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I participated in a waste audit for two days this week. (Won't say for who. Won't say where. Privacy and all that.)
Unsurprisingly, so much recycling and compostable food goes in the trash. So much trash goes in the recycling. So many items are created only to be discarded. I knew that. I know that.
What the audit really drove home for me was every action matters. What was my defining item for this? Coffee creamer cups. You know, those tiny little plastic cups with about one tablespoon each of liquid, most-fake-dairy creamer?
One coffee creamer cup? It's just a tiny thing, right? No harm done, right?
Seeing the waste from the coffee station where everyone uses "just one" coffee creamer cup, and suddenly you have an entire 30 gallon trash bag full of the things? They add up. (Plus they can't be recycled with current all-in-one-bin systems. See my palm test post. Once they're used, the material is going to be lost: buried to leach into the water supply or burned to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions.)
It makes me sad, because if the business had just had some of those fancy metal carafes of creamers, or even just cartons of milk, this could have been avoided. Milk jugs and cartons are easily recycled, and generated fewer pounds of waste overall.
Every action matters.
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TRASH SOUP - soup made of vegetables you saved from the trash!
Today's version features radish tops and Romanesco/broccoli stalks & leaves. Just add a base of onion/carrot/celery/garlic and some potatoes for creaminess and you are good to go ☺️
#trash soup#soup#leftovers#thrifty#eat your greens#waste management#waste less#budget meals#budget cooking
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There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.
Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.
and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."
#chickens#like buddy you are never going to actually make a profit#and if by some miracle you do#it's going to be VERY SMALL#Considering the money you put into building or buying a coop#plus feed and bedding and equipment (waterers feeders perches etc) costs#egg cartons and enrichment and gas to go get the feed#the cost you (personally) probably put into building the egg stand you mentioned#a 50lbs bag of feed will feed 12 adult chickens for 8 days#12 chickens generally lay 6-12 eggs per day#usually less in the fall and may even stop in winter#a 50lb bag of feed is usually $12-15#and you wasted the first 6 months going eggless until they were old enough to lay#and that doesn't factor in oyster shell or anything else you may need to do for them#like worming or treating for coccidia or anything#and doesn't take into account your time#like asjh;dsfkgdh you really thought you were gonna make a buck doing this???#wank for ts
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Just some late night post card making ft Gars
[ID: horizontal lines of blue and white identical garfish with orange and yellow stars interspersed. end ID]
#stamp making#stamp carving#stamps#relief printing#original art#artists on tumblr#printmakers on tumblr#ht’s art#these are 4 cards it’s easier to do the repeating patern this way#wastes less ink too
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There's something really funny to me about Mumbo spotting the "Free us" banner Bdubs built in the cyber punk city and going "oh wow that's so dark omg" only to immediately return to building the ecological disaster destroying and poisoning the farmlands and water supply of his hometown caused by the lab he works in. My man, I'm not sure you have room to judge in that department, actually aksglsgsksb
#putting a few silly armor stands around does not make that any less of a horrific concept mumbo!!!#like he immediately ran off to make a bunch of dead fish floating in the river where the waste runoff meets the towns water supply#absurd behavior#love this guy#mumbo jumbo#hc s10#hermitcraft
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dumbest
motherfucker
on the goddamn planet
#no really I legit consider him the stupidest dipshit on planet Earth#due to sheer wasted potential#any one of you out there with the $$ he grew up with would have made better use of it#instead his ambition is being a d-tier shitposter and god i suppose#a fundamentally incurious lackwit lacking even a surface-level understanding of anything he vaguely “engages” with#the kids at his school really should have pushed him down the stairs just a little harder#one less nazi fuck in the world
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transformers would be so good if it was good
#starscream.txt#yes i love transformers yes i complain about it all the time#the problem is less that it's bad as a franchise (but it is)#and more that i see all the potential in it that just gets wasted because hasbro makes all their executive decisions based on focus groups
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I hate to be that one person who’s like when ur so busy ur not consumed by other people or being in a relationship blah blah blah …. But truly when u have ur hands full you could fucking care less and it’s so liberating
#Like the moment you get busy the desperation to be seen by other ppl#Both platonically and romantically#Goes away so fast#I’m very dangerous when I’m in these moods bc it’s easy to push good ppl away when you’re too#Focused on yourself#But also I like not being that anxious about anyone#Like it’s not that deep#It’s its own kind of nice even though ik it’s such a slippery slope#Also the obsession to be in a relationship or the being scared of being alone goes away so fast#It truly sucks that the “have hobbies/goals” advice works so well but it DOES#Not that I’m advocating for anyone to be a hermit like ofc human connection still matters#The desperation is just not there so it’s much less high stakes if it’s not in ur life rn#Like how can you be wasting time if ur getting to know urself better
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#the amazing digital circus#tadc#tadc fanart#tadc comic#fanart#tadc jax#tadc gangle#tadc zooble#tadc kinger#tadc ragatha#tadc pomni#the amazing digital circus pomni#tadc comic: armed#finally finished took 20+ hours#in total#rlly should stop being such a perfectionist. next pages would be most likely less detailed i dont want to spend so much time on each page#overdone human fellas on the first page so gonna turn that into portraits so that its not wasted#thinking of doing a version in Ukrainian but lettering took me long enough already#drew one ship fanart of pomni x ragatha and then went straight to pomni x existential crisis#already started drawing the aftermath#my art#tw implied self harm#tw implied violence#tw breakdown#tw mental breakdown#tw implied dissociation#tw implied psychosis
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giving the best dialogue to anakin and padmé divorcing once more lol <3
“If it were your best friend who choked on flowers he couldn’t give you, what would you do?”
