cybre!pamela 🌺 @pmosetc@cybre.space

New Instance, newly-edited #introductions post:

Hi, I'm Pamela! I live by a great lake (well, it's alright). I really love animals and have a pet turtle and cats. I like to learn new things and work with my hands. I like ecology, #STEM, #gameing, #openbsd, books and nature, and I enjoy painting but don't spend enough time doing it.

I have #agoraphobia and write about that pretty regularly, now, as well as my experiences with microwork.

I don't know if it's worse that I clicked on a clickbait article about what Robert Pattinson smells like (crayons), or that after I did, I realized it was a reprint of one I'd already read.

fyi fiona's doing fine

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/28/821981795/who-feeds-fiona-cincinnati-zookeepers-make-sure-there-are-no-hungry-hippos

clothed goats are my new jam

Also!
Did you know!
You should be wearing sunscreen indoors?

I'm not going to get a tan sitting inside the house in quarantine, you say.

Well, good news! That's not how photoaging and skin cancer work at all! UVA rays will come straight through the damn clouds and the glass in your window, year-round!

Find something that says PA+++ or PA++++ and designed for faces and put it on your face and neck and hands! every day! This could be the easiest thing you'll ever do to take care of yourself! Except drinking water. Drink water, too!

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For the three people who would want the explainer: yes, we want the silly sunscreen changes. We haven't approved a new sun filter since the stone age and are missing out on literally decades of developed products other countries and the EU have already tested extensively, including significantly more stable, reef-safe broad-spectrum filter complexes which are signficantly less toxic. (Don't put oxybenzone on your skin or into the water!)

Physician's Formula are apparently now selling in mainland China, producing domestically with known ingredients so they're not *automatically* being tested on animals as is required for imports, but as government safety testing is done on various products in the domestic market on an ongoing basis, this is no longer a brand committed to not sanctioning animal testing of its products.

(This remains a good rule of thumb: if a product is sold and marketed in mainland China, as an import it *has* been tested on animals, and all others *may* be. If animal testing determines your purchasing decisions, sales in these markets disqualify any makeup brands. Often a brand's statement regarding animal testing will mention this region specifically).

Raise your hand if you've already gotten bored and cut your hair

okay but seriously I need some and I need it hypoallergenic, are there black markets yet, how do you meet Caboo dealers

So what's for dinner?

picture, in your mind, the cutest headband possible

I would like to make that headband tomorrow so I stop dipping my hair in chemical peel. What is my materials list?

I love the Just Dance series but had kind of turned my nose up at the 2020 incarnation. These outfits are giving me second thoughts.

Also, love to read about how my state is quickly becoming the hotspot for the world and calling us the canary in the coal mine and how we only received the barest fraction of the ventilators we need and stuff, wish there were some kind of news edition available for like if you live in New York and need to stay reasonably functional vs the people outside of New York who might be involved in decision-making and *actually* need to read about how we're turning into a hellmouth

https://twitter.com/nycHealthy/status/1242462479134982145

good looking out, underpaid media person 👍

there's also a whole big pdf about safe covid sex https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-sex-guidance.pdf so okay, everyone, sexting for public health is now official city guidance!

see, *this* is when secret santa things should happen 🤔

ooooo these bored-at-home looks are getting so fancy and pretty now This is Christiana Gabriele (twitter: christianagabb)

oh that's a really good wig, too 🤔

I can literally spend an entire day explaining everything I know about the cosmetics world and not get bored and will feel considerably happier in the process

so buyer beware I guess

alright alright, positive thinking.
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I'm excited this was the first day of spring! 🌷 Earliest it has come in over a century, apparently.

Which is weird, because it comes the same time every year and we're just bad at wrapping our calendar around things. 😆

But I take immense joy in blooming bulbs and look forward to seeing them, and bringing some inside to enjoy.

rest easy, The Man, I still found the energy to file my sales tax return today

watch the cat shred the upholstery like fuck yeah, burn it all down wait I'm ... I'm using this couch :(