#Shipping #Forecast #FitzRoy: Biscay, Southeast FitzRoy Southerly or southwesterly, veering westerly or northwesterly later, 4 to 6, increasing 7 or gale 8 for a time in north. Moderate or rough in southeast Biscay and far southeast of FitzRoy, but elsewhere rough or very rough. Occasional rain, fog patches. Moderate or good, occasionally very poor (from UK MetOffice) #sailing #sail
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Ebook and paperback: https://books2read.com/FeyFighters
Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?
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...so hopefully over this week I'll build up my vocal and muscular reserves to give this wonderful song the treatment it deserves. This work is also allied with a performance at NEC in the second week of November, in which a snippet of this song will be part of a larger composition built around rainy-season themes. Fun.
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Experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns. The hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer. Four characters, each following their own leads, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.
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ood morning. After a night full of nightmares, following the horrific scenes of the bombing at my university yesterday, my family and I are facing extremely difficult financial circumstances.
I urgently need €400 to buy construction timber and tarpaulins to prepare a shelter for my family before winter arrives.
I hope you can help us find safety and protection from the cold and rain. Every contribution and every share means so much to us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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#Journal of a wet ‘n windy Dutch AuDHD Pixy :pixy_party: (Saturday, 24/10/2026).
After managing about 7 hours of sleep in total, Koa and I woke up to “storm Austen”. It was very wet ‘n very windy. And Koa was very hesitant to go into the garden. There was so much rain, things were soaked. And, after being outside with Koa, seeing him more interested in the leaves than in doing his business… He went out a few times, I stayed inside for some of them. I just did my things, and hoped that Koa would be able to do his things.
I got to the couch and started my reply email to my dear friend. It became a bit of a babbling one, and when I was done, I quickly got dressed. I hoisted myself into the bright yellow rain suit, boots on, and then Koa and I braved the weather. He was rather spooked by all the wind and noises of things clashing around, but he did manage to wee and poop. So that was a good thing. When we got back, we were both wet and all. But, at least Koa had been able to do his business, and hopefully, I’d be able to relax for quite a while before Koa would want to drag me out into that weather again.
I started working on my blog post for today. I fixed myself some brekkie, and worked some more on the blog post. When it was done, I also worked on Sunday’s blog post as well. It felt good when both posts were done and scheduled. As Koa was still very relaxed, chewing happily on one of his rawhides, I started writing Thursday’s blog post. I was almost done when Koa had drunk quite a bit of water after the snacking. So, back into the yellow outfit and boots I went again!
I wanted a shorter round, as everything was so flooded with the everlasting rain, but Koa wanted his usual one. So, when we finally got back, we were soaked again. Well, the rain suit was dripping pretty good, and my boots were very humid, as part of the path next to the grassy field behind the house was flooded, and I didn't have my head lamp, so I didn't see it until we were wading through it... So, I peeled off all the wet layers, and tried to dry off the dude. 😊 He still tried to help me, but it seemed like Koa was starting to understand how I can dry him off best a wee bit better... We got back to the couch, where I finished writing Thursday's journal Toot. I uploaded it to Mastodon and my Journey journal app.
As I still felt OK enough to write, I started writing Friday's journal Toot as well. While I was writing that, I noticed I was losing some concentration. I first fixed some food for the dude, and then I started to abuse the AI a bit. First to generate a few "Sir Nibbles" images, then to help me with alt texts for them. After that, I browsed a bit on Mastodon, finally catching up with some of my notifications. A sweet friend had written a funny message, which gave me the idea for another image of Sir Nibbles. After that, I fixed some food, and wrote some more on the journal Toot, before Koa needed me to turn into the bright banana again. 😂 It turned out that it would be the last time for this night/morning, which was good for sure.
We got back from the walk, and I finished the journal Toot. I shared it on Masto and my journal app, and then got my laptop, so I could edit the journal post as well. When I was done, I switched some clothes and shoes, and I got on the treadmill. To my own surprise, it went rather well, and I managed to get to 2,2km in 30 minutes, most of which had been walked with a 1-2% incline. But yeah, it felt nice to manage a longer, inclined, walk, with a 4,4kmh average speed, instead of the 4 kmh I've been walking on ever since the herniated disc and hand surgery. I went upstairs after that, where I folded the laundry, and used the little vacuum to try and clean it a bit more. Someone from the building coop is coming this Monday morning, to check things out due to the mouse situation. Koa barked once, while I was upstairs. While I was vacuuming, I didn't notice any new droppings. And I had not heard the noise anymore. Still, it was good to have someone look at it soon.
I went back downstairs, cleaned up the laundry, washed up and changed clothes. After that, Koa and I had our first "as good as dry" walkies of the day. When we got back, Koa got some food, and I tried to relax with some couch and telly time. The next few hours, I tried to sweep the floors, which gathered quite a bit of hair. We tried to relax a bit as well. I wanted to walk a short round before fixing Koa's last meal before bed time, but Koa had a different plan, and I was glad when we got back home again. I fixed Koa's meal, and started preparing for bedtime. I got myself some food as well. When Koa and I had filled our bellies, and watched some telly, we went in the garden before retreating to the bedroom.
Koa and I dozed off a bit, and after a potty break, we managed to get about 7¼ hours of sleep in total. When we got up, storm Boelo was raging wildly. We would be enjoying some more "nice weather" tonight, with an extra hour, due to daylight saving ending...
Thanks to all for your kindness and support during my "journey through daily life" :bear_love: I really appreciate it :bear_hugs: as it helps me to keep going on bad/harder days! :bear_nuzzle:
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Good #Sunday morning, Mastodonians. Today we'll be watching our granddaughter while her mom teaches Pilates and her husband helps his brother move, so I feel like I'm hitting the ground running. But after doing what I need to do, I can sit down and get myself centered so I'll be ready for the adventures. I hope it's a good day for you all. Oh, and it's raining here, so inside activities will be the order of the day.
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ま、そもそエドナ・クライン＝レキー氏の詩「虹の橋」の最後は：
You and your pet are in tears.
Your hands again cuddle his head and you look again into his trusting eyes, so long gone from life, but never absent from your heart, and then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together...日本語はこんな感じかな：
あなたとあなたのペットは涙を流しています。
あなたの手は再び彼の頭を抱きしめ、あなたは見ています。
人生からとっくに去った彼の信頼する目に再び
しかし、あなたの心から決して消えたことはありません。
そして、一緒に虹の橋を渡る...ペットはずっと虹の橋の付近で元気に遊んで飼い主を待つ、飼い主が来る時、一緒に虹の橋を渡りますよ。
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Worth the Wait by C.F. White #Audiobook #LGBT #Review #MM
Erryn reviews 'Worth the Wait’ by C.F. White. The ebook was published March July 31, 2026 and was 333 pages. The audiobook version of this story was narrated by Piers Ryman, released October 2, 2026 and is 9 hrs and 17 mins long. Why I read this book: I am a huge C.F. White and Piers Ryman fan. It was never over.
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What a week. It was planned to be a very relaxed week with mostly food, drinks, conversations and not much else. Which it almost was. I was quite lucky on Wednesday when the whole patch business started that it was a very rainy day anyway, so I could patch my little server here without disrupting the vacation proceedings too much.
