tell me something nice

if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation.

if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they make a great way to poison your enemies. this is called murder and it’s usually frowned upon, but they won’t see it coming and you get bragging rights afterwards about your ability to kill people with a pizza topping.

Sorry this was not precisely most people’s idea of “nice.” Let me add that you are a glow of comforting absurdity in an ever-more-fucked-up world.

I love everything about mycoremediation, but also

Slightly on the topic of removing toxic waste:

A hairdresser noticed that with oil spills, one of the biggest issues was the impact on wildlife because oil loves clinging to fur and feathers.

They used felting methods to create like a mat of hair & used it on a small scale test & it worked really well, the hair mainly stayed on top of the water like the oil & absorbed it like a sponge while leaving creatures & plants alone.

NASA is now working on large scale uses with the help of donated clippings from hair dressers and pet groomers.

And the hair can then be composted with the help of mushrooms.

And they lived and laughed happily ever after!

One way folks can do something surprisingly material to spite the new administration and its chosen Red Wraiths:

Go get your COVID-19 booster!

A new one dropped like a hot new album fresh off the vaccination press this month!! This is an action that genuinely helps you and disabled people.

DO IT.

I'm crying, @massachusetts-official have you seen this??

I lost it when Tank! started. Incredible work on the filmmakers part.

Official Short Film of Massachusetts

Join something.

Doesn’t matter what it is. Doesn’t need to be political, but it can be.

Just join something. Join a book club. Join a knitting group. Join a kickball league, or a gardening club, or a climate action group. Just join something.

Fascists want you isolated, disconnected and despondent. Your main goal in life for the next 4 years (and possibly beyond) is to do the opposite of what fascists want you to do.

They are better prepared than they were last time but so are we. We know who they are and what they want to do. We can prepare ourselves and our communities for it, but only if we actually have communities.

If you do want to get engaged in politics, do it at the local level.

If you live in a blue area, you need to fight to keep it that way. Talk to your local representatives and make sure they are doing everything in their power to enact protections against Project 2025.

If you live in a red area, fight to change that. Work on city council campaigns, and state congressional campaigns. Keep an eye on local legislation and bring attention to all the universally unpopular policies republicans are going to push through.

Fascism only wins if we do nothing. Fascism wins if we throw up our hands and throw in the towel. Fascism win if we make it easy for them to win.

Don’t make it easy.

Tiny Omens!

if ……. if a demon wore heelies on consecrated ground, would it still burn them

imagine a demon heelying down a church aisle drunk on power like “smite THIS, god!!!!” right before plowing fullspeed into the communion table.

So my friend sent me this picture the other day from a thrift shop she was in, and… I gotta say… 

i am so mad because i put this joke in my fan fic and this is like better than my fan fic will ever be

If you're trans and you don't have a passport, get one. right now. not in a month, not in a week, get started on it today.

I mean it.

Today.

This is the one thing that I would definitely do regardless of state. For those not in the know, a passport is the way to get an easy name or gender marker change onto your ID without a court battle, and that is highly dependent on the Federal administration.

hi hello I did not know this at all; could you please elaborate?

At present, gender marker doesn't have to be related to your birth identification documents' gender marker at all.

For name change, you can follow these requirements to change your name without a court order.

The requirements are likely to change after the inauguration, so get your submission postmarked ASAP if you plan to update your documents.

*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

of these, love actually, but if i get a chance to see the muppet one i may have to re evaluate. i also like the holiday, not listed.

So proud of myself for having the range :D

(being able to / unable to close neatly the underarm of a sweater)

i work top down, usually out of the knitters handy book of top down sweaters, and i always have to pick up more stitches under the arm, so as not to have gaps. works out ok tho, because the sleeves are a bit too slim by the book.

I've been trying to distract myself from the horrors of modern life by knitting unnecessarily complex cable swatches. They are partly inspired by printer's ornaments and other typographic elements.

Deleting my Ao3 Fics (sussexbound)

Hey all, if you have ever read my Sherlock, Good Omens or Word of Honor fanfic on Ao3 (written under the pseud sussexbound), please be aware that I will be deleting it all from Ao3 Dec 31st, 2024. So, do with that info what you will between now and then.

Here's the link! We'll be sad to see you go, but understand completely 💜 Your fics are some of my faves 💜

that link goes to a non-existent page i'm panicking please i wanna save many of them, help @sussexbound @inevitably-johnlocked

Here you go. Just FYI the fics are locked to Ao3, and have been for a couple years. You have to be logged in to see them

it's been quiet 'round here for all the usual reasons ((side-eyes societal collapse)) but also because I'm making a graphic novel and attending school full-time and making enough soup every Monday to feed 20 hungry art school students and also doing a lot of this🧶

Are you ready?

Hana-Rawhiti Kareariki Maipi-Clarke, the youngest MP in Aotearoa, starts a haka to protest the first vote on a bill reinterpreting the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

Important to not forget this isn't the only thing happening. The haka disrupting the vote in parliament is supported by nation wide hīkoi of thousands of people on their way to the capital to protest this

If you want to learn about what the proposed bill is that people are protesting and what it would actually mean for the constitution of Aotearoa if it went through...

@gulfportofficial

FUCKING INCREDIBLE

My mum made and gifted me this incredible hand-knitted poncho with FISH ON IT!!!!!! The little waves and the bubbles I can’t handle it… She spent easily 100+ hours on it and before this had only made a few scarves, absolutely incredible and I’m excited to wear it everywhere I go now 💚🐠💛