cassolotl

cassolotl, 18 hours ago to Plants

🌱 The plant survey is going well, 334 responses so far! (The graph below is responses per hour since it opened.)

🪴 It's open to everyone everywhere, regardless of knowledge/expertise about #plants, and with an extra shout-out to #Jewish people.

✍️ Take part here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiI_CG8fWKCFYbCfjRrJzz0i_DF8_0sTeRFtfiCcEFgUAZpw/viewform

📊 See stats as they come in here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b8L6drZMVpfGyfnG1MCgiPc8L8v1kurKtDnK5-jVkJk/edit

CC @plants, @houseplants and @TradescantiaHub

cassolotl, 3 days ago to random

Oh hey! Has anyone got a link to a really amazing article/resource on the reclaiming of slurs, how their use becomes newly acceptable in marginalised communities, etc? Something that would be good to send to a well-meaning newbie who wants to learn more, kinda thing?

cassolotl, 20 days ago to disability

I'm only just scraping by and the UK government are proposing to take away PIP (a disability benefit), which would be HALF of my income wiped out: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0ry09d50wo "Reforms to personal independence payments (PIP) could include stopping regular cash payments, and instead offering claimants one-off grants for things like home adaptations."

Genuinely absolutely terrifying.

Can anyone join in with an (hopefully!) overwhelming cascade of unique emails to their MP opposing this? https://www.writetothem.com makes it very quick and easy. They're proposing to replace it with one-off grants that the individual can apply for, which is absurd and horrifying, so feel free to point out how that won't work as well!

#disability #disabled #UK #ableism #UKpol #UKpolitics #accessibility

cassolotl, 1 month ago to LGBT

I have two additions for the for-sale page today: https://wiki.polyinpictures.com/w/For_sale

• QTPOC pride handwarmers (£20 plus P&P to wherever you are)

• Pride socks (UK size 4-7, £17 plus P&P to wherever you are)

Plus, there are plenty of other LGBTQ+ handwarmers and zines already listed. :) DM me if you're interested!

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #queer #ForSale #ad #handmade

Photo. Knitted socks. Stripes from toe to cuff: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red (heel), purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red (cuff).

cassolotl, 1 month ago to nonbinary

It's that time again. There was no active UK parliament petition about #nonbinary identities being recognised in law, so I made one.

#UK #petition: Recognise nonbinary people's genders in law and in identity documents

Sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659107

Track signatures here: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/659107

Deadline: 11th October 2024

deirdresm, 1 month ago to ADHD

Bullet point 1 is the funniest thing I’ve ever read about #ADHD. Also true.

cassolotl, 1 month ago to Autism

Imagine being the guy (gn) who arbitrarily decided that ADHD and autism must be mutually exclusive and getting the whole posse of psychs to go along with it for decades, only to find that about 75% of people with one also have the other?? So embarrassing 🙈

Anyway this article is pretty good:

"The sudden rise of AuDHD: what is behind the rocketing rates of this life-changing diagnosis?"
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/04/audhd-what-is-behind-rocketing-rates-life-changing-diagnosis

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergence

cassolotl, 1 month ago to random

💙💙💙
A NOTE TO MY FOLLOWERS:

I will not be doing ANY jokes or pranks on April Fools' Day.

That is because I have no idea what day it is and I do not care to know!

You are safe on my feed tomorrow!

( #BOOST this post if your followers are safe from cruel or unkind pranks on April 1st and all other days of the year because your brain is a sieve!)

💙💙💙

cassolotl, 1 month ago to aitools

I bought this lovely linen tunic from Etsy in "light grey" (see colour swatch pic), it's XL (see size guide), and it doesn't fit me - but I have been so busy that I wasn't able to return it in time!

It was pretty expensive and it is quite lovely, so I thought I would offer it up here. Would anyone like to make me an offer? (Don't worry about whether I'll be offended by your offer, I can't return it so any offer is welcome!)

#ForSale #ad

Colour swatch.
Size XL. UK/US 42. EU/IT 52. Chest 104-106cm, 40.9" - 41.7". Low waist 92.5-94.5cm, 36.4" - 37.2". Hips 105-107cm, 41.3" - 42.1". Sleeve 89cm, 34.5".

cassolotl, 1 month ago to random

Having cats is like having a little art that follows you around, sometimes loudly. Also sometimes the art is a cartoon.

HopePunkFTW, 1 month ago to solarpunk

I think this person really stumbled on a core #HopePunk / #SolarPunk concept.

Hostile architecture is a symptom of the very system we have to fight.

cassolotl, 2 months ago to landlords

"The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis

'Over the last 25 years, there has not just been a constant surplus of homes per household, but the ratio has been modestly growing while our living situations have been getting so much worse.'

'We now find ourselves in a situation where one in every 21 adults in the UK is a landlord. We have four times as many landlords as teachers. As a consequence, virtually everyone struggles to afford a home that meets their needs despite a net gain in housing stock.'

'Where Adam Smith and Karl Marx found common ground was in the idea that everyone’s interests are aligned against landlords: they are an economic deadweight.'

