#rural and remote

[anghraine]

My best friend and I moved in together with his closest friend from his MA program, and while I had met her before (the friend; my bff is a man), we hadn't spent much time together because I've never lived away from the West Coast (and only two years out of the PNW) and she's never lived outside of North Carolina and only briefly visited the PNW once, when she went to Portland last year.

It's been a delight to show her around the PNW and realize we need to explain things that are just sort of omnipresent in our lives. The bff and I were casually griping with each other about having to run an errand to Trader Joe's at an inconvenient hour, and were telling her, "it's okay, you can stay in the car and avoid the people if you want" and she was like "NO I MUST SEE IT, I'VE ONLY HEARD OF THEM" and nearly ascended to another plane when we showed her around the store.

The bff and I grew up in the same town in NW Washington (him for his first 18 years, me from 9 to 19) and he lived in Bellingham and Seattle for years before he went to NC for grad school (I went to the SF Bay Area for mine, a very different experience). Both of them are hardcore coffee aficionados, but he struggled with the different Coffee Ways of the South, so for the true PNW experience they want to tour various indie coffeeshops next.

Also, she adores Kaidan in Mass Effect and we were like, oh, is your passport up to date? We could take a trip sometime and show you your boyfriend's beloved English Bay. It's very beautiful :)

her: O_O

me: Actually, it's worth going to Vancouver BC for its own sake as well, it's truly spectacular. We used to go all the time as kids.

bff: And Victoria!

her: O_O

[a-daisy-in-the-dark]

8/10/24

[wilimia]

Tp Link and Zelda hate each other. That's it that's the headcanon

[meirimerens]

keepin it 100 seeing how my job search is going i will likely open commissions before next week. unsure how i will structure it/if anything will be different. being very transparent i might prioritize fully painted offers (mentioning it because i usually work on a first-come first-served basis) because the situation is Not great. blessings of light talk to you soon etc

[houseaeducan]

vg era daera and caleb :)

[helios1]

it's now important than ever that i move after graduation but where the hell can i go…

[hella1975]

[afrotumble]

[blazingstar29]

a few weeks ago at work, i think it was the 18th of December i opened the shop alone and my first customers weee these two men. i’m not going to assume they were gay but i think it wasn’t unlikely. they were buying cherries and one guy spoke to me whilst the other was more stand offish. They only bought a kilo because ‘it’s just the two of us’.

and then a few weeks prior two women came in and one was pregnant, again, i can’t be sure they were a couple but they spoke domestically.

my coworker talked about how her daughter and ‘her partner, well, her wife actually’

moments of queer presence, queer life, in my home town, where at the entrance to my road there is graffiti on a sign that appeared when i first came out

[oldfarmhouse]

[incarceratedcastiel]

okay well they’re gonna let me out in a few minutes so i’m gonna go wait patiently to be let out

[eccentriccryptid]

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[crisalidaseason]

Eeeh people live in the amazon?????

You can't be serious...

[thesongofawinterwolf]

July 15th, 2024

P.S. I cut my hair! :)

[dracolizardlars]

American: "I used to live in a town so small we only had one stop sign in the entire town."

Me, in southwest UK: so what? my village has zero stop signs

[ivygorgon]

AN OPEN LETTER to THE U.S. CONGRESS

Fund the Affordable Connectivity Program NOW!

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I’m a concerned constituent writing to urge you to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program or ACP. Digital connectivity is a basic necessity in our modern world and the internet must be treated as a public utility. We use the internet to apply for jobs, perform our jobs, receive telehealth medical treatment, and pay bills, and students use it to complete homework assignments. But for millions of people in rural and urban areas, and Tribal communities, the internet is a luxury they cannot afford. Failure by Congress to fund this program will force millions of households already on tight budgets to choose between being able to stay online or potentially losing access to this essential service. If Congress doesn’t act fast, funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program will run out and more than 22 million Americans -- 1 in 6 households -- will lose this vital service. The implications of this will be devastating. In 2019, 18% of Native people living on Tribal land had no internet access; 33% relied on cell phone service for the internet; and 39% had spotty or no connection to the internet at home on their smart phone. The ACP has enrolled 320,000 households on Tribal lands -- important progress. The largest percentage gains in broadband access are in rural areas. Nearly half of military families are enrolled in ACP, as are one in four African American and Latino households. Losing access and training on using computers and the internet will have devastating impacts on all these communities as technology becomes increasingly integral to work, education, health, and our everyday lives. Without moves to address tech inequality, low-income communities and communities of color are heading towards an “unemployment abyss.” The Affordable Connectivity Program has broad bipartisan support because it is working. As your constituent, I am urging you to push for renewed funding for the ACP before it runs out in the coming weeks.

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