[masseduced-sugarboy]

Happy Folsom!

[masseduced-sugarboy]

Sometimes I forget that I was once a Tegan and Sara page…. And then I get 37 notes randomly over night. And I remember.

[rageyasha]

Johann, head of the Fey Cat Union, when Caleb informs him that he and the other cats will need to be ninjas for an evening in order to be beaten up by two lesbians on a date:

[gallusrostromegalus]

Hello do you have any recommendations for small (like grape?) beginner tomatoes for someone who lives in Portland (oregon) your tomato post was very informative but I'm not sure how to get started

The Sweet 100′s or Indigo Cherry tomatoes should grow well there! 

Tomato Care Basics:

Tomato does best with full sun (6 or more hours in direct sunlight per day) and regular watering, but don’t water it if it’s dirt is still wet.

Tomato roots are almost as big as the plant is above ground, so make sure your tomato has either a HUGE pot (I used the bigass tubs people use to store christmas decorations or other shit) or is put in the ground.

Make sure to put 2-3 eggshells crunched up real fine under your tomato when you put it in the ground/pot so it has enough calcium, or use a good tomato fertilizer if you think your dirt isn’t that good (Fox Farm makes a great one)

Do not put Baby tomato plant outside until it’s going to be at least 45 Degrees at night.

In the event of a cold snap/Frost, cover tomato with one of those flat sheets you get with bedding sets but nobody freaking uses.  they’re mad good frost insulators.

Baby your tomato while it is young- fertilize before planting, keep up on the water, give it shade if it starts to get crispy, play it mozart or whatever-  right until it develops it’s first flowers. Once the Tomato flowers, neglect and abuse it to the point of injury but not past the point of death.  A tomato is a remarkably sapient plant, and it needs the Fear Of It’s Own Demise in order to get adequately horny and flower enough to set fruit properly. Miss a few waterings.  Let it get sunburnt once. Break off a few leaves on branches that aren’t flowering.  Once the tomato is getting abused to the degree it likes, it will start setting TONS of flowers and shift it’s energy focus from growing plant to making fruit.Yes, Proper Tomato Husbandry involves a certain degree of Sexual Sadomasochism.  Don’t worry, the Tomato likes it.

ADVANCED TOMATO HUSBANDRY:

Get your Tomato some friends- Carrots! Turns out, Planting Tomatoes and Carrots in the same bed/large Bin is great for both plants- Tomatoes benefit from the soil areation and microrhyzal fungi that carrots provide, and carrots get free pest control from the Tomato’s constant chemical warfare.

Yes, tomatoes constantly commit chemical warfare- they excrete toxins to keep off pests (they’re related to deadly nightshade, which is deadly specificially to avoid being eaten by insects and mammals), exude pheromones to attract pollinators, and unleash all kinds of weird shit kill rival plants like weeds or Other Tomatoes.  This is why Tomato plants have such a distinctive musk and why so many people get rashes from handling the plants.

Speaking of, the only thing better for a Tomato than Carrot Friends is A Rival Tomato, because seething hatred is an important part of Balanced Tomato Psychology. Get a second Tomato and put it within 6 feet of the first and the two of them will VIOLENTLY attempt to out-reproduce the other, while also pollinating each other in a sort of horticultural kismesitude. 

You can get even greater rivalry effects by having more tomatoes but:-the effect maxes out at about 5 plants per 100 sq ft, and if you have too many in small area they will for-reall kill each other before they can fruit.-If you do it right, you will have literally dozens of pounds of tomatoes on your hands come august so you better have a plan for that.

The carrots also love when there is a Rival Tomato, esp if all three are in the same bed becuase the carrots are also Proactive Thinkers and tattle to the tomatoes to make them put out even more rival-and-weed killing chemicals, which help protect the carrots and make them grow more vigorously.

if you’ve got deer and rabbits in the area, put a border of Marigolds around the edge of your bed/growing area to discourage them.  If your fruits are still going missing you have either squirrels or kleptomanical neighbors.  Both pests can be solved by blasting them with the hose.

[voiceofthenightingale]

Now what? After 3 weeks of protests and educating ourselves and educating others, how do we keep the momentum going for this civil rights movement? How do we make permanent change?

