This is, quite possibly, the most entertaining interview i have ever encountered.

[aperture@snug.moe]

@masukomi HELP THIS IS SO FUNNY

truly a great representative of the pnw

- carrie

[haraldki@nrw.social]

@masukomi

For those in other parts of the world, here is where she started, afaict.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.474&mlon=-123.887#map=9/49.474/-123.887

[malm@mathstodon.xyz]

@masukomi A lot of funny bits, some more profound like the breaking of the record 'It's hard to feel kind of an ego about it because I feel like no two swims in the ocean are ever the same, because you never know what current someone gets stuck in or whatever. So it's kind of hard to feel a superiority complex in a sense when it's not equal.'

[emmaf_77@piaille.fr]

@masukomi #matriarchy #feminism just two women talking really

[pkyo@kind.social]

"Did I eat ice cream for nothing?"

@masukomi

[shivers@mastodon.ie]

@masukomi Found another article about Melanie Buggey and her swim with more delightful quotes/insights: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/the-impossible-feat-nanaimo-woman-swims-across-strait-of-georgia-in-record-time-12688937

[a@beige.party]

@masukomi Absolutely brilliant.

[tgent_fens@mastodonapp.uk]

@masukomi this has strong vibes of @JohnFinnemore 's classic "World's Fastest Tricyclist" sketch. Which I wish I had a link to.
Both say everything I've always thought about the advantages of NOT wanting to be an elite athlete.

[littlemouse@mastodon.scot]

@masukomi fantastic read. Thank you

[gifmodel@olia.geocities.institute]

@masukomi
indeed! :)))

[djgummikuh@mastodon.social]

@masukomi what a great woman. It's people like these that hold the torch for our species if you ask me.

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@masukomi Queen of the Waves.

[masukomi@connectified.com]

@twynn i couldn’t begin to guess as i have no idea what was cut. Is the audio available somewhere? Is that how you know about more questions?

[blueorangeblue@c.im]

@masukomi

"if I didn't keep swimming, I was going to be sitting in my own vomit."

A metaphor for life

[masukomi@connectified.com]

@Owlor i suspect she’s just an autistic woman who never had one to begin with.

[fullofmang@mastodon.au]

@masukomi that's glorious

[masukomi@connectified.com]

@HaraldKi thanks Harald. I was assuming it was over near the country of Georgia but also confused because couldn’t figure out why it would have a straight. To be honest i thought the country of Georgia was landlocked until just now.

[fourt4@mastodonapp.uk]

@masukomi thank you for sharing that, it made me chuckle.

[masukomi@connectified.com]

@DJGummikuh i mean, us autistic folks have invented our figured out most of the cool shit so…

Don’t know for a fact that she’s autistic, but dang did she leave a lot of clues.

[djgummikuh@mastodon.social]

@masukomi to be fair, I don't really think that categorization makes sense here, my admiration goes deeper than that. For whatever reason, she pushes the limits of what not only herself, but humanity as a whole can achieve and is approaching this with an almost child-like fascination despite the tremendous ammount of effort involved. Now whether she did that because she's autistic doesn't matter any more than the fact she's a woman in my opinion, I just admire her approach to life.