Last year I got a little wasp problem when wasps decided that my balcony's wooden ceiling would be a perfect spot for a nest. The nest apparently was never finished and I found large pieces of it on the floor but I still contacted maintenance to ask what to do.

The maintenance came to visit and didn't find any nest, so that's good. I was told that I should put a crocheted fake wasp nest on my balcony, near the spot wasps favor, because they refuse to built a nest on someone else's territory. Better yet, fill the nest with newspaper because it smells like a wasp nest.

I found some handmade nests online and I'm going to give it a try! Many of the sellers said that they and their friends and family have been using the fake nests successfully for years in home, summer cottages, outdoor buildings etc.

Here are some patterns (in English) for crafty people.

Sharing this here because I didn't even know about such a solution! I hope it helps anyone who wants to keep unwanted wasps away from certain parts of their home and yard.

It's been almost 5 months now with these fake beehives. I was told that these won't work because bees navigate by scent, not by vision, but guys:

5 months and I have not seen a single bee or a wasp on my balcony!

Last year they tried to built a nest, same as a year before that. I've lived 10 years in this apartment and bees and wasps have always been an issue on my balcony, even when I have no flowers there.

So, even if science says that this doesn't work, it has worked for me. I had no need for an exterminator. It was that bad before these fake hives.

Big recommendations! Easy, won't harm nature, extremely bee and wasp friendly.

Since spring is here, I want to bring this one out again for friendly way to keep bees and wasps away from places where you don't want them to be.

This is why I have no sympathy whatsoever for anti-intellectuals who complain when discussion posts use too much academic language. "You can't expect me to whip out a dictionary every time you post—" BITCH I LOOKED UP "AHEGAO" FOR YOU. OUT OF THE GOODNESS OF MY HEART.

"Rationalism" is up there with "Objectivism" in terms of "definitionally funny things to call your own belief system".

"Yeah man I've been doing some thinking and philosophy and I've come up with a framework called Being Right"

Calling my personal philosophy Realityism. Yeah, it's a philosophy where I'm uniquely aware of how reality works and base all my conclusions on that. If you're against it, it's because you're refusing to face reality.

Though I can't say that you're refusing to face facts, because I think that's the domain of the Factarians. Don't worry about them, though. Facts can lie to you about what's real, which is whatever I believe.

I was a hardcore Realityist but due to personal beef with the founder due to clear issues in the philosophy of Realityism we're schisming off into Correctism, which is a lot like Realityism except we're Correct about it and the optional support tiers on our forum are slightly more expensive and give you cooler looking badges.

I'm not conceited enough to think that I'm always right. It's just that everyone else is wrong. I don't want to spend any time talking about it with people who claim to share my beliefs because they get it wrong, and also they're all insufferable?

This belief system is so simple I don't even need a name for it.

You can find my sacred texts on Reddit.

not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual

me when i cant comprehend that different continents have different animals

the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.

the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional

They need to cover this on Bluey.

That does seem to be the best way to teach Americans anything about Australia

I actually just read my daughter the book-version of the Easter episode of Bluey last night and was thinking "Okay if this says 'Easter Bunny' but Derin says it's Easter Bilby, did they just adjust it for audience location? (A missed opportunity to include an educational info-page at the back of the book, IMO). Is the original Australian episode still Bilby?".

We also have Easter Bunnies. The Easter Bilby is a conservation publicity thing and it was way more popular in the nineties. You can still get them but bunnies are currently the default.

I used to think that Bilbies were myths in the same way that Yowies were. To be fair, both were made into chocolate and I'd never seen a Bilby elsewhere

#I absolutely had to look up yowies to be sure I was remembering right#I remember 13-year-old me being very confused seeing someone mention yaoi for the first time#realising they didn't mean the creature#what an interesting moment that was

If you go swimming in the water without parental supervision, the Japanese fictional gay men will get you

March 18, 2025

The Speaker: The Speaker cannot rule on what he did not hear. There is no point of order. I consider this matter dealt with and concluded.

Mr. Williams: Point of order.

The Speaker: What’s that?

Mr. Williams: I’d like to raise a point of order.

The Speaker: You’d like to raise a point of order on what?

Mr. Williams: At 2:14 the Member for Edmonton-Glenora was speaking, asking a question to the government minister.

The Speaker: You needed to raise it at 2:14.

Mr. Williams: I appreciate that, Mr. Speaker. I know of nowhere in the rules prohibiting me from raising it now. If it’s your ruling that I can’t, I accept that.

The Speaker: Yeah. You will accept it today.

Live By The Sword, Paris HK, by EazyVisuals

let's go feral💜

doily found in a charity shop then embroidered with pigeon, added sequins and tiny beads and some (intentionally) messy visible mending :o)

If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

colorblind pride flag just dropped

"Three Black Cats" by Carl Kahler, (1856 - 1906)

treat black queers kindly and love us. that's all.

and don't add any stupid shit derailing this, this is about black queers only. make your own damn post.

please if you're going to reblog this, please reblog this addition so people get the memo along with:

listen to our voices and make us feel safe and comforted.

its just embarrassing when you make a fandom related post and it doesnt get any notes like okay. so no one want to play tuoys with me. no one wants to play with our little guys together. okay thats fine. yeah its cool... puts my hands in my jacket pockets. kicks a beer can that was on the side of the road a little

His face when he realized he was about to fall

i always click the "track package" button as soon as i get the email. "oh boy i wonder where my package is!" warehouse.

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

Tools

Non-Games

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

Reblogging the update too

Play Seedship, i loved it

And Choice of Games in general too