[larkandkatydid]

New local scandal is an old woman who will walk down to her mailbox in her robe, then, when no cars are driving by, lay down next to her mailbox as if she’s fallen or been hit by a car. Tourists will stop, help her up, and walk her to her house. Then, after they leave, she’ll repeat this until she’s bored with it.

Her neighbors have called the cops a bunch but have been told that it’s not illegal to fake being an old lady in peril so soft-hearted tourists or newcomers are nice to you. One of the neighbors sometimes yells “oh, get up, Lois!” at her. But overall local sentiment is that this is at least somewhat enviable levels of not giving a fuck.

[honey-wine-and-time]

Finally a way to make new friends as you get older

[absurdlakefront]

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human histo

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Reading is more than a skill, or one mode of communication among many. The media we use to interact with one another shape the world we inhabit. Early humans spent millennia communicating only by voice. The advent of reading and writing transformed society. It altered people’s consciousness and politics, along with the intellectual feats they were capable of. The decline of reading will bring about changes of the same magnitude. It will affect our innermost thoughts, our society’s politics and culture, and how we tell the history of our civilization. If we look closely, we can see that these changes have already begun.

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And yet, even Puchner now believes that the doomsday scenario has arrived: A return to text, away from video, seems awfully unlikely. Maybe McLuhan and Postman weren’t wrong in predicting that our society would become postliterate. They were merely early. The world that these theorists foresaw half a century ago is now here. The literate era will prove to be a brief interlude between the oral and digital ages.

[muskoxen]

My friend just sent me this 😂

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

How does the Silo have eggs but not know what birds are?

I guess if the information people have is so specific and limited that they could know that eggs come from chickens (which they have), but not that chickens are a species of animal known as birds?

[mortalityplays]

opened the comments on a post and tumblr somehow had a half written comment already autofilled from the last time I saw that post. which was at least two years and several computers ago. what does this site's back end look like

[mortalityplays]

tumblr is going to gain sentience 100 years before any fuckass genAI comes close. this site runs on mold spores.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

We have our first tomato!!!

A little teeny weeny green orb just starting to emerge!!

We’ve put up a mesh shade thing over the tomatoes because the top leaves have been getting kind of wilted from the heat, apparently that should help keep them a little cooler!

Bugs completely decimated all of our cauliflower seedlings within days of planting in May, and got a couple of the cabbage seedlings as well, before we realized we would need robust protection against them.

We also had suspected mice eating the flowers that were blooming on the squash.

So after putting down litte ramekins filled with olive oil as traps (which caught a lot of the bugs, but wasn’t super effective at saving the plants) we did a single treatment of Sluggo granules to kill stuff off, and then every night we treat the garden with diatomaceous earth for the bugs and dust everything with cayenne pepper to keep the mice out. It seems to be working!

Well, at least for the tomatoes anyway. I’m not sure if any of the squash flowers are getting the opportunity to turn to squash. Time will tell!

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I did probably the most passive aggressive neighbor move I’ve ever done today.

I’ve noticed a few times (and cleaned up) a small dog poop on top of the end of our driveway curb. So it’s not the curb at the sidewalk/street, it’s a curb that lines the side of our driveway and divides it from the yard.

And there is a small dog poop right on top of it, which is just such a strange place/position for the dog to poop.

I was taking the trash out this morning and saw the poop and got annoyed and so I set a new roll of poop bags right next to it on the curb. That’ll show ‘em!

And it was a fresh poop, too; like probably less than 30 minutes.

Fucking shitty ass people.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I’m finding Lenin’s Tomb a bit difficult to get through because it is so dense. There’s just so much information, and so many names that take me a lot of time to sound out in my head because Russian names are very unfamiliar to me and I want to try and actually get them right instead of just glossing over them.

It’s also essential to really grasping everything the book covers to be able to hold on to the names and make sense of it all.

I did not foresee this when I started the book! I think this will be a long-haul book and I need to get a pretty lightweight book to have on hand as an easier, more relaxing read!