If you want to read more about what happened there, I can really recommend the blog post by Larry Garfield about The real lessons of php2shell and the posts he links to. Very well written and I absolutely agree with his assessment that what we saw was actually a masterclass in how to react to this kind of situation.Lately I’ve been mostly carrying one of my small Micro-Four-Thirds cameras around and I’m mostly happy with their JPGs. I tend to crop and rotate a bit, but that’s it. Last week I brought my big chunky Sony along, with adapted Contax G lenses and mostly took black and white photos. Straight out of the camera they are still very impressive – but somehow more so than with the other cameras I feel the need to fiddle around with the raw files. Alas, I refuse to rent Lightroom and I haven’t really found an alternative that works for me. Such a bummer.
In other news, I had the first snowfall of the year, made a very good deal on my favorite socks (Falke Walkie Lights, if you need to know. Not an ad.) and got talked into another SailNavSim Jules-Verne-Trophy.
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#ScribesAndMakers 25/10: What's something you accomplished this past week?
The better question is, what didn't I accomplish? I can't actually believe last week happened. First there was a lesson observation involving massive experimental adaptation of the set lesson which was seven steps too difficult for *any* seven year old. And the whole time one of the bosses was trying to undermine *all* the work I've been doing with reading since the beginning of September. Then I was sick with tonsilitis, but had to navigate two evenings of parent consultations. Then Friday I would have called in sick, honestly, but the children were finishing their stories for a competition and we were spending the whole afternoon making castles which would simply not have worked with a cover teacher. And then there was dreadful wind and rain so the kids were in all day and went kind of stir crazy and the castles almost blew away. Yesterday I wrote 2,000 words tho, so, on track with that...
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03:30 25/10/26 #weather update for Horfield/Filton, Bristol
Conditions=night time/dry/cool, Temperature=11.4C, Wind=15mph(WNW), Barometer=994.4mb(Rising slowly), Humidity=69%, Rain=0.0mm, UV=0.0(Low)
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01:30 25/10/26 #weather update for Horfield/Filton, Bristol
Conditions=night time/dry/cool, Temperature=11.4C, Wind=13mph(SW), Barometer=992.6mb(Steady), Humidity=74%, Rain=0.0mm, UV=0.0(Low)
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Tick tock, drip drop... Weathervane highs/lows Saturday 24 October 2026:
High temperature 11.1°C at 18:50 hrs
low 5.5°C at 03:50 hrsHigh humidity 93%RH at 18:50 hrs
low 70%RH at 21:50 hrsMax wind gust 21.3mph at 23:31 hrs
Daily rainfall 6.9mm
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23:30 24/10/26 #weather update for Horfield/Filton, Bristol
Conditions=night time/dry/cool, Temperature=11.1C, Wind=8mph(WNW), Barometer=991.6mb(Rising slowly), Humidity=81%, Rain=29.4mm, UV=0.0(Low)
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Good morning Fedi friends. Sunday morning, the day most people sleep in - me at 5am - wide awake &. Mind you it wasn’t a bad sleep a little restless because it was warm & having shoulder issues, but that’s not unusual.
I stood on the back lawn pre dawn watching the stars fade & noting some very dark clouds low in the sky, such a lovely quiet time of day. Rain is supposed to be arriving later this morning, quite a bit apparently. If not, I’ll be watering later.
Anyway I’m up, I’ve had tea, toast & coffee. That’s all I’ve done though. I intend to do yin yoga class soon I feel in the need of some gentle exercise. Then as it’s Sunday I’ll be off to visit my sister. I’m supposed to be going out for a family dinner this evening but at the moment I’m thinking I might beg off as I’m not in the mood. I’ll see how the day progresses.
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We just attempted walkies in Storm Boelo. Abbie just took one look at the weather, walked out the door to the nearest patch of lawn, arched her back and made a poop on it, then headed straight back inside before I could even get a photo of her cute raincoat.
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#Shipping #Forecast #FitzRoy: Biscay, FitzRoy, Sole West or southwest 6 to gale 8, veering northwest 4 to 6 later, then backing southwest except in Biscay. In Sole high becoming very rough, elsewhere rough or very rough, occasionally high in north. Rain. Good, occasionally poor (from UK MetOffice) #sailing #sail
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Do you still think that we're not brave if we don't bleed?
We've seen so much blood and violence already, how much do you need?
You howl and fight your war and talk of being free
Won't let you in, they're just usin' you so why won't you see?—"could you bite the hand?", Wolf's Rain, Steve Conte
seems topical, for some reason.
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Angblich wollen viele Berliner Polizeibeamte Berlin verlassen und bewerben sich in anderen Bundesländern.
Ich weiß es ja nicht, aber es würde mich nicht wundern, wenn sie sich in Magdeburg bewerben. Denn es gibt sicher ganz viele demokratisch gesinnte und engagierte Polizeibeamte – auch in Berlin. Ich habe längere Zeit und über die Jahrzehte verteilt, mehrmals für längere Zeit in Berlin gewohnt und gelebt. Meistens in Kreuzberg und zwar in der Wrangelstraße, also in dem “ganz bösen” Teil Kreuzbergs, wo früher die Mauer verlief und “Anarchos” die Häuser besetzten. Das Georg-von-Rauch Haus am Mariannenplatz war nur 200 Meter von unserer Wohnung entfernt. Görlitzer Park und KottbuserTor in direkter Nachbarschaft. Also mitten drin sozusagen.
Kaffee für den Wasserwerfer
Jedes Jahr am 1. Mai parkten die Wasserwerfer in der Wrangelstr. auch vor unserem Haus. Die Kanzel der Fahrzeuge war gleich hoch mit den Fenstern in unserer Hochpaterre-Wohnung. In einem Jahr haben wir den Beamten in der Kanzel frischen Kaffee rausgereicht. Die Polizisten nahmen ihn dankbar und wir scherzten miteinander. Im Hinbllck auf ihren und meinen bevorstehenden Einsatz als “Ordnungsmacht” und ich als Journalist auf der bevorstehenden Demo bat ich die Beamten, doch später in der Oranienstraße auf uns zu achten und uns zu verschonen. Wenig später, während der alljährlichen “Kreuzberger Wasserspiele”, hupte ein Wasserwerfer, vor dem ich stand. Ich habe mich trotzdem lieber etwas weiter zur Seite verzogen. Es war kalt und ich hatte keine Lust mit deren “Wasser mit Geschmack” zu duschen. Die üblichen Einheiten prügelten sich mit alten Bekannten. Viele der überaus gewaltbereiten Beamten waren auch von ihren Frisuren her kaum von den damals noch meist kahlköpfigen Neo-Nazis zu unterscheiden.
