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Tower of Baa-Goat,

Built by Dave and Marcia Johnson, this unique 31-foot structure was designed as a playground for their goats to climb, explore, and relax.

Constructed with over 5,000 bricks and featuring 276 spiral steps, the tower allows the animals to wander upward, rest on the circular platforms, and peek out from cozy compartments inside.

The idea came after the couple spotted a similar goat tower in a wine magazine. What started as inspiration turned into one of America's most unusual and charming animal attractions.

ty for the name @androbutchninja , but here it is! I was going through it through the majority of spring, so this spring cleaning sale is now a pride month sale!

Once a year, I rotate out a bunch of prints that are older (not representative of current designs), unpopular, or just kinda stale. I update the inventory numbers to reflect what I got on hand and when they're gone they're gone!

Everything on this list is 20% off, here's what's leaving the shop:

Keep writing (8 remaining)

Friends, Mutuals, Countrymen (4 remaining)

I have love in me (9 remaining)

everyone wants to build... (11 remaining)

The Cephalopod's Prayer (5 remaining)

Fanfiction Moment: oh/OH (28 remaining)

Yikes: 3 variations. (10 book of hours style, 7 book of kells style, 3 woodcut style remaining)

Turbo Illegal (4 remaining)

Own a Musket for Self Defense (12 remaining)

Let me explain:

Grotesque fascist grifter, Nigel Farage, is the leader of Reform, the racist far right party he created because UKIP got what it wanted (Brexit) and it sucked.

Having tried and failed to be an MP many times (but somehow getting more screentime than any Liberal Democrat or Green politician), he finally succeeded in the last election because people were so overwhelmingly pissed off with the Conservatives, and many right-wing people saw Reform as the new Conservative Party; partly because it's full of rejects from the Conservative Party.

Speculation: he doesn't really want to be an MP, he wants to be a fascist grifter. He's annoyed by suggestions he do things like Be In His Constituency and Serve His Constituents.

He's recently been caught having accepted a VERY large amount of money from some unsavory people that he insists was a totally legitimate 'donation' and not breaking any rules.

Only it did break the rules and it's very clear that it did and things are in motion to hold him to account.

To avoid this, he has resigned as an MP, saying this is a protest at his treatment by the 'establisment' (he is a rich fascist grifter, but he likes to cosplay as a Man of the People). This has triggered a by-election, in which he is standing, with the hope that the people of his constituency will either elect him in a resounding win, indicating they don't care that he's corrupt (having not heard everything the investigation is uncovering), or someone from Labour or the Conservatives will win and he can swan off to America, free to grift again because of what the 'establishment' did to him.

Only, all the major political parties have agreed not to stand, stating openly that this is an obvious stunt and they won't legitimise it. So if he doesn't win, he can't say it was because he was too much of a rebel and the Establishment went against him, he'll just be a loser, which doesn't play too well with the right-wingers he wants to grift. And if he does get back in the investigation will go forward without any kind of 'mandate' from his constituency buoying him up.

But. There is another option.

COUNT BINFACE IS RUNNING.

Count Binface is part of the grand British tradition of joke candidates who stand as a protest option. They usually don't get enough votes to get their deposit back (which is supposed to deter unserious people) but they don't care, because DEMOCRACY.

Of course, Count Binface has never won, but it is hilarious to see a completely serious pathetic fascist concede defeat while standing next to a man with a bin on his head to whom they are democratically equal.

But if nobody else is standing. And if enough people in Clacton-on-Sea are finally cheesed off enough with Farage not doing anything for them, there is just a chance that one of the funniest things to ever happen in politics will happen.

Imagine. Imagine for just a moment that the Grotesque Fascist not only loses, but loses to Count Binface.

If he wins, the investigation will no longer be paused. It looks very likely that Farage will be found to have breached parliamentary disclosure rules which, considered the severity (5 million quid ain't nothing), could get Farage suspended from parliament.

And if Farage is suspended for 10 days or more, it could trigger a recall petition which can trigger a new by-election that Nigel would have to stand in again if he wants to keep his seat.

But if he loses, the investigation may be picked up again. Not being an MP does not mean the investigation can't continue. If it's considered appropriate, it will carry on.

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

what does fahrenheit have to do with anything, i took these figures from an article that gave its figures in celsius (although i now can't find the article again, that's on me not citing my sources cos i was just talking to myself), but here's a scientific article stating the same figures:

The process of urbanisation alters the thermal balance of an area resulting in an urban heat island effect where cities can be several degrees centigrade warmer than the surrounding rural landscape. This increased heat can make cities uncomfortable places and, during heat waves, can pose serious health risks. This study looked at the role that trees and grass can play in reducing regional and local temperatures in urban areas during the summer within the urban landscape of Manchester, UK. In June and July 2009 and 2010, we monitored the surface temperatures of small plots composed of concrete and grass in the presence or absence of tree shading, and measured globe temperatures above each of the surfaces. The same measures were also recorded at mid-day on larger expanses of asphalt and grass in an urban park. Both surface and shade greatly affected surface temperatures. Grass reduced maximum surface temperatures by up to 24 °C, similar to model predictions, while tree shade reduced them by up to 19 °C.

this is about surface/ground temperature rather than air temperature, if those figures seem high to you: the woodland trust notes that

"However, in a study from Manchester, shade from street trees reduced surface temperatures by an average of 12°C and concrete surfaces shaded permanently by a bank of trees were cooled by up to 20°C in the summer (Armson et al. 2013), although these had no effect on air temperatures." [source]

elsewhere on their website they also reference research in cardiff showing that surfaces in direct sunlight are about 20C higher than surfaces in shade

you might think that that means they don't help in a heatwave, if it's not the air temperature that's impacted, but one thing i really noticed in this one was the impact of the bricks of my flat absorbing heat from direct sunlight during the day -- at night, although air temperatures had cooled, the bricks were still radiating heat like an oven. however, the wall that is shaded by a tree did not absorb as much heat, because it did not get direct sunlight, and therefore that part of the flat did not have this heating effect at night

That poor sweet boy has truly seen some shitheads