Gormadt
@Gormadt@slrpnk.net
I do a lot of photography and I share it on my DeviantArt and Pixelfed.
Both are SFW.
- Comment on Me_IRL 6 days ago:
I’ve got a timer on my pills so that I can see the last time I took them for this exact reason.
Too many times of accidentally taking them twice or skipping them entirely so now I’ve got a timer.
- Comment on When the car diagnostic computer knows the list of problems is so long 1 week ago:
Transmission work is always expensive to have a shop do, but the good news is that once it’s done you basically get a car for another 100k miles
- Comment on When the car diagnostic computer knows the list of problems is so long 1 week ago:
- Comment on When the car diagnostic computer knows the list of problems is so long 1 week ago:
125k miles?!? That’s basically nothing!
For a chevy that’s pretty damn high (especially a newer one) but still
My 2000 CRV is getting close to passing the distance form the Earth to the Moon in terms of miles and my 2007 Kia Rio ain’t far behind
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 1 week ago:
Store brand Mac and Cheese was also slotted in pretty often too
Both with the cheapest hotdogs money could buy
Those cheap hot dogs got a special place in my heart to this day
- Comment on Zamn... That's what happened ? Zamn... 1 week ago:
Politics and violence are the primary reasons I don’t show up anymore. (with one kind of exception mentioned at the end)
The story, briefly. TW: Threats of violence.
One of my uncle’s started talking about how he was “looking forward to getting the order to hunt people like me [queer leftist] down in the streets” without knowing he was talking about people like me (and 3 other people there that day). Which was met with some hoots and hollers from other relatives. I mentioned how that was fucked up. Large argument breaks out. It is then revealed (not by me) that I’m both queer and a leftist He then shouted that I have “10 seconds to get out of his house while he gets his gun” and then stood and (while counting) walked away. Which was met with some other hoots and hollers. I left never to return. Only 3 (out of about 60 people who were still there) others left as well.
All things considered it was way overdue at that point given many many other things that have gone down at those gatherings (6+ gathering per year) over the years. And from what I hear it’s only gotten so much worse since me and the other 3 stopped going.
For years afterwards I’d get invited to the gatherings (being told that said uncle (and other awful people) weren’t going to be there) only to have a message inevitably come in somewhere between 6am and an hour before the function was to start saying that, “We sent you the invitation by mistake, you’re not welcome in our home”.
For context: the gatherings took place at many different relatives homes (so different people sending the invites and redactions), but in general it was a rotation of all of the homes of the aunts, uncles, grandparents, a few of the other relatives, and some friends of other relatives.
Second (and longer) story time of the first time that happened (2 months after the previous story) TW: a reference to domestic violence.
The first time the invite came in I even replied a few minutes later with a “In that case I’ll show up, what do you want me to bring?” My aunt (who sent the invite, older sister to the uncle in the story) replied with “Your sweet potatoes and green bean casserole, they taste just like [great grandma]'s and they’re always a hit!” So I got up early, and made them (2 9x13 pans of each) by 2pm (Thanksgiving was slotted in at 4pm that year) and while I was getting ready was when the “Invitation was a mistake” message came in. So I called, to no answer. I called 6 different relatives (5 of which lived with her, the 6th was someone who always showed up at like 6am the day of a gathering to help set up), none of them answered. Then I got a text from my aunt (who sent the invite) saying “What part of ‘not welcome’ do you not understand?” I replied with, “But why invite me in the first place if I’m not welcome?” “I don’t want to talk about this now. I want things to be civil.” “I can be civil if no one threatens my life, and you told me that uncle [redacted] who threatened to murder me last time wasn’t going to be there. So was that a lie then?” She didn’t reply. ---------------- My brother called me an hour after the function started to ask me where I was. “Aunt [the host] told me I wasn’t welcome at her house and uninvited me 3 hours ago.” and then I recounted the story above. “Oh my god, he wasn’t going to kill you.” I then recounted the story of how uncle [redacted] almost beat one of our cousin’s now ex-husband to death in her own living room 4 months prior. (I had missed that function due to being sick and only found out about it AFTER the previous one happened) “Well he deserved it, you didn’t.” “Uncle [redacted] was on his porch with his shotgun by the time I was in my car.” “Well aunt [the host] doesn’t own any guns so you should be fine.” My brother and I don’t talk much anymore.
