Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me
the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it
not food related, but one time my cat cried at me for 20 minutes before i worked out that the reason why she was upset was because there was a coat hanger on her favourite cushion
This is absolutely beautiful and changed my life, thank you so much. Please protect her from hangers at all costs
wow. am STORVING and humaines here making joke laugh at cate honger ?!
My cat is a social eater who is not food motivated at all, so I was baffled when I first got him because he didn’t seem to care about food but he would SCREAM at me for hours when I knew his bowl was full. Any time I went to double check that he did indeed have food, he’d book it to the bowl and snarf like his life depended on it, but as soon as I walked away he’d follow me screaming again.
Eventually I figured out that he just wanted a dining companion and was screaming about how we’re a family and families eat together, god damnit! I moved his food bowl under my computer desk and it fixed the problem. But if I’m ever out for more than 12 hours I’ll come home to find him in a passive-aggressive kitty huff because dinner has been ready for hours but he’s been trying to be considerate (unlike some humans) and waiting for me to eat it.
My cats are indoor cats. Being indoor cats, they can’t go outside to hunt for food (mice, rats, birds, etc) to gift to my sister and I.
But they know that the kitchen has food. They know where the easily accessible cat food is. And obviously my sister and I are just Really Big Stupid Hairless cats.
So if my sister and I go without leaving our rooms for too long? My cats will sit outside our doors and scream for our attention, lead us to their food bowls, and then only stop the screaming and leading once they see us sit down at the table and eat something. Because they think we’re hungry.
Your cats are the sweetest beings on the Earth, it makes my heart warm knowing that they exist. They love you very much and they care so much, they want you healthy and happy and will make sure you don’t neglect yourself and oh god they are so perfect. Real pure love exists, I am happy to be alive today.
My neighbor is a hardcore drunk. Like, 9am and dude is drinking vodka, but he had a cat that’s pretty much his honest to god caregiver because I have seen this cat visibly screaming at this man to keep him from hurting himself and sometimes when he hasn’t been outside for a while, the cat will scream at my door until I go outside to knock on the door to check on him. Cats are literal angels.
I have a cat named a Kitty Pryde who has an extra thumb and these giant paws and while she’s not super bright she did learn that she likes being pet. So I must like being petted right? So if I’m watching TV alone she’ll come up and just with her giant paw gently stroke my arm or hand until I pet her back and she waits and pets me again and it goes on a while. Cats are angels.
My cat once stuffed my bath mat into the litter box
Your cat wants you to clean their litter. They’re trying to hide the smell and don’t know what else to do. so like, dump it ALL OUT and redo it. Mine do the same damn thing when I’ve been too long just scooping it out instead of replacing it all. Their noses are MUCH stronger than ours, and they need to be maintained at a certain level.
Which sucks, cuz litter can be expensive af, but~ Also it might just be that the box is too enclosed and the wood is starting to smell of ammonia. Which also sucks, because I know how expensive those boxes can be.
The cultural appropriation discourse in r/namenerds is really starting to weird me out. Until recently, the general consensus had been “don’t use *explicitly sacred* names from other cultures, and when in doubt, probably err on the side of caution”. A bit fastidious for my tastes, but workable.
Lately, though, the pendulum has swung rather alarmingly in the direction of “don’t even think about using a name that’s popular in a culture other than your own, and if you must express admiration of such names, do so with as many disclaimers as possible”. In a recent thread on the merits of the name Imani, almost every comment was appended by “but I’m white and would never consider using it myself”.
Weirder still, people posting with requests for baby name advice are preemptively grilled about their ethnicity and cultural origin. This reached an apex a few weeks ago when a woman of partial Navajo heritage was quizzed on whether she was Navajo “enough” to use a certain name for her baby.
And it just feels really lazy. Like it’s too much work to actually think critically about whether a certain name would be appropriate to use in X situation, so we’ll just slap a blanket ban on “ethnic” names and call it a day. That way we’ll never offend anyone! Othering entire cultures in the name of preserving purity has never led anywhere bad, right?
