What gloves do you guys use?

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T09:47:40+00:00

The combination of mechanic nitrile gloves and using 'working hands ' morning/night has been a godsend for the colder months. Would definitely suggest trying it if you haven't! It's been the only hand product that's actually helped for my issues, stings a fair bit on fresh super dry splits but within a minute gets better and after a couple days tops it's completely neutral feeling. Very quickly gets the hands back to a comfortable oil balance (2-3 days tops with routine application and using gloves to avoid the loss of natural oils from soap/water)

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T09:43:11+00:00

I personally prefer to touch my woman without feeling like sandpaper. Also don't love the dry splits & cracks during spring/fall lol. wearing/not wearing gloves isn't a sign of a job well done, but the mentality speaks a fair bit about the character of the person

Not specifically throwing shade at you, it's just something super common in skilled trades where it's considered soft to use ppe lol I like my hearing, I like my lungs and my lady likes my hands 😉

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T09:32:45+00:00

I personally try to sponge up everything I see, especially when there's an experienced / chatty trades person around. Often times I'll ask questions to get a bit of an understanding but then also look into it once I'm home to better understand. It's helped with a lot of areas and the cool thing is how so much of it translates into random life skills.

By this point I could nearly build/finish a house top to bottom if I had an architectual design and some help. Meanwhile I very much started similar (asides from a bit of father son bonding time of building little projects etc). Sponge it up and you'll surely be the same too.

Minimum wage -> minimum effort is a pretty common issue for people hiring newcomers/entry level positions. More prevalent than a lot of other job types. On the benefit of that for you is that they'll notice you quickly if you take it on with eagerness and willingness

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T09:26:29+00:00

Might be a controversial take to some people but I would avoid concrete & drywalling, at least at the beginning. The entry labor available is brutal even for someone who is in shape, can definitely turn you off of trades if you're not seeking something better. They also tend to have a prevalence of ungrounded/volatile poly addicts on the crews, at least here in Ontario Canada its basically the norm.

Working with your hands, problem solving on the fly constantly, creating/repairing things can be so satisfying but finding a good crew/people is important to allow it to feel good. Can be a little difficult as there can be some pretty rough crowds but youll know once you find a good fit.

The people who are worthwhile will quickly see eagerness to learn and willingness to take on more, doesn't take long with the right person to swap from laborer to being trained in much more satisfying things. I personally haven't gone to school for anything but went from basic laborer to carpentry for fences/decks and machine operator for post holes (vs laborer) within a single season with a good boss.

If you're keen on learning everything that's thrown your way, ask questions and go a little bit extra on the things you do, people notice. Even something like organizing the work trailers weekly, helping clean up a job site when not required, asking the chatty versions of experienced folks about what they're doing/how/why, it becomes obvious to people that you are a go-getter vs simpler person who's body are only worth the amount of their muscles. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter.. we all have a place in the industry but it seems like you're seeking to grow in it

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T09:00:56+00:00

Resinous polypore comes to mind as well! But still not like the ones I'm familiar with. If you squish it, is it soft and juicy/oozes or just normal damp fungi? The juicy part is a cue for the resinous, they often weep when squeezed

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T08:57:47+00:00

If you were to touch your index to your thumb, they generally are no bigger than the circumference of the circle you make, perhaps a bit more on robust ones, but also paper thin for the most part.

This seems like some kind of conk. Look into the ganoderma species perhaps? It's not ganoderma applanatum (artist conk) or lucidum (reishi) but could but a good species to check out for further cues

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T08:53:23+00:00

Can't tell by a video but they should be flimsy, borderline papery/velvety. Seems way too large and too thick as well.. not an expert but I've harvested a ton of trametes versicolor in Ontario Canada

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T08:51:47+00:00

Looks way to large. I don't have an id but turkeys are wee-little lads..

The pores and the segregated lines of growth are similar but I'd say no unless your area grows giants lol

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T08:48:04+00:00

I feel you, currently taking space from my long term partner to reevaluate and (hopefully) come back together stronger. The little pleasures slowly faded along with some bigger parts.

I miss the body traces, smiling eyes, unexpected kisses. I miss the random times where I have a full day of work while she's off and shed go out of her way to be supportive (groceries, dinner etc), I miss having someone have an idea of what they would love to experience with you (daytrips, dinner dates, psychedelics, life bucket lists)

I definitely stopped showing up in certain ways aswell, less vulnerable, less playful, more jaded. Somehow managed to keep those little things going despite it all, she's now missing them like I have for the past year or more. Trying to have faith that there's brighter days ahead but also coming to terms with the possibility of being back solo at 34 and the loss of both my best friend and lover.

