An Overactive Muse

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[daily-deliciousness]

Jerk chicken marinade

[daily-deliciousness]

Jerk chicken marinade

[daily-deliciousness]

Carmelita cookies

[netflix]

The Endless have finally assembled: Introducing Adrian Lester as Destiny, Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium and Barry Sloane as the Prodigal in the next season of THE SANDMAN. It’s going to be one Hell of a family reunion.

[alwaysthequietones]

You're the brave man? I am. But maybe you can call me dad.

[dcminions]

EMMY WINNER NIECY NASH at the 75th Emmy Awards

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[mias-playground]

Angela Davis and novelist Toni Morrison (1931-2019). Toni released her novel ‘Beloved’ in 1987. Based on the true story of a Black enslaved woman, the book was a Bestseller for 25 weeks and won countless awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

[headspace-hotel]

I have no patience for negativity toward "boomers" anymore.

Almost everybody doing the work to restore ecosystems, grow native plants, and preserve rare species is 50 or older

The people I work with IRL have told me that my presence is encouraging because it means "the younger generation is getting involved with this stuff too." There's really not very many people my age

Who do you think was fighting this fight in the 1970's

[headspace-hotel]

I'm saying this as a Gen Z who is woefully lacking in these skills

Social media and the internet have really decimated my generation's ability to network and organize with people IRL

Not in the sense that That Damn Phone causes your skills to atrophy, but rather, Gen Z has no idea how people organized before social media, and no idea what anyone over 40 is doing for good in the world

The vast majority of local native plant, wildlife, and gardening organizations have NO social media presence

I could never have understood this until I started working IRL with people who are absolute powerhouses of knowledge, resources, and action about plants, animals, ecosystems, and conservation...who simply, barely know how to email

[headspace-hotel]

Google is not a resource

It can link you to a few resources, but it is ultimately a complicated device to make you Buy Product

Google will not even show you the best websites out there for learning about the ecosystem. At all. Google recognizes few possible interpretations of your query other than "Google, show me a bunch of advertisements for [thing] so I can Buy Product." If your research doesn't end in Buy Product, Google has no interest in helping you.

Many people think that the way of finding things out before Google was books

But that's more wrong than right.

The way of finding things out before Google was community.

Because there's some old lady in your community who has been gardening and observing wildlife for 40 years who is somehow running a sprawling native plant gardening organization and providing everyone else in your town with seeds and random produce, and she has a library's worth of knowledge absorbed from reading every book and talking to every guy who has any experience about plants, and this old lady has 87 close friends who are somehow involved in every local governmental department and private organization and business, and if she can't answer your question herself, she will be able to hand you a little scrap of note paper with the name of the exact person you need to talk to. She doesn't have an email address

[headspace-hotel]

Gen Z seems to regard "having connections" as a bad thing and a way of cheating your way into opportunities that you don't deserve

In reality, it's "opportunities" and "deserve" that indicates something deeply wrong and dysfunctional with our society. Outside of the numerous artificial competitive scenarios we are placed in where we strive against others to perform the ideal persona of worthiness as a human being, "having connections" is just how things get done.

Same with "being a Karen." Taking out your petty frustrations on a powerless retail worker is one thing, summoning every ounce of Upstanding Member Of Society in your middle aged white woman body to rend asunder the guy who approved of bulldozing a wetland is another

[headspace-hotel]

@false-binaries I mean honestly that's not far off

1. go to physical place that seems closest to the thing you want to learn about (community garden is great, nature center or farmer's market is also great)

2. observe a person that seems open to chatting with others

3. ask something along the lines of "Hi, I've been trying to learn about [thing], but I'm pretty new to it, do you happen to know anything about it?" Express curiosity about the work done by the place you are in

4. If you manage to hit it off with someone, just kinda hang out. Other people will show up to chat with the person you are talking to. You are now talking to those people as well.

to be fair this works very well for me partly because it's the south and people will talk for 30 minutes after meeting in the middle of the grocery store. but we need to normalize community

[theexhaustedmermaid]

Libraries are great for this! Also, just hang around places you know there's people interested in what you're interested in.

I used to participate in a knitting circle at my library. Met all sorts of people there without a email or any social media. At the aquarium I volunteer at, there's an old dude who is very passionate about whales and he sits in front of the beluga exhibit every Thursday. He knows everything about local ocean conservation and collaborates with the local river keepers. Again, no social media and only has a joint email with his wife.

Thing to keep in mind is these people love to talk about their interests so you'll get lots of info. You can also check local news papers as many people put community events in there!

[glorious-spoon]

^ can recommend libraries, professionally. also check out cooperative extension programs - they can be a great way to connect with people who are into this kind of thing

and yeah. local newspapers! the actual print copy, which you can also probably find at your local library. plenty of places still do the bulk of their advertising there

[saturnineaqua]

Got my braids done today and FYI get the goddess braids with human leave out. Let the rest be synthetic and do knotless and make sure to tell them you don't want heavy braids.

It was so simple. And I didn't have to pay $300.

Also seriously,have we found out why our skin looks SO GREAT AFTER getting our hair done????

[saturnineaqua]

Girrrl

The aunties at the braiding spot said they can't do long human hair braids. They insist the photos I showed them are all synthetic hair.

But I can't do the synthetic. I don't want super heavy braids 😫

[stilllearning90]

Is there such a big difference in braiding the hair that one is somehow more difficult to do then the other?

[thundergrace]

All fair points:

G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them) (Published 2021)

As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introduc

[neshatriumphs]

And this is just recently. They literally always showed up at peaceful events Black people organized and met them with violence. The major difference was that in 2020, everybody who was never there before began to see it on their internet while they were stuck in the house.

So, they took the previous notion of "we weren't there, so we don't know what really happened" and copped out with the idea that violence doesn't help others stop being violent towards you...

TF. If they're being violent, they deserve violent reactions and any other reaction is simply only going to last until they react even more violently. So fuck it, we rage.

[meanmisscharles]

Whites support Black Lives until they have to choose between Black Lives and white property.

Whiteness always chooses its own.

[superheroesincolor]

RIP Lance Reddick   (1962 – 2023)

“Lance Reddick, the actor best known for roles on The Wire, Fringe, and the John Wick franchise, has died, according to TMZ. He was 60 years old.

The tabloid outlet first reported the news on Friday, with law enforcement sources claiming that the actor appeared to have died of natural causes in his Studio City home.”   X

“You either get better, or you don’t progress.“  

                               -  Lance Reddick

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[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[ed-recovery-affirmations]

Another piece of diet culture to unlearn: that eating an "unhealthy" food negates the benefits of other nutritious things you've eaten. Put bacon and ranch on your salad? Congratulations, you still got a lot of fiber, that's great for your gut biome, and the veggies still contain nutrients. Finished up your dinner with a dessert? You still ate the dinner. You don't have to eat "pure" to take in nutrition from your meals.

[shadow-manor]

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

[ratherembarrassing]

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

[give-grian-rights]

People are really fucking stupid. Millions of people are writing works for a COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY . people. cannot. make. fucking. money. for it.

Ao3 is an ARCHIVE with tens of millions of works they have to host ! yeah, they need money. they’re getting money for being an archive . not for writing using someone else’s property .

i get it, im a fic writer. thats YEARS of work . but its fucking fan work. you cannot ask for money on ao3. EVER. thats not how YOU just get in trouble, thats how you take millions of works down with you.

[babyfoxcollectionthings]