Also, there’s something disturbing about trying to claim collective ownership of such an inherently personal thing. A name belongs to whoever it’s given to, and that person (or that person’s parents) shouldn’t have to justify why they connect with it.
(Also also, when did we become so afraid of blasphemy? Cultural syncretism and adaptation is way more historically “authentic” than this enforced purity trend.)
speaking as a very Pagan sort of person… I would never give a child a deity/discarnate entity-related name because it can draw their attention. If the name comes from a closed culture that can be a very difficult thing to navigate if your’e not a PART of that culture.
Blasphemy, to me, isn’t the issue. Forcing someone to interact with a deity/discarnate entity they didn’t CHOOSE/had chosen FOR them, is.
The rest of your post I basically agree with. It’s hard to argue that anything less than a sacred language could be appropriated. It’s communication. What greater respect than to learn another person’s language to ease communication between groups of people??
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.
…
After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology.
They had come with questions of their own.They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”
rich people are fucking terrifying
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.
eat the rich before they eat the rest of us
I mean, who do you think was buying up billions if not trillions of rounds of .22 to the point that there was a multi-year shortage in the mid-2000/2010s? Their long-term survival plan involves being able to kill and subjugate anyone who challenges them in the event of a crisis.
Yeah like I know accelerationists think a worldwide collapse of capitalism is going to work in the lefts favor but let’s be real here, the people who are oppressing is right now are the same people who are spending millions of dollars creating multiple contingency plans allowing them to keep all their wealth and power even without a police state to back them up
accelerationists think a worldwide collapse of capitalism is going to work in the lefts favor but let’s be real here, the people who are oppressing is right now are the same people who are spending millions of dollars creating multiple contingency plans allowing them to keep all their wealth and power even without a police state to back them up
women who prioritise men and spend most of their time with men will never understand me and i’ll never understand them. it makes me sad sometimes because obviously i’m always going to want sisterhood with other women and i’m still gonna look out for them but on a really fundamental level we’re starkly different and that’s just the reality of it
you know what! im gonna say it. this post is nasty and cognitively dissonant and just flat out wrong. you cant say you care about women if you other the very women who are most often victims of male violence. no women “prioritizes men.” and women who do think mens opinions of them are important are victims of harmful socialization, not
your other or your enemy. i really encourage you to read over this post and think about what you’re actually saying. about yourself and other women. Bye.
did you ever think that maybe this post is about women treating me and women like me as the other and the enemy? that because i’m gender non-conforming and a lesbian they don’t view me as a woman at all? did you read the part where i said i’m always striving for sisterhood with these women and looking out for them despite our differences? the reality of it is that some women do prioritise men, because every force within the patriarchy is driving them to do so. i’m not blaming them for that, i’m mourning the loss of common ground and connection that comes out of pervasive misogyny.
Anyway no woman “prioritizes men” of their own accord and if you think that you’re literally a smelly misogynist bitch! you’ve been blocked weirdo go cry about it
“you’re literally a smelly misogynist bitch”
@bogwomen have you like… ever heard of lesbophobia? Particularly the kind of lesbophobia that non-lesbian women reserve for butch lesbians?
“Anyway no woman ‘prioritizes men’”
Looks like you certainly do.
Radfems arguing with eachother is interresting
Imagine thinking women who hang around mainly with men are hostile towards you cos they’re helplessly brainwashed/trapped in fear instead of sensing your patronizing bullshit from miles away.
“no woman “prioritizes men.”
Finally, someone said it.
If you equate “has sex with” with “prioritizes people like” I just… I don’t even know where to start with that, it’s lenticularly wrong.
yeahhh both the radfem Takes on display here are weird but…
I don’t “prioritize men”. I do prioritize my most important relationships with individual specific people. Some of those people are men, because I’m not stuck in bullshit that makes me think that one gender is inherently and always superior to the other…
…and if your attitude is “having male friends/lovers and prioritizing those specific people over strangers means we can’t have Sisterhood”… we’re just not gonna get along.
