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how do I not share this, though (HIGHLY RECOMMENDING HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE IT’S MY FAVORITE)

These are so good if you need something to calm you down on a bad day or after panics :)

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Posts that chide people for not buying local but don’t tell you how to buy local? Cancelled.

In most of the US you must have a USDA license to sell meat products that you’ve grown and processed yourselves. Small farms may not be allowed to sell meat directly to you unless it’s been processed at an inspected & licensed facility.

In my corner of the world it usually works like this - person A has a cow or cows they wish to turn into hamburgers. Person A finds out how much it’s going to cost to have the cow processed and asks people in their community if they’d like to go in on a half or quarter of a cow. Alternatively person A has the cow hamburgled and then asks the internet if they’d like to buy cow bits. Cow gets burgered, money changes hands, ???, steaks.

I see advertisements for “sides” “quarters” and various specific cuts of meat already processed on Facebook a lot but I’m in the kinds of local farm groups where those transactions take place. If you aren’t there are several websites set up specifically to connect buyers and local sellers.

Americangrassfed.org and localharvest.org are two that are widely used. Alternatively search “your State Farm swap” on Facebook and you’ll probably find a group that supports this kind of thing. You can also look for your local USDA processors online. Some will sell product direct some will not, but they are generally a good resource for contacts. I know several here in Oklahoma and Texas and they’ve been a wealth of knowledge.

Eggs? Ask on Nextdoor or another local social media group. Someone in your vicinity probably has hens.

If you’re in a more urban area you can also go the good old farmers market or co-op route. There’s almost definitely one near you, expect to spend a bit more and have more of an open mind when shopping but if you aren’t finding what you need ASK! people who raise and grow things know other people who raise and grow things. They may have a contact for someone who has what you want.

Anyways. That’s my big disjointed post. Please add to it if you have other resources.

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So, you all know that adorable little pitbull puppy John Wick adopts at the end of Chapter One?

Well, I have a question. Did any of you…

Look closely at the clipboard?

He saved it

Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank, shares a sustainability pro-tip in honor of Earth Day. Instead of wasting leftover pasta water by pouring it down the sink, you can save it, let it cool and use it to water your plants. The starchy H2O will give them a beneficial nutrient boost and help them grow. Just be sure to avoid using cooking water that has been salted or seasoned.

This also applies to leftover water from boiling spinach, potatoes, and hardboiled eggs, according to Reader’s Digest.

this definitely is an amazing thing to plants, it gives them a boost like NOTHING that can be bought in stores. ive had an orange plant that didnt bloom for years and then gave them some pasta/potato water twice a week, and now its blooming like crazy , pretty much over night. and plants that were looking kind of drawn are looking BEAUTIFUL!

The first pride was a riot, more specifically a riot against police violence. Trans women of colour like Marsha P. Johnson paved the way for the celebration of pride today. You cannot celebrate your pride this month, or any month if you aren’t also supporting Black Lives Matter and the riots going on against police violence right now. Us white LGBTQ+ need to stand up for our black siblings and their rights, their struggles. We need to amplify their voices and show any support we can.Hey! Better yet, reblog this version:

“Friendship is never untinged with amorosity.“ — Virginia Woolf

HUSTLERS (2019) DEAD TO ME (2019- ) EUPHORIA (2019- ) PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (2019) FLEABAG (2016-2019) DICKINSON (2019- ) ATYPICAL (2017- ) DARE ME (2019-2020) EMMA. (2020)

The ancient greeks really had graves for dogs. And they carved stuff on the stone like “carrying you here, I now feel as much grief as I felt joy when I carried you home” and “you never barked without reason, but now you are silent”. The human urge to tell a story spans centuries and millennia, and the loss of a really good dog makes you want to tell people - even people centuries in the future, who will never know your name - that there once was a dog who was a very good girl, but now she no longer is and you aren’t sure what to do with all this sorrow.

This is my very favourite thing.

Last year, I found this one tucked away in a corner of the archaeological museum in Istanbul:

The inscription reads:

“His owner buried the dog Parthenope, that he played with, in gratitude for this happiness. [Mutual] love is rewarding, like the one for this dog. Having been a friend to my owner, I deserve this grave. Looking at this, find yourself a worthy friend who is both ready to love you while you are still alive and will care for your body [after your death].“

On so many of the other funerary carvings, the text was often more about the person who commissioned the carving than the person the carving was commissioned for. This one, which is for a dog, doesn’t even identify his owner—it’s entirely about a very, very good boy named Parthenope, who was loved so much that he will be remembered forever.

god this is so affecting

just one thing- Parthenope is a feminine name, so this dog was in fact a very, very good girl!

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

Found this on Facebook! BOOST!

Tell Etsy that #ThisIsNotNative

This is why I stopped selling on Etsy. I got really sick and tired of all that nonsense.

Please support Native people!!!! In any way!!! Even if its spreading this good message around!!!!

there’s also salwaycc.com!!!

Support local businesses!

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

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The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

… hey guys how do we feel about NOT having to work 10-12 hour + days in our industry grooms join the IWW challenge anyone?

imagine you’re on a road trip with the love of your life and your boyfriend like, insists you pick up this fucked up little hitchhiker who’s like 4 feet tall and looks like he’s literally about to die, then you hear the hitchhiker conspiring to KILL you and your boyfriend and steal your shit, so you tell your boyfriend and he’s like “oh no he’s harmless you’re lying” and basically this fucked up danny devito sized slimeball breaks up your relationship and your boyfriend leaves you on the side of the road!! that’s what happened to samwise gamgee.

Caption: [ (multiple people talking at once) Someone says “Oh my god, love is love!” Two other people chime in, saying “Happy Pride Month!” and “Oh my god!”. All together they say “Happy Pride Month!”. When the billboard changes to show a chick-fil-a ad, they all start screaming.]

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Okay fuck so for like the entire first part I thought this person was like... Using one of those 3d pens to replace lace in this curtain somehow

Then the next couple I was like "wait are they just like painting the curtains a different color? Were the lace threads just black or something on that other one?"

Then finally it clicked and I freaked the fuck out

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EXCUSE ME