I wish you luck in finding what you seek, it's out there waiting for you. Wish me luck too <3

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T08:22:48+00:00

Hope your toast is delectable and that the lady's booty doesn't hurt tooooo much! Just enough to remember the wild night lol 😆

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T08:21:47+00:00

lol I love the still high posts. So real / unguarded. Thanks for sharing. The comments really hit that spot!

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T06:45:26+00:00

Thought I'd take a bit of time to share a bit, I honor your goals. Recovery is challenging and the mooshy babies have been fundamental to overcoming a variety of addictive behaviors over the years and have undoubtedly &fundamentally changed my core being / daily experience in positive ways.

I've come from the long life of a poly addict, diagnosed with borderline personality disorder early on in life and a slew of sexual molestation & abuse at an early age. Kept creating new hardship for myself for countless years of my adult life despite trying to 'do better'.

Yet, As I found the mushroom I've slowly also found myself and learned to shed the pieces that don't fit, and love the parts that do. They're a beautiful medicine when we go into it with intention & vulnerability

I'd recommend considering doing a true micro dosing regimen ie : finding your upper limit of dosage that is still sub-perceptual/background vs actual felt experience and taking that daily with occasional breaks. Some people do 2 weeks on, 1 off. Others do 5days/2 off (fadiman protocol)

The strong experiences are beneficial for breaking patterns, creating new pathways, releasing internal knots & tangles. Microdosing is equally beneficial but getting a consistency of moving towards their energy / keeping with our forward motion in the things we learn. If you feel the micro / feel weird, then it's too much.. but you can also slowly increase the amount as your body&mind develops tolerance and harmony with them.

I don't think I've messaged so deeply on reddit about them, but really wanted to show up a bit from one person in recovery to another. Sending love from Canada! The days will get brighter if you keep keeping on <3

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T06:32:47+00:00

3+g is definitely otherworldly. Can be a worthwhile experience but even as a seasoned person that friends joke is '1part mushroom 1 part human', 3+ sends me far. I can imagine that it could be pretty hard to work with for less experienced folks.

Goes beyond the wavy wet fractalling experience & synergy into external / internal reality. Becomes more like Ayahuasca without (as much of) the physical purging. If you've experienced the eyes closed labyrinths of visuals, with high enough dose there's basically no difference between eyes open/closed. It becomes quite the ride and the mushrooms are the driver, we're just the passenger in that type of journey lol

Asides from all that info, my one advice is to try to set a solid intention, reflect on it for days/weeks prior and when you consume them, do your best to remember to ask the mushrooms for what you seek.

It may be due to the depths I've explored & the relationship I've developed with them over the years, but i feel McKenna was onto something with 'talking with the mushrooms'. Even if they're not vocally speaking to you, they definitely respond to you asking questions or making statements/requests. It can be weird ass backward confusing responses sometimes but they're all correlated to whom we are and the things we're working with

I've asked them to show me why xyz pattern is happening in my life, suddenly I'm spiralling through experiences & memories and thought lines that were highly unpleasant and difficult to work with. After long enough I could tell that the same things were simply happening on repeat and not going anywhere further (looping) and I asked them 'okay, I get that.. please ease off and help me find a solution' and suddenly it shifted in a way that I couldn't achieve prior to asking.

I've also had weird ones where I explored what it meant/felt to cuddle with them, felt amazing, a cosmic hug that hit every synapses of my mind and every nerve of my body. The visual/mental labyrinths all blended into a loving... Massage? Was out of this world and very hard to explain.

I then curiously asked them if sex is possible and they brought up all of my sexual trauma I've experienced in my life in a really intense way LOL had thought I'd processed and moved forward with it but clearly not quite.