K like… I am not a woman. But I am a pre-op transmale. And we know that radfems generally consider people like me a “gender traitor” yeah…? and it’s… interesting…? To see this kind of thing??
Because yeah I do tend to “prioritize” men over women, because I AM one, and because I kinda feel like a lot of modern feminism doesn’t leave space for men to improve themselves, OR offer any support?? “lol male tears” “but WHY aren’t men more emotionally available???” “all men suck ew I hate them” “why does no one wanna date meeeeee???”
Like…?? Maybe if you treated them as PEOPLE instead of faceless strawmen you can poke at for hours and then pretend you did NOTHING, maybe we might get some real equality? It’s kind of easy to get to a point where you want nothing to do with people who deny your basic humanity~ Same reason why I don’t count myself as a feminist. The second I came out, I was part of the “outgroup” and a toxic Evil Manperson, OR a Misguided Gender Traitor. *cringe*
I’m also gay af. Of COURSE I’m going to prioritize my male-presenting/masculine-identified partners over some stranger regardless of gender presentation/sex/identity?? They’re my family. They’re my Partners. We’re a support network who care about each other’s wellbeing…?? We don’t know you from Eve lady~ of course I’m going to prioritize their mental and emotional wellbeing over yours.
Mirrors! I’m either a very vain dragon, a very fabulous dragon, or both.
A pile of coppers and small change. I’m a dragon who likes to show off their wealth in the most elaborate and redundant way possible. Or it’s a fashion choice and matches my scales. Or both.
knitting! I can haz jumpers?
We now have the four main villains of a really weird and slightly undramatic D&D campaign. I can just imagine the faces of the bored and annoyed adventurers walking away with their new hordes…
blankets, because of course i was being weird and sitting facing sideways when this post came up. honestly checks out
Trash
Metal water bottles
I am the attack dragon
I’m the fucking remote dragon.
Red fluffy dragon. Imma be the sofest dragon across all the dragon species XD
A car door? What an odd thing to hoard.
Umm, I guess I’m an alcoholic dragon because there’s a box of wine to my left😓
MY CAT! GLORIOUS
to my left right now is a keytar and a tequila bottle. I feel like this is the most this meme has ever hit My Actual Aesthetic.
I know most people associate LUSH Cosmetics with white girls and bath bombs but products from this beautiful company have faded my scars and stretch marks, completely gotten rid of my acne, fixed my dry skin problems, thickened my eyelashes, laid my edges, made my hair grow like crazy… I can go on and on. I’ve actually never tried the bath bombs, but their skincare and haircare products work magic.
Fading Scars / Stretch Marks Organic Therapy Massage Bar
Extra Dry Skin King of Skin In-Shower Body Conditioner, Skin Drink Facial Moisturizer, Sultana of Soap Bar, Tender is the Night Massage Bar, Each’s a Peach Massage Bar
Acne Fresh Farmacy Solid Cleanser, Eau Roma Toning Water, Full of Grace Serum Bar
Thickening Lashes Eyes Right Mascara / Lash Milk
Edges R&B Hair Moisturizer (if you put this on your edges before wrapping your hair, they’ll be relaxer-straight when you wake up, lasts about 12 hours), Dirty Styling Cream (cream-based edge control with a matte finish, no more shiny or crunchy edges)
Hair Growth NEW! Shampoo Bar, Retread Hair Conditioner
I was asked to list the rest of the products I currently have in my possession, so here y’all go!
FACE / HAIR STUFF
Magical Moringa Facial Moisturizer Oh my lordy. Let me tell y’all about this stuff. It’s marketed as a moisturizer but I use it as a primer because when you put this on your face, it’s completely matte. Like completely. All day. And it will lock your makeup in place like no other. You can sweat in it, swim in it, whatever. Shit won’t budge. Ever.
