State Correctional Institution – Cresson, PA

Cell Block B. Cubicles instead of cells.

The building have large identifying letters, I would guess the first floor area to be 16,000 square feet. The prison closed June 30, 2013.

The building has two big hall, both with two stories. Prisoner cubicles on three sides, each cubicle for four prisoners.

If you had the top bunk, you could reach over into the next cubical top bunk.

During overcrowded conditions I expect more bunks were added in the common area.

This may be the last day (Sunday, August 6, 2023) for public access to the abandoned prison. The company, Big House Produce, is in a legal battle over their lease.

See: https://www.cressonsanatorium.com/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Correctional_Institution_%E2%80%93_Cresson

Something that still doesn't sit right with me while being a part of the HOTD fandom is how Laena was done so dirty, from being placed as a "second" option for Daemon and having him keep her from returning home, from having her daughters see Driftmark, from seeing her own brother and parents before she died! That added on to the fact of how Daemon just sucked at loving her the way she deserved makes my blood boil. And to make matters worse, to drive the knife further, is during her funeral (added on to him laughing during it, which wasn't appropriate at all no matter the context or what anyone says) where she and her unborn son were only just recently placed at the bottom of the sea, Daemon and Rhaenyra sleep together and then marry each other all within the span of the same episode (don't even get me started on how they went heavy into the romantics of the moment but couldn't even bother to show Daemon be affection with Laena like he was in the books I believe).

And some in the fandom reaction to all this can be such a turn off. Because you can have people, mainly black fans, rightfully call out problems with this plot change, with Rhaenyra and Daemon sleeping together only right after Laena's funeral and will be met with so many heinous responses (a lot in which tie in with centering Rhaenyra and going "oh so you hate her" type beat) and it's so frustrating. That, and how we barely see Daemon interact with his daughters, let alone be affectionate as well as protective over them---that scene where the girls are bruised from a fight and clear in distress and yet Daemon doesn't even move to check on them nor go into a rage at the fact that his daughters were harmed, let alone the fact that his now dead wife's dragon was claimed by another on the day of her funeral. None of that. But will stand protectively by Rhaenyra and her sons' side without second thought. Make it make sense.

american aro culture is feeling like you have to have a partner of some kind just because everything is so damn expensive and built under the assumption that you have two people with income :/

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This was fascinating! Watch the very funny video at the end too as she tries to remember her iconic lines.

Gokushufudou: The Way of the House Husband, by by Kousuke Oono

I can’t cope with every second of every episode this is so funny, fighting with roof tiles, thinking he’s been shot just from putting his back out, he has a part time job at a cat cafe/cat petting place, but wants to also serve perfect tea with a bunch of old ladies who won’t let him join their tea ranks, haiku bard competition “gang fights” between the men, everyone speaks like they’re part of the yakuza still but most aren’t anymore but even the doctor does, ex yakuza siblings fighting about if their gaudy pink donut truck or crepe truck is the best, cats everywhere, an lady stole a cat because she said it looked like her husband, comparing making homemade popcorn to slaughtering people, please just..

More fallout from the James Somerton debacle; local person reluctant to respond to a post about the racism of disco revival because most of their argument revolves around anecdotal or observational evidence and they're too eepy to collect citable sources

Them: You shouldn't get more plants, you have too many.

Me at 8pm: Arranging to get a $5 plant who can mature to have a single leaf that's 5 feet long. 😈

5 or 8 for the wip game?

#8: dios mío it is!!

