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  • New Years Past

    New Years Past

    By Andrea Menzies

    It was New Year’s Eve years ago that I gave life to my daughter in Texas surrounded by a boyfriend, friends, clubs, concerts, and parties. Without my dating and friends my honors student daughter would not be alive. I hate my sister Lily Duran forever for dragging me to the toilet hole called Virginia where I have no boyfriend, no dating, no friends, and no parties. I have no real joy in the sewer of agony and crime that is Virginia. All my doctors tests showed me healthy, virus free, and clean at this month’s doctor testing, but that is not good enough here. People in Virginia have been blocking me from dating fearing I will get attacked again. If men attack women it is the attackers that are garbage NOT the woman. The horror is the clearest of all on this New Year’s Eve the worst I have had in years which used to be the best night of all. At least with a new year I have hope to get back to the fun places, people, and times.

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  • Game Ring

    Game Ring

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am going to ring in the New Year playing PC video games. I have reactivated some PC games on Adventure Quest 3D (user Poedaughterz Blue Dragon server free on Steam games), Genshin Impact (user UID 683053596 Poedaughterz), Guild Wars 1 and Guild Wars 2 (Poedaughterz on Steam), Pokemon Go (user ID 942584611615), Rec Room (@poedaughter7 free on Steam), and Tarisland (Eu-1 Poedaughterz free on Steam games) to chat with friends. If you know me online please add me to friends. My vehicle is not working well enough this month to drive to my favorite nearby towns in freezing rain. Downtown Virginia has no other thing to socialize with, but criminal human sewage I have fled in terror from years ago. Every Virginia dance club is a disgusting liar pit I NEVER want to see again in my nightmares. The great thing about online chat parties is the game provides hot looking battle clothes, music, hairstyles, and digital taverns for drinks, and you don’t have to spend a million dollars on Lyft and Uber when you have a mount in the game. Game parties are the obvious wave of the future.

  • Hog Holidays

    Hog Holidays

    By Andrea Menzies

    How did I not know “Hogfather” the British holiday comedy has moved from Netflix to Amazon Prime? Santa gets kidnapped by ghosts and the Grim Reaper has to save Christmas. It sounds scary but it is way more PG Monty Python than scary. I watched it on Netflix as I have been a fan of Terry Pratchett since I was a kid, but it shot over to Amazon when they made the “Good Omens” book into a TV movie. I am rereading the books on Kindle this holiday for certain my review is the book is amazing.

  • Discount Day

    Discount Day

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am thankful for my Amazon discount this year as my holiday shopping budget is tight.

  • Theory of Everything

    Theory of Everything

    By Andrea Menzies

    “Sick people usually aren’t smart.” Is a strangely frequent statement in a week where a CEO killer has hit the news. I am rewatching “The Theory of Everything” streaming on Prime video as a reminder of how true that statement is not. Insulting a person for the color of their skin they were born with or religion is bullying, a slur, and abusive. Insulting a sick person for their brain or body health they were born with and calling them crazy, not smart, and bad is also bullying, a slur, and abusive. I think “The Theory of Everything” 2014 is a great movie, and I give it a five star review.

  • Cyber Moment

    Cyber Moment

    By Andrea Menzies

    If Bernie Sanders healthcare ideas were taken more seriously people would not feel so much empathy with the recent CEO killer.

  • Good Behavior

    Good Behavior

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am a teacher right now, and there are big debates on how to be a role model for behavior. Meanwhile when I was a kid people watched cartoon characters blowing each other up, and that was just a-okay. In real life no one is perfect.

  • Last Day

    Last Day

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am still working at Amazon, but about to go on leave. My other job called me two weeks ago needing me to work more hours so I put in notice. One of the rough things about being at a crazy job is they are all crazy jobs, and you just have to find what crazy works for you. At Amazon they drug test constantly so at least it leaves a long paper trail on me not being a party animal at all. I have never failed a drug test at any job, and this reference helps prove it. Ironically a huge set of news reports dropped on Amazon right as I was packing up.

    https://6abc.com/post/make-amazon-pay-protest-what-know-strike-planned-black-friday/15602746/

  • Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving

    By Andrea Menzies

    Happy Thanksgiving To All!

  • New BlueSky Profile

    New BlueSky Profile

    By Andrea Menzies

    Bluesky is a new social media app people are using. My profile is here @Poedaughter7.bsky.social if you want to add me to friends. I am fully terrified of how many crazed right winged politicians keep showing up in news photos with social media owners these days. Also my email is getting packed with spam from all the social media that said it would “never” sell my information. I can see why people want to try something new. Old social media uses an algorithm to decide what we “want” to see, and it often picks very wrong. Somedays I think we should all just switch back to Myspace, Yahoo, and Livejournal for updates.

    Here is the NPR story on Bluesky:

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election

    The day after the presidential election, the social media landscape shook.

    On Elon Musk’s X, more than 115,000 users deactivated their accounts, the largest-ever mass exit from the platform. At the same time, traffic on Bluesky, a smaller rival to X, began to soar, with daily usage climbing some 500% in the U.S., according to data from Similarweb.

    “We’ve been growing by about a million users a day for several days,” said Bluesky CEO Jay Graber in an interview with NPR on Monday. “It’s proving out the model that we thought would be the right approach to social [media]: Give people the tools to control their experience and they’ll have a better time.” Putting more control in the hands of users is what distinguishes Bluesky from X, formerly Twitter, and other rival social media sites.

    Rather than having one “master algorithm,” Bluesky allows for a more personalized experience. By default, there are three main feeds: One shows accounts you follow, another shows what your friends follow and a “discover” feed surfaces posts linked to your interests.”