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girl who started a load on laundry: I’m gonna change my life I’m gonna clean my whole house I’m gonna go on a walk
I’m soooooo embarrassed. My lord told me “good night,” but I thought he was calling me a good knight, and, well, you could hear it clink against my codpiece.
You can always tell when a prince has shed his chrysalis to become a king because he starts calling his sworn knight "old friend", "constant companion", "my most faithful", and similar sexually-charged endearments.
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.
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.
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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
the person who helped today when I fell out of my wheelchair actually did a really great job, so I want to share in case other people wonder what to do. [Note: this is not universal, this is merely a suggestion from one person, every wheelchair user's needs are different! I am a person who uses a manual chair usually pushed by someone else who is also disabled.]
Scenario: you see someone in a wheelchair fall out of their chair, and you have the ability to help.
1. Approach and ask "are you okay?"*
2. Next question if they say no, are vague, or open to continuing conversation** is, "is there anything I can do to help?" Or "what can I do?"
If they say no to help, then that's the end, just leave and go do whatever you were doing!
If they ask for help or say they are mildly injured, ask "what would you like me to do?" And wait for an answer before doing anything! If they seem dazed or confused, they might have hit their head or had another medical event*, or they might just be like that due to regular disability. Be patient.
Do not touch the person unless they say to, or they are like, unconcious in the middle of the road, ya know?? Wheelchair users usually have conditions that mean being handled improperly can severely injure us, you could cause much more damage than the fall.
Some things they might need you to do:
Bring their wheelchair closer (mine went about 5 feet away after it dumped me)
engage the brakes of the wheelchair
hold wheelchair steady if it's an unsteady surface (mud, hill, ramp, wet, etc)
offer an arm for them to hold onto to get up (them grabbing you, not you grabbing them) or move another solid item closer for them to use (i.e. a chair) [only do this if you physically have the ability to!]
If the terrain is rough (i.e. a parking lot), they *might* ask you to push their chair to a more stable area once they are back in their chair
nothing
Something else
Do what they ask, NOT what you think would be helpful. If for some reason you have to do something (i.e. you can't stop oncoming traffic and need to get them out) ASAP, tell them what you plan to do
Keep in mind they might also be D/deaf, have a communication disability, be stunned after the fall, have a head injury, not trust other people, etc. Be patient and treat them as a person with autonomy and agency! They might need to just sit on the ground for a few minutes to recover before trying to get back in their chair. They might want everyone to leave them alone. They might ask you to call someone specific. Their chair might have broken and that can be extremely distressing. All of this is like if your legs spontaneously stop working when you're out and about!
A lot of wheelchair users (NOT ALL) have ways to get into their chair on their own once the chair is close enough and brakes engaged (but it's hard from the ground!). Here's what brakes look like on a lot of manual wheelchairs, in case they ask you to lock the brakes. They're levers on each side and pushing the lever pushes a bar against the wheel to hold it still.
ID: A manual wheelchair with the brake levels circled in red and labeled "user brake levers"
*There is also the possibility of course that a person fell out of their chair due to a seizure or other medical event, so that is why it is important to ask if they are okay. If you saw them hit their head, tell them so. If they had a medical event, follow protocol for that, I'm not gonna get into it here (thought I could).
**sometimes a person will be clear after the first question i.e. "I'm all good thanks" clearly means they do not need you to ask another question, you can just leave them alone. Keep walking and don't stare. A lot of the time people will be a bit banged up but be totally fine and able to manage on their own.
TLDR: Ask the wheelchair user if they're okay, then what they need, and then do exactly that, including leaving them alone. Thanks!
an important reply in the tags
[ID: A reply reading, "It's worth noting that unless someone is in immediate danger (on a road, near a chemical spill) there's basically no justification to move a unresponsive person on the ground, basic first aid will tell you that your objective is to stabilize and support until actual trained professionals arrive. Even outside of the context of pre-existing disability and being mishandled, if someone has a brand new neck injury you could seriously, permanently harm them by causing undue stress on the spine. You should always assume an unresponsive person on the ground has internal injuries you can't account for, and unless they're about to get smushed or asphyxiate on vomit leave them where you found them and call an ambulance." End ID]
on watching a parent age
i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening
OP, this is genuinely a masterpiece, three poems in one, moving and well crafted. Please tell me you have submitted it to at least some poetry contests, and if not, please do so.
