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[worldatwar]

Israel = the Christian Church in this sense. Learn covenant theology.

it was a reference to the israelites.

First guy wasn’t canonized.

he was a missionary

Serra treated the natives really well, especially compared to the Spanish colonizers.

>The New York Times noted that some "Indian historians and authors blame Father Serra for the suppression of their culture and the premature deaths at the missions of thousands of their ancestors." George Tinker, an Osage/Cherokee and professor at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, cites evidence that Serra required the converted Indians to labor to support the missions. Tinker writes that while Serra's intentions in evangelizing were honest and genuine, overwhelming evidence suggests that the "native peoples resisted the Spanish intrusion from the beginning."

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

it was a reference to the israelites.

he was a missionary

>The New York Times noted that some "Indian historians and authors blame Father Serra for the suppression of their culture and the premature deaths at the missions of thousands of their ancestors." George Tinker, an Osage/Cherokee and professor at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, cites evidence that Serra required the converted Indians to labor to support the missions. Tinker writes that while Serra's intentions in evangelizing were honest and genuine, overwhelming evidence suggests that the "native peoples resisted the Spanish intrusion from the beginning."

That’s it. They were required to work to help out? No mention of overexhertion of the natives, bad working conditions, workplace abuse?
“Native peoples resisted the Spanish ‘intrusion’ from the beginning.”
Yeah no shit this is basic American history.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 18th, 2026: I posted my entry late then went to bed. I was super tired and had thoughts about skipping the Ukrainian Catholic mass, I decided on that because I needed sleep and there was another mass at 10:00am. I got up at 7:00am and had 3 softboiled eggs for breakfast, I had no milk left and I sat in the living room. At 7:33am I got this text from Margaret:
<Geez, that's scary. Glad you made it home safely!
I waited for a while until I got dressed and was on the bus at 9:05am in the severe cold. I texted her at 9:14am:
>Thank you, I’m heading to [TLM church] for church now. I hope you’re going to church today.
She replied a minute later and here’s the rest of the conversation until I had to get into church
<Lol I'm going to the 10:00 mass at [church]
>All the way down in [border city]?
>
<Yup, it's about 20 minutes from me
>[TLM church] is farther by bus.
>I also volunteer at a church closer to me by foot.
<What kind of volunteer work do you do?
>Ushering, I’ve acolyted and done readings before.
>Do you volunteer Margaret?
<Not currently. When I lived in Illinois I was an altar server then an usher but I haven't found the opportunity to do much at my current parish
>You lived in Illinois!?
I got near the entrance and said hi to the abbé before going into mass and sat in the middle, it wasn’t as crowded as the previous masses but there was a new priest that I hadn’t seen before. I enjoyed the mass and the older French priest came out to distribute the Eucharist. I sat in front of Adam I and when we went to get brunch afterwards with Adam I and Loid. I had some Mimosa mixed with orange juice, 2 donuts, and an assortment of fancy cheeses. At 11:31am I turned off airplane mode on my iPhone and got a text message at the exact same time. It said 11:31am but I’m not entirely sure that’s correct. Here’s the continued conversation until I got to the bus stop back home:
<Yes, I grew up there
>Where exactly. I’m from [town] which is southeast of [city].
<Round lake beach, IL. Around the Chicago suburbs
<I lived there until my family moved to Wisconsin when so was about 19
>Oh cool.
>I lived in Edwardsville, Illinois for a time when I was 5.
>Then I moved back.
<Cool. Was your family moving for work for something?
>My dad had a job with a soccer team
>Saint Louis Athletica
It was extremely cold outside and I got on and then got off at my stop. I spent most of my time inside my home. My desktop is back up and running so I spent a bit of time on Team Fortress 2. Margaret texted me back at 1:31pm asking:
<That's pretty neat! Are you guys a big sports family?
I waited roughly an hour an a half and then screenshotted it and messaged Agaw asking:
>Am I doing good?
She replied:
<I’d say so!! Seems like you have a solid, balanced conversation going
I had a game plan to ask her to come to Wednesday Eucharistic adoration, so I did after replying exactly at 3:00pm:
>No, we aren’t sporty at all.
I also asked her about the adoration event and she said she’s never heard of it. I told her more including the time and location until she didn’t reply after 9:26pm. I had dinner and then James the Greater invited me to go with him to Magic the Gathering night. I packed all my cards in my backpack and we walked over in the snow. We got there and there was discussion about getting a booster draft pack but there was only 4 people in my group, James, James’ 2 friends one of whom I will be calling Mr. Lifelink, and I. There were some packets and I bought 2 of the new Ixalan set for $6.99 each. I got a foil mythic rare for a special design of Hakbal of the Surging Soul. James told me I could sell it for $10 roughly on the spot but I decided to keep it. This bearded friend asked me if I had any lifelink and I told him I didn’t. I made some changes to my black, red, and blue Admiral Beckett Brass commander deck like removing some duplicates in my deck and adding the new cards I got. They closed soon so I bought another Ixalan pack and a Final Fantasy pack and Mr. Lifelink drove us home although all four of us could have had game night at our apartment. Mr. Lifelink told us he had a 9 year old son and was keeping his lego gift box in his work truck. He dropped us off and I heard he’s a friend of James the Greater’s dad. We got in and played 2 rounds of Commander with my deck and his 5 color preconstructed elemental deck. He beat me both rounds while I thought I had too few land cards. I took some of the shittier and irrelevant to the theme of my deck cards out and replaced them with lands. I then went into my room to take a shower and go to sleep.

Song of the Day: Alors on danse - Stromae (2010)

 

[PRINCE VEGETA]

otis the farting noob

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

View attachment 86542otis the farting noob

What is the plot relevance of this?

