#clean as can bee

[mishkakagehishka]

But like the problem is that i enjoy being alone so much that i keep thinking. Am i willing to sacrifice my comfort freedom and peace (to do what i want when i want) to feel comfy at night (have a flatmate).

[aeolianblues]

good god girl, maybe some of us are not vegan because we eat chicken like once in three months?? Would reduction not be a more productive goal of vegan activism than outright banning? Like if your arguments are that animals are being eaten, then you’re being unrealistic about the entire actual concept of the food chain. Humans are omnivores, you do not need to change that to achieve your goals.

A vegan lifestyle is also entirely the product of your geographical location. If you live somewhere that shit does not grow, what are you going to do?? I just think about the difference between food options in India and Canada, for example. India: between the tropics (tropics and equator even, in fact). All-year-round sun, there’s pretty much always stuff growing. Different kinds of land will mean you can grow everything from staples like rice and wheat to vegetables, fruits and plantation crops. It’s reflected in the cuisines: Indian food has a much, much wider offering of vegetarian food, and many more Indians have restricted diets that more or less overlap with vegetarianism. Because crops grows. Locally.

Canada. Harvest in the fall, from November to March, your fields are practically unusable. Compare the prices of fresh produce in (and now I’m being generous to give you a highly populated, non-remote province here for an example) Ontario. Ontario has farms where in the fall you get fresh autumn vegetables and fruits. You’ll also get them in larger quantities. It is way cheaper, fresher and also uses less energy and fuel to transport the vegetables like 50 km from farm to market.

Come the winter and nothing grows. If you look at most vegetables you’ll find on store shelves in December or February, and most of it is either imported from warmer regions of the US (often the case for chains that are in both countries) or from South American countries (sometimes SA -> USA -> Canada). The importing has to go through cross-country customs, had to be driven for days, is less fresh or rich in nutrients by the time you get it, and is more expensive. Of course. And we all come out of it poorer. Is it any wonder why people will eat meat? We’re even talking here about a place like Ontario, very well connected on North American trade routes. Can you justify someone in Yukon deciding to eat meat over a $17/lb. green veg? Be for fucking real…

There simply cannot be a blanket-global solution to animal products. You’ve got to work with what your geography has to offer. It’s the same thing we say when we say that avocados have an environmental cost when you expect them to be available year-round in places they don’t grow. We encourage people to go for more local produce there, and I think the same should go for all parts of your diet too. If your animals are local, then their footprint is lower than importing kiwis from New Zealand to the US. I don’t see how that’s hard to understand.

[inkydoc]

🐝 & 🐶🐱 snacktime!

[ryuseitai]

whatever shall i do with the rest of my day today

[jensownzoo]

Picked up five spent mums frim the dumpsters on the walk back from the library yesterday.

They're getting a drink of water in the pic. I got them trimmed up to remove the spent blooms this morning and planted them in my raised beds to overwinter (I'll dump some straw on them when it gets cold).

From past experience, about half of them will survive the winter and once they've greened up, I can dig them up and move them into a more permanent bed. Like this one from last year:

Which is leggy as hell because I forgot to prune it back to shape it at the beginning of summer. I can usually get a few years out of a mum. And doing it this way is absolutely free! You just don't get to pick the color. Which, I mean, that's probably close to $100 of mums I brought back so.

I do want to get my hands on some of those purple asters though, and I think I'm going to have to actually buy them. In the meantime I'm encouraging the wild white asters to take hold in the side yard--the bees cover them this time of year. I got two little sprigs going now, but I'm stalking this alley plant to gather more seeds when it's spent:

There were at least 20 bees on it and that was a low number from usual.

