Professional fundraiser, having worked in non-profit my entire career (and my university degree was in a social sciences field). I wouldn’t call myself technically proficient, but I’m technically savvy - I was an early adopter of the internet as a teen, and have been online in some form or another since the mid-90s. Fuck spez.
Ahh phrenology, the most accurate of scientific methods for assessing not just gender, but criminality!
Yeah, this is pretty much my standard now too. I was in hospital for a day surgery recently and was more than a little taken aback at the fact that I was one of the only people masking.
A wise choice, it’s a time-suck for sure.
Ahhh good ol’ FPS death. I never make it that far, mainly because I love to embark somewhere with a waterfall.
Dwarf Fortress, been playing it off and on for many years now. I happily bought the steam version when it came out!
I really appreciate that media (even if it’s pandering, whatever) is starting to show a much wider variety of romantic relationships. Representation is important, and seeing the gentle courtship between Burt and Irving was incredibly sweet.
I’ve been gardening now since the first year of the pandemic, and I will absolutely never grow enough to sustain myself. Perhaps on an acreage, if that was my full time job? If I was lucky? But it’s a LOT of work to grow food at a sustainable level, and that’s not even counting how one goes about processing and preserving it, saving seeds for next year, ensuring there’s enough to last till the first harvest next year.
Garden for the pleasure of it, and enjoy those small pleasures. I successfully over-wintered all my strawberries (in Canada! In a raised bed!) and they’re producing like mad this spring. I certainly couldn’t live off them, and perhaps they won’t make it to next year, but I’m enjoying eating the berries right now.
(And you may already know this, but I found that hand-fertilizing the silks was really successful when I grew a small plot of corn!)
I used to delete my comments regularly, but fell out of the habit a few years ago. I’m currently going through my history manually to overwrite and delete everything - fortunately I wasn’t a prolific commenter, and it’s kind of nice to see my history.
Ontario, Canada/the city of Ottawa subreddit - holy shit, this is the current-top-level comment/thread on a post in the Ottawa subreddit commenting on the wild weather they got yesterday.
If that’s not mainstream collapse awareness, I don’t know what is.
You’ve already gotten advice on preserving, but what about sharing/donating the bounty?
Some cities have public portals where you can post the location of your fruit tree and indicate people can help themselves. There’s also this webpage. And failing that, you could reach out to a local foodbank - they may be able to have volunteers come collect the fruit?
Eh…I don’t know. It’s almost a cultural touchstone at this point, and perhaps worth watching if only for that reason. But I remember it being a very frustrating experience to watch originally - it was sort of disjointed, the writers strike in the ‘00s didn’t help, but if I remember correctly lots of plot threads were left dangling. It also got super weird towards the end!
It’s perhaps not true/hard sci-fi, but I think Butler’s The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents are, uh, alarmingly prescient, considering she wrote them in the mid-90s and predicted a lot of the societal ills we’re struggling with now (including a fascist politician who promises to ‘make American great again’).
I’ve only just started (binge-) watching it, and I’m finding it very reminiscent of Lost, though I do think the horror elements are being very well done. I’m a few episodes into season 2, and so far so good!
Oooh thanks for the rec, I’ll put it on the list! I do tend to lean towards more fantasy/horror and less sci-fi, but I very much liked Murderbot’s voice as a narrator (and the universe is fascinating).
I’m working my way through both the Murderbot Diaries (just started Network Effect) and the Rivers of London series (just finished Broken Homes, though this series is more urban fantasy). Both and very enjoyable!
I watch them too. And there’s another similar channel of a single young (American, I think?) woman who’s doing the same thing. And again, the locals are very welcoming - I suspect this depends on whether the newcomers are making an effort to integrate, learn the language, etc.