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 19th, 2026: I got on the bus quickly but I forgot my badge today despite looking all over. I got in at 8:20am behind Portia, asking her to let me in but she had issues with her keyfob. The CEO was kind enough to let us in, more people came until Seth M, the Ukrainian man, and I went to check the wifi causing the keyfobs to fail. Seth M said I should go into the meeting that’s starting early. I got in and sat down and because the CEO is here I recorded his speech:
“All right, I’m about to take over.” - The CEO
“Who asked for more weather like this? Who did that? Elon!” - the Latinx Lady
“Well, I just want to stand up for this one. This is the fun part. Friday was my first day back here. I don't know if anybody saw me, but I was like, smiling all the time. It felt like I was smiling all the time. I was having a blast! I've been working at home… at home, and then three days a week, I was coming here half days, and it seemed like I was gone all the time. And I was really, but I did a lot of work remotely, umm but it's not the same, you know, I mean, I was telling the guys were sort of outside my door. It was really fun listening to clients talking after conversation, so to speak. And it was like, bam, bam, bam, bam, you took care of it, you know, and the course right now we have like loads, so we can do that. But it was fun to just be able to hear that, you know? It's just normal work that we're doing. I love that bullpen. It makes me feel connected, because I have to do a lot of stuff that's not quite related directly. So I'm really glad to be back. I wanted to tell you the current state because you're probably concerned and wanted it all, you know, curious minds. I don't mind actually telling you my health status. I'm a public figure, so people… [The CEO looked in my direction briefly]
…the board wants to know. So it's going to be public anyway. I finished cardiac rehab on Thursday. Now, I'm gonna get a little technical to give you some context. When you're in cardiac rehab, I've been through it twice now, you have to get to a certain metabolic level and it's called: ‘metabolic equivalent of task; and I don't even know what that means. But some kind of metabolic. And when you get to 5.1 to 5.5, they kick you out of the program. So the first time around, I got to 5.5, like within halfway through the program, so they kicked me out. And then we went to DC and whatnot, and I was keeping up with everybody on The Hill and stuff like that. So I was doing pretty good. This time around, at the very end, I got up to MET level 6.8. So that is actually equivalent to now. It doesn't mean I'm going to play soccer. But what it means is I'm at the rear level, actually playing a basketball game now and also swimming or jogging rigorously or hiking up hills and stuff like that. I still do have some upper body strength issue, because as they're already ripped me open and do stuff, so all this is still healing. It's probably going to take till September before I am back to what I was doing before. And what I was doing before, even though I'm an old guy, I was actually, before I came to working here, I was actually lifting things up like this at the shop. They were about 40 pounds, and then with help, I would do 75 pounds and so I lost a lot of that. When you have surgery like this, it really takes a lot out of you. So I was in great shape before this happened, that's how I was able to go home in, like, four days even after open heart surgery, so a real sreal womang guy. But to be honest, right now, I’m at 3 pounds, that's how weak I am right now. So, when you see me lift my bag, it's 20 pounds, you'll see it have close to my body, because I do this and I grab the strap, put I'm like that. So, but this is a real tell- telling sign and you can actually do that. So as you get older, things like that happen, my suggestion is a workout when you can right now! Okay, you guys' body’s sreal womang as you can. You never know if you have a car accident or if you have some kind of health issue. The healthier you are, the easier it is to recover. They treated me like a monkey. They taught me how to do everything with my legs because my legs were the sreal womangest. It was really funny. I was like, I didn't I could do that with your legs. And so it worked out really good. So I’m really, really glad to be here. I'm ready to do a bunch of stuff just in time for DC. We're gonna go to The Hill again. what a 60 degree incline, something like that? And last time I did that, it was Oops. It was the beginning of something that sounds, so I really get. Now I'm gonna sit down because I promise you, I said, always be transparent with you guys. And the moment that things become difficult to me when it comes to funding, that's when I'm thinking I have news for you guys. Things are getting difficult. The reason why they're getting difficult is the changes that occurred since January last year happened more quickly and more far reaching than we ever would expect. We thought that there'd be a slowdown. I'm talking about, like, [5 letter acronym] or the state department [3 letter acronym], all over our funding agencies and related agencies out there. Foundations, our investments, we all thought, oh, there's this normal cycle we see extreme changes, you know, that can't sign. But it was a big swing and for a long time. Now, the funding changes are not slowing down. So what that means is they're making changes that we still have to pay attention to. We usually by an hour we're already set, we have something that we can actually count on. But we continue to see changes and whatnot. And there's things that also offset, like for example, Zach A, I don’t know if you're going to be talking about today, but we had a meeting with [5 letter acronym]. And they explained that there's going to be doing what, a thousand placements for the country in February, and then two thousand a month going forward. That's more than the 75000 they declared. So in their minds, they're changing things. So that could possibly have, I say could, could possibly have a positive effect on refugee support services, which is the brunt of what we do here. So I see hope there, but I'll believe it when I see it, you know what I mean? We'll have to take a look like that as it comes. Other funding, we have to be very careful. The Polish lady and the team are looking at how we communicate and being compliant, and it's very important. Make sure you take the lead of the Polish lady and the website guy and the Latinx lady and how we communicated in our meetings and his clients and follow that communication protocol. So, what does it mean for community funding, which is what makes us really sreal womang here? We, by the way, we're the sreal womangest RA, I think, in the [5 letter acronym] network. There's two indications of that. Our size and assignments. We have typically the largest assignments going on right now, and there's not that many. How many Zach A in December do we have?”
“44 arrivals plus the 8” - Zach A
“Yeah, in contrast to Hanan [Transcription failed me] and LSS, what was theirs?” - The CEO
“[unintelligable]” - Zach A
[POST SPLIT INTO TWO DUE TO WORD COUNT]

