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It’s taken me a couple days to process the best day of my life with my best friend but I have and now you’re all going to get an influx of concert photos! • • Side note; thank you to said best friend for the most fun I’ve had roaming a city and dancing and singing and screaming my heart out to my favourite boys with my favourite girl! #bestfriend #bestdayever #concert (at The Danforth Music Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce1hYqYJYsj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Just doing what I love at the Norfolk County Fair which includes eating Ice Cream and cuddling with my otter! • • • • Thank you to @jessica_volkaert for making my first fair experience so much fun, and for taking some cute pics with and of me! 🖤🖤 • #ncf2021 #norfolkcountyfair #girrlscout #thanksgiving (at Norfolk County Fair and Horse Show) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU2_7RyJRlY/?utm_medium=tumblr
Friendship is like an amusement park, sometimes it’s a little scary, sometimes you cry, but you always end up giggling and screaming because you’re having so much fun. Thank you for the best day filled with the most laughs and screams, love you girls!❤️ (at Canada's Wonderland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS7adzCloCC/?utm_medium=tumblr
Yellow, nice to meet you. 🌻 • • • • • • *Photo taken August 2020* • #sunflower #yellow #sunshine #photography #happy #confidence #shorthair #flowers #portrait (at Makkink Flower Farm, Tillsonburg Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CP_BFocApB4/?utm_medium=tumblr
okay so are the beekeepers who wear protective gear just weak or are these bees tame or is there some wild bee magic I'm unaware of
So many beeees
Also
"I began scooping the bees"
Excuse me
Oh!!!! Okay, okay! So, as a beekeeper, I can answer that question @argumate. It might not be an "all beekeepers" answer, but it's what I've found true in my past six years.
Protective bee wear is a super helpful tool, especially when harvesting honey, but not always necessary. If I'm just doing a routine inspection I typically just wear a net hat. Sometimes I forgo that entirely if I'm just doing a quick peek, but no matter what, I never wear gloves. Honey bees are super chill and easy going if handled properly (and I've found they get to know you so to speak, and settle down even more as time goes on) and I feel the less clunky a suit I'm wearing, the better. Especially on my hands. See, bees release a stress hormone that can get everyone in a tizzy if they're hurt. So squishing one during inspection by accident isn't a good thing. Without gloves, I'm able to feel if a honey been gets beneath my finger and move my grip before hurting it. Plus it makes it far easier to maneuver the frames which in turn gives me a quicker inspection and less stress for the ladies.
With these bees, I'm guessing they were very close to a swarm state. That's when the hive runs out of room and are getting ready to split. Bees in this state hardly ever sting and are generally very easy going as they're focused on getting ready to have part of, or all, the hive move out.
(When you see those pictures of a bunch of bees hanging out somewhere without a hive, that's a swarm. They're usually entirely harmless and are just chilling until they find a new place to live.)
I'm thinking that's also why they were so ready to move into the hive she provided. It's more spacious and is essentially everything they want for a new home since they outgrew their floorboard house.
Even if these bees weren't near that state, the use of the smoker, the slow and steady way she's moving, and the way she naturally encouraged (by placing the queen inside the new hive) them to transfer themselves into the provided hive makes her likeliness of getting stung pretty slim.
Apologies for this getting long. 😅
And I'm sure I could have been a little more concise but hopefully I helped a bit. 🐝💕
This is something we as radicals don’t talk about much but which has come up a lot in my experience:
You deserve mutual aid. You’re not too privileged for it, you’re not stealing it from people who need it more - you have a right to use community resources just as much as anyone else
I’ve seen food rot, clothes and books be forgotten in storage, because the people volunteering at or supporting these projects don’t think the resources are for them. Then those same volunteers will go out and put money they don’t have into the capitalist system to buy the resources they could’ve gotten for free
You’re thinking like a charity. You’re drawing a line between the people giving resources and the people taking them, which inevitably leads to a feeling of separation and eventually superiority, unconsciously seeing yourself as a savior coming in and helping the less fortunate. That alienates the people you’re helping from you, and results in neither side fully recognizing the other as human and the same as them
There’s a reason we say “solidarity not charity”. There’s a reason mutual aid is called mutual. Because by lifting each other up, we all become stronger. In solidarity and mutual aid, there is no separation between giver and receiver, because everyone involved is benefited by it
But that doesn’t happen if the resources aren’t used! Get out of the capitalist scarcity mindset - give freely and take freely, because by being lifted up you help us all
This is important! When I first started doing the food distributions, I’d feel really weird about taking a leftover box of produce or an extra meal home. Then my volunteers started feeling weird about taking theirs and very quickly we developed a culture of “who really deserves/needs this food”? I realized what was happening and started taking a little bit home myself, and then everyone got much more comfortable with me and people who were originally just standing in the line to get food began volunteering and doing other things to help out.
This one thing that like clicked for me since doing mutual aid is that capitalism’s overproduction is so deep. The Food Bank in my city, in order to maintain its grants at certain financial volume, ends up giving families soo much food it’s like they handed out boxes that came direct from Costco.
10 cans of peaches, 2 5lb cans of crushed tomatoes, 6 loaves of bread, a whole box of tuna packets, 8 mangoes, 6 1lb bags of rice, 10lbs of frozen chicken tenders or fajita meat. And it’s like wtf? They gave this to a family of 4??? They can’t even fit some if that in their fridges/freezers half the time so it gets donated to us.
