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🌸simply a sweet, technological baby with a magic bag🌸

anti-propaganda for kinoko: she is a funny mushroom. she's a fighting game joke character, which instantly makes her the best. ultra fight da! kyanta 2 is really worth checking out btw, it's free on steam and was made pretty much by one guy. it's EXTREMELY silly, it looks like a shitpost but it'a a genuinely competent fighting game. it's so good, i love it so much

this may be anti-propaganda but #kinokosweep anyways. We Are Kinoko.

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PS: kinoko is canonically edible and apparently tastes very good! the more you know, i suppose

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anti propaganda for jc. hes from this schlocky 80s b horror movie called night of the creeps which is my FAVORITE horror movie and hes my FAVORITE character. hes canonically disabled and uses crutches and its never once used as a joke which is INSANE for a movie that came out in 1986!!!!!! hes also super duper silly and doesnt really take anything seriously and basically functions as comic relief but hes not the joke!!!!! he just makes the jokes!!!!!! here he is pictured w the main character chris (jcs on the left) who hes canonically in love with btw like he in the movie actually real life tells him he loves him and its not played off as a joke and its pretty explicitly romantic. i love u jc forever and ever

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Yall do NOT hop on a cosmetic surgery hate train during an ongoing campaign against trans Healthcare I am fucking begging

My tits didn't smaller themselves, fuckos. Either you believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

The sacred bond between trans people who've had plastics and cis people who have had plastics is fucking sacred and I will not tolerate anybody in the queer community trash-talking plastics no matter what it is and who is getting them and for what reason!!!

I want there to not be a line between 'costmetic' and 'necessary'. If there's a line, then insurance companies and whoever-the-fuck-else will decide everything is 'cosmetic'. That happened to me with getting my jaw rebuilt when I was A CHILD. 'oh it's cosmetic' My insurance wrangler lady and the surgeon had to write SEVERAL LETTERS to the damn insurance company detailing out just how graphically I would DIE if I did not get my face rebuilt before I was 18! If 'we won't pay for cosmetic plastics only necessary ones' wasn't a thing, that wouldn't have had to fucking happen!

So you know what? I don't want to hear the word 'cosmetic' out of anyone's mouth. it's ALL just plastics. And all plastics are still 100% the person's choice to get, I don't care what the reason is, all reasons are your business and should be honoured and that's as it should be. As Sweaterkittens said, you either believe in bodily autonomy or you fucking don't.

Signed,

A Transman who has had exclusively plastics for all FOUR major surgeries throughout his life.

"Livin' large tonight boys!"

"I'm not making fun of the Great Depression!

...I am making fun of the Great Depression."

Small things that make me sad about America #1: they have no Bramley Apples here. Big knobbly ugly sour cooking apples. They do not exist in this place.

We're lucky, we have an apple tree in the paddock which grows Bramley cooking apples.

Thanks to someone's clever grafting about 30 years ago, it also grows Beauty of Bath, a red-skinned, pink-fleshed heritage eating apple (though you have to move fast before the wasps get in - see top right).

It only crops every other year - if my calculations are correct, this is one of the Other Years - but when it crops, it does so With Enthusiasm.

Like, three or four bagfuls like this...

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Just look at those. OM NOM NOM.

For those of you who don't know: the Bramley apple appeared more or less out of nowhere—a "sport", as they say—and is possibly now the most famous of all British apples because it's so good for baking with.

But meanwhile: very much feeling @neil-gaiman's pain. It's true what he says: if you're in the US, most of the time you might as well wish for one of the Apples of the Hesperides as a Bramley. You won't find them at the supermarket. They're not commercially popular... possibly due to being stubbornly asymmetrical and really sour. (Which is absolutely their strength when you're baking with them, as they calm down a lot but still stay tart.)

Now, though, you can at least buy the trees over there, and plant one of your own! Here's one nursery supplying them, and there are others. You can order them online and they'll ship sapling trees to you. (Also, for all those interested, see this page for general Bramley apple growth & care info.)

I will buy a Bramley Apple tree. I will do this thing.

Jumping worms are invasive to North America and they strip the soil of nutrients, they make it really difficult to grow anything, and there is currently no way to get rid of them, and someone got jumping worms from a hanging flower basket at the local Home Depot and it’s like hmm ok new fear unlocked 🫠

Dunno how effective it is, but its worth a shot.

Yeah I was reading about solarization and hand picking them. The thing that’s tricky is that they reproduce asexually so missing one, the population can come back. Hopefully not too many people will need to deal with them. Recommend that anyone near a place with confirmed jumping worm cases (it’s mostly in the Midwest right now, but I saw some in California and a little on the east coast i think) buying plants, wood chips, or dirt, check with the retailer to see what they do to prevent the spread, and if you are sharing/trading plants with people, rinse all the dirt off the roots before you take them off your property.

If anyone does find that they have jumping worms, report it to the DNR because they are tracking it and you may be able to help them study the worms and test some ways to treat for them.