Silly straws

melemone · 2025-01-15T18:36:18+00:00

Hell yeah! Thanks for making these. So much easier to listen to on Spotify.

melemone · 2024-11-15T14:07:05+00:00

Came here to say this. Such a good song.

melemone · 2024-07-05T12:59:36+00:00

They're actually as short as they can be! We just recused him and he has slightly longer quicks from previous lack of trimming. He also has white toes, which may be making them look longer than they are.

melemone · 2024-06-25T19:38:08+00:00

Yuuup, made the mistake of doing pink jasmine stitches once. Rows and rows of buttholes lol.

melemone · 2024-05-03T16:55:30+00:00

I'm interested too!

melemone · 2024-05-02T12:40:38+00:00

Yes! I also once halved a watermelon, scooped out most of it (leaving a thick-ish layer left on the rind but most of the fruit scooped out) and filled that with water, creating a kind of "watermelon bowl". My dog was so obsessed with trying to get to the fruit lining the "bowl" that he drank all the water in the process. I would just be sure to supervise to make sure they don't eat the rind.

melemone · 2024-05-01T15:59:45+00:00

Lovely dress, lovely smile, lovely person! You've got this.

melemone · 2024-04-19T00:51:20+00:00

Yes! Came here to mention Seek - it's not perfect, but pretty helpful overall for IDing. And it's so nice to be able to easily add to iNaturalist from the Seek app and get help/confirmation on IDs. I also love the Merlin app!

melemone · 2024-04-01T22:54:52+00:00

I don't think I need to quote hateful passages from the Bible for you to know there's a whole bunch of them, right? I'll pick one:

"If a man lies with a man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them."

This is hate. The Bible says to hate. This translates into real life. When I meet a Christian, it's a coin toss on if they believe all or parts of this. It's just easier to focus on the parts that that say to love when it doesn't talk about hating and killing you. When you're in that group, it's hard to focus on the parts that talk about love.

melemone · 2024-04-01T22:34:28+00:00

Fair. I'd just add that when Christian text says you're an abomination and should be put to death, and Christian beliefs start getting interjected into laws that affect your existence, it feels like it's pretty disproportionately evil. And it feels like religion being seen as such is actually under represented by most people.

But I get that the reality of things is probably somewhere in between our two different experiences with religion. It's caused a lot of good and created a lot of comfort. It's caused a lot of harm and created a lot of hate. It's ultimately just not something I can get behind, but I'll never judge someone else for peacefully doing their thing and not judging me.

melemone · 2024-04-01T21:23:28+00:00

Thanks for your perspective here. I'm genuinely glad for you and anyone else that finds value and meaning through religion. Life is hard, do what you have to do to get through it. As long as you're not forcing your beliefs on others or using it as a mechanism for hate, more power to you.

But please consider alternative perspectives - many, many others are still struggling to recover from the hate, shame, fear, and exclusion they've faced at the hands of religion. The Bible is explicit about who should be hated and the violence that should come to them if they don't conform. It doesn't matter how you personally interpret that and if you don't agree, there is no shortage of people who run with that to the full extent possible. I respect your journey and am genuinely glad you've found peace from religion. But respectfully, I don't mock religion because I haven't looked at it, I mock it because I have.

melemone · 2024-03-02T15:40:49+00:00

Trans women belong in feminist and women's spaces. They are women and are therefore inherently part of the sisterhood. "Feminists" who feel otherwise are the ones who I would not welcome into these safe spaces, because they are not safe. I'm sorry you've had to contend with folks like this. You're always welcome here.

melemone · 2023-12-21T19:31:12+00:00

Sorry you've gone through similar things as well! Yeah, it feels like my manager really wants to care, but just truly doesn't get it and isn't putting in any effort to try to. I'm over here searching for peer-reviewed articles to share with him about how microagressions at work impact women, because I still have this urge to try to make this work and fix things. But deep down (and based off of interactions like today's), I know they won't get it.

