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By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!
This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.
This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.
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Incredible footage of a Octopus imitating a moray eel | source
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The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, July 27, 1937
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Moon cake and pond cake 🌙 ✨
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It's definitely getting chilly even in California and I already got sick with the flu. Stay warm everyone!
More umbrella art because I love them ☔
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Male Scifi and Fantasy writers: Look at this !Strong! female character! She can fight and solve puzzles, and ends up with the sidekick not the hero! Isn’t she a great character?
Everyone: No, she’s one-dimensional and still only exists to please the hero’s ego
Male scifi and fantasy writers: You’re never happy! This is how characters are written! Besides, it’s much harder for us to write women because we are men!
Terry Pratchett: *creates a female character who is literally the embodyment of a dog, sets her up to be the love interest of Protagonist Hero Man.* *writes her as clever, emotionally tortured, lonely and powerful* *uses her to explore difficulties of bisexuality and masculine dominated workforces*
Terry Pratchett: *Creates a pair of old witches, one of whom is a virgin and the other who has slept with lots of men.* *makes them best friends, never dismisses one lifestyle of the other, explains lifestyle choices based on characters history and personality, uses this to develop each character as the books progress*
Terry Pratchett: *Writes Sybil Rankin* *makes the powerful rich lady heavy set but beautiful, never plays her by her looks, develops her as she ages, acknowledges the way society views such people and then spits on their attitudes* *does it again with Agnes*
Terry Pratchett: *Writes a book about an entire army secretly being women, creates complex female relationships, introduces same sex relationships completely naturally*
Terry Pratchett: *takes old joke about female dwarves and uses it to explore gender identity without making it seem forced or unnatural, carefully discusses some of the issues and complextities whilst still making funny and witty observasions and maintaining genuine fantasy tropes*
Terry Pratchett: *DOES THIS ALL OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DEVELOPING CHARACTERS AS HIS VEIW OF THE WORLD DEVELOPS AND CAREFULLY APOLOGIZES FOR EARLY MISTAKES*
Excellent note by @spiderleggedhorse
Terry’s writer superpower was always Thinking Things Through. All the way through.
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Some of the plants I've pressed to use in crafts over the last year.
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Couldn't stop thinking about that tweet, I love the idea of a god promoting his faith.
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Pangaea, an ancient supercontinent.
Illustration by Richard Morden
Source: reddit.com
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LIFE ADVICE FOR YOUR TEENS AND EARLY TWENTIES (and probably beyond but I haven't made it much farther than that so far):
- GO OUT BY YOURSELF
- LEARN HOW TO NAVIGATE PUBLIC TRANSIT WITH NO SMART PHONE
- TAKE ONLINE CLASSES
- MAKE PEACE WITH DISAPPOINTING YOUR PARENTS
- GO TO THERAPY IF POSSIBLE
- FOLLOW AFTERCARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR NEW TATTOOS AND PIERCINGS
- EAT A MEAL BEFORE DRINKING
- DON'T MIX DRUGS
- IT'S HARD TO BE YOURSELF WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW YOURSELF SO JUST KEEP TRYING NEW THINGS
- THROW EVERYTHING AT THE WALL LIKE SPAGHETTI TO SEE WHAT STICKS
- YOU WILL DISCOVER YOURSELF THE SAME WAY YOU DISCOVER NEW COFFEE SHOPS AND NEW BANDS
- YOU WILL GET THERE
- DON'T MAKE A LONG POST IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE YOUR VOICE WILL START TO HURT FROM SHOUTING
All absolutely legit.
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Doctors are like HERE is your APPOINTMENT if you are late I WILL PERSONALLY kill YOU but when you show up on time they are like I; am so so sor..ry.. Theree, will bbe abt housand yeaars, delayy
This post is so funny bc people are like "that's bc of all the other people before you who ran late or had a problem that took too long (more than 15 min)" wow that's crazy, it's almost like there's an industry-wide problem with overbooking doctors based on the deranged idea that somehow healthcare will be able to be squeezed into the time it takes to microwave a tv dinner and every patient will never have any issues with travel time and that problem is passed onto doctors and patients. It's almost like it's a really bad quality of care to expect someone to cancel their entire days activities to see a healthcare professional once every one to six months for 15 minutes.
