Doreen Michele

I recently tripped across this video: Elektra's stilleto bootcamp The character's name is Elektra Abundance or Elektra Wintour from a TV series called Pose  that I had not previously heard of. Of course because I watched it and tried to identify the source, YouTube then began spamming me with clips from the show.  The actress is Dominique Jackson. Wikipedia says: She experienced a traumatic upbringing that included bullying and sexual abuse . due to her transgender identity.  A lot of the clips I'm seeing are very confrontational and uncomfortable to watch. And then I tripped across a clip about Elektra getting evicted from her mother's house and I noped out when her mother becomes physically abusive and turned my attention to adding new content to a trans resource I quietly run but don't in any way promote.  I also run The Genevieve Files , an LGBTQ resource started because the LGBTQ community is at high risk of homelessness   and Formulary of Life , a HRT s...

I don't even participate anymore nor hang there. Still top 0.01 percent. Oh my god. And my other handle, retired YEARS ago -- last comment is 27 November 2017, last submission is 29 November 2017 -- still top 0.p2 percent.  That's the first and second woman on the leaderboard of this sausagefest. And when I was tracking such things, I intentionally tried to talk less and post articles instead. I got about half my karma from articles, not comments. No one really wants a woman on Hacker News. Except Dan Gackle and maybe that egalitarian fool Paul Graham who designed YC around his then girlfriend whom he eventually married and, back when Twitter was still Twitter, sometimes posted hypotheses about how to more effectively promote women founders. The title is tongue in cheek. No one is telling that rat bastard Thomas STFU, you talk too much. But let a WOMAN run her mouth something like half as much: Bitch talks too much. Go clack your knitting needles, woman....

If you click into a link to my Bio  from a footer note saying "Website by Doreen Michele." that's a personal blog entirely by me. My full legal name is Doreen Michele Traylor.  If you find yourself here on this post  from a link in a footer, I did a very few websites as  works for hire and I'm about to update those to say "Website Created and Maintained by DM Traylor." and link to this post. My Websites page is intentionally a short list of relatively active blogs by me. You may have found yourself here via some blog of mine not currently listed there for some reason. I have a longstanding habit of taking some things offline for a time, republishing them, not wanting to promote them because they are no longer being actively developed etc. This as an attempt to clarify the authorship etc. of sites that link to this website that I created on my own or for pay using content provided me in the face of my messy online life that has no good answers. 

Exactly like the chick on the stand in Liar, Liar, I'm a brunette .  Or, you know, Madonna.  During the COVID 19 pandemic, I actually looked like a brunette for the first time in years because everyone was encouraged to stay home  as much as possible.  This cast light on my lousy marriage. I looked like a brunette while married too.  I must not have had much of a life while I was chattel property because both before and after my marriage, I usually look like some shade of dirty blonde and people sometimes squee at me about "I love  the highlights you've added!!!" and I don't know what to say because I did not add highlights.  I probably took a salt water bath or went swimming or increased how much walking I was doing which exposed me to more sunlight. I had black hair at birth and after a washing or two, it turned extremely blonde. My mother told tales of running her hands through my hair and being unable to see her gold wedding ring because it blended...

My interest is in community development work or fostering civilization and I never know how to explain that in a nutshell. An ancient Greek once said something like "Man is a product of the polis." Polis is the Greek city-state and I don't think there's an equivalent English word. The statement gets translated variously as "Man is a political animal." or "Man is a social creature." Polis wasn't just the legal and political structure of a particular form of government. It was also the social fabric of their society.  In a word it was the community.  Humans are a group animal and some are more social than others but even those who don't much socialize depend heavily on the works and products of other people to have a civil lifestyle.  Few people live completely alone while raising  or hunting all their own food, making all their own clothes, etc. Even hermits typically live in a house built by many workers and eat food grown by someone else a...

Traditional Chinese soap https://youtu.be/O-9CuiaxLGQ?si=pXCEadUy6aLYQXzp Coconut  https://youtube.com/shorts/ilcmMWvFRi8?si=GCufITjjnDqFudBE Tallow soap https://youtu.be/lI_YjQYw0G4?si=2QCqXPT__6Hh6N_c Ancient soap making. 5 minutes. I've watched half https://youtu.be/UobWYWSxV_8?si=HZ8FypmXadNQp-0o Turning olive oil into soap https://youtube.com/shorts/xQE9spcfoQM?si=2oC16QT--MvJ8UHQ Woodash https://youtu.be/B5KLWPSMot8?si=p4EzESCRMVudg50v Soap Making Tutorial  https://youtu.be/lBc-dWQmFIM?si=E0a8AmXpvv_zPHh8

What is a weir https://youtu.be/YkR79oDAgOg?si=ujfFajXaKXhu9Iwk Ancient city that mastered water https://youtu.be/xLaLpMeOyHk?si=xj6-m_Qifj9BGUtN Curved gabion lid https://youtube.com/shorts/Oor6yPjP6Ig?si=FA28ZD655Cwk7ik4 Ancient pump https://youtu.be/7OHCOFFUamQ?si=LJ2M8D96gXjyK_5x Primitive water filter https://youtu.be/nSBwJNDDUfc?si=i4_LzlK45mMmcaYD When do we have enough swales? https://youtu.be/B7nPkWBZVyA?si=yPayhYRXdM4jY6Ze Construction de gaviones https://youtu.be/WRSPrtNiiDE?si=Xcrt0XLFl_EnOeR- Weirs https://youtu.be/SibnBH4Htjo?si=KRcfEJVI-OyKTp5O Construct your own gabion basket 45 second clip https://youtu.be/UWGbJn7vYzk?si=AvDAuhdRb4p8yVLR Gabion Pillar https://youtu.be/IzzW9jNCgVE?si=L8YOT1qAZWqekAFV How Romans Made Water Run Uphill  https://youtube.com/shorts/858RhPi14FU?si=4rixns9LgOs35Ktj Survival water filter  https://youtube.com/shorts/MQWosAbsxLc?si=x-Mfb-Gcqng5zsmh Gabion steps https://youtu.be/B-THMEXWBiI?si=ceQgBjgTio_6yvN0 River Training  https:/...