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I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

Feel free to repost, no need for credit

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Think about this quote like all the time and how it really undermines so much shit in capitalism

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Harold Perrineau, you are everything to me

Young hearts run free.

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During the most poor and homeless period of my life, I had a lot of people get angry with me because I spent $25 on Bath and Body Works candles during a sale. They couldn’t comprehend why the hell I would do that when I had been fighting for months to try and get us on our feet, afford food, and have an apartment to live in.

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

So whenever I hear about someone very poor getting themselves a treat - maybe it’s Starbucks, maybe it’s a home deco item, maybe it’s a video game… I don’t judge them. I get it. I get that you can’t go without anything for that long without it making you go crazy. You need to pull some joy, inspiration, and motivation from somewhere.

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when worlds eurydices collide

bonus individuals

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i think a big reason that I get frustrated with the "liberals have never made anybody's lives better" is that in the US it used to be legal for insurance companies to charge you more if you were sick or even just straight up deny you the ability to sign up for them if you already had a "pre-existing condition", and this was only stopped by the passage of the ACA during Obama's term. but a lot of people who talk about politics on here are too young to really be affected by that since they would have been on their parents insurance (which the ACA required insurers extend until you're 26). and this was all done via politicking and not blowing up insurance CEOs mansions or whatever.

I'm not saying that the ACA fixed insurance forever, god no. but "you can't deny someone insurance for being sick" is a massive change and people don't realize it!

Most adults want the law’s prohibition on insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions to stay. Two thirds (67%) of the public say that it is “very important” that this provision remain in place, including most Republicans (54%) However, only about 4 in 10 people (39%) are aware that that provision is part of the ACA.

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#how they build the wall #how to put a crack in the wall #a song it fix what's wrong

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New info on the Epic III lyric change from the West End, from Anais herself!

https://playbill.com/article/why-anais-mitchell-made-an-epic-change-to-hadestown-five-years-on

"I didn’t touch any lyrics for the North American tour, though I was tempted to! But when I learned we were headed to the West End, I thought that might be a lovely place and time to try something new," Mitchell confesses. Those changes made for the West End was soon reflected on Broadway, though Mitchell hadn't planned on it. 

"Honestly, I didn’t even think it was 'allowed' for me to change the lyrics on Broadway," she remarks. "It was actually Jordan Fisher, our current Orpheus, who somehow heard the London 'Epic III' on TikTok. I don’t even remember my TikTok password so I had no idea there were bootlegs! He texted me very moved by it and wanting to try it. And I was like, 'Yeah, I wanna hear you do that too!' I’m grateful everyone said yes and grateful to Jordan for advocating for it."

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sold

I think this might be the prettiest mug I’ve ever made

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please make every effort to vote <3

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#poor boy working on a song

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Check your hand sanitizer y'all

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Mitski performing in Chicago

#poor boi working on a song