Polizisten bei den REPs
Wir erinnern uns – ein großer Teil der Kandidaten der Republikaner für die Wahl des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses waren Berliner Polizeibeamte. Im “Antifaschistischen Infoblatt” vom 1989 ist zu lesen: “Nicht ganz zu Unrecht werden die Westberliner REPs salopp als ‘Bullen-Partei’ bezeichnet. Mit Bernhard Andres, Frank Degen, Bodo P., Heinz G., Manfred Sp., Peter W., Christa E., Stefan B., Jörg A. und Rainer R. fanden sich schon auffällig viele Angehöriger der Berliner Polizei unter den Berliner REP-Kandidaten und REP-Funktionären wieder. Nicht nur weil eine große Zahl der REP-Mitglieder hier PolizistInnen sind, sondern auch weil ihr Programm in Punkto ‘Ruhe und Ordnung’ auf die Stimmung innerhalb der staatlichen Repressionsorgane zugeschnitten ist…”
Ich weiß es nicht, aber ich habe den Eindruck die Einsatzhundertschaften werden von Menschen geleitet, deren Lehrmeister und Vorbilder selbst schon in zweiter, dritter oder vierter Generation rechtsextrem denken und sich als Gewaltträger in Uniform betätigen. Ich habe den Eindruck, die West-Berliner Polizei wurde von und mit Nazis aufgebaut und entnazifiziert wurde in West-Berlin überhaupt nicht. Nicht nur in Berlin, auch anderswo gaben sich neben Berlinern auch Einsatzkräfte aus Thüringen und Bayern stets besonders prügelfroh gegenüber Demonstranten. Wenn es keine Gewalt seitens der Demonstranten gab, wurde seitens der Polizei so lange provoziert, bis sich einer der Polizei-Opfer gegen die Beamten wehrte. Damit war dann oftein Anlass “zum Einschreiten” gegeben.
Aber auch – vermeintlich – auf seiten der Demonstranten gab es immer wieder Provokationen, zum Beispiel in Form von brennenden Autos. Das waren zeitweise so viele, vor allem ältere Autos, die in Kreuzberg brannten, dass auch die Versicherungen mal näher hinschauten. Und siehe da – nicht wenige der Autos waren bereits fahruntauglich, brannten als Schrott vor sich hin. Maqnche hatten keinen Motor mehr und auch andere, wertvolle Bestandteile fehlten, bevor die “Chaoten das Auto anzündeten”.
Das führte zu mehreren Anzeigen wegen Versicherungsbetrug. Ordnungsamt und Polizei forderten jeweils in den letzten April-Wochen die Bürger auf, in der Nacht zum 1. Mai in bestimmten Straßen keine Autos zu parken.
Beamtete Steinewerfer
Wenn das alljährliche Demonstranten-Verprügeln für die Polizei wegen zu geringer Gewaltbereitschaft der Demonstranten – die ja über die Jahre auch nicht jünger wurden und mit zunehmendem Alter deutlich friedlicher wurden – bedroht war, griffen einzelne Beamte zur Selbsthilfe. Wenn niemand anders, also keiner der Demonstranten bereit war, Steine in Richtung Polizei zu werfen, dann mussten das eben die eigenen Leute tun. Dumm nur, wenn nicht alle der möglicherweise auch von einzelnen Vorgesetzten auf Gewalt gebrieften Polizeibeamten über den verdeckten Einsatz polizeilicher Provokateure informiert waren. So kam es am 1. Mai 2011 zu einer Lage, die reichlich peinlich für die Berliner Polizei war. NTV am 4.5.2011l: “Bei der Demonstration am 1. Mai in Berlin-Kreuzberg sollen Polizisten in Uniform Kollegen in Zivil mit Pfefferspray und Faustschlägen verletzt haben. Wie aus dem Polizeibericht hervorgeht, erstatteten zwei Angehörige der Bereitschaftspolizei Anzeige. Es gehe um den ‘Verdacht der Körperverletzung’. Die beiden Beamten waren demnach am Abend des 1. Mai zivil gekleidet am Kottbusser Tor im Einsatz, ‘als sie plötzlich von Pfefferspray getroffen und durch Faustschläge im Gesicht verletzt wurden’. Die beiden Polizisten erlitten Augenreizungen und Prellungen. Dem Bericht nach sollen weitere sechs Polizeibeamte durch Reizgas verletzt worden sein. Das Strafermittlungsverfahren werde durch die zuständige Fachdienststelle des Landeskriminalamtes “mit Priorität bearbeitet”.
Meinen Informationen zufolge waren die Beamten nicht nur einfach “zivil” gekleidet, sondern in schwarz, zum Verwechseln ähnlich dem berühmten “Schwarzen Block”, wie man ihn von vielen Demonstrationen kennt. Ich habe diesen teilweise quer durch Deutschland reisenden “Chaoten” nie ihre vermeintlich “anti-kapitalistische” Gesinnung abgenommen. Ich ging und gehe weiterhin davon aus, dass es sich bei diesen in Medien immer wieder gerne als “Reise-Chaoten” bezeichneten Personen um Beamte, Angestellte oder zumindest um “freie Mitarbeiter” der jeweiligen Landespolizei oder es jeweiligen Landesverfassungsschutzes handelt.
Wenn die Innenminister des Bundes – und der Länder – wie derzeit wieder im Hinblick auf die für den 31.10.26 – bevorstehenden Schülerproteste – vermeintlich sorgenvoll von Gewaltbereitschaft und bevorstehenden Straßenschlachten warnen, darf man davon ausgehen, dass sie genau wissen, was passieren wird. Warum? Vielleicht weil sie, die Innenminister, den Einsatz ihrer zivil auftretenden Schläger selbst angeordnet haben. Ich gehe davon aus, dass den Beamten eine grobe Linie vorgegeben wird, und dass sie im Rahmen des “Ermessensspielraums” handeln dürfen. Und weil man aus der Vergangenheit sicher gelernt hat, dürfte “Straffeiheit” garantiert sein.
Schmerzhafter Irrtum auf Mai-Demo: Polizisten verprügeln Kollegen – n-tv.de
Über Helmut Lorscheid:
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#Journal of a slightly rested Dutch AuDHD Pixy :pixy_party: (Sunday, 25/10/2026).
For some reason, the "gods of snoozing" gave me two decent enough sleeps in a row (so of course I had to jinx that at the end of the day 🫣). But when I woke up, I felt a tiny bit rested. I was sore from being in one position for some time. But heck, I was sore anyway, due to all the "lovely" weather we'd been having... As yesterday, we woke up during storm Austen, today we woke up during storm Boelo...
Koa wanted to go into the garden, but then he saw the weather, and he was not even interested in all the swirling leaves 🍃 going around the yard. But he also didn't want to do his things. I fixed his food, and tried to let him out again after that. He tried to gobble up some of the crazy leaves, before he wanted to quickly get back inside. But that meant that I had less time, before I'd have to become the bright banana again, and brave the awful weather. It was even worse than yesterday, as the grond couldn't handle all the rain (as it was still "processing" all of yesterday's rain), and some of the paths behind the house were more like little brooks...
I wrote an email to my friend, and then I quickly had to get dressed, as Koa needed his potty break (and I totally understood). We braved the weather, and I knew with paths to avoid now, as there was just so much water... Koa was able to do his things, which was good to see. When we got back home, after peeling off the wet "banana skin", and trying to dry off the dude, we got back to the couch.
I started writing Saturday's journal Toot. It went rather well. Had a little break for some brekkie. And I'd given Koa his Sunday snack. It was/is a special Sunday after all, as it was Koa's 8-month anniversary. Just four more months and the dude will celebrate his first birthday already! 😁 I was able to finish the Toot, which felt good. I got my laptop and worked a bit on my journal blog post, adding the texts from the previous days, and adding images to them.
And then... Back to becoming a wet bright banana again, as Koa wanted to head out for walkies again. I was all in for a short walk, as I preferred to be inside during weather like this. Koa, on the other hand (or should that be paw? 😉), he was all in for walkies and sniffs and all of that... So yeah, another round where we came back from, dripping all over...
