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Love Begins
#extradirty
Product Placement
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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shark vs the universe
One Nice Bug Per Day
trying on a metaphor
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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KIROKAZE
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Janaina Medeiros
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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@thecuddlygator
Unfriendly fucking reminder that TERFs, SWERFs, and really any other self identified “radical feminists,” “gender abolitionists,” “womyn-born-womyn,” or anyone whose feminism is “female centric” (ie excludes trans women) are not fucking welcome here. You are not welcome to this space, to my posts, or anywhere near me. Get lost.
I myself have been homeless. Car camped. I can share a few things that can make that time easier.
This is a good good list that unfortunately a lot of people need right now.
Good tips. I can vouch for many of these. Here are a couple more that have worked for me (U.S.-based): - Get on food stamps before you are actually homeless, if you can. It’s just less complicated that way, but I have also had good luck just being very straightforward with DHS about my situation. - The article talks about not paying for storage – I really think your mileage may vary on that one. I paid for a cheap storage unit that I split with my sister for a couple years. If you really do have things of value that you want to keep, I say do it if you can find a cheap unit. ALSO, I have low-key stayed in my storage unit. You can’t do it for long, and depending on the place, it can be sketchy, but it can be done. - National parks and Forest Service campsites. Yeah there is definitely the whole day-use only thing but there are some that aren’t monitored. They often have bathrooms, and for me, it sometimes felt way safer being away from people. - Hook up with your local Food Not Bombs. It’s usually really good food and run by folks who are used to working outside the system. You might be able to make friends and score a place to live or stay. - When I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to afford rent for the foreseeable future, I bought myself a cheap travel trailer. 600 bucks and I’ve lived in it for almost five years now. Friends are way more likely to let you live indefinitely in their driveway or on their land than endlessly crashing on their couch. I do work-trade or pay what I can for utilities. If your car can’t haul it (mine can’t), rent a U-Haul truck for a day to get it where you need it to be. Obviously this requires some cash, but if you can swing it, it can really save your ass in the long run. - Make a plan for bad weather – heat waves and cold snaps can kill. Heat is worse for me where I live, so I make sure to have a list of spots I can escape to. This is where those national parks can sometimes come in handy, but also think about overpasses, city parks with lots of shade, abandoned buildings. Know where your local cooling/warming shelters are. Keep some money stashed away if you can to pay for cheap motel rooms during the worst weather. If you can split the cost of a room with friends, even better. - Have a few strategically stashed canisters of mace or pepper spray. - But at the same time, look out for each other. You don’t have to become bosom buddies with everyone else on the street, but treating each other like humans is both good for your mental and emotional health and also you’ll find that people are often really amazingly generous with their resources and knowledge.
Good advice. Storage is also one of those thing that a friend might be able to help you with. Cheap storage options are often damp or not as secure as you’d like. That might be a bad place to put your childhood photo albums, electronics, important paperwork, favorite dress, those expensive shoes you bought once… If a friend is willing to store a few boxes of stuff, at least you know those things are safe and dry.
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Another piece of advice about storage units. I work for a big storage company that will not be named and they raise their rents about every 3 to 6 months, often by $50 to $70. Then they have the balls to tell you you can't leave without putting in a request, and never bother to tell you about the vacate policy. If you *have to* get a storage unit, read the lease up and down before paying anything and go with a small business.
Lovely to see we have spaces where you can gain access to so much literature!
skrillex's "bangarang" used to play
what now?
Silence unending, interurrpted occasionally by flo ridas "cant believe it"
guys this bedtime story is really scary can you tell me a different one
the grim reality for a lot of nonbinary people is that their options are closet themselves and be perpetually misunderstood by the world at large or be out and proud and be perpetually misunderstood by the world at large
me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me
why didnt you call the cops or cps?
how about this: when i was 9 and my stepdad beat me until i passed out and i told my friends at school, my teacher over heard and i was interviewed by cps. they also went to my house when i was at school. when i got home, my step father was waiting on the couch, and told me who visited him that day. he told me if i ever snitched again he would beat me to within an inch of my life.
how about this: my mother locked me out of the house when i was 14 and when i cried so loud the neighbors called the cops, the cop told me i should have been respectful of my mother who was trying to sleep.
how about this. the demon you know is less scary than the demon you don’t.
children in abused households are raised to fear the idea of being taken away. children in abusive households see that help makes things worse.
dont you ever blame an abuse victim for not going to the authorities.
yes this okay to reblog!
cpc + the cops are more invested in maintaining the social power of adults over children than they are in the wellbeing of those children.
If you know of a kid who’s being abused, just talk to them. Ask them how they feel about calling cops/cps before you even think of touching the phone. This includes “mandatory reporting” scenarios. Become a safe person for them to talk to about things that they don’t feel safe telling anyone else because anyone else will call the cops and very likely make things worse. Be someone who can offer comfort or advice when they need it. Be safety and stability for them in a chaotic and dangerous world. You may find a point where you can offer them a way out of the abuse, but only do so with their consent. They know their situation better than you do.
the big mamdani
THE BIG MAMDANI
I just realized Odo had a neoplatonic story in DS9 but instead of returning to Logos he rejected it
Well, he rejected it at first, achieved Gnosis, then accepted The Good and returned to merge back into Logos. And by merging back with the Godhead he becomes God himself, thereby making God in his image. Can't believe I let the neoplatonists slip one by me lol
I just realized Odo had a neoplatonic story in DS9 but instead of returning to Logos he rejected it
“Wow, yeah, I’ve never heard of that, it sounds really fucked up. Bet those perverts south of here would do it though”
the weight this image holds
happy pride month everybody
Okay, if you are tired then you won't be able to read. There I say it. No one else want to say it. It is strange. If you are tired, if you cannot finish a book that's a given. That's why you need to read...at work. You need to steal your reading time from your employers.
I literally hate every job in the world. I don’t want them. I don’t want ANY of them!
A tragic scene:
My turtle notices the blueberry I put out for him but in his excitement he drops it into his pond. He considers a recovery mission on his own, then turns to me for assistance instead.
Fear not- the berry was retrieved and the turtle was able to enjoy it as intended
i set my name to Paul Enis in the app because then the stickers they put on my grocery deliveries would say P. ENIS. it was like this for months, but now all the sudden they say PAUL E. instead
i can't have that. i won't let that happen. what they could have never predicted is that a beautiful woman named Peni Sausage is about to log on
she transitioned
I bought a giant textbook on herbal medicine and it actually goes into the chemical processes that explain why medicinal plants do what they do rather than just explaining that they do them, and I'm actually salivating over the idea of reading it
For everyone asking, the book is called "Medical Herbalism: The Science Principles and Practices Of Herbal Medicine" by David Hoffmann. It's around 672 pages long and depending on where you get it, it costs anywhere from $30 to $60
Because I'm a lover of the Internet Archive, you can also check it out here:
666 pages : 28 cm
