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Find me on Etsy!
I sell handmade stone cabochons on Etsy at White Griffin Designs. I am also open for special requests if you have a certain stone and shape in mind.
6/14/25: I had to take a brief break to take care of some IRL stuff, but I've added some more stones, including some more unique shapes and some jaspers/agates with semi-translucent spots!
congratulations! you have built a star war.
It is vintage times. The powers that be have accepted your casting decisions, and are tentatively moving forward with shooting their new science fiction epic, recently renamed Planet Battles. (somebody thought it sounded cooler.) before they print the posters, take a look at the cast you, the electorate, have assembled!
Luke Skywalker—Sabu Dastagir
Princess Leia—Suraiya
Han Solo—Toshiro Mifune
Obi-Wan Kenobi—Takashi Shimura
Darth Vader—Bela Lugosi
Chewbacca—a Ray Harryhausen stop motion
C-3PO—Charles Hawtrey
R2-D2—Groucho Marx
The Millenium Falcon—Flash Gordon's spaceship (I'm joking, I just needed a ninth thing to complete the grid)
the studio heads are slightly worried this concept is too weird to take off, but hey, even if it fails, i hear the 1977 remake is pretty good.
People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.
CEOs and politicians, every time: Well i just saw it go right twice in a row which means the normal system which you say works 90% of the time actually works 100% of the time. We’re cutting the team down to one person pulling 18 hour shifts without breaks
The thing is you can have a grassy lawn or even a golf course without it being an ecological disaster, you just have to a: be cool about having the occasional non-grass plant in the mix and b: be willing to live in a climate that supports grass without irrigation.
Golf courses in California are an abomination which is why the sport was in fact invented in Scotland.
I always thought that golf as a sport should be adapted to the local native landscape. I think this will encourage regional pride when local golfers completely trounce visitors at Swamp Golf, Desert Golf, Forest Golf, etc. Rich tourists will be pressured to travel extensively to experience all forms of golf, instead of staying in their backyard country club golf courses. Internet discourse will probably somehow get worse but I think this is a small price to pay.
Twelve more golfers have been killed today during the ongoing Tsingy de Bemaraha Golf Invitational. Meanwhile, search and rescue efforts for the Polar Golf Expedition 2026 enter their fifth day.
apparently, chinese goths have figured out how to do qing era costuming. jiangshi time.
@post-brahminism check it
I need to make sure @gothiccharmschool sees this.
This is AMAZING.
today in sewing club
-Me: so someone I work with has this dress and the stitching's come out, can anyone here fix it? I have photos.
Them: Oh yeah we'd have to see it in person but it looks like X, all you have to do is Y and Z with elastic thread and B stitch...
Me: I don't know what any of those words mean.
-Lady 1 (on the phone): I keep leaving the door open, hoping someone will come along and take her...
Lady 2: Is she talking about her dog?
Lady 3: I think she's talking about her mom.
-Lady 1: How can you just sit there and hand-stitch??
Me: it's all I know.
Lady 2: Why an 18th-century shirt?
Me: I don't know, man. I'm regretting certain life choices now.
-Me: :O the fabric gathered exactly how I wanted it to!
Me: *sees one fold escaped and did not get sewn into the seam*
Me: fml
"Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race ma
Coincidentally, today is Valentine's Day in Brazil. ❤️🇧🇷
This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.
Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.
[Image ID: excerpts from the article linked above, reading:
“The couple is given a choice: flee or go to jail. After they were arrested, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison. Then, a judge offered them a choice: banishment from the state or prison. They chose to leave Virginia at the time, but after several years, the Lovings asked the American Civil Liberties Union to take their case.Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, two young ACLU lawyers at the time, did.”
and “On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled in the Lovings' favor. The unanimous decision upheld that distinctions drawn based on race were not constitutional. The court's decision made it clear that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.” /end ID]
It was 55 years ago.
My father just had his 70th birthday.
When my parents first met it'd been less than a decade since the ruling was official.
They were convinced it'd be overturned and did not want their children to have to suffer for it, so they did not get married and searched desperately for each other in their own races. They could not find the love they had together in anyone else. They did eventually get married.
Too late for them to have the amount of children they'd desired. They had two, adopted a third, and that was that.
It was near enough to now that I, my sisters, and my parents were directly affected by it.
This isn't ancient history. It's just my parents' childhood.
