That post about 30 year old coming of age stories?

I’ve been thinking about it all morning. What would the plot points be for that? What makes a 30 year old coming of age story?

Old folks sound off in the comments

biglawbear

This article about a woman who went on a life changing lesbian cruise.

Rather than beginnings like teenage coming of age stories, a 30's coming of age is about change.

The thing about turning 30 is that you know yourself better, and you are usually just starting to have the means to seek what you want. You have enough life experience to know what you like and don't like. You may have a little disposable income, freedom from family, or finally be treating something like depression.

It isn't like being a teenager where the coming of age is new experiences; it's coming of age in knowing what you want and changing your circumstances. You look around and think, "I want and deserve better than this, and I can do it," and you make the change.

Getting a new job. Going back to school. Dating someone new. Moving somewhere else. Going on a long trip. Trying a new hobby. Or even just dressing differently! There's so many ways this coming of age can occur.

But there are layers to this. Unlike a teenage growing up story where you're writing on a blank slate, a 30's coming of age is turning the page. You might have to do something painful. Quit your job. Break up with someone. Say goodbye to your hometown. There's change. And with that, comes apprehension for the future and grief over the past, but you work through that anyway to seek something better for yourself.

To quote the article above, one of my favorite quotes of all time: "There’s something so deliriously pleasurable in the idea of trusting myself enough to know exactly what I want.”

Oh and by the way. This doesn't just have to be the plot of a book or fic. This can be your life, too. You can always do better.

Getting older isn't bad. Turning 30 isn't the end of your life. Things can be better once you know yourself more and know what you want. Embrace it.

well here’s the thing about birds: sometimes they are pink

parotcardsroxy

pink robin

galah

pink headed fruit dove

roseate spoonbill

pine grosbeak

american flamingo

rosy bourke’s parakeet

two barred crossbill

anna’s hummingbird

biglawbear

alibrariangoestoikea

fycanadianpolitics

Vancouver property owners 'panic' to rent as vacancy tax implemented

Vancouver's empty homes tax came into effect over the weekend and some property owners are now scrambling to rent, sell or find a way around the fees.

www.cbc.ca

Under the new rules, homes that are not occupied for at least six months of the year are subject to a tax of one per cent of the property’s assessed value. The deadline to rent out empty dwellings was July 1.

Fazli said many of the people he has talked to are thinking of renting or selling their properties. He recently met with a woman who owns three empty properties in Vancouver — and says one of them is now listed for rent, another will be listed shortly and she is thinking of selling the third.

“This is a scenario of someone who is kind of in a panic now and needs to rent them out,” he said. […]

amazing

chippyskit

Why were they empty?

fycanadianpolitics

they’re meant to be investment properties, bought, left empty, and then sold a year or few later for huge profit as housing values continue to rise. it’s a massive part of the bc housing bubble, and why despite so much new construction it’s still so difficult to find rental housing

the fact that these landlords are panicking because they might have to actually use their housing properties as housing rather than finance capital is deeply funny

bogleech

It should be more than a 1% tax rate though. I want it to be 100%. Torture them.

runcibility

So this article is from 2017. Wanna know how it worked?

According to the most recent census data, Vancouver’s percentage of homes that aren’t occupied by usual residents dropped from 8.2 per cent in 2016 (25,502) to seven per cent last year (23,011). That marks the first decline in two decades, and Vancouver’s Empty Homes Tax (EHT) is being credited as a primary influence. Introduced in 2017, Vancouver’s one per cent tax on empty dwellings — properties unoccupied for six months of the year — was implemented to encourage real estate investors to transition their properties to long-term rentals rather than having them sit unused. Although industry experts are divided on how much vacancy taxes contribute to increased housing supply, a report by the City of Vancouver found the number of vacant homes dropped from approximately 2,200 to 1,600 between 2017 and 2020 after the tax was introduced. Meanwhile, Vancouver’s EHT generated $33.6 million in revenue in 2018, $23.3 million in 2019, $27.9 million in 2020, and $20.8 million as of December 2021, helping to fund affordable housing initiatives in the city. After staring out at one per cent, the tax was increased to 1.25 per cent in 2019 and more than doubled to three per cent last year.

So, fuck yeah it helps! Reduced empty homes, they’re raising the tax, AND using it to help fund affordable housing.

It’s a start.

biglawbear

newtyperesearch

orriculum

"all men are evil" is radfem/terf rhetoric, but clarifying "all cis men" because you want to signal that you're not transphobic doesn't work because it's still deeply rooted in radfem beliefs. It's saying you believe there's something inherently evil in being born/assigned "male", and you carry it over in how you treat ppl who transition in or out of that gender. "All cis men are evil", is gender essentialist and you can't get around that.