Late for work again because I got caught at a red light beside the sylvan fountain and I had to joust with the Blue Knight. Third fucking time this month. I wish the city would do something about that guy.
You never get this shit with the Red Knight over by the wal mart
Yeah, but at least you know how to joust! What are the rest of us meant to do until the city fixes the Sylvan Fountain red light, blue knight problem!?
The maverick Black Knight is the guy who usually deals with these gentry fucks, but nobody’s paying him for that. My boy’s spending 40 hours each week at Subway to make ends meet, and the whole town’s suffering for it.
I suppose this is what we get for white knighting the white knight and electing him mayor.
Ugh don’t even get me started on the White Knight. He saw me in the greenwood making great lamentous dole out of measure and he tried to call the cops
What do you think of the opalescent knight’s campaign do unseat the white knight in the next election? I don’t know what to make of him? I agree it’s time for change but do you think he’s the solution or just more privileged gentry?
By the faith of my body, I saw the Opalescent Knight comport himself unknightly and with shameful cowardice at the grand tournament last Easter Day and also he’s got no plans for fixing the potholes or extending the school & library tax
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
I’m not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
we’re so lucky that gilgamesh survived and is a banger. can you imagine if we found the oldest written human story ever recorded and it sucked balls.
so called feminists: "actually women are naturally inferior at everything, including quiz game shows, beauty pageants, chess, and video games. we need a society that is segregated so that anyone who would ever have to potential to win against a woman is eliminated. this is actually far better than organizing sports into weight classes or different athletic/skill level based categories that ignore sex, like what wrestling and video/board game tournaments already do. I cannot accept the reality that men and women are the same species. this is actually how we truly protect women. by calling them weak pathetic losers who could never win against even the worst opponent, and preventing them from even playing at all."
actually conversion I had with one of these nerds:
me: "so you think men are better at literally everything, even things that do not require any physical ability whatsoever?"
terf: "yes! those should still be segregated by sex! males should not be playing against women ever. it's an unfair advantage"
me: "so my brother has an unfair advantage over me when playing fucking monopoly?"
terf: "yes. males are statistically better and managing finances, while women are irresponsible and lenient with spending money."
hey guys. I think the people who are literally unironicly saying "women are bad at money. this means they suck at board games" aren't actually feminists
No joke, that was the rethoric the Francoist regime in Spain used to justify women being legally underage regardless of age and unable to open bank accounts without their husbands or fathers permission. That law was effective until 1975.
There is a reality not so far from our own in which Ratitouille (2007) was filmed as an avant-garde conceptual horror akin to Eraserhead (1977)
In a reality not so far from our own that's how they spell it
tumblr support just sent me a message informing me they reviewed this post^^^ and determined it did not violate their community guidelines so they didn't do anything except apply a mature content label. but i never reported this post. why would i report this post. why would they put a mature content label on it
at the risk of sounding paranoid, istg they do this so that when posts and blogs get censored/deactivated that "aren't supposed to," they'll be able to point to a glitchy system and say "see? we just haven't worked out the bugs yet, we're not nuking people on purpose"
^^^ second user agrees with you abt this. @zingring, you got any idea what's going on?
this is confirmed to be happening regularly
garaks-padded-bra (not) reported by dungeonsanddragonsfifthedition and pegglefan69 and at least one other person, and then banned based on the bug apparently (all GarakPB does is post about star trek, ive never seen them break site TOS at all)
bobacupcake (not) reported by snarp for saying "h-hello??"
pjackk (not) reported by orcboxer for saying "Bulgaria is Following in Greece's Footsteps. Here's How We Stop It." and then getting banned for it(???!!!)
no i dont think anyone on tumblr staff is doing this on purpose, there's no political or personal reason that would target this kind of thing at a star trek goof blog and a nice little illustration blog or a funny blog about medievalisms. i mean sure pjackk had enemies from killing all those dogs but this just looks like a really weird bug. much like pjackk
QUESTION: HAS ANYONE WHO HAS RECEIVED THESE EMAILS TRIED TO REPORT IT TO TUMBLR SUPPORT? if so, what happened?
