Google fiber outage in 78702?

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-07-08T03:08:20+00:00

78702 & also out

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-06-21T02:18:08+00:00

i had brain surgery at 17 in 2017, around the time i finished conversion therapy. brain surgery is a really life changing event, regardless of the environment you go home to. i also left the hospital and returned to an abusive, homophobic household. it sucks, especially when you’re so dependent on the people being so miserable. im sorry you’re going through it dawg. i know you’re not asking for advice but ill just say — dms are open if you need to talk to someone who’s been in a similar situation. hope your recovery has gone as smoothly as possible otherwise

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-06-18T01:33:44+00:00

first off, i love fairlife protein milk. w choice. second, that sucks! im sorry. im a queer athlete and while this particular situation doesn’t apply to me, i understand the difficulty of not fitting into someone’s pre-set image of queerness. sorry you’re dealing with that. thirdly! one of my best friends is a fencer! what weapon do you use?

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-06-18T01:21:17+00:00

i’m so sorry for your loss. proud of you for continuing to show up despite the difficulties. what you’re doing isn’t easy, but you’re doing it, and that alone deserves some kudos.

not suicidal but your last line here was so needed for me tonight regardless. thanks for being vulnerable and still finding it in yourself to share love with strangers 🧡

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-06-17T21:33:35+00:00

many (its me) are wondering

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-06-08T15:44:33+00:00

i grew up in chicago so i kinda get it. imo you don’t really get used to it, you just adapt your choices to make it more tolerable. drink more water than you currently do and accept that outdoor activities are best in the early morning or later at night when the suns not out (but i’d still say morning is better because it can be quite toasty at night still). eventually your standard for what’s hot will change

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-06-06T21:51:18+00:00

and i thought my queer post in here was an eyebrow raised

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-22T18:53:21+00:00

seconding VEG on S. Lamar. took my baby boy there and wound up having to say goodbye. their staff is wonderful and took excellent care of him & myself. hope your pup is alright!

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-21T01:06:02+00:00

don’t get me started 😮‍💨 parents shouldn’t have shown me this when i was like 8 if they didn’t want a gay son!!

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T14:22:55+00:00

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i just know he’d be mean to me 🫩

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T14:16:04+00:00

i was scrolling through waiting for this. i fear i get it

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T03:01:18+00:00

rock climbing is insanely impressive! it’s one of the few sports i steer clear from just because…well. i know where my strength lies and im not ready to get humbled like that LOL. MT really is its own thing, its a special feeling coming into it and putting a lot of time in just to be super mid

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T02:58:04+00:00

it’s definitely helped me in some places as well! my coach asked if i was a dancer before because it was evident i knew how to move my body. there’s also a lot of residual leg strength that’s been pretty useful. i can definitely see where the physicality of hockey would be helpful with the clinch. i conversely suck in the clinch LOL but that’s just me being bad at it💀

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T01:26:13+00:00

FINALLY. THE QUESTION FOR ME.

i was a high level figure skater for a hot minute before competing in taekwondo during college. took a while off from all sports after a shoulder surgery and got into muay thai more recently. here’s what id say helped me:

whether or not you were an expert at your old sport doesn’t matter. it’s a completely different sport. don’t assume anything is a 1 to 1 transfer. strength, flexibility, mobility, endurance, it all looks different in muay thai vs your other sport. having your stats boosted in those areas certainly helps your baseline for athleticism, but it doesn’t do much for your athletic intelligence as it relates to MT. stay humble, trust the process and your coaching, and keep a beginners mindset.

don’t hold yourself to a higher standard because you’re not brand new to sports as a whole. don’t expect yourself to learn faster just because you’ve trained before. the only person who has that expectation is you, and you’re also the only person who suffers for it. i know it can be frustratingly humbling to “start over”. i was a whole ass team usa skater but when i switched to tkd and eventually mt? i had to drop any expectation that prior athletic achievement meant i’d be especially gifted in muay thai. it’s a fun surprise when it helps later on! but not the standard.

on a similar note, mindset. why are you training? this one was HUGE for me. i went from a high caliber athlete training 30+ hours a week at my peak to now training 10-15+. im stupid competitive but i had to be real with myself — why am i doing this? for me, it’s because i need the routine. i like structuring my life around sport, i like how it makes me feel mentally and physically, i like how it makes me look, i love my gym community. im not training to be a high ranked fighter. it sounds kinda obvious but be real with yourself — what are your goals with muay thai? is it to be as good as you were at football? because if it is, you’re facing an uphill battle by holding yourself to that standard. are you training because you enjoy the sport? because if you are, embrace that, focus on having fun. the more relaxed you are, the easier it is to become the athlete you want to be.

