#chores — Public Fediverse posts

Good morning. 🌞🌤️🌦️

6 September 2026

I’ve realized that if I’d stop putting off things that don’t actually need doing right away, I’d probably get a lot more done. I’ve become a master procrastinator. The funny thing is that, up until a few years ago, you might’ve thought I had OCD the way I was always in motion. Now I only spring into action when something feels urgent. I still do a better job than some folks though — I think.

These days I’m more interested in doing what I want to do rather than what I need to do, even if what I want to do is absolutely nothing. Somehow “doing nothing” has climbed pretty high on my list of priorities. In fact, as I’m typing this, I’m thinking about me and Charlie heading out to the porch so I can sit in a rocking chair and sip coffee. Charlie doesn’t rock or sip, of course, but he’s perfectly happy just hanging out with me.

I really should deal with the weeds growing in the gravel around the house. Maybe I’ll wait for winter to kill them off, or maybe I’ll hire someone. God, I’m lazy. I did get out and trim the sidewalks and driveway a few days ago, so that’s something. And today would be the perfect day to pull weeds — the rain loosened everything up. But we’ll see. I’ve already prioritized coffee on the porch.

In the back of my mind there’s a small worry about what happens if something takes me out of the picture and I don’t have everything squared away. But honestly, at that point it becomes somebody else’s problem. I’m not there yet, though, and I’m also not ready to spend whatever time I’ve got left obsessing over chores. I’d rather enjoy the morning, the coffee, and Charlie’s company — weeds be damned.

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” — Francine Jay

“I am beginning to learn to allow things to happen as they are, rather than how I want them to be.” — Erin Loechner

#photo #photography #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #osprey #chores #procrastination

Good morning. 🌞🌤️🌦️

6 September 2026

I’ve realized that if I’d stop putting off things that don’t actually need doing right away, I’d probably get a lot more done. I’ve become a master procrastinator. The funny thing is that, up until a few years ago, you might’ve thought I had OCD the way I was always in motion. Now I only spring into action when something feels urgent. I still do a better job than some folks though — I think.

These days I’m more interested in doing what I want to do rather than what I need to do, even if what I want to do is absolutely nothing. Somehow “doing nothing” has climbed pretty high on my list of priorities. In fact, as I’m typing this, I’m thinking about me and Charlie heading out to the porch so I can sit in a rocking chair and sip coffee. Charlie doesn’t rock or sip, of course, but he’s perfectly happy just hanging out with me.

I really should deal with the weeds growing in the gravel around the house. Maybe I’ll wait for winter to kill them off, or maybe I’ll hire someone. God, I’m lazy. I did get out and trim the sidewalks and driveway a few days ago, so that’s something. And today would be the perfect day to pull weeds — the rain loosened everything up. But we’ll see. I’ve already prioritized coffee on the porch.

In the back of my mind there’s a small worry about what happens if something takes me out of the picture and I don’t have everything squared away. But honestly, at that point it becomes somebody else’s problem. I’m not there yet, though, and I’m also not ready to spend whatever time I’ve got left obsessing over chores. I’d rather enjoy the morning, the coffee, and Charlie’s company — weeds be damned.

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” — Francine Jay

“I am beginning to learn to allow things to happen as they are, rather than how I want them to be.” — Erin Loechner

#photo #photography #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #osprey #chores #procrastination

Good morning. 🌞🌤️🌦️

6 September 2026

I’ve realized that if I’d stop putting off things that don’t actually need doing right away, I’d probably get a lot more done. I’ve become a master procrastinator. The funny thing is that, up until a few years ago, you might’ve thought I had OCD the way I was always in motion. Now I only spring into action when something feels urgent. I still do a better job than some folks though — I think.

These days I’m more interested in doing what I want to do rather than what I need to do, even if what I want to do is absolutely nothing. Somehow “doing nothing” has climbed pretty high on my list of priorities. In fact, as I’m typing this, I’m thinking about me and Charlie heading out to the porch so I can sit in a rocking chair and sip coffee. Charlie doesn’t rock or sip, of course, but he’s perfectly happy just hanging out with me.

I really should deal with the weeds growing in the gravel around the house. Maybe I’ll wait for winter to kill them off, or maybe I’ll hire someone. God, I’m lazy. I did get out and trim the sidewalks and driveway a few days ago, so that’s something. And today would be the perfect day to pull weeds — the rain loosened everything up. But we’ll see. I’ve already prioritized coffee on the porch.

