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*"stress dream" = dreams you get when under large amounts of stress or anxiety irl, that may or may not relate to your current situation irl.

#it is something bad happening to my animals #every single time #except when it's that dream about the horse that goes to my school #and I'm the only one who will open the doors for him to cross the breezeway #he cannot get to his classes:( #my mother says it is a symbol that i am isolating myself #but i think she would say that about any dream

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Sustainable fashion for the Solar Punk

If you enjoyed this, consider checking out my Ko-Fi for a printable zine version (or just to support my art :))

#b1rdie reblogs #if ur looking for more resources 'weaving eith thread' is usually just called darning! #this is a very cool zine #i love zines #visible mending #mending #zine #solarpunk #sustainable fashion #slow fashion

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bird sketches with primatek watercolours and metallic gouache

#b1rdie reblogs #these r sooooo gorgeous #I'm in love with the metallics #I've done some sketch studies on bearded vultures i love them so much #they're so fun to draw:} #ty op for pretty birds!!

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Sometimes the answer is to subvert the rule instead of breaking it.

Anarchy post #5 or something - enough of you have been super sweet about being inspired and hopeful in the tags of my other posts that you've encouraged me to share more of my personal ideology.

So there are good and bad rules out there, and I have a personal analysis I go through to make that determination for myself:

Does the rule achieve its intent?

Is the rule enforceable?

Does the rule disproportionately affect certain people?

Does the rule cause people unreasonable/unnecessary stress?

A good rule is "Yes," "Yes," "No," and "No" - any deviation from that suggests the rule should be ignored, modified, or abolished, but you won't always (or often) have the ability/power to do that. If you've encountered a bad rule, you can decide to break it or take the path of trying to convince the relevant authority to amend or remove the rule, but there is a third option! You can subvert the rule.

I'll give you a quick example of a good rule: You need to wear safety goggles when working with power tools in the woodshop. What is the rule trying to achieve? It's trying to keep you safe in the event of an accident. Does wearing safety goggles help protect your eyes? Yes. Is the rule enforceable? Yeah, if you're the woodshop manager, you can easily walk around and see if someone isn't wearing goggles and ask them to either put them on or step out of the shop. Does this rule disproportionately affect certain people? No, anyone who is able to use power tools should also be able to wear safety goggles. They make ones that go over glasses too. Does this cause unreasonable/unnecessary stress? As long as you keep some spares on hand for people to use (which pretty much every woodshop does), no one should be stressed by this. Good rule.

Now here's an example of a rule that I determined to be bad and what I did about it: My college science department has a policy that if you don't show up appropriately dressed for lab (i.e. long pants, lab coat, goggles, and close-toed shoes) and can't change and get back within 20 minutes of the lab start time, you will get a zero for that lab. There are only 10 labs per year, so that's kind of a big deal. Issue: People often just forget they have lab in the afternoon, especially during the hot months and come to lab in shorts. They rarely forget to bring their lab coat and goggles or wear close-toed shoes, but people frequently forget about long pants. What does this rule seek to achieve? Making sure everyone comes dressed properly for lab. Does it achieve this? Nope. You can't disincentivize forgetting, so no matter how extreme the punishment is, students will forget from time to time. You can't punish forgetfulness out of a person. Is the rule enforceable? Yeah, people do get turned away from lab if they're not wearing long pants. Does it disproportionately affect a certain group of people? Yep! Students who live off campus have no hope of getting changed and getting back in 20 minutes, but people living in the dorms across the street can. Does the rule cause unecessary stress?Yep! People used to regularly cry, panic, and beg to trade pants with someone in the big college group chats to avoid getting a zero for lab.

My solution: Take away the rule's power to stress people by accommodating instead of punishing. I got six pairs of pants in sizes XS to 3XL, wrote "Emergency Lab Pants" on the thighs, and established a box for them in the student common area that anyone could borrow from. This helps people get to lab safely dressed and it provides a safety net that removes the stress of making an easy human mistake.

The reason I went that route was because 1) Breaking the rule and getting away with it was basically impossible and also unsafe. 2) I figured arguing with the department about the policy wouldn't get anywhere. They'd just ignore that you literally can't disincentivize forgetting things and go on about people needing to learn to be responsible for themselves or whatever.

And something interesting happened: the department got completely behind this project. They realized it decreased lab absences and provided a change of clothes if someone spilled something on themselves during the lab. Professors put the Emergency Lab Pants box in their syllabi, and the department invested in another set to be kept on hand in the lab offices.

So even though that very harsh rule still exists, it has been divested of its ability to cause people stress and panic - all because somebody analyzed the rule for the first time and determined that it stressed people out while failing to achieve its goal.

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

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Horses kill for sport

True fact!!!! Little know horse fact!! Horse!!!

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Woolly Beetle! a bug found in the drylands.

#AAAAAAAA

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Brdi3 sleep tip #2: I despise radio talk people. I don't mind most of the NPR people EXCEPT for that filthy bastard on Marketplace he infuriates me. So I turn the radio on at night. I get silly eepy music at night and then in the morning I get pissed off at the numbers man and I have to walk across the room to turn it off. My alarm wakes me up, that motherfucker in the radio gets me out of bed.

