July 18, 2025
1. Not the first time I’ve forgotten to add a good thing here since I struggled to make it to the end of the week. But we made it! And the blog is still being a brat in the backend but I don’t quite understand the problem and it doesn’t seem to prevent my posting, so I’m going to let that be August me’s problem if I can.
July 11, 2025
A new Murderbot story by Martha Wells, free to read at ReactorMag: Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy
July 6, 2025
Apparently the site went down on Thursday, and I didn’t realize it til now (Sunday). Annoying! It took several rounds of reading esoteric (to my brain) documentation and a very unhelpful person at the hosting server a few rounds of clarifying what on earth they were talking about for me to fix the thing.
1. I sat mending a pair of SmolAc’s pants until my butt went numb. It was satisfying! As I stuck myself for the seventh time with the curved needle, I was thinking about how I never mended JB’s pants at this age. Or, possibly, any age. I’m pretty sure it never happened because they grew so fast they’d outgrow the pants before I got to a free hour on a weekend to mend them. Guess there are benefits to having a slow growing kid.
Challenges this week: There is something properly unsettling about an Independence Day in America where we have a president wanting to have the power of communist China’s President, or dubbing himself a king.
June 27, 2025
1. I took The Inheritance quiz and came up healer. That was a small surprise even if I didn’t go into it with any thought whatsoever.
But “ouchies never stop” is very accurate for my own life.
June 20, 2025
Helping folks: Looks like Paypal is stealing Friday Afternoon Tea’s operating capital and they need help. They’re an indie LGBT-welcoming third place for their community.
If you’re able to pitch a few dollars their way, I’m sure they would appreciate it. We love their teas, too!
June 13, 2025
Well it has been a hell of a week, after a hell of a week, after a hell of a week. Hard to believe we’ve personally gone through a full ICE detainment fight in less than a month and are now seeing LA, New York, Chicago and more explode with the full tilt fascist authoritarian power grabs.
Please do what you can to fight back: give, make calls, protest, help your community.
I’m not sure I have a great deal left in me this week to be positive or giving, I’m in a period of recovery on many fronts, but I’ll catch my breath and get back into it again.
June 6, 2025
1. We spent a ton of time with the kids this week and mostly it was good. To my surprise. There was a lot less fighting than I had expected. I very much needed this break from professional responsibilities and to have time with them that wasn’t our day to day frustrations.
Helping folks: if you wanted to help my friend’s family during this trying time, you’re welcome to send money that I will place in their hands personally. I can’t set up a GFM, I just don’t have the bandwidth for that.
We can use my Lakota links with the note “For Jose”:
Venmao: @RK-Tillman
PayPal: ruthtillman@gmail.com
Cashapp: $ruthkt
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