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roseintherainforest:

thebibliosphere:

Ugh. The groomer, despite explicit instructions NOT to use scented products on Holly Mop, sprayed her with doggy perfume.

It is in her file NO SCENTS, NO PERFUME. We supply our own unscented dog shampoo and everything. The guy behind the counter even reminded the groomer when Mothman dropped her off, not to use any scents.

We gave her another bath but I can still smell it. Any dog groomers following me, how long do those doggy perfumes last? Is there a way to safely get it off of her?

I’m wheezing from the brief five second contact I had with her before the scent rose up and hit me in the face.

I used to be a bather at my family’s dog grooming shop; I couldn’t tell you how long it’ll last without knowing what exactly they used on her. As far as getting the smell off, our go to for extremely malodorous or skunk sprayed dogs was dawn original dish soap. Safe enough for puppies, not perfumed, and it should strip out any remaining odour.

If you have it, I’d follow with an unscented dog conditioner just to avoid stripping her coat too much, due to multiple baths in short succession, and that dawn will remove almost all residue.

If Hollymop gets scented again, the best thing to do is to lather with dawn without water and let it sit for a few minutes before rinsing. It’s the same protocol we use for skunked dogs; water opens the cuticle of the hair and locks in the odour.

Best of luck with the decontamination effort!

Thank you! Our oil based dog shampoo has managed to get more of it off her coat but it’s stuck to her face where she’s being too squirmy to let us get in there.

If it lingers we’ll try the dawn. It at least can’t be any worse for me than whatever this is.

(To everyone in the notes: I’ve emailed the manager who has taken my fragrance allergies very seriously in the past so hopefully at the very least we get our money back. I don’t want that groomer on staff today touching her again.)

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tekknonerd:

thebibliosphere:

coffee-math-chamomile:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

Ah. That’s right. I forgot my desktop which has all my files and my payhip tools is dead.

@mothman-etd fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it

He fixed it!

Time to get everything off of it and upgrade that sucker to Linux because the Windows install is dying.

What kinda Linux are you thinking about?

Also yes pls don’t use Win10 past security updates that’s a disaster waiting to happen.

I have Ubuntu on my laptop so I will likely go with that for now just to keep it running. Something in the disc corrupted after Win10 tried to update so it’s not having a good time right now.

I am really hyperaware of the fact windows has turned into nightmare malware under the guise of an operation system, but I have always known Linux for two things:

1. not being easy to set-up and use
2. not running the majority of software - especially games - without extensive futzing about, or having some kind of dual-booting situation with windows.

Has any of this changed in the 25 years since I last considered it?

Ubuntu has been remarkable easy for me to adapt to and use as my main work horse machine and my Steam library made the majority of my games compatible.

Like I haven’t tested all of them, but so far everything in my Steam library has worked.

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coffee-math-chamomile:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

Ah. That’s right. I forgot my desktop which has all my files and my payhip tools is dead.

@mothman-etd fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it

He fixed it!

Time to get everything off of it and upgrade that sucker to Linux because the Windows install is dying.

What kinda Linux are you thinking about?

Also yes pls don’t use Win10 past security updates that’s a disaster waiting to happen.

I have Ubuntu on my laptop so I will likely go with that for now just to keep it running. Something in the disc corrupted after Win10 tried to update so it’s not having a good time right now.

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evilvillain666:

evilvillain666:

You need to start moisturizing before it’s too late. I’m not talking about wrinkles or any of that nonsense. Winter is fucking coming you need to grease up or you are going to dry out like a raisin. It’s too late for me but you can still save yourself. Please don’t end up like me

Guys it’s actually so dire please for the love of God start moisturizing right fucking now. I just put on lotion and my skin sucked it up before I could even rub it in we are in fucking crisis mode

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bluer-lights:

thebibliosphere:

So the consensus from yesterday seems to be that if we can install an electric water tank, to go for a heat pump one because that will be so much more efficient and won’t require us to install a water softener as well, because it looks like where I am in MN, the hard water destroys those tankless ones pretty quick.

Which is all excellent information to have, so thank you all very kindly.

If we can’t get an electric one (we’ll see what Tony says, I trust him more) then we’ll be going for an energy efficient gas one in the meantime, and hope that by the time it needs replaced in ten years we can afford to change it to electric then. (And if pigs fly, maybe we can get solar panels. Right after we replace the roof 😭)

Either way we need to come up with $12k by the new year on the assumption that we’ll be going ahead with gas, because the entire gas line needs to be replaced to be safe, so apologies in advance, but I’m about to become obnoxious about reblogging my book stuff. I’m also going to try and get the physical merch that’s been just sitting in my house for two years photographed and up on my Payhip this week. Wish me luck 🤞

Joy’s personal website: https://joydemorra.com/

Joy’s payhip: https://payhip.com/JoyDemorra

Joy’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebibliosphere

Joy’s ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/joyde

Tumblr users once again being leagues ahead of me in promoting my work 😂

(Also yes I know the website is not up to date. it broke when my migraines went chronic and keeps getting put on the back burner. It’ll get done.)

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northirish:

northirish:

Not doing it like they do it on the Discovery Channel. Doing it like they do it on the History Channel

Why the fuck are there aliens here

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monsterfactoryfanfic:

monsterfactoryfanfic:

monsterfactoryfanfic:

they put RFK jr in charge of the agency that most directly affects everything i’ve been doing in my real life career for a decade so if I start posting like i’ve clamped car batteries to my nipples it’s because i have done exactly that

ALT

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I knew eventually I’d have to make this post but the events of this week have pretty much been the last straw. The CDC is no longer publishing scientifically accurate information about vaccines.

Please do not get health information from the CDC for the foreseeable future. If you are an American, depending on your state, the state health department may have more accurate information. States in the Governor’s Public Health Alliance are relatively trustworthy.

I’ve personally been using Dr. Kaetlyn Jetelina’s newsletter as a less-grim way to keep up with US public health news. It’s on substack unfortunately, but the information is solid.

Yale School of Public Health’s POPHIVE is also a good way to track population health trends in the US.

I know this is not at the top of the administration’s crimes. But it is one of them, and it is going to hurt a lot of people. Not much I can say but that I’m heartbroken.

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Ah. That’s right. I forgot my desktop which has all my files and my payhip tools is dead.

@mothman-etd fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it

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purple-hel:

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I said it before, and I’ll say it again: There’s a reason I can’t seem to ever find my keys anymore.

My entire brain is just all the shit I had to learn to keep myself alive, and when someone mentions something offhandedly, my brain spits out a fact like a weird mast cell dysfunction information pez dispenser.

It happened in my Discord when someone mentioned they’d started reacting to their water filter, and I asked what kind they had switched to. Before they’d even finished typing all the ingredients, I was like, “Potassium chloride is a potential histamine liberator.”

It’s just all hard-wired in there.

What’s my birthdate? Fucked if I know anymore (checked my calendar, it’s March 13th). But chances are you can ask me something really complex and I’ll have a medical journal on speed dial for that.

not really your point, I know, but, I purchased a small wire basket that lives just inside the front door where my wallet and car keys LIVE. When I come inside they leave my pockets and go into the basket. When I am going out they leave the basket and go into my pockets. I do not lose my keys or wallet.

(my fucking phone, on the other hand…. But my watch can make my phone make noise. If you can’t make a spot where your keys live, maybe a tracker tile on them, the kind you can make beep?)

The thing is, I do all of those things. I have in theory ADHD proofed my house and it does usually work for me. My brain is just so tired and full of this shit, it doesn’t see the keys anymore, even when they’re in the key basket by the door.

Where are me keys? Usually in front of me 😂.

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