In the back of my mind there’s a small worry about what happens if something takes me out of the picture and I don’t have everything squared away. But honestly, at that point it becomes somebody else’s problem. I’m not there yet, though, and I’m also not ready to spend whatever time I’ve got left obsessing over chores. I’d rather enjoy the morning, the coffee, and Charlie’s company — weeds be damned.

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” — Francine Jay

“I am beginning to learn to allow things to happen as they are, rather than how I want them to be.” — Erin Loechner

#photo #photography #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #osprey #chores #procrastination

Good morning. 🌞🌤️🌦️

6 September 2026

I’ve realized that if I’d stop putting off things that don’t actually need doing right away, I’d probably get a lot more done. I’ve become a master procrastinator. The funny thing is that, up until a few years ago, you might’ve thought I had OCD the way I was always in motion. Now I only spring into action when something feels urgent. I still do a better job than some folks though — I think.

These days I’m more interested in doing what I want to do rather than what I need to do, even if what I want to do is absolutely nothing. Somehow “doing nothing” has climbed pretty high on my list of priorities. In fact, as I’m typing this, I’m thinking about me and Charlie heading out to the porch so I can sit in a rocking chair and sip coffee. Charlie doesn’t rock or sip, of course, but he’s perfectly happy just hanging out with me.

I really should deal with the weeds growing in the gravel around the house. Maybe I’ll wait for winter to kill them off, or maybe I’ll hire someone. God, I’m lazy. I did get out and trim the sidewalks and driveway a few days ago, so that’s something. And today would be the perfect day to pull weeds — the rain loosened everything up. But we’ll see. I’ve already prioritized coffee on the porch.

In the back of my mind there’s a small worry about what happens if something takes me out of the picture and I don’t have everything squared away. But honestly, at that point it becomes somebody else’s problem. I’m not there yet, though, and I’m also not ready to spend whatever time I’ve got left obsessing over chores. I’d rather enjoy the morning, the coffee, and Charlie’s company — weeds be damned.

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” — Francine Jay

“I am beginning to learn to allow things to happen as they are, rather than how I want them to be.” — Erin Loechner

#photo #photography #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #osprey #chores #procrastination

Good morning. 🌞🌤️🌦️

6 September 2026

I’ve realized that if I’d stop putting off things that don’t actually need doing right away, I’d probably get a lot more done. I’ve become a master procrastinator. The funny thing is that, up until a few years ago, you might’ve thought I had OCD the way I was always in motion. Now I only spring into action when something feels urgent. I still do a better job than some folks though — I think.

These days I’m more interested in doing what I want to do rather than what I need to do, even if what I want to do is absolutely nothing. Somehow “doing nothing” has climbed pretty high on my list of priorities. In fact, as I’m typing this, I’m thinking about me and Charlie heading out to the porch so I can sit in a rocking chair and sip coffee. Charlie doesn’t rock or sip, of course, but he’s perfectly happy just hanging out with me.

I really should deal with the weeds growing in the gravel around the house. Maybe I’ll wait for winter to kill them off, or maybe I’ll hire someone. God, I’m lazy. I did get out and trim the sidewalks and driveway a few days ago, so that’s something. And today would be the perfect day to pull weeds — the rain loosened everything up. But we’ll see. I’ve already prioritized coffee on the porch.

In the back of my mind there’s a small worry about what happens if something takes me out of the picture and I don’t have everything squared away. But honestly, at that point it becomes somebody else’s problem. I’m not there yet, though, and I’m also not ready to spend whatever time I’ve got left obsessing over chores. I’d rather enjoy the morning, the coffee, and Charlie’s company — weeds be damned.

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.” — Francine Jay

“I am beginning to learn to allow things to happen as they are, rather than how I want them to be.” — Erin Loechner

#photo #photography #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #osprey #chores #procrastination

Starting #stouturday with light fare, laundry, and wardriving. Reverse order, of course.

#destihlBrewery Moonjumper milk #stout

A basic milk stout, malty chocolate with a bit of sweetness. Silky mouthfeel but a bit thin.

#beer #wardrive #chores

Starting #stouturday with light fare, laundry, and wardriving. Reverse order, of course.

#destihlBrewery Moonjumper milk #stout

A basic milk stout, malty chocolate with a bit of sweetness. Silky mouthfeel but a bit thin.

