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this is more than divine decree, it's my destiny

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reblog to kill an HOA manager

It's CA drought resistant native plants they can't do shit about.

and just for fun

12 Guaranteed Ways To (Legally) Annoy Your HOA

  1. Ask For Copies Of Statements. …
  2. Put Up Religious Statues Or Signs. …
  3. Invest in Solar Panels or TV Satellites. …
  4. Start Planting! …
  5. Read The Contract. …
  6. (Over)Use The Amenities. …
  7. Hang Your Clothes. …
  8. Catch Someone Else.
  9. Get A Copy Of Local Ordinances
  10. Get On The Board
  11. Bring It To Court
  12. Get Your Neighbors On Board
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I've been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.

I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material--I can't actually call it fabric in good faith--and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they're not made of asbestos. They're only separated by time.

There's no wood used in interior design unless it's a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every "apartment hack" I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.

I've been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and "growth" and "profit" are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.

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everything is more expensive, and everything is getting shittier.

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A professor gave us an extra credit option: take a picture of yourself outside, doing something that you would not usually do. We were told not to take it too seriously. Here is my entry:

I maintain that sticking my head in the mailbox is not something I do on a regular basis.

Love that some of you are reblogging this. You looked at a picture of a guy with his head in a mailbox and went "yeah"

Can't wait to see if everyone did something like this or if they had a normal reaction. I will keep you posted.

[ID: a photo of a pale person wearing a black t-shirt and jeans with his head in a mailbox /END ID]

Hello to everyone asking for an update!

The professor has said that he will put all submitted pictures into a powerpoint to be shown in class tomorrow (Tuesday, March 9th). I am very much looking forward to seeing the reaction from him and from the rest of the class. I promise to keep you informed.

Update: the professor saved my picture for last. I was told that I had "truly embodied the spirit of the assignment" and that I had gone "above and beyond."

Also, to everyone who is worrying about whether or not I got my head out, I was gifted with a very small head, and while I got out just fine I would NOT recommend this if you have a large head or even a normal sized head.

Hey you guys should make this into a meme.

Hows this?

Hey folks, if you want to fight back against the twitterfication of tumblr USE IT LIKE IT'S TUMBLR!!!!!! REBLOG THINGS!!!!!! USE THE TAGS TO SCREAM AT YOUR FRIENDS!!!!!!!

Woke up to this having more reblogs than likes! Keep it going! Do it on every post! REBLOG THINGS ON THE REBLOGGING THINGS SITE!

Has the public reception to The Great Desparking been mostly positive or negative?

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Let’s find out here. What are your thoughts about the Great Desparking?

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It feels like a solution to a problem you didn’t have. You have such a large cast of planeswalkers that you don’t even use, best evidenced by how many of the desparked planeswalkers are ones you haven’t used in years. Seriously, Calix gets desparked before he even has a chance to appear in story? Samut gets shelved? Sarkhan and Narset? Not to mention, it contributes directly to a problem you ACTUALLY have, that being way too many legendary creatures! Considering how few of the legendaries you already print are even remotely relevant to the story, why on Ravnica’s spires would you bloat their ranks?

I know people don't get this but orthodox Judaism is not fundamentalist Christianity minus Jesus. Stop acting like it is, it makes you look at best like a child and at worst like a malicious actor.

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

Flash floods are definitely gonna kill people, so here’s your regularly scheduled PSA:

Desert soil does not absorb a significant amount of water. It reaches maximum saturation very very quickly, and all the rest of the water rushes downhill. Even if you can’t tell that the ground is not perfectly flat, the water can. And it will move. Quickly. No, faster than that. Nope, still faster. If you try to cross moving floodwater, you will get swept downstream and probably die.

Do not try to wade in/cross flood water that is any deeper than the thickness of the sole of an average athletic shoe, no I am not kidding, the water will get deeper literally while you’re standing in it.

This goes for cars, too. I’ve seen entire vehicles getting swept downstream in flash floods because the driver thought they could cross the “puddle” and Found Out.

Stay safe, y’all.

Beyond not wading or driving through it - don't go anywhere near flowing floodwater if you can help it. Flooding will destabilize the ground under your feet, and if you don't want to walk through water you really don't want to fall in. This kills. I know people who were observing floodwaters from a raised embankment, when the embankment collapsed due to saturation and erosion. They fell into the rushing water and both died.

