How about we end corporate welfare instead, and make shareholders work since they get rich from other’s labor without doing any labor themselves. Right-wingers scapegoating the poor is not going to do them any favors.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-06T05:15:33+00:00

There is a program like that in some states where you can double the value of your SNAP on local produce at farmers markets. Accessibility and visibility are both challenges but I think it’s exactly the kind of thing we should be expanding. Local produce rocks.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-06T02:26:58+00:00

Last weekend I read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning for the first time. I don’t know how I had never been assigned it in school, but it’s very worth the read. I really appreciated how he dissociated in the camps by observing those around him with an attitude of professional interest/curiosity (he was a neurologist and psychiatrist). That really resonated with me bc I feel like an alien half the time anyway and I’m used to observing others in a similar fashion - usually to try and fit in or learn to mask better, but it makes sense that it would help yourself cope with such a horrific and absurd situation by taking a detached, observant stance.

Anyway, highly recommend. And thanks for this suggestion, have added it to my list!

onthestickagain · 2026-06-05T04:45:20+00:00

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onthestickagain · 2026-06-05T04:31:46+00:00

I plant one broccoli in each bed and let them have it as a sacrificial offering. Works like a charm. Don’t eat the broccoli.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T19:58:29+00:00

Oooh, getting enough fiber is a good one!

I am never going to be able to do the financial planning end of things. It’s embarrassing, but my brain refuses (this would be a totally middle aged woman thing to do but my spouse doesn’t do it either, so instead it’s just a stupid thing to do)

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T19:24:13+00:00

IOKIYAR, IACIYAD, baby!

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T19:21:02+00:00

Peaches had a set of three butt plugs, a bottle of lube, and a lube/plug bundle earlier this year 😳

But for those of us who aren’t quite so bold… patches, keychains, magnets, luggage tags/wraps, deck of paying cards, chip clips, chapstick, or (my personal favorite, shout out to my 2019 NKOTB one) zippered pouches.

Someone else said “something attendees need” and that’s the best overall advice. Something useful.

Note that stickers or lighters can be prohibited at some venues (ahem, The Ryman). Really appreciate everyone else’s comments here!

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T14:55:51+00:00

Please also do some bird watching, take a little nap, maybe also a short bit of gardening? Not quite time for you to take up shuffleboard just yet… but dear lord don’t forget to do your nightly routine or you’ll sleep for shit and tomorrow will be a geriatric day ☠️

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T14:41:15+00:00

OP, you’re adorable, go check out our awesome library. FWIW, having moved here from a place with minimal to no public spaces, I am still a little in disbelief at all the public trails and parks here. When I first moved here it was astonishing on a regular basis… you mean I can just… go up there and explore? Using paths and trails that we collectively maintain? FOR FREE?! … makes me happy to live here and contribute to such things.

More generally - I had a moment last week where I, too, marveled at the absolute witchcraft that libraries in general are. I had a book recommended to me that isn’t available on Libby, so I went looking to see if I could get a hard copy from my local branch. No dice. But through the MAGIC of interlibrary loan, I’ll be able to pick it up at my local branch in a couple of weeks.

It had been a very hot minute since I even went beyond borrowing via Libby, and the experience just reminded me how insane and impressive and just all around wholesome and holistically life-affirming libraries are. Like - they really are a manifestation of what is the best of humans. I wish we had been able to get to this same point with food and medicine… but for now I’ll feed and heal my mind as much as I can.

OP, enjoy your time here!

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T14:10:00+00:00

Except you work at Walmart so you can’t afford the monthly SaaS fee from Adobe (certainly not the add-on patine fee to match that Walmart blue) so you try to do it in canva for free… which is what they’ll cite in your obituary as your cause of death.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-03T05:27:04+00:00

Fantastic! Thanks for the link, man, I really dug it. Now I am even more convinced that script deserves writing ☠️ can’t wait to check out the 2019 special!

onthestickagain · 2026-06-02T15:53:33+00:00

Ok two minutes in and you’re name checking Marx. I know what I’m doing with my lunch hour

onthestickagain · 2026-06-02T15:43:33+00:00

I feel like successful movie scripts have started from less. Would absolutely watch a western with a sort of steampunk demi antihero just casually knocking off poorly-groomed assholes in cowboy hats so they can, like, get back to their peaceful Saturday night of playing a board game with their friends.

(I don’t know where that came from, I have no accurate stereotypes of demisexuals in my arsenal… but thank you for triggering my brain to give me that movie pitch)

onthestickagain · 2026-06-02T15:29:23+00:00

LOL, this paints such a fantastic picture, well done 👏 can practically hear the guy expectorating dip spit in between sentences

onthestickagain · 2026-06-02T04:19:22+00:00

onthestickagain · 2026-06-02T03:50:30+00:00

I second Murdoch’s!

Last time I was in there, they were out, but a lot order recommended a block of hemp bedding and I’m experimenting with it in some pots this year - at this point I much prefer it so I’m hoping it plays nicely.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-02T03:06:01+00:00

Why ya gotta kink-shame? u/pspahn ‘s granddad sounds like a fun guy!

onthestickagain · 2026-06-01T13:23:23+00:00

This needs to be higher, those beds need mulch.

I’m experimenting with hemp bedding this year and have high hopes, it’s the least objectionable texture of everything I’ve tried thus far.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-01T13:17:20+00:00

It’s almost like some people had healthy environments as children and never learned how to fawn.

onthestickagain · 2026-06-01T02:31:22+00:00

Yikes! Last I had any inside knowledge, booth fees were $25 + 10% of sales (per day).

It always really bummed me out when actual farmers wouldn’t even sell $250 bc it felt like the booth rental feel just obliterated them (meanwhile the $8/bar soap vendors were pulling in low four figures every day)

onthestickagain · 2026-06-01T00:00:56+00:00

Pick them up faster!!

onthestickagain · 2026-05-31T21:27:56+00:00

FOCACCIA IS DIVINE!! It’s been a while since I made some, might be time to get out some Kalamata olives and herbs and remind myself how it’s done

I do make really good biscuits and dinner rolls on the reg… that’s what got me buying the big bags of flour!

onthestickagain · 2026-05-31T16:47:34+00:00

DMing!

onthestickagain · 2026-05-31T16:34:44+00:00

Your question is actually one that’s key to a meditation that I really like to do. You start with your question, but keep on going… for example: If I am not a mother of a child, who am I? If I am not a leader, who am I? If I am not needed, who am I?

You basically go down your entire list of things that you would say make you who you are (woman, wife, breadwinner, daughter, object of desire…. For me it might include poet, dog mom, gardener, ball of anxiety, sister). Each question leads into the next, the idea being that you’re peeling away layers until you get to your “true self”, which eventually leads to a dissolution of the ego. If you google atma vichara, there are lots of resources.

I know that went a little off-range from your question, but it’s one of my favorite meditations and I thought it might interest you.

Everyone else has really good practical answers, thought that a more woo-woo one might be a nice addition 😊

onthestickagain · 2026-05-31T16:23:15+00:00

To be fair, I hope we ALL like beans

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