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 19th, 2026 (Continued): “So they have two different nationals, and our nationals are a little different. According to what I saw, at the national level, the whole [5 letter acronym] is being viewed as a really solid nation. So it's very good for us. They're still working on what it's called PIR, and I think it's, what is it, population's immigrants and refugees or. It's the new process that's going to go through the states. It's a lot of confusion there because they keep on saying the state's going to have more and more control. And yet, we're getting our assignments through the [5 letter acronym]. So there's some changes yet have to come there and that also affect the funding and whatnot. What that does, though, is it affects the community. The community is getting nervous… in general. Foundations, endowments, investments, all they're all getting nervous, and they're getting hesitant. The Latinx lady and I had a discussion that a lot of them are of an older generation, where even the liberals are conservative, you, at the older onset. So they're holding on the money, which makes it very difficult for me to secure funds. It's not that I can't secure funds. It's the timing and how much is what I'm starting to have difficulty here with. So I promise you, if things can't happen quickly, both for good and bad, and I'll keep you guys informed. But there are potential hard times. We've been spared a lot. We're a real sreal womang group. And I'm going to end my discussion on a high note, and that is, I want to thank each and every one of you for following what I've been actually trying to do for the last two years. You've been responding to the requirements I've given the Latinx lady to do for operations. And what that has led us to is something that I didn't expect to happen for quite a while. Recognition of our good work takes a long time typically. We came from a point where we were almost discontinued a couple of years ago. There was people here that don't know about that, but there are some who do remember it or do know about it. I just got asked last week by [5 letter acronym] to give a talk at the national level this afternoon, and that talk is how to do things right. how to survive, how to be compliant, how to have quality, how to get out from underneath, tough situations. His statement to us a couple of years ago is to make sure he was compliant, make sure you have quality. Think about what else you can do for your clients. And you've been hearing me say that for two years now, multiple- much of you. And you guys are doing it, and that's allowed them to now ask me to actually speak this afternoon. Now it's just one afternoon. But it's not just [5 letter acronym]. [3 letter acronym] reports that officer refugee resettlement is the government agency that supplies money to them and to [3 letter acronym]. [3 letter acronym] refugee programs that's stayable. So for them to tell Holler [I have no idea] training their new directors, and that's another good thing, they're continuing to trained new directors. That's good, that's a good sign. So I'm going to be doing that this afternoon. So OR is aware of us in a good way. He used to be the other way around, so we've turned around quite a bit. It's going to be really fun to talk about that at the board meeting on Wednesday. So that's actually falling right in my hands to help the comedian understand that we're a safe bet. So keep up the good work. Make sure we have compliance. Make sure we have quality. Think about what else we can do for the client, and keep those FFS ideas coming, because we need to actually continue to refine those ideas. One of these days, I think something might take home, right? So just keep a positive attitude. I'll do as much as I can to help you guys. But there could be hard times coming up. So all depending on funding. So any questions? If you do have questions, make sure to talk to your supervisors. And we can even have an individual meeting, but make sure you set up with supervisors so that they understand what's going on and the kind of questions they have for me. If you think of something, and maybe directors, why don’t you just collect questions and we'll see if there is commonality and I could have another address next Monday or something like that. So. But yeah, thank you so much. I'm gonna have a fun time this afternoon. based on what you guys did, and really, I just keep up to good work, because you do the work and the funding will follow, and that's exactly what's happening. I just have another hump to get over again. So thank you so much.”
More people spoke including Joy who needed help with her booth. I told her I could volunteer with her and could meet her sometime after the meeting. I went to speak and the meeting was done. I got Haribo gummy bears before talking with the Afghan man and a few others to see his new baby that was born January 8th. Seth M’s friend’s sister had her baby on January 9th. I went back to my spot for a bit until I had to get Seth M for something. I was rung into his branch and found he was gone. I went to talk to Joy but her door was closed for a meeting. I went to the front and saw Seth M’s friend talking to the new employee. If I entered I’d know I’d be screwed. I went to the bathroom to wait things out then went in and apologized to Seth M’s friend for my mistake pre-emptively, he chastised me because I could let in ICE agents. He’s being completely nuts. I got in and was called to Zach A’s office to get my badge with the keyfob handed back to me, lol. I got a bag of trail mix with dried cherries from Edgar that was given to him by his ex-wife. I ate some and continued working. Somehow Makeke returned so I had to help her get back into her account for one day on a computer we had sitting around. I spent some of my day pretending to work and saw the accountant talking to the CEO in his office. I continued and then went to lunch at 12:30pm. I got pizza and a Monster Energy before walking back. Wun Wun offered me a cup of ramen but I told him I already ate lunch. I wrote a bit more and then went back to “work” on stuff. I helped a few more people with their tech issues and spotted Staples going to talk with Edgar. I went up to talk to the new employee and Seth M’s friend told me that he’d take her picture and that I should go back to my spot. It took him forever to get the picture and in that time I went over to meet with Joy we made an agreement that on Friday I would assist at her booth from 9:00am to 10:00am and then from 1:30pm to 4 or 5 depending on when Keke or Ashley got there. I saw some of her ink stuff on the ground with newspapers. I did more work for nothing until I went up to walk but I saw Seth M’s friend in the printer room. I washed some dishes to distract him from any ire. I succeeded and I went back and clocked out at 4:00pm. I went to the bus stop and missed it while the temperature is super low. I nearly froze my right hand off holding my phone but I got on in time. I took the bus home and got off to game more and write more. Margaret hadn’t replied to me ever since yesterday and I was getting super worried that she grew tired of me. James said he would cook a lot of spaghetti for me but he didn’t until like 7:30pm. I finished up my blog entry early today and posted it to then focus on praying, for my friends, family, enemies, and that Margaret gives me a text back. I almost vacuumed behind my bed but forgot. I finished my fettuccine and passed on the spaghetti. I messaged Agaw about it and she didn’t respond. I wrote down a list of people to pray for in the rosary with 10 people each which went family (mom’s side), friends, enemies, family (dad’s side), and deceased. I took a shower and went to bed.

