I'm you, from the future! You know those indie short films on YouTube you've been watching? You know: the ones about 2 lesbians falling in love. I know the feeling you're having: the yearning, longing for love, a dynamic and relationship presentation beyond your reach. It also reminds me of that inexplicable feeling you had with your ex, that relationship felt so lesbian/gay... Despite both of you being cishet!
I watched a TV program last week about zero bill housing. It explored all the ways that some housing is being built or retrofitted to be so efficient- that there's no utility bills to pay. What I learnt amazed me. Passivhaus is an incredible standard, one that ensures houses are built with strict insulation, are air tight and can hold on to heat for days. More incredible still, is that old houses (with appropriate, albeit expensive retrofitting) can meet these standards too!
The overwhelm has gotten worse recently. Life is just... So fucking noisy. My autistic brain already struggles to keep up with life, let alone without all the war, fascism and doom scrolling. I wrote about this last year, and I was onto something. Consumption is the core of this brain rot. But so is the stress from everything turning to shit, being unemployed and stuck in life... Which also makes it harder not to doom scroll, thus the cycle spirals out of control. But I've recently found out my patterns have changed.
I share my thinkymeat's thoughts here 🧠.
Just a late 20s
transfemme with a passion for academia, science, politics and coding.