Anakin blinks, more than a decade’s worth of Jedi training the only thing keeping him from reeling back. “What?” Padmé’s eyes gleam back at him, hard as flint. “If Master Kenobi developed hanahaki for you, if you saw him in pain because of you, would you have done what I did for Sabé?”
Anakin shakes his head, suddenly lost and feeling rather like the trap has been sprung. “You didn’t do anything wrong to her,” he says helplessly. “You said you paid for her surgery–”
“There were two things I could have done,” Padmé replies. “But I was a good wife. I didn’t even think about the other option. I didn’t even try. Because of you.”
The other option. The only other cure for the flowering disease: for the love to be returned.
Anakin cuts his eyes away from the face of his wife. They jump from the fireplace to the open doors leading to a balcony, to a chair in the corner to the old-fashioned books tucked neatly away in their alcove. “Don’t ask me this,” he says, begs, because Padmé is his wife and once, he loved her ardently.
But she is also a politician, and she knows to never give in when she is so close to her victory. “Tell me what you would do,” she demands softly. “Tell me you would do the same. If it were Obi-Wan dying, tell me you would hold his hand as he underwent the surgery. Tell me that you would remember me.”
“He would never develop flowers for me,” Anakin snaps as if the words have been ripped from his throat, and his hands loosen behind his back, grab at the ends of his hair and then scrub roughly over his face.
Padmé’s lips curl and her eyes flash, a spark of embers beneath a blanket of ash. “Put aside your belief that your master is too much of a Jedi to fall in love, that is not what I want—”
Anakin shakes his head, once, sharply. He feels cornered. Like a wild animal, biting at anything that encroaches into his space. “You asked me to speak and now you will not listen,” he snarls, and he is being cruel. This is cruel.
But this is also the truth, and it is what she wanted.
“He would never develop flowers for me,” he says again. “Because you only develop flowers when the love is unrequited. And there has never been a moment in my life that I have not been in love with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Is that what you wanted to hear, Padmé?”
#hanahaki au#obikin#i think this scene goes with a more perfect union when padme says you dont have a master anymore but you do have a wife#and in couples counselign au when anakin says all of us lived in the war but not all of us fought in it#but anyway this dissolution of ani dala in the hanahaki au#is less fiery than a more perfect union#more like....they're trying to salvage something because otherwise it'll feel like years wasted (to padmé) or like the code broken#for no reason/young stupid love (for anakin)#but theyre tired so it's a lot more quiet than a more perfect union#except in select moments when their personalities (Not Being Quiet) bump heads
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MORE TRANSFORMERS WITH BOWS. MORE. MOOOOORE.
CROSSBOWS. BOWS THAT SHOOT PLASMA ARROWS. BOWS THAT SHOOT PHYSICAL METAL BOLTS. BOWS THAT SHOOT FIRE.
SMALL BOWS THAT ARE EASY TO CARRY AROUND ON STEALTH MISSIONS. GIANT INDUSTRIAL STEEL BOWS THAT ONLY A BOT THE SIZE OF ULTRA MAGNUS CAN DRAW.
INTRICATE, ARTISTIC, GORGEOUS CAMIEN BOWS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THEIR WIELDER. PLAIN GRAY MASS-PRODUCED BOWS FOR M.T.O SOLDIERS THAT HAVE HAD NAMES AND SYMBOLS AND DOODLES ETCHED INTO THEIR METAL BY PEOPLE WHO ARE DESPERATE FOR ANY OUTLET FOR SELF EXPRESSION AND INDIVIDUALITY.
