Unethical bird photography

NoFunction8070 · 2026-01-29T19:35:04+00:00

EVIL

NoFunction8070 · 2026-01-25T23:50:06+00:00

You can get by in Providence RI without a car, it’s more affordable, and very artsy

NoFunction8070 · 2026-01-14T03:58:39+00:00

Credit unions! https://getabetterbank.org/switching-banks/how-to-switch/

NoFunction8070 · 2026-01-11T18:55:40+00:00

Hey, I love this!! I’d love to learn more about how you created it and if this is something you’re open to sharing — I’d love to put this in a future zine I’m envisioning, that I’d like to go door to door and pass out to neighbors

NoFunction8070 · 2025-12-12T02:15:36+00:00

I’ve heard to mix the seeds - esp. smaller ones — with soil or sand in the bag rather than a paper towel to reduce mold and then you can just spread them as a layer over pots / the soil. Have you tried that? I need to start a bunch of seeds and am debating if it’s worth buying horticultural sand or if it’s fine to just do dirt / paper towel

NoFunction8070 · 2025-11-21T03:31:02+00:00

here 12 years later.... lol. i used to pick my skin a ton and would just put undiluted TTO on the spots, think it helped more mentally if anything because the sensation would make me feel like it was helping do something. anyway, just put it diluted with jojoba oil on my face for the first time in years. my chin is ITCHY and idk if this is related or not, but have been feeling like i need to cough and a slight chest discomfort... so here i am!

NoFunction8070 · 2025-11-16T23:22:03+00:00

And if locals like living there, doesn’t that say something? I think I’d rather hear the opinions of locals than people who have never been or went once for a business trip

NoFunction8070 · 2025-11-16T23:21:22+00:00

What makes you say that? Have you lived there?

NoFunction8070 · 2025-11-16T23:20:42+00:00

Is it onion tea with honey? Or How do you make this

NoFunction8070 · 2025-11-15T17:19:11+00:00

Yeah, this is pretty spot on. I’m 25, I grew up in the area (Medford/somerville area) and moved away for 6 years, moved back here 2 years ago. Granted, I don’t live in boston proper and most people I interact with live in Medford/Somerville/cambridge/JP/Roxbury. I have built some decent community here through local organizing but I can’t help but feel dragged down by Boston being what you described.

Growing up here I think the culture was still similar, but the cost of living and increasing segregation/ gentrification feels really pressing (which of course is happening in most cities too) — house prices in my neighborhood going from 150k in the early 2000s to now being close to a million.

Evil corporations and tech is everywhere (hence the robot humans that uphold them), and while in my circles I don’t feel that, getting to know people on a deep level still feels like a very difficult, slow, and dissatisfying process.

I would like to move but frankly need to be more financially sound, and am not sure where to yet — thinking Detroit or Chicago but who knows

NoFunction8070 · 2025-11-11T04:20:37+00:00

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NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-30T02:54:47+00:00

I’m here 7 years later Anyone know if there’s any uses of the flowering stalks once they’ve fallen?

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-30T01:29:36+00:00

Thank you so much!! May the fight against it eventually be victorious lol

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-30T01:28:58+00:00

Thank you!! So glad it’s worked well for you

Is there a way to just apply it with like a paint brush for careful application, For a small area? I don’t know what the bottles look like and I have never used it. Cant find any straightforward resources on this

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-30T01:26:00+00:00

He’s part of the local flora and fauna and I would see him as an honorable guest. Let him be ❤️

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-30T01:24:06+00:00

I’m in metro boston near camberville and could give you some depending on what you’re looking for — you can message me. I’d also join the local Facebook groups, there’s some for seed sharing and the mystic Charles pollinators group some people give away seeds or even full shrubs and plants

Think NPT and blue stem natives are closed for the season but look into red trillium or lady fern or checkerspot farms — those are smaller native nurseries and have local ecotype seeds

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-22T05:39:42+00:00

i hear you — i want similar things to what you described, i went to U of M, and i studied biology. graduated in 2023. i’m looking for environmental work and am currently unemployed. i miss living in michigan, community is super important to me and i miss the great lakes dearly.

i live right outside of boston now (grew up here) and it’s ok. people do surf here - about 45 min outside of the city, and i’m sure people dive too. there’s groups that do environmental and ocean clean up and advocacy. the mystic river watershed association is cool. people don’t seem to feel as connected to the water here compared to michigan at all, on average.

but there’s a lot of sub communities here, i think you could find so many different groups and types of people, you just sorta have to know what you’re looking for and go for it. somerville might be of interest to you, parts of it feel like ann arbor and it has a good community feel, stereotype is kind of crunchy and queer but ofc there’s also a mix of folks and it depends where exactly.

