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kuso-leon

this is literally my favorite video

bootyflex

Reblogging this again so I don't have to powerscroll for ten minutes

The $1.99 Savers vape (with bonus art supplies) deserves its own post. Found by Admin BT at Savers in Boise, ID

optimistic that the $16 burger would include fries

huffylemon

dam1e

@sybilvimes

mokeonn

I think at some point in time we need to sit down and start explaining to artist who want to make a career out of art that there are FAR more options than just "living off of commissions" and "posting my art online and praying I get paid for it".

mokeonn

There's also far more options than joining a specific, difficult to get into industry.

mokeonn

I don't know where this idea that the only way to make a living off of your art online is to simply do commission work, become a social media star, or join an industry comes from. I've fallen into this pitfall before as well, but I don't understand how it came to be.

I broke out of this mindset, though after I started helping a working artist. She had been an artist for over 40 years and started at a young age, and her main source of income? Doing local craft and garden shows. She had owned a gallery, done gallery work, done charity work, and now mainly works in using upcycled materials to create all sorts of products.

I used to think that my only options as an artist were to become popular enough that people would commission me or just give me money via patreon, but that's not the case. You can sell at craft fairs and conventions, you can provide a specific service, you can create assets and asset packs people can pay for, and you can create all sorts of physical or digital products to sell... and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

If you are constantly turning art into a numbers game to see how you can make enough money by posting the right™ stuff online at the right time, you're only going to make yourself miserable.

The best way to make a living off your art has NOTHING to do with popularity, getting lots of engagement online, or besting an algorithm, it's all networking. It's all about finding the right people who want what you make. If all you focus on is your follower count and post engagement, you're just going to end up hating art.

"Having fun doesn't pay the bills", who told you that? Why did you believe them?

mokeonn

I'm seeing people reblog the original post without the addition and I think yall should reblog this version instead

Also I made a mistake, the artist I work for has been working for over 50 years, not 40.

bumblebeebats

My family has started calling my cat "the beast" which is very funny considering she's a 19yo arthritic old lady who needs help up and down the stairs. Not to mention she doesn't really meow any more, just sits and stares at you, and im the only one who can reliably guess what she wants, so my parents are constantly messaging me "The beast awakens... I know not what she desires 😥😥" i feel like the chosen prophet of an eldritch god

bumblebeebats

Nay, verily... I have noted the position of the stars, and determined rather that The Beast Hungers... for her nightly plate of wet food

bumblebeebats

@calamitytrios @shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey The people have spoken

Behold, The Beast

only-tiktoks

fieldbears

Sharing the secrets of your hearth with strangers who will never be able to meet or thank you. Honoring the dead through learning their traditions of the home; emulation and exaltation. A good carrot cake.

zabadi

ive definitely said this before but i just love so much how deeply cynical the sopranos is without really letting you know it until a few seasons in. it's about death in such a deep way every subplot every character the existential crisis that happens once a season like it's fundamentally about a very bad man contemplating death. his own death the death of others the death of a way of life the death of the american empire. they just dont make tv shows that simple anymore just about the specter of death haunting a narrow shallow violent man who can't conceive of anything after his own way of life

#i didn't realize how prominent of a theme suicide is in the show until like my 6th rewatch

venomtots

Real talk though has anyone else just thrown away a whole Tupperware container bc you left food in there for way too long and now you’re afraid to open it?

All of you are so valid

idlnmclean

FYI, that is generally speaking a safe protocol.

Couple of notes. Fungi and bacteria are the first lifeforms discovered to eat plastic. They both use a technique of creating biofilms on and in things to establish colonies; even bacterial and fungi that don’t eat plastic will burrow into it. Visual inspection is not generally good enough to preclude fungal “roots” in plastic. Though if the plastic has separated (forming like a bubble or a peeling away film) then microbials have almost certainly established “roots” in the material. The metabolism of microorganisms denatures plastic even if they don’t eat it; this produces toxic biproducts similar to burning plastic.

If something has grown in the tupperwear from it being left along in the wet and the dark with a growth medium for who knows how long then opening it is a bad idea. That will almost certainly aerosolize spores or bacteria that have had long enough time and sufficiently isolated conditions to evolve their own special adaptations.

“Cleaning” and reusing the tupperwear is ill-advised in that case as you’d need a lab to guarentee the plastic isn’t compromised and playing host to some nasty biofilm that is resilient against typical cleaning practices, and the plastic itself likely is coming apart in a way that will perpetuate toxicity–low grade at best– even if you did manage to santize the surfaces. Best case scenario, you’re eating microplastic and the tupperwear is shedding as it breaks down over years.

It ain’t worth it.

flightyquinn

Reblogging because not only is this important…it’s also terrifying.

mindfulnesspoet

Whole lot of people thinking about what they put their food in…

shadow-banned-the-hedgehog

What about pyrex with silicone top?

bonsaisboneyard

The top is probably best discarded, but the glass part can very effectively be sterilized by heating it in an oven (250F should do it, but higher if you want to be safe). It should be able to tolerate any temperature a conventional kitchen oven is capable of generating.

traaansfem

important note: american pyrex is a different material to what the rest of the world gets, and it is MUCH less resilient to heat shock, so if you’re doing this with american pyrex, uhhhhhhh. just pitch it. the likelihood of glass shrapnel isn’t worth it.