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Hello! I'm Lucas Kohl, a brazilian psychologist, writer and exhibicionist.

Here I want to show some texts, pictures of my body and some thoughts. If you have any interest in what I do, any doubt or request, hit my DM, please! Money (and pictures/videos) donations are welcomed :)

olivermoss

What is better than a rogue pot hole repair artist?

Two of them:

This one is Fill The Void.

Where is the line between public art and street art? Some of the surroundings of Portland's Chinese Garden are murals and carvings that should be there, some of the paint is clearly street art, but there are also layers in between where I am not sure:

( More of the above and some other shots )

the_siobhan

Achievement unlock.

Back when it first became confirmed that my vestibular damage was permanent I bought one of those bike stand things that turns your normal bicycle into a stationary bike. I figured even it was no good for transportation at least that way I could still use it, only without the falling off and throwing myself into traffic part.

I still do fall off it sometimes when the gravity is really bad. At least don't have to contend with cars.

Anyway that was 15... maybe 20 years ago now? I dunno, time is toffee. Anyway, the original stand had plastic bits, like foot-pads and adjustment pieces and they had been gradually breaking off over the years. So recently I replaced it with a second stand. And last week I was using it and there was a snapping sound and the bike just... sagged. While I was sitting on it. When I got off and took it apart it turned out that the rear axle - the one that supports all the weight - had sheared right off.

The axle was a part of the assembly kit and it was exactly the same between the two stands so I didn't bother changing it when I swapped. So I spent three days digging through The Stuff to find the second axle that came with the new stand. Which I found. Also the assembly manual. That manual was laughably useless, whoever wrote it wasn't even trying. BUT! There are videos online demonstrating how to assemble the stand, so I watched those to figure out how everything goes together. Assembly did not require tools. Getting pieces of metal that have been living next to each other for possibly more than two decades to now let go of each other, that required tools. (One of those tools being a hammer.)

Bike now functional. Skill upgraded.

***

Something that is very much above my skill grade, the stairs that lead up to my top floor go straight up until they meet exterior of the bathroom wall and turn and continue to go up until they meet the second floor. At the corner of the turn there is a light on the ceiling. It's probably 10-12 feet above the step immediately below it.

The lightbulb in that light has burnt out.

Fucked if I know how I'm going to get up there. There's no landing to put a ladder. I have a ladder that extends, I could maybe brace it against the door on the ground floor and then against the wall at the top, but then I'd have to climb up it while it's bent over and the idea of my permanently dizzy ass trying to stand on ladder rungs that are tilted?

Yeah I don't think so.

I have a nephew that used to have those rock climbing hand holds all over his bedroom as a teenager so he could make it from the door to his bed without touching the floor. I'm going to ask him to do it.

***

Tomatoes I seeded at the start of the month are growing like gangbusters. All but two of the seeds sprouted and multiple seeds have produced twins or triplets.

Not one of the peppers has broken soil.

This has been the story every year. So help me, I am going to figure out what I am doing wrong. I WILL CONQUER THE PEPPER.

***

I have a stack of paper on my desk that I am trying to force myself through. Scribbled notes with instructions and reminders, notices from the city, bills, voting information, appointments I have to make, letters I have to write to politicians, ugh.

I promised myself I would set aside a day and just dig through this pile this weekend. I need to set up a schedule, one day a month I will deal with all the "paper" crap. Otherwise it gets very large and overwhelming.

On the plus side, today I walked to the farmer's market and it was raining but also very warm. And one of the farmers had a sow that rejected her piglets so they were all at the market being carried around like dolls by the staff. (When I was a child I thought pigs got to be the size of a golden retriever. Then I visited my Irish family and one of them had a farm and introduced me to his sow. So I don't think that any more.)

There are worse things in life than being able to pet a sleepy piglet.

