u/kharmatika

This may be old hat for many of you, but this tip has saved me more times than I can count.

The target: an item(specifically one that isn’t trash and has objective value as its own item) that you know you should get rid of and don’t love anymore, but it’s a Gift/has sentimental value/used to be our favorite and maaaybe it could be again

The process: close your eyes and picture a person who would love this object. you can make them whoever you want. Maybe its an old lady who has all the other parts of this matching set of Little Angel dolls. Maybe its a teenager who is just starting to cultivate their style and is trying to find skirts just like the ones you wore as a 20 year old. Maybe it’s some weird funny fellow who collects ceiling fans and has been HOUNDING over this model and just can’t find it on eBay.

Now, picture them finding this item in a thrift store. Picture that old lady picking it up and peering at it. Picture that teenager trying your skirt on and goin “⭐️👅⭐️ I look so cool”. picture that odd fella giddily texting his Fans of Fans group chat that he finally found the c90XT with internal rotator socket.

If you could hand this person that thing, wouldn’t you? Wouldn’t you prefer they get joy out of this item that you’ve been holding onto out of a sense of dogged obligation, probably to an aunt who has no idea she even gave you that damn figurine? For every item that you’re sitting there laboring over, there is a human being in this world for whom it is special, exciting or absolutely life-saving. And sure, maybe that person won’t walk into that thrift store. But they’re definitely not going to walk into your closet. So go put it somewhere they might find it and hope that they do.

Hello (again), Jews of DragonCon!

This year we’ll be doing DragonCon Shabbat bigger and better! Plan is to grab a table in the Hilton common area, light a couple LED rubber ducks, drink a little wine and maybe this year have we’ll have challah instead of a croissant(croissants still welcome)! All are welcome, Discord server linked below!

https://discord.gg/VV6ZnTbArF

I recently joined back up to planet fitness and started working out again. last night I had my PW a little too late, got home, took my ambien. woke up toy Girlchat discord being like “etf is this” and i had no recollection of what they were replying to. but here is what I wrote, allegedly, at 11:43 pm:

”I do not acknowledge the lunk alarm.

I do not believe that any man nor woman nor great warrior of genderqueer has hear the Angelous bell of the lunk alarm.

It haunts us. It hangs, a spectre over all our toilings, a voice in the garden, espousing temperance in self improvement, caution in movement.

And yet. Who among us has borne witness to the tolling of the lunk alarm? Who has heard or seen this great beast awaken? Not I. Surely not I, though there in the free weights section lurk demons, scoundrels and ruffians who would seek to set off this grand series of events. By their gruntings and selfies we are shown.

What if it’s all an illusion. The alarm, Sauron’s dead eye in its case of plastic, ever waiting to illuminate. What if we could free it but choose not to?

Who weaves these tales of heroes being dashed to ruin by the alarm? Is it the heroes? Never. Is it the company? Certainly not. It is always, and so shall it ever be, your friend Kevin. Kevin who you cannot tell to be joking when he makes Trump references. Kevin the Victim. Kevin who says these things and he says them to the internet and we pick them up and fly with them away to all corners of the internet, to spread his poison.

Nay, friends, fear not the lunk alarm. come delight in $15/mon membership and 24 hour availability. We shall smite all demons.”

I do actually feel like people prevaricate too much on the sort of annoying culture there (especiall the lunk alarm) and not as much on how it’s an affordable, okay gym for casual gym goers, but I didn’t know I felt this passionately about it.

Hello weird long mammal owners! Weird long reptile owner here! I have a leopard gecko who is about to shuffle off this mortal coil (She’s old, it’s cool). She leaves behind a giant bucket of roaches that I have no use for, but also don’t want to just kill, that seems wasteful and mean.

Issue is, she’s cryptosporidium positive, and while I’ve done my absolute best to avoid contamination, I’m not giving these guys to a reptile owner, because there’s no guarantee they aren’t positive.

Reptile crypto strains are not able to cross the barrier to mammals, IF these guys are even positive. So I figured I’d hit up some of the Small Predator subs, and see if any of y’all would like a bunch of very healthy, delicious bugs as a treat for your ferrets. I know they can safely have them and enjoy them so this is my last ditch to try and give them, if not a safe home, a place where they can fulfill their purpose.

I have a very old, crypto positive gecko who we don’t expect to make it the next 3 months, if she makes it a month(vet recommended rehabilitative diet but no antibiotics, so this is a Hail Mary). I have a dubia farm that I’ve been cultivating for over a decade, and this is my last gecko, but I’ve come to be a little attached to the dubias and want to not just have to drown them or anything, I’d rather they go somewhere that will use them. if anyone is in GA and is/knows a new owner who is looking to make the switch to dubias but isn’t sure where to start, or would just like months on months of free food, HMU.