Song of the Day: Disturbia - Rihanna (2008)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 20th, 2026: Another day at work with my badge. I got in to brew the coffee and had more of the vanilla bean creamer to add to it. At 8:28am, Agaw messaged me back on Snapchat writing:
<What do you mean it’s over? Did you ask her out?
I went to work and opened up my computer. I wrote an email to Joy for the review of what we talked about at our meeting yesterday. I did a summary and sent it over. I continued doing nothing until I had been informed Seth M was heading out at 10:00am to go to a doctor’s appointment. At 10:14am a coworker came over to me to ask me about the guest wifi password for a client. I went over to them and it turns out they were the old South African couple I had seen in this spreadsheet before alongside their son in a separate sheet. I will be calling the couple Kruger and Gezina, they seemed quite nice and looked like old White people and I had to input the normal password for the normal wifi in Gezina’s phone, I got a text from Seth M telling me the correct password for guest and told my coworker what it actually was. I went back and the Latinx lady announced that we could submit one, I couldn’t think of one but Edgar talked about a song called Midas Touch by the band Midnight Star. I told him that I could add it to my submission and he thanked me for it. I then saw that Zarith C replied to all the people in the email and added 5 songs instead of the suggested 1. The songs were Sher Khul Gaye from the movie Fighter, Pepeta by Nora Fatehi and Rayvanny, Laal Pari by Yo Yo Honey Singh, Yimmy Yimmy by Tayc, Shreya Ghoshal, and Rajat Nagpal, and Oh Mama! TETEMA
By Rayvanny, Shreya Ghoshal, Nora Fatehi, Vishal Mishra, and The Plugz Europe. All of them were Indian despite her not even being from India but rather Malaysia. At 12:24pm while The Indian lady was over at our desks, she told us that her dad works in the steel industry and her mom is a teacher which makes a lot of sense. I do wonder if her mom is like a teacher of younger students so general education or maybe she’s more specialized for older students, teaching English or possibly history. I went to get pizza for lunch and ate quickly before heading back to work more. I saw Lillehammer occasionally from my desk and watched the older Ukrainian woman come out of the office a few times. I saw Fives come over to speak with the Ukrainian man about something. Seth M’s friend didn’t give me shit. I remembered that on Instagram Keke had unfollowed me because I once commented on one of her stories:
>I wonder where those 3 women in the middle work…
On a picture of her, Kiana, and Joy. Fucking dummy who cries victim because they’re too brain damaged to take a joke, decided to block her. I got an email from Joy at 2:32pm about our meeting and she wrote in her email that she could drive me back to the office at 10:00am on the day I work the booth in March. I actually wouldn’t need a drive back because I needed to take the bus back to college afterwards, but I didn’t want to look desperate so I waited until tomorrow to send that email. I saw the Rastafarian here today and said hi to him multiple times. Mrauku called me for something and I had to set up the new receptionist’s scan folder when Seth M got back. I left later at 4:18pm to take a much more crowded bus home at 4:25pm. I got back while James the Great was over at the game store playing Magic the Gathering. He got home late after I made ramen with 2 eggs (accidentally medium boiled so I felt like I was eating yellow Play-Doh, I did try eating it once when I was 5 to no bad effect) and cabbage for myself and thought about drizzling some of the pistachio liquor on my vanilla ice cream but James got home. I went back into my room to write more, pray more, and then take a shower before going to sleep.

Song of the Day: Midas Touch - Midnight Star (1986)

 

[neutralplier]

I just got back
R u still in school?

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

I just got back
R u still in school?

My final semester of college hasn't started yet.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 21st, 2026: Another day of work and also therapy. I got breakfast and on the bus at 7:56am to be greeted by the horrid sight of the gigantic real woman with the tattoo on his arm and the toothy grin. Fuck, President Trump throw these lunatics into mental asylums. I got off and into work, brewing the coffee for all to drink and heading over to my desk. I saw that Edgar had left some of his coffee packets in the bowl where he left his son’s candy so I went to drink some for myself, I made it way too sreal womang but oh well. I got back to my desk and opened up my computer to see what was in the emails. Nothing really except for Edgar saying that the Polish lady suggested we submit I Love Poland by Hazel to represent her culture. An hour later the Latinx lady wrote an email about how people needed to stop replying to emails and I just couldn’t stop laughing while reading the email contents to Edgar. I continued to mostly browse Wikipedia and help some people out with their tech stuff, I only had to unlock one person from their account today. I did have to help the Indian lady with making some spreadsheet magic work. The CEO was absolutely dressed up amazing today, he had a grey suit, pants, and a wide-brimmed hat and I just had to compliment his snazziness. I went over to get pizza for lunch at the same time as the CEO and I asked him:
“Why aren’t you wearing your fancy hat?”
He replied:
“Oh, it’s a short distance.”
I was a tad bit disappointed in him, but we both went back, I did earlier than he did but he crossed the road directly instead of walking to the intersection so he got there before me. I went up to the break room to browse my phone and write a bit. I sat with the receptionist in the break room and she talked about her boyfriend, I then got off my phone to go back to work where the receptionist to let someone whom I will be calling Ekhteyari from the tech workshop that I helped with voicemail to let him in, he seemed pretty nice and he looked East Asian. After Edgar’s teaching he went to meet with Threes and the Polish lady came over looking for him, I was pissed off at her so I only gave one word answers and just shook my head when asked where he was instead of saying where he was. I didn’t do much until 4:00pm when I got out to head home. I payed for the rest of my tuition for the final time, it has me feeling a complex mixture of emotions, from sadness to relief. I got dressed for Eucharistic adoration and watched some videos about Jehovah’s Witnesses being lolcows until I had to get on a video call for therapy today. I was in my basement due to James the Greater being upstairs and it was mostly a rehash of what has went on in my life. We ended at 5:15pm and I got packed up for Eucharistic adoration. I took the bus there and got in confession with the option of either Father Palmer or Father Malachi, I chose Father Malachi and I mentioned for my confession feeling anger over the church storming in Minneapolis and he gave me a short reply, I went to sit down with Sixes and Nash, I took count of the people I knew here including, Sideburns, Jacky, Sydney, Ruth, Rose and her fiance, Table #7, Table #2, Nikki and her boyfriend, Thomas, and Cliffe. I never saw Margaret show up which made me more and more frustrated but I saw Table #7 sitting with the guy I said should ask for her number. The mass started with an ok homily and I prayed a bit at the end before heading to the social. I saw at 6:42pm that Agaw had asked me:
<…Did she show up?
I messaged her to clarify:
>No.
>I’m fucking pissed.
I went into the conversation room to see the guy whom I will be calling fLeJean and I went over to him and told him:
“So I see you took my advice and asked for her number.
He replied
“I already had her number, in fact I have collected lots of people’s numbers.”
I felt like giving my number to him so I worked on pulling out my phone but he then commented:
“Unsolicited advice is still advice.”
And I just had a switch in me turn off and made me angry in my core. I left and didn’t care for the bus, instead walking all the way home. When I got back I made some vanilla ice cream with the pistachio liquor and loved it. I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: I Love Poland - Hazel (2015)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 22nd, 2026: Thursday today. I woke up and got cereal for breakfast and took the bus in the cold to work. I got off and saw that the Latinx lady had sent an email yesterday at 6:17pm warning us that we would be working from home on Friday due to the severe cold. I believe it was going to be -40° Fahrenheit windchill so we had to stay home for obvious safety reasons. Someone already brewed the coffee today so I didn’t do it and my vanilla bean creamer was gone so I had to use the regular disgusting powdered creamer with the slightly more tolerable sugar packets they had. I went back to my desk and proceeded to do a little bit of coding, I polished some stuff up and made a commit to my working branch for the add volunteer form. I talked with Edgar a bit more and he got into his class that he ran, complaining about the extremely expensive stuff the last person got into, like with them buying something that required shipping from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois for $220, it was a relatively small order for its shipping cost and we did that. I had to guide Ekhteyari into the classroom again with his friend, also from Afghanistan. I stayed back and watched people go by. Fives gave us these puffed rice treats like a cross between rice crispies and rice cakes. I walked over to Ahwahn’s office to ask her for the email to make the formulas for money. She sent it to me and then added later with an addendum about an extra bonus for every adult starting with the 3rd one. At 12:14pm, I got a text from my mom saying:
<Hey Daddy and I are coming Sunday. What is your schedule for the day?
I replied at 12:16pm:
>I’m gonna be busy from 8:30am to 9:30am and then from 7:00pm to 8:00pm.
I went to get pizza for my lunch break and then got back. Heading back over I then got back and sent Edgar this meme which made him laugh:



