🖤 Just Heather 🖤

@JPLFR80 E without a doubt. Pedro is awesome but if you think I'd give up a chance to hang out with Robert Irwin and talk about animals that's crazy

There's at least 3 correct answers, but one is the most correct

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

Sick of BREAKING NEWS. How about we just dismantle the patriarchy, bring on the matriarchy, and change things up with WORLD FIXING NEWS. I'd like some of that please.

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated

"I'm starting that diet today!" she says, knowing full well she will cave by the end of the day.

@mom_tho My teenager is autistic and has more the mentality of a much younger kid, but the question remains 😅

Question about parenting teenagers: wtaf?

People with ADHD don't run errands. We embark on quests. We wander. We discover. We forget what we were discovering.

I have these moments all day long where I forget that my dog is gone and I automatically look for him. My heart is breaking over and over again.

@LagunaBiotchIG I just lost my dog and I'm an absolute mess. I keep thinking he's gonna be waiting for me when I get home or come running in the kitchen when he hears me open the fridge. I keep looking at the back door expecting him to be waiting to be let in. He's buried in that yard now 😭

I cant believe it’s been 6 years without my soul animal. Grief is a bitch and when it comes to pets don’t let anyone tell you to “get over it”. My life is marked in two different ways, while having girl and after girl.

My best buddy crossed the rainbow bridge last night. Heartbroken doesn't describe it. This was Thor just a couple weeks ago. My beautiful boy, I'm gonna miss you so much. 🖤

@dadmann_walking Ok no this has officially been a horrible start to the year 😭

I'm not okay right now 😭😭

@stephenRB4 Me too! I just wanna be locked away in an old haunted house with a garden that's trying to crawl it's way in while I write in the attic by candlelight.

All I want is a wealthy benefactor, who will sponsor me to pen my dark, gothic tales and buy me coffee 🖤

I'm sick and watching All of Us Are Dead, and when I got up to get something earlier, I knocked over something that made a loud noise as it hit the ground. My new cleaning method when I'm better will be "able to move through my home without alerting any nearby zombies."

Life is at peak stress. My house is under construction because it flooded on new years day, my kids are driving me out of my mind, and I've felt like garbage since early December. I think it's time to book a new tattoo.

@JessicaKFoster That's what we did. The new year started in a really shitty way, there's a pun in there, and we need the extra joy in this house. It was my son's birthday the other day so I put some video game themed garland on the tree with a happy birthday sign next to it. 😅

I didn't want to take my tree down yet so I just de-Christmased it. It is now a winter tree and provides me with January whimsy. All the rules are made up. I'm an adult.

No offence, but if someone is excited about something and you make them feel stupid for being excited about it, you are the worst type of person.

I'm in such a bad mood that I'm having imaginary arguments with people about things I'd never talk to them about irl. This is why weed exists.

I do not understand how I myself am a very young person, like I have the mentality of a teenager. AND YET, I am the mom of an actual teenager. He turns 14 today.