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I try to write, but surviving under capitalism makes that difficult. Current Aesthetic is "My Comfy Kitchen" | Previous Aesthetics were "Cozy Autumnal Vibes," "A Day by the Canal," "Winter in Switzerland," "Model Railways are Neat," "Mint Garden," "Rendezvous in Shanghai," "Mountain Pass," "Life's a Beach," "Mountain Hotel," "Beach Guardians," "Spring for Something Pink," "Lakeside in Autumn," "Summer in the City," and "Midwinter Commute"

[theonion]

In a move that left hundreds of longtime residents scrambling to find alternative housing, municipal construction crews reportedly demolished a local Black neighborhood Thursday, part of an ongoing city project to make room for nothing in particular. “For decades, this part of Fort Worth has languished as nothing more than a loving community for African American families and a bustling hub for Black-owned businesses,” said Mayor Mattie Parker, adding that the destruction of dozens of beloved restaurants, theaters, barbershops, and newspapers was an essential step toward creating more vacant lots that could sit empty behind fences for an indefinite length of time.

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[pudding-parade]

This is a modification to the game's Traits XML that I made a long time ago for my own use for my own evil purposes, but I figured I'd toss it out into the universe in case anyone would want it. It does the following:

1) Removes all trait conflicts. Meaning, you can have a sim that's both Good and Evil, if that's something you'd want for whatever reason. Basically, I always assign traits randomly, and I disagreed with some of the conflicts that made certain traits unavailable when a sim already had a conflicting one, so I just went through and nuked all the conflicts.

2) Makes all traits available at all ages. So, you can have a baby born with any EA trait in your game. Of course, if that trait was not originally intended for babies/toddlers/children to have, those traits won't affect the kid's behavior until they are of proper age to express the trait in question. But, that was what I wanted.

3) EDIT: I forgot that it also makes all of the lifetime happiness rewards available for all ages. I forgot that that's part of the same Traits XML.

There are many mods out there that alter the Traits XML, including ones that do one or more of the above things separately but not, to my knowledge, all of them. This mod will conflict with all such mods, so you either must choose between them OR open the conflicting mods in s3pe and go through them, find the differences between them, and then edit one (by copypasting) such that it incorporates the changes of the other(s).

You can download the mod here.

@katsujiiccfinds

[headspace-hotel]

I feel that "lawn care" as promoted in the USA can be considered some kind of pseudoscience.

It doesn't have the conspiracy-theory-adjacent qualities of virtually every other "pseudoscience," which makes me hesitant to call it that, but the theory and method of it is still full of totally unsupported junk.

[headspace-hotel]

Where do I start?

I'm a gardener and so are the majority of people I spend time around. If you are mowing 3+ times a week and regularly spending money on fertilizer, soil tests, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, you have chosen the most expensive, time consuming thing you could possibly do with your yard. Unless you are a farmer as your livelihood, NOTHING else you could grow is that high maintenance. Nothing.

Most turfgrasses are invasive species. I said it.

The practice of "nuking" your lawn (killing everything in it and "starting over")...If you have a so-called "weed problem" this is probably the worst thing you can do.

Listen to me very carefully: "Weed" seeds are everywhere. There is, at all times, a supply of seeds lying dormant in the soil, waiting for the right conditions to sprout. (It's called the "soil seed bank" and you can look it up.) They are capable of "waiting" for years, even decades. Furthermore, most "weed" species spread by wind, meaning you can't physically eliminate them from an outdoor area unless you...surround your entire yard with an incredibly fine mesh netting and never leave, I guess.

Heavy management will make your "weed" problem progressively worse and worse because those plants are specifically adapted to colonize barren areas that recently underwent disastrous events that killed off most life.

Basically all plants are adapted to live in the company of other organisms, and suffer when there are no other plants around. "Weeds" with deep taproots penetrate into and aerate the soil. Clover puts nitrogen in the ground that other plants need. Low ground covers keep the soil moist and stop the sun from baking your grass to a crisp.

The plant "taking over" your lawn is probably not killing your grass. Your grass is dying and it's being replaced by something more suited to the environment. This is supposed to happen.

Monocultures are notoriously susceptible to disease and mass die-offs. "Oh no a big patch of my lawn is dying!" Yeah, that happens when you plant monocultures. You set yourself up for this.

