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godzilla_lives, 2 months ago

Not much to add other than that I hate this so fucking much.

godzilla_lives, 1 month ago

My kale sprouts are coming in very nicely! Trying from seed again this year and I’m feeling good about it. The heatwave just wrecked them last year and I wasn’t on my game with watering enough, but not this time! I also have some other seeds starting to sprout as well: camomile, catnip, sunflowers and microgreens, as well as a few pumpkin sprouts that are starting to make themselves known.

My pepper plants are starting to bounce back from being over-wintered, and they always produce a big yield so I’m excited. I’ve added a few new species to the mix so we’ll see how that goes. I’m looking forward to making hot sauce again, but this time I’ll have ghost peppers to add to the mix >:)

My apartment balcony looks like a jungle, and it is my happy place, lol.

godzilla_lives, 2 months ago

“Woke meat.” Fucking Christ.

godzilla_lives, 2 months ago

The living room here has an ornamental equine vibe—lit by a horse lamp, wall adorned with images of horses—except for the bookshelf, where what might have been a cowboy hat has been replaced by a Trump hat. Martha Chansley doesn’t subscribe to cable television. She believes that the buffalo is a “mystic” animal. When a reporter and camera crew from FOX 10 Phoenix descended on her house after her son had been taken into custody, she noted another mystical bond, this one with Donald Trump: “We are a part of him, and he is a part of us.”

I don’t have much to add other than just how fascinating this is to me. It’s just so interesting seeing how/why people end up believing this sort of thing, that crunchy-to-alt-right pipeline is real. Hell, I read Be Here Now and played TOOL on repeat back in high school in the Deep South, this could have easily been me. “Yeah man, turns out ‘my shadow’ is referring to Jungian psychological principles about about your self conscious and…”

Thanks for sharing, utterly fascinating read.

godzilla_lives, 2 months ago

I present to you, the Paint Goblin:

knowyourmeme.com/photos/1002565-the-sims

godzilla_lives, 2 months ago

I help shops with their inventory.

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Rankin County. They have a goon squad that’s gotten away with murder for decades.

nytimes.com/…/rankin-county-mississippi-sheriff.h…

Content Warning, violence

For nearly two decades, a loose band of sheriff’s deputies roamed impoverished neighborhoods across a central Mississippi county, meting out their own version of justice.

Narcotics detectives and patrol officers, some who called themselves the Goon Squad, barged into homes in the middle of the night, accusing people inside of dealing drugs. Then they handcuffed or held them at gunpoint and tortured them into confessing or providing information, according to dozens of people who say they endured or witnessed the assaults.

Used to work with a woman who’s brother was pulled over and had the shit beaten out of him by the Rankin Sheriff’s dept. And this isn’t some backwater town either, it’s a highly-developed metropolitan area.

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

Man, right? Dude is a freakin’ smoke show at 53!

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

“Cough cough, sorry I caught Covid, can’t do anything sorry cough cough”

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

It’s a Chinese-owned brand running Android 11, but I love my Unihertz Titan Slim. It’s essentially a rip-off of a Blackberry Key2 that I bought off Amazon after a few too many beers and it took a while to get used to typing with a keyboard again, and it’s objectively dumb as hell, but yeah man, button phone. Sigh, now if someone would come out with a new slide-out keyboard style…

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

Balcony gardener here. Had a death in the family so my garden was neglected unfortunately, but it’s bouncing back (as am I). My cabbages aren’t as big as they were last year, likely because I used slightly smaller pots and let them wilt too often, but wife should be able to turn them into kraut for sausage dogs. We did that last year and ended up with a pretty decent jar-full, which was pretty cool.

This year I over-wintered my peppers for the first time, and they’re starting to bounce back so I’ll probably transfer them to larger pots soon. I’m already looking forward to watching them come in :) they’re my favorite plants to grow. I have shishito peppers, snack peppers, cayenne, jalapeno, and dragon roll peppers. I like my peps!

Mint is looking okay, it’s coming back after being neglected, but it’s basically a weed so I’m not really worried. I’ll have to buy more basil starters, I didn’t prune it well and it didn’t survive being over-wintered.

This is all on top of the usual annuals and ivy and ferns and such. It’s basically impossible for me to go to the grocery store without bringing home whatever discount plant I find, lol. I don’t have too much room to work with, but I’m doing some vertical gardening as well by mounting shelves to put smaller pots on. It looks good from the street too. I get compliments when I’m out there, and it always makes my day :D

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

Thank you Lally, I really do appreciate that. It has helped me heal greatly. As odd as this sounds, I feel lucky that it occurred during the end of winter. So as the world begins to show a return to life and color, my own little world is doing the same :) I actually have some plants of hers that I’m tending to now. So many snake plants to propagate!

My wife and I made a deal that I have to bring the dog when I go anywhere that sells plants, just so I can’t carry as many to the register.

Now I’m just imagining a dog in a cart covered in grocery store ferns 😄 but that’s a great compromise!

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I have a used Haworth Zody chair I found on eBay, have had it for going on eight years now and recommend it greatly. They’re around $175-250 used.

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

Whether you mean their arms or their arms, I support this statement.

godzilla_lives, 3 months ago

I had blood tests recently and also tested for higher levels of potassium. Turns out it’s one of the more common false positives, my second test came back fine. So hopefully that makes your weekend a little less stressful!