“i hope the strike ruins my favourite show” ok well i hope that workers get treated better fast. things should not be ruined because the strike should not last long because the workers should get fucking paid soon. “i hope theres no new shows for the next fifty years” i hope that unions get what they want within the week
my heart goes out to the people who feel like they will forever be the friend who walks on the grass. the people who believe they will never be part of the main group. the people who think they live in the background and can come out of the shade into the sun only when there's room which there often is not. I am reaching out my hand and taking you with me away from people who don't appreciate you and we will walk under the sun together with us both on the sidewalk
golden retriever boy? fuck no, I’m like a miserable sad-eyed scraggly mutt that wandered into your yard. I’m the best dog you’ll ever have, I can’t be replicated
you’re distinctly aware I have known trauma but I cannot tell you about it, I’m the most loyal creature you’ve ever known, our meeting was destiny, I’m a little nervous and shy around new people
so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things
I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished
I’m interviewing with an aquarium tomorrow and this is how the interviewer signed her email
Best Fishes offered me a job btw. I’m moving to Maine sometime in May
*bleeding out from my horrific injuries as you carry me in your arms* make sure you lift with your knees and not your back
i promise im going to stop posting about it soon but the most insane thing about the Banana Discourse is that like. there are already lots of fruits that are of limited availability in the USA because they're not grown there and they haven't enforced massive export economies for them at gunpoint. you'd think by the way these people talk that usamericans are rioting in the streets and committing mass suicide because they can't buy a papaya or a durian or a dragonfruit at the gas station. like there's already fruits that are comparatively scarce in the USA and everyone seems to have survived that being the case but you point out that socialist revolution would require a scale back from Total Banana Ubiquity and people legitimately act like it's white genocide
Pretty much the only time I have grapes that are to my tastes is when I fly back to Korea/Japan, and I feel like if these fucking yankees traveled like more than 50 miles from where they lived or admitted to themselves that their pov is myopic from lack of experience, they'd grow some perspective for understanding things that are as simple as, "if you're too far from where things are grown, you won't be able to eat the thing every day."
I think that one of the reasons our food system seems so disconnected from our land is that a big tool of USA colonization was to make the natives food insecure. There are plenty of photos of dead bison piled insanely high. Colonizers intentionally destroyed the food available in this land to starve out Natives and now to get food they use the military to steal it from other lands.
Also the United States has a lot of fruits that are native to the area that are basically never sold in stores. Pawpaws & persimmons grow all over where I'm from but it's only seen as a thing that weird forager people eat. I can pay for an expensive star fruit that tastes like a wet glove because I live too far away from where it grew.
Food is really fucking essential to survival, but being aware of food from our own land is too powerful of knowledge. Food sovereignty is so important. We want food sovereignty, not just food security.
Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty
Food sovereignty
THIS IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO ME!!
Do y'all have any idea how many edible plants there are that we don't eat for cultural reasons (racism and classism?)
Example #1: Amaranth
Amaranth refers to any of plants from genus Amaranthus for our purposes, some of these are domesticated to varying extents
Amaranthus species are primarily important in the USA due to being our most costly agricultural weed.
This plant has declared war on industrial monocrop agriculture. Like all the best weeds, it is ridiculously adaptable. Its resistance to herbicides like Roundup keeps getting stronger and more expansive. In 2022, Amaranthus palmeri was found with SIMULTANEOUS resistance to SIX herbicide modes of action (six separate families of herbicide!)
So remember Roundup Ready corn? Yeah, that shit is basically obsolete in many places because every weed under the sun has evolved glyphosate resistance. So Monsanto spent ten years developing crop varieties resistant to Dicamba as well so crops could be sprayed with Dicamba to control weeds, and within 5 years, Dicamba-resistant weeds were proliferating.
I could go on forever about how european agriculture ran roughshod over the north american continent fucking up things you wouldn't think COULD be fucked up through pure malicious ignorance, but rest assured the era of chemical-dependent agriculture is in its decline because weeds can evolve faster than we can develop new technologies.
Guess what, though? Amaranth was a CROP for Native Americans and still is, domesticated varieties are popular in Mexico, and it's high in protein, gluten free, and a dual purpose crop where you can harvest the leaves as vegetables 2-3 times a year without impacting the eventual seed harvest.
Researchers are already investigating it for its utility as a crop in areas that will be heavily impacted by climate change.
