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Fran drescher opposes vaccine mandates just fyi
y'know, this is a great way for newer activists to start learning how real coalition building works and how demanding purity is the poison that kills movements in the cradle.
when i was a toddler i thought god was an imperceivable web of white pulsing membranes stretched over itself a million times and i thought he lived inside the wooden pulpit at my church
Wildflower Power!
Delilah and Victoria look just as adorable as I knew they would, but the big surprise is how cute Wildflower herself is even when she's given almost all her stuff away. What a doll 😘
Christie O’Neil was the first character in the Barbie line to be depicted exclusively as a Black woman.
(Francie had been released as both white and Black prior to Christie’s debut.)
Christie was a member of the Barbie lineup for several years - she debuted in 1968, and appeared more or less consistently until 2009, though some years she had considerably more appearances or greater prominence than others. After 2009, she has only appeared once, in an appearance in 2016.
As a result, I would tentatively say that she has been discontinued, though she could make an appearance again at any time. She certainly wouldn’t be the first character in the Barbie lineup to drop away for a while.
What makes me suggest that Christie may have been discontinued however is that her role in the lore has been largely replaced by Nikki.
Nikki debuted as a “friend of Teen Skipper” in 1996. In official canon, she was Christie’s younger sister.
However, in recent years, Nikki has been marketed as a friend of Barbie herself.
I have never watched Barbie Life In The Dreamhouse, but I believe this is canon in that series - that Nikki is a peer and friend of Barbie’s rather than Skipper’s.
I’m not sure why the change; maybe people found Nikki more marketable than Christie (did the name Christie age out of the Barbie demographic, perhaps?)
Anybody else got that Evergiven sized writers block
“Where’s the next chapter?!” Well buddy you’re never gonna guess
What’s the comic sans trick?
wingdings’ true purpose as a font
Wingdings holy shit some of y'all are on a whole different level of galaxy wizard brain batshittery and I am in awe.
Exciting. When I don’t want to see what I’m writing I just make the font color almost indistinguishable from the background color. (Do not do this.)
(I don’t think the secret to the comic sans hack is comic sans itself; I think it’s any deflation of being intimidated by your canvas.)
Hold on I need to go look something up immediately.
WrittenKitten is so very useful. Though you don’t always get kittens. You get photos that are labelled as cats or kittens. The puppy dressed as a tiger is pretty adorbs. Sometimes you get furries. It’s cute.
It’s also really useful for stripping out auto formatting and making sure stuff really does C&P as plain text. I use it for that at work, because Windows.
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'Bout the same usable width, too. Those luxotruk beds tend to have big fat wheel hubs in them. Kei truck beds are completely flat.
how DARE you keep this in the tags!!!
I am a sucker for puns and I will make them whenever I can, but I have never seen a better pun than the title of the Good Place Season 4 Episode 7 “Help is Other People”. For those who may not understand, this a play on the quote “Hell is other people” from the play No Exit by Sartre. the idea in No Exit was that 3 people were sent to Hell and as punishment, they had to live with each other for eternity. at first they thought they got off easily, but they soon realized that their specific personalities, flaws, and idiosyncrasies played off each other in such away that they would never be able to live together peacefully. because as soon as 2 of them reached an agreement, the other one would ruin it, and so on, and so on.
and that idea, of a group of people playing off each others flaws in order to create the worst situation for everyone involved, was the exact idea behind Michael’s first experiment. he gathered Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason specifically because their specific traits created the worst possible outcome for all of them. but it backfired, because instead of hurting and ruining each other, they consistently helped each other to grow and mature time after time, even on earth, essentially turning “Hell is other people” into “Help is other people”
but that’s not it, because remember, that’s all seasons 1-3 and this title is in season 4. you see, in season 4 they tried to recreate the experiment with new people to see if it work the same (despite being a fundamentally different experiment, but that’s another post). the participants-Simone, Chidi, John, and Brent-were supposed to help each other grow the way the original participants had. and in this episode, the new experiment is coming to a close, and the Soul Squad is desperately trying to rack up a few last points and get these people to help each other. to put aside their problems with each other and just help each other to grow and mature and change. and it almost works. if there had just been a few more seconds, it might have.
anyway to recap the reason I love this so much is because the phrase “Help is other people” is essentially the show’s entire thesis and statement on human interactions, and it is a play on the phrase “Hell is other people” which was the thought behind Michael’s original experiment, and the episode for which it’s the title, is the episode in which the Eleanor, Michael, and the others are most desperate for it to be true.
All-Purpose God, 2019.
Posting some old comics. This is vol 1 of a series of short comics I've been making in my spare time, under the umbrella "Phrasebook". They're each based on a phrase or word in Chinese that I've been thinking about.
🦇Service Mindset🦇
Don’t be rude to whoever has the midnight shift at McDonalds
Ya truly love to see it!
The kids are alright.
you: the kids are alright
me, sobbing: oh my gosh the kids are alright