I imagine the soil over on the west coast has some different properties than over here, but it bears mention nonetheless: if you are close enough to clearly see rushing floodwater, and you are standing on dirt/turf/sediment, you are likely in some degree of active danger.

Take care of yourselves.

The wildfires in Maui aren't natural disasters, they are colonial disasters and a direct result of both the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex.

Realtors preying on property in Lahaina- while Kānaka Maoli who resided there for generations are now houseless- is a result of greed and disaster capitalism.

Citizen journalists on the ground are reporting on the devastating cost these fires have on their communities and the untold stories in the media about the tourists still actively extracting land and from already limited resources.

pics by slowfactory on ig

HAPA Hawaii support link

Stop Maui land grabs petition

Y’all in the American SW and west Mexico better check the national hurricane center and your weather for this weekend and next week.

Hurricane Hilary is about to make landfall and that whole desert area is supposed to get a years worth of rain or more. Death Valley is supposed to get twice the annual rainfall. Severe winds, massive flooding, and landslides are all strong possibilities.

This is gonna get ugly. Please spread the word. This is a majorly anomalous event and people may be unaware of the threat headed their way.

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vocal synths and vocaloids are something I have a deep special interest in and am very knowledgeable about. vocal synths in terms of vocaloid and other engines voicebanks are piano roll instruments that have been around as early as 2004. their functionality is not comparable to generative voice ai. i will annihilate you

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ai will never hold the same joy as Sachiko Kobayashi reacting to her voicebank for vocaloid Sachiko

The fact that conservatives in Mississippi are trying to get fucking Heartstopper banned from schools should be proof positive that any argument about “wholesome” vs “problematic” queer media is completely moot and anybody who continues to indulge in it is at best a useful idiot if not actively working against us

Been slowly scrolling back through my inbox and queuing up answers. Finally got back to two weeks ago when I mentioned the hospital gave me fentanyl, and the number of "alarmed" messages I got from non-followers lecturing me about taking such a "dangerous drug" has me rolling.

Like c'mon. First of all, it was a one-time dosage to knock me out for a procedure that didn't even knock me out, and second of all, I'm not a fucking cop <3

Just so we're clear, anyone can get addicted to drugs, and it can be devastating. This post is not making fun of addicts.

It's taking a knife-swipe at people who swallow copaganda and spout all kinds of anti-medication rhetoric at me and people like me any time we mention managing our pain with anything other than "positive vibes" and exercise.

I've lost so many friends to the opioid crisis -- not from opioid use, but because the response to the opioid crisis was to start denying people (like me) adequate pain management, and they ended up seeking out other means to manage their pain. Non-legal means that killed them.

Me talking about being given fentanyl in a medical setting in an OR should NOT have resulted in as many people as it did, telling me I'm a bad person for "using drugs." (I kept scrolling and found even more, just like wtf)

And also, people who misuse substances are not bad people. They're sick. Usually in immense amounts of pain, be it physical or mental, and they deserve compassion and help.

Do not believe copaganda. Do not send people these kinds of weird moralizing messages about their healthcare because you've swallowed the copaganda. Use your heads.

I remember being in first grade and this white boy asked me why I wear "normal" clothes if I'm Indian and don't Indians only wear feathers? So yes I do think first graders need more awareness about race

Also Sesame Street was made by a bunch of hippies that loved puppets and educators that were trying to reach in-city kids (particularly kids of color) who didn't have access to good education resources.

Sesame Street has specifically addressed racism and other forms of socially oppressive orders since the beginning. Once again Rave Dubin is a moron.

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There are some elderly people near me in this restaurant and two of them started talking about their trans nephew really affectionately... maybe there is good in this world......

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One of the old women was joking about how she "just can't figure out what he's gonna do next!" because her nephew is "so energetic." The man she's with was talking about how confident he is on testosterone compared to how "depressed and introverted" he was before "getting on the stuff." I love this so much. Shout out to supportive old people.

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The older guy accidentally misgendered the nephew once but immediately corrected himself, and later said "he's really a bright young man!" while bragging. Peace and love on planet earth. <3