happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
August 2015
October 2016
April 2017
July 2017
September 2018
December 2018
June 2019
February 2020
August 2020
You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
Beautiful Illustrations By Tom Booth Telling The Story Of A Woodworker Grieving The Love Of His Life
Just beautiful
Linguists throughout the ages: We have spent lifetimes gathering the significations of words and phrases in various language so everyone can appreciate them as well as possible.
Language teachers: Translate this text, no dictionaries allowed.
Linguists:
Literally thousands of artists, engineers and scientists over the years: Look at all of these awesome tools we made to help artists make more art more quickly and more easily! Now art is much more accessible to everyone!
Art snobs: If you use anything more than a pencil and ink and these specific paints and brushes you’re cheating and not a real artist. Especially if you draw digitally. That’s double cheating.
Artists, engineers and scientists:
I was always told in math class that I wouldn't be able to carry a calculator with me everywhere I went.
I'm writing this from my smartphone.
Kenguru is a tiny electric hatchback for wheelchair users By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com
Kenguru’s electric car has no seats, and you drive it by putting your hands on motorcycle-style handlebars. It’s built for wheelchair users, who can roll right through the rear hatch of the car into the driver’s area. The Austin-based…
THIS IS SO COOL.
fucking amazing wow
NO BUT DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW GREAT THIS IS? DO YOU REALLY? PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS CAN HAVE SMALL CARS NOW, THEY DON’T HAVE TO RELY ON EXPENSIVE LIFTS TO HELP GET THEM INTO CARS, THEY DON’T HAVE TO MODIFY THEIR CARS FOR THEIR NEEDS BECAUSE THE CAR IS ALREADY DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR THEM. THIS IS ACTUALLY SO GREAT AND IT GIVES SO MANY PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE MORE INDEPENDENT AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY!
Have I reblogged this already? Don’t care.
Also for those worried about prices: it’s about $25,000 when it comes out, so about the price of a mid-sized car. And there might be grants for it.
imagine housing people and giving them needed services.
Imagine living in a country that actually cares about the wellbeing of its citizens. Wild
American conservatives are genuinely offended by this idea. They don’t care if it can be demonstrated that it works, or that it saves money, they just have an irrational emotional response to the idea of giving something to anyone who didn’t do something “useful” first to someone else.
no offence but if we must wear makeup can we all just shave our eyebrows off and draw little lines over them and wear so much blush we just have little pink circles on our cheeks…i’d support that actually
as someone who has done this it is genuinely a million times easier to just draw a little line on your eyebrows than to use 30 products to try and fill in and define them. i think we should do that and have a little red lip and hearts on our cheeks and look like grotesque little mimes. if we must do anything
if makeup is “liberating” and “an art form” and “not about looking attractive” then why do we not all look like this
hollywood: hey look at this big scary monster
y’all on this website:
I don’t see the issue….
ALL OF THIS
Like
I can’t believe this is a controversial statement in some parts of America but here’s a true fact:
A “Child detention camp” is ALWAYS A BAD THING
Anyone who supports literally locking children in cages and treating them worse than zoo animals? That’s a BAD PERSON
There is no fucking “Grey area” on the subject of whether or not its okay to take people and put them in cages and treat them like they are not even human beings and it fucking horrifies me that we live in a world where people actually act like this is something that should be debated like “Should we commit a crime against humanity? Y/N? Answers on this piece of paper and we have to respect everyones opinion even if we disagree with them”
And to all the people who say “Oh ICE agents aren’t monsters their just doing their jobs” hey guess what your literally saying that ICE “Are just following orders”
So go google that phrase and its historical context and see if you still think that ICE and fascist pieces of shit like them aren’t literally fucking demons
And if you still support ICE after that and still think that ICE are not bad people I really don’t know what to say other than “Have fun in hell” because that’s where you’ll be going after you die
Every time I see a ‘modern au’ ft a character that has some sort of limb replacement like a metal arm or w/e and the ‘cool au version’ of it is a sleeve tattoo I literally want to reach through the screen and slap some sense into whoever posted it
They got a prosthetic in canon they gonna get a prosthetic in the au!!!! Because, I know this is a little far-fetched, but people who need prosthetics actually exist!!! In real life?! What a coincidence?!