#beer #wardrive #chores

Starting #stouturday with light fare, laundry, and wardriving. Reverse order, of course.

#destihlBrewery Moonjumper milk #stout

A basic milk stout, malty chocolate with a bit of sweetness. Silky mouthfeel but a bit thin.

#beer #wardrive #chores

Starting #stouturday with light fare, laundry, and wardriving. Reverse order, of course.

#destihlBrewery Moonjumper milk #stout

A basic milk stout, malty chocolate with a bit of sweetness. Silky mouthfeel but a bit thin.

#beer #wardrive #chores

Starting #stouturday with light fare, laundry, and wardriving. Reverse order, of course.

#destihlBrewery Moonjumper milk #stout

A basic milk stout, malty chocolate with a bit of sweetness. Silky mouthfeel but a bit thin.

#beer #wardrive #chores

The mister is off to a black tie event tonight, so I have activated my store of knowledge on the arcane arts of ironing. There is something highly pleasing about getting all those little pleats on the front of a tuxedo shirt neatly and tidily and starchily and crisply in line.

A wise friend of mine asserts that ironing is the best chore: starts off clean, ends up clean. I agree.

#chores

Traded fluency, or: Roots

A Sijo

we traded fluency for roots 
and rented walls to call our own; 
we scrubbed the journey from our clothes 
then pinned tomorrow to the sun; 
what seemed mere housekeeping 
was how our homeland came to be 

d’Verse poetics: Pulling poetry from the landscape

For this week’s poetics prompt at d’Verse, we are encouraged to choose an Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918) painting and write a poem in any form that incorporates details from its setting or imagery, whether or not the poem is directly about the artwork..

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

🥳 Wow, someone finally found a way to make #mathematics sound like a #household chore. "Matryoshka vs. PCA" sounds like the title of a bad sitcom where nobody laughs, but at least we learn that shrinking #embeddings is as exciting as watching paint dry. 📉🔍
https://dylancastillo.co/posts/matryoshka-vs-pca #Humor #Chores #DataScience #PCA #HackerNews #ngated

Gardening expert says 1 job before July will stop weeds growing https://www.allforgardening.com/1843905/gardening-expert-says-1-job-before-july-will-stop-weeds-growing/ #BritishSummerTime #chores #garden #gardening #housework #JulyGardeningJobs #outdoors #summer #weeds

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Added pack of books ,pack of portuguese stamps ,Belkin printer cable 1,8m ,updated price of sealed portuguese coin to sell online. Old hotel Duna key room resend to original buyer (last tuesday) ,cataloging new coins for sell via android app.
#coins #oldcoins #shooping #onlineshop #shop #selling #sell #books #stamps #printer #olx #ebay #tasks #homechores #chores #hometasks #hotelkey #oldkey #roomkey

I’m looking into simple kids bank accounts where they can manage their pocket money and maybe be incentivised to do chores. I’ve stumbled across https://roostermoney.com/
Does anyone have any thoughts / experience?
#kids #parenting #pocketmoney #chores #money #finance

#SophiaRosing, Ex-#UK #Student arrested for #Racist #Attack on #Black #Classmate, #Pleads #Guilty.

A #Bystander filmed Rosing #assaulting #KylahSpring, using the #Nword over 200 times in 10 minutes, calling her a #bitch, and telling her to “go do her #chores.”

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Kentucky #HigherEducation #Conservatives #Extremism #Hate #Bigotry #Racism #WhitePrivilege #HateSpeech #Hatecrimes #BlackMastodon

https://atlantablackstar.com/2024/08/13/former-university-of-kentucky-student-who-told-cops-that-shes-used-to-getting-special-treatment-faces-up-to-1-year-in-jail/

Chores
Running extra,
Above and beyond the fee,
Guest's irritation,
Unmaintained house

#airbnb #chores #guest #irritation #cleaningfee #cinquain #poetry

https://www.newsweek.com/airbnb-host-extensive-checkout-instructions-chores-cleaning-fee-viral-reddit-1840372

Sie spielen mein Lied!
(They’re playing my song!)

Gefunden in einem Berliner Souvenirladen:
(Found in a Berlin gift shop:)

“Only boring women have neat houses.”

#housework #messyhouse #ihatehousework #chores #cleaning #cleaninghouse #housecleaning #thanklessjob #betterthingstodo