Zoonie @Zoonie@octodon.social

I am sad for the US. Polarisation is the curse of humanity: it drags us back down in to the mud. Wish I could say we were different in the UK. Luckily though, we don't have a badly worded second amendment to polarise around. And automatic weapons purchasable in the local store.

Finally watched Ant-Man all the way through. It's very so-so until it starts dialling up the crazy. It doesn't take a genius to work out which bits Edgar and Joe were responsible for.

Trump will increase safety checks on guns simply because Obama couldn't. So he can hold it against him, smugly. He won't do *enough* obviously.

The great joy of yesterday was chopping the end of my finger off whilst chopping cabbage. The supper was no longer vegetarian. Just replaced the plaster(s) and even today, spent half an hour with my finger in the air.

Basically, if you can bend your thumb to touch your wrist, maybe bruise easily, suffer Heartburn, scars heal slowly - check out Ehlers-Danlos. It may surprise you, A Lot.

So getting more specific on hypermobility, it's actually called "Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome", and anything up to 30% of the population has it, which makes me wonder why knowledge is so sporadic. Basically, I've nearly every symptom, but they all seem very random unless you list them together.

OK, I have 2 problems with the film: 1) the soundtrack was written by a very mainstream filmy white guy with, northern European name, and it *really* reminds me of The Lion King. I don't think that's a great thing. Ok, 2) How come screwed up, mentally damaged black cousin has to die, whereas screwed up, mentally damaged white Bucky suddenly turns up, being healed nicely by the good people of Wakanda. What?!

Also, just how repulsive was Andy Serkis? Superb...

I really hope that this movie helps white people to empathise with the many black sportspeople in the US willing to put their career security on the line and take the knee. I mean that, amongst many other things, obvs.

Last time I was this aware of how many people of colour there were in the audience, it was when Jar Jar Binks opened its mouth and I sank in my seat in horror, only to find that the majority black audience were laughing at the pathetic gibberish on screen. So glad today was so very, very different.

Watching a lovely programme about food culture in Iran. I so want to visit it one day. A friend of Pakistani origin took their family there one summer a few years ago. I thought, hold on, how can you feel safe? And then I realised and felt grumpily jealous. Grr!

Sciatica. I want to punch it in the face, repeatedly.

Hoozah. Phone back after an entire afternoon trying to get Uber customer support to do any work

My daughter is without any cynicism re: appalling music of the eighties, so she has a Spotify 'mixtape' of fun happy tunes she listens to whilst working, that includes "Livin' On A Prayer"! Dear God. OHHHH we're halfway there....

Looking out folk and children's stories from Eritrea, Afghanistan and beyond for a refugee centred storytelling session in March. Trying desperately to minimise any visible involvement from me and getting wide-eyed panic from parents. Yes, you. You can read stories to children, you've done it for the last ten years.
Somehow I don't think 'Having a white Irish father' quite cuts it as a participant (but we were discriminated against in the seventies! I know your pain!).

Son has to do a piece on lat & long for school ie: what is it, so I reminded him of the "That first number is a longitude" scene from Close Encounters, handily immediately available on YouTube, of course. Happy.

I always forget the restorative power of music, and it's such a mistake.

Ack. Horrible headache last night resolved in to bone level pain this morning meaning I stayed at home. Music is now going to save me from the feeling of horrible pain driven anxiety I had all morning.

The Space X Falcon film is very good fun to watch. That sense of total, unalloyed joy from all those people was just like the soaring joy of last year's total eclipse (sigh... nice sigh though)