We need a holiday for this, a day where we stop and recognize all the things that didn't kill us. Could work like a passover seder
Light a nice-smelling candle for all the air pollution that we don't breathe in and the fires that never burned out of control, eat a nice meal with unpoisoned food and drink our clean water. Fly paper airplanes in honor of all the plane crashes that don't happen.
She definitely didn’t do it
Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.
God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊
also "handspun" does not need to mean rough and uneven. It can be very fine and even and frankly historically (where people had MASSIVE amounts of practice at it, and also it is ALL THERE WAS! (see linen so fine you can't see the weave in above post) people would not have accepted the shit we get today! (My personal hate boner for the fact that I cannot even find an online source where I can be sure they're selling actual high quality fabrics.)
May i profer up the following sources that my historical costuming buddies like to use (forgive me if you already know these). Most of these are just natural fibers and/or historical designs around the 1800's, but yeah...
To save you all a painful scroll, links are below the break:
I'm not importing anything from the USA under current conditions, but that looks like some lovely stuff! My personal pet pieve though is the fabric quality itself, beyond "just" fibre content. But I don't have any experience with the above sources! My "favourite" anecdote for this is that when they were making Phrine Fisher's costumes (in Australia) they had to import Kimono fabrics from Japan to get the fabric quality you'd expect for a rich fashionable lady from the 1920s...
1990 - When developers and the town of Oka wanted to start building a golf course on stolen land that belonged to them and that contained a sacred grove and a burial ground, the Mohawk tribe around Kanehsatake, Quebec, rose up and occupied the area.
Ultimately the stand-off with the police and the Canadian army lasted 78 days before the warriors gave up the occupation. The building of the golf course was cancelled.
From this great documentary: [Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance]
Kaniehtiio Horn has a podcast called Coffee with my Ma where she talks in-depth about her family’s activism, including their presence at the Oka protest, where her sister Waneek was bayoneted through the chest while she was carrying Kaniehtiio.
My guy where are your meds
Fun fact: (I’ve heard) the creator of Phineas and Ferb Dan based Doofenshmirtz largely on himself. He recently discovered he had ADHD
This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!
The sooner yall remember that Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the US military, the sooner yall will stop fangirling over a bunch of your White boy faves making war criminals look good becos that's strategic too.
Also, lmao at these tweets:
"Everything is based on memory", cool bro will you include this then?
Ray Mendoza sir, is your memory long enough to remember the death toll of Iraqi casualties as a result of the Iraq war?
I use my blog to share writing resources that I’ve collected over the years. I’ve recently gotten some new followers, so I thought I would make a list of many of these resources for easy reference.
(However, this is not a complete list of all the resources I’ve posted. For more writing resources, feel free to check out my blog.)
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A list of resources to help you describe different colors in your writing.
The Color Thesaurus A collection of infographics that show various shades of different colors, each shade/color labeled by name.
Color Reference Chart Another collection of infographics that show various shades of different colors, each shade/color labeled by name.
Hair Color Reference Chart A collection of infographics that show various shades of different hair colors, each shade/color labeled by name.
Eye Color Reference Chart A collection of infographics that show various shades of blue, brown, and green eye colors, each shade/color labeled by name.
Different Ways to Describe Hazel Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing hazel eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.
Different Ways to Describe Green Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing green eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.
Different Ways to Describe Blue Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing blue eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.
Different Ways to Describe Brown Eyes A list of ideas and suggestions for describing brown eyes. Can be used as prompts or for brainstorming.
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the rapid disintegration of rainbow capitalism pretty much encapsulates the problem with rainbow capitalism in the first place: it is and always was performative fair-weather allyship that evaporated in the face of any real political pressure
Problem? It was never a problem, unless you had unrealistic expectations for what it meant. It was a symptom, and a good one. — Be strategic and think about this deeper for a minute.
It was absolutely performative fair-weather allyship. But it was a bellwether that the pink dollar was worth taking over any hypothetical backlash a business might face for supporting the queers. For some, and at some times in the past, it was a reassurance that they would do business with you even if they knew you were gay, and that was a huge issue if you eg. wanted to buy a house or a car. And it helped make queerness both more visible and more normalised in society, instead of trying to sweep teh gays back into the closet.
You’re not going to get rid of cynical cash grabs so long as capitalism is around, so you might as well be clear-eyed about it and recognise that while rainbow merch is totally unreliable for actual support, it was a sign that the smart money was betting in your favour.
You can always trust a business to find a sort of middle space that's vaguely agreeable to most of its customers and sit there avoiding all controversy in the absolute most craven and soulless way possible.
This means that a business is in fact a very good indicator of what's vaguely agreeable to most of its customers and what counts as controversy.
Don't think of them as allies. They aren't people. They can't be. Think of them as a barometer. If the barometer is up, you've probably got sunny skies. When the barometer starts dropping, prepare for heavy weather moving in.
Hey Science side of tumblr folks, if you were working on an NIH grant that was canceled, ProPublica is looking to hear from you to amplify your story and put it in the perspective of the ongoing assault on our commitment to care for each other.
Multiple relatives of mine donated their bodies to science. That donation was in each case an awe inspiring act of kindness and love, an effort to help create a world in which the thing that was at the time actively killing them would not do so to others if they could help it.
Huge swaths of disease research is based on similarly beautiful commitments to humanity, and the NIH represents our societal commitment to make those sacrifices matter.
So I am taking these bastards pulverizing it extremely personally and am incandescent about it. I am personally committed to making everyone involved in this suffer as much as I personally can. Which is to say I would appreciate if you took the time to help ProPublica shine a light on this atrocity if you have a story to tell them.
i love the phrase "which could mean nothing" i think its my favorite thing to come out of the internet ever i love saying it. it could mean nothing but we all know better. we know the truth.
excuse me, no I wasn't???
congratulations to today’s lucky 10000
found out about them since they were marching through gdc earlier
also their site has links to game dev unions in other parts of the world
Also of note on the site is a link to a petition in protest of gaming industry layoffs
Hey, maybe go sign the petition to support game development against corporations like Sony and Microsoft
Whoever wrote that Vanguard message did so with shaking hands, between sobs & swigs of bourbon straight from the bottle.
They're right, though. Now is exactly the wrong time to make dramatic investment moves. Everybody's shit is doing the same thing; unless you need your retirement money in the next twelve months or whatever, you're better off leaving it alone and waiting for the eventual correction. Like, this is not a comforting lie, this is good advice!
Adultier adult here, having had to talk to my retirement management people earlier this week. (I hate it. It's useless. But I told them to divest me from anything that holds TSLA in the portfolio/fund because Elon is an asshole and the company's financials are shit.)
This week has caused about three percent (3%) of my 401(k) to vanish.
And that's okay.
I can't touch that money without a tax penalty (or emergency) until the 2030's. It's not paying for cat food or keeping my electricity on. This is a privilege not everyone enjoys (yet).
If you're in a position to have any kind of investments, don't do anything rash and/or bananas with important chunks of money. (My financial guy gave me this advice, too. I specifically asked about cashing out the whole fucking thing.)
Every time Elon does something outside of rockets and cars someone who knows better points out what a moron he is.
Also his rockets and cars explode all the time because he thinks he knows better than the engineers. I wouldn't trust him to wipe his own ass unassisted.
Rapid unscheduled disassembly isn't a plus in space travel? The more you know.
He's so deep in K-holes most of the time he definitely has his ass wiped by a self-designed Assbot-X3000. Eventually it will malfunction, catch fire, and he'll probably be burned to a crisp ass first like Wile. E Coyote in an unaired Roadrunner episode set in the truck stop of the future.
