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Plus I fucking hate when I get some "high concept" idea because inevitably in not happy with any of my prefab jewelry findings. I do not feel like remembering my wire skills for a piece due Monday.

I have like...a color scheme and a concept for this necklace, which is about like having one cool character and a premise for writing a story. Also, I need to work on my goddess beads. Not good enough.

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I have like...a color scheme and a concept for this necklace, which is about like having one cool character and a premise for writing a story. Also, I need to work on my goddess beads. Not good enough.

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public libraries are so sick. there are five books I want to read and they're all relatively new so they're only available in hardback which is so expensive but it just cost me $0 to place holds on them. five books for zero dollars. it requires nothing but clicking a button and then going to the library to pick them up when they're ready. zero dollars. that's crazy

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If it's any comfort, it could hardly be more different here. Few people have the money or desire to pay a landscaper, and many people enjoy at least a little gardening. Chickens and small vegetable plots are common, a little idiosyncratic landscaping is common, and outdoor seating spaces, insofar as they're usually in the back where a casual observer won't see them, are also fairly common.

On the downside, many people, even people whose houses are in disrepair and who obviously aren't wealthy, have huge lawns, and all they do is mow them. We could feed the entire state with half the land currently in turf grass.

One of the things that gets me about my job, is just realizing how many people own land around their dwelling and either don't want to or can't take care of it. How many people own a patch of grass, and hate mowing, and pay someone else to do it, and only have it because it's the expectation/a status symbol/the only way to get secure housing/housing with privacy?

Very American centric, I know, but still. You just see these fleets of landscape maintenance people sweeping through an HOA neighborhood with tiny patches of grass and extremely repetitive plantings, because the people living in the houses a) didn't actually have a hand in choosing the plants and b) are restricted in their choices by the rules of the HOA even if they did want to have a hand in it. No one wants to hang out on their front yard, because it's small and boring and extremely close to the road. There's no where to sit, there's nothing to do, it's only purpose is to exist as a sign that they can afford to pay someone to take care of it. Backyards are for some reason incredibly flat and covered in grass, but still not actually enjoyable to hand out in.

It really seems like fewer and fewer people actually enjoy gardening (even outside of HOAs) and yard care, and see it as a bothersome chore or something to hire out to someone else. It really seems like we should build more condos and other housing options that don't require a yard, because it seems like the number of yards is far greater that the number of people who actually like taking care of yards. Why not a bunch of condos surrounding or surrounded by parks where the kids and dogs and whatever can run around and play, and the care of the shared yard can be shared or collectively paid for?

Obviously I enjoy my yard and want to keep it, but it seems like so many people see their yard as a burden and money drain.

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Not to be a Boomer but your social media should be your own space, not something employers are allowed to look at to judge you beyond the qualifications stated in your resume and cover letter

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Kratos wants to know what's up.

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Vaathi Coming (From "Master")

This goes very hard

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*melee attack*

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Do remember everybody: if a president asks you to wear a mask during a pandemic, or forgives some college loans, the Supreme Court thinks that that’s a gross abuse of presidential power. Ordering the assassination of a political opponent? The Court isn’t sure whether that’s okay or not.

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Hey. Not to be a reblogging police so feel free to ignore but in case you might want to know, the sapphos-catpanions person who did that post about eating disorders is a terf

For fuck's sake. Fuckin terfs. You know, just to find a decent post about disordered eating, I went into the tag, got dinged by Tumblr wanting to make sure I was okay, got dinged *again* by their new "are u good" chatbot, and scrolled through a solid ten minutes of horrendously depressing pro-ana and "how to purge safely" and otherwise very painful posts just to find ONE post that addressed eating disorders as an actual dangerous illness. And then I fact-checked it online, because I'm not expert. And then it's a terf.

All I can say is, to those of you struggling with eating disorders and severe body image problems, I'm so fucken sorry. What a minefield.

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Grandma's couch lookin basic-ass flower.

I'll tell you a terrible secret--impatiens are so fucking basic and I do not like them. Especially not the garish salmon-colored ones.

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I'll tell you a terrible secret--impatiens are so fucking basic and I do not like them. Especially not the garish salmon-colored ones.

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Man, you know what I hate? When someone complains about not having enough energy/struggling to do what they need to do, and inevitably at least one sweet, well-meaning person comes along and is like, "You just need some rest! It's okay!"

Fucken--yes, I obviously know that! I would like to need much less rest! I would like to need a normal amount of rest. Posted a few weeks ago about accidentally taking an eight hour nap, and got told "I need some rest". Fucking obviously my guy! I would like NOT to have needed an eight hour nap! That was bad!

Today, someone who has a relative passing away posted that they were really struggling with the grief of it all and having trouble getting out of bed. And of course everyone told her that was normal and to take care of herself, which is eminently true as far as it goes, but my favorite was the guy who said, "don't get caught up in the rat race!" MY GUY. She's trying to open a restaurant! She's remodeling, running two satellite locations to keep the money flowing, and doing events on the side. She is as caught up in the rat race as you can be. That is a thing that has already happened. She's well fucking aware that she's doing too much, but until it WORKS, just stopping is not an option.

"Your body is telling you to rest! It's okay!"

Guys. GUYS. please. It is the NEEDING TO REST that is the PROBLEM. You missed the step and you're bouncing right past me.

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Ordering a few hundred dollars of plants would sure perk me up about now.

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Crassulas looking like shai hulud