As a mixed Asian person married to a mixed Black person rulings like this, along with violent backlashes against race mixing are barely recent history. Living in Texas we still run into people who actively harass us for being a mixed race couple in public (even though neither of us are white) The Loving Case and subsequent reactions to it by different states determined where my in-laws chose to settle in the US as a mixed couple. Several states kept anti-miscegenation laws on the books. and State judges in Alabama continued to enforce its anti-miscegenation statute until 1970, when the Nixon administration obtained a ruling from a U.S. District Court in United States v. Brittain.
The Watsonville riots of the 1930's where white mobs attached Filipino farmworkers for being seen in dancehalls with white women, are part of a very long history of whiteness violently asserting its need to "protect" the purity of it's women and future children. And these kinds of backlashes are not in the past, we've just moved to different battlegrounds, the same accusations, of defiling the purity of white womanhood and white childhood are now leveled at the dangerous "othering influences" through book bans and other right wing conservative censorship efforts.
According to PEN America’s Banned Book Index, 41% of banned books include LGBTQ+ themes. 40% feature characters of color and 21% address issues of race or racism.
Remember, if we don't keep standing up loudly for equality the biggots on the right will be louder and keep dragging us further backwards from every step towards equality we make.
That's why I write stories for mixed, brown, bi, folks to see ourselves and our loves reflected in.
Its important to record ourselves into literature, into history so that they can never fully erase us no matter how hard they try to stamp us out of existence.
I was in kindergarten when this happened. Star Trek was in its second season. Scooby Doo was just a few sketches in a notebook somewhere. My neighborhood was redlined. I wouldn't see a Black clerk in the mall for several years. This is the bullshit they want to go back to.
Once you become familiar with agroecology it becomes so so so infuriating how agriculture is being done the overwhelming majority of the time.
Like. Hey. Genetic diversity is good, that way your crops are less likely to be completely fulminated by disease in one clean cut. Like. Hey. Agrotoxins are bad not just because they poison people and groundwater and kill non target species in droves but because they also fuck the plant's nutrition over. Like. Hey. Monocultures are bad. Full stop. Either rotate your shit properly or arrange a stratified consortium with plants that agree with each other.
Mulch is your truest and most stalwart friend. Have faith in her.
I now realise I'm sounding like that one XKCD comic with the geologists and quartz.
Also for FUCK sake adapt your varieties TO the local climate, NOT the other way around. Semideserts aren't bad. They're arable. Just learn how the ecosystem works and plant things that can bear it, mimicking its structure. Drought is relative. Cacti are your friends. They are living water reservoirs.
"Weeds" are your friends. They're pioneers. Soil UN-fuckers. By identifying what species you can VERY reliably guess the acidity, rain frequency, fertility, and compactness of the soil, among other things. Also those things are UNDERSTUDIED. COME ON. THEY HAVE POTENTIAL.
And sometimes? The only reason invasive species get the upper hand is because the soil is WAY too fucked for the natives. You can actually use this to your advantage. Plant what grows, return the organic matter to the bloody soil, and once it's UN-fucked enough, THEN you plant more demanding natives.
Quick tutorial with beetle! (Paraphrasing Ana Primavesi) - How to create HELLHOLES. 1 - Get rid of ALL the organic matter. No plants. No mulch. Nothing. 2 - Make sure the wind can blow freely. Dry wind will suck up moisture from the earth like NOTHING else. 3 - If possible, water frequently. This will make clay seep down and create a hard-pan + salinate the soil. Now do the exact opposite. Boom.
(Exclusive to the tropics) DONNNNNNN'T FUCKING TILL THE SOIL. DON'T. As SOON as it rains the soil will get even more fucked than before. DO NOT FUCKING CALCIFY THE SOIL. YES ALUMINIUM IS TOXIC. IT IS ALSO AN ESSENTIAL AGGREGATE. USE ORGANIC MATTER. COVER it. Mulch. Mulch. Mulch. Green manure. Cover cropping. Mulch. Insulate it. Insulate it. INSULATE IT.
Diseases and pests are your FRIENDS. Let me explain. They only happen when something's wrong. Nutrient deficiencies, most usually. Sometimes it's because they're in an agroecosystem not appropriate to the species/aren't paired with the right plants. Identifying what causes what is KEY to stopping it FAR more thoroughly than any pesticide could. They are not the disease. They are a symptom.
Sometimes there's no grand cause. Sometimes it might just be because a pipe burst on your property or something.