[jonny-b-meowborn]

As time goes by I'm becoming more and more sure that I just can't survive on my own. I can take basic care of myself, but the second I have to go to a doctor or do some formal stuff I get paralyzed. I just can't. Fuck, I can barely even talk to strangers in general. Or even not strangers, I can't fucking text someone back if I'm not close to them, it's just so scary and exhausting. I'm becoming emotionally tired more easily and sometimes even talking with my mom about anything is too much for me and I love my mom. And I really need her, I can't do basic stuff without her pretty much holding my hand all the time. I can't get a normal job. We went to this blueberry plantation a few times but I just couldn't go there without her, and now the job is over and we can't go there at all. If I wasn't such a fucking baby I'd go there a few more times alone and get some money. I can't make calls, there's literally like two people I feel comfortable talking on the phone with. People used to say I was mature for my age when I was younger but I never grew up and now I'm almost 21 and can't do anything with my life. I'm scared of everything, I'm constantly exhausted physically and mentally. I'm like a fucking child. I'm scared that I'm gonna have to live with my mom my whole life. I can't see a future for myself, I'm just not able to survive without help and at some point I won't be able to get help, I don't want to be a parasite living off of my mom's money but I don't see anything else I could do. I hate my brain so much. I hate the way it refuses to work. I hate myself for being such a child.

[mintbees]

Is public transit just the worst now a days? Yesterday I had to wait 90 minutes because busses kept getting cancelled.. Everything seems to be on a 30 minute schedule too? I live just above Amsterdam and I just feel so forgotten with the transit.

tbh i cant speak on the matter a lot cuz i live in a city with insanely good bus connectivity but in my experience i think the reason dutch people complain about public transit so much is cuz we're honestly pretty damn spoiled on the matter?

Theres barely any places in the country where you'd have to wait more than an hour for a bus/train even in the middle of nowhere. We have SO much more bus connectivity compared to other countries that even though a small percentage of routes have issues per day, the number of failures is bigger than other countries around us so it feels worse.

Even in the tiny 500 people MAX village my grandparents used to live in there was a bus route going every 30 minutes, that's a far cry from the time i went to rural france and the only grocery store was a 20 minute car drive away with no bus to even speak of. Our public transit is honestly amazing compared to everywhere else but we're just spoiled brats who love to complain <3 (i'm not excluded from this btw, godverdomme kut NS)

[agdab]

idk why my parents told me that being an adult was awful and i was so unprepared for it and not ready and what will i do without them and oouhuhuoh fearmongering

dog i was so excited to go to o'reilly's and buy some oil for my car and replace my rear windshield wiper. i get excited going to a drs appt. im proud that i can pay rent. like yes i know that i am among the few who have this privilege but my parents were too so i dont get why they tried striking the fear of god in me about becoming a functional adult with responsibilities. getting older rules

[wabblebees]

sometimes, if the day is truly sunny and warm and springlike for the first time in far too long, and you crack your window to feel the breeze laden with the promise of hope and adventure, and you gather all your might and power and strength of will, you can do incredible unbelievable wonderous things. like Take A Shower and Eat A Sandwich

[eggs-can-draw]

Leftovers 🥪

[thebusylilbee]

damn it I just found some birds missing on a bird classification wikipedia page 🤨 gonna have to become a wikipedia contributor to correct that one of these days... not tonight tho im tired

[luv-again]

been writing so many words atp that it doesn't even feel like i'm writing anymore :(

[catt-crossing]

love working a 10 hour shift and then immediately having to go and clean for another two hours cus my dad just. does not clean his home!

[falesten-iw]

you know what I can’t stop thinking about?how the world lets some labels matter and others get ignored. holocaust survivors, everyone knows that brand right? iconic emotional powerful makes you stop and go damn but here’s the kicker palestinians? we’re survivors too. nakba survivors. oh you thought the nakba was just some event from 1948? no no no hayati, it’s still happening right now every single day so this is the term people need to start using when talking about palestinians: NAKBA SURVIVORS. not refugees, not some sad footnote in history and can we please stop even calling what happening in Gaza “ethnic cleansing”? like what are we doing here, rebranding atrocities to sound like a spring cleaning checklist? no it’s ethnic extermination. say it with me ex-ter-mi-na-tion. and yet somehow palestinians keep surviving. my family in gaza? 26 are still there, after losing too many. they wake up every day to a world that wants them gone and somehow they’re still trying to survive. but survival isn’t magic. it doesn’t just happen because they’re tough or brave or insert your inspirational buzzword of choice here. it happens because people like you give a damn and yes this is me asking you to really keep giving a damn. have you donated yet? incredible, thank you, love you forever. haven’t donated? this is your sign. thinking “but i already donated”? Please do it again. survival isn’t a one-time event. click the link and be part of the reason they’re still alive tomorrow.

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