My last post didn’t get that many transaction , So I’m creating new post. I recently got out of a abusive relationship and I need help getting back on my feet. I don’t like to make posts like this but I’m really in need. I need to pay a few bills, need to get some cleaning and hygiene products and cat food and litter for my cat. My goal is to raise 800 dollars to get me by for the rest of this month into next month. I have a job set up for me to start at the end of February. Since it’s at a nursing home I have to take a few steps like get a covid test , get a tb test and pass a drug test. before I can start working. please consider donating even if it’s one cent anything helps.
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fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die
fun fact: Drug addiction is a public health issue, and approaching it as if it were a law enforcement issue is prejudicial to addicts and will result in their suffering and death
if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, you’ll pretty much never be wrong.
now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. i’m pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times ‘to round the sharp corners off of things’ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that i’m going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. i’ve chosen not to, but i can’t blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.
anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people don’t enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people don’t get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they can’t put a name to – something that they can’t ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason – lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesn’t exist – they aren’t able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.
addicts aren’t some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because they’re Bad. addicts are you with a problem you can’t solve.
these facts aren’t fun but they are pretty important
happy holidays! this is your yearly reminder that wrapping paper is NOT recyclable! it can even contaminate an entire neighborhoods recycling, and none of it can be recycled! please make sure to keep your wrapping paper separate from your recycling!
Reminder that brown paper and newspaper are cheap and easy to recycle, and you can make them look classy, vintage and/or fun and funky by adding a ribbon or coloured ink stamps!
HOWEVER DO NOT ADD PAINT OR OTHER ART SUPPLIES. This will make them non-recyclable again. BUT, ink is fine - it’s removed in the recycling process.
If you live in a climate colder than zone 6…as I do…plant them in containers and move the containers into a basement or garage during the winter.
They bloom in fall, and are quite lovely. And also you get saffron.
Can Saffron handle Zone 13?
They grow it in the deserts of the Middle East (with a bit of irrigation.) It can handle the worst heat you can throw at it.
What it does NOT like is wet feet all the time. If the soil is soaking wet too often, it will rot. So if you live somewhere with a lot of rainfall, I’d try raised beds or pots that can be protected from excess rain.
So my Arizonan (Phonecian to be precise) ass should be perfectly fine, then?
Not only fine it would probably love the shit out of your area, so long as you threw it some water now and then.
Seriously, here’s a saffron farm in the desert of Afghanistan, and the saffron is happy as shit there.
What’s zone 6?
Growing zones are a measure of how cold it gets in a given area in winter, which is a limiting factor in where many things will grow.
Zone 6 means that the minimum expected temperature will not get below -10F.
Here is a gardening zone map of the USA.
I’m in zone 5, supposedly, right on the tip of Iowa’s nose where it bumps out into Illinois, but more realistically given our not-uncommon cold snaps here we’re about a zone 4.
So if you live in any of the light green through pink-orange areas, saffron will grow just fine for you on its own in your regular old dirt. It will grow in hotter zones as well, but the continental US only goes up to zone 10 and so most US based companies will advertise plants as ‘being suited for zones 5 through 10′ even if a plant can take hotter temps.
First of all, it’s always a delight to see you encouraging agricultural anarchy on my dash. Please continue.
Second: I can’t speak to most of the US but if you’re on the CO front range and put Saffron in the ground, you’re going to have Saffron forever. It’s literally coming up out of my parent’s lawn and has completely overrun a neighbor’s garden. This is the opposite of a problem.
Third: Bees love it. Honeybees, bumblebees, little bees and big bees. Late-season butterflies and moths love it too. support your local pollinators.
Fourth: It’s worth growing for the sheer, visceral delight of giving your friends that cook a lump of homegrown saffron for free and telling them you grew it yourself and watching them go >:O as they are both tremenously impressed with your ability to do plant magic and enraged by the bullshittery that is the modern agricultural market.
Agricultural Anarchy is a hell of a line, exactly what I stand for, and I may have to make t shirts with that on them.
…well. I guess I’ve got some yard work to do here pretty soon.
REPORT THIS PIECE OF SHIT AND GET HIS MEDICAL LICENSE REVOCED!
when they think we’re mutilating ourselves to the point that they pose as SRS doctors and literally mutilate us for their agenda. cis ppl don’t forget this
topsurgery.net is a site with lots of before + after pics categorised by surgeon. I encourage everyone with other resources on srs surgeons and their results to share them here, for mtf/mtx surgeries too please
It’s almost like guns are tools designed to kill people, and having a tool designed to kill people makes it easier to kill people.
wait is this true
did we actually have gun control at some point in the recent past?
yes. there’s a study for you on the effect it had as well conducted by the natn’l institute of justice.
LIT THANKS!!
And what’s really going to bake your noodles, kids. The push for gun control in the US really got going in the late 60’s by a Republican Govenor, Ronald Reagan AND the NRA.
What could have given the modern Republican party a spine, you ask? Well, it was those darn Black people of course! The Black Panther Party to be exact.
Long story short, the Panthers, in response to police brutality and systemic oppression, Panters urged Black people to arm themselves and to protect their own neighborhoods. They showed up to the state house with their rifles and handguns…
And faster than you can reload a fully automatic weapon, Reagan and the NRA were like, oh, Hell no! We need Gun Control! And that became the Mulford Act of 1967 which banned the open carrying of firearms. Go figure.
Bottom line, if it benefits the white supremacist power structure, this country can and will do anything. Big sigh. The hypocrisy is mind numbing.
going on testosterone is so exciting im so glad to finally go through my himboification
my special friend calls it his PP Juice and I started calling it PP Up from Pokemon and so now it’s the PP Up Juice.
Honestly the minute I saw the word himboification I knew this post was gonna be good and I was not dissapointed. This is so fucking wonderful and I love the sheer universal experience of exasperation, concern, and just so fucking done with your shit from your doctors and nurses.
In this way, everyone has the same quality of clothing and no one “looks poor”. If the idea behind uniforms is to make everyone the same and stop clothing based conflict, the uniforms have to be free, it’s the only way to justify them.
