This video is literally so soothing to me, idk if I’m just experiencing it vicariously through the cat that is obviously loving life or just enjoying this display of tender care, but this video slaps so hard. I was preparing to have a stressful conversation and power posing in the bathroom to lower stress and I watched this and felt so much better after.
I vote we deny service to Christians till they get their collective act together
Weird how the rich receiving debt forgiveness is all hunky dory, but the lower classes getting it apparently causes harm & is deemed illegal
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George is out here trying to get laid with a poster at the pride parade at ninety years old
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This is George Montague, he’s an author who is currently campaigning to have a historic conviction for “gross indecency” from 1974 (PDA with his then-boyfriend) struct from his criminal record. You can sign his petition here!
The epitome of “Distinguished Gay”
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Update as of 7 November 2018, this guy is now 95 years old and is still looking for his apology.
He’s still waiting for that apology.
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George Montague, the legend that he was and the ‘oldest gay man in the village’, has passed away peacefully at almost 99 years of age, March 18th 2022, with his husband Somchai Phukkai right by his side.
Per Wikipedia, “His funeral was on 11 April 2022, where there was a procession through the city, which closely followed the Brighton Pride parade route, eventually ending at Downs Crematorium on Bear Road. His hearse had colourful flowers and his iconic sign in the back window. The hearse was followed by a special double-decker bus decked out in pride colours.” Source: X.
Obituary: The Guardian (do read it - his life story is incredible).
George did receive his formal apology in 2017 and you can read it on Pink News. It was so many years overdue but I’m glad he got it regardless.
George told BBC One that he was over the moon with the apology he received.
I'm gonna pretend that the brothel scene never happened and the entirety of this episode was Nyra experiencing transmasc euphoria
I’ve gone to the women’s restroom a lot in my life, and not once have I ever seen genitalia besides my own while there. No penis, no vulva, nothing.
I’ve literally seen a bathroom full of baby lizards, one time a whole fucking fish on the floor, and someone come out of the stall with a plate, knife, and fork like they just ate a meal before I’ve seen genitals. Why would I ever be worried about seeing some woman with her cock out
I've used the men's restroom a lot in my life without stalls and not seen genitalia. Even when lined up at the urinals with no barriers between them.
It's almost as if most people don't want to share what they're packing with the rest of the room.
And most people don't want to look.
Really the only time you're going to see something is if you're trying to see it. And that says more about you than the people whose privacy you're invading.
You can't go peeking at other people's genitals and then get mad at them if you see something you don't want to see
All about rodenticides! Bird Friendly London (www.birdfriendlylondon.ca) hired me to make this comic with a grant from Nature Canada. Rodenticides are harming my local raptors so it's an issue that's close to my heart.
I feel like what this infographic is missing (though I wholeheartedly agree with the message of course) is the fact that rodents are wildlife too! The thing about poisons and traps is that they don't discriminate between native rodents and invasive rodents, and more often than not I see people in my area catching native pinyon mice, woodrats, or even chipmunks. If you would humor me, look up some of the native rodents in your area! You might be surprised at how many there are. After bats, rodents are the most diverse mammal group on the planet. ♥️
(Pinyon mouse, Peromyscus truei. CC image credit: Natureali)
Whatever happened to the classic mouse/rat traps that just go "snap" and instantly kill the critter? That's a lot kinder than death by poison.
It's best to admit that lethal control methods are more necessary than not—I lived in a hundred-year-old house that had mice AND rats, and when you live in a hundred-year-old house, there's no keeping them out by sealing up the cracks. Like trust me, we were trying to survive freezing temps with kerosene heaters and curtains over doorways to keep the heat to a couple central rooms of the house. We moved our mattresses to the living room floor in the winter. There was more cracks than house. You could feel a breeze sitting indoors in the kitchen.
In that situation the critters aren't coming in from outside to begin with. They've lived in the walls for a hundred generations.