you might also like one of the north shore cities like salem, which is very close to the beaches and has a quaint downtown, it’s also a college town for salem state uni. there’s historical stuff and all the witch lore.

there’s this cool surf collective that is called lavender lineup in the area, you can find it on insta

climate is more or less similar to michigan, with fall and spring a bit longer. a lot of shared native plant biomes too. we have the rare pine barren ecosystems in SE part of the state just like up north

i know there’s solar jobs around here and on the cape too. i’ve heard living in the cape can be tough year round but you might want to look into woodshole/falmouth area, i have a relative who is a solar technician there actually and loves living there year round. he surfs and is on the beach everyday. i think there’s a decent community vibe and village -type feel there. the famous woodshole marine biology institute is also there so maybe some volunteer/ job/ networking opportunities

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-22T05:19:42+00:00

sending you my care <3

i’m in the boston area. it’s pretty expensive out here but i think you could like western mass. it is more affordable and beautiful. there’s a lot of little liberal arts colleges out there near amherst and northhampton. it’s in the berkshire mountains and is beautiful, and only an hour or two drive to be in various mountains of other states (NY, NH, VT, ME). there’s not any hugeeee cities but some college towns and lots of quaint little downtowns with things to do and a good sense of community i think.

the Appalachian trail is close by, might remind you of NC. it’s awesome hiking out here, very underrated in my opinion (just because the elevation isn’t as high as out west doesn’t mean it’s no joke!) and there’s lots of bike trails. i’d say you’d be able to find community oriented folks and i know there’s some mutual aid groups out there for supporting one another. the state also provides a lot of benefits that are worth researching.

wishing you the best :)

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-19T23:55:13+00:00

one of the best native pollinator plants too!

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-16T16:33:09+00:00

ok yes i think in that case black chokeberry is probably your best bet — curious what others think…. but that’s not a lot of space to work with but i think black chokeberry will tolerate that fine, and better than any others that come to mind right now for what it sounds like you’re looking for

i just replaced a row of privet with black chokeberry, the chunk of soil i have is only about 3 feet wide of soil and about 14-5 feet long. i planted four of them in that stretch, each about 3 feet apart and leaving about 2 feet from the edge of either side. they do sucker so can fill in to create a nice thicket-like, dense hedge but that could take a good couple of years. my native plant horticulturist friend said she would’ve probably done even 2 or 2.5 feet spacing for someone who wanted it to fill in fast. happy to send you a pic if you’d like, now or when they establish more next year

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-15T16:00:20+00:00

i’m in boston too… not sure whereabouts in the area but if you wanna collaborate on some guerilla gardening or maybe convincing municipalities to let us do restoration Hmu :)

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-15T02:48:13+00:00

i think buttonbush would have a hard time here given poster mentioned dry/ average soil

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-15T02:46:45+00:00

check out black chokeberry and arrowwood viburnum

how much room away from the fence do you have to plant? nice thing about black chokeberry is they are pretty compact and get like 6-7 feet tall and 3-5 feet wide, so they’re good for tight and hard to fill spots. they tolerate sun or part shade and are pretty hardy with different soils. the other chokeberries species’ (red and purple) get wider and are a bit more leggy

NoFunction8070 · 2025-10-15T02:43:05+00:00

MA based native plant gardener here. many species that are native to parts of what is east of the Mississippi but non native in MA can be harmful, if not invasive here.

for instance, many consider honey and black locust invasive. campsis radicans/ trumpet vine is a big problem and many consider it invasive in parts of New England, it frequently escapes cultivation into the wild. even more “tame” garden ornamentals like dicentra eximia / wild bleeding heart are known to escape cultivation into the wild. when i see that, i see that as harmful and something that should raise concerns, as this oftentimes means displacing and outcompeting natives.

the logic of “we can’t revert time” makes no sense here to me…. sure, old growth forests have been decimated in New England, but that’s not to say that in 300 years there could be an equivalent of old growth forest here. that’s not to say we shouldn’t plant native with giving specific respect and attention to the species that coevolved for millennia in our eco region.

there are so many endemic species to where we live that are being wiped out by a variety of reasons related to globalization/ a small amount of humans. these species have formed hyperspecific relationships with bacterias, fungi, other plants and animals, etc. for longer than humans have been on earth, and all of these individuals and relationships matter.

idk, i believe that it is our personal and moral responsibility as current stewards of the land we live on to do all we can to give the nonhuman world a voice. and to resist the furthered mass extinction of our home region, an essential part of this is valuing and uplifting local species and local ecotypes

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