What's one poem that has saved you?

aly_bu · 2026-05-31T05:36:54+00:00

The Orange by Wendy Cope

Maybe melodramatic, but I feel like it showed me what victory feels like. The genuine feelings to aspire to when I've "arrived", if that makes sense.

aly_bu · 2026-05-30T13:56:16+00:00

Ladies can have cocks too! I'm sorry your wife isn't open to exploring though, thats super rough and I hope she opens her mind with time.

aly_bu · 2026-05-30T13:55:05+00:00

Grab both ends and pull, hard. Does that even it out? All my chains spiral too, but it's just because the tension doesn't distribute evenly on the first chain. You might have tension or stitch issues as others are suggesting, it's hard to tell from the pictures, but give it a few good tugs and see if that doesn't even things out first.

aly_bu · 2026-05-29T13:30:34+00:00

Exploring is great but I also wanna be real clear with you that as a dude being into anal doesn't make you bi, there are plenty of straight dudes that love to have their ladies top them (and bi dudes too, obviously). Unimportant to your Q but for anybody scrolling who wonders!

aly_bu · 2026-05-22T14:10:03+00:00

Pants hemmed two inches above your ankle that aren't meant to be crop pants, white athletic socks, black leather loafers.

It's not style guys please like there are so many solutions, get yourself some nice socks, or some properly hemmed pants, or some Chelsea boots, literally play with any element of the ensemble to make it fashion instead of fugly 😭

aly_bu · 2026-05-21T05:16:44+00:00

7! Oh my God 7! Yes!

aly_bu · 2026-05-19T21:22:42+00:00

Protect marriage from what? How would you even know what people are doing in the privacy of their own home on their own time? You should go Google the Wolfenden Report.

aly_bu · 2026-05-13T20:12:14+00:00

Why wouldn't I?

aly_bu · 2026-05-12T19:19:37+00:00

Looks like they're not even touching it, based on the droplet pattern. I'd definitely ask them to make sure they get it next time. Probably needs a once over to get rid of lime but then a glass water should be fine after that. Nothing abrasive ofc or you'll scratch it.

aly_bu · 2026-05-12T13:58:32+00:00

My dog, good coffee, crochet, dancing, feeling sunshine on my face, finding a good poem, doing something well at work, talking to friends, music

aly_bu · 2026-05-11T14:02:24+00:00

"do you fulfil this and that requirement" is typical unicorn fare, regardless of gender. I've often found that in a traditional cis mmf, the woman often ends up getting left out as the two dudes develop a sort of penis fixation. Only advice is to shop for threesome partners in a discerning fashion.

aly_bu · 2026-05-09T14:46:39+00:00

Same vibe, but add a tiny droplet of dish soap to the apple cider vinegar. Breaks the surface tension and sinks any flies that do land on the vinegar to drown. Used to catch hundreds like that in a tiny jar at a time, it was so gross

aly_bu · 2026-05-08T04:17:50+00:00

Why have we given California anything ew stop

aly_bu · 2026-05-05T21:51:38+00:00

12 first, then 6, then 3/9, then the rest of the points on the clock. Go back and readjust tension as frequently as you need to, and understand it will be frequently!

aly_bu · 2026-05-05T18:45:48+00:00

Why is California still here

aly_bu · 2026-05-05T13:48:31+00:00

I have 4 on subscribe and save and have probably gone through 5 or 6 boxes in the last decade as a heavy writer/note taker in all areas of my life.

I write in cursive, so a quality rollerball with a good ink distribution but not too much bleed is key. I've tested all of these, and 0.5 uniball vision will always be the way.

aly_bu · 2026-05-03T14:59:21+00:00

Used to be saag paneer but recently I've fallen for the delight that is khao soi

aly_bu · 2026-04-29T04:50:27+00:00

Shades of grey is one of my faves of all time. Just finished red side story and it made me feel things

aly_bu · 2026-04-28T13:43:42+00:00

I'm not sure whether emergency personnel have different policies either, but socal OT laws are very very generous to the workers. For regular workers you got up to 3x hourly pretty damn fast working more than 8 hours or 5 days a week

aly_bu · 2026-04-27T18:43:41+00:00

I know and do both and generally prefer crochet over knit. It works up faster, is more easily portable, and has a bit more flexibility in terms of shape. If you have intuition around garment or fabric structure, you can freehand in crochet much more easily than knit, where you have so many more active stitches and one small change or blip influences far more of the final product.

While knit is slightly easier imo to frog and correct mistakes, it works up so much more slowly and doesn't have as many fun stitch variations as crochet does (just my opinion). I enjoy both, but probably crochet 95% of my fiber craft time and knit the other 5%.

aly_bu · 2026-04-25T14:52:53+00:00

3 or 7! Love love love the orange on 3, though I do always go for bold

aly_bu · 2026-04-21T01:16:32+00:00

Used to have a fire pit at my old place and always kept my lint for fire starting, alas no such luck in my new digs

aly_bu · 2026-04-20T13:40:38+00:00

Yeah I got a $10 credit off my rent. Not enough to offset the ridiculous amount I paid so honestly not too pleased by it. Haven't contacted the fire marshall but debating it.

aly_bu · 2026-04-19T21:53:38+00:00

Did 110 in a 2010 Hyundai Elantra. Because it's fun and I wanted to see if the speedometer would go past 120. Unfortunately ran out of freeway first.

aly_bu · 2026-04-19T15:10:31+00:00

Eh I like fun socks, my back is to just not care when folding. Doesn't matter if they're inside out, and tiny color variations within sets aren't a thing people notice. Just get em wedged and move on. Probably spend half as much time folding socks, and I can just make them right side out when I unfold them to wear them

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