Iowa Rambler

She/Her-Bi-36-Heathen, devotee of Odin and the rest of the Norse pantheon. Married-Lives in Iowa, kicks people and plays with stinging insects for fun. Come for the beekeeping, stay for the shitposting.

[theweirdwideweb]

[averruncusho]

[scribefindegil]

everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving

[systlin]

T minus 4 days to Forced Cyst and Uterus Eviction, and it can't come fast enough. (I say this through gritted teeth as the ratfuck prick is aching AGAIN)

[systlin]

T MINUS TWO DAYS YOU USELESS LUMP OF FUCK

[viralfrog]

[venerable-thief]

I am a huge fan of retiring to my quarters

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

In this economy you'll be lucky to retire to your nickels

[quinnception]

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[raccoonmilf]

Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

[raccoonmilf]

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

[raccoonmilf]

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

[raccoonmilf]

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

[raccoonmilf]

Those vibes are likely because I’m the original creator of Dashcon and my personality has not changed since 2012 lmao

[fipindustries]

[aromanticduck]

Free service with ads: Well, if I'm not paying for it they have to foot the bill somehow.

Paid service with no ads: Well, if they're not funding it with ad revenue, they need to charge us something.

Paid service with ads: Well that's bullshit.

"We used to be a paid service without ads, but now we're putting ads in it! If you want the ad-free version you have to pay more for preeeeemium": Fuck you fuck you fuck you

[the-bar-sinister]

Actually, the reason to write that rarepair longfic that no one else is going to read is so you can go back and re-read it yourself when you're sad.

[the-bar-sinister]

Or horny.

[systlin]

T minus 4 days to Forced Cyst and Uterus Eviction, and it can't come fast enough. (I say this through gritted teeth as the ratfuck prick is aching AGAIN)

[systlin]

Suppose the surgeon could be convinced to invoke an ancient god of knowledge and blood once he takes the damn thing out and say 'i offer this for knowledge, the holiest thing of all' before it's chucked at med students for study or would that be weird

I'll just say it myself fuckit

[systlin]

T minus 4 days to Forced Cyst and Uterus Eviction, and it can't come fast enough. (I say this through gritted teeth as the ratfuck prick is aching AGAIN)

[tanoraqui]

I do think the right way to think about the Mirror of Galadriel is that it‘s the equivalent of an entirely home-built computer tower, with chips that are only barely legal for civilians to buy and wires that look like a rat’s nest but are actually hyperoptimized for efficiency, and a homemade OS in a coding language she invented, and cybersecurity that would make the CIA cry, and also some judiciously applied superglue and/or gorilla tape, made in their home office by someone who helped invent the internet at DARPA in the 60s.

And that a Palantir is, comparatively, a MacBook Air.

[dozydawn]

nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

[ch40s0w1]

context explaining why the announcer is screaming, this is supposed to take a high level competitive agility dog 40 seconds

[sandersstudies]

This video makes me cry every time it’s on my dash and I can’t even iterate why.

Like the dog doesn’t even know it’s a competition and she’s made history. She(?) just is happy and knows she made her owner happy too.

[solely-ashes]

The face of a being with only a wind storm between their ears, moments before unleashing it unto the world

[severeprincesheep]

always a pleasure to see this girl on my dashboard

[theyroaredvintage]

Coat by Sharron Hedges, 1983.

[rionsanura]

Sharron Hedges is an INCREDIBLE textile artist, one of the initial pioneers of the Art to Wear movement of the ~70s. This piece is called Morpho, and it represents approximately a year of work.

Hedges’ pieces are incomparable!

There is an episode of PBS’s great series Craft In America that features Hedges, and it’s well worth a watch!

[systlin]

Congratulations on lining up a hysterectomy!!!! I had mine years ago and it was the best thing that ever happened to my body; I'm so excited for you! Right after i had mine the doctors said its normal to feel your bladder sort of flopping about when you move while it heals since there's extra room there now, which feels pretty weird, so you'll get to perhaps have that experience. not having to worry about bleeding ever is so freeing, literally life changing, and no cramps ever because there's nothing to cramp anymore, she's getting evicted!!

Honestly one huge issue I've had is that the giant asshole fucker cyst on my left ovary is pressing on my bladder, and I have to pee approximately every 22 minutes. I'm SO fucking over it. Ready to experience this instead tbh.

[systlin]

Oh it ain't gonna go away; it's an endometrioma, been there for 8 years, and is 9 cm x 5 cm x 4.8 cm. Three (THREE) medical professionals missed it until I switched PCP's and the new one found an old CAT scan showing it, did an exam, went 'something ain't right there' and ordered an ultrasound.

Fucker hid itself in there good. Is currently squatting on territory that should belong to my bladder. The cyst is getting surgically removed on the 27th.

[kaijuyuri]

i like how all cats regardless of species can either look rlly badass and cool or just incredibly silly stupid

[kaijuyuri]

my proof

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[alexaloraetheris]

In the ye olde days, when technology allowed phones to become small but there was no general concensus on what a phone should/ought to look like, it was like the wild west of phone design. The crazier it was, the higher the prestige. Phones back then did two things and they did them with flamboyance.

And then Steve Jobs ruined everything.