Jason & the Argan Oil Shampoo Bar Amazing for volumizing. It made the three bundles in my head look more like five when I used this thing the first time, I kid you not. Also gives your hair a really natural shine. I only use it when I really need a volume boost, otherwise it’s just too much.
No Drought Dry Shampoo If you have a weave, you need this stuff. Period. A lot of times, the natural oils in our scalps (referring to my fellow black women here) are too heavy for Brazilian, Peruvian, etc hair, and so it’s easy for weave to get weighed down between washes. Shake this stuff in your hair, brush it out – bam, flow city.
Honey Trap Lip Balm My favorite lip balm, ever. Really improves the texture of your lips and seals in moisture. However, this is not for fixing chapped lips – use Ultrabalm for that first, and then this to prevent them from chapping again. Also, pro-tip, if you apply it before liquid lipstick, your lipstick won’t crease or dry out all day.
MASSAGE BARS
Strawberry Feels Forever Smells like fresh strawberries! Has a much thinner consistency than the other massage bars, so it can be used every day, like a solid lotion.
Soft Coeur Smells like chocolate and honey, and is ridiculously moisturizing. More heavy-duty than the other bars, so I like to only use this one on spots like my knees, heels, and elbows.
From Dusk til Dawn The shape of this one is amazing. It’s shaped like a cone, so it gives a deep massage when you’re using it. Definitely recommend if you have any sort of muscle pain.
SCRUBS
The Rough with the Smooth This stuff smells soooo good. Like cotton candy. I use it before I shave because it really does an amazing job at removing any dead skin and it doesn’t leave a residue, so it won’t clog your razor. However, it’s a sugar scrub, so it melts super quickly.
Ocean Salt This is a heavy-duty scrub. Really amazing if you have dry, flaky skin, and the healing properties of the salt are really great if you have acne. It’ll dry it up and heal it super quick.
Cup o’ Coffee Face & Body Mask I’m on my fourth jar of this already. The coffee beans are ground up just enough to give a deep, yet gentle scrub and the caffeine in the bar really does wake up your skin and make it look brighter. Great for the morning.
Buffy It smells like a vacation, that’s really the only way to describe it. It’s an exfoliant bar and body butter mixed together, so you rub it all over while you’re still in the shower, and then rinse the sand off. After, rub the oils in and pat dry. No need for lotion after because it seals in the moisture from your shower.
SHOWER GELS / JELLIES
Rose Jam Shower Gel Smells like roses and has a really bubbly lather. More cleansing than moisturizing. I like to use it before a more moisturizing soap because it’s great for removing dirt and oil from the skin.
The Olive Branch Shower Gel A long-time favorite of mine. Great for dry skin, as it has a really creamy lather versus a bubbly one. Also, the smell is very calming and lingers for a long time.
Needles & Pines Shower Jelly It’s a solid shower gel (consistency of jello), and it smells like Christmas trees! I like to store it in the fridge and use it when it’s hot outside, super cleansing and refreshing.
SOAPS:
Roses All the Way Personal favorite! Smells like roses & vanilla ice cream. Super moisturizing and so, so creamy. Definitely buy if you suffer from dry skin.
Yog Nog Very moisturizing and the scent lingers for a really long time. Smells like snickerdoodles and eggnog.
Bohemian Not at all creamy, as it’s an exfoliating soap. It’s great to use on dark spots like knees and armpits because the exfoliants soften the skin and the lemon juice evens out your skintone. Smells like lemons.
Karma Another favorite. It has a super thin consistency but is still very moisturizing, so it’s a good shaving soap because it won’t gunk up your razor. Smells like incense and patchouli.
Figs & Leaves Smells like dirt and grass, in a good way. Super cleansing. As in your skin will literally squeak after using it, so I recommend using an in-shower moisturizer like King of Skin after using it.
