[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

Adventure Thru Inner Space Mighty Microscope, 1974

[the-pinkopaque]

Kate Bush - The Sensual World (1989), Dir. Peter Richardson and Kate Bush

[goodstuffhappenedtoday]

Edible Cities are growing in the US and Europe

The city of Andernach, Germany, planted 101 varieties of tomatoes in the town center and told everyone to pluck and take whatever they wanted.

It was such a hit, the following year the city did the same with beans. The next year, it was onions. After that, the city planted fruit trees, lettuce, zucchini, berries and herbs. All were free to anyone who lived or happened to be in the town of 30,000 people.

The town, which sits in the Rhine River Valley, has an unofficial motto: “Picking is encouraged — help yourself.”

It’s one of a growing number of places across the globe known as edible cities. In the United States, there are public lands from Seattle to North Carolina where people are welcome to pick and take from fruiting trees and bushes.

Organizers interviewed for this article said there has never been a problem with people taking more than they need, whether they grab a single pear or a bag full of potatoes and artichokes.

Every year, there is more than enough produce to go around.

Detroit has an urban farming movement, Philadelphia has food forests, and there are edible community projects in Atlanta and Los Angeles. All rely on volunteers to do the weeding, pruning and planting.

Smaller cities such as Bloomington, Ind., and Hyattsville, Md., also have fruit trees and vegetable gardens that can be accessed by anyone.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bear4butch]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Placeholder moustache

[theradicalace]

[regicide1997]

Call that a 5-o'clock foreshadowing

[woundliqour]

[aggressivewhenstartled]

This is why I get meal kits. Do I need them? No. Can I easily make them myself? For way cheaper? Yes. WILL I??? No.

Other tips: if you are going to buy things that aren’t pre-taxed, you need to make a habit of always doing the prep AS SOON AS YOU GET HOME. it will NEVER HAPPEN if you don’t.

Get the bulk pack of steaks! But you are never gonna eat them before they go bad. If you freeze them in individual ziplocks as soon as you unpack you probably will?

Get the celery, but you need to cut it ALL UP and store it in the fridge in water or it will rot.

And don’t do all tgese at once, get like, one or two prep things a trip. You aren’t gonna get it started if it’s a huge task.

[randomslasher]

I love tomato soup. But condensed soup that requires me to have a clean pot, milk, and time to wait for the stovetop will never leave my cupboard. 

Those instant campbells soups though? The ones you just open up, take the metal off, then put the cap back on and microwave? (Hell also the ones that are literally just in a cup?) I’ll go through those within a week of buying them. 

Yeah, they cost more. But I will eat them. Since that’s generally my sole reason for purchasing soup (to consume it), that makes it worth the extra money. 

[aenramsden]

[Image description: Reddit post on r/ADHD by user Phaesporic. Text reads:

Title: When you buy things, pay the ADHD tax upfront.

Text: I've seen a lot of posts about the ADHD tax-- the late fees, the groceries that go bad, lost items, impulse purchases we never touch... you get the picture. It's real, and it sucks.

One thing I've noticed lately, though, is how sometimes, you can get away with paying a smaller ADHD tax if you plan ahead when you buy things. Hear me out.

1: I could buy a whole crown of fresh broccoli for like, $1.50, but I won't get around to washing, cutting, and preparing it. A $2.50 bag of pre-cut, pre-washed broccoli will get eaten. Instead of a $1.50 ADHD tax for broccoli I won't eat, it's a $1.00 tax for broccoli I will eat. 2: A cute planner or notebook with a great layout is worth $30 if I will actually use it. An awkward-to-use planner that I'm not motivated to ever touch is useless, and not worth spending even $5 on. 3: With vitamins, if they're not gummies, I won't maintain the habit of taking them. I'll pay extra for the gummy vites that I will use versus the regular ones I will waste.

