Did you know that adding a single layer of old books to your walls can insulate an average home from the terrible reality of the world outside.

Friendly reminder: when someone expresses that life is difficult because of their disability (or disabilities), don’t try to fix it for them.

Believe them.
Take a breath. Hear them.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

(Edit: Yes, this post is a direct reply to some of the comments and messages about my journaling post from this morning.)

#disabled #disability

✨🐠 Welcome to Compliment Pond!! 🐟✨

Reply to this post with "/fish" (or a cute fishing roleplay) to toss in your line! Wait some time, and see what you reel in.

Feel free to boost to have more folk join you so you can fish together!

Have fun! :drgn_heart: :drgn_tail:

(Edit: Ran out of steam a little on this, if I didn't reply to you, just know you pulled out a Bwee plushie on your line, and a note that says how lovely and beautiful and sweet you are. 🩵🩵🩵)

Spiderman, but kittens instead of webs

“…But a ramp works. It doesn’t run out of battery. It doesn’t require a software update. And crucially, it works for the parent with a stroller, the delivery guy with a hand truck, and the old man with bad knees. It is a universal solution.”

Please, bear with me
but I have a simple proposal:
considering the outbreak
of salmonella in eggs
and cyclospora in lettuce
and salmonella in jalapeños
and cyclospora in herbs
perhaps we should
create and fund
some kind of agency
to prevent outbreaks like these.

If there are ten people in a room all writing alt text for the same image, the result will always be ten different versions of alt text. And that’s OK! There is no perfect or “correct” alt text. It’s an act of compassion, not an academic exercise. You can put more heart into it than thought, and it’ll still come out great. ❤️

According to a statement
the FDA “remains confident
that all iceberg lettuce
related to this
Cyclospora outbreak
is off the market,”
and while I am glad to hear
that the FDA “remains confident,”
I must admit that at this point
little of my confidence
in them remains.

Who doesn't love an orange cat with a fondness for fresh fish and magical sunken treasure? Throw in some slow burn crushes and magical collars, and this cozy-adjacent fantasy is feel good fun.

Would you be so kind as to give my project a follow? I have super reasonable tiers including an ebook tier that will be lower than retail price.

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/kit-muse/becoming-neptune-s-cat-a-feline-cozy-adjacent-fantasy/pre-launch

#Bookstodon #Cats #Fantasy #CozyBooks #CozyFantasy #Crowdfunding

Two things:

1: TIL that this hugely annoying thing that’s bugging me since childhood has a name.

2: that disclaimer before the article 😂

I was an avid reader of the Hardy boys as a child, and the brilliant people of standardebooks.org have now published the 9th book in their public domain collection: "The Great Airport Mystery"

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/franklin-w-dixon/the-great-airport-mystery

The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing.

We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.

Friend sent me this and I feel attacked

#books #TBR #Tsundoku

Fellow chronically ill people, what things are you doing to Enjoy the Summer*, within your capacity? I need inspiration.

*With an understanding that this isn't possible for everyone and we won't all be able to do the same things. I'm trying to feel less depressed about the whole thing. I feel like if I can't be working I should at least be able to enjoy some of the weather.

#disability #chronicIllness

Question for any blind person who has successfully passed Introductory Statistics in college. Just how exactly did you do it? Which accommodations have worked for you? Please boost for reach.

I woke up feeling pretty good about having found the perfect knitting pattern for a sock yarn set that's been hibernating in my yarn stash.

But the more I think about it, the more I suspect that I dreamed that particular yarn set and it doesn't actually exist.

#knitting

I just saw the Hello Kitty x Apothecary Diaries crossover merch on Instagram (the news is weeks old but algorithm only designed to show it to me today) and someone in the comments was critical of Sanrio for associating Hello Kitty, "a character for little girls", with a series that includes concubines.

I can only imagine how that person would have reacted to Hello Kitty's collabs with Golden Kamuy, a series about violent men hunting down tattooed escaped prisoners and also a semen detective.

Can we all stop using and recommending peat based composts please?

It takes so long to make, peat is a non renewable source

It does far more good storing carbon in the ground in situ than it ever will do in a garden, yes, even for growing food.

I’ve just seen a website recommending using peat based compost😭

Peat was introduced as a cheaper filler for compost mixes within the lifetime of people alive today. It was not always used. We can switch away

#Gardening #ClimateDiary

can anyone recommend a really good (physical book!!) insect field guide for the northeast US? I love bugguide.net but I want something that can help me narrow down for my area specifically. I especially want something with more differentiation between sweat bees other than “sweat bees are a lot of species! sometimes they look like this or this”