ok i had my little narcolepsy blackout for the afternoon and im back.
you can put any email into the reporting form as the reporting party, whether the email is registered to tumblr or not. the Name field doesnt do anything. i just tested it. it doesnt validate for tumblr username. the only information the tumblr report form requires is an email address. so now im wondering if anyone outside tumblr has gotten these emails, and if so who, and for which reports.
i just tested this by opening a private window, reporting one of the rape threat bots from my earlier post, and filling in an email that i have not registered to tumblr. interestingly, logged-in tumblr users can one-click report spam, logged-out users have to provide a text paywall paragraph even for spam reports. everyone has to pass the textwall to report stuff other than spam. but for some reason ZenDesk doesn't seem to care if someone is reporting a tumblr TOS violation as a tumblr user or not. which seems.............like a mistake, in terms of moderation handling. but maybe they have a "reported by logged in user" flag on their backend idk
this means mass reporting, botnets, scripts, and random reporting dont even need a working tumblr account to be logged in to be reporting from. anyone can navigate their simple macro script to the reporting form and run it all day and night, reporting nonsense by pulling URLs from someone's tumblr account. so if bad actors are actually exploiting this reporting form in this way, it would certainly explain why tumblr support is swamped in bullshit reports, and why they have recently started making people fill in up to two paragraphs of explanation about how exactly something breaks TOS (paragraphs which are also trivially easy to bypass, as all users of r9k discovered exactly five minutes after that board went up)
WHY WOULD SOMEONE DO THIS? idk, this is sort of the least mysterious part of the mystery and also the most impossible to answer. for a really popular account like pjackk, popular accounts make a lot of enemies even if they are well-liked, so that could have been personal. or it could have been because his username is just really visible and therefor easy for data validation crawlers to grab and put in a database of "known active tumblr users". garakPB and bobacupcake dont have any obvious enemies except maybe "bigots generally" and the "bigots generally" motivation could certainly be responsible for some of the banned trans woman waves also. but their reports/bands seem more like noise to me and not targeted harassment, just my own reckon. most of the traffic of the internet at this point is ads and crawlers and botnets and a lot of it is shit like this that doesnt really serve a clear purpose and isnt necessarily malicious (but could be). trying to nail down motivations is pointless because much of it is just noise, people testing scripts, people forgetting scripts are running, people selling scripts to other people, etc
if your email address has ever been public anywhere, or ever on a have-i-been-pwned list, it could be used for spoofing reports. and if you run a report-spoofing script long enough pulling random posts, eventually tumblr support will either receive a report that can be interpreted as rulebreaking if they squint, or whatever automated behavior that may happen after X number of reports on a single blog is surpassed may kick in and cause some sort of autoban that then needs to be appealed by a human and then approved by a human to get past, which takes so long (due to the support backlog) that most banned accounts just assume they were banned 1. for actual TOS violation and have no appeal or 2. by a sinister behind the scenes conspiracy that they cant fight, and have no appeal or 3. that the support backlog is so long that appealing is going to take months or years so they might as well remake (which means they are ban evading, which means they are automatically violating TOS, which means if they get reported again for ban evading they will just keep getting banned even if the initial ban was a mistake)
i havent checked if tumblr "forgot my login" form can be crawled for validation easily or not but if it cant now, it probably used to be at some point, and if you have an old tumblr account and have ever received a "forgot your password?" email then yeah some database somewhere probably knows your email is registered to your tumblr account.
one thing to keep in mind when discussing this issue and speculating on reasons, actors, and motivations, is that the current tumblr support staff are not the people making decisions about how all this is being handled. the guy who owns and runs this website and personally makes most or all decisions about this kind of thing is having a normal one to put it lightly
edit: the "we put a mature content label on this post" part of this moderation message makes me think it is a tumblr bug, specifically. that indicates there is an internal malfunction happening, not that this is a reaction to external scripting or botting attacks. because there have not been mature content labels applied to the indicated posts, tumlr T&S checked on this part of the report specifically and found it was not happening. so that indicates internal reporting system glitch
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I know the invitation said "nobody can come" but I'm actually very hurt that none of you showed up for my edging party. I thought the word play was obvious.
What the fuck
It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.
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