hi see how cool these are? i cut up old medical scrubs to make them which is very DIY & you think it’s really cool, too (this took him several hours, you realize). anyway, they are 8x8 sew on patches. my dearest ex wife olive needs her laptop fixed - would you pay 11 bux for one of these? (i keep a dollar of the cost to offset shipping and ~ etsy fees ~ and olive gets the 10, you feel like you’ve helped someone and you get a cool patch)
hey wait also! you can DM me here & venmo me to donate & i’ll mail one to you. i’ll say that it’s “pay what you can” starting at 11 bones BUT if you feel inclined to send more it would really help olive out!
hello! consider buying a patch bc theyre v cool but also to help me out!ive put off fixing it for a year and using library computers but im completing my thesis/a lot of 3d modeling this coming year so itd help a lot to have my own computer again
My ✨ post-apocalyptic Lesbian Cowgirl Mailman choose-your-own adventure✨ has just updated! Read it here for free on my Patreon and vote in the poll! I made a summary of the first part, here, which tells you basically everything you need to know about Lou, her (newly discovered as) requited-but-complicated love, and the ill-advised journey she is on!
Things have looked better for our little cowgirl, but by god you gotta hand it to her: she’s trying her best. Holliday, who has never been much help on the trail, has been rendered absolutely dead weight by whatever… happened to them both at Angel Wormwood convent. Lou, too, is weak and hasn’t been able to eat anything in days, which is kind of a mixed blessing because their rations are dwindling. A wise woman might have turned them both back around and headed home, but since when is Lou a wise woman?
Lou’s had a bad feeling about this journey since they started off. She’s been unable, the entire time, to shake the feeling that there is a beast at her heels, just out of sight, stalking them through the uninhabited desert. But that’s just paranoia. Right?
Read it for free on my patreon, here! Voting ends at 1 PM EST, 8/16!
Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it’s time for me to talk about offleash dogs
Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:
1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)
2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you’re a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone’s massive lab bound up to you!
3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! “Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife” wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings’ turtles!
4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them
5) “Oh but my dog is friendly!” If your unleashed “friendly” dog runs up to my leashed UNFRIENDLY dog, and my dog bites yours, guess who’s getting the blame despite doing everything right?
6) Allergies. “Oh but my dog is friendly!” oh well that’s great I guess I can just put the epipen away because, yknow, he didn’t mean to induce anaphylactic shock, it was all in good fun, nothing to worry about!
7) Small children, the elderly and disabled people. “Oh but my dog is so friendly!” When your friendly dog slams into me/jumps on me/knocks me over I am just as injured.
8) Many of the places where it seems attractive to let a dog off the leash are home to wildlife! My local swamp park has a whole-ass coyote pack living in it. That is their house, and they will view your precious little sausage roll as a delivery dinner. I have legit seen a coyote come out of the bushes and take a small, off-leash dog. Leash your dogs.
A couple people reblogging with my addition have gone on to say that a well-trained dog can be off-leash and all these things only apply to badly-trained dogs (who presumably deserve to suffer? and who apparently also deserve the opportunity to harm and distress people who didn’t sign up for Bad Dog Encounters?). Leaving aside the fact that dogs are animals, will always be animals, and will thus always have the potential to act unpredictably, just like every other animal, including humans, who do you think is training the wildlife?
I have seen the incident I referenced above play out three times. All three times, the dog lost. In one of the instances, the dog was two feet from its owner. In one instance, the owner followed the coyote into the bushes, still lost the dog, and got bitten badly. The parks service killed half the swamp coyotes after that, which isn’t fair. Again, the swamp is their home. They live there. If you bring them DoorDash, they shouldn’t be punished for eating it.
Coyotes. Bears. Venomous snakes. Squirrels, either rabid or leading your dog into traffic. And feral cats who also shouldn’t be outside and uncontained, but don’t deserve to be ripped apart by dogs because people failed them. Your dog is not the only animal in the world.
Please. Do yourself, your dog, and my coyotes a favor. Leash your dog.
Please. Do yourself, your
dog, and my coyotes a
favor. Leash your dog.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Doctors could name a disorder “Whiny Bitch Disorder” and I assure you that the reaction in the ND community at large would not be “what the fuck is wrong with the psychiatric field and how they think of mentally ill people, we should not allow that name and diagnosis”, but rather “PSA: Please don’t use ‘whiny’ and 'bitch’ as insults, that’s ableist against people with Whiny Bitch Disorder!”
spoilers: this podcast episode busts out the phrase hot labor summer around the 11 minute mark
From the above link:
Next Tuesday, nearly 4,500 San Jose city workers are planning to walk off the job for 3 days. Garbage, fire, and police won’t be affected, but many critical services like the airport, libraries, and housing construction will be. If the strike goes forward, it would be San Jose’s largest since 1981.
KQED’s Guy Marzorati explains how we got here, and what could happen next.
Workers say they don’t want to strike but the wages and conditions they’re working under are below the standards of other cities and jurisdictions.
“I really want to work for the City of San Jose, I care about it deeply,” said Sarah Abroff, an associate transportation specialist, “I happen to love the work that I do. I love my department and I don’t want to leave.”
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For Abroff who is 27 weeks pregnant and many others, paid parental leave is also top of mind.
“The city offers one week of parental leave, which is absolutely crazy,” Abroff said, “We have requested eight weeks of parental leave and that is simply not enough. I mean, our request alone is very low.”
The unions say the city has offered four weeks, something they’re not willing to accept.
“Four weeks,” Abroff said, “That is just absurd. It is not enough time.”
and pivotally:
“We are glad to see that in response to our historic strike vote, the City Council has given additional bargaining authority to the city. IFPTE Local 21 is planning to return to mediation with the city tomorrow, Wednesday, August 9 in the afternoon,” said Jesse Perez, Chapter President for IFPTE Local 21 and a City of San Jose Public Works employee.
