Maitrī — loving-kindness — sometimes means walking away.
You’re not alone in this.
And you’re not a bad person for choosing yourself.
You’re brave.
You’re healing.
And you deserve peace.

Some families weaponize the phrase, “Blood is thicker than water,”
but the real proverb is:
“The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.”
Meaning:
Chosen family > biological family
Healthy relationships > harmful ones
Peace > obligation
Self-respect > guilt

Someone on my incubator's side traced the family to John Adams and John Quincy Adams. On another branch of the tree is Stonewall Jackson. My incubator and her sons are in the cult, but I apparently followed her family of origin. I would never vote for the Fascist Cheeto or his ilk if I were paid to

on peut écouter son père aussi Errol Musk, racontant que les grands parents d'Elon étaient membres du parti nazi au Canada avant d'émigrer en Afrique du sud...

I just started reading it, but I'm lowkey terrified about what I'm going to see...

I still have mine, but never use it, I checked once in a while. Haven't in months, and I'm debating just nuking it altogether.

You are absolutely correct. It was political. I love that he did it, and retroactivated it so that the incoming admin can't go looking for old "crimes" to charge him with.

Alaska is awesome people! I lubs them!!! :)
Honey, we need to connect and chat soon, because Witchy Mama here wants to cross-promote my friends' businesses (like your candy biz)

Be careful! Kittens grow up and become assholes. I mean, adult cats.
Exhibit A

Yup. I am terrified to make any kind of plans, and do everything pretty much last minute, on a whim. Because, if I've got the energy to do it NOW, I'm going to do it. Otherwise, there's no telling when I'm going to be able to.
Drives the hubby nuts.

I have a love hate with my body. I love that my body is here, that it feels and (mostly) works. I hate that, despite being only 45 years old, it works about as well as am average 75 year old body.

I had never thought of using alt text to pretend I'm an ally. Oof.
I'm horrible about not always doing my alt, but when I do, I think of two friends who use screen readers and have complained often about lack of alt.