literally why

i definitely had this realisation last year too but it is deeply upsetting to me how much better coal is for heating than wood because the wood i buy is incredibly local and it smells nice and its all happy and crackling and the planet is dying so buying new coal feels aggressively evil

i miss nothing ever happening

there's no way to delicately put this so: there's no meaningful way for you, as an individual, to "prepare for war" so if the news is making you want to buy a years supply of tinned carrots and spam...probably turn off the news tbh

the older i get the more i sympathize with all the old people i used to know whod be like "A QUID FOR A CANDY BAR?? ARE YOU INSANE?! THIS USED TO BE 10P" because i understand what inflation is but show me a grocery item that I don't buy regularly and ill get a heart attack

the worst thing about winter is that it makes jumping out of planes incredibly inconvenient

foederationem russicam esse delendam prolly cause its an ACI, innit

i know and understand so much less now than i did at 21 and i dont know if thats wisdom and experience or just dementia

every building restoration book: clay walls can regulate air humidity and therefore create a healthy climate in your house <3 me, getting out the humidifier after 8 months of running the dehumidifier bc now that the oven is on the air is so dry i wake up with a sore throat and a headache every day:

nächstes jahr endlich wieder adrenalinkick

i dont think anything could ever have prepared me for the absolute jarring horror that is living long enough to see your friends and aquaintances climb their various career ladders like what do you mean you are in charge of thousands of men and national security? i wouldnt trust you with a spoon

me: haha, Americans are so weird and backwards with their random authoritarian pledge of allegiance in school every morning, like what even is that?? me, looking at what i literally still make my class do at the beginning of every lesson:

being a human is so cool because you can just decide what sort of person you want to be and then think and do the sorts of things that sort of person would think or do and then you are the sort of person who thinks and does those things snails cant do that, thats all us, bby

the best part of my day is getting into my little car at 5 in the morning and driving in the pitch dark over empty streets to my cute little job and i dont know if thats sad or not

you know whats annoying about that stupid psychology gratitude bullshit?? you'll be sitting in your cold house, eating meal prep you dont really like, with a list of chores longer than the magna carta and piles of laundry that should be on an episode of hoarders and 🌟the news🌟

history books massively oversold how cool sabotage is like, i understand how damaging train tracks is sabotage and dangerous but we all have to agree that its also an incredible lame, right? you dont need an underground resistance cell and a cool beret and an ideology to mildly damage a track

heute habe ich erfahren, dass einige meiner mitstreiter sich große sorgen um die mögliche verbeamtung machen ...wegen des "verfassungstreue checks" das gibt mir zu denken, was die in ihrer freizeit alles machen ngl

ganz ehrlich die einzige Wertschätzung, die ich in meinem Beruf brauche, ist wenn ich morgens um punkt 6 Uhr im Büro der Schulleitung stehe und sage "das war voll gemein von denen da oben!! mit ihren verwaltungen und vorschriften" und die sagt "ja...voll gemein!! das geht gar nicht!"

before i whine about the thing i am going to whine about: yes that is entirely my own fault and yes i could have spent the last 14 months powerlifting and eating nothing but egg whites but i didnt and i am still going to complain so shut up

maybe i'm being super dense and autistic but what is it about "i bruise really easily, dont freak out about it" which seems like a very clear and easy to understand statement that people don't get or refuse to believe?? bc i can reframe that babes but you need to help me help you here

it's true that i'm neither a gremlin nor a bimbo i am a wildly overconfident possum

if i screenshot this and send it to my old linguistics prof and it gives her a heart attack and kills her...can i be done for murder or would that just be manslaughter?

