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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • Ha. Anyone who’s farmed knows that ag leases are such a different scenario and very negotiable, especially if you are working with someone who wants to see the land in production or help young farmers etc. I WISH there had been more willing landlords when I was farming, it took me two years to find a place at all. Lemmings can hate once they’ve negotiated their own ag lease 👀 👩🏻‍🌾








  • I had to preempt it because there is always such a circlejerk about how awful Paris is to tourists and to the rest of France etc., but that hasn’t been my experience at all. Parisians went out of their way to be kind to us (Americans) on several occasions. I do speak French relatively well, but that doesn’t account for the times people were genuinely so so nice in Paris, or also having this experience in cities like NYC and Amsterdam. Anywhere you go, the average person is really nice and helpful.


  • Speaking a foreign language badly, not knowing a word for something, or only knowing the most basic greetings. People all over the world are generally delighted that you bothered at all, and are eager to teach you more. This has been true for me in big cities (even Paris) and tiny villages. The more obscure the language, the more delighted they will be. I have botched so many languages and conversations with strangers at this point that I am immune from embarrassment about it.





  • Sierra Leone is gorgeous once you get out of Freetown! Bureh, Tokeh, Tacugama, and all the inland rural areas are all genuinely beautiful. But Sierra Leone is so hard to get to. They built the airport super far from Freetown, so it’s either a 3-hour drive or a chaotic 45-minute ferry ride (plus time to load the boat etc.) after you land at the airport. Not exactly what you want to deal with after flying! I think they would have more tourism if they solved that.







  • Idk how to format, but I want to save you from reading if you need that. So here’s a brief list of claims in the article:

    • she frequently and repeatedly recruited homeless, impoverished female fans to provide childcare without any payment
    • she repeatedly left these women alone with Gaiman, without the child present
    • she warned Gaiman to “keep his hands off” at least one woman
    • she said that at least 14 women had come to her for help with Gaiman
    • she subsequently wrote a song about how much of a chore it was for her to deal with the multiple “suicidal mess”es Gaiman created
    • she routinely controlled employment/housing of these women and knew Gaiman was, at best, sleeping with them (this cannot be consensual when housing/employment are in the mix)
    • when notified of an assault that happened with her child present, only questioned whether the child was “wearing headphones”
    • refused to cooperate with at least one police investigation
    • refused any material help to assaulted women after repeatedly assuring them she would “take care of” them, get different housing/employment set up, etc.

    Just…awful stuff, and this is best case scenario, FFS. She is fucking trash.