Ive been washing my face with bar soap since I was a teen. That’s my skincare routine. And I grew up eating junk food. Though I do eat better now. 🤷

The disappeared ones. I’m one of those.

I’ll tell you what we are up to. We are

You know originally it was used by artist, right?

You can still use it for art networking.

You don’t have to follow “models” . I don’t.

Thanks for the tip. I do usually use the app.

Yeah I use Instagram mostly to follow artists. I don’t follow Instagram personalities selling stuff. Even the political stuff I follow is from artist and organizations. Not “models”.

I’m also not on Instagram every day.

So I’m not really at risk for having body or self esteem issues. Honestly never have problems with those because I’m arrogant and don’t think body/looks is very important compared to things like empathy and common decency.

So I’m a hostile defensive “victim”. Not sure how else to describe it.

But if I think someone is trying to manipulate me or make me a victim I kinda get really mad really fast.

Not just me but I feel the same if I see someone trying to do it to someone else.

Like one time this guy tried to mug me (sort of) and I cussed him out cause I was so angry he thought I was an easy target. The audacity. Like a full on white trash cussing out. I didn’t even know I could come up with creative shit like that on the fly but I guess the magic was in me all along.

He didn’t have a weapon. Was just a huge dude trying to say if I didn’t give him money he was going to hurt me. A 5ft 2 woman.

How dare he!? Who tf did he think he was?

Who tf did he think I was?

Cause I’m bout to tell him.

He did in fact, walk away after saying something about me needing a leash or something.

Like, I’m pretty pleasant and friendly most of the time but I have some kind of defensive trigger when it comes to predatory people or predatory advertising (most of it is).

Yeah it’s kind of a running joke but true. I suspect it’s because of sunscreen and a lot of us never smoked. Idk. Our generation just seems to look younger.

People can’t believe I’m in my 40s now. I also have a baby-face so that just adds to it. And I’ve always been good about wearing face sunscreen because im pasty and burn easy.

Never smoked.

Also no kids.

I see the generations after us looking older than us. I don’t know what changed.

I get them on Instagram a lot. I already use Firefox and ublock. And have targeted advertising turned off.

Doesn’t seem to matter.

A lot is advertising. Dude im 40F. It’s nonstop advertising to get fillers. Botox. Implants. Ozempic.

Constantly bombarded with it.

Dude my gorgeous friend 38 getting filler. Now looks like she’s ate some shellfish she’s allergic to.

Keeps getting it every 6 months or so.

Just awful.

I can’t tell her cause that will make her feel even worse.

God I hope she stops. I’m angry at the advertisement and grifters that convinced her she needed it.

We are both millennials. Aka ageless women. None of us even look our age anyway. And she’s thinking she needs to fix her perfect face.

Idk. I just reject all that nonsense. I’m ready to experience this whole life. I want to be an older woman when I’m older. I don’t want to be one way forever. Boring.

But culture tells women they are worthless when they are less fuckable. I hate it.

Yeah the casting is pretty good and a solid show. I too enjoy one off seasons. I feel like the writing is often more concise and pacing is better when they aren’t trying to build up a bunch of unanswered questions to get people to watch the next season.

I loved that party episode.

The twist really caught me off guard.

Yeah I thought so too.

That’s what I was thinking

I was getting strong twin peaks vibes. Because of the absurd characters. I really like it so far.

Started watching Widows Bay.

For any of you who like David Lynch’s quirky characters and absurdity, you will like this show. Great cast too. Lovecraft lore.

There is this scene in the first episode that hooked me.

A museum tour guide is showing this guy around and talking about the town’s history and at one point there is a wall depicting burning witches and she says something like:
“Oh that’s a bit of the town’s pride. we found all the witches and burned them”.

It just gets better with every episode. Apple tv but I pirate everything so.

Also

Currently watching:

From season 4.

The terror season 3.

Rick and Morty season 9

Just watched The Burroughs . Was decent. And The Burbs remake series. Also decent.

Nothing exceptional but I like quirky casts and it has that guy from “dream corp llc” and “what we do in the shadows”. I really like his character. He does the same character in everything but I still dig it.

Have you seen possum teeth. ?

And based on what they eat, I’ll make a guess a possum bite is going to go bad fast.

The one over by the airport ?

4chan

But I wouldn’t recommend going there. I really wouldn’t.

I use it for Alan wake and I use gog for cyberpunk because I got a better price for it on gog.

Also I still have to run everything through steam because neither of those have controller support that actually works.

That’s one of the biggest issues I have. They don’t even have basic functions like controller support.

Ridiculous.

Omg how did I forget about those. ?

I must have blocked it out from the trauma.

As someone who was a teenager when home computers with Internet were starting to get popular, I can tell you something similar occurred and we semi fixed it. So I’m hopeful for that too.

Popups.

They would be all over even if you weren’t on the browser.

It could make the computer unusable.

But then ad blockers came out. And virus protector software.

And it’s true that the advertising-virus of the internet mutated.

But then we got u blocker .

And I think there is a demand for better blocking and I’m hoping someone out there finds solutions.

Legislation would be most helpful but I’m not counting on that any time soon.