A quick update on Nao and Shylke (Cat-a-clysm)'s situation
So, we've been effectively "confined" in what was a B&B by this one's mother; she said this was "good enough for our needs for now", but she really only wanted us out of the question. Rent is € 400/mo. and the place is shitty to say the least. The only "good thing" is that it's placed in the city centre so we can go anywhere from here. We got scammed by the real estate agency, so for the first month we actually paid four times as much, and we're now struggling to make ends meet.
As always we're trying to stay strong but we cried and we're still crying as there's no one here nor there that is willing to truly help us.
As for Nao personally, well, this one is being gaslit and exploited both psychologically and financially. Mom wants all of its disability money now that it gets some, so that she can tie Nao to her and keep it as her pawn. In the other hand, Nao really really likes living on its own and being kind of independent, and it really loves staying with Shylke. This is the main reason why mother is now trying to pressure us both into splitting apart. We believe - firmly - there's a lot of detachment crisis into it, but mom is not handling this "as a mother should", to say the very least. Oppression and manipulation is making Nao very unstable, and it's almost being forced to call the psych ward and to be put in patient care.
This said, we're very deeply sorry we're having a truly hard time to work on ourselves and also on our projects - the Celeste Hearts for him, and Ampersand for both of us.
We've been denied of any IRL help. Currently, Nao's parents are trying to hold it hostage at its parents' home, while Shylke is staying at the B&B. We don't know what to do and we're preparing for the worst.
You know, the answer to captions like that is to 99.9%:
Yes*
*Under laboratory conditions and for a very specific use case / a whole lot of money, once.
The reality is that billions are poured into developing faster computers and change is happening gradually, because low-hanging fruits are gathered even before they are ripe.
Half time - and I'm at 26 books! (It's a big thing for me, I haven't been able to read much in the recent years.)
Some first statistics: books from 9 countries + one collection from Scandinavia in general; 11 books by women, 12 books by men, 2 books by f+m pairs, one mix anthology; 10 books in German, 16 in English; 9 books rated 4.5 or 5 out of 5, 14 books marked as recommendations; 6x non-fiction, 1x book outside of such categorization (free verse poetry as topical biography?).
@vicgrinberg great job! I'm only at 18. I'll have to do more analysis later but the main takeaway this year is the paucity of great reads. I've struggled. Only one 5 ⭐️ book (Prequel by Maddow). 7 nonfiction, 11 fiction. 8 by women, 10 by men. Wish I knew another language but at least one was translated. 9 audiobooks, 9 dead tree books.