My contribution: My health has improved greatly and I’m feeling better than I have in years. Also look at this stupid bird, how can you look at that unsettling face and not feel joy? He’s so happy to be a freak. I love him.

  • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    33·
    2 个月前

    After almost 4 months sober, I had a socially acceptable amount of alcohol at a friendly gathering last week. I have not drank since and I am not going to drink for over a month to be sure

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        21·
        2 个月前

        Thanks. It’s a popular misconception that recovery is all about willpower when it’s really not, when you try and white knuckle it you generally end up relapsing. A healthier approach is recognizing your triggers and trying to remove them as much as possible from your life, I found that works best. I still have my main trigger to deal with though and that’s my dad but in the interim I can try and reduce the harm as much as possible.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    2 个月前

    I planted three super high visibility pollinator gardens, got a fourth approved, and in exchange for one of them I got a tour of an antique trolley maintenance shop. They’re all in spaces where children can learn from otherwise degraded ornamental beds.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    I have this coding project that’s taken me hundreds of hours trying to recreate ERP from scratch as an open source resource. I didn’t realize that giving it a choice between GUI and CLI was as ambitious as creating it in the first place. I was really anxious because I didn’t know what to do in order to separate back end from front end and failed a few times, but this week I got it to work in an organized way.

    It’s going to have interchangable hosting, file storage, custom data parsing, custom file creation, page style, login+permission, etc. all ready to hopefully take a day or two to set up and make (the parsing, file generation, and persistent objects likely taking longer).

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    Lost kiwi species found in wild after 47 years

    Up until now, we believed kiwi pukupuku/little spotted kiwi had gone extinct from mainland New Zealand. Our smallest kiwi is particularly vulnerable to introduced predators, and the last known sighting of a kiwi pukupuku on the mainland was in 1978. In the years since, despite targeted searching, we haven’t found any others.

    Then, back in April, I received an email from a hunter we contracted for tahr control in the Adams Wilderness Area on the West Coast. The email included a short, blurry video of a kiwi looking for its next meal in a bed of fallen Dracophyllum leaves.

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    2 个月前

    My work finally gave me a new pair of uniform pants after I’ve been asking off and on since goshdang november of last year.

    I had to pull my manager aside and crotch-up at him so he could see the frayed inseam that had been giving me a rash for the previous couple of days.

    The moment was soiled somewhat when I put them on and they were way tighter than I remember the last pair I got. I need to lose weight…

  • IvarK [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    2 个月前

    I exhibited my passion project video game at a local con (~20k attendees) and got great feedback and got to see people have a fun time with my art c:

  • danisth [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    2 个月前

    I hate my job so I applied to a two places that looked interesting. I’m going into my 3rd round at one place next week and a first round at the other one. I’m not sure if either of these will end up sticking, but sure is a confidence booster batting 2/2 in my first time looking for 7 years. No matter what I’ll be leaving this place soon so that’s good.