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Hey! I'm a forcibly retired dev and lover of books, games, ice cream, and all things cats.

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2025 Reading Goal

50% complete! tiff has read 2 of 4 books.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in Transformation of Trauma (Paperback, 2019, Penguin/Iota Publishing Limited)

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath …

I... can't right now. I need to put it down for a while. My case manager said that that might be the best thing to do ha. She said it's a hard and dense read and if you're not ready for it it can wreck you.

Will revisit in the future

Sarah Wynn-Williams: Careless People (Hardcover, Flatiron Books)

An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most …

I... have thoughts

Mixed feelings about the author and her portrayal of her involvement in this whole mess. I'm not sure a grown adult could be so fucking naive on purpose if they tried, which is why I really don't know what to think about her. I think I know what I'd do in the same situation but maybe I don't. She comes across well in the beginning but by the middle and end I was really getting irritated with her aw shucks I just wanted to get Facebook better prepared for public policy! Yet she is completely unaware that it is she who went to them and pitched them a job. That job she pitched them didn't exist and once it did, you have a bunch of psychopathic billionaires who were already evil people now awash in political power and even more money.

I put it down a couple times because …