Hiya! Your friendly neighborhood corgi checking in on you again! Been a while since we've had one of these. Figured with the election and all, might as well, plus I don't have any work yet today so fuck it, check on my friends!
For the new folks, welcome! I do these from time to time just to give people a space to vent and unwind, or tell us abotu anything exciting you've got going on.
For my own part, band stuff is coming along nicely! Did a gig with a friends band last Friday that went well, our second show with a 2nd guitarist. Writing and recording, new tracks should be out by the spring. Also posted a video of the show here a few days ago. Beyond that, work has been....eh. Still looking for a full time thing, its been 14 months now. AI training has me on a few new projects, but the work is coming in slow. Had to split rent into 2 payments this month and I was able to get the first sent out, but still worried about settling up the rest next week.
Beyond that, not much else going on. One year with no booze this month, so fuck yeah for that.
Hope you're well, and remember you are loved 
Call me a liberal, and I'm hoping to have liberalism snapped out of me, but I am certainly disappointed about the election results.
Mostly for revolutionary reasons because there is no way in hell a generation of "Yeah, I'm fash because it owns the libs" is are not going to be a bunch of lost causes. It's also a reminder of some personal griefs, that I am very unlikely to make friends with other men because I am that distant from what they want. I feel like an outlier among Gen Z, a generation of trolls.
Yeah, kind of liberal cringiness but I need to get that off my chest, if there's any way I can be reminded that this is full of shit I'd love to hear it.
I wouldn't call that liberalism, comrade
I'm older, so can't speak from a GenZ perspective, but you'll find your people. That does require going out and looking, but hell - I've met a decent number of Hexbears IRL and am doing food distro with one this weekend. People like you are out there!
I went in without hope for the election and I am actually upset that the Republicans look like they'll hold all three branches of government fully. That's not something I had considered since I'm used to some kind of division inside congress. They can do real freak shit with the whole of the Federal government if they can all get in line. Moderately big if since there are factional divides in the party but still there are valid things to be worried about if in the grand scheme of things the empire will continue on unimpeded.
Anyway, the material conditions drive the world and they will mold and influence you as well. It's important to build and structure your life in a way that can support your how you want to grow. Basically try to join an organization even if it's a glorified book club and you might meet good people and restore some of your faith in humanity and also deprogram your liberalism.