"Why is there a bare patch in my yard/why won't grass grow well here?" Because in nature, each plant has a relatively narrow range of conditions it likes to grow in, so other plants it might otherwise compete with can stick to their preferred conditions and nobody has to compete directly. Win-win. Not all parts of your yard have the exact same amount of sun, moisture, etc. Expecting the plant life to look the same is unrealistic.

Let me make this very clear: It is fully impossible to "solve" the problem of plants popping up in your yard that aren't your one favored variety of grass. You will be buying herbicides for the rest of your life, and it will get worse, not better, because willy-nilly use of herbicides is leading to plants developing herbicide resistance faster than we can come up with new herbicides.

[headspace-hotel]

@kidpixdeluxe-4

From my limited knowledge of ecology, "but this is what natives have been saying for YEARS" basically sums up literally all work that has been done with ecology in north america

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

…and the vet was like, “You know the thing with geriatric cats is—” and I was like, “What do you mean, geriatric?! It’s a little baby, look at her!" Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025)

[agnesandhilda]

shoutout to the woman from my high school martial arts class who liked to get me in joint locks and then joke about how I was easy to catch. you cannot comprehend how psychosexually formative that was for me

[agnesandhilda]

imagine, if you will, having an adolescent half-crush on someone way older than you, which is also confusingly blurred up with admiration of them as a role model. now imagine that you and that person are in a social environment where it is acceptable to (platonically, consensually) choke someone. I think I was very normal about it considering the circumstances

[agnesandhilda]

she would demonstrate takedowns on her husband (also in the class, and who was not a small man) before we got to try them and the first time I saw her twist him around and down onto the floor like it was easy my entire abdomen clenched

[agnesandhilda]

I cannot stress enough how eager this guy was to be manhandled (womanhandled?) and flipped around by his wife. he was her de facto guinea pig whenever she got to teach and I never saw him unenthusiastic about it. he'd set himself up for a joint lock fully smiling. the other adults in the class occasionally teased him about it (being so quick to let your wife put you in a submission hold tends to raise a few eyebrows), and I always kind of wanted to defend him but what would I have said? like, don't worry. I won't judge you. I also like being pinned down by your wife

[draculaisagothwizzard-deactivat]

That last sentance really hits ya like a psychosexually formative takedown

[agnesandhilda]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Reddit comment from somethingObscur edited to read: I also choose this guy's wife. /End ID]

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[lhavdil]

a hometown is a type of dead wife

[lhavdil]

[daughter-of-sapph0]

happy pride

[lindleland]

[learningtogirl]

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

[soyalexnajera]

[therencist]

4 a.m. around my yard

[touchstonelevity]

[crazy-brazilian]

lil wayne or wathever

[dogpuppy]

[beholdingslut]

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY

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Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

[punkrorschach]

happy first day of pride everyone

[montymollusk]

the thing about Expanding Ur Knowledge and Reading The Classics or whatever is that sometimes. sometimes it sucks really bad. sometimes you read 40 straight pages of french noblemen sucking farts and give yourself a migraine from grimacing too hard

[montymollusk]

im proposing a new extreme end of the “breasting boobily” misogynist writer scale: marquis “assman” de sade, who was so scared of pussy that he would throw up and cry about it for multiple pages

[montymollusk]

it’s so fucking crazy to me how sade goes on AT LENGTH about how grossnasty women are and how vaginas make him wanna hurl (nonsexual) when he was literally writing this manuscript in secret, in prison, on a 39ft by 4.7 inch roll of paper made of tinier pieces of paper he smuggled in and glued together. space could not have been at a higher premium. but he HAD to tell you about how much he hates women

[montymollusk]

started reading Justine, it’s really fascinating to see the similarities & differences between sade’s finished work and the draft that is 120 days

that being said. i am continually taken aback by the absolute titanium balls of this man to write One Good Christian Woman’s Unending Sex Torture Circus (This Is Why Being Godly Is Lame) (I’m Touching My Thing Right Now By The Way): The Novel and start it out with a dedication to. his girlfriend. who he praises for being exactly like the protagonist of said novel

[cartoonpolitics]

(cartoon Clay Bennett)

[thegikitiki]

Orange County Airport, California, 1970s

[thegikitiki]

Source: The Giki Tiki Archives

[srsfunny]

True as hell.

[animentality]