#landlords #UK

cassolotl, 2 months ago to uk

Oh hey, I need 5 people to co-sign my #UK #petition so that it can be checked and published.

"Switch the UK to using kilometres (metric) instead of miles (imperial)"

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659106/sponsors/new?token=cp4OMY7h3rhP_jxxJXJb

You can sign if you're living in the UK (regardless of citizenship) or if you are a UK citizen (living anywhere in the world).

cassolotl, 2 months ago to random

If you use a screen reader and have a Github account, consider commenting on this feature request:

"Add a way to filter posts that contain images with no alt text"
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/29496

If you don't use a screen reader, please boost this post rather than commenting on the Github issue.

cassolotl, 2 months ago to random

In "feeling smug" news, today I asked someone for a link to the place where they bought their thing online, and they sent me the link and it was a third-party seller on Amazon, so I googled and found that seller's homepage and bought the item there for 11% cheaper.

Apparently that's a thing, when you find something on Amazon from a third-party seller sometimes they have their own homepage where you can buy the same item but cheaper, because Amazon take a cut.

hyphen, 2 months ago to random

username gallusrostromegalus: I took the bus for three years when I lived in Honolulu and haven't lived anywhere with even usable public transit since, but in those three years I had dozens of utterly bizarre experiences that were also Perfectly Normal. This is because the human condition is vast and also Very fucking Weird. Kid one the bus next to me whose backpack starts moving and it turns out he's got three chickens and a painted turtle he caught in there? This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been catching small game and transporting it home in whatever they had since we invented bags to put chickens and turtles in. I traded him three king-size snickers bars I had on me for the turtle because I vaguely remembered that many freshwater turtles were toxic to eat (incorrectly, as it turns out, but this was when I still had a Nokia Brick that lived a blissful, internet-free existence), and didn't want him accidentally poisoning his family, but didn't want to just. Steal his hard-won turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans have been cautious about poisons, looking out for strangers kids and bartering shit since before we were technically humans, probably.
a continuation of username gallusrostromegalus post: Having acquired a turtle, I now needed to transport the turtle to the on-campus pond that effectively served as an Invasive Freshwater Turtle Containment Zone, but did not have a bag that could adequately contain him so I had to sit the rest of that bus ride, at the station and all through the next bus ride holding the turtle like the wond's angriest hamburger. Multiple people were curious about and delighted with the turtle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans love an animal, especially one that is capable of appearing grumpy, and hands are for holding things. By the time I got back to Campus, the anthropology and child psychology building that the Invasive Turtle Containment Pond was in had closed, so I had to figure out how to climb the tree over the wall and get down off the roof while holding The World's Angriest And Sharpest Hamburger. I eventually ended up having to briefly shove the turtle into by bra to get up to the initial branch and off the roof without breaking an ankle. This is Perfectly Normal. Humans are, as a species, a bunch of barely-evolved arboreal frugivores and really good at Tree Physics, and I don't know a single titty-having bitch out there that hasn't used their bra as Emergency Pockets at least once, if not daily. I released the turtle into the Turtle Containment Pond and then had to solve the problem of getting back OUT of the locked building, but Nokia Brick never loses a signal or drops a call (including that time I accidentally dropped it off a 13-story building in the middle of a call to my parents and the damn thing BOUNCED but kept the line open. I miss that phone every day.) and while campus security has been carefully trained to not let people IN to places without proper ID and a call to someone inside, they assume that if you got locked in somewhere, that you got in by legitimate means and not Lemur Shenanigans, so i just called them, apologized that I'd been working late with headphones on and didn't realize I'd been locked in. This is Perfectly Normal, people have been lying to cops since laws were invented, and will continue to do so because all cops are bastards.

cassolotl, 3 months ago to random

Just finished these QTPOC handwarmers. I'm thinking £20 GBP, plus P&P from the UK?

General things for sale page: https://wiki.polyinpictures.com/w/For_sale

emmaaum, 3 months ago to random

hive mind: i need incongruous names for at least two cats, 1 syllable or at most 2 short ones. The first one we meet was Parsley for a wee while but is currently called Squirrel. There is also a goat named Sheep (after the story's only reader).
I don't think there will be any dogs, more independent animals suit the story better, but something more improbable to live in the garden with the goat would be grand. But not a snake, I'm not doing that to myself
Boost if you like, my reach is miniscule

cassolotl, 3 months ago to disability

You've heard of the inflatable dartboard, you've heard of the chocolate teapot, get ready for...

🥁

The SAND RAMP

It was installed when my friend complained to the council that there was no way to get down off the pavement and back up the other side as a wheelchair user while the pavement works (courtesy of the council) are happening.

Photo 1: Before I used it.
Photo 2: After I used it in my wheelchair.
Photo 3: The groove left by my wheels, which are at least an inch deep in places, which explains why my push rims (and therefore my hands) are covered in sand now. This photo also shows (middle-right) that after one wheelchair use it is crumbling and splitting apart like a wet sandcastle, because it is a wet sandcastle.

#disability #inaccessibility #ableism

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