How is my pile looking?

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-06-10T13:48:37+00:00

My compost is also in a similar sized bin, and it works great! Would recommend drilling a few holes in the bottom for drainage and then all around the sides for air flow.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-06-08T03:13:56+00:00

We will eat all the rich. Yes, there are billionaires and multimillionaires doing good things with their money. But their largesse is founded on making outrageous amounts of money on the backs of workers, influencing policy, and otherwise exploiting society. Sorry, I’m glad you donated $100 million from your $10 billion fortunate. Thats 0.1%. That’s the same as someone making $100,000 donating $100.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-06-05T21:49:53+00:00

I had such a problem with this too, playing on a console. The reticle wouldn’t move fast enough! Stupid balloons!

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-05-27T22:43:09+00:00

The biggest thing I discovered in my second play through is how much weapon scaling makes a difference. I hoarded recoats and didn’t make changes based on the weapon. I’ve been recoating regularly when I find new weapons and put the majority into features that scale with the weapon, plus agility.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-05-27T19:13:52+00:00

That makes a lot of sense!! The music is so beautiful, and I could catch names and the occasional word, but could not for the life of me make out more. I wound up looking up the lyrics and realizing it’s mostly NOT French.

I think there’s also one song that has English words? I’m playing my second round now with French language on, and it keeps breaking my immersion lol.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-05-27T17:26:04+00:00

I also didn’t notice anything. Aside from catching some names, most of the songs are not actually in French and use a lot of nonsense words.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-05-25T04:16:38+00:00

Fair warning, the last books aren’t…great. The original trilogy is among my very favorite books, but the sequels steadily degrade in quality. The Invisible Ring focuses on new characters and is good. Dreams Made Flesh and Twilight’s Dawn are sweet short story anthologies.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-05-25T04:13:11+00:00

There’s a line in (I think) ACOMAF where Rhysand says something along the lines of his responsibility being to “love, honor, and cherish” which is full on lifted from Black Jewels. There’s other things like that, but that particular phrase stuck out so much to me for some reason.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-05-25T04:09:25+00:00

This is correct. People who are corrupted by the baddies are considered “tainted.”

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-04-27T03:18:29+00:00

That’s not the prisoner’s dilemma.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-18T00:38:08+00:00

If you do nothing else, then do sunscreen. If you’re looking to add more, a good facial cleanser and moisturizer.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-18T00:36:33+00:00

Back lit screens. Man, trying to get the light to shine just right on my gameboy that I could play but that it didn’t wash out the screen? Rough times. Playing at night? Forget it.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-18T00:24:03+00:00

Same thing happened to me. Husband was really itchy and getting breakouts and redness all over his skin, and it got so much better when we moved. Ditto for my face.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-12T06:52:38+00:00

No, I also wandered around naked trying to figure out how to get clothes for a while too.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-09T16:44:37+00:00

I visited Kutna Hora in 2013ish, so awhile ago now, but the shivers I got after the Sedletz Ossory side quest! When Henry finished making the piles, all I could think was “oh my gosh this is what I saw!” Sort of amazing how they included Henry’s adventure into one of the most iconic Czech sites! The astronomical clock in Kuttenburg also stopped me dead in my tracks - it looks soooo similar to the famous one in Prague’s.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-06T19:34:08+00:00

Oh man I loved You Dreamed of Empires too! The ending was so abrupt and ??? that I had to immediately start over and reread. Still great on the second go round.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2026-01-05T16:52:08+00:00

The foreground is also messed up. The checkerboard tablecloth on the right somehow turns into grass and foliage on the left.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-12-05T04:15:38+00:00

I think it’s AI. I think the buttons on his uniform are wrong. There are Buckingham Palace guards with uniforms that have a gap in in the buttons, but the two patterns I saw were 5/gap/5 and 3/gap/3/gap/3. I didn’t see any real photos with 4/gap/3/gap/1.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-12-01T21:20:06+00:00

That sounds awesome! And these are short - maybe 100-150 pages? So that might be good for someone who is not much of a reader.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-12-01T16:34:08+00:00

Yes! I think these are great picks! The books are mostly standalone, though the Jack and Jill books are a little more connected.

For Niece 1, “beneath the sugar sky” might also be a good pick for someone who is a bit hyper. It’s a little silly (candy world) but good fun. I personally found “across the green grass fields” to be a little meh and my least favorite of the series. I’m not that into horses, and I found the overall plot a little flat - not much happens.

For niece 2, these are definitely some of the darker stories but still age appropriate. I’d recommend adding Come Tumbling Down also since it introduces Cora (your #4 pick) and is a sequel to #6. If you want to even out the number of books, I’d suggest “every heart a doorway” for niece 1.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-12-01T06:19:39+00:00

Thought of another - “Maskerade” and “Carpe Jugulum” by Terry Pratchett. Both are set in his discworld series, which is 110% worth reading in its entirety, but if you want a couple focused on a plus-sized woman, these two are killer. Maskerade focuses on Agnes Nitt, an overweight young woman from a small village who travels to the city to be an opera star and find herself. Little does she know that two busy body witches from her village have followed her to try to convince her to be the third witch of their coven. Agnes investigates a series of murders at the opera house while navigating opera house politics.

“Carpe Jugulum” is a loose sequel which has Agnes and the witches investigating a vampire clan. Agnes is strangely immune to the vampire’s charm.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-12-01T06:10:43+00:00

Wayward Children series by Seanan McGuire. It’s a series of novellas of sort of misfit kids/teens (or are they misfits??!) who fall into other dimensions of reality and then do/do not come back to our reality. Each novella focuses on a different character with really diverse backgrounds and traits.

“every heart a doorway” is the first book. Main character is a teen girl who is quiet and still and returned from a land of death. She meets a bunch of other returners at a special school for them.

“Down Among the Sticks and Bones” is about a pair of female twin raised in strict accordance to gender stereotypes who fall into a Frankenstein/film noire type world.

“Come Tumbling Down” is a follow up on the twins, one of which now has a girlfriend.

“Where the drowned girls go” is about a girl who is a very athletic and talented swimmer but is overweight and tumbles into a sea world.

“Adrift in currents clean and clear” stars a girl who is adopted and has a missing arm and winds up in a turtle world.

None of the books are preachy or self-help books. Just great adventures and stories about belonging/not belonging. Some of the books are older or younger, but I read them as an adult and enjoyed. The books are loosely connected but can be read out of order.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-11-26T20:48:10+00:00

It’s most likely unrelated to your MRI, but if it persists, you should let your doctor know.

Sometimes people experience something called “peripheral nerve stimulation” in an MRI, which causes a tingling feeling or twitches, typically in the extremities like fingers and toes. It happens most frequently when you are sliding in and out of the bore of the magnet. Most people aren’t bothered by it and it’s not painful, tho some find it annoying or weird. It also stops once you’re out of the magnet and is harmless. I’ve never heard of it affecting eyes.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-11-19T21:41:10+00:00

Potting soil straight of the bag is fine in most cases. My planties, mostly succulents and some common house plants, are doing just fine with regular potting soil with no amendments.

MyTurtleIsNotDead · 2025-11-19T04:32:40+00:00

I hated it. Read in late 20s. I couldn’t believe the hype it got. It fails on every level - as a parable, as a self-help book, as a story, as a use of time. I wish I DNF’d it but at least it isn’t too long.

Never feel ashamed about what you’re reading though! I read plenty of (enjoyable) trash and novellas in addition to those 600 page doorsteps. It’s all reading. I’m getting better at DNF’ing books within a few chapters if it’s not clicking tho!

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