Also you want cool prosthetics??? They totally exist
Want your character to have a cool prosthetic in the modern day?
steampunk? check
#aesthetic? Floral?
avant garde?
cyberpunk?
there are no excuses for erasing canonical disabilities
we are *this* close to inventing just deadass automail
I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines of “how to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!” It had this smug “aha, gotcha” vibe oozing out of it, and it…just sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me think…
Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.
They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it.
Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.
Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.
I’m not sure if they literally don’t understand that presenting a millennial with something they haven’t encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldn’t do the equivalent, or if it’s a combination of the above.
I just realized that the original meme is also, quite accidentally, basically describing the principle behind….. escape rooms.
You know, the recent popular trend in participatory entertainment in which thousands of millennials literally go out and pay money to voluntarily be locked in a room where they have to solve puzzles under a time pressure, often using antiquated or analog technology, secret codes, and mechanisms they don’t yet understand, all without using their phones/the internet. For fun.
For many of us, that’s not panic-inducing, that’s just our idea of an enjoyable Saturday night out with some friends!
Now I’m just laughing even harder.
Me
“Call the cops like I give a fuck”
the last thing a journo sees
i LOVE the cryptid energy this gives off
another pic, different angle
^ important
big boy
michaelangelo could put all that work into perspective tricks and he still couldn’t sculpt a titty
Look, he was a genius, but he was also Gay
Someone in facebook also posted this too
Omg
Mediglyphics
This shit’s infuriating
Oh, this is a type of shorthand!
There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.
As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.
Let’s break one of the words down:
Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?
Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.
Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.
So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.
Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!
Isn’t language amazing~?
All this time I thought doctors just had shit handwriting
Can’t believe this one didn’t make the list
am i having a stroke
I observed this behavior from a number of boomers in my life when I was a teenager. I’d watch them take up the task of learning new things for their jobs and manage it just fine, but whenever there was a computer problem they just…threw up their hands and called me into the room. Often this came with an amount of “well it’s probably your fault anyway since you use the computer the most” guilt thrown on. Never mind that because I used it so much I took the time to learn proper security practices and was the least likely person in the house to have caused a problem. Oh, or “it’s one of those (store bought virus-free) games you installed that did it.” All coming from someone who compulsively clicked the YES button on any damn thing passed in front of their faces. And I’d go on the computer, find they’d done some damn fool thing and installed a FREE FONTS program that had gatorware or some shit on it, and said yes to about a couple dozen browser toolbar things, and refused to EVEN ONCE, even after hitting problems, run the malware scanner I’d painstakingly explained how to use and given written instructions to refer to.
And like I said…they frequently showed themselves capable of learning new information. But because they had someone they could call on command to handle things they filed it under “I don’t have to learn this because my child/niece/etc. will come in and fix it if anything’s ever wrong”. And then their CC number ends up in the hands of someone several states away because they just couldn’t be bothered to listen when I explained the most basic security practices, and then got paranoid around ANY tech, and…yeah.
And I also know boomers who are EXCITED about new tech, thrilled to learn about new shit.
The ones who refuse can learn. They just won’t. And they treat political issues the same way. That person who can’t use the blu-ray player is treating those reproductive rights, LGBT/Queer rights, sex worker rights, etc. with the same amount of “I don’t have to so I don’t want to” attitude. And then we get people passing laws who clearly don’t understand the slightest bit of what they’re meddling in. Like look at SESTA/FOSTA and the utter failure it is at everything it claimed to want to do. There are some people who absolutely knew what it was really about, spearheading it. But the law managed to pass because just as many people refused to learn what actually works and is needed.
It’s a sign of a fucking plague of Somebody Else’s Problem that is deeply entrenched in right-wing Boomer mentality.
