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Things are crawling out of my scrap bin...

Scrap Spirit - Spring Bloom

OOAK handmade art doll

This is great news! However,

They need a lot of assistance right now, because the zionist occupation keeps targetting their locations with incursions and raids. They've been displaced twice in the last month if I recall correctly, but no matter, the occupation is bringing tanks to their location and shooting at civilians, and they've brought a bulldozer that razed down the entire street by their new encampment. They need funds and resources to be able to settle somewhere new to flee. Please help them.

Also save my families within these families

N°14

Balenciaga Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1950-51. Wool suit with very pure lines, draped with a soft wool velvet stole by E.Meyer. Velvet beret trimmed with feathers.

Balenciaga Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1950-51. Tailleur de lainage aux lignes très pures, drapé d'une étole en velours de laine souple de E.Meyer. Béret en velours garni de plumes.

The statute of limitations on arson is 6 years.

So whenever I remember an embarrassing or shameful thing I’ve done, I ask myself if it was worse than arson. If it wasn’t, and it was 6 or more years ago, I forgive myself.

studio 252MYA (paleontology)

ray troll's webstore (surrealist fish designs)

liberty graphics t-shirts (biology/dinosaurs)

present indicative (science-themed clothing + home items)

donbea tees - something fishy collection (silly fish puns about substance use)

crime pays but botany doesn't (botany/biology)

umvvelt (marine biology patterns)

morningwitch (nature patterns)

svaha USA (science patterns)

cognitive surplus (some clothing, but mostly home items)

motel777 (cryptic + nature)

curlworks (cute silly critters)

fossilforager (animal apparel + accessories)

quailtea goods (animal art)

loonpflug (plants and insects)

cotton crustacean (marine biology, paleontology)

byte size treasure (marine biology)

bird collective (birds)

paleontological research institution

carmico (nature patterns)

fullarktees (bug apparel)

phdoodleshop (microbiology/cell biology/etc)

smartsquid (various animals)

sipsey wilder (animal/nature/dinosaur accessories)

bleachedbonesstore (paleontology)

mustardbeetle (animals/nature)

edit: removed camp mustelid because of their association with zoophiles

Dress

1910s

Liberty & Co.

So, your landlord/parents/home inspector/favorite movie star is dropping by, and your place is a disaster. You don’t have much time to clean it up. You’re in emergency mode. Let’s get started.

Don’t panic. Panic leads to fear, fear leads to procrastination, procrastination leads to the dark side. You can do this, but you have to stay calm.

Unlike maintenance cleaning, we’re not looking to completely unfuck one space at a time. Instead, we want to decrease the overall mess in stages, spread evenly across the whole area that we’re concerned about. If you think your home is at Level 10 filth, we want to bring the whole thing down to a Level 9, and then down from there. One really clean spot in an otherwise messy home is not going to be helpful here.

Get prepared. You’ll want to shut the computer down (or turn the modem off if you need your computer to play music). Trust me. Get your music going. Gather up trash bags, your vacuum and mop, some rags or paper towel, sponges, and other cleaning supplies. Use what you have on hand. Don’t get distracted running to the store and spending an hour browsing cleaning supplies. A multi-purpose cleaning concentrate or a jug of vinegar will be just fine.

Breaks are very important. Depending on your time constraints, work in 20/10s (20 minutes working, 10-minute break) or 45/15s. But take breaks because otherwise you’re marathoning, and marathon cleaning is no one’s friend. Keep hydrated, don’t forget to eat, and check in with yourself frequently to make sure you’re physically doing OK.

Make your bed. This will be your home base if you get overwhelmed or need somewhere clear to take a break.

Start with the garbage. Going from room to room, throw out anything that is obvious trash. Once you fill a bag, take it out. Repeat as many times as necessary.

Move on to dishes. Gather the dishes from all over your house and bring them to the kitchen. If you can, start them soaking in a sink of hot, soapy water or start loading the dishwasher. After the dishes are all in one place, spend one 20/10 getting started getting them under control.

Now it’s time for your flat surfaces. Countertops, tables, dresser tops, etc. Clear them off and wipe them down. Don’t get distracted in too much sorting and organizing. We’re in crisis mode here. There will be time to get in-depth once this is all done. The same applies to cabinets and closets. Unless you have reason to believe people will be opening closed doors, leave these alone for now.