öffentlicher Dienst (2.0) das Ministerium bittet darum bei Fragen oder Problemen, den Dienstweg einzuhalten und sich an die regionalen Ämter zu wenden ...das Ministerium bittet um Verständnis darum, dass die lokalen Ämter, wegen Personalmangel und -wechsel auch nichts wissen und sagen können 👍

i was a little bummed out when i bought this house that there's no basement because...root cellar but it has been about 11.5C and 78% humidity in my kitchen for the last week which is not root cellar stats but its getting pretty close

someone in the group chat just did a pregnancy announcement with "he colonized my womb" about her white husband and im just 😬

i think it'd be interesting to read some thinkers from not the west write on simulacra and simulation because i have a theory that us being one of the cultures that has massive hang ups about authenticity and historicity has influenced baudrillard a lot

help shes too cute

my hobby is cooking a very basic meal for myself once every two weeks and then go "oh wow im such a talented chef, i should be on the tv" before eating nothing but candy again for the next three two weeks

i dont mean to brag or anything but at the tender age of 36 years today i got my very first own bathrobe soooo ...thats very impressive go me

people in the past were ruthless as fuck im looking up old geneology books and this family had a child in the summer of 1685 and named her Agness. Agness dies in the spring of 1686. In the spring of 1687 they have another daughter and name her Agness.

POV 30 Tage vor Ende deines Studiums, hat dich dein Arbeitgeber heute informiert, dass die zu Anfang des Studiums versprochene Höherstufung tarifrechtlich nicht möglich sein wird, die angefragte und angestrebte Laufbahn nicht möglich sein wird und eine Weiterqualifizierung nicht möglich sein wird.

In tragic news: she's so fast asleep and I so have to get up and pee

me, ca 2021: anyways, at least i know i'm cool and stylishe so i'll never end up looking like one of those frazzled teachers in their weird teacher outfits me, 2025, laying out one of the many frazzled teacher outfits i own: 👍

alle haben Aurora, ich hab Hochnebel 😑

die größte Bedrohung für die Verteidigungsfähigkeit der Bundesrepublik ist a) hybride russische Kriegsführung b) mangelnde Investitionen c) amerikanischer Isolationismus

me, explaining to my family thats already incredibly disappointed with my life choices that this housell be paid off in a few years and then i might just sell it at a huge loss and buy an empty field to put a tiny home on somewhere my family: me:

after a season of actively watching the mushroom foraging facebook groups its honestly a miracle how few people die from mushroom poisoning genuinely surprising

Me: honestly, I don't think I even have anxiety, I mean, there'd be signs, right? Also me:

yesterday, on a Saturday, i suggested my CATHOLIC THEOLOGY study group could just meet again for an hour or so this morning so we could finish up something we were working on i woke up today and realised why nobody else thought SUNDAY FUCKING MORNING was a good time to meet

Gründe warum ich nicht im Militär bin #94732: ich fände es sehr lustig auf "Dienstgrad?" "Celsius, aber ich kann auch Kelvin" zu antworten ...aber halt...auch nur ich

ive been thinking about how i wanted to try and see how long i could feed myself without buying anything from a supermarket but every time i do its like "but i want persimmons and energy drinks :((" and i just realised i can just do everything but persimmons and energy drinks

me, alone, single, unattached, unbothered by anyone's presence, at peace, thriving: 😊 literally just some guy with vaguely broad shoulders and a decent hair cut smelling like bad decisions and nicotine: me:

Temperatur: 3 Grad Sichtweite: ca 10m Wetter: Nieselregen

i think evolution is a lie because explain how my ancestors were endurance runners chasing deer for days until they collapsed from exhaustion and yet my survival of the fittest butt can't even walk up a mild incline without being out of breath

how is my life going? really well, really normal, tomorrow i am going to work linseed oil into the bits of floor that are just straight up clay and see how that goes so thats very exciting for us all

today in: life is an endless parade of mysteries the cats have been peeing a lot like a normal amount like the amount of pee you would expect a cat to pee but the water in their bowl does not seem to get any less, like, at all

people are good, everything else is details

chat, is everything bad maybe?

Esse ich Fleisch? nein aber würde mich so ein richtiges westfälisches Grünkohlessen grade echt abholen? ja

TIL that you can look up the actual archaeological reports of the digs they did on time team and thats how i learnt that "land snail assessment" is apparently a standard tool in (British?) archaeology