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.

I had this idea for a looping animation in which a single dot has a pretty long loop, but the animation as a whole is much shorter. Because of the repetition this animation is only 1 second long!

So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.

Basically they realized hey no one's cleaning this shit up, it's polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there's a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?

They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it's in a painting, if it's in your home, it's not poisoning wildlife.

anyway its cool as shit, please support tf out of these people https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/

that poll going around asking how often you smoke weed and almost a third of ppl saying they’ve never smoked before, and that poll that revealed that over a third of tumblr users have never kissed anyone before, proves to me that stoners who have gay sex are a small but imperative part of the tumblr ecosystem. Keystone species

companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️

Hi Everyone I need to ask for urgent aid from you my wife's ARFID (food aversion) is acting up something terrible and we have nothing in the house she will eat

If you can help with that I would literally be so greatful we're both disabled and autistic but because I'm bedridden most days and on SSD/I she is the one who makes money for us through online work

She hasn't been able to do her job because she hasn't been able to eat for 2 days straight and she was just barely picking at food in in the days before that id really appreciate any help to secure the safe foods she needs to function and help our little family keep going.

Cashpp & pypl @/ lumophobia

If you can't send money PLEASE reblog im literally on my hands and knees here

Facebook deleted this almost immediately. It's almost like the ultrawealthy don't want us knowing or talking about what's at stake.

Just want to add one thing:

In countries with universal healthcare, this is a non-issue during a strike. Our access to healthcare isn't tied to working. It's an unconditional right for each and everyone of us.

The US system screws workers over in oh so many ways.

This is exactly why US companies fight so hard against universal healthcare; even if single payer healthcare is cheaper on a per-person basis and takes the cost away from the employer, it also takes POWER and leverage away from the employers... and they don't ever want to give that up.

reject booktok culture. go to the library and get a weird little novel you’ve never heard of in your life and read it all in 2 days like god intended.

this too tbh

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Johann Hari,

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Hi, my stomach is paralyzed and my deductible rolled over in July!

I have gastroparesis and I am completely reliant on tube feeding and IV hydration to stay alive. I have hit my deductible as of 8/18/23, but not before having to pay for some of my enteral formula out of pocket.

One month of adult feeding tube formula after insurance is $674.80, and I am still paying off my first week of IV fluids, which I am paying $1,357 for.

I’m on a payment plan for the IV fluids but I need to pay for my formula they sent for August before they ship September’s formula and supplies.

Please reblog and boost if you’re unable to donate 💚 I am working full-time but I have to take a lot of time off for medical reasons, and I’m having an implanted port placed soon, which will require more time off.

Cashapp: $forcewielder

PayPal + Venmo: message me

$0 / $674.80

I have several prescriptions ready as well.

$25 / $760.15

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.

FEMA is doing an emergency alert test on all TVs, radios, and cell phones on October 4, 2023, at approximately 2:20pm ET.

If you live in the US and you have a phone you need to keep secret for any reason, make sure that it is turned off at this time.

Yes, I'm doing this months in advance, and yes, my blog has very little reach, but I figure better to post about it more than less.

Please reblog and add better tags than mine, I'm bad at tags.

Turns out the potassium nitrate I had as fertilizer for algae to feed my slut isn't fucking a nitrate salt at all and I am pissed

I think a slut needs a more varied diet than just algae?

This is the worst typo in the world

This is the slut in question by the way

Some status effects that uh. Gave me pause

Item: Wand of Non-Standard Status Effects

more weird ffxiv status effects

sorry i have to add my absolute favorite to this

Heres a couple if my favs

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