I watched a bit of telly while Koa was enjoying his snack. And then, I changed some clothes, and got to the treadmill for half an hour. I didn't manage as "good" a walk as the previous day, but still got half an hour in with 2,18km on the counter. I washed up and relaxed for a bit. The good thing was, that the weather seemed to be slowly getting better! The huge rain front was finally drifting over. Koa wanted to head out, and I was dreading it a bit, until I checked again, and it was as good as dry! Yay for that! 😁
After walkies, I fixed food for the dude and then for myself as well. After that, most of morning consisted of trying to relax a bit and walkies with the dude. Near the end of the morning, I fixed Koa's meal and got things prepped for bedtime and the gym. We had an early alarm again, so Koa and I could head to Nijmegen in the late evening so I could visit the gym.
We were in bed in time, so I could get enough sleep. Unfortunately, this wasn't happening... Koa slept more on the bed than I slept in it. When we had to get up, I had slept less than two hours 😢. But, I got up and dressed and Koa and I started our "day".
Thanks to all for your kindness and support during my "journey through daily life" :bear_love: I really appreciate it :bear_hugs: as it helps me to keep going on bad/harder days! :bear_nuzzle:
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"How Chemicals and Climate Change Threaten Fertility Across Species
Across the globe, a quiet but profound crisis is unfolding in the bodies of humans and wildlife alike. A growing body of research is showing that toxic chemicals and climate change are not only separate threats. They are working together in ways that undermine fertility across species, with implications that reach far beyond individual health. A recent review in NPJ Emerging Contaminants pulls these threads together, highlighting how exposure to synthetic chemicals, many of them endocrine disrupting chemicals, intersects with rising temperatures and other climate impacts to put reproduction at risk.
The review describes a world where animals, from insects to humans, live in a constant state of simultaneous exposure. Synthetic chemicals are present in air, water, soil, and food. At the same time, climate change is driving higher temperatures, altered rainfall patterns, and more extreme weather. This combined pressure creates a difficult environment for reproduction, one of the most sensitive and essential biological processes. The authors note that these stressors are not rare or isolated. They form the daily backdrop of life for countless species.
One of the most striking aspects of the research is how similar the effects appear across very different forms of life. Whether looking at fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, or humans, the review reports consistent patterns of harm to eggs and sperm. Fertility can decline, reproductive cycles can shift, and the delicate coordination of hormones that underpins reproduction can falter. These endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs, interfere with normal hormone function and can derail development and reproduction even at very low levels of exposure."
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That’s Entertainment: The Jam’s Uplifting Take on Urban Decay
Launching on the November 1980 album Sound Affects, The Jam’s song That’s Entertainment is a favourite acoustic number of ours. The punk-mod revivalist band was from near London and had already had big hits like Going Underground (1980).
It’s a song about the bleak nature of working class life in the UK. British citizens left to rot by a Conservative government, but in the upbeat song structure you can find a quiet resilience. Affecting, then, and a classic to always celebrate.
Making the Most of it in That’s Entertainment
This is track six on the Sound Affects album. Weirdly, That’s Entertainment wasn’t officially released as a single. At least, not at first. Instead, the song Start! was the lead single and reached No. 1 in the UK charts.
But That’s Entertainment was so popular it charted as an import single at No. 21. It was eventually given a proper release in 1983, a year after the band had split. This led to it only charting at No. 60.
It follows a classic British tradition of stoically mocking urban decay and poverty; stiff upper lip and all that. You can see this in other great British songs, such as the beautiful Waterfall by The Stone Roses. The Jam’s Paul Weller wrote the song and ironic detachment of the lyrics towards his working class roots:
Days of speed and slow time Mondays,
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday,
Watching the news and not eating your tea,
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls,I say that’s entertainment, that’s entertainment.
Waking up at 6am on a cool warm morning,
Opening the windows and breathing in petrol,
An amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard,
Watching the telly and thinking about your holidays,That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment.
It must be stressed how sardonic the song’s title is. It’s an entirely laconic aside.
A police car and a screaming siren,
Pneumatic drill and ripped-up concrete,
A baby wailing, stray dog howling,
The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking,That’s entertainment, that’s entertainment.
The bleak undertones of the lyrics are driven on by an upbeat acoustic guitar, bass, and minimalist drumming from Rick Buckler. Bassist Bruce Foxton also provides the harmonic chorus vocals. Paul Weller told The Guardian in a 2009 interview:
“I wrote it in 10 minutes flat, whilst under the influence, I’d had a few but some songs just write themselves. It was easy to write, I drew on everything around me [in London].”
If you’re not from England, the working class suburbs around the country have been devastated by Conservative governments over the decades. It’s often very bleak. It rains a lot in England and you’ve got that cold, dreary outlook set alongside limited job opportunities, low wages, and outlets through drinking/smoking heavily.
Key to the song is Weller’s focus on those small creature comforts.
He references cuddling with a partner, feeding ducks in the park, thinking about your holidays, or catching some local band playing. But there is his focus on seeking an escape and getting away from it all. Compare the themes to Ian Brown and John Squire’s writing on The Stone Roses’ Waterfall:
Chimes sing Sunday morn,
Today’s the day she’s sworn,
To steal what she never could own,
And race from this hole she calls home.That’s Entertainment was included in the Rolling Stone’s top 500 songs of all list, coming in at No. 306. The only Jam song to appear, oddly, even though the likes of Ghosts and Town Called Malice should be in there, too.
Notable Live Performances of That’s Entertainment
Here are the guys live in 1982 in one of their final live performances together. The Jam split under quite unusual circumstances. No major fallout, just Weller wanted creative freedom and new musical directions. Weller suddenly announced the split in October 1982, shocking fans.
He didn’t consult with his band members, he just announced it at the end of the UK tour. They’ve never reformed, but apparently Weller is on good terms with bassist Bruce Foxton (although not with drummer Rick Buckler).
Weller continues to perform That’s Entertainment as part of his solo career live set, but there’s a special resonance in seeing the original trio performing it above.
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Books finished in 2026:
44. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1953)
43. Men At Arms by Terry Pratchett (1993)
42. Full Circle: A Life in Rebellion by Ben Morea (2025)
41. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (1952)
40. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut (1962)
39. Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (2005) Edited by Paul Buhle and Nicole Schulman with various authors
38. Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1951)
37. Clay’s Ark by Octavia E Butler (1984)
36. We Fight: Three Decades of Rebellion Against The Police 2nd Ed. by various authors (2020; 2025)
35. Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)
34. Mind Of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (1977)
33. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and The San Domingo Revolution by CLR James (1938)
32. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett (1992)
31. Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm (1941)
30. Walking With The Comrades by Arundhati Roy (2011)
29. Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (1980)
28. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (2020)
27. The Last Hero: A Discworld Fable by Terry Pratchett (2001)
26. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P Newton with J Herman Blake (1973)
25. The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (1955)
24. Granny Made Me An Anarchist by Stuart Christie (2004)
23. The Day of The Triffids by John Wyndham (1951)
22. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
21. Secolo Nuovo: Or the Times of Promise, A Novel by Fulvia Ferrari (2021)
20. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Friedrich Engels (1880)
19. Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance and Rebellion by Working Class History (2020)
18. The Diary of a Drug Fiend by Aleister Crowley (1922)
17. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett (1992)
16. The Red and The Black by Stendhal (1830)
15. The Book of Sand (1975) and Shakespeare’s Memory (1983) by Jorge Luis Borges
14. Anarchist Feminists In The Philippines From Etniko Bandido (~2016)
13. The Unseen by Nanni Balestrini (1989)
12. Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah (1968)
11. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1792)
10. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
9. Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker (1911)
8. Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996)
7. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (1991)
6. The Nation On No Map: Black Anarchism and Abolition by William C Anderson (2023)
5. baedan - journal of queer nihilism - issue one (2012)
4. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (1992)
3. They Will Beat The Memory Out Of Us: Forcing Nonviolence on Forgetful Movements by Peter Gelderloos (2024)
2. It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
1. Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (2006)Finished the original trilogy of the Foundation series. To continue or not to continue? This one wrapped up the story of The Mule and showed us the conclusion of the first four centuries after setting up the Foundation in preparation for a thousand years between the fall of the Galactic Empire and the rise of a Second Empire, if all goes according to the Seldon Plan. It explained who and what the Second Foundation was and how they operate.
