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lockedinabookstore:

i would like to plant some pretty flowers for bees in my area but also i have very few spoons to do work outside, could i just seed bomb the area where i want flowers? or do you have any low effort gardening tips?

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gallusrostromegalus:

Very Low-Effort Pollinator Helper Garden:

1. Decide where you want the flowers to go. If it’s bare dirt right now, you’re good! If it’s got grass, a lot of weeds or it’s really low-quality/hard-packed soil, you will need to pull the weeds/clear the grass (Or pay one of your neighbor kids to do it) and mix in a bag of Soil Amendment (it’s basically a bag of compost and plant food you mix into the dirt with a rake).

2. Call or Visit the website of you County Extenson, or just enter “Pollinator Flowers [County Name] County” into your serach engine to get an idea what flowers are good for your local pollinators and how big they get etc. You can also ask to get your soil tested, which might be a good idea if you live near a gas station or any kind of industrial area, but as long as you’re not eating any of them, I wouldn’t worry about it.

3. Once you have a list of flowers that are localized, will grow in the space/water/sunlight/soil conditions you have, order some seeds. You can try your local garden store, or online!
3B: if you get Perennial flowers, they’ll come back by themselves next spring and you don’t even have to plant them again!

4. Following directions on seed packet, plant seeds. A lot of them you can just scatter and forget, but if you’ve got the energy, try putting the tallest ones in the back of the plot so they don’t shade out the others, and then plant them in rows getting shorter so they don’t shade each other out and you can see all of them as they mature!

5. Water them as much as you were planning on anyway, and let them do thier plant thing! In a few weeks you should have lots of Pollinator flowers and a pretty little garden.

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quousque:

whatbigotspost:

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adamthegirl:

Researchers gave thousands of dollars to homeless people. The results defied stereotypes.
You've heard this refrain before -- giving money to homeless people is not the best way to help them because it might be squandered, or spen
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“Researchers gave 50 recently homeless people a lump sum of 7,500 Canadian dollars (nearly $5,700). They followed the cash recipients’ life over 12-18 months and compared their outcomes to that of a control group who didn’t receive the payment. The preliminary findings, which will be peer-reviewed next year, show that those who received cash were able to find stable housing faster, on average. By comparison, those who didn’t receive cash lagged about 12 months behind in securing more permanent housing.
People who received cash were able to access the food they needed to live faster. Nearly 70% did after one month, and maintained greater food security throughout the year. The recipients spent more on food, clothing and rent, while there was a 39% decrease in spending on goods like alcohol, cigarettes or drugs.“

It’s almost like people self medicate to survive intense stress like, idk, not having the cash to live anywhere but outdoors. People who are extremely poor do not want to be poor, we WANT to be safe and have autonomy in our lives but capitalism makes that impossible for some people.

And drug/alcohol abuse, even when prioritized over eating and other necessities, isn’t some kind of alien mindset, it’s very often a matter of not having the resources to actually be safe and fully meet your actual needs so you have to cope somehow with the suffering that deprivation causes.

This is a perfect example of the kind of important study that shouldn’t NEED to be done, but does need to be done so we can once and for all implement policies that actually help people.

i think it’s important that it was a lump sum all at once, instead of little amounts intermittently. If you’re homeless and, say, addicted to alcohol or meth or whatever, and someone gives you $20 a day, for 12 months, what are you gonna do with that? $20 isn’t enough to pay for a place to sleep that night. You can get some food, but you can’t stock up on anything because you have nowhere to put it. You can’t buy a new pair of shoes. You can’t pay for medication. You can’t really save it up because what are you gonna do, walk around with $5000 worth of twenties in your pocket? until they get lost or stolen and you never got anything out of that money? But you can go and get $20 worth of alcohol and maybe the rest of your day will suck a little less.

But if you get that $5000 all at once and then nothing for the rest of the year, that’s enough to get an apartment for a month, and your meds, and food, and clothes, and then well hey you can look for a job (and you have a mailing address, wow!).

if you’re in a shit situation getting dribs and drabs of money can keep you alive but it won’t help you really change your circumstances, but a large lump sum can do that.

I have brought this study up to multiple people who despite the research, still cannot break their stereotypical image of people who are homeless.

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nuclearfeels:

therealraewest:

butchlizbian:

Tony Hawk is like fucking Perry the Platypus because if I saw him without a skateboard I’d be like “A man” and the second he picks up a skateboard I’d be like “TONY HAWK?!?!?!?!?!”

This basically sums up all his tweets

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Absolutely thriller that they added a little helmet

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koobaxion:

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King shit

This makes me cranky.

I understand that artists/musicians/actors have whole careers and that fans often get stuck on one particular aspect of it. But I find it disrespectful to the fans and to the work–especially when the work in question arguably made you who you are.

Have some fucking decorum, Harry.

or or or or


and get this


it’s just a fucking movie series,


the actors aren’t required to know everything little thing about it, especially something this tedious, no matter if it “made you who you are”