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Fallen in love with this place, this swooningly picturesque gothic ruin, a true green chapel cloaked in ivy, on the hill among the woods.

Chat, is it considered “abusive roommate behavior” to release a raccoon into the living space after you have asked your roommate for months to please clean up their messes (they do not pay any of the mortgage)

For context, when I used to live alone I would do something called “Princess Time” where I would do an initial sweep (to remove any significant hazards) and then I would release a raccoon into the living area and clean. This helped because I would 1) feel like a princess and 2) the raccoon would bring attention to things my ADHD brain had decided to ignore and I’d quickly clean that stuff up.

So like, if I’m expected to clean the house now, I will be doing it in the way that is most effective for me. And anything that has not been cleaned up after months of having sit-down talks and sending reminders and being promised things will change, might be deemed “trash” by the trash panda and thrown away.

We haven’t done since we moved into the house, because I didn’t want to cause my roommate or their cats destress or have their things destroyed by a raccoon

I am a raccoon biologist and one of the few people in the state allowed to take in captive bred raccoons that had been possessed illegally. The raccoon in the photos is Moonshine, but she is currently at the animal sanctuary where I work as I had been quarantining multiple new intakes from an abuse case. I still have two males (Rum Tum Tugger and Electra) left in my home enclosure as we are getting them neutered and then hopefully sending them to an AZA accredited zoo.

I wanna make things very clear that underneath all the whimsy, I am a trained professional.

I mean this in the nicest possible way but you're the sort of person that can normally be found only on reddit

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How to convince your powerless twin brother to become your team medic at 2am

1. Burst into his apartment at 2am while he’s busy not sleeping and eating ice cream and doing god knows what your nerd ass brother is doing

2. Drag him out without context only letting him put on some crocs and a thin ass hoodie (it is winter, it is like -10 outside)

3. Profit

my mythology pet peeve is when someone describes a scenario in which they keep nearly getting something and then having it snatched away, and everyone's like "one must imagine sisyphus" no!!! one must imagine TANTALUS!!! sisyphus = being made to perform a pointless, aggravating task over and over without ever making any progress. tantalus = being offered a glorious reward only for it to vanish as soon as you reach for it. they are NOT the same

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Don’t look too close at it I never do animation and I couldn’t be bothered cleaning the choppy-ness

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

The thing missing from fast fashion discussion is that the fewer clothes you own, the more often you have to wear them.

So the length of time something "lasts" is dependent on how many clothes you have. If you have 20 shirts, you're wearing each one 5% of the time; if you have 4 shirts, you're wearing each one 25% of the time, assuming you wear them all equally.

So if one of your 20 shirts takes 3 years to wear out, if you downsized your wardrobe to 4 shirts, you would need to divide 3 years by 5 to estimate how long those shirts are going to last.

It's hard to make it a social norm to have 4 shirts if you can't find shirts that are made to be viable long term as part of a 4-shirt rotation

Anyone who wants to be utterly incensed at how clothes now are made compared to clothes before, I highly recommend

Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

Excellent book about (as the person who I heard about the book from said) the history of cloth and clothes as opposed to the history of fashion.

No, really, this is a book where I was glad that the author, after teaching me the terrible history of every cloth and textile, ended with a fairly upbeat chapter about the resurgence of wool.

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