Novelty for task initiation my beloved. I will be like Damn I cannot sleep:( and then I reverse myself and put my pillow at the foot of the bed and my brain says Oh goody!!!! Brand new special bed!!! Just for me!! Joy of joys! And then I am asleep

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Novelty for task initiation my beloved. I will be like Damn I cannot sleep:( and then I reverse myself and put my pillow at the foot of the bed and my brain says Oh goody!!!! Brand new special bed!!! Just for me!! Joy of joys! And then I am asleep

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I can’t act normal around roasted brussels sprouts you will blink and I will have eaten them off of your plate

#this dpeaks to my soul #b1rdie reblogs

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from Alexis Nikole’s instagram

#foraging #this is. ugh #just be careful guys #b1rdie reblogs

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So picture this. 11pm. I'm laying in bed on my phone with my windows open, SCREENS CLOSED. There's some loud clicking bug outside, but I'm mostly ignoring it. 30 minutes later. I'm about to go to sleep. I hear the clicking again. Except this time it's insanely loud. Like. Inside the house loud?? I look up.

THERE'S A MASSIVE FUCKING KATYDID ON MY CEILING

this was taken like a foot away from it istg this thing would've filled the palm of my hand

I chased this little dude around my room for like ten minutes trying to put it back out the window😭

#b1rdie's room #bug tw #tw insects

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Should I die I hope that the afterlife might be the chance to brutally attack and maul anyone ever involved in the production of a commercial for food that is supposed to portray the food as sexy.

#killing them slowly #i hate those fucking ads so much #b1rdie's room

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(Select what you do most often and if you select 4 please tell me what you do with em)

#bugposting #If they r fast i leave them alone and pretend i did not see them #if they r slow (and it is warm and dry out) i catch and release #if they r slow (and it is cold or wet out) i put them on a potted plant and hope they chill there for a while #if they r indicative of a larger problem #(ants = leaving food out/ fruit flies = waiting too long to eat fruit/etc) #i try my best to fix it and if i can't then that's on me and i get to deal with their presence #bugs #insects #bug tw

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Just a silly reminder that u do NOT have to throw out ur favorite pants when u wear a hole in the thighs. This took me about 15 minutes (if that, idk exactly how long it was) to fix and I can't feel it when I wear the pants, nor can you see it when I have them on. I'll also link a video (it doesn't have added captions but I watched it through with YouTube's auto-generated captions and they seemed nearly exactly correct. And even without them you could probably learn it just from the visuals) about how to do the stitch I used below the cut and do a brief explanation of my process:}

Backstitch tutorial:

https://youtu.be/sjHm8CL9WDA

Steps for mending:

1) Pin the patch to the inside of the hole-

I used safety pins because I find regular pins endlessly annoying. Since we'll be sewing from the front (you usually want to be looking at the side you want to be the neatest when you sew) you might find it helpful to hold your fabric up to the light and mark where the edges of the patch are, but I was able to figure out that sewing from end to end of the pins would keep me on the fabric.

2) Thread your needle-

I used crochet thread because that's what I had on hand. If you're using regular thread you might want to double it up so it's stronger. If you're mending something white or if you don't care whether the color matches, you can also use dental floss for something very strong. Here's a video on how to thread a needle (again with no official captions but good auto-generated ones)- https://youtu.be/S6u173Ap2mc If you want to use your thread as-is just tie a knot in the long end after threading. If you want it doubled up you can pull your needle to the center of the length of thread (so your tail and your working thread are equal lengths) and tie the two strands together to essentially create a big loop through the needle.

3) Backstitch around the edges of the patch (backstitch tutorial above) -

A backstitch isn't the only strong stitch you could use, but in my experience it's the easiest to learn and keep track of. You can also stitch across your patch in an X like I did, or in lines across it or on any other pattern you want. Your patch will be perfectly secure without these extra stitches, but I like to do them because they hold it flatter against the fabric.

4) Tie off your thread-

Video tutorial for this (same caption situation as the other videos) https://youtu.be/f3Hqv9n95R4

5) Done!!!-

That's it! Enjoy your newly repaired clothes and be free:}

#mending #visible mending #sustainability #sustainable fashion #slow fashion #anti fast fashion #sewing #b1rdie's room

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IF I WERE A FISH AND YOU CAUGHT ME YOUD SAY LOOK AT THAT FISH!!!

#LOOK AT THAT FISH!! #this is gorgeous #art #woodburning #illustration #b1rdie reblogs

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These r for 2 different mediums but I just wanted to mention some artists whose stuff I've been really enjoying on YouTube lately bc they r awesome:}

1 is sketches of shay, who does traditional and digital art and has such a cool style and a very chill demeanor to her videos I have been binging them lately they're so good for body doubling!!

And the other is ikoxun, who does mostly crochet videos it seems like but also some knitting! And I have been watching their (can't find pronouns listed anywhere so far so I'm defaulting to they/them) crochet colors videos, of which there are only 2 so far but they're both amazing. I am obsessed with colors I love them so much so it's very cool to see!!

#i don't know either of these people or anything they r just awesome YouTubers #and a lot of my creative energy lately has come from consuming other people's content #so i just wanted to share:} #b1rdie's room #art #youtube #youtube recommendations