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  1. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  2. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  3. Pro tip for anyone considering putting this type of woven plastic root barrier in their garden, please don't. For the sake of literally everyone. I've been fighting this stuff for weeks now, roots have grown under it, over it, even through it. It's impossible to remove without tearing it apart, creating thousands of these thin plastic ribbons. Seriously, look at this fucking bullshit! 🤬

    #gardening #maddening #gardeningtip #notfutureproof #notOK #garden #protip #advice #rootbarrier #dontdothis

  4. CW: USPol

    You may have heard that President Musk's latest inane demand to the civil service was an email that went out demanding that all U.S. government employees summarize what they accomplished in 5 bullet points, and send it via email to [email protected] .

    This is, of course, ludicrous and pointless. There's no real way to use such unstructured data - it's probably just another attempt to terrorize employees into quitting.

    However... if you assume they do actually want to do something with this data, then polluting that data with garbage, lots of garbage, enough to drown out any real responses, would be a good way of throwing a wrench into that bit of ratf*ckery (the workers threw their shoes, called sabot, into the machines, hence ... sabotage).

    This would be impossible, of course, if the email address [email protected] were closed to submissions from outside government networks, as it should be. But it isn't. The DOGE bros are incompetent as well as everything else.

    It would be a real shame if [email protected] drowned in useless reports, preventing this technique from working. So don't do that.

    That email address, again, is `[email protected]`. That's `hr` at `opm.gov`.

    #sabot #email #doge #elmo #PresidentMusk #ratfcker #DontDoThis

  5. Oh my! I am NOT sure how I feel about this little WHO TO FOLLOW section being pushed into my Mastodon feed.

    This just happened when I started Mastodon on my work PC just a few minutes ago.

    I'll follow who I want to follow, not some recommended folks by some algorithm or AI or whatever this is powered by.

    #Mastodon #Fediverse #StopThis #DontDoThis #NotWanted

  6. Do not do this if you have any concern for the safety of yourself or others. At least I know the radio works, though!

    #dontdothisathome #dontdothis #dont #diy #retrotech #hifi #cassette