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Jason doing ASL is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

they said i could be anything i wanted to be so i became a nuisance

It’s like this

Reversed version so you and your mutuals can bonk back and forth.

My favourite genre of photo is “cat mid-yawn”

—about god

[image description: Tweet from Janel Comeau @verybestllama which says: "Oh the one hand, small-scale subsistence farming is such a uniquely miserable lifestyle that escaping it has been one of the primary goals of mankind for the last 10,000 years. but on the other hand. homesteading does look very cute on instagram." End ID]

Now I'm gonna explain the tweet.

"Subsistence agriculture" means "growing enough to subsist, or stay alive, on." It means you grow what you eat, build what you live on, and you mostly do not trade or barter with the outside world for the necessities of life.

This is not ALL agriculture. The vast majority of farmers may keep some of what they grow for personal use, but they sell the rest of their crop for money, and use money to buy most or all of the food they eat. There are also more successful attempts at large-scale subsistence agriculture, where communities aim to work together to meet their collective food needs.

My family ran a mixed farm for ten years. We had field crops, a vegetable garden, livestock, and poultry. We frequently ate food we had produced (and loved it) but only ONCE did we ever achieve a family dinner where every piece of food on the table came from our farm. (Except the bread, I think. We didn't mill our own flour or keep dairy animals.) Most of the time, we shopped at a grocery store for the bulk of our food.

Subsistence farming is the ideal people have of being "off the grid", where they are totally self-reliant and do not turn to outside sources of sustenance. It's a nice dream until you live it.

Subsistence farming means that if you do not succeed in growing everything you need, you have no food. In which case you'd better hope you have some outside source of income! Hope you can manage another full-time job on top of farming!

This matters to me, I am angry about this, because I am disabled. I'm just constantly tired and constantly in pain. It is extremely hard for me to do enough work to earn a decent income. Like many disabled people, I do not get enough in government benefits to live on, and therefore frequently struggle to afford groceries.

And do you know what everyone wants to "empower" me to do about that?

GROW MY OWN FUCKING FOOD.

I'm too disabled to hold down an office job. If you paid me to spend 40 hours a week sitting at a desk and and doing whatever I wanted, I still couldn't do it and I'd be in even more pain than if I hadn't tried in the first place. When I buy into a grocery co-op and receive discounted groceries, I'm frequently not well enough to peel, chop, cook, strain, and generally turn then into food quickly enough before they go bad while refrigerated.

And people think that before I receive those groceries, I should also have to GROW them—in a country where our growing season is 120 days long—where I have fucking struggled to bring a couple of tubs of flowers to bloom before the frost kills them.

The solution to urban poverty people are really excited about is community gardens, which in my neighborhood frequently end the summer barren and blighted, because as it turns out keeping food crops alive, much less productive, is really fucking hard, and maybe if someone gave us enough to buy groceries with we wouldn't try to make it through the winter on TWO POTATO PLANTS AND A PEA VINE

Agriculture is amazing. Gardening is amazing. Animal husbandry is amazing. I would go back to living on a farm in an instant if I could.

But I would really love for people to stop being horny for ALMOST FUCKING STARVING as the solution to society's ills.

I know this is a slight tangent, but one of the other major fantasies of homesteading is the whole "wood-burning fireplace" thing. I can tell people who go on about that have never had one as their primary source of heat because they do not know how fast a wood stove goes through wood.

A cord of wood is 128 cubic feet. That is a pile of split and very closely packed logs that is four feet high - so chest-height on an adult - twenty-five feet long, and consisting of logs sixteen inches in length. That is hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of logs - all of which must have been downed six to twelve months prior to burning - to cut, carry, split, stack, and then later carry inside no matter the weather conditions. The whole family did that, including my sister and I from second grade on.

The one year - the ONE year - my mother's shoulder gave out and we bought firewood instead of gathering it ourselves?

We bought five cords of wood and needed to buy one and a half more before winter ended, and that was not a particularly bad winter. And we were extremely experienced with our stove - it was a lovely Kodiak Stove that radiated heat extremely well, and we banked our fires properly at night and stoked them in the morning. We weren't wasting this stuff, we just lived in bumfuck Appalachia and it was cold.

Now imagine having to grow enough food to live on on top of that.

There's a reason Ma and Pa Ingalls had a coal stove, and a reason I love central heating. I'm just saying.

fuck terfs!

it’s fuck terf wednesday! Remember to ridicule the TERFs in your local area.

Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,

Update:

Ok, so:

... further details in a bit I think the Vikings are here.