Current Mood: piglet

buttonsbeadslace

or rather with the surgery itself. But they insisted on removing Sparkly's daith piercings (which are 1. seam rings, so you have to bend the metal with pliers to remove them, and 2. real gold and quite valuable) and then lost them! I had already been sent away with the rest of eir clothes in a bag by the time they made this decision and obtained pliers, so they put the earrings in a plastic baggie with eir file folder, and when we asked about them after the surgery, they said they couldn't find them. So we had to fill out an official complaint form and now they're going to investigate.

I am prepared to argue fiercely about this, because maybe in a normal situation they wouldn't be responsible for patients' belongings, but- I was sitting just a few yards away in the waiting room with Sparkly's bag while all this was happening, and they also had my phone number so that they could call me when the surgery was over. If they didn't want to be responsible for the earrings, all they would've had to do was peek out the door to the waiting room and give them to me. They decided not to do that.

(Picture me this morning getting dressed while mentally going over the compound past subjunctive / compund conditional "If you would've done X in the first place, you wouldn't have had that problem" sentence structure that we spent so much time on in class.)

(And also. Like. A plastic bag taped to the file folder does sound fairly reasonably un-losable. When they initially told Sparkly that the earrings were missing, they said the plastic bag was there but empty. And the nursing team knew that they were real gold, because Sparkly told them so during the conversation about whether they needed to be removed or not. These facts suggest the possibility that they could have been stolen.)

The weirdest thing though is that even with this very unacceptable problem, the whole process was remarkably smooth. The nurses were generally pleasant and came quickly when Sparkly needed help. Everything post-surgery definitely went faster and with better communication than I've ever experienced in the US (although it felt very disconcerting to be told "eir room will be #601, you can go there now" over the phone and then just. waltz through the hospital unescorted and into an empty room.) They said Sparkly would get to go home after lunch, ey finished lunch, pressed the call button and said "I'm ready to leave" and within five minutes they took eir IV out and we could just walk out. Even submitting the complaint was straightforward.

I looked back and I can't find what I wrote about it at the time, but the last time Sparkly had a Medical Procedure, back in the US, the communication was not nearly as good. Despite everything I am relieved to not have been pre-emptively treated as a "Karen" this time.

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neurosismancer

Ahem.

*taps microphone*

Check one. Check two. Sibilance. Sibilance.

*taps microphone again*

*cough*

I'M BEING PUBLISHED!!!!

TWO POEMS IN THE UPCOMING ISSUE OF SALON SINISTER!!!!

Not entirely sure when the issue is coming out, but I'm gonna have my writing in print for the first time since college!

Current Mood: excited

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Current Music: background Revenge of the Sith soundtrack

galadhir

Found at least a couple of tracks that I absolutely love, so I thought I might post them here. It turns out the genre I was looking for is Arabic Afro House.

Note, all the links here go to YouTube.

My current top favourite Arash Mohseni - (Ya Baba) I followed the algorithm from:
Bladi, which is one of many I like from Maro Hereira Bladi - (Original Remix) by Maro Hereira
I don't know where I found this next one, or what it would be classed as, but I like it. Faylasuf - Alchemy
This one, I think is unbelievably beautiful and ties with Ya Baba for 'tune I would most like to dance to next.'Taoufik - Our Memories
I love this cover, which sadly doesn't appear to be available to buy anywhere. Ya Rayah - cover by Ahmed Alshaiba feat, Farah Fersi & Mohamed Aly
This one's less in your face but it kind of sneaks past your defenses and suddenly you're bopping along. Sey0six - Ya Hobi
And this one is perhaps too short for a dance, but great for just listening to.Habibi (Albanian Remix)

It's a start :)

galadhir

90 discussion questions

What is a topic you could stand up and talk passionately about for five minutes?

Any number of fandom opinions:

Why we shouldn't overlook Celeborn of Lorien when we talk about Galadriel, and why everybody still does.
Why Colonel Young from Stargate SGU is actually the right man for the job even though he himself doesn't think so.
Why some people love the villains in media and why it doesn't make them villains themselves.

