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disappointed_lesbianI need to find my birth certificate to get a REAL ID, but my abdomen is killing me.
I was up all night last night, although I managed to sleep and dream a little sometime between five and six a.m. this morning. I'm done with overnight cornstarch.
The guy who was recently shot to death by ICE had, according to cnn, gotten his rib broken by ice just a week earlier. He got a broken rib, came back for more, and ended up dead. Dumb. I mean, dumb assuming he valued his life.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/alex-pretti-protesters-minneapolis-invs
The company that manufactures the computer keyboard I'd planned to buy seems to be out of business; there's no longer an online order form and the phone number leads to pre-recorded spam. This is particularly bad news because there are very few children's computer keyboards in circulation. Actually, there are quite a few that are marketed as being for children, but few or none that are physically made to accommodate small hands. Touch-typing on the colorful monstrosities, some with extra-large keys, is out of the question.
I kind of hate the online mechanical keyboard community because it's so limited in scope: it's mostly about keys that feel nice. My search for an appropriately sized keyboard led me to a thread in a sub-reddit for this community, in which a father asks about keyboards appropriate for young children.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/y824gj/what_would_make_an_ideal_keyboard_for_kids/?rdt=47676
No one in the thread seems to realize that a five-year-old and a seven-year-old will struggle with a regular-sized keyboard, probably because the community is made up primarily of men and standard keyboards cater to their humungous manpaws. They start in about what kind of keys the father should get, which is basically pointless for new young typists, and the father ends up deciding on this huge gaming keyboard, which I as an adult would struggle to type on: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Keyboard-Switches-Backlit-Adjustable/dp/B09CTCHW5Z
Long ago, I asked about mechanical keyboards for small hands in this community, and all they could say was, once again, shit about what kinds of keys I should get. As long as I don't have to put forth Herculean effort to press the keys, they hardly matter; what matters is how far apart they are, because I cannot comfortably reach across the gulfs that separate keys on standard keyboards, and how big the keys are, because their size increases the distance I have to reach.
I was up all night last night, although I managed to sleep and dream a little sometime between five and six a.m. this morning. I'm done with overnight cornstarch.
The guy who was recently shot to death by ICE had, according to cnn, gotten his rib broken by ice just a week earlier. He got a broken rib, came back for more, and ended up dead. Dumb. I mean, dumb assuming he valued his life.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/alex-pretti-protesters-minneapolis-invs
The company that manufactures the computer keyboard I'd planned to buy seems to be out of business; there's no longer an online order form and the phone number leads to pre-recorded spam. This is particularly bad news because there are very few children's computer keyboards in circulation. Actually, there are quite a few that are marketed as being for children, but few or none that are physically made to accommodate small hands. Touch-typing on the colorful monstrosities, some with extra-large keys, is out of the question.
I kind of hate the online mechanical keyboard community because it's so limited in scope: it's mostly about keys that feel nice. My search for an appropriately sized keyboard led me to a thread in a sub-reddit for this community, in which a father asks about keyboards appropriate for young children.
https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/y824gj/what_would_make_an_ideal_keyboard_for_kids/?rdt=47676
No one in the thread seems to realize that a five-year-old and a seven-year-old will struggle with a regular-sized keyboard, probably because the community is made up primarily of men and standard keyboards cater to their humungous manpaws. They start in about what kind of keys the father should get, which is basically pointless for new young typists, and the father ends up deciding on this huge gaming keyboard, which I as an adult would struggle to type on: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Keyboard-Switches-Backlit-Adjustable/dp/B09CTCHW5Z
Long ago, I asked about mechanical keyboards for small hands in this community, and all they could say was, once again, shit about what kinds of keys I should get. As long as I don't have to put forth Herculean effort to press the keys, they hardly matter; what matters is how far apart they are, because I cannot comfortably reach across the gulfs that separate keys on standard keyboards, and how big the keys are, because their size increases the distance I have to reach.
