It is not a good day. The day before yesterday, I was venting to my mother via text about a way in which I was treated unfairly, and she was listening and being supportive UNTIL I started talking about the unfairness of the world—specifically, the fact that people in general refuse to recognize the fact that pregnancy is violence against women, even though it kills a woman every two minutes in the world today—and then she immediately started giving me the silent treatment, as she has done several times before any time I’ve pointed out the plights of women and how wrong the ways women are treated by men and society as a whole are. And I got angry and pointed that out, saying that if I talked to her about any other examples of unfairness in the world, like the way LGBT people and ethnic minorities are treated, she wouldn’t have ducked out on me then, but she always sticks her head in the sand when I’m talking about any plight of women in particular.

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I just saw a squirrel on the front porch. Very concerning. I really hope they won’t start chewing up the front door again. It looked like it was licking the brick stoop? I saw a rabbit doing something like that recently. I have no idea why.

It sucks seeing different apps I use stop working because my phone is too old.

I’m having a really horrible morning. Don’t even care that I’ve finally started hatching Rock-types because what’s happening IRL is so awful.

I’m convinced that I’m cursed. I’ve hatched 98 eggs from the lab today but not a single one of them was Rock-type, and that’s all I need.

Alright, I’m breaking the chain. Got up to 143 but it wasn’t enough for a single shiny. First Emera shiny hunt failed.

I’ve had a couple more eggs pop up at the last minute.

Only three eggs left before I will probably have to abandon my chain at 140 with no shinies. Should hatch soon.

How did people know to not claim their anniversary gifts until this release?

Just discovered something kind of neat. I was just scrolling through Instagram and happened to see a picture of some standing stones in Scotland, and I noticed that they look remarkably similar to the three standing stones that were above the ultimate weapon in Geosenge Town in X and Y. They’re called the Glengorm stones, in case anyone wants to check them out.

I knew that the stones on Route 10 of Kalos just before Geosenge were inspired by Brittany’s Carnac stones, but I haven’t seen any standing stones in Brittany that look like those three in Geosenge. And we know that Game Freak likes to mix and match things from different places, like how the Tubeline Bridge in Unova was inspired by Scotland’s Forth Bridge.

What’s the longest PokéRadar chain anyone’s ever gotten without getting any shinies?

The luck that I needed to go into my shiny hunt has apparently been going into Higher or Lower instead.

My chain is up to 114 with no shiny. That’s the number of bird species on my Life List as well.

Help, the lag is killing me

I’m happy to announce that I have common whitetail dragonflies around my house. Dragonflies are awesome.

My chain is now up to 101 with no shiny :/

I just found out that Ditto is a surname. It’s really funny reading a random news article and seeing that someone’s named Ditto.

12 minutes left and we just need 15k interactions for x2 tomorrow, guys.

One hour left in the day and we need just 54k interactions to have x2 tomorrow.

I’ve seen a lot of birds around my house this morning. Unfortunately, there’s been a lot of noise pollution from humans around me for several days now. Heavy machinery, untrained or poorly-trained dogs that bark all the time, and explosives do a lot to prevent me from feeling joy.