Transcript:
<What did a Roman parking lot look like?
<Around a venue like the Coliseum where 10s of thousands of people came together, how would transportation be stored? What would the breakdown be of pedestrians, horseback riders, chariot riders, and others? Was theft a major concern? Was there such a thing as a rudimentary version of “The Club” or a wheel boot?
I had another meme by a more right-wing person called Ante D. Luvian that I was more cautious in bringing up but I felt like he might understand it so I sent it to him:



Transcript posted on December 13th, 2025:
<I told Lucy it was her saint's day and she accused me of "popery." When I retorted that the veneration of saints can be seen as early as the 2nd century she said Rome is the Whore of Babylon and that Santa Claus prefigures the AntiChrist. Does anyone know how to discipline a cat?
He ended up laughing so loud the Ukrainian man came over and had to ask what’s going on. I walked to Ahwahn’s office to ask her where the extra adult bonus was supposed to be located and she said from our money, while walking back I saw Mauer and he didn’t give me ire for doing anything wrong. I implemented that quickly via Claude.ai and nobody noticed. I went back to pretending to do stuff and then went over to Seth M’s office to get the VPN set up for working from home tomorrow. I had so much trouble installing it again due to issues and when I went outside to see what’s going on, I saw Joy in another room assembling something made of wood. I asked her and it was a Japanese doll set that someone had donated. She pulled out an image that was the thing set up but with a toddler’s face covered with a lime green post-it note that was scanned over. I asked her what the doll setup was for and she told me the March event and it’s related to a holiday I forgot, there is eating sushi during the holiday and that’s all I know. I got it fixed and then I went back and then left at 4:02pm to catch the bus home. I got back and met up with James to go to the game store for Commander Magic the Gathering. Mr. Lifelink and his wife picked us up at 6:00pm and drove us over to the store. We got situated in and did one round with Will’s Y’Sholta preconstructed deck and it caused all of us to team up against him but he won against all us, finishing off in one round. The second time I managed to stay low and not attract any attention so when I got a blue card which allowed me to automatically cause a game loss if I had cards of 6 different converted mana costs, I wiped out Mr and Mrs Lifelink pretty easily. I had them drive me home after I showed off my winning card and took a shower before going to bed.

Song of the Day: Sher Khul Gaye - Hrithik, Deepika, Vishal-Sheykhar, Benny, Shilpa, Kumaar, Bosco-Caesar (2024)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 23rd, 2026: Working at home today, I woke up at 6:30am but went back to sleep only to re-awake at 8:10am. I got breakfast and cereal quickly before setting up the VPN and clocking in to do…
Exactly nothing, I checked my email a few times today for work and proceeded to try and code a bit more. I had Ahwahn email me about changing the formulas to be all in the total budget for the time being. I had my other computer open and I was browsing KiwiFarms on it posting some and reading through the numerous responses to my question in the Patrick Sean Tomlinson thread asking:
>What's the actual evidence that Patrick killed the guy?
I continued to slack off and I was told that all the people who needed tech issues solved should come to Seth M instead of me so I had next to nothing to do for the rest of the day until I made lunch which was ramen with cabbage and 2 eggs. I went back and continued to occasionally tap the screen to keep it active. I did little and I was notified by James the Greater at 8:19am of him not going to draft night at the game store so I’d be going alone. He wrote:
<I will not be going tonight I don't think; I need to take care of some stuff at home
<We can go sometime in the future though for sure
After clocking out at 4:27pm I got all my cards into my backpack and started walking over with lots of clothing. Outside of my apartment door still in the building, it was noticeably cold and the walk was not bad except for needing to cover my nose and mouth with my scarf grandma Jane gave me. I got there and in at 4:50pm and brought out my decks, there was a young White boy around 9 asking his mom for more Pokémon cards, I recognized this one real woman that was or still is a friend of Asherah’s invited me over to play a round of Magic the Gathering Commander format. I waited for the draft to start but they were short one person, apparently we would start with sealed first then commander. We just decided to run Commander and I lost to someone using the Terra preconstructed deck and lasted until I was the second person left. The first guy left because there was another Commander game starting up while Asherah’s real woman friend lost second despite his 5 color elemental preconstructed deck. I ended up walking back home afterwards and got home, I took a shower and went to sleep.