And rodents very much DO carry and spread diseases and parasites dangerous to humans...as well as ticks and other parasites that in turn spread dangerous diseases to humans. So you don't have to...justify using lethal methods to control rats and mice in your house? If you're finding mouse poop in your cabinets and hearing rats skittering around when you're lying in bed at night, it's perfectly understandable to reach for a stronger tool than essential oils.
...If you're using rat and mouse traps/poisons outside, though? That's dumb. By putting out bait over and over again you're just attracting them. There's an unlimited supply of rats and mice out there. It's not like you can get 'em all.
I've heard some good things about black rat snakes for rodent control. (You will also see those in your house if you live in a hundred year old house with mice and rats...can't blame him, I guess he was following the rats.)
At the most recent wildlife rehabilitator conference I went to (full disclosure, I am not a licensed rehabber, don’t want to overstate my qualifications), anticoagulant rodenticides was a topic of particular interest. Part of the reason the situation has gotten so bad is due to Second-Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs). There are a lot of ethical problems with using anticoagulants as rodenticides, but the SGARs are particularly harmful to the environment because they linger longer in the environment and they are more toxic but they kill slowly so rats can eat multiple doses before dying, thus increasing their own toxicity when this sickly, slow-moving rat is easy prey for something else. (Rats were beginning to develop resistant to first-generation anti-coagulant rodenticides, so they’ve fallen out of fashion. Those weren’t great either, but FGARs aren’t able to bioaccumulate as much and so can’t kill as large wildlife, affecting fewer animals)
In fact, in the U.S., the EPA recognized that SGARs are really dangerous, so to discourage them from being used by homeowners they set a minimum quantity that it can be sold in. This was intended to make sure only professional pest control specialists trained in its use would use SGARs for only the most extreme, urgent cases. What actually happened is that people seeking quick solutions to rat problems were forced to buy in bulk, like five kilo minimum or something (I can’t remember exactly) with no idea how to apply it ‘safely’ (as has been established by this thread, there is no ‘safe’ way to use these rodenticides, but using less is, objectively, safer than using more).
Consequently, we are seeing a lot more wildlife of all stripes - and even pets! bait is by its nature attractive - with chemicals markers of FGARs and SGARs, mostly SGARs, in their blood. Usually these animals are beyond saving by the time they make it to a clinic.
What are the alternatives? Snap traps are more human than poison, though they are better for a home setting and when the rat population is limited. If the building in question is a commercial building with a large number of rats, resetting a trap several times a day just isn’t a viable solution. Integrated Pest Management can help figure out what tactics will work best for the space; likely a combination of things. In addition to snap traps, other trap options include zap traps and live traps. Securing food and exclusion work always a must.
One of my coworkers runs a farm, and needs to keep rats out of her chicken coop. What she found works the best is to gather up rabbit droppings and bring them to a spot away from the chickens, towards the tree line. She says she can see the hawks waiting sometimes, and almost as soon as she has walked away they start swooping on the rats that have been attracted to that delicious rabbit poo. Natural control, no rodenticides or traps needed (unless you count using hawks to create a rat kill zone a ‘trap’).
You can also help by reaching out to your local legislature. Look to see if your state is considering any bills to ban or further regulate the use of anticoagulant rodenticides, and show your support!
That hawk trick is brilliant. Symbiosis at work.
a review from the cispontine end of london bridge, 8th of april 2023
I recently discovered laundry stripping and y’all, no matter how much of a crock of shit you think fast fashion is, you’re underestimating.
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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?
Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.
Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.
What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.
Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.
You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.
When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.
Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.
It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!
I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.
Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.
Go forth. Rejuvenate your clothing. Strip your laundry.
fucking hate it when the stuff everybody says "actually works" does actually work.
hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.
hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy
hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it
hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently
hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love
horrible horrible horrible. hate it but i'm gonna do it tho
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Terriers must think that the gay bar is underground
I mean traditionally they have been
