sewing is one of those skills everyone with the ability should know IMO. i’ve known too many people who just throw out perfectly servicable clothing and bedding because of tears or buttons that have fallen off and these can be fixed at home. sewing’s not hard either.
sewing, like baking bread, is one of those basic skills that corporations have convinced people is just impossible or too expensive for the average person to do in order to manipulate people into buying things.
i’m not saying sewing is possible for everyone, but if you have motor skills fine enough to, say, replace lead in a mechanical pencil, you can learn to sew, and you can help people who can’t sew. here’s a good guide with gifs.
this is what we mean when we say civilization de-skills us to make us dependent
The cutest baby rat is trying her hardest to drink some water, but the cutest baby cardinals keep scaring her. It’s almost as if birds *enjoy* being buttheads.
August 13, 2018
Thats a mouse 😀 baby rats look a bit different from them and are unlikely to be apart from their parents until an adolescent age which they’re a good bit larger. If i were to hazard a guess i’d say its a type of field mouse.
It very well could be! I trained my brain on Rat because I definitely do have a rat family in that spot which definitely is very fertile. They had young with them in early June. Might be too soon for another batch. This was the first time I saw this precious fluffball, so I don’t have higher quality images yet.
Is that a rescue stick because that’s the sweetest
Yes :3
I put sticks in so beetles and other clumsy fliers can get out. But they have also been used frequently by birds and wasps to perch on while drinking. I think the opossums keep knocking them out because I always have to put them back in the morning.
I added all the waters so I could get my yard certified / get my certified wildlife habitat sign. It just came in a few days ago 😀
Need to figure out where to hang it up so the neighbors can see it and not think I’m a crazy/lazy yard-neglecting nutjob (I mean, I am all those things but for a reason!)
oh i remember reading about those! if i ever have a place of my own id love to make it a certified wildlife habitat!!
in the meantime i have one 10’x10’ patch of neglect that doesnt meet the requirements. still fun though because even if it doesnt fit the requirements its still a fantastic bug habitat
There’s no size requirement! You’d be amazed how easy it is to create a healthy habitat for wildlife. And “wildlife” includes insects + other arthropods!
You could easily put up a couple bird feeders and set out some potted flowers to meet the food requirement. Water, you could set out a little shallow dish for bees and butterflies to puddle, just make sure it always has water in it. For shelter, you could have a “decorative” wood pile (stack of logs or twigs—maybe they could be the walls for your potted flowers?), and if your potted flowers are bushy enough for bugs to hide in, you’ve meet the requirements. Places to raise young includes host plants for caterpillars (which could be your potted flowers again!), and your “nesting box” could be a couple holes drilled into logs in your wood pile (for solitary bees). To meet sustainable practices, make sure your flowers are native to your area, and don’t use pesticides.
That’s it! It seems daunting, but creating a healthy habitat for wildlife is easier than you think!
ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!
people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs
it’s what he would have wanted
Okay so the universal law of Shakespeare, as I’ve heard it, is that you can take things out, you can rearrange them, you just cannot add anything in that conflicts with the original texts. So while you cannot have a production of romeo and juliet where the houses get along and they get married, it’s perfectly acceptable to replace all the actors with dogs in hamlet because the characters are never outright stated to not be dogs.
“The characters are never outright stated not to be dogs”
“It was never a part of their journey” but better.
ppl are so annoying “you can’t paint ur bedroom pink you’re an adult” i did not spend my entire life waiting to grow up and control my life to paint my bedroom beige
I know it can be a nightmare to dig through our tags and see all those asks and not the guides. So here is a handy-dandy list of all our “official” how-to posts.
“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”
Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…
Another picture from Kent State.
But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.
Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there
What in the absolute fuck
When the Irish guy has known about this since he was like 8, but it’s suspiciously hard for Americans to learn about…
I literally only know abt this bc my parents are hippies it’s fucked up
I only had a vague idea of what this was and what happened until I did my own research on it.
QueerGalaxies 