I will never Not laugh at the implications of all the kids clown car'd into Camila's sedan. my car is shaped like hers and fitting four people is already a lot, but SIX?? SEVEN with Vee?? Talk about getting distracted from the road , i can barely handle two people talking behind me when I'm on a freeway

this one was a half-baked thought from June that i proceeded to thumbnail at 2am, and then pass out

saw a post that was like a political compass for live/dead fandoms in which your fave is a major/minor character, and I ain't typing all that, sorry, but the section for 'dead fandom in which your fave is a minor character' goes like: + your city now - the city has no people in it

and that's kind of how making my silly little opera fanarts on my silly little library checkout cards feels, but eh, at least I have a bit of fun with it

My mood is sooo good today literally because of the plants I just got 💀

from just the first episode i thought wednesday was kind of tropey and i didn’t really like what it did with the addams family canon BUT it’s just unbelievable how 100% perfectly they captured my 5th grade escapist fantasies. being a hypercompetent morbid weirdo who went to a boarding school whose whole aesthetic, theme, and curriculum was centered around death and danger and who was also a successful novelist and solved mysteries was so exactly what i dreamed about that i’m enjoying watching it just because it scratches that old itch with surgical precision

The waffle house has found it's new host

Not thrilled about it being the time of year when every wolf spider in the county wants to live in my bathtub

idk what the timeline is but i might be getting to take a bird home 😳

During the 2008 recession, my aunt lost her job. Her, her partner, and my three cousins moved across the country to stay with us while they got back on their feet. My house turned from a family of four to a family of nine overnight, complete with three dogs and five cats between us.

It took a few years for them to get a place of their own, but after a few rentals and apartments, they now own a split level ranch in a town nearby. I’ve lost track of how many coworkers and friends have stayed with them when they were in a tight spot. A mother and son getting out of an abusive relationship, a divorcee trying to stay local for his kids while they work out a custody agreement, you name it. My aunt and uncle knew first hand what that kindness meant, and always find space for someone who needed it, the way my parents had for them.

That same aunt and uncle visited me in [redacted] city last year. They are prolific drinkers, so we spent most of the day bar hopping. As we wandered the city, any time we passed a homeless person, my uncle would pull out a fresh cigarette and ask them if they had a light. Regardless of if they had a lighter on hand or not, he offered them a few bucks in exchange, which he explained to me after was because he felt it would be easier for them to accept in exchange for a service, no matter how small.

I work for a company that produces a lot of fabric waste. Every few weeks, I bring two big black trash bags full of discarded material over to a woman who works down the hall. She distributes them to local churches, quilting clubs, and teachers who can use them for crafts. She’s currently in the process of working with our building to set up a recycling program for the smaller pieces of fabric that are harder to find use for.

One of my best friends gives monthly donations to four or five local organizations. She’s fortunate enough to have a tech job that gives her a good salary, and she knows that a recurring donation is more valuable to a non-profit because they can rely on that money month after month, and can plan ways to stretch that dollar for maximum impact. One of those organizations is a native plant trust, and once she’s out of her apartment complex and in a home with a yard, she has plans to convert it into a haven of local flora.

My partner works for a company that is working to help regulate crypto and hold the current bad actors in the space accountable for their actions. We unfortunately live in a time where technology develops far too fast for bureaucracy to keep up with, but just because people use a technology for ill gain doesn’t mean the technology itself is bad. The blockchain is something that she finds fascinating and powerful, and she is using her degree and her expertise to turn it into a tool for good.

I knew someone who always had a bag of treats in their purse, on the odd chance they came across a stray cat or dog, they had something to offer them.

I follow artists who post about every local election they know of, because they know their platform gives them more reach than the average person, and that they can leverage that platform to encourage people to vote in elections that get less attention, but in many ways have more impact on the direction our country is going to go.

All of this to say, there’s more than one way to do good in the world. Social media leads us to believe that the loudest, the most vocal, the most prolific poster is the most virtuous, but they are only a piece of the puzzle. (And if virtue for virtues sake is your end goal, you’ve already lost, but that’s a different post). Community is built of people leveraging their privileges to help those without them. We need people doing all of those things and more, because no individual can or should do all of it. You would be stretched too thin, your efforts valiant, but less effective in your ambition.

None of this is to encourage inaction. Identify your unique strengths, skills, and privileges, and put them to use. Determine what causes are important to you, and commit to doing what you can to help them. Collective action is how change is made, but don’t forget that we need diversity in actions taken.