#scifi #fiction #books #bookstodon #asimov #foundation #reading #book #nowreading
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The arena was supposed to mimic a real battlefield, with hills and valleys, small groves of trees, and artificial structures pretending to be buildings.
The rules were simple: everyone meets in the center for the greeting phase for ten minutes; the dispersion phase lasts fifteen minutes while contestants scout the arena and pick their starting position; and the engagement phase lasts until at most one battle-worthy mech is left. Otherwise, everything goes.
Oort was the last to reach the center, and three other mechs were already waiting. They were all bigger than Oort. Thicker armor, larger reactors, more ordnance, and probably most importantly: more surface for sponsor markings.
Incoming EM noise told Oort that they had begun to scan as soon as he was in sensor range.
"Did you cobble that shit together in a fucking shed?" callsign Starcrusher sent over the public channel, the question dripping with disdain. "Your reactor is overheating, and your spec database is unsecured. This ain't the scrapyard leagues; you're making us look cheap."
"Eh, a little warmup won't hurt." callsign Blackwing responded. "With all the radiation, I can lob a shell at that thing over the whole arena."
"A couple missiles, 120 bore gun. You probably can't even get through my armour; you sure you wanna play?" callsign Jahat added.
"I'll manage." Oort answered.
The rest of the ten minutes was filled with banter and, while technically not allowed, hacking attempts.
Dispersion began, and Oort headed towards the structures. All hypercaps were charged, and an AP needle was primed in the railgun. The reactor went offline as well as the noise generators. A drone cloud ejected from Oort's back, quickly zipping towards strategic points, setting up a mesh and feeding back sensor data. Oort hunkered down and waited.
Explosions went off somewhere in the distance. The arena channel announced that Jahat had been eliminated.
Two drones winked out of existence, but another closed the gap and sent a feed of Blackwing sweeping the buidings. Oort relayed a payload activation sequence over the mesh. Blackwing froze and toppled to the ground.
"Don't inspect foreign payloads on the battlefield." Oort sent on a private channel, then extracted the pilot. The explosion of the ejection seat echoed off the buildings.
A couple of minutes later, a projectile arced over the buildings. The EMP shell wiped out a considerable amount of drones. Oort sent a script to the remains of Blackwing and checked the sensors. Reactor and EM signatures were clearly recognizable; the bait was set.
Two missiles rained out of the sky, devastating what was left of Blackwing. With a thump that shook the walls of nearby buildings, Starcrusher landed among the burning wreckage, crushing the remains of the cockpit under his foot. For a fraction of a second, Starcrusher hesitated, scanning the wreckage.
Oort had braced against a sturdy concrete backstop and now dumped all of the remaining hypercaps into the rails. The AP needle shed its sabot and punched a tiny hole through Starcrusher's armor, exactly where the reactor feed should be. Starcrusher slumped into a heap.
"Starcrusher is down, and the winner of the 432th skirmish is... OORT!!" the arena channel proclaimed.
Oort rebooted the reactor, then sighed and switched to the broadcast channel.
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#writing #tootfic #smallstories #mesofiction #cobble #wss366
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My favourite apple tree (the one outside my office window) has fallen victim to storm Boelo 😢. It is still standing but it has lost a main branch and is now very lopsided. The trunk is hollow so it’s pretty vulnerable. It is laden with fruit as the variety is late to ripen. I started picking them today with the intention of making cider. I will need to look into propagating it fairly soon, just in case we lose it. No idea how mind.
It was like a little whirlwind came through. My husband had gone out to get something from his workshop just before it got dark and I was preparing dinner. There was then a great swirling wind that threw leaves at the kitchen window, which was weird. It’s in a sheltered spot, the main wind direction coming from the opposite side of the house. I remember thinking that he’d picked the wrong time to go outside. When he came back in he said that he rushed into his workshop as he saw a ‘ball of rain’ come over the field. The branch came down just after.
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Without the Costly Beginner MistakesThe Autonomous Kitchen: Why Vegetarian Gardening Is Your Best Defense Against Rising Food Prices
Walk down the produce aisle of any local supermarket today, and you are met with a quiet, persistent shock. Price tags for organic greens, imported tomatoes, and even humble root vegetables have climbed to levels that make a weekly grocery run feel like an exercise in budgeting gymnastics. Inflation, supply chain vulnerabilities, and transportation overheads have turned fresh produce into a luxury commodity.
Yet, right outside our back doors—or on a sunny apartment balcony, a postage-stamp patio, or even a well-lit windowsill—lies an alternative.
Vegetarian gardening is no longer just a pleasant weekend hobby or an aesthetic lifestyle choice. For the modern household trying to wrestle back control over monthly expenses, growing your own food has become a practical act of economic self-defense. And contrary to popular belief, you do not need acres of pristine farmland, expensive motorized tillers, or a degree in horticulture to make a serious dent in your grocery bill.
If you have ever considered growing your own food, there is no better time to start than right now. Even as the seasons transition and the weather cools, a strategic approach to beginner gardening can yield fresh, nutrient-dense crops, slash your food overheads, and transform the way you interact with what you eat.
The Economics of Home Cultivation: Why Every Dollar Invested Counts
When people first think about starting a vegetable garden, they often make the mistake of comparing homegrown food to the cheapest, highly subsidized, mass-produced items at the discount grocery store. If you measure success solely against a head of iceberg lettuce priced at rock-bottom wholesale rates, a garden might seem like an expensive way to buy dirt.
However, the real financial power of a vegetable garden lies in targeting high-value, high-yield, and perishable crops—the exact items that cost the most at checkout.
- The Organic Markup: Organic specialty produce commands a massive premium. Growing your own using organic methods strips out that markup entirely.
- The Perishability Penalty: Delicate greens, fresh culinary herbs, and vine-ripened tomatoes spoil quickly in transit and on store shelves, driving up retail prices to account for waste. When you harvest these items 30 seconds before you cook them, food waste drops to zero, and your savings skyrocket.
- The Yield Multiplier: A single, well-tended tomato plant or a vigorous zucchini bush can produce pounds of fruit over a season, turning a packet of seeds costing a few dollars into dozens of meals. Bonnie Plants
By focusing your efforts intelligently, a small backyard setup or a collection of containers can easily trim a meaningful amount off your monthly food budget, paying for its initial setup costs many times over.
