Disfunctional Reality

Brian, Male, 26, Sarcastic --- I write therefore I am. Physics grad. Yeah, I'm a nerd.

[trulyvincent]

From “Dendrology” by Linda Westin

[skellydun]

????? march ?????? again ??????

[donewandering]

Yes... we March again.

[bob-artist]

Whenever Tux manages to slip into a forbidden room, he does the most obnoxious victory dance. XD

[pixels-after-dark-deactivated20]

yeah so this video brought me to tears in like 8 seconds

[donewandering]

The "Victory Dance" is a survival behavior. The dance causes any potential predator to collapse into helpless laughter allowing the ferret to escape.

[donewandering]

"You see what power is -- holding someone else's fear in our hand, and showing it to them. "

Amy Tan

[rox-and-prose]

One of my least favorite mental illness things is "hungry but dont feel like eating" and its companions "hungry but all the food in the house is Illegal," "hungry but can't make anything," and "hungry, want to eat, but why bother"

[chatdomestique]

Also the adhd friend “hungry but unaware of hunger because current activity is too captivating”

[rox-and-prose]

"Hungry but I'll get to it later"

[jabberwockypie]

“Definite not hungry, nope, but upon forcing oneself to eat something, discovering that the food vanished in 30 seconds and the pervasive feelings of ickiness all vanished, what the fuck"

[signechan]

Hungry but only for one specific food. I do not know what that food is but i do know i don't have it in the house

[blueandbluer]

ok, that last one? That happens to me ALL THE TIME. I call in "food ennui".

[autisticexpression]

why the fuck is your food illegal? what are you eating?

[chronicreality]

It’s a perceptual illegality not literal. It *feels* wrong for some reason.

[donewandering]

It could be roasted spotted owl. That is tasty.

[homunculus-argument]

The ancient greeks really had graves for dogs. And they carved stuff on the stone like “carrying you here, I now feel as much grief as I felt joy when I carried you home” and “you never barked without reason, but now you are silent”. The human urge to tell a story spans centuries and millennia, and the loss of a really good dog makes you want to tell people - even people centuries in the future, who will never know your name - that there once was a dog who was a very good girl, but now she no longer is and you aren’t sure what to do with all this sorrow.

[donewandering]

Dogs are beautiful people

[pewdiepieburglar]

Vietnam has 200% more people than Canada, and .035% the deaths from Covid, so you’ll have to forgive me for being skeptical of everyone pointing to Canada as a shining example of how to handle this.

[casanovabutch]

Vietnam and Cuba should be our examples, not European countries.

[donewandering]

Totalitarian regimes are pretty good at handling this kind of thing. You may not have any personal freedom but you'll be safe from Covid!

[donewandering]

Wearing a mask has one advantage, i can yawn in meetings and nobody can tell..

[neoyorzapoteca]

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.’”

— Toni Morrison (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[thenatsdorf]

[sandersstudies]

My favorite part is when the kitty runs to the window and looks out like “the outside stuff????? It is inside?????”

[strawberryjellystuff-deactivate]

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i had to

[6qubed]

I like how he’ll get up and check the window to confirm that, yes, this is still the Inside and that is still the Outside, And Yet Snow

[wilwheaton]

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[get-shrekt-bby]

Oh my god, what a fucking SHOCKER

[chronicreality]

Seeing stuff like this sucks because you know those are like real PEOPLE who are poor and disadvantaged or uneducated. Like those are who are impacted by going back to work the most. And like Texas has SO MANY immigrants that aren’t covered by social support. When Abbott was contemplating how to help us he knew that any aid wouldn’t get to them—they’d just starve. But now they are primarily the ones working. Poor. Disenfranchised. Desperate. To think abbott didn’t know the cases would take a sharp up turn is a joke. He knew what would happen they were already on a steep intense incline when he made the choice. And I’m not defending him it was the wrong one by far and forcing Dallas to open when the mayor tried to keep it closed is barbaric.

But real people. Those are who are impacted. Real moms, sons, grandpas, KIDS are dying. For fucks sake guys…

It’s not just a bunch of *dumb southern republicans* it’s real people. And all the metropolitan areas being hit the most are extremely blue around elections it’s just Texas is massive. I see the notes. Y’all are horrible.

[donewandering]

I'd like to look at statistics. Are the younger folks that are going back to work getting sick or are they spreading it to the vulnerable population that we already know about? Can people go back to work as long as they change certain behavior? Sweden seems to have managed without any special edicts. They're just acting sensibly and not visiting retirement homes and doing virtual visits with the grandparents.

There will be a rise in infections when restrictions are lifted. That's a given. But perhaps it can be managed? Wrecking the entire US economy will kill agreat number of people and lead to civil unrest (See Michigan). Reopening should be fact based and managed but it must happen soon. Another two months will do irreparable harm to our economy.

[animalsnaps]

Cat snaps

[donewandering]

Spacial awareness is completely different for cats. Those frames are truly aligned in cat-space when he's done with them. You must learn to appreciate this.

[donewandering]

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me many years to understand that this was a gift.

~Mary Oliver, The Uses of Sorrow

[donewandering]

The acolyte waited many days to ask his question of the Zen master. "What is most important?", asked the acolyte. "Attention" responded the master, "Attention, Attention, Attention"

We live our lives in a dream. Awakening only for brief periods of true awareness. We notice nothing, truly experience nothing. Life washes over us leaving no mark and we leave no mark on it.

Wake up! Look around you. Attention!! Time is short.

[donewandering]

Today, look for something beautiful and focus for a time. Look into the eyes of a lover, study the shades of colors in a flower, listen to the secret conversation of water flowing over rocks. Whatever it may be, Make that beauty a part of you forever.

[donewandering]

"Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you. "

Guru Nanak

[just-shower-thoughts]

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

[unclebeanbag]

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

[ulysseus]

Plants don’t wage war

[unclebeanbag]

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

[kasaron]

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. 

[systlin]

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

[moirakatson]

This post did not go where I expected it to.

[deathbeforednf]

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

[norseminuteman]

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. 

[breadgunner-deactivated20181003]

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

[booksandwildthings]

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare

They smother every other living plant to death

Those trees under there are dead, they can’t get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It’s creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist’s wet dream tbh.

The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

What used to be a house

Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale

It’s an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake

The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine…. for now.

[nevercure]

Kudzu is on time magazine’s top 10 invasive species to look out for.

This little buddy doing his part

[nevercure]

Not to keep spamming this post but 

“the growth of kudzu as it became a “structural parasite” of the South,[7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as “the vine that ate the South”.[13]”

“It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., “easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually”.[2]“

yall it’s been estimated this plant consumes 600 kilometers of the united states every year

it’s been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away

[kiwilemonteanonsense]

Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots… Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it.

Eat it before it eats your house.

[vagaybond]

@solarpunkcast @solarpunkactionweek @solarpunkinspo @enviropunk feels relevant

[crittizen]

In this world it’s eat or be eaten

[gamebird]

Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu.

Posts that make you go ‘hm.’