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since a ton of people are getting into music as gaeilge because of hozier, can i recommend my fave artist, róisín seoighe? she's a native irish speaker and language ambassador whose lyrics often involve the preservation of irish culture and deep rage against colonization. níl mé marbh ("i'm not dead") makes me cry like a baby and sin do lamh ("reach out") makes me want to burn all of colonialism down. she's also done several collabs with imlé, another EXCELLENT irish language band that does modern-feeling rock and dance music! my fave of their collabs right now is ÉAD ("jealous").
both artists have less than 1,700 monthly listeners on spotify simply because they sing in irish & they deserve more bc their music Really Is Excellent. translations of many songs are google-able & when there Aren't english translations, it's really good practice for people learning irish!
Clare Sands is another irish musician and while it’s not all her music a lot of her songs feature irish and i am particularly fond of sail on. if you are learning irish - you can find covers of songs you are familiar with already by checking out tg lurgan on spotify who do a lot of translation music projects to promote the language.
taking a class on sex this semester which has resulted in many fun things like "sex activity" and "sex final" being added to my planner. being very mature and serious about this .
obsessed
I had a class called "What is Evil?" The professor called us his "evil students" and I got to say things like: "I have evil class later." and "I have readings in evil to do." and "Well my evil professor said..."
I miss having that class
[ID: tumblr reply on this post reading "my partner did a sociology degree and one of the modules was on organised crime. very funny to see stuff like "anyone doing organised crime this afternoon" in a uni groupchat"]
I had a theology class once called the Satan Seminar. That was a fun one to talk about in public
There are political newspaper comics that aren't this succinct
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it's ya girl with another journalism request!!!
are you — or anyone you know — running a d&d campaign and have you noticed changes in your campaign dynamic after baldur’s gate 3 came out? do your players finally know how to use bonus actions and spell slots? i’d love to talk to you! please send me a DM here or email me at petrana at polygon dot com by friday (8/25)!!!
There should be a Zelda game where Ganondorf isn't the big bad. But he is a complete pain in the ass. Every single mini game starts out with him having the high score, and after you beat his score, the next time you visit he's 1 point above you.
OLIVER HEAVISIDE: In the future, everyone knows my name? How exciting! I'm glad my contributions to the field of vector calculus mean something to the people of the 21st century - or perhaps it's my refinement of Maxwell's equations?
ME, A TIME TRAVELER: not exactly
listen do you know what a furry is
category of blorbo called "technically i like them but fanons obsession with them to the exclusion of other characters pavloved me into having a negative reaction whenever i see them"
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Image 1: Barbie Is Taking the World by Storm, and Fast Fashion Is Capitalising on It
Garment workers deserve better
Image 2: With the recent release of the Barbie movie captivating audiences and breaking box office records (the film made $162 million in the US and Canada its first weekend, making Barbie the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman), it's no surprise that fast fashion brands are jumping on the bandwagon, launching their own Barbie- inspired collections.
That's bad news for people and planet
Image 3: What's happening?
Problematic fast fashion brands like Zara, Primark, Boohoo, ASOS, and GAP have all launched Barbie-inspired collections, capitalising on the Barbiecore trend for their own gains.
While the allure of a pink-infused, Clueless-like wardrobe may be enticing, we need to pause and question the true cost of these collections.
Image 4: Exploiting garment workers isn't empowering
Seeing fast fashion brands claim their collections "empower women" is just giving us the "ick". It's purplewashing.
Fact: the majority of garment workers are women, mostly women of colour, and the fast fashion brands promoting these collections don't pay living wages. Most have terrible track records for supply chain transparency and many labour rights violations.
Launching a pink collection won't fix that.
Image 5: Fuelling overconsumption
Fast fashion brands are already producing far more clothes than anyone in the world actually needs.
Barbie collections are simply more of the same overproduction and overconsumption that ultimately ends up in landfills-but disguised in pink.
Dressing up for a movie experience? Fun! Luring people to buy new clothes they are likely only to wear a few times? Not fun!
Image 6: Life in plastic is not fantastic
Most of these fast fashion collections are made of virgin plastic. According to Forbes, nearly 70m barrels of oil are used each year to make polyester fibre, which is now the most commonly used in our clothing.
Worse yet, loads of these trendy fast fashion garments end up wasted in landfills, where it can take more than 200 years to decompose.
Fashion's plastic waste is already wreaking havoc on the environment, and these collections only add to the problem.
Image 7: As the character Sasha (played by Ariana Greenblatt) tells Barbie early in the movie: "You're killing the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism."
The message ironically rings true when it comes to the fast fashion Barbie collections.
Unfortunately, the movie of the summer is once again become another trend exploited by fast fashion giants to make more plastic clothes the world doesn't need.
TL;DR—dress up! Wear pink! But shop your closet and check out the second hand options instead.