I did show up to the gathering for when grandma passed (we don’t really do ‘funerals’ we do ‘celebrations of life’ basically. Think Thanksgiving (but often longer) where we all share our stories about the deceased and celebrate with a feast basically (It’s a whole thing)) without an invite. No one said a damn thing as it’s the kind of function where differences are set aside. Though almost no one spoke to me, I was able to share my stories for her. Everyone who stops showing up always makes it out for these if they’ve got stories to share.
- Comment on the one and only 1 week ago:
- Comment on Thanks, doc 2 weeks ago:
With the amount of different meds they have available I’m sure there’s one.
When I first went to the doc about my anxiety over the course of 1 year they had me try 15 different anti-anxiety meds before I threw in the towel and said “None of these are working for me and I need to stop this for a little while as it’s really fucking with me.”
About a year later I got diagnosed with ADHD and started meds for that and suddenly my anxiety was in check. In 3 years I’ve only had 2 panic attacks vs nearly weekly ones before. It also feels like I went from going through life on Legendary difficulty to something like Medium. Or put another way: it’s like I went from playing Dark Souls 3 to playing Witcher 3.
- Comment on Oh Ofcourse... 3 weeks ago:
Great now I’m picturing Spiderman with spinnerets for a penis.
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 4 weeks ago:
The warehouse I work at gets Labor Day off every year.
Then the week after they basically have the grill going for 5 days straight for Employee Appreciation Week.
It’s pretty nice.
Sometimes.
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 4 weeks ago:
I’d be happy too if I had a Christmas ham hidden in my hat
- Comment on Well OK then 5 weeks ago:
OwO
Promise?
- Comment on Latest exclusive model 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Latest exclusive model 5 weeks ago:
The OG creator did say they were releasing the image under CC0 so it’s not really stealing.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Oh goodness no, they’re probably not paid that well.
They’re probably an independent contractor paid pennies per person they help.
Basically Amazon’s mturk program but likely contracted out since they’re killing that program at the end of September.
- Comment on Every Landlord I've Had In Australia 5 weeks ago:
Same in my neck of the woods.
My sister’s apartment has a patch in the ceiling that’s literally cardboard boxes from the local hardware store. And literally holes that were cut in the walls for repairs of wires and pipes that were never covered after they were done. And best of all: her bathroom has never had a door on it. The previous tenant (allegedly) tore it off and the landlord has been saying that they’ll replace it at the first of the month for 3 years now.
- Comment on Some heroes 1 month ago:
When you open the crosslink you’ve got to enter your instance so that it sources the comment on your instance. Good news is that you can change the instance if you set the wrong one pretty easily.
- Comment on Some heroes 1 month ago:
Doing a comment is a little strange due to how instances log those.
Here’s a link to a tool for it.
And a test link to the comment I initially replied to using the tool
- Comment on My mistake 1 month ago:
Def not just strategically avoiding a flash burn
- Comment on i love blind dates 1 month ago:
- Comment on Some heroes 1 month ago:
If you format the link with an exclamation point community @ instance it create an instance agnostic link.
Like this: !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
That’s sad to hear
Beans, rice, and potatoes are the major cornerstones of my diet.
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 2 months ago:
Laws are only as good as their enforcement
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
I do agree with you that carpet is awful, but that mustard yellow or olive green carpet combined with the conversation pit just hit me right in the nostalgia.
I would say go with a wood floor (not the landlord-chic-nightmare in the picture) but with the wood panel walls it’d be a bit much on the wood.
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
SO MUCH THIS!
The soul of everything has been sucked out, we get greys and whites. And if we’re particularly bougie: stainless steel and black enamel.
Cars, appliances, furniture, flooring, etc.
I want the world to have CHARACTER again!
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
The first one has character, it has SOUL.
The second one went with soulless landlord chic. It has no character anymore.
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
I’d personally keep a carpet but go with an olive rather than the blue-green that it is in the left pic
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
Wood paneling is so pretty though!