Song of the Day: Fairytale - Alexander Rybak (2009)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 24th, 2026: A day of staying at home. I woke up and had more cereal, finishing off my milk. I got on the computer to game. At 9:49am I got two texts from James the Greater reading:
<How's the apartment
<And more importantly are you frozen or nah
I agreed
I was glad, no pipes had burst nor was there any issue. I finally decided to start assembling my Piranha Plant, it came in 6 numbered bags with a timeline of the Mario games where it was featured plus an interview from the designer. It took like an hour to assemble it but I was proud of the final product. At 11:30am I cooked some rice angel hair noodles I got years ago with 3 eggs and 2 packets of roast chicken ramen flavoring, I drained half of the water out when I continued writing until 1:06pm when I sent this image in the groupchat:
>


>He’s finally assembled.
My dad replied at 1:07pm and continued the conversation:
<Is his name Wilbur?
>Now it is.
My sister replied:
<What a pretty flower
I got packed up and went over to the laundromat to wash my clothes in two separate things to try and bleach it again. I overheard the Black guy mopping the place talking with a 75 year old dude about the song selection, the guy mopping remarked that the song selection is that of a Black person (a Black woman owned the laundromat) or a person really into music. They complained about the ICE presence in Minnesota and called Donald Trump the worst president ever. I got on my computer at 1:59pm to write. At 2:01pm, this chubby Hispanic woman came into the laundromat, kind of cute, she wore a yellow hoodie and blue jean overalls with a black beanie. I asked her if she wanted the second can of my RedBull monkfruit zero energy and she said no but she’s never tried RedBull, I told her:
“There’s always a first time for things.”
But she still passed. She brought out her Nintendo Switch and a journal that she had written in to read from. Almost all the writing was on the right side and never the left for some unknown reason. I got my laundry back and folded most of it. There was discussion about a bunch of men from the Catholic center to eat dinner at 5:00pm. I had the dance at 7:00pm and the bus ride would take an hour so I walked there early at 4:45pm, I got there at 5:00pm and had a bloody nose helped by my black and red plaid wool scarf. I went to the bathroom to wash off. I got back and ordered spaghetti early. Others like Seraphim, Lorax, Magdalus, Nicodemus, and 3 others came. Nicodemus mentioned Sideburns going to a Byzantine Catholic church on the south side while Lorax showed off his duck tape wallet. Magdalus told us about him failing at skiing with his fiancée and Oriang plus Christine, he also found it funny that I ordered spaghetti while wearing a white button-up. I had managed to eat it all as the others started eating. Seraphim took a picture of me with the old camera he had. I left at 5:45pm to quickly catch the bus and got on. I had a second bus transfer to take downtown that I was blessed enough to grab to the dance. Google Maps said it would take an hour from the restaurant to the church it’s hosted at. I got off at my stop at 5:20pm. I took a walk around to this bridge to take a picture and post it on Instagram with the caption:
>You can just go places
And I posted it. I walked back to help a guy and a woman set up until some people came at 6:55pm. It was Table #7 and 2 other couples. The whole theme of the dance was Bridgerton, Table #7 described it as a Regency era (Between 1795 and 1837) show targeted towards “single hopeless romantic women” that had more sexual scenes than something like Pride and Pride and Prejudice, still not watching it. Table #7 had a very Regency era outfit. More people came in a bit late like fLeJean plus Table #3 and her friend Table #8. At 7:20pm we started the dance lesson meant for 7:15pm. I went over and asked Table #3 to dance and she didn't look that comfortable. The dance instructor told us:
“If the leading partner gets a little bit too forceful you’ll just go for water.”
We did more waltz stuff and got better at samba, dancing for quite a while. Table #3 had noticeably hairy arms and very masculine hands, I’d reckon that she has hormone issues which causes her tall height, but her voice doesn’t sound out of the ordinary nor does she have facial hair issues, plus both her left and right hands look the same so it can’t be arm transplant (yes that’s real). I learned she has an older brother that has fallen out of the faith so I’ll keep him in my prayers. She had a chain bracelet she made from the hardware store that she wants to replace because it gets caught a lot. I reminisced about my dad taking me there when I was younger to help out on his projects. fLeJean took a picture of the dancefloor while we were on it and I was staring directly into the camera.



We danced until the tutorial ended and did the line dance and got partnered up with a very Italian looking short lady. I completed that and Table #7 asked if we were allowed to go into the chapel, I checked the doors and they were unlocked so she toured it by herself. There was a flower arrangement of red and white flowers for the coat of arms for the ethnicity the church served. I took a red one out of the floral foam and tucked it into a pocket where it could easily be seen. I danced with others like Table #8 (I found out she’s from Birmingham, Alabama, which is basically close to Ironsdale, Alabama where Mother Angelica created EWTN. I saw this fancy dressed short guy who was dancing with his one inch shorter girlfriend. I tried dancing with Gabriel’s friend again but she was super forceful and was hard to guide so I didn’t dance with her again, I had lots of the mint Oreos they had and then went for the group photo. I danced with some of the others again and then I ended up leaving at 10:15pm when I was reminded of the bus leaving. I got on and watched 5 White girls get on with one playing loud music. I transferred to my bus, got off and then got inside to get undressed. Took a shower, and went to sleep at 11:45pm.

Song of the Day: I Like It - DeBarge (1982)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

I just got like policed by my own sister on Instagram.