OTHER:
Atomic Toothy Tabs Solid toothpaste that you crush up in your mouth. It sounds weird but these things are phenomenal. They really leave your teeth squeaky clean, and are the sole reason my teeth are so white – I don’t use any whitening products. This particular kind smells like cloves and cinnamon.
Ultrabalm All Purpose Balm This stuff is amazing. It’s an all-over balm for rough spots. I use it in the winter time on my hands and lips, because they get dry. I also use it year round on my face where I get dry spots, as it doesn’t clog pores.
Silky Underwear Dusting Powder Another holy grail. If you could turn cocoa butter into a powder, this would be it. It’s not drying like baby powder, it’s more silky (it’s also talc-free). I use it between my legs to prevent chafing and under my boobs when it’s hot outside to prevent sweating.
This is actually so helpful because a lot of times I go into lush and I just end up getting pink things and things that smell good because I don’t know what other products are worth purchasing!
TALK TO PEOPLE. okay so I only worked there as a seasonal, but these overly polite, overly talkative salespeople have to do 3 demos an hour! SO if they ask if you want to try something, let them. They know what they’re doing and they will tell you everything you want to know about the product and what it will do for you.
The worst was when I had customers saying that they were just looking because they didnt know a thing about what they were looking at. A lot of the products look identical on the shelves, but they are all specifically tailored for different needs.
Fun facts:
86% of all products are vegan, the rest are vegetarian
everything is ethically sourced, including the charcoal which comes from recycled forest fires
Lush will cut ties with their suppliers if they dont treat their employees nicely enough
Lush saves 10% of their spending budget for emergencies, like when a well broke down in one of their suppliers companies over in Kenya and Lush found out they were lowering women into the well, that money didnt just go to repairing the well, but for getting them a second well as well.
Lush even makes perfume but the scents are about stories instead of smells. There’s a little booklet for each one. My favorites are Dear John (about the owner, Mark, not knowing who his dad was) and Dad’s Lemon Tree (which he made after meeting his dad)
Lush also makes makeup, although they are working on getting more pigments
Lush is 21 years old and in 57 countries!
Charity Pot is a lotion that is low scent as not to mix with your other scents, is a lot of cocoa butter, and 100% goes to grassroots charities, they dont even pay people to make it, that’s how good it is
If you bring in 5 black pots (wash them please, they are dishwasher safe) you can get a free fresh face mask
Lush is the inventor of the bathbomb and most of them have essential oils in them and cocoa butter, so they’re not just fun, but they’re actually really good for your skin
There is a Lush Facebook page but more importantly is that there are local Lush facebooks. You can ask them if something is in stock and they’ll get back to you as quickly as possible (the Alderwood location takes only a few hours)
Anything that looks like a big brick of product is sold by weight. Just ask and they will cut you off a piece to fit your budget
FREE SAMPLES. Feel free to ask. They do NOT want to sell you something that is not right for you
Everything is handmade with commercial kitchen like equipment. This is why things don’t always look the same, because the recipe changes and different people are making it. Leave room for error and basically Guenivere likes adding more pigment than Brendan does but Brendan makes seasonal stuff that’s fantastic. It’s not that it’s gone off or is poorly made. There’s a little sticker that shows you who made it and it also has the expiration date on it
It the ingredient list is both green and black, the green is for natural ingredients and black is for synthetic.
If you go in and they dont have something because it was a seasonal or it’s no longer being made, do not be sad. The same scent may be in another product but more importantly, you can still get it. THE LUSH KITCHEN puts out products that are no longer being made every night at midnight (UK though so time stuff). There’s exclusive merch on there too, including bags and aprons and shirts. Everything goes really really fast though so you have to be ON it.
reblogged to the wrong blog because it took 4 attempts to reblog at all!
this is…nice
My daughter worked at LUSH before college and just seriously…they are an amazing company with highly educated salespeople who want to help you find things that will make you feel, look and smell your best.
great to know about the scarring one because honestly I’m REALLY dysphoric about my hysterectomy scars even though they’re small…
House Of Crows 