DO YOU SEE MY VISION. DO YOU SEE IT.
#maccadam#transformers#I love “impractical” weapons in science fiction#I don't CARE if it makes less sense than blasters#Transformers is sci fi FANTASY we should get to have cool unrealistic shit#Also it makes sense for Camiens who can't waste energon in battle#Bows with physical arrows wouldn't consume energon when fired#Also tell me a gorgeously intricate camien bow wouldn't go hard as fuck
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note: pollmaker is thinking of the USAmerican lottery system (powerball, mega millions, state lottos, scratchoffs, etc), but poll applies to other countries lotteries systems so long as its still the same concept of "big ol state sponsered gambling shit", but not like casino style gambling. u know what i mean, Lottos.
questions for the tags: how regularly, what stuff you play, if you have limits for yourself, if you feel like its a Problem for you, and for funsies the usual 'first thing youd do if you won the lottery' shit
reblog to have absolutely zero effect on your luck either way. just like, absolutely no change in luck whether you reblog this or scroll past. this is the luck neutral post reblog in the next 30 seconds or dont who give a shit
#buzzy#REMAKING BECAUSE I FORGOT THE FUCKING NO OPTION CHRIST im bad at this#do u ever spend so long thinking about every possible 'OP WHY DIDNT YOU MAKE AN OPTION FOR THIS SPECIFIC SITUATION'#that u forget the fucking 'no' optik#polls#poll#lottery#lotteries#the lottery#gambling#okay to repeat my personal answers: yes but i do only $3 per week and ONLY the texas lotto#i do my lucky numbers and i do a multi draw (does the next ten drawings w the same numbers) so that i dont gotta#pay attention to it for a couple of weeks#which makes it less of A Thing#so im not activelt rhinking about it as much#im ya kno impulsive and in the past it was 'ohh $5 per week and scratchoffs' but that meant too much of a#'oh but this week ill spend an extra $5 ive been good....'#and it was too easy for me to justify going overboard#i know 'not playing at all' is the better option but this scratches the itch just enough that i dont feel tempted to impulse buy scratchoffs#while also being p hands off so im not obsessing over it as much#ya kno?#yeah im consistently wasting money but it keeps me from IMPULSIVELY wasting EVEN MORE money#and it means i can keep lotto winning dreams jn the back of my mind#also first thing id do is go to doctors and find out wtf is wrong w me#well not the FIRST first. first first is probs getting myself a little treat like some dutch bros
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on March 14th 2023, a Polish abortion activist Justyna Wydrzyńska was sentenced to eight months of community service for helping a woman in an abusive relationship access abortion pills
Poland has one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe.
if you can, please consider donating to ADT, the organisation that helps people in Poland access abortion!
edit: i see this post got reblogged into the terf teritory. ADT is trans friendly. please just donate and be quiet <3
#luckily they still can appeal and it's better than jail still but like.#it's so stupid that so much time is wasted on those absurd trials#i know that community service doesn't sound that bad comparing to some other things happening around the world#but still at first she was told she could face up to 3 years in jail#idk those women are heros and make me feel much more safer and less stressed living in Poland#because I know if I ever needed an abortion they would be there to help me#and also 5 dollars is almost an equivalent of a minimum hourly wage in Poland#polish currency is weaker so even 2 dollars count a lot!#and the judge was a woman! same as the leader of the constitutional tribunal that made abortion more illegal#feminism#abortion#poland#human rights#reproductive rights
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i wish my favorite drivers were as evil as people who hate them make them seem so i could use this image more often
#formula 1#charles leclerc#carlos sainz#oscar piastri#max verstappen#motogp#valentino rossi#charles leclerc as the villain is prime rpf wasted potential we need to write it more#carlos being insufferable? less likely than what i would like
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Watching Netflix’s Damsel rn. It’s alright - not bad, but it definitely could have been a hell of a lot better. The beginning seems sort of rushed (I get that they have limited time to get to the real ‘fun’ parts but come on)
I will say tho, the scene where the flock of birds comes flying through the cavern is fire as fuck. Such an incredible introduction for the dragon.
#‘Fire as fuck’ pun FULLY intended btw#I’m trying not to spoil anything in case someone who wants to watch it sees this#it’s not a bad movie at all#the trailer just had a ton of potential that seems to be going to waste#but I’m less than halfway through so idk maybe it’ll get better from here#damsel#Netflix#millie bobby brown
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if you _wouldnt_ abandon your humanity at the drop of a hat then honestly something might be wrong with you ngl
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