Timing Is Everything: Embracing the Cool-Season Shift
A common misconception among beginner gardeners is that growing season ends abruptly with the summer heat. In reality, nature operates on multiple gears. While heat-loving crops like standard tomatoes and peppers wind down as autumn deepens, a whole suite of cool-season champions actually prefer crisp air and mild temperatures.
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In fact, growing vegetables in cooler weather offers distinct advantages:
- Fewer Pests: Many common garden insects—such as aphids, flea beetles, and tomato hornworms—are far less active in cooler weather, meaning less time spent managing pest problems.
- Enhanced Flavor: Crops like kale, spinach, and carrots actually convert starches into sugars when touched by light frost, resulting in a sweeter, crisper harvest than anything you can buy in mid-summer.
- Moisture Retention: Lower ambient temperatures and gentler sun mean soil stays moist longer, drastically reducing your watering efforts and utility costs.
If you are starting your garden journey now, your primary focus should shift toward hardy greens, root vegetables, and brassicas that thrive when the thermometer dips.
The Essential Beginner’s Playbook: What to Grow for Maximum ROI
To maximize your financial return and keep frustration low, start small and focus on foolproof, high-value crops. Here are the best performers for beginners looking to save money at the dinner table:
1. Leafy Greens (Kale, Swiss Chard, and Leaf Lettuce)
- Why they save money: Packaged organic salad greens are notoriously expensive for their weight, and they turn to liquid in the crisper drawer within days.
- How to grow them: Leaf lettuce and chard can be harvested using the “cut-and-come-again” method—snip the outer leaves for your dinner salad, and the plant will keep producing fresh new leaves from the center for weeks. They grow exceptionally well in shallow containers, window boxes, or garden beds.
2. Root Vegetables (Radishes, Carrots, and Beets)
- Why they save money: Root crops are dense, filling, and store well for extended periods, reducing trips to the store.
- How to grow them: Radishes are the ultimate beginner gratification crop, going from seed to harvest in as little as three to four weeks. Carrots and beets require loose, well-drained soil, but reward you with deep, earthy flavors completely unmatched by commercial varieties.
3. Culinary Herbs (Basil, Cilantro, Parsley, and Thyme)
- Why they save money: Buying tiny plastic clamshells of fresh herbs at the supermarket is one of the fastest ways to hemorrhage cash on groceries.
- How to grow them: Herbs are remarkably resilient, take up very little space, and can be grown indoors on a sunny windowsill or outdoors in containers. A single rosemary or thyme plant will provide seasoning for years.
4. Alliums (Green Onions and Garlic)
- Why they save money: Green onions (scallions) are trivial to grow and can even be regenerated from kitchen scraps in a jar of water before planting them in soil. Garlic planted in the fall will quietly overwinter underground and reward you with a heavy harvest by early summer.
Setting Up On a Shoestring Budget
The gardening industry is filled with high-priced gadgets, chemical fertilizers, and designer raised-bed kits that can easily trick a beginner into spending more money than they save. To keep your project truly economical, adopt a resourceful, bootstrap mindset:
- Skip the Expensive Containers: You don’t need decorative ceramic pots. Five-gallon plastic buckets from hardware stores (with drainage holes drilled into the bottom), old storage bins, heavy-duty shopping bags, and recycled nursery containers work just as well.
- Make Your Own Soil Amendments: Premium store-bought potting soil adds up quickly. Build your own growing medium by combining local topsoil, coarse sand, and homemade compost. Save your kitchen vegetable scraps (coffee grounds, eggshells, apple cores, and carrot peels) to build a backyard compost pile. It turns free organic waste into black gold for your plants. The Seasonal Homestead
- Prioritize Seeds Over Transplants: While buying pre-started baby plants at a garden center is convenient, a packet of seeds costs a fraction of the price and gives you dozens of plants for the price of one. Don\’t Waste the Crumbs
Protecting Your Investment: Simple Season Extension
As autumn weather transitions into chillier winter conditions, you can easily protect your crops and stretch your harvest window for months using low-cost materials:
- Row Covers and Low Tunnels: Draping a lightweight frost blanket or spun-bond polyester fabric over wire hoops creates a microclimate that shields plants from biting winds and light freezes while letting in sunlight and rain.
- Cold Frames: An old window pane or glass storm door laid over a simple wooden box frame creates a miniature greenhouse that traps solar heat, keeping cool-season greens alive and productive deep into the winter months.
- Strategic Placement: Move movable containers close to the sun-warmed brick walls of your house. Walls absorb heat during the day and radiate it back out at night, protecting tender plants from sudden temperature drops.
Cultivating Resilience
Starting a vegetable garden is about much more than trimming a few dollars off your grocery receipt. It is about decoupling your household from fragile supply chains, understanding the biological cycles of food production, and experiencing the profound satisfaction of sitting down to a meal that you nurtured from a tiny, unassuming seed with your own hands.
You do not need perfection, and you do not need perfectionist acreage. Pick two or three of your favorite vegetables, find a sunny patch of earth or a spare bucket, plant your first seeds, and take your first step toward food autonomy.
Footnotes & References
- The Seasonal Homestead — Vegetable Gardening On a Budget: 15 Tips to Save Big! The Seasonal Homestead
- Bonnie Plants — The Best Vegetables to Grow to Save Money
- Don’t Waste The Crumbs — How to Save Money Gardening (with homegrown vegetables)
- North Carolina State University Extension — Vegetable Gardening: A Quick Reference Guide
It sounds like a wonderful vision! Gardening in small spaces—whether on a balcony, patio, porch, or sunny windowsill—is extremely rewarding and completely achievable with the right approach.
Starter Summary
LocationRecommended VeggiesRecommended FruitsIdeal ContainerWindowsillArugula, Radishes, LettuceMicro-Tomatoes, Alpine Strawberries6–8″ Pots, Window BoxesBalconyBush Cucumbers, Mini PeppersTrailing Strawberries, Tumbling TomatoesRailing Boxes, Hanging BasketsPatioBush Tomatoes, Patio ZucchiniDwarf Lemon Trees, Patio Blueberries, Dwarf Figs7–15 Gallon Pots / Fabric BagsSetting up a patio garden gives you the greatest advantage in small-space gardening: weight capacity and volume. Unlike windowsills or balconies with strict weight limits, a patio can comfortably support heavy soil, deep containers, and large fruit-bearing plants.
Here is a targeted setup guide to build a high-yielding patio harvest:
1. Top Crops & Container Pairings
Heavy-Yield Vegetables
- Determinate (Bush) Tomatoes: Varieties like Bush Early Girl or Celebrity grow 3–4 feet tall and produce a full, concentrated harvest with minimal staking.
- Pot Needed: 10 to 15-gallon container (minimum 12–16 inches deep).
- Bush Zucchini & Summer Squash: Compact varieties such as Astia or Eight Ball yield fresh, tender squash without spreading 6 feet wide across the floor.
- Pot Needed: 10 to 15-gallon pot or smart fabric bag.
- Peppers & Eggplants: Sweet bell peppers, jalapeños, or Italian eggplants thrive in medium-to-large containers.
- Pot Needed: 5 to 7-gallon container per plant.
