I'm a disability advocate (I think you should be disabled)

really though a lot of people put themselves through a lot of pain or inconvenience because they have decided they aren't Bad Enough to need help with something and it sucks. so I truly do want to encourage identifying as disabled. you can get a cane if you think you'd only use it on the really bad days or if the deciding factor is that it's your favorite color or if you think maybe it would make one single task a little easier. you can use a screen reader if it's more convenient to hear text spoken to you rather than reading it. you can get cut-proof gloves, or a chopping gizmo, or pre-cut ingredients if it would make you feel safer when cooking because you're a little clumsy. you can use a wheelchair if it would just make you less tired.

as someone who struggled (and struggles) with feeling Bad Enough to justify the tools I need: it's okay if you don't think you need them. A want is enough. A passing "oh, that would be useful" is enough, especially if it keeps happening. you're allowed to want things to be easier and you are allowed to make them easier. I love you.

I'm punch needling a seat cover and to clean up the lines you need to comb in with tools and all week I've been thinking "What I could really use here is a crochet hook, but without a hook. Just a long metal not-sharp needle. I wonder if that's a thing. If not I can maybe find it by the clay tools. I should ask about it in a fabric store"

All week, so now I'm scrolling an online store through the craft supllies and I see... knitting needles, you know, the metal needles without hooks. I might be stupid. I've done so much research I forgot the most basic tool of all. Sometimes you're being so smart about a thing you become stupid.

I'm just thankful I didn't get to the fabric store to embarras myself in person and force the cashier the experience a top retail anecdote with "today someone came into the knitting shop and described knitting needles and asked if something like that existed yet"

Being like. Post-suicidal is so strange. Like hiiiii everybody im new I spent a good chunk of my life languishing and have like 3 or 4 lived experiences. But now I'm ready to fuck and party or whatever. Can we be friends. Im so happy to be here. Can we be friends

“Have this one left for you”

“For now… 😁”

so for bizarre life experiences, today, in a tour for a rental house, the landlord failed to mention that the previous tenant was being evicted. the landlord also failed to show up for the tour, then called the guy he was currently evicting to ask him if he would be willing to give us a tour.

and then that guy did.

whole house was full of cat shit. minimum 5-10 loose turds per room. uncountable layers of piss. whole house was carpeted, of course. the smell was so bad we fled within 5 minutes.

then landlord called us afterwards to give us the whole high-pressure sales routine, yeah it'll be cleaned before you move in, don't worry about it, but you gotta sign fast because this thing is gonna get leased within the day once the smell is gone and i was just. i'm not just not-sold im genuinely wondering if i should call the city about this. i don't know if that house can be fixed. i think that house could be condemned, and he didn't just show it to me, he set it up. he could've refused to let me tour. he could've cancelled. instead be begged and pleaded and weedled with a man that he hated, who hated him, for us to pretty please be allowed to look at the mummified cat turds all over that mans living room. and then that man obliged obliged, and i have no idea who the winner of that whole arrangement was supposed to be.

i know i wrote a diatribe this morning about how people are irrational chaos beasts, but like. damn. even i forget that sometimes. i need a bath.

yeah my wife is a CHAMP and she got 4 tours set up today. 2 were for very good set ups, 1 was mid, and one was the the lost tomb of the pharaoh Turdenkhamen.

Sunflower baby crashing trough my fucking blanket 🥰

Baby fox steals fish from fisherman (🔊)

This is always awesome.

most effective method of theft - be so cute your victim just willingly gives their food away

animals have been scamming us like this for hundreds of thousands of years