I had my neighbors stop me before last distro to hand me all those items, plus other things. This one of many small examples, that pounded in my skull, that if I want/need it, I’m taking it.
One of my partners hit me with some wisdom a few months back, “Are you trying to build a community that you dont get to be a part of?” And that shit just echoes in my brain these days.
“Are you trying to build a community that you dont get to be a part of?”
Lol, here’s a fun one: if you had been born in the medieval era and without access to modern medicine, how long would you have lived? If I managed to survive being born (unlikely) I would have died at age 22 from appendicitis :) hbu?
The number of you absolutely convinced you would have been convicted of witchcraft and burned at the stake seems statistically unlikely.
Kidney infection at like. 5 years old.
Possible anyway, the uti infection had reached my kidneys, and i got really ill. but then i got antibiotica.
Without antibiotica, well who knows if i would have made it or not *shrugs*
Still here - but extremely nearsighted… so nobody marries me and I do a lot of embroidery? I guess??
I had very bad jaundice as a newborn, and strep throat half a dozen times as a kid, so one of those probably would have done it.
I probably wouldn’t have survived birth - if my mother had even made it that far. She had super high blood pressure the last month of her pregnancy and spent 4 weeks in hospital being constantly monitored so that her meds could be adjusted so she and I would not die.
Really tough call here between the Scarlett fever and chicken pox combo I had in my youth and getting murdered for being Jewish.
Rachel I know this was just a typo but I honestly think we should call it Scarlett Fever when you get whitewashed in the movie version
LMAO
Are you from the 19th century? Who even gets the scarlet fever variant of strep in the latter part of the 20th century? Who did you catch it from?
OMG I’m laughing so hard because this is what @anyroads literally texted to me last night:
But honestly, I don’t think it’s that rare? Children with chickenpox have an increased risk of contracting Group A Streptococcus (the cause of Scarlet Fever), which is exactly what happened to me (this was before there was a chickenpox vaccine). It seems like the two diseases have a high comorbidity. Obviously, back in ye olden times it could be pretty deadly, but I’m pretty sure that it’s not such a big deal anymore due to the effectiveness of antibiotics. It’s not that it stopped existing, it just stopped being deadly.
I had Scarlet Fever FOUR TIMES because my doctor straight up wouldn’t give me antibiotics because we’re Jewish so he assumed my mother was hysterical and nagging and making a fuss over nothing. She eventually caught on and switched doctors, but yes, people do still get Scarlet Fever
Wow, near death by antisemitism AND scarlet fever, proving the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Hello hello!
Here is the last part of the Oak House : the kids bedroom !
There are 29 new items to decorate their room! All the items are base game compatible, and come with a lot of matching swatches ! I also add a toddler version of the former bedroom set, to make sure everything matches. The two little wood pieces are playable toys, appart this, the rest of the toys and plushes are decorative. For some reasons, I not able to do the thumbnails overlay…so I’ll update the set as soon as I can add it !
If you want it now, you can get it on my Patreon (link also down bellow) !
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I hope you will have fun with this set!
This set is on early access now and will be public the 28th of March!
Huge thank you for your support friends. ❤️
Have a lovely weekend.
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I don't know if you guys have been hearing about what's happening in Myanmar, but here's a succinct video.
a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions
Too many children in the comments like ‘I think authors should be able to share ko-fi links :) it’s just nice’ and ‘OP is just a cop.’ Homie, OP is trying to keep AO3 fully functional without interruption. I will report your ass, too, because I value fic artists and our freedom of expression and my audience and our shared history far more than I value the few bux you wanna make on a commission.
It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.
Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.
AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.
If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.
The only people who misunderstand this are doing so intentionally and maliciously. Do yourself a favor and block the infants who think this isn’t a big deal.
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.
They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.
THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.
Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.
DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!
They did the same to brisket. You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply. And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month. And it was tasty. I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.
It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.
But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket. Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque. And the price of brisket went up. A lot.
I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now. And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes. It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.
Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’. Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls? Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.
Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently? You guessed it. Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.
Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon. For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.
Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.
LMAO. Wait.
Anyone else’s eye twitchin?
Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.
the lobster becoming a ‘luxury’ food rather then a trash food could be traced to rockefeller, who had eaten some lobster soup while at one of his boat houses as it was what was being served to his workers. he said he quite liked it to journalists, possibly as a way to claim that no we are not feeding our workers trash, the weird sea-bug stew they eat is good im totally not lying. however once word got out that richy mc richerton purportedly enjoyed lobster suddenly every high end chef in new york was trying to elevate this food for high society instead of just chucking them in a pot the same thing happened to oysters, they were a cheap food for working people to the point they were sold hot on street corners in ‘oyster pails’, disposable paper boxes that they were just indiscriminately shoveled into. to the point that the new england oyster population took a severe dive, so when they became scarce suddenly they were considered a delicacy rather then something choked down by factory workers. due to the sudden lack of need for oyster pails the manufacturer attempted to find some other market for their cheap disposable food containers, you might have bumped into them
which is ironic as chinese foods have been steadily morphing from a cheap food for the working class into a haute cuisine of triple that original price one would not dream of serving in a paper takeout box as which has already happened to cajun/creole food, smoked salmon, indian food, the afforementioned brisket as well as some steak cuts and several types of chicken and pork soon the only foods that will be cheap will be cabbage and beans
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