A few non-fannish subjects:

The history and typology of morris dancing - I regularly do give a talk about this.
The history of Roses and Castles painting and how to do it yourself - I have taught a class on this too.
Anglo-Saxon clothing and how to construct it - I might be a bit rusty on this one if I was asked to go into depth but I can easily fill 5 minutes.

olivermoss

Very random hockey posting, more posting this for my own reference later. I actually couldn't find these articles via the google the next day, I had to use my browser's history function to link them to someone.

Habs goalie Jakub Dobes got a warning, told to calm down. He was verbally engaging opposing players and challenging the officials' work on the ice.

Next day he addressed the incident. Dobes said he asked the referees to step in after an Islanders player said something that "had no place in a hockey game."

We don't know who said what, but a lot of hockey fans in multiple places are assuming it was Tony DeAngelo saying F slurs. I cannot find a citable source that he's got a history of that and hockey fans have a tendency to be too sure of themselves, but it's notable that there seems to be a broadspread agreement that's probably what happened... and then it was Dobes who got the warning for being upset about it.

Weirdly, Habs is a team I know very little about. I am a goalie fan in general, but Dobes was not on my radar. Going to be paying a bit more attention to Montreal.

olivermoss

* Seattle Torrent to be Grand Marshals in the Seattle Pride Parade this summer!

* With Wints out for undisclosed personal reasons, the Seattle Kraken are probably out of the playoff race. We aren't eliminated yet, but added into everything else, this feels like it. Kraken got off to the best start in their (very short) franchise history. They held onto high standings sometimes in a 3 way tie, painfully close division all season with every game having a huge impact. Insane pressure all season. And now, well shit.

How well positioned we are for next year has a lot to do with whether our trade deadline acquisition stays. He didn't choose to come here, and he honestly didn't think the Leafs were going to trade him away. I hope he stays, but if not still glad we got him for a bit. But if we keep him, let certain UFAs walk, that's going to be a good set up for us. But, we'll see how things pan out and what Front Office does.

raytheraven

Saturday

J and I ventured into the city, had lunch and went a plant nursery that catered more to commercial customers but was open to the public on weekends. I got starts for oregano, parsley, rosemary and two heirloom tomato plants the owner said did well in this zone. Then we got bubble tea and drove home. J was fighting a migraine and went to lay down and I went outside get my starts in some dirt and move some potted pepper plants to the ground.

I have clay soil that is ridiculously hard to work with in my area. Every time I plant something I augment it with sand and compost to hopefully (eventually) make it easier to work with. It has been a couple weeks since it last rained and it was rock hard. I practically had to chisel the dirt to get my starts planted. I ended up getting overheated and had to stop, but I got the most critical things done.

J wanted to watch Perfume: The Story of a Murderer because "I saw it in college and remembered it being good". 30 minutes into the movie I had to give it a hard veto which I've never done before with him. I don't even want to write it out, but it was when the main character murders for the first time. It was viscerally disturbing and I wanted to throw up. I do watch horror movies with J sometimes but interestingly this was not a horror film.

Instead we ended up watching Sneakers which was far more enjoyable.

Sunday

I ended up having nightmares related to the point which we turned off the first movie and slept maybe four hours. I ended up going back to sleep after J left and woke up with about four hours until I had to leave to pick up the kids. I ended up playing Breath of the Wild for a bit before leaving.

Return to Work

Unfortunately I only got 3-4 hours of sleep again, even with melatonin. I had to drink more coffee than I normally do to be functional, which was too much. Even without the sleep issue, today was really full and tomorrow is showing the same promise.

When I'm that exhausted my heart beats faster than normal anyway paradoxically (Not unheard of according to my cardiologist). Around 3pm I was sitting at my desk at work when my watch buzzed, "Congratulations on your workout!" Needless to say I'm going to bed early tonight.