STRATA. Plants like growing in "floors". In each other's shade. Even Pliny the Elder figured it out when looking at how things were grown in Carthage.
Why am I going on and on and on and on and on about the mulch Ad Mother Fucking Nihilum? One - aforementioned point. Insulation. Two - help your other friends, the soil critters. Bacteria, fungi, and microfauna WILL make your soil As Soily As Soil Can Be! FEED THEM. FEED THEM. FEED THEM. FEED THEM. E S P E C I A L L Y down here in the tropics where decomposition and nutrient recycling is going on at Mach Yes.
Someone needs to hire a better Etsy witch
Younger people, one thing I want you to understand about Millenials is that, overall, our parents taught their daughters to aim for careers and employment, but they didn't teach their sons to keep house. This causes a whole lot of Situations.
My brothers are my half-brothers; they spent summers and some holidays with us. I love my brothers.
Their mother picked up after them. They were not required to take plates the kitchen or do the dishes or anything like that.
My mother, who would tell you she is for equality, came home one day, sighed at the mess of dirty dishes scattered about, and said, "Gayle, help me pick up."
"Those aren't my dishes," I said. "I picked up my dishes."
My mother sighed again. "Just help me pick up."
"No," I said again. "I didn't make that fucking mess."
She never approached my brothers and said, "Boys, in this house, you take your dishes to the kitchen." She did not tell our dad, "Hey, tell the boys they need to pick up after themselves."
It was, "Gayle, pick up the dishes."
And when I refused because it was not my fucking mess, I got lectured about being difficult.
See also: My brothers--in a classic dick-move of all siblings--figured out they could pop the lock on the bathroom door and throw it open, and I would freak out because I was in the shower and trying to get five fucking minutes of peace.
Guess who got yelled at for being "unreasonable"? Not the boys. Because a lot of moms of millennial boys still said shit like "boys will be boys" when they should have said "Boys, if you got body-slammed on the concrete, I'm not taking you to the hospital."
It was similar for Xers. I spent a lot of time in my 20's teaching romantic partners and friends basic household skills and having to be really hard ass about them carrying their weight.
It is stupid and infuriating and I hate that the "Boy Mom" trend is setting yet another generation up for unfairness and domestic strife.
Yep.
One time when I was in high school, my mum came home w/ groceries. She needed help bringing all of them in. Did she ask my brother who was already outside playing basketball? No. Did she ask her husband who was sitting on his ass watching TV in the living room? Nope. She walked past both of them, through the house, and into my room where I was doing homework and yelled at me for not immediately coming out to help her.
I have been told that I am "the last of the millennials" or that I'm a "gen zer" or that I'm "on the cusp" by so many different people that I am 100% convinced this is not a generational problem. It is a societal problem. And millennial parents are not immune to raising their kids this way just bc they're younger than x'ers and boomers. Same goes for gen z'ers and every generation after us so long as misogyny remains the bedrock of society that it is.
if theres one thing that really pissed me off from my 3 years of architecture i took in high school it's learning about how we used to have all these little techniques to maximize or minimize heat or warmth and now we just merrily abandoned all those to have the same copypaste style buildings everywhere that are often INCREDIBLY unoptimized to the local weather and climate so we can just throw more money at our heating and cooling bills
where i live it is hot as balls approximately 80% of the year. i do not want a massive butt-ugly grey mcmansion with a huge echoey open-concept kitchen-livingroom-foyer-diningroom-staircase that has huge windows so i can have an hvac unit the size of a barge heaving and straining to keep it at a constant 72 the grees. i want a north indian traditional style home with small windows to force the airflow to cool, decorative grates to limit the amount of sunlight, and a COURTYARD with a POND *smashes unspecified large object*
I hate learning about instances of "oh yeah we know how to do that, we just don't".
this is exactly why I love talking about historical passive heating and cooling techniques
oh wow the glass-tower office buildings we constructed when we thought air conditioning and central heating would never have downsides...have downsides?
and we're still building them?
while the Victorian house museum where I work, with thick walls and small windows and big wooden shutters stays ~10 degrees above (winter) or below (summer) the outside temperature for days on end with no help at all?
uh. okay then
(also public transit. the history of public transit in the US is infuriating, because we had it! and then we destroyed it!)
