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[email protected] — For everyday socialism.

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Cake day: October 6th, 2025

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  • Bitch away! I’m from the milder weather on the east - Tons of snow for a month and a perfect 17⁰C every other day.

    Damn. But isn’t skating super fun? I bought cross country skis and binoculars last year to help me enjoy the cold and dark.

    I should look into that. The problem is the pipes run through a wall, I call it “The Wall,” because it’s ice all the fucking time. I can’t figure out exactly where it’s freezing, and it runs behind built in cabinets. The super special heater was put in because of burst pipes, so I guess it stopped that.

    At least, this year, I haven’t woken up to indoor winter with the basement heater screaming bloody murder through the house, and had to shuffle outside at Stupid AM to knock the ice off the intake… yet.








  • Icytrees@sh.itjust.workstoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldYep
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    6 months ago

    I’m like 99% infertile, an absolute bonus of a health problem because even the idea of being pregnant gives me anxiety. I can sex it up in god mode without worrying too much about birth control failing.

    Being alone is my happy place. I don’t even like sharing a bed.








  • Sounds fantastic. Foraged mushrooms are the best. I feel the same way about going out for food unless it’s something difficult or expensive to make on my own. That said, one of my favorite meals is a bowl of peas.

    I’ve sent city hall and my mp an obnoxious amount of e-mails about allowing urban chickens here. When they get their heads out of their asses and shut down the bylaw I’ll have a coop built before the ink dries.


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    Valid concerns. I won’t ignore the orphan crushing machine and every situation is different, but a lot of food can be grown in an apartment.

    I had a 300sqft bachelor pad in Vancouver where I managed to grow tomatoes, goji berries, greens and ALL the herbs. I kept my herbs in pots under a full spectrum light indoors, clipping and drying as they grew out. After set-up I only had to water, fertilize sometimes, and prune as needed. Greens, I kept harvesting young and re-seeding. Aside from watering, it took almost no effort to put a significant dent in my grocery bill.

    Now, I have a 4x8ft fenced garden in a shared yard where I grow so much I barely buy produce in the summer. Aside from weeding, sprouting and transplanting in the spring, the main labour is watering, which only takes like five minutes. I get my seeds from things I eat or the public library seed share, so those are free, too.

    I legit grew three pumpkins, four ziplock bags of sunflower seeds, beets, snap peas, opium poppies, carrots, tomatoes, gooseberries, strawberries and still have a herb shelf inside.

    I get that’s still not a year’s worth a food, but it’s a lot for tiny bit of dirt, considering I knew nothing about gardening before.

    Oh but get GMO pumpkin seeds. White mildew rot is a pain in the ass and everywhere. And a dehydrator if you don’t know how to deal with lots of food at once, you can make chips and crackers out of anything.

    I’m pretty lucky in that my friends hunt, too, so I get a butt load of deer meat every fall.