Vashti-Lives

The hard backslide into overt fatphobia is so depressing. I remember watching as the fat acceptance movement was co-opted to be the body positivity movement and realizing that as soon as it was marketable by capitalism actual political fat liberation was going to be harder to achieve. And like, yup.

I think people really underestimate how differently food systems were a hundred years ago, consistent access to refrigerators and the ability to transport foods long distances changes SO MUCH.

Yes! Sometimes heirloom cultivars are solving a problem we just don’t have anymore and while we shouldn’t just abandon them it’s also good to keep this in mind.

The grocery store thing is so baffling, I live in Idaho and every liquor store is state run. This is not a weird concept!!!

No it’s bullshit. I’m extremely white and both sides of my family have branches that have been in America since the 1600s and I call my parents cousins aunt and uncle. This super normal!!! Frankly I also call half my mom’s friends aunt so-and-so. This is an even dumber Mamdani “scandal” than usual.

I live in a city that used to be suggested in place of more expensive interesting arty cities and then ten years ago the cost of rent and housing artificially exploded and now when you compare housing cost to income it’s one of the most expensive cities in North America. You can’t win.

Da cheeeese tax da cheeeese tax! Rules are the rules and the facts are the facts— When the cheese drawer opens you gotta pay the tax!

If there’s one good thing about living in Idaho it’s that people know there isn’t room for infighting. The main organizers of the Boise No Kings protest are 1) ACLU 2) NOW 3) the Party of Socialist Liberation. Leftists here know better than to sneer at their allies for being mom/grandma shaped.

I feel like as a society we should already be at the point where unless you have the good raisins (you don’t have the good raisins) cranberries should be the default dried fruit additive.

So tragic I could not get a picture of his face as was bodily leaning into me on the couch (because lonely) but also craning his head away from me (because cat) but then looking back towards me at the same time (also because cat)

A pale yellow lab laying on the ground, he looks like he looked into the abyss and it looked back. In reality there’s probably a cat out of frame, which as far as he’s concerned is the same thing.

A yellow lab looks long suffering into the distance.

A yellow lab looking directly into the camera, pleading with me because I don’t seem to notice the small black animal that lurks in the house.

A yellow lab sitting on the couch, looking worried. He is sitting next to a human with a suspicious black lump of fur in her lap.

I was dog sitting last week and he was suffering because there are two suspicious little animals in the house, one of whom kept stalking him. I can’t get any pics of when he REALLY looks like the lead of a Junji Ito manga because my hands were usually preventing my cat from trying to snuggle him.

My youngest sister has a yellow lab who looks like if a Junji Ito protagonist was a dog, wanna see?

BetterHelp is an extremely shady online therapy service that has been caught selling patient information and also doesn’t vet the therapists they offer. Honey is just kind of a straight up scam, it will hide coupons from you and steals money from creators offering discount codes.

She wrote Folkmore when she was forced to stay home and I suspect Midnights contained a lot of reworked old material— a lot of the songs on it have a real 2014 tumblr vibe. Since then when would she have had time to devote to putting effort into writing?
She seems to care about new more than good.

I will say the thing about consulting a lawyer is that I think there’s another lawsuit in the works aimed at Meta and they might be able to give you general advice that would help in the future? And you’d have a contact if that went to shit. But IDK.

It’s not per stolen title????????

This can’t be the whole story but honestly who wants to be living in 2025?

(Sorry I have no idea where that link came from?????)

Apparently it’s a tiktok thing? Which explains why I had’t heard of it. There are so many weird cults tbh somebody is always predicting the rapture. I guess in this case a South African pastor is claiming he had a vision.

A lot of xtians are secretly dissatisfied with Jesus because they don’t like what he actually said and did so they’ve taken the Bible wildly out of context to constructed a whole fantasy narrative that he’s gonna come again and THIS TIME he’ll kick ass and take names and punish their enemies.

A black cat is stretched out on a table with a green cutting mat on it, her front legs are hanging off the table.

A black and white cat is stretched out on the floor, her back and tail are stretched into a u shape and her front paws are leaning against a little foot stool.

Saturday morning cat yoga.

Electric bikes are a viable form of transportation now, both in terms of function and price.

A hand drawn grid on dot paper, 7 squares down and 4 squares across. Above the first column is +8 and above the second is +10. The right hand side next to each row is the total stitch count, starting with 58 and ending with 166. The heading for this increase chart at the top of the page reads “baby yoda cardi increases”

It’s been a while since I last did this but charting your increases is so helpful. A+ knitting tool, especially when there’s two different increase rows.

If they were nostalgic about the fact that housing was cheaper in 1985 they could just advocate for better housing policies. If they’re nostalgic for a time when the gap between rich and poor was less dramatic they could call for higher wages. But they don’t because that’s not what they mean. Gross

Most of their nostalgia is stuff that is available today. You can go outside! I do! You can make friends with your neighbors if you want! I have! You can watch the fucking goonies at any time. Instagram is a choice. It makes their schtick obvious because if it wasn’t nazi shit they could say it.

Yes truly some mesmerizing choices happening at all times. I had to take a break after episode 4 because I was getting too annoyed at the b-plot romance and I knew I would enjoy it more if I could watch it in slightly larger chunks and let my brain turn off, but it might be time to pick it back up

The degree to which the foundational premise of this show is that we all have lingering unaddressed trauma over COVID and the writers are gonna take that energy and make it SEXY is phenomenal.

And to be clear it’s bullshit anyway because trans kids deserve to exist as themselves and play sports as themselves, and the denial of this is in large part to create transphobia but like… there’s clearly a larger agenda as well and I don’t understand why so many people can’t see it??

Sorry Kayla but your friend Stacy can’t be on your soccer team because it would be ~unfair~ (because Stacy is secretly a boy) (because boys are obviously better than you) I genuinely think the last ten years of discourse around this has contributed to young women’s interest in trad wife bullshit.