X

[nonotimetoulouse]

*skeptically*: “Uh huh.”

[irukhandji-deactivated20230128]

This is my Mad Max themed jacket. It was my first ever clothing project and I enjoyed every hour that went into it. Witness me!

[chillxpanic]

Art by Alena Aenami on Artstation.

Music: BLANKS - HIGHER 

[shirleyjacksons]

i know this will make me sound old and boring but once i’m home for the night i’m home. i don’t like upsetting my plans even when i don’t have any. yes it’s only 8pm but i spent the whole evening believing i’m not going anywhere, i cannot perceive or be perceived right now, try again later

[kabaks]

sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

[l2g-deactivated20240513]

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

[doomedvoyages]

[random-transfem-witch-punk]

This

This shit just made me tear up

[demilypyro]

It's weird that the gay fallout perks give you a damage bonus against the gender you're attracted to cause if I see a cute rough girl with a gun I can tell you I am not *more* likely to win that fight

[thepleasuregoblin]

She has the perk

[demilypyro]

[theweirdwideweb]

[theweirdwideweb]

[podencos]

I don’t want to hear what you have to say unless it’s both stupid and absurd

[portentsofwoe2]

jesus had his palms gauged 

[scottishwobbly]

The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why it Went Down

[scottishwobbly]

In examining what had gone wrong in the 60s and why so many people had the audacity to demand more self-determination, the notorious Trilateral Commission convened in 1973, bringing together economic and political elites from North America, Europe, and Japan. The Commission, as described by Encyclopedia Britannica , “reflects powerful commercial and political interests committed to private enterprise and stronger collective management of global problems. Its members (more than 400 in the early 21st century) are influential politicians; banking and business executives; media, civic, and intellectual leaders.”

In 1975, Michel Crozier, Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki published a report for the Commission, titled: “The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies.” In assessing the various movements that gained momentum in the 60s (racial justice, economic justice, anti-war, etc.), the report determined that these “problems” stemmed from an “excess of democracy.” Huntington specifically noted that, “the vitality of democracy in the United States in the 1960s produced a substantial increase in governmental activity and a substantial decrease in governmental authority.” The solution to this, according to the report, was to reverse direction - decrease “governmental activity” and increase “governmental authority” to restrict democratic impulses from the masses and maintain the capitalist power structure internally, while retaining “hegemonic power” internationally. In other words, rather than government serving people and regulating capitalists, government should serve capitalists and regulate people.

Since maintaining a “middle class” had become such a fragile proposition, the capitalist class forged a new direction. Rather than rely on this historical buffer and continue the concessionary and fickle balancing act , they decided it would be more effective to simply take ownership of the legislative and judicial process. This process began when executive officers from several major corporations joined together to form private groups like the Business Roundtable, for the purpose of “promoting pro-business public policy.” In other words, to make sure that the “excess of democracy” which occurred during the 60s would never return. Why? Because any such mass movement toward relinquishing power to the people is a direct threat to capitalist profit and corporate America’s existence as a collection of unaccountable, authoritarian, exceptionally powerful, private entities. The Business Roundtable, which included executives from corporations like Exxon, DuPont, General Electric, Alcoa, and General Motors, gained instant access to the highest offices of the government, becoming extremely influential in pushing for corporate tax cuts and deregulation during the Reagan era.

Since the 1980s, the Business Roundtable has run roughshod over American workers by using the federal government to:

reduce consumer protections,

obstruct employment stimuli,

weaken unions,

implement “free trade” agreements that spur offshoring and tax havens,

ease environmental protections,

increase corporate subsidies,

loosen rules on corporate mergers and acquisitions,

open avenues of profit in the private healthcare system,

privatize education and social programs,

and block efforts to make corporate boards more accountable.[1][2][3][4] [5]

[toastbutteregg]

[badnovels]

[qjusttheletter]

i dont want governments that acknoweldge my gender on their forms under a guise of acceptance in order to further target queers. i dont want facial recognition software that can see and read faces of colour and with disfigurements. i dont want cops taught social justice language so they can slink into our rallies and movements and spy and wreak havoc. i want the systems gone.