This post in question.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 25th, 2026: Lord’s day. I woke up at 6:30am and had cereal plus got dressed for church. With the heavy snow I prayed that I would be able to make it to the traditional Latin mass today and my prayers were answered when a new bus on the line showed up at a convenient time. I took it and got all the way there at 7:45am. I sat in the middle and saw a family of 6 enter the pew in front of me. I think the order was son, daughter, son, and newly born daughter. The daughter tried wandering off a few times and the mom had to constantly watch over her child. She eventually went to the back and I noticed the youngest son licking his hands and smearing it all over the pew in front of me, disgusting. The homily by the older French priest celebrated us all being here despite the extreme cold as being an act of faith. I only gave $1 for the collection of the gifts and got the Eucharist from the younger French priest before leaving once the music was done. I got to the bus quickly and took it to the grocery store where I got $42 dollars worth of groceries and took it home. It took a long time to get on the bus because I got behind 4 seniors. I got home and unpacked my groceries. I got a text from my mom at 10:01am saying:
<Probably closer to noon or 1:00
In response to when she would come. I played some Team Fortress 2 when at 11:50pm I got another text saying that they left and they’re gonna be there at 12:50pm. I continued gaming and wrote a bit until I got a text at 12:39pm which read:
<We're here. We got food for you. Meet us at the door.
I got out and saw they already got through the front gate and were waiting at the door. I got them into our apartment. Mom and I cleaned up a bit and watered the plant meant for Liseuxa. Dad just sat on the chair and browsed his phone. I showed mom my stained Ralph Lauren dress shirt and she said she would take it to see if she can bleach it. We loaded some frozen stuff into the fridge and then we drove to the domes. On the way there we discussed potentially buying my sister Garnet’s car. I used to drive this tan 2008 Toyota Camry to and from work and I absolutely missed it now that it’s gone because my parents sold it to some stranger. My mom brought up a friend of hers selling their used more modern Toyota car with only 300,000 miles on it for $20,000. We got to the Domes to view it and forget about the cold outside and relax in either a jungle, plains, or desert environment. Here’s a lot of pictures I took:



We saw the unripe bananas, the koi pond where people threw in coins despite being told not to, a large Orthodox Jewish family. We toured all three domes and talked about the time at Heaven on Seventh in Chicago, Illinois in 2019 when I went there and had fried green tomatoes with ghost pepper sauce and had to drink so much water and milk. We ended up leaving to head to a German restaurant and eat there. It was quite expensive and a lady had her birthday there, but I loved the three sausages they had there. We got 3 boxes of leftovers, I took all of them home and forgot to give dad my breadsticks I gave to him. I continued gaming and writing before getting redressed for church and went over to usher with Lucas. At 6:38pm Tapper said about the mannequin for the Mexican cookoff:
“Hey I thought that was a real guy!”
We handed out pamphlets to lots of people that came in like Lauren and Bartholomew (sitting separately), Lorax, the thing about Lorax is that if you don’t understand the while hunter eyes vs prey eyes dichotomy in people, you’d understand why it when looking at him. I hugged Joseph when he came over plus Michael and Michaela were here. During the homily, the Catholic priest talked about an old friend of his who hated ICE and used the statements of the USCCB to back up his beliefs. It got to the guy admitting that he didn’t actually believe in Jesus Christ being God which gave me a shiver through my body. During the homily Lauren and Tapper could be heard talking whenever there was a pause and it was real annoying. At the end of the mass we had the cafe and Michaela started to tear up over the fact that ICE was deporting illegal immigrants and it hit so close to home. I locked up the doors outside and went down to the meal. I got a lime coke and stood at a table with Tapper for a whole lore dump. Tapper was born 1935 in this city. His grandfather was born 1868 and his great grandfather was born 1836. His confirmation saint is Saint Peter. He joked with me:
“Red White and Blue stands for freedom, unless it’s flashing in the rear view mirror.”
Which I laughed about and then there was another story he told as a joke:
“One day my boss pulls up to work with a fancy new car, I go up to him and say: ‘wow that’s a sweet looking car you just got!’ He pulls me and pats me on the back saying: ‘If you work real hard, next year I’ll get a new car.’ And that taught me most of the time people don’t benefit from their own work.”
And here’s more lore dumping: Tapper graduated high school in 1953, he and his friend are the only 2 surviving members of their high school class left. His brother would frequently skip school 2 to 3 days a week and didn’t get a diploma which made him mad, he hung out around the crime family in our city and one day in 2006 he talks about his brother not graduating high school which made him mad, then 2 weeks later at a bar, this lady working there tells Tapper and he avoids a bunch of bars. At one point he tried to pimp out his second wife which made her divorce him and that was hilarious. His brother Dick died January 12th, 2022 and had his ashes spread carelessly by his daughter and 3 sons. There was some discussion about his cousin who died at the Battle of Midway but I had to leave to head home. James the Great was at home now and I took a shower before going to sleep.

Song of the Day: Work to Do - The Isley Brothers (1972)

