Aviandelight

joined 2 years ago
[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago

I was excited to see the warp mechanic because I'd love to have more card options to try and make my random ass Flubbs deck "work."

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 14 points 4 days ago

I'm glad I never saw the sunfish hate on reddit because I fucking love sunfish.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was a really long discussion but it came down to the fact that marriage means a lot to both of us regardless of what others think.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 48 points 1 week ago (16 children)

My husband is disabled and receives SSDI (US). I did the math when he was awarded disability and he would be getting a lot more if we weren't married. We had a very long discussion and long story short marriage was more important to us than money. Since we're married the money is counted as income and I am the one who pays taxes on it. He qualified for Medicare too after the first five years on SSDI and that comes out of his benefits as well. I still buy insurance for him through my employer which I pay out the ass for but it's worth it with his medical conditions and should I lose my job he still has his Medicare to fall back on. I dare say I pay almost as much for his medical needs as we get from the disability payments. We aren't by any means rich but we have the basics and that's enough. My heart breaks for him and others in the same or worse situations. His own family will say that they love him with one breath and then disparage those "freeloaders" with the other. Since the beginning of the year we've been religiously watching our bank account in horror wondering when the checks will just stop coming. It took years of hard work and tough decisions to get us both to a place of stability and productivity that now could disappear in an instant because we are the collateral damage in a rich folk's pissing match. I hope they all rot in hell.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I'm definitely team chocolate here but now I'm really curious. What else could be used to plug the cone instead of chocolate but still taste good with vanilla ice cream? Has any other company tried something other than chocolate?

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Every time I see this picture I can't help but think it should be the man in the left wearing the construction outfit. Even our damn memes are biased.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago

I had a dedicated saucepan to make iced tea to ensure my tea only tasted like tea.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago

He needs a blanket made of nori.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

Same and I'm very happy to be here and not there.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

I'm really happy to see positive comments about people wanting kids even though I've chosen the child free route. It makes me happy to know that there are folks out there who want kids for the love of it even if it is hard. People should be able to make the decision themselves and do what's right for them. I do believe it's a worthwhile and rewarding endeavor but not one that should be half-assed.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I just want to say thanks for sharing this link. That was amazing.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would much rather take a video call with screen sharing any day than try to figure out what the hell someone is talking about over email. Most problems are user error and it's so much faster to see them doing it in real time.

 

 

 
 

Saw this nice guy/gal in front of my shed this morning when I took the dog out. The dog was completely oblivious and I was able to get a nice pic without scaring it off.

 

I was curious if anyone knows anything about the large delay for content coming in from lemmy.world? There's a discussion over there in one of fediverse communities and apparently we're like a week behind in receiving data.

 

Here's another old picture from my vault. This is one of our Greenbottle blue tarantulas (Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens). We spent the day watching this little guy molt from start to finish and took pictures of the whole process. You can see in this picture that he is laid out on his back on his molting malt. At this stage he has split from the carapace lengthwise down the sides and is currently pulling his legs out of the molt. We had two at the time and wanted to breed them but they both turned out to males.

 

Playing a game of magic with my husband at the table and look over to see Bert giving us side-eye. Bert prefers dance parties over card games.

 

Here's a pic of my favorite little guy and one the only good pictures I've ever taken. Unfortunately he turned out to be a male so I didn't have him too long but he was a great tarantula to keep.

 

I don't know how many of you follow Mr Max on YouTube. There are many videos of him throwing tantrums about going to the vet. A new video just came out and we finally get to see what all the fuss is about!

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