[forest-woman]

[laurierrose]

we need to start legally protecting these like make this kind of bathroom part of the national park system

[deoxoid]

his wife has filled THEIR house with ANTIQUES. to AVOID DAMAGING HER VALUABLES i fuck him on the floor

[manyblinkinglights]

#feminist retelling

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

When I picked up my new glasses a few weeks ago, I left my current glasses there to get new lenses in them. And I’m still waiting to get those back!

I know it will take a bit longer because they have to send those frames in to wherever they do the lenses, versus them having an inventory of all the frames they sell in the place where the lenses are done.

But it’s been three weeks! I suppose if the frames didn’t get sent out until the end of the week when I dropped them off on a Tuesday that can account for it.

But I’m kind of expecting to hear that the frames were lost in the shuffle.

I called just now and they only said that they aren’t in yet. If I don’t hear anything, I’ll call again on Friday.

I’m sure if the frames were lost they’ll (hopefully!) just give me a new pair of frames at no cost, because they were expensive frames and still in great shape!

[tearsofrefugees]

Clerks smile and 'flip off' security camera while 'sneaking' immigrants out of courthouse: DOJ

Two Utah court clerks have been dubbed "anti-ICE vigilantes" after they were allegedly caught "sneaking" immigrants out the back door of the

[antifainternational]

That's how you show real solidarity!

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!

[knxfesck]

Donate to Support Legal Fees for Logan City Ex-Court Clerks, organized by William Joma

A few months back, you might have read about two Logan City, UT court c… William Joma needs your support for Support Legal Fees for Logan Ci

Here is the link to contribute to their legal fund. They are facing multiple felony charges and I have no info on whether they have any community support at this time. If their actions are something you support, consider helping them out through the aftermath and investigation by the "justice" system

[sharting-meself]

Getting close! Currently raised $19,186 of $20,000 as of July 7, 2026.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I’m watching “Silo” on Apple TV and really enjoying it and Rebecca Ferguson is incredible, but her American accent slips quite a bit, especially with intense emotion. That surprises me because she’s such a great actress!

[fidget-sinner]

En Anglais, on ne dit pas “quatre vingt dix neuf”, on dit “ninety nine” qu'on pourrait traduire comme “Hurr durr, regardez mois, j'ai un système de numérotation fonctionnel” et je crois que c'est magnifique.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I’ve noticed a new person walking by with a dog recently that I haven’t seen before. I am familiar with many of the neighbors who walk their dogs because I have to go to the gate to shush my dogs from barking!

Anyway this new person is a gal who looks to be in her 20s probably with a lovely golden retriever and the three times I’ve seen her so far (including this morning when I was watering the roses out front) she was reading a paperback book while walking!

How delightful!

She seems like she would maybe be on tumblr. I should use the shoelaces code next time I see her.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

We needed to buy a new bag of diatomaceous earth for the garden and I just started reading the reviews of the one we bought out of curiosity.

There was one review that talked about how effective it was for getting rid of bugs, but then went into multiple paragraphs about using it as a health supplement!

And that it was good for all sorts of things, like digestion and hair and nail health. They claimed it got rid of their back pain entirely!

But then said that after taking it, expect to feel sick to your stomach for about a day and that they also had headaches the whole time. But once all that went away, they felt incredible!

And they also included that they read an account of a boy with “behavioral issues” who was given a it as a supplement and he just “started behaving all on his own.”

It was wild.

I looked it up to see if there had been any actual scientific research done on it as a supplement and it’s all just anecdotal evidence. I can’t imagine ingesting something that is advertised as requiring careful handling and recommendations to wear eye protection and a mask.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I did a bunch of yard work on Friday which was mostly trimming back an evergreen bush that grows out over the sidewalk. So it was a lot of using my hand clippers and today my hands and arms are so sore from it.

Definitely a sign that I am too out of shape and need to use my muscles more! I just took some aleve so I can sleep without being sore!