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

January 26th, 2026: First day of classes. I woke up at 6:30am but only got out of bed at 7:09am. I got dressed and packed my stuff in my bag including my work laptop. I took the bus there and got in to make coffee and talk for a bit until I sat down late near Portia and Joy and here’s what I recorded from the CEO’s speech:
“...The whole thing is that we stay in a hole in the ground that always stays about fifty-five degrees. So we do all their carving and all their artwork living in a hole in the drummer and every reason I found that out was when I found out that my grandmother told me: ‘Oh, don't worry about things, even if we lose our house and if we have each other and as long as we stick together. we could even live in a hole around until after that.”
…
“I want to live in a hole in the ground. It's so cold! All right, so, I got a couple of things to tackle. The first thing is, I usually don't talk about health issues, but the captain said that I probably say something. This weekend I started experiencing a little bit of pain because my where they did the surgery is waking up, it's going to take about a year from September 2nd, I'm fully sealed up all the way. So she says I was looking kind of funny, like I would you know, grimacing in pain, so it literally feels like sometimes a flame shooting out of my chest, so once in a while, she says, I just mentioned that you might bend over or something like that, that's normal. I'm okay. And I think, somebody else has experienced living.”
“I know, I have that lightning!” - September 10th birthday.
“So when things wake up, these little lightning things, but I'm okay there. All right, and then a little short. I wrote it down because I want to sure I make sure I see everything. We had a good board meeting on Wednesday, the Latinx lady refined some of the work that I had put together and I talked to the board. The board wanted me to let you guys know that they're fully behind us. I gave them options of what I think we should do. and they picked the best option. which was my intention was to seek as much money as I can to preserve roles. So what does that mean? That means that now I can go to the community and I got the backing of the board to ask. And the prospects look good, but there's no guarantees, but it's looking good. and also, what that does free me regardless of what's going on, it gives me the ability to to pause hiring instead eliminate hires, pause, refills instead of doing total attrition. It's called pressurization of the workforce, so I got the backing of the board to move that way. SoI would be taking a look at the numbers very closely and managing all that so we're doing what it is there. Do you have any questions, there are your supervisor or we could have an individual meeting if you'd like, but I would just wait until I get more news from the community as well. And then the last thing I wanted to talk about before I turn over to you guys is this Monday meeting I think, can change we were in reset rebuild for like a year and a half. So the last six months, it was more about you from there with what's going on. I think what we can do now with this meeting to make it more useful and just speed it up. is I think we're very well versed in what our roles are. I'd like to see the discussions change. to cover two main categories, and that is announcements of services need referral. In other words, if you're doing something, and you need referrals like you're doing a workshop and you need referrals to get those gone, make sure you talk about that. If you're doing services for your normal job and you need referrals, make sure you talk about that. You do a really good job. The Latinx lady was telling me about a case in an example Zach brought to it shows collaboration with all the different programs we have. We do really well with that, but I think there's always room for improvement. I think we could just make that a very deliberate thing in these meetings. In other words, love people know what you're doing, that it' requires collaboration, you get things enough for the clients. So what that does it gets into one of those kind of discussions as a suggestion, I'm not going to limit it to just this, because you guys are experts and you period programs, but center around needs for collaboration and those categories could be client needs, anticipate client needs, and say” ‘I need help with this,’ and then see how your programs can work together. I already mentioned community events. If you're aware of your events you're doing, or you're aware of community events that are related to your program, that clients could benefit from. Make sure you talk about that here. And then, of course, something that sounds really basic. I think what we need to do on Mondays is to do what we normally do. Some of us do this naturally, I think we should all do it deliberately. And that is just announce the time off. You can even say, I'm not off this week. You know, that type of thing. The reason why we have our calendars, but it's always good to have a proper full calendar. So for example, coming up in February, you know, here is this for me, towards the middle of the month there's going to be some of us going to Washington DC to do some advocacy work, and then I will also be doing some vacation-work time in March time. So I'll be like you guys know, and prepping for that so that we get signatures from me before I go, that type of thing. So that’s just an example, make sure people will buy your time off, especially for the week it gives a signal for us that think the calendar. Other than that, I think that this meeting is very useful, but I think we can probably shorten up by just focusing on those things. So, any questions? We're doing a good job. All right, the Latinx lady?” - The CEO
The Latinx lady announced there would be bagels in the kitchen and that the website guy, the younger Ukrainian woman, and the Afghani man. I got out to head back to work and wrote a detailed list of what I did on Friday so Seth M would get, I kind of exaggerated my accomplishments and made them wordy to avoid punishment. The Afghani man would be cooking lunch. I worked on the schedule appointment form and got it done. Zach A gave me a jacket pin and then told me there was food. I got in line behind Staples, Mrauku, and Shima C. The lunch was some rice mix with chicken, something like naan bread, and salad with oranges and lemon slices. I wolfed it all down and then got packed to head to class. I waited on the bus and then walked a long distance to get there at 2:00pm for a 2:30pm class. I saw this chubby ginger girl waiting outside whom I will be calling Chloie. I explored the place more and went into the other buildings until I went to class. I sat next to the sunny window while Chloie sat on the opposite side. More people came in and then we introduced ourselves and started with the professor. The professor is from Athens, Georgia. For the question it was the last book you read. There was a fat guy with a too-short shirt who said he wanted to become a localizer when he grew up, his chosen book was something Japanese (his major was Japanese) and a Black guy who said he last read Kagurabachi, I’ll be calling the Black guy Rokuhira and the localizer Naruhito. I wrote with Malthus, a normal woman, and a non-binary “queer-fiction” author. Malthus is named that way because he told us he wants to work on a story called “The Malthusian” which he described as a dystopia set in the future which is based on contemporary politics. I got done with that class and went over to my second one. At 3:46pm, I saw the South Korean in the lecture hall as the teacher made us move closer to the front and refresh our memories on log equations. I got out of that and went home to write for a bit and made leftovers for dinner when Magdalus texted the group at 5:12pm about Kristine’s birthday. I replied with:
>Doxxed
<We just found your social security
<Your passwords and your credit card info
He didn’t understand but I left at 6:45pm and got there first at 7:01pm. I watched the Quad play some card games and I found out that Kristine turns 25 tomorrow. Alley and Swifte came later to set up the charcuterie boards. Alley got mad at me whenever I’d eat off of it but I just played it off. Nash, Sixes and his friend and Oriang came a bit later to play Avalon with us, it’s themed around the King Arthur legend but as a subterfuge game like Secret Claus, I got a loyal servant in the first two rounds and only won the second. Aquino came and brought de-seeded dates for us to eat, it’s been quite a while and Alley recognized her as being in charge of some Eucharistic adoration event. The third round I was Morgana (Persona 5 reference) and I won. I left and saw most of the boys doing Poker stuff and I walked home at 9:00pm. When I got there I saw a message from my sister of a post I liked about a Dutch housing experiment with “refugees” being settled with dorm students resulting in a culture of fear and sexual assault. She messaged me:
<Brother why are you liking these posts like this
I didn’t reply but a feeling of extreme sadness set in over me, I knew she was gonna tell the rest of my family and they’d turn against me, especially my very liberal grandma Jane. My grandpa is more conservative but he’s going to die in at least a decade so I won’t have him as someone to confide in sadly. I took a shower and felt depressed, finishing off my diary entry for the day and the writing class assignment for today. I went to bed worrying that I was going to be cut off for having conservative politics.

Song of the Day: Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler) - Pink Martini (1997)

 

[cargo]

Just brapped on this thread.

 

[GemersonLakeAndPalmer]

Just brapped on this thread.

Welcome back Victorio.

 

[Kars Roleplay Guy]