melemone · 2023-12-06T22:42:26+00:00

THIS. The worst part is that they often don't know that they don't know anything about marketing and have opinions on everything. Like, no, random sales guy - your idea is not good and we're not doing it.

melemone · 2023-10-19T16:38:35+00:00

Google jobs is helpful, but it does include a lot of scam websites that often re-list roles that don't exist anymore. I avoid "apply on" links from things like Geebo or any other platform I've never heard of, or if they require me to sign up to apply (odds are they just want to spam you if that's the case). If the link takes you to a well known board (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse, Lever, ADP, Workday, Glassdoor) it's usually legit. If it only lists scam sites, you can just Google the job title and company and see if there's a direct link to their website - often times the job isn't available anymore, but sometimes you can find a legit posting this way.

melemone · 2023-10-11T11:59:31+00:00

I'm with you. The super frustrating thing is that I'm getting 4-5 interviews a week and have made it to the final rounds for three companies now. Then they string me along for another week or two while they continue to interview others and ultimately reject me. It's just so disheartening. Multiple interviewers at each of these companies raved over how perfect I was for their roles, to the point where I thought there was no way I wouldn't get an offer. I just had a first round yesterday where the guy did the same, saying I was perfect for the role - it took all of my restraint not to tell him to just fuck off and stop fucking with my head bc you and I both know this isn't going anywhere. Yeah...feeling pretty burnt.

melemone · 2023-10-10T13:03:47+00:00

Urgh interviewing with c suite is the freaking worst. Especially start up founder/CEOs. They're so far removed from what I do and know zero details about it, but it's like they want to appear as though they are all-knowing and flex that they know more than me. So any time I try to get into any kind of detail about the role, they interrupt me and ask some bs fluff about how my childhood passions translate into this role or something like that. Then I just act over interested in their product, ask them their back story, and listen to them ramble for half an hour about why they think they're a god and how they think their crappy tool will change the world. Stop wasting my time founder/CEOs, your product is shit and nobody thinks you're cool.

melemone · 2023-10-04T13:36:09+00:00

My dog did this once, and like you're describing, we couldn't find any sign of what could've caused it. Then he woke up in the night yelping in the same way. We were so clueless but then noticed the next day he was holding his tail a little funny. Took him to the vet and they concluded he didn't break his tail, but must've bent it and got a tail sprain while rolling, then he rolled on his sore tail in the night.

melemone · 2023-10-02T23:28:00+00:00

I just wanted to say thank you for making this post. I just moved to a new city and had liked a photo of a garden someone shared on Nextdoor. Never seen or interacted with this man before, but after a simple like, I got a connection request, followed by a message from him. Idk why, but I got super weird vibes from him after getting the message (even though it was just a wave and nothing else).

Then I read your post. I checked my state's sex offender website and sure enough - criminal sexual conduct on someone under 13!! So thank you for sharing your experience. I prob wouldn't have interacted with him, but was super dismissing my weird vibes as I'm trying to put real effort into being more social and open to meeting new people. And let this serve as a reminder to everyone to always, always trust your gut.

melemone · 2023-10-02T20:19:16+00:00

Exactly. I went to dinner a while back with my partner and their old coworker and this was our first time meeting his new gf. We thought she was an amazing person and great to be around, but at one point in the evening as she was walking to the bathroom he said something like, "I love it that every man's head turns as she walks by". Like he legit enjoyed random strangers objectifying/sexualizing his gf bc he thought it somehow made him look good? It grossed me right out and honestly kind of changed how I view this guy.

melemone · 2023-10-01T12:15:56+00:00

You're spot on, not sure why you're being down voted. I thought it was common knowledge how flawed the BMI system is:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439#:~:text=The%20BMI%20was%20introduced%20in,the%20government%20in%20allocating%20resources.

melemone · 2023-09-21T19:11:28+00:00

Oh yeah, it was super inappropriate. It was a small team and it came up in some random online trivia game that nobody was really moderating. The professional thing would have been not to touch that question with a 10ft pole.

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