Dwarf Patio Fruits
- Dwarf Citrus Trees: An Improved Meyer Lemon or Calamondin Orange tree yields fresh citrus and fragrant blooms.
- Pot Needed: 15 to 20-gallon pot (start young trees in 10-gallon, then size up).
- Container Blueberries: Varieties like Top Hat or Peach Sorbet stay small (1–3 feet), feature vibrant fall leaves, and produce heavy berries when grown in acidic potting soil.
- Pot Needed: 7 to 10-gallon container.
- Dwarf Figs: Varieties like Little Miss Figgy handle root restriction well and yield rich fruits.
- Pot Needed: 15 to 20-gallon container.
2. Container Types Best Suited for Patios
3. Patio Placement Strategy
To maximize growth, organize plants on the patio based on sunlight exposure:
[ BACK WALL / HIGH SUN ] -> Dwarf Lemon Tree, Bush Tomatoes (Tastiest with full sun, 6-8+ hours) [ MID-PATIO AREA ] -> Peppers, Bush Zucchini, Eggplant (Full sun) [ PARTIAL SHADE SHADOWS ] -> Leafy Greens, Radishes, Pot Herbs (3-5 hours sunlight)- Sun Exposure: Place fruiting trees and tomatoes in the sunniest quadrant of your patio (aiming for 6–8 hours of direct light).
- Elevate Your Pots: Use pot risers or wheeled caddies under heavy 15-gallon pots. This prevents water from trapping under the container, preserves the patio floor, and allows easy movement.
- Soil Selection: Always fill containers with a lightweight, well-draining potting mix (never heavy topsoil or backyard dirt).
Here is the fundamental rule of container gardening: When growing in containers, you are creating a completely self-contained ecosystem. Plants in pots rely entirely on you for their water, nutrients, and root environment.
Focus on these five foundational principles to guarantee success on your patio:
1. Soil & Drainage Rule (The #1 Mistake)
- Never Use Backyard Dirt: Native garden soil or topsoil compacts inside pots, suffocating roots and trapping water like cement.
- Use Quality Potting Mix: Always use a lightweight, commercial potting mix (often containing peat moss, coco coir, perlite, and vermiculite). It holds moisture while allowing oxygen to reach the roots.
- Drainage is Non-Negotiable: Every pot must have drainage holes at the bottom. Without drainage, water sits, rots the roots, and kills the plant.
2. Container Size Matters
- Bigger is Safer: Smaller pots dry out within hours during summer heat and restrict root growth.
- The Golden Rule for Patios:
- 10 to 15+ Gallons: Bush tomatoes, zucchini, dwarf citrus, and dwarf figs.
- 5 to 7 Gallons: Peppers, eggplants, and blueberries.
- 2 to 3 Gallons: Salad greens and herbs.
3. Master the “Finger Test” for Watering
- The Common Pitfall: Overwatering kills just as many container plants as underwatering.
- How to Check: Stick your finger 2 inches deep into the soil.
- If it feels dry and cool, water thoroughly until water streams out of the bottom drainage holes.
- If it feels damp or sticky, wait another day.
- Consistent Watering: Check containers daily during mid-summer peak heat—large plants in pots may require daily watering.
4. Feed Your Plants Regularly
- Nutrients Wash Away: Every time you water a container until it drains, essential soil nutrients wash out with the water.
- The Routine:
- Mix a slow-release granular fertilizer into your potting mix at planting time.
- Feed every 2 to 3 weeks during active growth using a balanced liquid organic fertilizer (such as fish emulsion or seaweed blend).
5. Match Plants to Your Sunlight
- Fruiting Crops (6–8+ Hours Direct Sun): Tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, and citrus require full sunlight to produce fruit and flower.
- Leafy Crops (3–5 Hours Direct/Partial Sun): Lettuce, spinach, kale, and soft herbs (parsley, cilantro) can handle partial shade and morning sunlight.
Quick Patio Checklist to Start
#diet #food #garden #gardening #health #healthyLifestyle #nutrition #personalDevelopment #weightLoss #Wellness[ ] Potting Mix (Not topsoil or garden soil) [ ] Pots with bottom drainage holes (5 to 15-gallon sizes) [ ] High-sun location on the patio (6+ hours for vegetables/fruits) [ ] Liquid organic fertilizer [ ] Watering can or hose attachment -
CW: satire of terfism, defacation
Gyns tell me I'm not crazy here. No one I've told about this so far has sympathized with me, but I know radblr is more reasonable than the outside world. I'm really afraid of moids going into the sewer and eating my shit and drinking my urine. Everyone makes fun of me for this and tells me why I should care when it's bodily waste anyways, but it's my bodily waste and I don't want moids putting it in their mouth. We can all agree that's perfectly reasonable right? Right? We all know how moids can be about women and we all know that they actually do this. So what is the problem if I do it first? I've been reading articles about it and unless you have parasites it's actually not that bad for you and can actually help you absorb nutrients you may have missed before. The only problem is if you ONLY eat and drink your own piss and shit and you get nutrient defeciencies. Everyone I've told about this seems completely disgusted by it and I'm at my wits end. I just want my FEMALE piss and shit to stay pure of moid saliva. Why are women treated like this for protecting ourselves? Why is it so wrong when I do it but not when MEN do it? Sisters, I need your counsel. I haven't flushed in four days and I need advice. I know this sounds extreme but I have my reasons. There's been documentation—studies, personal accounts, patterns—that moids and TRA activists have established colonies in the sewer systems. They subsist on what we discard. Every time you flush, you're feeding them. You're giving them sustenance, allowing them to maintain their presence in the infrastructure that connects us all. My toilet is reaching a critical point. I can smell it. I know I need to do something but I can't bring myself to push that lever. It feels like... surrender. Like contamination. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ can i be a political lesbian if im super straight? i have never experienced any attraction to women and i find the thought of the female body disgusting. in fact i hate my own body and wish i could be a man. but then id be gay. i have dated men for like 15+ years and after spending so long dating men and being mistreated i feel like i want to claim political lesbianism. maybe i could be a man and force myself to be straight and claim political lesbianism. could this maybe work for me? what kinds of activism should i get involved in to become a political lesbian? heres a thing that happened to some friends of mine. was walking down the street talking about the bears game and a bus pulled up and a bunch of white women with short hair and bad plastic surgery came out with baseball bats. they all had shirts that sayed 'down with trans'. i(22 afab wombynly wombyn) was able to hold them off while my friend(19 amab mynly myn) ran away. bareley escaped aita for accidentally harrassing an afab? was at the grocery store and had to used the restroom. damn urinary leash amirite? i was so terrified of seeing an transexual but had no choice becuz i(35 wombynly afab) had to pee.as i was washing mine hands a person came in. i could tell by their jawline and cheekbones that they were obviously an amab. so i stood in the door and made them pull down their pandts. and they said no so they started walking away but i kept following them demanding to see what was in his pants. by the time we reached the checkout it was really statring to cause quite a scene which was very triggering to my sex based oppression. i followed him out to his car and he turned and looked at me and said "dude im a butch stop being wierd" in a perfect femininely wombynly afab voice. aita? hi yall. i was amab and transitioned 5 years ago. just a normal straight girl, right? couple of months ago i figured i would try reclaiming my masculinity. puicked up some boxers and cargo shorts. instand raging boaner. now i cant ger off without thinking of hot bear for bear frotting. am i still trurrans? How do you feel about male exclusive radical misandrists? yeah i was born a man and i hate it this cock tortures me evry minute of my existence if i even think about being a man i break down. And due to my unfortunate attraction to men, i experience sex based oppression due to being a bottom. i sometimes wish i could transision and be a political lesbian but then i would just be a male invading women's spaces. so i coined a term to describe me: male exclusive radical misandrist. because if i am going to be oppressed for being a male i want to be the one opressing me. its basic bodily autonomy. only we can oppress ourselves. #moids dni #foids dni #kill all men #kill all women #oppress yourself responsibly #liberate the noone #righttooppress harrassing random trans women will not brign the downfall of gender. indiviual