to limit my screen time more significantly.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 27

My phone battery exploded on Monday and I just got it repaired, but after two full day hiatus from being extremely online I'm gonna see what I can do to limit my screen time more significantly.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 27

This is for service members not for spouses.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 24

Oh fuck yeah past me left future me which is now current me a bunch of lime Topo Chicos in the fridge for when I got off the plane.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 24

Apologies to the rental car return guy I accidentally called baby and to the good people of Boston I clearly endangered by driving while tired enough to call the rental car return guy baby.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 24

Me: What a great vacation! I love seeing my friends and being in a real city--
My body: HELLO THIS IS YOUR BODY WITH A SCORE UPDATE. I HAVE BEEN KEEPING IT.
Me: Body, no. Please?
My body: AS OF TODAY THE SCORE IS FATIGUE, HEADACHE, MALAISE, LACK OF FOCUS, AND BONUS COLD SORE.
Me: Thanks, I guess.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 21

Have developed a temporary mutual enmity with the old fuck in front of me on this plane who put, I shit you not, an empty duffle he "didn't want to crush" and a TENNIS RACKET in the overhead bin preventing my bag from fitting. Flight attendant mediated, which prevented me from catching a charge.

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The American Postal Workers Union @apwu.bsky.social · Mar 21

"'The Postal Service is the only entity that delivers to every address in the country, no matter how remote. If we privatize it, those rural customers will be left behind,' warns Tony McKinnon, president of the NC Council of the APWU."

Fayetteville postal workers set to protest threats to dismantle postal service

Postal workers are rallying Thursday in Fayetteville against the postmaster's restructuring plan and a controversial agreement with DOGE.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · Mar 21

I miss the subtlety of comic-book villains

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · Mar 21

"In conclusion, China is a land of contrasts. Thank you."

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Mar 21

I love the computer because my friends are there but unfortunately it's also where my enemies are

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

6 mo post-retirement it's still by default my last resort to take emotional distress or practical daily problems to my husband without exhausting every other solution (a source of huge frustration for him!) because this is an extremely hard behavioral pattern to break--reflexive self sufficiency.

pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

For people whose friends and family may be far away, or lacking the cultural context to understand specific military stressors, this hesitance to put emotional burdens on their spouse can mean they have no outlets at all. Making close friends is a process and moving every few years makes it hard.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

Another thing that makes this a uniquely difficult to manage situation for mil spouses is that your partner is often quite literally your only support, yet mil spouses are acutely aware that additional stress on someone going into dangerous situations could potentially be a catastrophic distraction.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

The military, last I checked, does not publish statistics on spouse mental health, stress related injuries, or suicides. There is a deeply embedded culture of not complaining--someone always has it worse and more blatantly traumatic. This mass internalization of immense stress can be very damaging.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

This experiential saturation tends to pile up--sometimes into a formal C-PTSD diagnosis, and sometimes just in a way that makes you weird at parties. At a point, so many things have happened that it feels impossible to process anything else that's happening and you end up on autopilot.

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

One of M's best senior officers he ever worked with described this as "experiential saturation." So many things happen so quickly to military families, some of them the kind of trauma that would derail anyone else's life and is considered a normal occurrence, you can't possibly process them all.

Military.com @militarydotcom.bsky.social · Mar 20

The Daily Stress Weighing on Military Spouses

The stress the military community holds is not just related to our proximity to deployments or combat zones. It is woven into the fabric of everyday existence.

www.military.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · Mar 20

all these systems need massive reform. but one of the most dumbfounding things about Trump’s buzzsaw approach is how to makes so many of us small-c conservative—trying to preserve the systems we have because of the unconscionable costs of losing them outright—when we’d like to imagine better worlds

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · Mar 20

Likewise, don't compromise other people's work when you don't have to--that means being smart about data, devices, networks, contacts, etc. and what you risk for all of the people connected to you when you take risks involving a police state. Do what you've gotta do, but be smart is all I'm saying.