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notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 12:45 pm
I work as an IT administrator in Germany. Every day in the morning there is a “daily” the team is talking about problems what should be solved. This is a small group of 6 it-workers. We had an very quite and wordless worker who acts really slowly. I give him the name Prince Valium. There […]
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cimorene) wrote2025-12-18 03:08 pmwaxjism rearranged plants she put the three biggest ones - trees, they are trees - all at the west livingroom window. 
atlasobscura_feed) wrote2025-12-18 08:00 am
There is plenty of documented history about how the handicrafts commonly known as alebrijes came to be linked with towns like San Martín Tilcajete. The term "alebrijes" originated in Mexico City, and the first crafts to be called as such were made out of papier mache. Manuel Jimenez brought the idea to the state of Oaxaca, where the copal wood was the element of choice for local carvers to use in these figures, due to its ease to work with as well as the symbolic significance of the tree. The majority indigenous population in this area of the state is the Zapotec, and their culture exerts a large influence. Bursera copallifera is one of the species best known as copal, as it name indicates, but several other trees in the Bursera genus have this common name too. For several indigenous cultures, copal was valued for its resin, often dried and burned as a type of incense, with the smell of its smoke said to be able to "awake the gods" for the Zapotec.
With alebrijes becoming one of Oaxaca's best-known crafts, along with masks and other carvings made out of copal, numbers of these trees began to decrease at an unsustainable rate. Morales himself noticed these issues and in 1994, he lead the first reforestation campaign in the area of Tilcajete and neighboring towns like Ocotlán. In the 21st century, the workshop of Jacobo and María Ángeles has become one of the most influential in the craft of alebrijes, often responsible for unusually large pieces with complex shapes, which require a large amount of copal wood. It was the Ángeles workshop that established Palo que Habla (which can be translated as Talking or Speaking Stick) in 2006, after the slow gathering of suitable land that started in the 2000s.
Palo que Habla is set up as a multifaceted and constantly growing project encompassing several conservationist aims, with the main one being the nursing and establishment of copal groves which can then be sustainably harvested for wood. Its terrains also feature water catchment areas, fields for growing commercial flowers and crops (heirloom corn and beans in particular), many of which are showcased in Almú, its onsite restaurant. One of the project's most interesting practices is the yearly "Adopta un Árbol" (Adopt a Tree) campaign, which includes a reforestation campaign by volunteers along with a system for donors to sponsor a tree that they can name.
marcicat) wrote2025-12-18 07:55 amnewpajiba_feed) wrote2025-12-18 07:30 am
I haven't always been a huge fan of Michael Che. But I am now. And I think that's due to a combination of factors. He wasn't great as an "Update" host in the beginning. It felt like he was trying...
elainegrey) wrote2025-12-18 07:37 amIf i miss writing in time, i hope everyone is able have the observations that make passing through this solstice period a joy or at least the darkness eased. I am enjoying my LED lit branch (up all year) and tree during the long dark morning, and found that BritBox has streaming holiday light shows to run in the background of doing other things.
Some quick notes
no car news, but we don't really need two vehicles, so we are OK. What we have is a good reliable car (that is now dmaged) and a vehicle for taking things to the dump. Christine managed to find a really nice take things to the dump vehicle some years back, so we'll drive it about more and live with the lousy gas mileage.
Bruno and Marlowe have had a step of improvement in how they get along and how Bruno believes he can access the rest of the house. He doesn't need coaxing to leave his safe room, Marlowe is not nearly as vigilant. It's odd to see how things seem to have little jumps and not gradual change. We went from much coaxing to get him to leave his room on his own to him dashing out in the morning.
Christine is having a more serious flare (infection) of the issue that sent her to the emergency room in June. Less than a month to the surgery that should resolve things.
I am fighting my own self denigration around gift giving and not really winning but avoiding. I hope i can take some time off today to label and wrap and pack and ship. I had so much joy making and thinking about giving -- years of it imagining when i could gift things from the orchard -- and ... anyhow, i will focus on that and try to take the insecure part of me and tell her ... that people already know i am a flake so it's ok? No, wait, that's not the message. We'll work on that.
i've gotten in my (pathetically low count of) steps the past two days. I think i feel better for it. I am worried about how fatigue hit me out of the blue a few weeks ago, but i have no evidence that the fatigue is caused by doing things, i just NOTICE when i am doing things. Acting like i am fatigued all the time is not the solution.
notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 12:00 pm
I see two women sitting by the pool, so I walk up to them. It's the customer and her friend, and they are both drunk on margaritas. They start arguing about who is going to pay for the pizza. The customer holds out a check to me. The friend grabs the check and rips it in half. The customer writes another check. The friend again rips it in half. They keep arguing about it.
notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 12:00 pmMom: “So, you know how [Stepdad] and I replaced our mattress recently? The new mattress is so deep that my old bedspread doesn’t hang down far enough to cover it anymore, so I had to buy a bigger bedspread. But I could barely find one I could tolerate; I hate these new fashions. And then […]
shirebound) wrote2025-12-18 07:12 am
amethyst_witch, who asked to see the soft squishies I'm giving my three-year-old grandnephews (twins) for their birthday. They love these things... and ooooh, they feel like velvet.
andrewducker) wrote2025-12-18 12:00 pmspikedluv) wrote2025-12-18 06:59 amnotalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 11:00 amI am the author of the Roomba-under-the-chest-of-drawers story, so I’ll share another one – how we got our current baking oven. It was years ago, and my Wife was talking on her phone loudly with someone about a close friend who’d just finished her house and has top-of-the-line everything, including an oven that takes just […]
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 02:00 pmMerry (almost) Christmas, cat lovers. The holidays bring out different things in all of us – for some, it makes us joyful, euphoric, and in an upbeat mood. For others, it can make us pressured, anxious, nervous and overthinking about what to get people for their gifts. Don't be a Scrooge, be a cat loving, meme scrolling, holiday hooligan and enjoy life while we still can! No matter if you're a Scrooge or not, you can still enjoy these cat photos and memes of felines in Santa hats celebrating one of the best holidays yet. And who can deny a little coquettish kiss under some mistletoe. What's more enticing than a pine tree stem hovering above you?
Cats kiss under the mistletoe too. If you don't believe us, go home and try it today, but if you end up with a furball caught in your throat after your cat goes in for first base, don't blame us! If your holiday plans include avoiding awkward mistletoe encounters and aggressively relaxing with your phone, then 25 Christmas Cats in Santa Hats to Scroll Under the Mistletoe is exactly the festive distraction you deserve. These cats have donned their tiny red hats (against their will, legally speaking) and are here to spread cheer, chaos, and an unreasonable amount of judgment.
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 09:00 amOh, lawd - Biggie Smalls is coming! He's coming, he's going, he's gaining followers, and losing pounds. Biggie arrived to The Big House Sanctuary & Rehab in Ottawa at a shocking 43 pounds. His organs were getting pushed out of the way, and even walking was hard for him. But, the workers at this sanctuary didn't give up on him. We're happy to announce that Biggie has lost… drum roll, please… almost 20 pounds! He's still a chonker, but he's literally lost almost half of himself since he started this journey.
Biggie quickly became an internet celebrity in the cat world due to his purrfectly round nature. He has millions of likes and followers, everyone pawistively invested in his de-chonkification. He's still got about five or ten more pounds to lose, but it's not about racing to the finish, it's about getting there in the furst place! We've been in love with him since the beginning, and we can't wait to see the cat he will become in the future. We're all about body pawsitivity, but we're also equally about healthy cats leading healthy lives.
He may no longer be round in body, but he is still round in spirit. Read more about the notorious C.A.T. by scrolling down!
icanhascheezburger_feed) wrote2025-12-18 07:00 amThe year 2025 has been one big challenge. And we mean that in varios ways, of course, but what we are taking about specifically here is the challenge of just… going online. So much negativity, so much drama, so much clickbait and madness. It has been everywhere. But inside all of that madness, something meowgical was happening. It was the same thing that happens every year. Cats. No matter what was going on online, there were always viral stories of cats for us to enjoy. And this year, one genre of cat post that we have seen go viral over and over again was unique and rare cats.
We think that people just wanted a little extra beauty in their lives, espeically on the internet. And so, every week, we would open some social media platform, and every week, there would be at least one unique and beautiful cat for us to stare at. Something about thsese posts captured the hearts of the people, so we thought that it was only right to give the people what they have been asking for, so we put together the coolest cats of 2025.
notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 10:00 am(This was when I was working for a variety store where store managers choose from a catalogue of items to put in their shops. Our tills are next to the sweets, where I hear a conversation between my supervisor and a customer couple.) Customer: We’re looking for gommes (pronounced like gone with an m) Supervisor: […]
notalwaysright_feed) wrote2025-12-18 10:00 amRead Déjà Food
The cashier is taking an order during the morning shift at a fast-food place. The customer orders multiple of the same item, which uses pre-made ingredients and is pre-prepared (not made to order).
Customer: "It better be made right this time. I want it full. Not like how you usually give me. Every [Same Corporate Franchise] in town makes better ones than this store."
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