My main blog! Unfortunately tumblr doesn't allow me to switch my primary account, so if you see my discontinued comic @TheAdventuresOfStybba in a comment, that's also me. I reblog all kinds of things, but try to stay on the fun side. I also do my best to remember to tag flashing lights, unreality, bugs, and snakes. Lmk if I’ve messed up or if I can reasonably make your browsing experience better. East Coast USA, she/her, Millennial.
last night someone left the door open and none of us could figure out who did it. not a huge deal but it’s important to keep the animals in, if they were to get out of their room into the main space. since we all swore we shut it behind us we decided to look back at the motion sensor game cam to see if it bounced open or something so we could fix it so it wouldn’t do that.
i was like “it had to have somehow bounced open. it’s not like anyone out here would be breaking in.”
my friend joked, “there were a few deer in the pasture last night that looked shifty.”
I even thought to myself “maybe it was me?” because of my ADHD. but shutting doors and gates is one of my ONLY reliable habits because i’ve been on farms my whole life.
I’m never second-guessing myself again after this, frankly. from now on when I misplace my keys I’m gonna be like, well maybe they were taken by a wild animal.
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so the other day, a friend recommended jigsaw puzzles made by The Magic Puzzle Company. they have really cool art and additional surprises and secrets, which sounds awesome!!!!! i love jigsaw puzzles, so i would love to get my hands on some of these someday. not right now, though, since i 1) don't have much spending money for online purchases currently, and more crucially 2) have yet to obtain a good table for puzzling.
being able to jigsaw puzzles is a huge motivator and qualification for my future table. the main reason i don't have one yet is that i haven't cleared enough space for it yet by unpacking all my boxes. i would make a joke about this being the true jigsaw puzzle, except jigsaw puzzles are fun and unpacking is not :(
so a future treat, then. the puzzles aren't unreasonably priced, about 25 usd per box, which i consider a regular price for a 1000 piece puzzle. but many reasonably priced things become unreasonably priced once shipping to norway is involved.
now, what i tend to expect when it comes to shipping is between 15-30 usd, depending on type of item and store. there's also customs, but they're not always paid in advance. i tend to buy from a lot of small creators who can't eat shipping costs like big corporations can. 30 dollars is a lot though, not gonna lie, so i was hoping it was Not That. having to add items to cart and filling out the shipping address just to check the shipping prices is a chore (and usually what i have to do on shopify style sites), so i always try to look for a FAQ or a price chart on the site first. i did not feel very confident when one of the questions listed was "why is international shipping so expensive?"
i thought ugh, it's gonna be on the 30 dollar end, i know it.
well......... it wasn't.
it was 61 <3
a UK friend checked and reported back that it "only" costs 25 usd to ship to him, so i don't know what the deal is. for almost any other european country i'd say it's because norway is in europe but not in the EU so we get worse shipping deals quite often, but in this case UK isn't in the EU anymore either so WHO'S TO SAY.
anyway i am not giving up on the magic puzzles. after checking the possibility of norwegian stockists, i took a peek at ebay and, begrudgingly, amazon. i only use the latter when there's no other viable options. ebay had some decent listings, though i was surprised to see that a lot of them had quite steep shipping prices, even the ones shipping from the UK. but it is absolutely a possibility for my future self! on amazon, at first glance, they seem to sell the puzzles at a regular price with shipping costs much, much closer to the 25 usd one. that still means paying the equivalent of 50 usd for one (1) puzzle box, but that IS less than 60 dollars just for shipping. good to know!
what struck me, however, that i wasn't seeing the puzzle motif i had been most interested in. i mean, i would be happy to get literally any of these, but if i could pick, and if i could pick only one, i want the one called "the golden goose". it just seems to have the most me-core vibes at a shallow glance through their available puzzle boxes (i am trying to avoid spoilers). so the next step of my research is to look up this specific puzzle.
to understand the next screenshot i am about to show you, i will explain that 1 USD equals, roughly, 10 NOK (norwegian kroner). it varies a bit over time but the easiest estimate is always to just move the decimal. 100 USD is 1000 kroner. easy!!
what i find a lot more difficult to explain is this
why does it cost over 400 dollars american to ship a jigsaw puzzle to norway? is there a real, live golden goose inside? do they have to apply for a work visa for the golden goose? is that what the import charges are? what is going on.
As much as I talk shit about my home state, if I had to rate US states by the sheer ambient evilness and how much I hate them it would undoubtably be
1. Idaho
2. Florida
3. Ohio
Coming from a state that borders Idaho, I can count the number of people I’ve met from (not moved to as an adult) Idaho who weren’t like Deeply Horrible people after longer than a single conversation of knowing them on one hand.
It is a corrupting force that taints the heart of those who stay too long in it and drives them to cause suffering to those around them. It’s also a large Mormon stronghold. Nothing good comes from Idaho but potatoes.
Expanding on tags I wrote a bit ago, I was going to add what I could recall about the racist history of the NW and Idaho in particular, but found a decent wiki article instead:
Literally a neonazi state. Genuinely facist culture.
Also, most potatoes come from Maine at this point.
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Hey everyone, just wanted to shout out to let you know that the Federal Trade Commission is currently collecting comments regarding ideological bias in AI in order to try start the process of drafting regulations. Given the current administration, this seems like a pretty transparent attempt to try to force AI companies to adhere to their own ideological biases.
Now, I can't tell you that you should, for example, leave a comment about your concern for the way Grok has been promoting white nationalist beliefs, but public comments in the regulatory process are a key step and they shape what comes next. If the regulatory agency doesn't fully consider the comments and form a reasonable response to the ones it disagrees with, that can form the basis for overturning a regulation in court.
Anyways, here's the site where you can leave comments that will shape this regulation, the deadline is July 31st.
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Yknow the lil fanfic trope where a character, usually non-human, purrs like a cat. In this case it would obviously be Rocky but what if it was Grace instead hear me out-
kinda tired of non binary being tied to skinny androgyny that's mostly white. I say that's as a non binary transmasc/boy thing who's fat and black.
being non binary can look like anything and anyone but especially individuals who have different body types outside of thin. they can have body/facial hair too. show up for all enbies.
american blackbirds are icterids but european blackbirds are thrushes but american robins are thrushes but european robins are flycatchers and they are named robin because (checks notes) brits in the 1400s called them "robert" on account of they are just some familiar guy who shows up in your yard. hold on post canceled is that really why they are called that? what the fuck. they did this with jackdaws and magpies too? i can't even be annoyed. how human. "who's that? that's bob." fuck dude it sure is.
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tumblr should have a little clippy guy, a tumblrweed or something, that pops up and says "hey it looks like you posted this exact joke 15 months ago, are you sure you want to do yhis"