Fucking tired of ppl who think their terf soundbites with a fresh coat of paint are sooo progressive

They did it again

Oh, cool! I love the behind-the-scenes stuff. If you’ve never seen the original (this version is narrower so you miss a lot that was going on) it’s here:

THANK YOU

lasrina

This is what I'm talking about when I say "You don't really want a pet wolf, they already make a wolf you can keep in your house and it's called a dog."

biglawbear

apleasurableillusion

hedgehog-moss

The Least Intimidating bakery in the village has closed for good so now I’ve got to go to the Intimidating Bakery, it’s awful. If you don’t have a PhD in being French I don’t recommend going to that bakery, here’s the humiliating account of the 3 times I’ve visited it so far:

the first time I went in there I pointed at one of those extra-skinny baguettes and said “a flute, please” feeling pretty sure of myself, and the baker said “… that’s a ficelle” (you idiot) (was implied) “a flute is twice as large as a baguette.”
That’s insane, first of all, a flute is a skinny instrument. Call your fat baguette a bassoon, lady—I made some timid remark about how it would make more sense for a flute to be a skinny bread and the baker said, “In Paris it is. I thought you were from the South?”
oh, that hurt
I guess I’m from the part of the South that’s so close to Italy the bread’s waist size matters less than whether it’s got olives in it, but I left the bakery having an existential crisis over whether living in Paris had made me forget my roots
the Least Intimidating Bakery just had normal baguettes vs. seedy baguettes vs. horny baguettes (easy mode, some have seeds, some have horns), while the new bakery has breads that are only different on a molecular level—there’s a good old loaf and then another, identical loaf called a bastard? google told me a bastard is “halfway between a baguette and a bread” but denouncing them like “those are not regulation-sized bastards” would get me banned from the bakery for life
on my 2nd visit (while I stood in line discreetly googling baguette terminology) there was an English tourist who asked for a baguette while pointing at what was either a rustique or a sesame and I felt a bit worried for them, but the baker just clarified “this one?” to waive any responsibility if they found out later it wasn’t a classic baguette, then handed them the bread without educating them in a judgmental tone and I felt envious
I know it’s because she thinks the English are beyond saving but still it made me want to come back with a fake moustache and an English accent so I wouldn’t be expected to play bakery on expert mode just because I’m French. I asked for a pastry this time and the baker asked “no bread with that?” which felt cruel, like she wanted me to sprinkle myself with ashes and admit out loud that my level of bread proficiency isn’t as advanced as I once believed it was
The third time I went, I had lost all self-confidence and I hesitantly pointed at a bread and said “I’d like this, uh—what is it called?” and the baker looked at me in disbelief and said “That’s a baguette.”
God.
for the record, if that stupid bread had been flanked by a skinny bread (ficelle) and a fat one (flute) then yeah of course I would have known to call it a baguette, but in the absence of reference points I now felt lost and scared of being called a Parisian again
it’s hard to express the depth of my suffering so I’ll just let the facts speak for themselves: this morning a French person (me) stood in a French bakery in France surrounded by French people and pointed at a baguette and said “what is this called”

im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged

the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.

“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless

bogleech

Slave labor and borderline slave labor allow cheap junk to be made for so little that some companies can make up for the loss several times over by claiming it on insurance, getting government subsidies, or even selling certain things as scrap or filler to other industries. Companies are so frequently part of some vast network of brands owned by the same entity that they can waste a billion dollars without batting an eye. Just saturating a market with *your* unsellable shit can be seen as advantageous if it helps push out a competitor. Someone buying one new pair of shoes for $20 can mean they just covered the manufacturing cost for 500 pairs. Passive boycotting isn’t going to work ever again at this point. The only ways any of this can change will unfortunately require vastly, vastly more work from more people than just telling Twitter to stop buying pants or switching a fast food chain to paper straws.

random-thought-depository

Funny how as economic inequality increases capitalist society starts to look more and more like the dysfunctions we associate with the Soviet Union. Like, “socialism is bad because it causes production to become decoupled from demand” is one of the biggest right-wing and libertarian anti-socialist talking points.

A retro photoshoot

English added by me :)

biglawbear

dinnermintthief

moonbroth

‼️ my recreation textbook said prison abolition now!

planeoftheeclectic

[Image id: Figure from Power, Promise, Potential, and Possibilities of Parks, Recreation, and Leisure.

What Recreators Can Do

It costs approximately $30,000 to incarcerate a juvenile offender for one year. If that money were available to Parks and Recreation, we could do the following:

Take him swimming twice a week for 24 weeks,
And give him four tours of the zoo, plus lunch,
And enroll him in 50 community center programs,
And visit the nature center twice,
And let him play league softball for a season,
And tour the gardens at the park twice,
And give him two weeks of tennis lessons,
And enroll him in two weeks of day camp,
And let him play three rounds of golf,
And act in one play,
And participate in one fishing clinic,
And take a four-week pottery class,
And play basketball eight hours a weeks for 40 weeks,
After which we could return to you: $29,125 and one much happier kid.