action will never bring any revolution. what we need is collective action. so stop trying to do anything about gender until the vanguard party has established a positon for the overthrow of gender. if you disagree your just a lifestylist reactionary. __________________________________________________________________________________________ and to my immune system: if you want to drown yourself in snot and mucuous that's your right but would you kindly do me a favor and LEAVE ME THE FUCK OUT OF IT. and to my subconscious mind: need i remind you that your job responsibilities cover automated systems like breathing and circulation, not fucking keeping me awake all fucking night? kindly focus on attending to your job description instead of insane extracuriculars? I need you to remember that we are a team here and your actions affect everyone. dear James in engineering, I cant believe you still haven't solved the problems with the power couplings. I know this may be hard to understand but you need to turn the set screws to the OFF position to turn OFF the flow restrictors and you need to turn the set screws to the ON position to ENABLE the flow restrictors. Kindly, learn to do your damn job. dear administration, I appreciate all of your hard work in finding staff in these difficult times but I need clarification on one thing: where do you find all of these morons? You have sent us five new employees in the last two weeks and only one of them knew what a philips head was. We cannot be spending what little time we are given to train new employees in basic skills. Might i recommend hiring people who demonstrate technical proficiency instead of your fuckup nephew? heres something i actually sent my local news station: Hello Andrea, I apologize if this is not your department but I cannot find a contact for the meteorology department. My complaint is quite simple: I ask that weather forecasters please refrain from inserting their personal judgements and opinions into the broadcasting. I get that some people might appreciate warmer weather but this opinion is not universal and many of us find it quite shocking to see 80 degree highs in late october described as "nice", "mild", or "fair". If you would like to hear my opinion on the matter, personally I find this heat oppressive as I am someone who spends a good deal of time outside engaged in hard physical activity. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you enjoy this weather you might consider relocating to an environment with a more suitable climate, such as the fucking sahara desert. And frankly, the Sahara might be an improvement: at least I could manage the heat in a dry climate. Thank you for listening to my rant and have a blessed day, Foob P.S. Anything you could do to keep the temperatures in the mid 50s would be greatly appreciated on my end. dear Administration, While I appreciate that finding competent staff is difficult sometimes and that you have been able to find teaching staff with high levels of technical proficiency, several of your staff have been lacking in professionalism and pedagogy. I have actually had teachers cancel class with 5 minutes notice, on multiple occassions, so much so that it in fact became a recurring pattern with them. As if that wasnt bad enough, these are often the same teachers who's prefered teaching style seems to be blindly reading off their powerpoint without so much as looking at the class, much less checking for understanding. I ask that in the future you please hire teachers who actually show up to class and actually know how to teach. Best regards, A concerned student ps. and dont even get me started with your online offerings. in a live classroom setting, a student can at least raise their hand and steer an incompetent teacher. but your online classes are just underpaid staff reading off thier lecture notes with no furter explanation beyond basic concepts. I might as well watch a youtube video, that would be a better value. For $1000 dollars a class, this is a total ripoff and perhaps even a full on scam. fuck you. Whoever is in charge of hiring at this place is a real piece of work. I get that there are others who may have better qualifications but to interview a candidate and not even send a rejection email, much less useful feedback, demostrates a level of profesionalism that would embarrass a tavern wench. These institutions, and society as a whole, would benefit greatly from giving people a fighting fucking chance. Dear hiring manager, I have an important formal inquiry(injury): on your website you have multiple listings for so called entry level positions with a minimum qualification of 5 years of experience. This leaves me wondering how one is supposed to get 5 years of experience if all of the so called entry level positions require 5 years of experience. This is so prevasive accross your job listings that I suspect I might have a decent case with the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, considering that these requirements absolutely have a discriminatory impact against people who are new to the job market. So I guess my question is this: do you actually hire human beings or only bots? Also, what the fuck are you smoking? This is a job which entails mostly filing sales reports, which is not exactly a rare or difficult skill. Stop acting like corporate bureaucracy is a skilled trade: it isn't. Dear hr, It has come to my attention that the tone of my recent emails is "problematic and unprofessional". While I can appreciate that others may have trouble with the self awareness necessary to address issues raised in good faith, I must suggest that my coworkers stop being such a bunch of little bitches. Thank you for your attention to this matter. hello hr representative, I am writing to inform you of several concerns i have with this companies hr department. While I do appreciate the structure whereby advancement depends on undying loyalty to the establishment and whereby power is exercised both for its own sake and to keep underlings in check, I must say that you lack the ability to be gangsta unless you have the full backing of the entire institution. Kindly, if you have a beef with me, settle it like grown men instead of hiding behind your lackeys. Also, you claim to have meaningful power over me but we both know that you would be nothing without the backing of your institution. Once again, lets drop the bullshit and settle this. Best regards, Mr. Dick Head __________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Have you owned a month-end close and an annual audit relationship for a fund or investment vehicle, without a supervisor above you? I ride a bicycle everywhere and if i cant get there on a bike i simply ride there anyway. i ride in the middle of the road, often dodging traffic in the oncoming lane. Its like dancing its all about your footwork, timing and spacing. I know this sounds dangerous but you need to know something about me: dick does not fuck up. If there is a collision it is your fucking fault for being in my fucking way. Dont you know pedestrians have the right of way? Do you have five or more years of accounting experience, including fund or investment-vehicle accounting (private credit, debt fund, or real estate fund)? Yeah ive been riding my bike for like 8 years now at this point and let me tell you i have put a lot of work into it. every goddamned time i go out to ride it something needs adjusting, be it the brake cables, shifter cable, tire pressure, or seat position. and thats just the tip of the iceberg. i have replaced the drivetrain 5 seperate times including completely reengineering it at least twice. and if theres even a bit of rain in the forecast i have to be prepared to replace everything cuz nothing is designed to handle a bit of moisture much less the kind of loamy mud i subject it to. This is an independent contractor (1099) engagement on a fixed monthly retainer, roughly 30 hours in a typical month. Does that structure work for you? the only structure that works for me is completely egalitarian horizontal structures. anything else concentrates power that will eventually be abused. and the structure of most corporations, including yours, more closely resembles monarchal fuedalism than any form of democracy, much less free association. and to be frank monarchal fuedalism would be a fucking improvement., at least under monarchal feudalism i have the dignity of providing for my own and my community's survival by contributing to the grain store instead of relying on opaque and inhuman institutions for the "privilege" of keeping a roof over my head. fuck you. What monthly retainer would you propose for the scope described in the posting? i aint paying you no goddamn monthly fee for the "privilege" of selling you my labor. fuck you.
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