My driveway still has glitter from when I painted my hospital table.. 9 years ago.

It needs to be repainted due to heavy use, and I like the glitter (plus I still have a big container of it, and wasting plastic is worse than using it), but I’m not looking forward to purple herpes for another decade.

I think I’ll suspend it in swirls in resin this time to be permanent, and keep more depth than the spray epoxy layer I used last time. Then I won’t have to do this again.

(I wouldn’t buy non-biodegradable glitter anymore, this stuff has been around for most of my life.. I got it in the early 2000s when I was in HS for some project or other, and I do my absolute best to contain it when I use it, but it’s glitter.)

You know in swing states dem voters also got a shitload of maga shit? Cuz we did. I have never gotten so much conservative propaganda in my life as I did this last election season in isolation.

Swing state residency is an absolute burden. I’m super left, but seriously. Harassing 1/4 at most of the population incessantly for months every 4 years doesn’t actually make people vote dem either. The whole thing is absolutely fucked but ffs leave us alone! We don’t need 50 texts a day telling us we matter. We fucking know and don’t want that burden.

I don’t give a flying fuck about your 3 points. Give me something to vote for or shut the fuck up (I have always voted dem, and I’ve canvassed and all, because the alternative, but I will probably swap to literally anything better at this point since they are useless af and I'm tired of being a political scapegoat.)

Alternatively, it’s great for a “hit me in the feels” don’t cry challenge when you need to let off weepy steam.

Yeaaah.. no mistaking that for anything else.

Fwiw, I did not find that myself, but I do think it’s important to pass on. We all need to know what’s being glossed over here.

They’d have to focus on getting rid of their smell… that’s probably why foxes didn’t win the dog/fox pet battle. They smell very strongly.

https://helpfulhyena.com/what-do-foxes-smell-like/

But agreed on ferrets/cats :)

Well that’s not where I was going with that, but you aren’t wrong..

Same, I have a bar a few lots from mine, and it only gets bad a few weekends a year.

I have neighbors that blast music while having super smoky fires and getting piss drunk, though. They are much much worse than the bar. Hands down. Because I can’t have windows open about half the time without my house smelling like smoke (a smell that gives me migraines).

12 for those hardworking tropical chads

(Did I use that right? It was uncomfortable.)

I wonder if this means they are skilled enough to sell me only female fish for my breeding colonies…

It’s a pain trying to explain how to sex fish (of specific sexible varieties) to the people working.. fortunately I found a LFS that just has me wash my hands then I can net my own.

This. I had a winterized display (leaky roof inspired water damage) and replaced a board and fixed it. Took about 20 min including the time to disassemble the tv itself. $20.

The research to figure out what components caused the problem was significant, however. Because tv repair isn’t a thing anymore even tho it absolutely should be.

If I’m welcome to do all those things, that still makes it my responsibility as a consumer. So…

And the rest of what you wrote is just unnecessary. Of course shit takes work. Part of that work is talking to people to raise awareness, and gosh golly it’s almost like I’m already doing that.

Something that helped me was realizing that names are hard for everyone.

Unlike faces, which a lot of people also struggle with, names are completely arbitrary. They don’t help you identify a person at all unless you already know them. Facial features at least help you recognize someone but “Tim” or “James” could be 20 people you have met this year alone.

Everyone is bad with them, so just admitting to it is actually either a huge relief or at least understandable to the other party, like your experience. I find it’s typically the former, and after they share their name again, they confirm they have mine right, or ask in kind because they also forgot. It’s a human moment.