Attack the floordrobe and shoe pile. Get your clothes either put away or in the hamper. Start a load of laundry if you need to, but keep in mind that laundry and dishes have three steps: wash, dry, and put it away, goddammit!

Get random stuff up off the floors. If something is trash-worthy, throw it away now rather than just move it around a bunch of times. Otherwise, put stuff where it belongs.

Take another 20/10 or 45/15 to catch up on more dishes, if needed.

Head into the bathroom. Pour some cleaner in the toilet bowl, fill the sink with hot water and cleaner, and either spray the tub and shower with cleaner, or fill the tub up with some hot water and add cleaner and let it soak. Put everything away that’s out and shouldn’t be, clean the mirror, counters, and toilet seat. Sweep or dry mop the floor. Wipe down the sink and tub/shower, and give the toilet bowl a scrub. Mop the floor.

Sweep and mop the kitchen floor.

Vacuum everything you can, and sweep everything you can’t.

Walk outside of your house (don’t lock yourself out, please). Walk back in and see what catches your eye first. Go and deal with that.

If you’re being inspected or your landlord is coming in for repairs, spend time on whatever area they’ll be focusing on.

Give the whole place one more once-over and pay attention to anything you’ve missed so far.

It’s an old trick, but if your place is a little funky-smelling, put a pan of water on the stove on low heat and add some citrus or cinnamon or vanilla. Don’t leave it unattended or forget about it.

Take a shower, put on something clean, and eat something.

You can do this. It’s overwhelming, yes, but it is not impossible. You just need to do it. You have a list. You have directions. You have a whole bunch of Internet strangers who have been there before and who are cheering you on. You can do this, but you need to get started.

Ask game for Pointless, Silly and Trivial Character Questions!

(many of these were invented by my epic pal @alterousmode !!)

1. Does your OC chew their ice?

2. What is your OC's third favorite fruit? Why doesn't it rank higher?

3. If you asked them to give you a number between 1 and 100, what would that number be? How fast would they answer?

4. Can your OC ride a bike? A horse? Drive a coach?

5. What is your OC's preferred self-endulgent snack?

6. How long does it take your OC to get out of bed?

7. Can your OC whistle or snap?

8. What is their least favorite fish for any reason?

9. Does your OC sleep with a stuffed animal(s), secretly or otherwise?

10. What is your OC's favorite stim?

11. What self care chore do they forget most?

12. How many library books do they have checked out right now? How many have they actually finished? Started?

13. Would your OC survive alone in a Bass Pro Shop Pyramid, and for how long?

14. What position does your OC sleep in? How much do they move around? Snoring?

15. Peanut Butter was just invented! Does your OC like it smooth or crunchy?

16. Where do you think your OC would place in a 100 meter race? Where does your OC think they would place?

17. Does your OC have any allergies?

18. What is your OC's biggest irrational fear? Do they know its irrational?

19. What is your OC's go-to reaction when someone else in the room sneezes? Burps? Has the hiccups?

20. What was your OC's earliest childhood friendship like? Do they still keep in touch?

21. What was your OC's childhood pet like? Did it like them when they were little, or only tolerate them?

22. What is the stupidest lesson your OC had to learn the hard way?

23. What is your OC's most trivial scar? Do they lie and say it was a cooler story than it actually was?

24. What would your OC's pizza delivery order look like? Are they good at ordering pizza? How good do they tip?

but you deserve to give informed consent to that process.

the lies around pregnancy - that it's inherently safe, that it doesn't do you permanent damage, that it's only extremely rare for people to die of pregnancy complications, etc like

all of these are lies constructed so that more people will get pregnant w/o knowing all that

there needs to be more talk about the impact of miscarriages and how common they are, how different abortion processes are and how accessible they are

but also like. talking about how pregnancy fucks your body up should not be taboo

this is a process that permanently changes most people's bodies, and that's even if the pregnancy doesn't do them like. severe illness or injury

and i just think everybody should have a right to KNOW that

When I was pregnant I was in a million forums for pregnant people because (cough adhd hyperfixation) and I had something called SPD (Symphysis pubis dysfunction) (not Sensory Processing Disorder though I also have that) which is where your pubic bones separate early (more or less) because they get all loosey goosey as your body gets ready to crank that baby out.

Except my pubic bone got confused and got misaligned at like 3 months pregnant. I could barely walk. I couldn't roll over in bed. Doing something that required me to shift my weight from one foot to another like opening a door knob was like an excruciatingly painful knife being stabbed into my pubic bone, I can't express how intense and blinding it was.