OK so.

i think if you go to a hospital to get like surgery or urgent care and something embarrassing or weird etc happens to you and a nurse makes a tiktok about how embarrassing or weird you were and makes fun of you, you should be allowed to sue them. like actually. regardless of if they mention your name or not. you should be able to sue them

when i was at the hospital recently i had a pretty heavy emotional reaction to a relatively “minor” procedure and the whole time i was thinking how ridiculous it must’ve looked in the eyes of ppl who’d “seen worse” than what i was going through and idk if my own fucking caregiver started doing a tiktok dance to maroon 5 or whatever describing my situation and saying that i was “overreacting” to it i would just start summoning evil shadow skulls everywhere. the need to publicize our own lives everywhere in every detail has gotten so bad that patients at hospitals don’t know if the people that are there to help them here are gonna air out their dirty laundry on the stupid dance app to potentially billions of strangers once they’re out of earshot. how is that not borderline illegal. it should be. just describing it makes it clear that this is one of the most morally bankrupt, selfish, privacy-be-damned thing a healthcare worker could do to their patient. like. how is it not a crime. it’s fucked.

while i’m here i think one of the most cruel things i’ve ever seen come out of nurse tiktok is the “trend” of making jokes at the expense of elderly patients with dementia especially the ones that need assistance from a caregiver to do “basic” things. they constantly make fun of them for not being able to go to the restroom or bathe on their own etc and i cant even imagine how heartless of a person you’d have to be to pull something like that. wow you made a funny internet video on a person you’re there to help live their day to the best of their ability as their mind is deteriorating and they can’t even do anything to stop you from making fun of them!!! yayyy how funny. how silly. are you enjoying all the likes you’re getting. all the other attention from people just as vile as you. is it worth it. go to hell forever this is depraved behavior that i can’t even comprehend. how do people live with themselves after doing this.

If you see an Irish person speaking on European C-SPAN you know it's about to be a banger

RNC wants submission, they have zero interest in unity and would proudly support the biggest looting of top secret intel rather than admit a con man was a con man.

They demand civility while having none. They demand bipartisanship while intentionally sabotaging any piece of legislation from the other side. It's a fun little game they play- playing victim and bully at the same time.

Get fucked, fascists.

With so many elections coming up worldwide it's probably a good time to remind everyone that tumblr once got infested with agents trying to convince everyone not to vote, or not to vote left because the candidates weren't morally pure enough.

Also a reminder that they were better at tumblr than most of us, comrade interloper was great at memeing. Like, the talent!

Anyway don't fall for it. There is no morally pure option.

Vote for whoever can move you one inch closer to your goals. This is a long game. If there's a candidate who wants to move you a mile closer to your goals but they do not stand a chance in the general election, you vote for whoever can move you one inch closer to your goals. The time to vote for the "one mile" candidate in the primaries. Once you get to the general, you vote for the one who has a chance in hell of winning, or you're actively working against progress. 100% of the time, voting in a general for a "can't win" candidate because their beliefs align more with your beliefs is actively working for the opposition. There is no situation in which this is not true.

One side is addressing climate change and raising the minimum wage and forgiving student debt. The other side are GODDAMN TRAITORS AND INSURRECTIONISTS and are openly removing women's rights, LGBTQ people's rights and VOTING access. But DO tell me again that Both Sides Are Just As Bad As Each Other.

Vote. Every time you don’t vote moves you closer to the day when you’ll never be allowed to vote again.

Tree coming out of an abandoned chimney (source)

Fortified combat tree

Joint Dwarf/Elf fortress.

Legolas and Gimli’s townhome in Valinor

Ah. So that's where the Wildstar devs pulled this outside-of-map feature from.

I've just changed my Twitter profile: I have now spent 28 years severely affected/housebound with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome since age 22 (i.e. more than half my life).

[I first became ill at age 16, 33.5 years ago, but was initially less severely affected but was undiagnosed].

I'm one of millions around the world.

We need more public and private money to make research progress soon, the quicker the better: my life and the lives of others are passing by.

For anyone interested, here's a list of ME/CFS research funds: http://phoenixrising.me/resources-2/research-charities

Here's my story as told in the Irish Independent in 2015:

'No one chooses to have ME - everything changed when I became ill' https://www.independent.ie/life/health-wellbeing/health-features/no-one-chooses-to-have-me-everything-changed-when-i-became-ill-34153140.html

Just wanted to say thanks again, because reading that comic, and having my dad hand me that issue, in a way that framed sex education as normal and in parts funny, made it much easier to talk about sex and sexual health together.

Having that as a third-party we could talk (what Death says or what Neil Gaiman says) made the conversation less embarrassing, especially since you’re the exact same age as my dad. So yeah, thanks Neil.

I'm so glad. That was what it was for.

I grew up during the worst of the AIDS epidemic and before an elder could explain what I needed to know, they were dying of this disease.

There are plenty of other reasons that this lesson is still important.

My thanks, Neil. I am here in small part because of this sound advice.

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