u/EmmaGoldmanIceCream

Ive just played it chill for obviously a long time now, but I was at a show and just felt moved. I'm in NY and she's here on a visa from Mexico City. She was feeling social and just struck up a conversation with me so I bounced back. She said she'd give me a tarot reading for some photos. We established we're both into open relationships. She kept touching my arm and my face. Then she just disappeared. I haven't felt that feeling in such a long time and I can feel all of that life-affirming drive coming back. Probably a hot stove I was a little close to, especially if she just bailed when I turned to talk to a friend for thirty seconds. Need to really check myself. Not that there's a problem with flirting or hooking up, but the pattern and drive are sort of intoxicating.

I haven't done so since the pandemic quarantine. I'm in a long-term relationship but it is open-to-poly (partner has had someone around for a year now). I, admittedly, had a sex problem before and the pandemic was a good reset. I've went to two years of group for addiction, I see my therapist, etc. I'm bad at finding balance. Even though it's allowed, it becomes entirely too much of a time and energy suck. Sigh sigh sigh

I don't know, maybe it's just that I'm from an NYC family with drug problems but I just didn't see that story as being very like... Useful or interesting? It's not like it was offensive, I don't mind tough or real themes in stories. It just felt like a very straightforward narrative about someone who got addicted to a horrible drug and her dads an asshole and her mom is crazy. So like, typical Jersey shit but felt very out of place in a Fallout game. Maybe the issue is it feels like it did so little to affect anything. Anyway, I hope this armor is good.

Learning Spanish and want to practice basically. They can be Spanish-first or translation, though I'd prefer it not be auto-translated through GTranslate or something. Not too terribly complex a question, I'm open to many different @ tendencies.

On a more practical level, I'd love to find some relating to immigration - more genetic KYR stuff is pretty available, but two things that come up are A. Lack of clear information/photos on what warrants are which feels super basic and necessary if you're doing legal LYR stuff, but also B. More interesting politics around that regarding pushback and jail/detention support.

But primarily looking to educate myself. I've been working through Jorell Melendez Badillo's books and a Naomi Klein book on PR (I'm neutral-to-positive on her broadly speaking), but zines might be more digestable day-to-day.

I'm familiar with lighting to varying extents from photography/videography, but I don't really deal with ceiling tube lights at all. I want to replace our fluorescent bulbs with something warmer, but they are notorious for being crap technology for anything other than poor rendering green-blue tone.

LEDs seem to provide more options, but my landlord will absolutely not re-wire/ballast bypass (I guess? I'm learning on the fly) for us, it's not something I want to do as my electrical skills are reasonable but I can't ensure it 100% will work, and I can't make heads or tails of any commercially available devices that might be better or easier. Very much more in carpentry and drywall world than electrical.

So... Did fluorescent tech ever improve together it's at least below 4500k? Am I just SoL? I currently just have a ton of incandescents, but that's not really viable (or at least preferable) long-term.