Reprinted, by permission, from E. O’Sullivan, 1999, Setting a course for change (National Recreation and Park Association).

End ID]

biglawbear

thechaoticgalaxy

idaate

hey so maybe switching to threads, infamously managed by one of the worst data scraping companies of all time, isnt the play guys

heres just PART of what they're trying to track when you download the app:

cdn.discordapp.com

to list what they attempt to track:

unique identifier
os version
device brand
charging status
device total memory
first name
gps coordinates
screen density
app version
device orientation
headphone status
rotation data
network connection type
city
available internal storage
device language
os build number
accelerometer data
network carrier
available device memory
last name
postal code
email address
gender
system volume
timezone
app name
country
state
screen resolution
cookies
device model
birthday
android advertising id

please for the love of God, dont download threads.

idaate

addendum: threads is so bad that it's literally banned in All Of Europe because it violates the GDPR, aka General Data Protection Regulation.

biglawbear

Why the fuck does Threads need my fucking credit score

biglawbear

thechaoticgalaxy

chaser

Anonymous asked:

whyd you decide to go with "the chaser" as ur whole thing? just a fondness for alchohol, or an inside joke, or smth else entirely? sorry if im bothering you

chaser answered:

Glad you asked! We named our newspaper while being chased by a bear

chaser

Judging by the number of hirsute men in our inbox, it appears "chased by a bear" means something very different on this platform

biglawbear

that-twink-over-there

teathattast

Mad because you don't have bird vision?

teathattast

Seethe . You will never b them

teathattast

Unrelated but do you happen to have wings or perhaps a beak like snout of sorts? Just curious

biglawbear

knitmeapony

I don't know that I ever posted these! I made a whole bunch of stuff like this and used them as larp props for a few different games, mostly fairy related stuff.

The first two photos back and front are a free sample of Toddyfellows Wishing Beans. I put a single dried bean in a very tiny baggie and put a hang tag on the top with a fair play warning that consequences may manifest ironically.

The second two images are a test drive for Verna Felton's* carriages. Again a very tiny plastic bag with a couple of pumpkin shaped dried beans in them and a hang tag across the top. The back explains that if you take one of these outside, tap them with an uncut key, and say the magic words "I accept the terms and conditions" you will get a temporary test drive of the pumpkin shaped carriage (model: Gusbus), horse is not included.

The last five pictures are of little rituals / spells that I put together. They are 2-in brown paper envelopes each one labeled with the spell and the envelopes contents. The path through the woods has pollen, catnip, and salt. Find what is lost in the sea has salt, shell, and ash. The smooth Road charm has pollen, ash, glass, and wax. And the protection spell has four kinds of salt. The last image is the sticker I put on the back of them, which says instructions inside, Focus carefully, safe for all, Toddyfellows Bunk Machine**.

Inside each of these envelopes is a tiny Ziploc baggie full of the appropriate ingredients, and a small folded paper that contains instructions on how to lay out the ritual and cast the spell.

* if I recall correctly Verna Felton is the name of the person who voiced the Fairy Godmother in the original Cinderella cartoon

** which is a reference/homage to Chuubos Marvelous Wishgranting Engine

A fun little project from a while ago :) by franny294

biglawbear

sergeantsarcasm

softpastelqueer

It’s genuinely baffling how people will bend over backwards to avoid labeling “wanting to erase an entire group of people’s existence” as genocide

If you don’t want queer people to exist, then it also means you fundamentally want queer people dead. Point blank.

It also means you want to wipe out all queer culture. Point blank.

Both qualify as genocide

This applies to any marginalized group

If you’re arguing about semantics on what is or isn’t genocide, then you’re part of the problem

biglawbear

Why are sandwiches $20 now

They don't even come with chips and a drink

biglawbear

shadowedconfidence

go-learn-esperanto

I see so many people starting to use Threads as a way to escape Twitter and yes, it's owned by Facebook's CEO and giving Facebook the monopoly of social media is bad but I think we should also talk about the fact that, you know, Threads isn't avalibe in the EU for privacy reasons????? That should be concerning to EVERYONE

biglawbear

stevita

Men with bellies and happy trails look good in crop tops

I'm just saying

I have gone on and on about Patrick Testerone Swayze pursuing this role and nailing it, but I really do want to point out that Wesley Snipes has absolutely no shame talking about the role and has been known to bring it up when people list his movies and don't include it.