have you considered a hand towel? they work equally well with feet.

because i’d previously been scraping by hand and i’ve never heard of that tool before right now. i regret nothing; i learned a ton. i’m curious how they got around the cloudflare captcha issue.

yeah, that was my issue at the time, my shoes had finally completely fallen apart on me and i needed a new pair for something. they fortunately let me finish my task when i explained my predicament.

some barefooters like not washing their feet. personally, i don’t get that. if my feet are dirty when i get home, i just wash them in the sink real quick. don’t need any special tools; hands, water, a bit of soap, and maybe a washcloth will be plenty.

ugh, i hate that woo-woo “grounding” bullshit. gives the rest of the barefooters a bad name. honestly there’s so many good reasons to go unshod without bringing in magical nonsense.

unless you’re in a place where human shit flows freely, that is not much of a concern. stores are usually not such places.

it is!

my understanding is the the american discrimination against bare feet and the still shockingly common ‘no shoes, no shirt, no service’ signs, started as a way to more discreetly target black folk after the civil rights act, as they were more likely to be poor enough to not have shoes. barefootedness had already had an association with poverty for quite a while at that time, and thanks to the legacy of slavery, poverty has always had an association with black people in america.

the anti-barefoot crowd gained more steam through the sixties and seventies as a reaction by conservative business owners against the hippie movement.

so basically, the US’s negative attitudes against bare feet have their roots in racism and reactionary anti-counterculture sentiments.

here’s an article about this history i found, if you wanna read more.

i’ve been accosted and kicked out of places so many times for being barefoot: grocery stores, restaurants, a bar, book shops, even a shoe store. i’ve basically been bullied by society at this point into wearing shoes whenever i go out, despite my own preferences. it’s not illegal, basically anywhere, but you’ve been quite lucky to not have gotten any shit anyways.

i wrote a fairly complex script in perl for scraping fanfiction off the internet, extracting data from it, and formatting that data into beautifully and consistently formatted epubs to read on my ereader.

you’ve been Educated Stupid
earth day is simultaneous 4 corner square days making 4-day simultaneous time cube. FLAT CIRCLE TIME is LIES against obvious truth of Time Cube Truth.
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i love this idea so much, but yeah, unless they had a way to know other worlds exist, they probably wouldn’t go looking. i think there’s a bit in the hitchhikers trilogy involving aliens from a world in a dark nebula who never saw a star and so never conceived of space travel (until they did, and decided they had to ‘correct’ the problem).

well, i’d suggest you keep waiting for her to message you first, so long as you’re okay with never talking to her again. alternatively, you could just message her, not even to ask why the long silence, but just to strike up a new conversation. share a fun fact or something, idk.

i’ve read that lobsters are sorta immortal. the problem is they keep growing, and eventually they can’t get themselves out of their shells when they molt, and they also have trouble getting enough food and avoiding predators when they get too big. if they had society, i bet lobster kings would be enormous and ancient.

i had never heard that definition of factoid before this thread, personally, so i figured folks might appreciate a source. *shrugs*

if it makes you feel better, i thought the same thing

wow that’s a lot of words. so, basically, you want a term to say ‘i’m straight, but i’d never date a trans person’, but you want it to somehow shield you from any suggestions that you might be somewhat transphobic, and you want it to free you from any obligation or expectation to introspect and unlearn the transphobia that society has programmed you with?

it’s fun, but alas, false.

i got excited seeing the post title, but as it turns out, ‘politically homeless’ is not here referring to anarchist squats or whatever, but instead just means you don’t vibe with mainstream politics

so there’s three methods i’m aware of:

1. patreon, or some other similar scheme, as you said
2. use a following from writing fanfic to promote other, non-fanfic, work
3. take commissions from individuals

i’m a fairly deft hand at pottery. i’m also decent at fiber crafts. depends when and where during the stone age, of course, that’s a pretty big expanse. if i’m really lucky, i’d be in one of the many cultures with special spiritual roles for trans folks. i’ve also got good rote memorization skills, so i can help with oral history.