Current Mood: exhausted

katarik

On the flight back out of JFK, they had Singin' in the Rain, so obviously I thought immediately of

petra and watched it.

I continue to find public humiliation incredibly squicky and was therefore pleased that it had captions, so I could just take off headphones and watch the captions as I glanced up and thus not miss much of the story (primarily around Lina Lamont, who is a hideously awful coworker and also genuinely in a difficult position).

Don and Cosmo are just. Such a delight. I'm so sad that these folks did not have the delightful time making this movie that their performance implies they did.

Kathy/Don/Cosmo forever, oh yes, the internet was so correct.

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olivermoss

* The NHL has teams play a few regular seasons games over in Europe each season. Next season, it's the Kraken and the Canes off to Finland to play some of their matches there. That'll be cool.

* I've already have some conversations about hockey where I've said I don't have a problem with fighting in hockey, I have a problem with the circumstances that lead to fights. In addition to the Gudas hits, now we've got Greer only getting suspended for 3 games over this shit. ( This got long )

* Joey Daccord talking about what he anticipates from various shooters. This was a longer reel on the NHL insta a bit ago, but glad at least part of it was put on youtube, a goalie's breakdown of approaches.

Also, I've mentioned it before, but Joey's youtube channel is great. Gear breakdowns, training sessions, even him getting PT.

olivermoss

Back from a trans right read a thon read-in at a bar with a DJ. It was good! But, I am exhausted.

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flexagon

Just a week of re-entering "real life" after the more intense events of the (access-list-only) last post. Partly because I flung myself into helping a friend find an apartment, it took a few days just to work through post-Montana to-dos; it's all done now, including several hours and some performative unhappiness to get reimbursed by Alaska Airlines for their dumbfuckery. Which I did.

It does feel like recovering from something. Jet lag, ghost attack, a mild cold? The trip apparently has been fodder for other people's therapy sessions in the meantime, so that's made for interesting discussions. I've mostly just been sleeping a lot, and haven't really re-hit my stride on most athletic stuff. However, it's grounding to have now been back for a whole week, seen my friends, and had all my usual weekly stuff happen once including, ahem, dates. My dad finally emailed me; nothing about the trip, just about the Iran war; so that kind of stings, and it's also kind of nice to be back to normal there. I've ordered new sneakers to replace a pair that died on the way home, and a couple of small fitness things, including a "butt ball" which is basically a spherical foam roller.

Attempting some upkeep of my own home -- I took everything out of one bathroom vanity, with the intent of swapping out a faucet, and ended up buying two new sink drains instead. Stand back, I think we're going to try some plumbing.

Birdie and I also made a list of things to do together this summer.

I suppose it would be remiss not to mention Beat Saber? I'm playing through the campaign now and it's teaching me things. I beat my first-ever level on Expert.

heisenbug has been creating his first level in a level-editing program, which is objectively even cooler.

dancesontrains

Challenge #6

Top 10 Challenge.

The category(ies) you choose are up to you. You can give top 10 Fics you read last year, the top 10 songs to create to, the top 10 guest stars on your favorite show, top 10 characters in your favorite book series, top 10... well, you get the idea.

I was very stuck on this for some time - hence the lack of updates since January - but then I remembered that last year I participated in the subreddit r/GraphicNovels's tournament of Top Twenty graphic novels (actually any form of sequential art even vaguely applicable, the guy running the Tournament joked that he was waiting for someone to send in a long tapestry as one of their faves)

My matchup - I was very soundly trounced in the first round by one of the most prolific posters there, and rightly so https://www.reddit.com/r/graphicnovels/comments/1o5ssuv/tournament_of_lists_2025_all_time_top_20_comics/

The eventual winner, it's a really interesting collection and I had a good time thinking of what to add- https://www.reddit.com/r/graphicnovels/comments/1omr7k3/congratulations_to_americantabloid3_for_winning/

The only work I regret not including is Calvin and Hobbes, which I read as an adult and have loved ever since.

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