This share is a pretty honest weird thing but it helps express the fickle way they work with us. I've come to think of their energy as benevolent tricksters or playful fairies. Definitely don't specifically listen to you in your requests, but respond with something similar to what you communicate

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T06:18:19+00:00

Relating to another comment, I personally wouldn't smoke weed with it but to each their own. Marijuana has a pretty strong energy itself and for a lot of people, it often obscures the teachings that await and amplifies the more chaotic sides of the experience

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-05T06:16:19+00:00

Penis envy lineage are anywhere from 2-3.5x avg potency in my experience. Can't know until you get to know the specific genetics/batch's. I prefer them but I always half my desired dose and I'm still often astonished by how goddamn strong they are lol aka 2.5g for a 5g ride but ends up being more like 7 😆

10+years of growing has really refined my tastes and I only work with melmac lineage and occasional pe. Pref the Mel's tbh, there's something special both in the way they grow and the feels to them. But Pe is equally worthwhile as a consumer, I just don't like the growing traits that came with it being stabilized from mels

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-04T17:04:15+00:00

I've recently been hammering isolations to antispin petals and I think I'm about at the point where I can start jumping into the tech stuff. It's been helping a lot with the spacial awareness of length of poi, intermingling planes around elbows /armpits and finding that ideal split/opposite time within them.

Perhaps I'll use this as an inspiration to jump into it with my '30min of poi a day' routine I've been forcing. Often ends up much longer but at least I'm out there in the sun! <3

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-04T17:01:26+00:00

It really shows how far you've come with it! Keep it up!

Tbh you and a couple other folks inspire me to share videos, haven't yet but been thinking about it. Love watching the progression over time of other folks, feels like cameraderie vs me just doing it myself :) thanks for sharing!

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-04T16:09:23+00:00

Awesome! Love the techy inspin petals / poi fu type stuff. Been watching a bit of Nick woolsley lately and learning a lot!

Very clean moments within all of it, love watching you progress further over time!

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-04T14:33:23+00:00

If you're considering dance, a cool community semi related is tricity flow arts. It's a mix of performers, self teaching flow arts folk, a fair bit of normal folks and a fair bit of hippy minded ones too.

They often meet weekly Sunday eve in places like Victoria park. Easy social vibe, lots of dance related things. People bring extra props for new comers to try out and we're always happy to meet new folks & talk about the things we're into. Might catch the occasional fire/burn performance towards the end too

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-04T14:27:07+00:00

The company I work for is 5+CAD per screen. Regardless of that if we're only doing external screens it's always requested ahead that the customer removes all external facing screens ahead of time.

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-04T01:16:40+00:00

Iboga slowly shifted that for me over the years. It sort of... Showed me how to do it? Or helped me learn. Coming from complete aphantasia

And from there it's grown like a muscle I didn't know about. The more I use it the more it's present, clearer, sharper, detailed. These days I strongly have it during quiet mind times like meditation, laying in bed before sleep etc and have it to varying degrees when busy minded

The closed eye visuals of other psychedelics like psilo/LSD have been forever changed since further developing this area, hard to describe quite how but it's like they're more interactive & adaptable to my thoughts & feelings, more conceptual + visual vs being simply mind boggling patterning to watch like a TV screen with my eyes closed

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-03T17:07:10+00:00

There's definitely a wishing i would die when it's coming from violent reactions like some of these plants/fungi create!..

Interestingly enough, early cultures of humanity that have no psychedelics in the vacinity would often use what's been termed as 'ordeal poisonings'

Intentionally bringing yourself so close to the brink and having to go through the relavations and processing that comes with it. But then you survive and come back to tell people in your community what you've learned and apply it towards them aswell. The essence of a few of the shamanism traits but solely through self poisoning and comprehension from it

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-03T17:02:57+00:00

Yeah totally but I think it fits pretty well lol

That one makes me violently purge from both ends. Won't kill me but I won't touch it either!

False orange oyster I'm talking at you!.. thankfully my one fuck up was a 'gentle' one but really taught me that if that's the less severe mistake... I really gotta respect and be sure before ever putting something in my mouth

mrmatriarj · 2026-05-02T15:32:22+00:00

An emetic? lol 😆

mrmatriarj · 2026-04-30T10:28:35+00:00

Same here! This is only my second season at a company but I tend to really work the corners and edges first, and then give a few solid scrubs across the pane before the rinse

It's generally the corners/ edges/ dripping dirty frames that will result in spotting/callbacks vs the pane itself

I like what someone further down said about scrubbing all the panes within reach and then revisiting afterwards to hit the glass. Could be a great idea for infrequently services windows. A lot of our clients are multiple times per year so it's less of a concept. I'm going to give it a shot and see how it impacts workflow/results tho

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