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obsessed with characters being saved against their will. being knocked unconscious and carried away from a danger they won't stop trying to fight. being shoved through a portal somewhere far away and safe right before it closes. trying to self-sacrifice only to have the exact person they're trying to save swap their places at the last second. getting the only cure to the disease or curse bc the person administering it loves them too much to give it to anyone else, including themselves. being thrown to safety right as they had accepted dying. someone else they thought had gotten to safety running back to drag them out of danger. it's so fucking tasty
I am more than memory / I am what might be / I am mystery
happy opening to next to normal!!
it’ll never fail to amaze me that chessex, the game dice company - like if you bought your first dice set from a game store/comic shop/card shop you most certainly bought a chessex set - has such an ugly and poorly designed website. it looks like they went out of business 15 years ago.
i don’t know what’s better, the fact that they only sell five different things and felt like they needed a site map, the single uk location with the giant union jack, or simply the times new roman header which reads:
“The coolest dice on the planet.” ™
THEY HAVEN’T UPDATED THEIR WEBSITE IN TEN YEARS????
my mistake, literally every single page you click on has a different copyright date. so far I’ve seen 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, and most recently 2012. amazing. well done chessex.
BUT LANA HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU TRY TO ORDER DICE?????
you….you have to email them your order form. oh, gods. you…have to type your credit card information. into an email. so they can charge you seven dollars in shipping or 7% of the total order cost if it’s over $100. fuck. if you have questions about the cost of air shipping, you can fax them anytime. jesus christ. oh gods. fuck. fuck me up. chessex. the coolest dice on the planet. ™
this is another reason why I let my friendly local store make my chessex orders for me
Me: The Chessex website isn’t real and can’t hurt me:
The Chessex website:
The best part is that this is literally by design
amazing
oh my god
These are the only people doing internet sales correctly
I feel the chessex website qualifies for weird dice wednesday
We realized we hadn’t had an overall trailer for Dropout since the one we launched with in 2018 - so to better explain what Dropout is, here’s a new trailer. Plus, if you ever need to explain to friends what Dropout’s all about, this might help.
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I turn 30 next month so here’s what I learned in my 20s:
—don’t work for startups, they’re always one ‘innovative idea’ away adding ‘sell your kidneys on the black market’ to your job description.
—keeping a collection of basic OTC medicine on you will save your life one day. I recommend Advil, Imodium, and TUMS.
—those little single-use glasses cleaning wipes are 1000% worth the money
—overly self-depreciating jokes just make people uncomfortable, wean yourself off of them
—you can buy dehydrated mini marshmallows in bulk online and they’re a godsend for hot cocoa
—people don’t care if you have fidget toys on your desk they just want to play with them
—try to go to bed BEFORE the existential ennui kicks in
Also drink water and eat a plant
This is all GREAT. I turned 40 last week, so permit me to add what I learned in my 30s:
- keep on not working for startups
- sometimes there comes a point where the thing (fandom, hobby, friendship, romantic relationship) you loved no longer brings you joy. And that's okay. Try to mourn the loss, take joy in the memories, and don't burn any bridges in case ten years go by and you find yourself back in that fandom/hobby/relationship again
- it turns out that (ugh) moderate regular exercise is (spit) good for you. The sooner you make it part of your life, the easier it'll be
- related: if you throw yourself into a new exercise regime too hard and too fast, without stopping to rest or consider whether a particular move is good for you ... well, shoulder injuries are painful and consults with orthopedic surgeons are expensive
- knees are bastards too
- don't even get me started on ankles
- there may come a time when your digestive system is too fragile for ibuprofin. I'm sorry
- one day you're gonna wake up and realise you no longer give any fucks about some things that used to bother you
- on the other hand, you might be alarmed to realise what you still give a fuck about
- never get down on the floor without an exit strategy for getting back up
I turn 50 this year. what I have learned in my 40s:
- "loving yourself" is less of a feeling and more of an action. you can start doing it any time and it will make your life better and better as you go on
- this will happen incrementally - be patient
- along those lines, if you haven't started making an active effort to quit shit-talking yourself, suck it up and do it
- no, shut up. do it. "but it's haaaaard!" don't care. do it.
- whether you like it or not, you are mortal and you need to go to the doctor for an annual checkup
- stretch regularly - your future self will thank you
- at some point you will encounter people much younger than you arguing passionately and incorrectly about history you personally remember and experienced
- this will be infuriating and annoying
- otoh, most other things just... will not matter to you as much
- at some point you will shift from wanting to go out to being like "eh" and deciding to stay in. this is okay.
- you will have absolutely no idea what The Youth are talking about and you will not care
- but if you keep your mind open to new ideas you'll never be irrelevant
- your company still doesn't love you - don't give them more than they pay you for
- get a fucking hobby, especially a hobby that involves physically creating/handling something and/or moving your body in physical space. it will do you more good than you can imagine
everyone should be able to go whale watching before they die. everyone no matter how far they live from the ocean should be allotted at least one government subsidized whale watching trip. if u don’t at least see dolphins you get a redo. i would be proud to have my tax dollars fund this instead of frivolous and silly things like the military