Other things include: paying for Spotify Premium because I know that ads (or going to find music elsewhere) will distract me. Only buying clothes from stores with really long return windows, even if it's pricier (REI lets you return things for a full year, bro). Paying more for a phone with a really long battery life so it's not dead half the time.

As someone who was raised to be frugal, a lot of this stuff feels kinda shameful almost? But when I stop and think about it, I stand by my assessment that it's actually cheaper this way.

Edit: thank you! but please don't spend money on awards. spend it on pre-washed, fresh cut broccoli, pals

Edit 2: Y'all make some great points. The encouragement and understanding in the comments is making my whole week.

After some further reflection, some things really stand out to me:

1: Viewing willpower and energy as limited resources is critical. Purchases are cost + willpower + energy. Whole, unwashed broccoli is lower on cost but higher on willpower and energy demands.

-> I feel like we can punish ourselves for wasting time. Like I convinced myself "don't buy pre-prepped veggies if you're gonna waste 8 hrs on video games, you can spare the time." But that's basically punishing myself for having ADHD by depriving myself of vegetables I'd actually eat.

-> Besides, maybe the 20 mins I save by having pre-prepped broccoli means I have enough mental energy to wash some dishes after I eat, which means washing dishes on Saturday takes 40 minutes instead of an hour, which means I have enough energy to clean my room, and so on.

2. Frozen vegetables & fruit, meal kits, and bulk purchases help. I will also add: did you know you can freeze bread?? Then toast it and it's good!

3. Point of caution: spending more on something doesn't necessarily mean it's more likely to be used. We have all been there. But if something will genuinely be more usable or more functional at a higher cost, it might be really worth it.]

[boneslikebirds]

Русалочка (Rusalochka), directed by Vladimir Bychkov, 1976.

[dreamscaper]

bby.plantain

[90smovieolderbrother]

danny devito got unverified on twitter for supporting nabisco workers on strike!!!!

[30-minute-memes]

Wisdom if I’ve ever seen it

[cipheramnesia]

Enemies to taco truckers, slow braised 500k.

[iusedtobecharming-deactivated20]

[hodlmyvodka]

Crystal clear ice of the frozen Baikal Lake

[neogigas]

always something new with this fucking lake

[suzie-guru]

@dainesanddaffodils

[pandalavalamp]

Sign the Petition

Change Mark Rober's Eugenics Fundraiser

Aight dudes, ex NASA engineer and science guy Mark Rober is doing a charity stream at the end of the month for a shitty organisation with ties to Autism $peaks, eugenics, ABA therapy (which doesn’t work and has given autistics PTSD) and literally believes the extremely disproven idea that vaccines causes autism... and he’s gotten backed by a lot of misinformed celebrities along the way.

Now we need to disarm this absolute train wreck of performative activism.

So I need y’all to at least sign this and share it cause I’m tired of celebrities talking over autistic voices about shit they don’t understand, and that actively harms us. Don’t support next for autism, or autism $peaks, or any other light it up blue puzzle piece (of) shit organisation that wants to erase our neurodivergence from existence.

Instead support ASAN, A4A, AWNBN, or any other actually good organisation. We need acceptance and accommodations, not “awareness” and a “cure” cause it literally doesn’t exist.

That’s all for now ✌🏻

[sashaatthebarricade-deactivated]

Jonathan Bailey for Attitude magazine, February 2021. (Photos: Claire Harrison)

[wadey-wilson]

when ppl ask why i'm nice to the low-wage workers

[hollowboobtheory]

the thing abt diet culture is that there’s no way any junk food could possibly be more self destructive than viewing your own body as not only a separate entity from yourself but as an enemy to be conquered

[guerrillatech]

[whatbigotspost]

YES...this is a cousin to these tweets I just saw:

Professor Fleming is not supposed to be here on Twitter

“"Healing" is also the language of white supremacy. This country doesn't need to heal. It needs to fucking CHANGE.”

As long as we’re running a system made of the same old bigoted ingredients, we’re fucked.

[sebandmia]

film photos taken on the set of bridgerton by barnaby boulton