coffeecollie:

sometimes you forget speed racer parodies aren’t even very exaggerated because the actual show is like this

revretch:

I know they’re both old memes at this point but

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systlin:

plantyhamchuk:

roachpatrol:

livingdeadpoetssociety:

grandenchanterfiona:

Why do my interests in canning, couponing, and homesteading overlap so often with blogs with titles like ‘The Obedient Housewife’? 

Like, I’m like, “I want to learn to make soap and farm,” and suddenly I see 500 “traditional family” motherfuckers like no you are mistaken. I am just a simple lesbian anticapitalist looking to limit my consumerism as much as possible.

‘these fun crafts will keep your kids occupied until your husband gets home!’ no i want a clothespin crown for me

As a nerd who homesteads, let me share the data I have gathered!

First is my megalist of homesteading-related links I’ve gathered over the years. I’m a mod over at r/homesteading and this is where I’ve put a lot of good sources (not all, admittedly some are still sitting in my bookmark folder waiting to be added). The search function at reddit is wretched, but there’s also been lots of good things I’ve shared there too. Please note that many of these sources are not actual webpages, but PDFs. That’s not an accident, PDFs are where you find the really good in-depth stuff.

Many of my sources are from the Extension Service. They won’t try to relate to you based on your lifestyle or sexual identity or religion or whatever, but due to that, they also won’t be alienating you either.

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The Cooperative Extension Service (US only) exists in all 50 states and in most counties. It is taxpayer funded. The Extension Service exists to help people become more self sufficient, for farmers to be more successful, for people to be healthier, for kids to be well adjusted, to figure out how to grow the best plants in your area, etc. Some county offices even offer cheap classes in things like gardening, canning, soap making, and they’re taught by people with training in these areas (I once heard a great talk on composting from a soil scientist that way). Do you want to know what type of plant something is? Do you need help figuring out a plant disease or pest issue? You can now contact them online and get great info.

I HIGHLY recommend checking out your state’s extension service website, because they do offer different types of information, depending on what is grown/raised where you are (and how well funded they are). My county extension puts out a monthly gardening newsletter, which includes a helpful ‘this is the time of the year to do —-’ part.

Here’s an example from North Carolina - check out that left sidebar

Here’s an example from California - this website is HUGE so dig around

Here’s an example from New York - they have a calendar at the bottom, showing how they have things like hydroponic and urban agriculture workshops coming up.

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Interested in raising animals? Penn State Extension is really really good. They have tons of free materials and courses available online, some I pulled for my megalist at the top of this.

National Center for Home Food Preservation - they cover the important aspects of food safety, and also have some recipes. Many state Extension Service websites will have lots more recipes.

If you have kids, check out 4-H programs for them. It’s part of the local public school system here. If you’re homeschooling, you can also purchase their science-filled educational and self sufficiency materials (materials are divided by age ranges - Cloverbud Member: ages 5-8, Junior Member: ages 9-13, Senior Member: ages 14-19). One of my coworkers is in 4-H, she’s still in high school, and last year she raised an award-winning heifer.

Congress grants the money for funding these programs, and they’re connected with various universities. There’s a level of cutting edge scientific knowledge and academic rigor you don’t find in blogs or even most books. There’s LOTS of homesteading books filled with outdated information like ‘till the earth every year’ hell I still have older coworkers who do it and I’m trying to figure out how to gently tell them that they’re destroying their soil that way, and that there’s better methods now, methods grounded in science.

Knitting - try this youtube series

DIY Crown - here’s a youtube video on how to make a mermaid crown

Hope this is helpful to someone out there.

HOLY FUCKIN SHIT BLESS

nytlozan:
“Trans Rig!!!!
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nytlozan:

Trans Rig!!!!

foone:

gender-trash:

i dont understand at all how non-programmers use computers. every day i encounter new and strange workflows? “yeah i write my fic in scrivener but then when it’s ready to post to ao3 i copy/paste it into libreoffice and use find-and-replace to convert it to html” dude what the fuck

Yeah, this is part of why my sub-niche of programming is like, “developer productivity”. Developer doesn’t just mean programmer here, it means anyone, because GOOD LORD people are doing too much manual stuff. Computers are supposed to do mindless repetitive tasks, that’s what they’re for. Humans are supposed to do the creative and decision-making tasks. 

Although I think this issue has an interesting intersection with ADHD. Like people with it will see someone use a computer and go like “HOW DOES THAT NOT DRIVE YOU MAD!?” and it definitely would, but I think it’s often overlooked that there’s a “having ADHD that makes it painful/difficult to do relative tasks” to “whelp I’m a programmer now” pipeline. You get tired of doing some task over and over and you just look into a little bit of scripting because the manual makes it seem easy and hey here’s a tutorial on using javascript/lua/batch/bash/ahk and WHOOPS now you’re a programmer. 

(Because you don’t have to go to school and study C++ and algorithms to be a programmer. Everyone who learns a bit of JS to spice up a webpage or a bit of Lua to make a minecraft robot dig a hole or a bit of AHK to make a complex macro to optimize their workflow is a programmer)

I spent most of every highschool math class programming my calculator to solve whatever new equation was being taught that day. I couldn’t stand doing the homework with the same problem thirty times with different numbers.

Now I spend my day job programming and I still can’t handle repetitive work.

foone:

ADHD in the era of the personal brand is wild.

You get into a thing and hyperfocus harder than anyone ever has hyperfocused. Dozens, hundreds of posts across multiple platforms. You discover things no one knows, you create many new things, you intangibly weave your very digital soul into the threads of this niche thing’s fabric. You are now known as “The Thing Guy” on several websites (despite not being a guy). People screenshot it and crosspost it to other websites, and the comments are like “OH IT’S THE THING GUY AGAIN!”

three weeks later, you drop it like a stone. You still want to do it, but you have no more motivation, and you can’t force yourself to touch it again. Your brain just goes “bored now” and moves on. 

Mere months later someone goes “hey, aren’t you The Thing Guy?”. You are suddenly smoking a cigarette. You take a deep drag. “Used to be, long ago… back in March”. They look at the calendar. It’s halfway through May. 

rcktpwr:

rcktpwr:

what if it was kind of a toy story situation down there?

when the moon is high and the cat’s away… my penis and balls shall frolic and play….