Hi All! My Good Friend Tara / @iaiamothrafhtagn Is Looking At A Very Large Vet Bill For Her Beloved Cat

having a permanent full time job is you thinking to yourself “so this is really the rest of my life huh” as you come home every single day before using your 4 hours of recreational activity to do nothing and then going to bed

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

look up 'textile recycling [county where you live]', in some areas big chain thrift stores like Goodwills (*not* small local nonprofit thrift stores) have a textile recycling program and encourage donation of clean, dry clothing/fabric that has no resale value. sometimes there are drop boxes or mail-in bags from other organizations that have a similar purpose. but also for fucks sake stop buying garbage

DONATING TO THE THRIFT STORE PSA!!!!! that i can’t believe i even have to say

if you would not buy it in the state it’s in, don’t fucking donate it!!

maybe if there’s a button missing or little holes or stains, but stop using thrift stores as your garbage. the amount of actual trash we get donated at my job is ridiculous. one man’s trash is another man’s treasure like 20% of the time. but chances are if you didn’t want to fix it yourself, neither will anyone else.

quality too. if you would not buy shein from the thrift store yourself, don’t donate your “cute summer shein hauls :33” that you don’t wear anymore because the trend ended. nobody buys shein second-hand, and it sits on our shelves until we have to throw it out.

“but i don’t have money to not shop at shein 🥺” idc. cope. thrift. maybe if the thrift stores weren’t full of plastic cancer clothes from last months aesthetic you’d be able to find more good quality items. but alas

ITS STILL YOUR CONSUMPTION WASTE, even if you give it to us. clothes don’t just disappear once you donate.

TREAT YOUR THRIFT STORES WITH RESPECT

The contradiction between what we were playing and reality is this: Oftentimes we worked until two or three in the morning. We’re not the only company still shooting, but, yeah, we’re late. Cars are going through the gate, the arm comes down. There’s a line of cars. Then when I get there, the gate comes down and security says to me, “Open your trunk.” I said, “No. Why? All these other cars just … Why? What do you think I have in this Volkswagon Rabbit? What’s in there, the Defiant?” What I’m trying to say is that the contradiction, or the paradox of it all, we can’t get away from. You see what I mean? I wish sometimes that were true; that the fact I played Sisko would make some kind of difference on the street. No, only on the screen. The contradictions are evident. They are inescapable in a way.”

Avery Brooks, quoted in, The Fifty-Year Mission - The Next 25 Years, Volume 2, Edward Gross, Mark A. Altman

i am getting tumblr ads for a local credit union? i guess i have to respect whoever pitched tumblr ads to their marketing team. i’d rather see credit union ads than weird scams at least!

my favourite annual discourse is when Deeply Serious paranormal people go "this time aliens really are real. wow. everyone should be talking about this!" and without fail it's the fakest thing you've ever seen

i think you should be able to turn glass back into sand. i don't like that that's a one way road, it feels wrong to me.

if you're spending today with family, partners, close friends, people who would take a little piece of you away if they were gone;

if you're taking the time to cook, showing off a culinary secret, trying something for the first time, struggling to make a family recipe the way you remember it growing up;

if you're thinking of a home you left, looking forward to the home you hope to build, or happy where you are right now;

if you're angry about the legacy of displacement and colonialism that threads its way through every comfort in the western world, if you would go back and change history in any small way you could;

if you are thankful for the simple things that every human being should be afforded: community, food, shelter, personhood;

please donate the cost of one plate at your table to any fundraiser:

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thank you, eat well, love each other

Beyond and Back - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Roundtable [x]