North America USED to be flourishing with food sources cultivated carefully by Native Americans for the benefit of the whole ecosystem, we had abundance of oaks (boil out the tannins and acorns are edible!) hickory nuts, pecans and American chestnuts, but Europeans stopped doing controlled burns and chopped down virtually all forest in the East, and now they're dominated by more fire intolerant species rather than the nut-producing species...and of course the American chestnuts fell victim to introduced chestnut blight.
Canebrakes! Ough! Did y'all know we have native BAMBOO?? The Southeast used to be covered in immense swaths of bamboo forest, and it was almost entirely obliterated (extincting the Carolina parakeet and helping with extinction of passenger pigeons in the process). Genus Arundinaria, you can look it up. American bamboo shoots can be used culinarily just as bamboo is eaten in Asian regions where bamboo grows.
Arundinaria bamboos have been called "the plastic of the Southeastern Native Americans" because they used (and still use) it for EVERYTHING. Bedframes, baskets (WATERPROOF!), backpacks, containers, fish traps, blowguns, flutes, you name it. Unlike some introduced Asian bamboos you may know, it grows very straight and has no groove (sulcus) in between the nodes, meaning it's hard and doesn't deform at all as it grows.
If you cook milkweed, it's edible! In ethnobotanical databases it's referenced a TON as a vegetable. The flowers can be used to turn lemonade pink. Virginia springbeauty has tiny potato-like tubers that can be eaten the same way as potatoes.
Did y'all know we have wild grapes? They're referenced in To Kill a Mockingbird, they're called scuppernongs. Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries...all native to the USA. We have passion fruit (Passiflora incarnata), we have mulberries (Morus rubra), we have native wild plums and cherries, and PAWPAWS.
I got to eat wild pawpaws last year. I got a whiff of something unbelievably sweet and banana-y in the woods and climbed down the hillside to find the source, and spent like half an hour messily devouring ripe pawpaws in a pawpaw grove. It was literally the most incredible fruit experience I've ever had. They are like a perfect blend between a mango and a banana, with a velvety, creamy, soft texture that is way better than either. You can show me a picture of a pawpaw and I'll start salivating.
These trees grow wild all over the place in rural areas. Why don't we sell pawpaws in stores then? Capitalism. Pawpaws are way softer and more fragile than bananas and spoil really quickly after ripening, so they can't be shipped long distances, and thus they're almost forgotten because a fruit that can only be obtained from small local growers is useless to Walmart.
So many of these plants grow eagerly in disturbed environments. Wild strawberries love gravelly, rocky areas. Sunflowers were actually considered noxious weeds a hundred years ago. Why aren't we aware of them? Mowing, weed-whacking and bulldozing has extirpated food plants to be replaced with useless, invasive grass.
"Oof ouch we have to figure out how to feed the planet aaaaaa there's too many people on Earth to grow enough food" Over thousands of square miles we literally obliterated dozens of edible food plants and replaced them with invasive lawn grass
my only "fashion advice" is that when in doubt you cannot go wrong with a short sleeved shirt layered over a longer sleeved one
"but it's a formal event" your best suit will look even better with a turtleneck "but i'm going to the club and i want to look sexy" there's nothing sexier than a mesh shirt peeking out from underneath your crop top "but none of my clothes match" they don't have to that's the fun part
Do people in other countries get constantly bombarded with scam calls, junk texts, etc as well or is that another thing that I assumed is universal but it's actually just a small collective of countries in the global north if even that who deal with it
Well, shit dude. How is it so hard to do something about this if it's so global
hey, be careful searching anything related to the barbie movie on google right now, including actors names.
a flashing hot pink particle effect animation plays over the entire screen, both on mobile and pc, and several UI elements turn pink. it plays as soon as u search and plays again every time the page refreshes
[ID: A screenshot of the effect in action on search results for Margot Robbie. It's a bunch of bright pink bursting star and glitter effects all over the screen, and multiple UI features' colors have been changed pink. End ID.]
theres no warning, no easy or apparent way to turn it off, and if u accidentally tap the button to replay it, it layers. it lasts for several seconds and actually made me nauseous with a migraine from it
honestly cant even believe google got away with this, its outright dangerous and i cant even figure out how to toggle it off 😒
“this meeting could have been an email” but instead it’s “this video tutorial could have been a post with less than a hundred words”
