Socially awkward hufflepuff

The main thing I get from Dylan Hollis cooking old recipes is this:

Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are great, and I suspect it’s because they were made by someone with limited resources. But they found a way to make something good, maybe even something fantastic with those limited resources, and they wanted to write it down and share with their friends so that they could also make something out of saltines and potatoes. Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are written down and shared in love.

The recipes you should fear come from the 1950s and 1960s, which I’m pretty sure are written down and shared as a form of McCarthyism.

mythbusters was so good because it wasn't a killjoy show. they didn't just say "see, it doesn't work" and leave it there

whenever they find that the stunt doesn't work as portrayed in the movie, they immediately ask "what would it take to make this happen?"

“we know it takes this amount of explosives to work, but what if we doubled it anyway?”

Some myths I'll always remember:

* Are elephants scared of mice? (They only did that because they were in Africa and had access to elephants.)

* Will a bull run amok in a china shop?

* Is it better to run zig-zag or straight when chased by an alligator?

I love these because NONE of them turned out the way they expected. They went into all three with pre-conceived ideas of how it would go, and each time they "failed." Elephants WILL cower from mice. A bull moves very gingerly through a china shop. It doesn't matter how you run because ALLIGATORS WON'T CHASE YOU.

And each time, they reacted with just... pure glee. "Holy shit, we were wrong! Oh my god! This is great! We were so wrong!"

And that, to me, is what science is. Being excited about being wrong because either way it's information.

people who never watched glee at a young impressionable age, i envy the mental clarity and stability you must have been able to develop...

Vimes being an anti-monarchist in the middle of Anhk Morpork trying to crown a king is fantastic.

Listen, maybe I can’t change the world, but I can pass eggs over the fence to my neighbor to save them a few dollars. I can cross the street and fix another neighbor’s cabinets. I can send my kid to the house next door with a can of tomato sauce they need and they’ll come back with a box of cocoa powder they weren’t going to use. We can leave our old furniture at the curb and one of us will drive by and pick it up to fix and sell or keep. I’ll plant a garden since I have the space and time and I’ll share what I can and I’ll get calls from someone else asking if I can use a crate of oranges.

I may not be able to change the world but I can do something

my hobbies include napping, sleeping, lying down, resting, closing my eyes, dozing, snoozing, slumbering, etc.

tbh there's a good chance that many who were raised in american schools don't know this, but one of the sanctions on lgbt+ bodies which existed pre-stonewall (and after tbh) was what was called the "three article rule". it was legally required that people would have to be wearing 3 or more items of "correct" clothing for their gender.

a person found in clothing that did not "fit" their assigned gender could and would be arrested. this law wasn't repealed in new york until recently. the actual prosecution of this law has disproportionately affected trans women and women of color.

texas is beginning to create "anti-drag" legislations. pre-existing conditions have shown us the degree to which "clothing must fit your assigned gender" can and will be used to create unsafe conditions for lgbt+ and minority populations. labelling drag "inappropriate" for children isn't just a first step towards systematic abuse - it is the assurance that the systematic abuse will occur. there is no population that will be made safe by this law; it exists only to create moral panic and further division. i've spoken about this a lot, but "think of the children" & "protect innocence" is a vile, white-nationalist stakehold which positions queer expression as being inherently "perverted", "sexual", or "deviant".

legislation that corroborates the sentiment that "drag is not appropriate for children" is incredibly harmful not just in the immediate - but also because it sets the legal precedent that any act of gnc expression is inherently inappropriate and wrong.

read up on your history, if you can. and remember: we said we would never let this happen to us again.

i work at a children's hospital. as per hospital regulations, all employees have to go through regular fire safety trainings. most of it is pretty standard. and then there's the Baby Vest.

it looks like this:

it fits six babies. and in the event of a fire we're literally supposed to just put it on, fill it with babies, and then evacuate the building.

fire alarm (ringing)

me, stuffing babies into my vest: sorry excuse me i have to leave immediately 

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh brings up that 25% of Canadians are going hungry because they can’t afford groceries and that he would tax corporations to fix this inequality, and members of the Conservative Party of Canada start laughing.

