so some of these places have v literal bad vibes? 🤯

the medieval period may have been brutal in europe, but next door, the islamic golden age was happening at that time, involving huge advances & development in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, art, etc between the 8th and 14th/15th centuries.

desert, afaik!

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert

the most i use for container gardening is the same tomato feed for every plant, tbh. you might be able to find a bottle within your budget, and since it’ll need to be diluted a lot, it should last a while.

if you want to really go above & beyond, plant-scraps-tea & crushed eggshells etc will top up their nutrients. if you’re ever boiling veggies etc in unsalted water, consider letting it cool down & watering your plants with that too.

overall, i try not to go overboard with feeding various nutrients, unless it looks like the plant needs a pick-me-up. it’s a lot easier to give them more nutrients when they’re too low, than to try to flush out nutrients if they’re getting too much of something.

possibly…? when i went to the community directly, it only showed me 1 post & 15 subscribers; then after going to it via your post history, it suddenly showed 3 posts & 21 subscribers.

There are very few ways to frame the second in which it’s ethical.

yeah, that’s the point of the post. it’s clearly unethical, and yet, capitalism continues.

fast food, which the cheetah will consider slow-cooked 🙂‍↕️

both questions are concerned with self and society in general.

the first question puts survival up for debate, and the second question puts capitalism up for debate.

i’d say that most of us know the answers to both questions, but only ever asking the first question & never the second, helps people to form the idea that capitalism is just how things always have to be, and that it could/should never be changed.

also, if there are unused green areas where you live, consider throwing some seed-bombs in there with plants that can be foraged later! 🤘

because why is food so expensive? it literally grows on trees

“housing first” initiatives end up saving governments money in the long run, because people in stable situations require fewer supports, are healthier physically & mentally, have the bandwidth for pastimes & participating in their communities, etc etc.

(if i didn’t know any better, i might think having an unhoused population is an intentional policy choice to threaten people with & to keep capitalism going. because if people just started building & providing housing to one another for free, like they used to before planning permission & other red tape, our local communities might start to be too independent & self-sufficient to keep centi-billionaires quite as rich, oh no! 😱)

it’s well worth identifying what plant it is exactly & whether it’s native or not, just to be sure. a lot of native plants can have vigorous growth & spread because that’s exactly the habitat & climate it’s adapted to.

but if it’s not native & is spreading, it sounds like it’ll be a hell of a job to remove. i don’t envy you if that’s the case, best of luck!

if those thorn bushes are native plants, then why not let them grow?

i just let the place grow wild without input from me, beyond what i & my dogs walk over. the grass/clover/purple deadnettle/buttercups/etc stay shorter in high-traffic areas, then the low-traffic areas tend to fill up with bigger wild plants like docks, thistles, nettles etc.

butterflies, bees, and other insects seem to love the thistles when they start flowering, and it’s so nice to see pollinators fluttering & buzzing around that it’s worth the occasional thorn/nettle sting when i’m not watching where i’m going! not to mention the blackberry harvest from the briars in the autumn.

hell yeah, make this the default design for carparks & bus/train/tram shelters ! 🙌

we get electricity production out of it, and a bitta shelter when it rains, win win!

fadhb ar bith! 🙌

https://cula4.ie/ is handy. media made for kids/young people is great for getting used to sentence structures and common vocab. they’ve got everything from “saol faoi shráid” to the irish dub of “shrek”!

https://www.rte.ie/player/series/bluey-as-gaeilge/10019908-00-0000 “bluey” is available in irish on the rté player just beginning this week or so. the first episode says there’s only 6 days left to watch it, so they won’t be up forever, sadly.

https://snas.ie/ has a load of resources starting at level B1; i enjoyed going through the lessons based on “ros na rún”, and the explanations for the grammar/vocab in them are in english.

a blog i keep coming across when i’m looking for explanations online is https://toingaeilge.com/ too. it hasn’t been updated in a few years, but it has some great breakdowns & good lists of resources too.

https://www.foclach.com/ and https://seafoid.com/ are some daily word games (based on wordle and waffle) that might help with expanding vocabulary. i find seafóid easier & it pops up with a definition as soon as you get each word.

other than that, i recommend reading as many books in irish that you can get your hands on, starting with books for kids & working your way up. starting at too high a level is likely to just be frustrating & demotivating, so focus on what you can easily do now & keep adding to it.

for getting books, your local library’s online catalogue will let you know what it has & what it can get via inter-library loan. (free resources are my favourite 🥳)

i’d recommend these for buying books in irish, if there’s nothing of interest anywhere local: https://www.siopaleabhar.com/ https://www.siopagaeilge.ie/ https://www.litriocht.com/

ádh mór ort! 🙌

i wish they were happening at a time when the dáil was in session, to affect the people who most need to be affected by this.

that said, fair play to them for organising a protest that actually disrupts things & happens during the week, rather than a weekend protest that gets ignored.

it being almost immediately hijacked by racists & anti-immigration bigots is awful, and i fear it’s going to make more people support the dangerous precedent of the army being called in.

i feel that the bigger picture isn’t being looked at or talked about beyond fuel prices, at least by our media:

• non-renewable energy sources will always be at risk of shortages, so we need huge government investment in renewables yesterday.
• in the meantime, we need to be able to ration the fossil fuels that we have, and only having the right to request working from home isn’t helpful for that.
• we need a bigger push to break ties with the u.s. & israel who started this war; even a bare minimum of keeping u.s. planes out of shannon airport & enacting the occupied territories bill would be such easy wins for the government.

this is amazing, and through this, i’ve now found a load of other zines to check out! tysm for this 🙌

it’s best to stay on her good side, imo. she might tunnel out & have moomin’s planning permission revoked via more threats to smash glasses 🤭

nice try, CIA chatbot 🧐

it might be! i’m not sure if a camel’s back legs allow for splooting, but a lot of animals sploot to cool down / regulate temperature, so it’d be p useful!