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This is not my picture- but husband just called, made me put it on video phone, and walked up and down the block to show me this amazing library and I really want to go to Kansas City now.
I never thought I would need to go to Kansas City but here we are
Um...I live here, I like books (I probably have a stack of 20 to read don’t judge...) and have never heard of this library but you best believe imma be in that bitch sometime. BET!
I’m bout to head out there and see what this is all about. ETA 16 minutes. I deadass threw on some clothes and was just like fuck it let’s go. Gotta hurry, it closes at 5!
I deadass walked around the wrong building but, we out here!
I worked up damn sweat walking out here but fuck it!
Here’s the front door...
This is right when you walk inside. Some punk ass dude said he was going to photo bomb me. I invited him to take a picture, but he was like nah bruh.
A little lounge area, a cafe, elevators and stairs for those who want them! Its legit!
Taking a stroll on the second floor now! We have some artwork, some videos!
They have a place for kids and teens too on the second floor! It’s dope! They do say though that as an adult I couldn’t use the bathroom. They don’t want those problems! Kids was in there playing some Area 51 game? They got a spot for toddlers to chill! They got that little area like you see at the doctors office where kids can go and kill time. But kids play on iPhones and shit now tho but it’s still dope!
3rd floor now. This place is friendly for those who are homeless. They got WiFi in here! Individual tables with outlets to charge your shit! Very very quiet in here since it is a library...duh K! Caught a young dude in here going over his football highlight tape. 18 years old, doesn’t know where he’s going to school, says he plays linebacker and running back. He was blasting on his highlight tape. He said his favorite player was Marshawn Lynch, just like mine!!! Also got a lil spot to watch tv! Onto the 4th and last floor...
Restroom is also on the 3rd floor too! Heads up!
4th and final floor now. It’s more secluded than the other three floors but they got books for years in this bitch! They got little study areas for people who want to chill and be by themselves. Whatever you want! Fiction, non fiction and everything in between!
Back on the first floor! If you go straight ahead from the entrance you’ll enter this other lil study hall area. They got more places to chill! They got iPads and computers and shit you can use! This is a dope ass public library. If you in the KC area and wanna check out a book...bring yo ass over here! They gotchu! If yo ass need to study for a test...come park yo dumbass over here and study!
I hope you all enjoyed the tour! Thanks to @jewleshasbadideas and @downtostars (I hope that’s the right name...) for bringing this to my attention! I’m hungry and I’m starting to smell a lil musty, working up a sweat doing all this walking... With this last pic...I’m out!
Check out this library! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✌🏾😊✊🏾
Read books dammit!
Certified Library Post
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I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted
If you use Firefox, you can go to the about:config page, search for "media.mediasource.enabled" and double click on it to set it to false. After you restart Firefox, all youtube videos will load entirely even when paused! This also affects other streaming websites :)
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“you should be at the club” Brother I should literally be sent to the seaside for my health
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Feelings of anxiety invaded his whole body with a terrible force. At the same time, the dreadful lurching started again, and all kinds of voices came whispering into his ears, into his head. He had experienced this sort of anxiety before, but nothing as bad as this. He felt as if there was no refuge for him anywhere.
Tayama Katai, “One Soldier” from The Quilt and Other Stories
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To tell the truth, when I first came to the city, I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theatre for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied. Most of all I dreaded paying a bill—my awkwardness when I handed over the money after buying something did not arise from any stinginess, but from excessive tension, excessive embarrassment, excessive uneasiness and apprehension. My eyes would swim in my head, and the whole world grow dark before me, so that I felt half out of my mind.
Dazai Osamu, No Longer Human