These people are evil.

https://twitter.com/SocialistFT/status/1534622390809944066

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

For those questioning the validity of the video, the media covered it too:

Jagmeet Singh Slams Conservatives For Laughing When He Said Canadians Can’t Afford Groceries

Singh chides MPs for laughing during question about grocery prices

Statistics Canada’s Consumer Price Index for April 2022 revealed that consumer prices rose by 6.8% year over year and food costs went up by 9.7% in the last year.

That rate of inflation for groceries was the highest it’s been since September 1981, more than 40 years ago.

He knows what he’s talking about too, considering he’s the MP for Burnaby, BC last I checked. BC has the among highest rate of child poverty in Canada, at 18% or so, meaning that over 150k children go without a meal in my province every day and these evil fucking bastards think it’s funny

This is even worse than I thought, somehow.

Last month the NDP introduced a motion that would do exactly what Singh asked today: tax corporations to help low-income Canadians not starve, and not only did the Conservatives vote it down, the Liberal Party of Canada did too.

Trudeau is just as bad as these scum of the Earth Conservatives. The Liberals alone had enough votes to pass this motion and start helping us, but they apparently had other priorities. 🥲

@politicsofcanada

a lot of children - especially mentally ill children - end up traumatized not because someone was specifically hurting them but because their needs weren’t being met, or because their problems weren’t being seen, or because they were rendered particularly vulnerable by other aspects of their identity, like queerness or race. 

and it can be hard to look at your childhood and go “I was hurt” and also know that the hurt wasn’t deliberate. it’s uniquely painful to not have someone to blame. 

you do not have to excuse the people who hurt you, even if it was unintentional. & acknowledging your own pain does not necessarily entail blaming them for it.

you are allowed to do what you need to do in order to recover. 

Also:

“they did the best they could/with what they had” and “it wasn’t (good) enough” are two things that can and must be true at the same time

It's crazy to me that A Series of Unfortunate Events isn't more popular in the dark academia corner of the internet. A pretentious secret organization obsessed with codes and puzzles that thinks reading classic literature makes you noble and superior to other people and everyone without academic interests is morally corrupt? Come on!

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

It's beaten out of you in elementary school.

early homo sapiens b like help i cant stop making bowls . help i cant stop domesticating plants and animals. help i cant stop developing language and architecture and religion

ok im obsessed w this tag

once in grade 6 I saw a 'pottery making club' in a ditch on the schoolyard- I assume at some point someone realized there was actually good quality clay in the ditch and when I walked up there were about a dozen 12 year olds sitting around the few girls who had brought their water bottles out to mix the clay, and a designated spot to put the finished bowls and tablets, and people going off and collecting sticks to make designs with and i really think that's the natural state of the human race

In elementary school I learned that you can make paint out of certain sedimentary rocks on the playground if you crushed them and mixed with water and at one point I had up to 25 kindergarten through third graders making cave paintings on the underside of the slides

The nature of man is such that every so often, someone recreates the neolithic era.

Yeah, every recess

[Image ID: Screenshot of tags reading ”9 year old girls at recess also”.]

Steve Harringron in season 1 of Stranger Things is the most character. He did some bad stuff and immediately went "Aw, beans. That wasn't cool. I better go apologize" at which point The Plot he'd been blissfully unaware of for the entire show immediately tried to eat him.

Steve: "Hey Nancy I wanted to apologize for--"

Nancy, cocking a gun: "Wall's haunted."

i keep seeing this concept float around that terfs primarily hate men, and thus hate trans women because they view trans women as men- and while i don’t doubt that many terfs do indeed hate men, i don’t know if this is quite it? i can think of numerous examples of terfs explicitly choosing to ally with cis men to harm trans women- that post where a terf talks about how she sends her husband into women’s bathrooms to check for trans women comes to mind, as does terf sheila jeffries repeatedly praising conservative cis male psychiatrist paul mchugh in her book, or women’s liberation front members being invited by male republicans to testify against the equality act. i can’t think of any examples of terfs allying with trans women to combat men, but i can think of many of terfs allying with men to combat trans women. i don’t think it’s as simple as “they just hate men and think trans women are men”. 

monolith: a comic for aapi heritage month 2022

reblogging because I realized I forgot to upload one of the panels!!