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it’s so awesome when there’s a character who isn’t canonically bisexual but is undeniably haunted by the specter of bisexuality

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Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

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it's also a matter of time for skill development. if you like doing something and have an idea in your head just keep going and be creative!

Let go of the idea that diy will inherently look shit. All your clothes are handmade you just don't see the people doing it.

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trying to manage work family&friends hobbys and my crazy father i think i'm failing

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Today I finally culminated a project that has been in the works for a LONG time -- seed bombs!

I started a container compost bin on my balcony during the pandemic to generate the dirt/compost. I researched local, native flowers and pollinator favorites and picked a variety so they would have a chance in any lighting and hopefully produce new blossoms from May-July. Then I waited almost 5 years. Last week I ordered some clay.

Today I gathered my seeds, the powdered clay and a scoop of compost (and let me just say, the compost is SLAMMIN' -- the tea is crazyyy dark, iykyk). Mixed the seeds and clay, then pinches of compost to wet it into balls. Probably should have dried some of the compost out bc it was wet AF so idk if I hit the 1:1 ratio I was aiming for but fuck it we ball!

Literally! I made a few with seeds from a friend's wedding too to see what happens. Those I'll toss into tree beds I think bc they are probably not going to be wildflowers.

This is my local mix:

Mountain Phlox

Early Sunflower

Smooth Blue Aster

Spotted Bee Balm

Golden Alexanders

Wild Bergamont

I'll be sure to post an update once I toss a few into empty lots XD

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Cat stamps printed in Oman

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A bat taking a swim

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So. Storytime for guerilla gardeners and solarpunk enthusiasts. This story comes to me 3rd hand but I believe the basic shape of it is true, even if details may be off.

So there’s this guy who lives in my parents’ town. Wanted to have a pocket farm but lives on an urban lot in a small city instead because y’know jobs and stuff. He could definitely get a few raised beds in the backyard but nothing all that impressive and the front yard is on a very busy road with the expectation that it’ll look reasonably traditional (plus planting food by busy roads isn’t always a good idea).

However

After he’s lived there for a while, he realizes his neighbors are all older people who maybe have more challenges taking care of their yards than they used to. So he goes to his next door neighbor and offers a deal: I’ll mow and maintain your front yard for free if you let me knock down the fences between our backyards and plant them both with food. And you’ll get a cut of the produce.

Presumably the neighbor already knew and trusted this guy because he said yes. So he starts mowing and maintaining his and his neighbor’s front yards and planting food in their now-shared backyards. After a season or two this goes well enough that the next neighbor down the street asks if he can be in on this too.

So now there’s 3 front yards to mow and three backyards full of produce. And it keeps going from there. Dude gets a rider lawnmower and does everyone’s front yards, and meanwhile he’s maintaining an entire block’s worth of produce in the back. His yields got so high that he was able to start offering boxes of produce outside of the block’s residents too. This is how I heard of him: my parents’ next door neighbors were picking up a regular box of produce from him.

I love a couple of things about this story:

Offering to maintain people’s front yards for them allows baby boomers to feed their thirst for keeping up appearances while still getting food production into the neighborhood

As homeowners age offering services like this is legitimately good community building

BLOCK-LONG POCKET FARM

These exact circumstances might not be replicable everywhere, but I love thinking about how these principles could be applied.

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Datt Resort 2026

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You don’t have to lead the charge, or singlehandedly rally your community, or change your whole life. You can change the world for the better in small ways.

for example, my parents are your typical white suburban HOA couple. They Hate colorful houses and tattoos and loud music. They use pesticides and mow their lawns down to pristine rectangles, but recently , just by sending them posts about solarpunk living and attracting birds with native plants, they’ve planted native wildflowers, set up running water sources and bird feeders and squirrel feeders and hummingbird feeders and even let a few native weeds grow. You can MAKE A CHANGE! I promise!

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From the article:

Something approaching a miracle has been taking place in California this spring. Beginning in early March, for some portion of almost every day, a combination of solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower has been producing more than a hundred per cent of the state’s demand for electricity. Some afternoons, solar panels alone have produced more power than the state uses. And, at night, large utility-scale batteries that have been installed during the past few years are often the single largest source of supply to the grid—sending the excess power stored up during the afternoon back out to consumers across the state. It’s taken years of construction—and solid political leadership in Sacramento—to slowly build this wave, but all of a sudden it’s cresting into view. California has the fifth-largest economy in the world and, in the course of a few months, the state has proved that it’s possible to run a thriving modern economy on clean energy.

Thanks to @walking-on-a-scream for sending this in! This is an older submission from last year that I lost track of in my ask box, but this trend continues and is still extremely impressive.

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incredible how all of my father variations are giving me headaches (father, stepfather, grandfather)

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One of the greatest additions to a post ever