So I am in one million baby forums like "am I dying what is happening why is there a knife in my pubic bone" and all these people are like "I have that too! my doctor says it's normal and not to worry because it doesn't hurt the baby. I just deal with it by laying in bed for months in excruciating pain and think about how lucky I am to be having a little miracle growing in my body."

So lol nope. I went to my midwife and they are like, "Oh squeeze a can between your knees look up a physical therapy youtube on SPD" and I did that can-squeeze thing and it CURED THE PROBLEM in ONE DAY. I had been SUFFERING, y'all, it felt miraculous.

And I was so full of rage (flames, flames on the side of my face) that people are being told "Oh, it's NORMAL just deal with it" "It doesn't hurt the baby." Like, look, yes it's NORMAL but it's 100% treatable!!! SPD (again, not Sensory processing disorder) affects 1 in 5 pregnant people.

I was lucky to have amazing midwives (need a gender neutral term for that profession, but they see pregnant men and women)(side note highly recommend midwives if you are gender nonconfirming/a man/etc) and I have DOZENS of examples of shit like this.

Some people in moderate car crashes are very lucky, and walk away with zero injury. Some are very unlucky, and die. But most people fall into the third category, where they'll be injured at the time, then heal, and then for the rest of their life they have some minor and liveable complication from the injury. Like a knee that lets you know when the rain is coming, or a back that doesn't like seats without lumbar support, or a shoulder that never quite gets its full range of motion back.

she's been suffering with this since she gave birth to me. I'm 38 years old. she had that surgery last week.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

I'm sure AI has increased these water costs, but that's only because any new technology is going to increase water costs. AI isn't the root cause here; it's merely another component in a system that does nothing to encourage tech companies to find solutions to high resource usage.

It's good to be critical of huge companies like Google. It's good to be cognizant of the wasteful use of resources that goes into technology. But when we give in to blind hatred of a specific technology like AI and make it out to be the source behind these things, we lay a smokescreen for the corporate greed and broken systems that are really to blame.

If you're angry about the water use of AI, you should channel that anger towards learning and caring about the wider environmental issues at play.

One year of training for a single LLM uses 126,000L of water. Now consider how many LLMs there are (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, etc) and suddenly that number is seriously rivaling Google's water use.

That's also putting aside the insane carbon emissions that come with training AI models (300,000 kg of CO2 emissions, or 125 round-trip flights between NYC/Beijing) and usage of AI (10x the current level of energy usage by small country).

Yes, Google itself also uses a ton of water and has a lot of carbon emissions. But not only is Google is a single company that is broadly used, but when you consider how many different LLMs are currently in use and how each one damages the environment in colossal ways on their own, the cumulative effect of all those AIs is the concern, because left unchecked they will become worse than Google itself.

The conclusion here should not be "you can't complain about AI's usage if you use Google", it's "AI is making a bad problem worse and should not be allowed to exist in its current form". People are capable of caring about multiple issues, and especially if we recognize Google is damaging to the environment then we should not be allowing what is essentially another five Googles to run around doing the exact same thing, multiplying the issue 500x.

No one is blindly hating AI, we are hating it for being a dangerous plagiarizing misinformation machine that guzzles water/belches carbon at a rate that will very quickly surpass what Google does. Trying to make people less critical of AI by saying 'but other companies do this too!' is not the gotcha you think it is, you literally just sound like this:

#genAI is uniquely bad at water and power consumption actually #because of the insane amounts of data needed to run it #it's not that any new technology will use more water #it's that this SPECIFIC technology uses EXCESSIVE amounts #and for a poor end product too #I think we can all understand that there is some cost benefit analysis at work here #like yeah sure the AI that's being used to find cancer cells is probably a good use of all that water and energy #but the AI that hallucinates bloody pin-up models in lingerie when someone puts in a prompt for car crashes is perhaps… not the best use #but sure strawman the arguments against genAI and muddy the waters to pretend it's not uniquely bad #genAI as it exists now is a DIRECT PRODUCT of corporate greed #and criticizing it especially criticizing Google by name for making it impossible to turn off isn't giving anyone a smokescreen #"you're ignoring the corporate greed" #no I really think saying "Google is destroying the planet for genAI" isn't ignoring the greed aspect here come the fuck on