THIS IS SO TRUE
in some cases it goes back to colonialism. colonizers trying to put a certain aesthetic that was thought of as more valuable or attractive in a place we were trying to force to be the way we wanted.
Trying to import a new culture, and replace the old culture, bringing in the architectural ideas of the old place. ignoring the local climate and ecology
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I wish this feeling upon everyone who wants to wear a dress, its really the best
this makes me so happy as a fat hairy guy who likes skirts and dresses i never get to see guys like me in dresses it’s always skinny twinks this makes me so happy 🥺🥺
the kids are gonna be alright
Our relief vet is working this week while our regular vet is on vacation, and her 13-year-old daughter is also here to shadow us because she wants to be a vet some day and wanted to see what the job was really like. Cue this conversation
Kid: What does the 'N' mean on the paper?
Vet: It means the cat is neutered, you remember what that means?
Kid: He can't have babies.
Vet: Right. We call it 'neutered' for boys and 'spayed' for girls.
Kid: But...what about nonbinary cats???
Vet: *tries not to die laughing*
Me: We get those too! Sometimes we have to spay AND neuter them, or neuter what looks lile a girl cat, or once there was even found a cat who had nothing at all! Its gender was 'cat'.
Kid: :O *mind is blown*
This is the same kid who told a client the coolest thing she'd learned here so far was that if cats eat fleas, they get buttworms.
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou
Let’s fucking go
This is HUGE.
1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.
2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.
3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."
4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.
TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.
Me writing the next chapter of my fanfic: Okay so now the characters are going to head south to get away from the enemy.
The fanfic that gets written: OH SHIT IT'S OPTIMUS PRIME CHARGING INTO BATTLE ON A CHESTNUT STEED WHILE SIMMONS BULLDOZES THE DREADS WITH HIS SUPER SPY TECH VAN ISN'T THIS THE DOPEST SHIT YOU'VE EVER SEEN
Me: ...where the FUCK did that come from?
Reaching out to the leopard gecko keepers of tumblr here. My previous herp experience has been with colubrid snakes so I'm unfamiliar with the habits of legged reptiles.
I've come into possession of a little gal(?) of unknown age whose previous care was less than ideal (common story with rehomed herps 9_9). Including her feeding regimen being: buy 30 live crickets at the pet store and dump them into the cage and let her eat on them for 2 weeks or however long it takes her to eat them. No mention of gut-loading or dusting.
Like um absolutely the fuck NOT is that how things are going to happen in this household.
FWIW she appears to be in decent health other than being maybe obese (I'm not going to stress her out by messing around with her right now to check), but I'll be scheduling her a vet appointment in the next couple weeks to get that side of things checked out more thoroughly.
In the mean time, how hard is it to switch a leo from that feeding schedule nonsense to set feedings of non-crickets? Right now I've got dubias and mealworms on tap (properly gut-loading at the moment and with Repashy calcium powder awaiting them in the shake-n-bake bin), will be getting a third as-yet undecided type of feeder as well. My plan is to give this girl a couple days to just chill as is, then to go in and capture all the remaining crickets (yes there are at least a dozen still in the cage), give her another couple days with no free-roaming food, and then try offering some dubias (I figure these will be the most active and reminiscent of crickets, as opposed to the mealworms). If she doesn't go for them, remove from the cage and try again the next day. Is this a good plan or can someone with more experience offer me some other ideas?
I severely underestimated the number of crickets in this terrarium. I have apologized to Scylla for mildly terrorizing her with a plastic cup as I went around scooping up all the miscreants out of her living space. Sleep safely tonight, girlie.
Tomorrow after work I'mma be going to the local herps-n-critters store with a shopping list.
omfg the crickets just keep coming
Photo tax time.
Trust me this is an improvement. Will be upgrading to something bigger after I take care of a major house expense.
She's clearly not been handled a ton, but she's curious and hasn't shown any aggression. I am clueless when it comes to leo morphs, is she wild type? And does she seem big enough to be an adult?
Got lots of little gecko licks in the process!
Just a quick update, she took her first meal of five mealworms and two dubias well. Grabbed up theee mealworms in one bite, even. Second feeding she only ate one mealworm, then spent the next hour wanting me to open her tank door again so she could come Out. She loves her moist hide, loves nosing around in the pothos pot, and is a significant degree more intelligent than any of my snakes have been. Vet visit is scheduled in a few weeks!
soon
Or should that be 'too late'? I dunno man, I just work here.
