That does sound like a fun Friday night

oh dang, only 3 days? I kinda just skimmed the store page and it said around 7, which would be on the lower end of acceptable for me. So that alone is a deal breaker, thanks for the input!

I’m from Germany, there’s an App here called Vinted which is a platform for people to sell Second Hand Clothes to each other (afaik it’s also available in many other European countries). Just the sheer amount of users usually means that you can get any item that you could get at a store. I usually use it to buy Eco-friendly brands that are too expensive for me to buy new (I found several of my favourite ArmedAngels Jeans there for like 30€ tops!)

I’ve also been dipping my toes into sewing clothes myself from thrifted fabric. Made these cool pants just last weekend!

That seems like quite the generalization

omg, gorgeous babies!! 😍
What morphs are they?

I have one and love her very much!!

I don’t have time to elaborate on all questions at the moment, but snakes definitely don’t ever try to kill people out of aggression. Little nips can happen if your snake is defensive/ fearful or mistakes you for food (which, food for them is usually the size of a rat), but there is never malice behind it.

Most snakes aren’t really social, so they probably don’t even recognize different people as anything more than warm trees that smell slightly differently. Which for me personally is perfect, since I couldn’t care for a social pet whenever I fall into depressive episodes. It’s also just nice how clean and low maintenance they are. My snake only eats every 2 weeks or so, and poops maybe every 2-4 weeks. If I go on a trip for a few days, she doesn’t even notice that I’m gone. Plus, she’ll live for 20-30 years.

edit: more snake pros I just remembered:

• They just hang around, so no zipping after a hyperactive pet. I find it quite calming.
• They don’t bite or scratch anything in their enclosure, so you don’t have to constantly change out decorative items (you should still rotate them for enrichment)
• Completely silent, except for the occasional fart at night
• Probably can be kept solitary, I’m actually still waiting for the scientific consensus on that. In comparison, having a solitary rat, bunny or guinea pig is just plain unethical because they’re so social.
• They’re trainable! Not to the extent that a dog or a horse is, but you can teach them basic shifting behavior which really helps reduce stress from handling. Lori Torrini is the biggest resource on snake training right now, it’s amazing what she achieves with her own snakes!

I only committed to being vegan like 6 months ago, so the tips I needed for the beginning are still in recent memory 😄

1. Install Happycow and check out lots of vegan restaurants in your area. Find some dishes you really like, so that you have something to fall back on if you’re really craving super tasty food. Your own cooking might suck for a while until you figure out some of the tricks to getting vegan foods right, and you don’t want to reinforce the notion that vegan food tastes bad.

2. If you need exceptions, take them, but be aware of the slippery slope.
   When I was deciding whether to stick with being vegan, my biggest problem was that I am absolutely unwilling to give up my pet snake. I’m aware of how shitty life is for feeder rodents, and having them right next to the beyond burgers in my freezer is certainly aesthetically uncomfortable… but in the end, it seemed like a stupid excuse to not be as vegan as I can be, just because I can’t do 100%.
   There are a lot of stories from vegans who slipped from “oh, I could have some milk in my coffee if there’s no other options” to “Cheese once a week is okay” to “Might as well have a burger if I feel like it” so be aware of that pipeline. I’d suggest actively reframing all exceptions to “Because I have this exception, I gotta be extra diligent with everything else” ^^

3. Find some positive reasons to stay vegan. Anger about the world can be a strong starter, but being angry all the time isn’t great for your health. And Anger doesn’t last indefinitely. So instead, be introspective in your first few weeks and see what positive reasons you can find for sticking with it. My personal reasons are currently mostly that I just really like the predictability of vegan foods (weird textures, random sinew and bone parts and weird smells really upset me when I was eating meat, the fact that I don’t have to deal with that anymore is quite freeing). I’m also very excited about the progress in food science that I’m financially supporting – things like Precision- and Microfermentation and general research into alternative food sources is just pretty cool! I also kinda like being extra. As in, I got socialized to always compromise and never inconvenience anyone else, so having a hard line “No, I’m not eating that no matter how annoyed you are” feels very empowering.

4. Nuts!! They’re great. Get a big bag of mixed nuts and eat at least a handful every day. They keep away cravings for other fatty foods really well.

5. It’s not brownies, but this vegan chocolate cake is absolutely incredible. The frosting is sooo good!!

If it’s worth doing, it’s worth half-assing. Don’t get caught in the details of trying to do something perfectly if it would benefit you more to do it at all.

It’s totally reasonable to be hesitant about animals that you can’t predict, and snakes are especially unintuitive! If you want to learn more about them, I always recommend the Youtube Channel “Green Room Pythons”! The host has some very bad dad joke humor, but he is one of the best keepers around (in terms of optimizing enrichment and following current behavioral research) :D

Here’s my favourite episode of his series where he introduces snakes to people who don’t like snakes - it’s a really neat format because people do tend to have the same kinds of questions and he’s really patient in answering them :)

It’s a bus, but that’s close enough to a plane haha She wasn’t all that scared in the picture since she didn’t know yet that we were going to the vet - Very scared on the way back tho, but she could just hide in her little house :D

Yes, but we’ve been having a few hot days around here and temperatures over 30°C really degrade the effectiveness of the medication. I bought a sewing machine on Saturday.

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You guys have stable hobbies…?
If you count “starting new hobbies” as a hobby, then I could get like 4-5 hobbies out of it, around 200-250$ is a reasonable buy-in for a new one.

That’s interesting, I’ll check it out! I’m actually not sure which category I fall into, most of my donations go to animal related causes, second place are to groups I feel affiliated with, so mostly artists and gay-ish people.

That makes sense! I usually stay away from anything that automatically renews on a monthly basis since I’m very paranoid about forgetting to cancel, but I guess that might actually be a good thing for donations haha

I just kinda assumed we’re all programmers here tbh. Maybe the occasional engineer too.

Sometimes it just do be like that

I know what it is! OP was edited with Clip Studio Paints “Smart Smoothing” feature. Here’s what I got when I pulled the image you posted through one smart smoothing (strong) plus one Sharpen filter:

The way CSP bleeds colors with their rendering features is quite distinct, but you need to see it to recognize it in the future. I think the Smoothing filters are technically not AI, but it’s still a dick move to use them on someone else’s art.

CSP has an AI Colorize tool too, which you can recognize quite easily by the fact that it wildly overshoots some areas and applies a weird gradient smear all around the line art. Visual example generated from my own art:

Get Youtube Vanced (or ReVanced) on your phone and disable all Youtube shorts.

You can, but you only get GW brand paints and bushes (at full price). No wet pallete either, have fun with the paint skin.