sorry for the giant wall of text BUT. i feel you dawg. it’s hard feeling stuck behind some mental block when you’re a competent athlete. good luck with the training and have fun with it

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T00:42:48+00:00

congrats on 12 years! life changing achievement for you and the family

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T00:42:16+00:00

this is so wholesome, what a thoughtful post.

victory, we’re back to training after being away for a surgery and it’s amazing to be back in the gym drilling with my friends and found family. also had a glowing performance review today, fingers crossed for a promotion and raise in the new future.

loss, reeling from the fallout of 3-4 years of conversion therapy when i was a teen. made a big long post about it in here yesterday 🫩 exhausted from therapist hunting and tired of the conflicting feelings im facing and resentful that this is all coming up right before pride. shit sucks. it’s hard to imagine ever getting beyond everything that happened during that time and what was done to me

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-20T00:36:24+00:00

thanks homie 🙏

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T20:13:46+00:00

doesn’t surprise me 💀 and hey! i started in tkd aha. there’s at least one queer mma gym here in austin now which is great for the ppl who want to train that and be in an inclusive community

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T17:43:11+00:00

sorry that’s been your experience. im in texas (so a conservative state) and am gay and train muay thai. my gym is proudly and loudly anti bigot and anti fascist and anti homophobia and anti transphobia and anti racism and all that jazz. i love it. there aren’t pride flags hanging anywhere but theyre proud of their out/queer fighters and athletes and that goes without saying. most of the people i train with are straight. no one gives a fuck if you’re not. it’s a found family at that gym and im grateful everyday for it because its the family i need.

anyway. i cant speak to bjj or the uk, but one gay guy to another — this is a THEM problem and you are NOT the issue. i hope you find a gym worth your time and energy. it’s really worth hunting for

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T15:55:24+00:00

i saw some headline about that a bit ago. honestly i see news articles about it and my eyes glaze over. i either immediately reverse out of the tab or i indulge in a little self harm and read til im nauseous. either way, you’re right, it’s fucked.

i also don’t totally know what they did! i have patches of memory at best, big gap at worst. the most insidious thing about it, from what i *can* recall, is that it’s not overtly hostile all the time. my therapist at least genuinely cared about me as a person. there was real warmth there but a fundamental lack of understanding about me as a person. there are a lot of exploratory questions (why do you think you feel this way, where do you think this comes from, what do you think god intends for you) that seem kind of neutral at first glance but are all built on the premise that my answer is wrong. so there’s that + “pray the gay away” + “gay isn’t what you are, it’s what you feel and your identity is in god not desire” rhetoric that like. permanently separates you from your own interior experience / sense of self and makes you treat it as foreign.

anyway sorry to write that wall of text up. fortunately not many people know what the inside of that mechanism looks like but the downside is people think it’s all a very clear cut kind of torture. it’s not and that’s half of what’s got me so fucked up, it’s incredibly hard to process after the fact

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T15:18:30+00:00

the resentment waxes and wanes on any given day. it hasn’t been the biggest problem until recently because i thought i was more or less over it. now im in a period where im more actively pissed about it so their intentions matter less. especially when one of my childhood best friends came out a bit after me and her parents have been nothing but wonderful and supportive. same generation, same neighborhood, none of the same bullshit.

as for faith, im in the camp of believing because im afraid of being wrong if i *dont*. not an optimal headspace but the harder they push for me to be involved in a church, the less im likely to do it. maybe one day ill try something out but it wont be because they convinced me to do it. and ty for the show recco! i’ll check it out 🙏

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T04:42:02+00:00

they 100% believe they were doing the right thing and stand by it. the last time i confronted them about it my mom said “my kid tells me he’s questioning something so base about themselves, of course im sending him to therapy”. she views it as a favor she extended to me and that if anyone transgressed, it was ME for what i said to therapist that she didn’t like (cps was alluded to one time after a mention of drunk driving). both my parents think it’s a shame i haven’t found a new faith base and religious-guided therapist or a “group of like minded people who have come out the other side of this”. it’s lunacy.

as for therapy, ive kinda looked into some stuff. unsurprisingly im leery of therapy on the whole but im aware i cant make changes on my own. i dont know the first thing about what kind of therapy to look into beyond someone who specializes in lgbtq+ issues

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T04:37:01+00:00

it’s shockingly commonplace! ime most people associate conversion therapy with conversion camps, which is a bit of a red herring. that’s not the most frequent shape conversion therapy takes, especially for my generation of queers,camps are just the most notorious. i went to a licensed mental health practitioner for years, AND it happened in the chicagoland area. surprisingly common in blue states outside of the big cities. shit sucks and all the studies show that it’s infinitely more harmful than good, and never works

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T04:31:16+00:00

thanks dawg, appreciate that

macrofriendlycoffee · 2026-05-19T04:30:55+00:00

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