This book will be out in October.
I worked very hard on it.
This looks amazing!! it feels like a spiritual successor to Locked in Time, which is one of my favourite palaeontology books to come out in the last few years!

This book will be out in October.
I worked very hard on it.
This looks amazing!! it feels like a spiritual successor to Locked in Time, which is one of my favourite palaeontology books to come out in the last few years!
sometimes I just sit and stare at the wall thinking about how the survival of the earth as a habitable planet requires a functional challenge to capitalism which requires the radically motivated of our species to untangle a weird subjective unhealthy relationship we have to a collection of symbols and ideas from like a hundred years ago and how in the urgency of it all we don’t really have any choice but to pursue an impossible level of clarity, an actual truth, with the desperation of the dying
anyway, disco elysium
the sea is rising. what does this symbol evoke in you? gone is the glory. noble aims and a mountain of corpses. gutless intellectualism. smug superiority. meaningless shapes on the wall. the sea keeps rising.
At this point, I’ve learned it’s actually cheaper to shop and cook for a community than it is for an individual or even a family unit to do so.
This last year learning how to batch cook massive amounts of food for the communities I’m a part of has shown me how aggressively cheap it is both to eat plant-based and feed a large sum of people.
One of my favorite stories is a recipe I kinda winged with my mutual aid group in Tx. We served 75 bowls of lentil soup over rice and it only cost us $4 to make that quantity of food. Literally, the cost per bowl was like $.06 to make and so much of the produce was donated.
All of yesterday, a comrade and I cooked 60 hearty bowls of a Spicy Split Pea Soup and Pinto-Potato Chili. We wanted to meal prep together but fucked around and made enough to feed 8 other comrades and have a ton to distribute to the unhoused community in our city. In each container is 2 cups of soup/chili over 2 cups cooked rice. That means one box is gonna be 2 meals cuz leftovers.
Currently, the project I’m trying to make a reality is a Plant Based Community Kitchen. The vision is to build a small menu of recipes, no more than 10, that all incorporate 2 base grains/legumes/starchy vegetables.
To bulk-buy ingredients that are paid for by donation to batch cook in a meal-prep style so that there is a variety of dishes that can be made in batches that can feed a comrade, college student, family of 4 up to a week’s worth of meals for dirty cheap.
We’d have volunteers come cook and help deliver and distribute, hoping to save comrades money, battle food insecurity, help feed more consistently the unhoused, and build the communal structures that allows us less reliance on money/capitalism to meet our collective needs.
For instance in my city, these are some numbers/costs from a restaurant supply store nearby and template recipe I made to estimate yield and price.
If 10 comrades threw in $20 once, this kitchen would be funded for months, and cook enough to food to feed people consistently for long periods of time, and have a variety of flavors and meals all combating food insecurity, food deserts, and food swamps.
What I remember most about emotional abuse is that it’s like being put in a box. How you end up in there is the biggest trick — I never managed to work that one out. Maybe you think it’s a treasure box at first: you’re in there because you’re special. Soon the box starts to shrink. Every time you touch the edges there is an 'argument'. So you try to make yourself fit. You curl up, become smaller, quieter, remove the excessive, offensive parts of your personality — you begin to notice lots of these. You eliminate people and interests, change your behaviour. But still the box gets smaller. You think it’s your fault. The terrible, unforgivable too-muchness of you is to blame. You don’t realise that the box is shrinking, or who is making it smaller. You don’t yet understand that you will never, ever be tiny enough to fit, or silent enough to avoid a row.
I’ve noticed lately that it’s often Americans who leave tags like “I don’t even care if it’s made up” on posts I make that are not particularly unbelievable, but are pretty specific to my way of life or corner of the world (like the one about the cheese vendor). It reminds me of that tweet that was circulating, that said Americans have a “medieval peasant scale of worldview”—I mean, if you don’t want to be perceived this way by the rest of the world maybe don’t go around social media saying that if a cultural concept or way of life sounds unfamiliar it must be made up?
It’s the imbalance that’s annoying, because like—when I mentioned having no mobile network around here I had people giving me info about Verizon to fix my problem. I post some rural pic and someone says it must be somewhere in the Midwest because the Southwest doesn’t look like this. My post about my postwoman has thousands of Americans assuming it’s about the USPS. On my post about my architect there’s someone saying “it’s because architecture is an impacted major” and other irrelevant stuff about how architecture is taught in the US. This kind of thing happens so so so often and I’m expected to be familiar with the concepts of Verizon and the Midwest and impacted majors and the USPS and meanwhile I make a post about my daily life and Americans in the notes are debating like “dunno if real. it sounds made up”
Going online for the rest of the world means having to keep in mind an insane amount of hyperspecific trivia about American culture while going online for Americans means having to keep in mind that the rest of the world really exists I guess
related to the local vs global agriculture debate: transport is a very small part of the carbon footprint of food! (except for cane sugar and bananas). oh and here's an interactive one, the results are basically the same if you consider calories or grams protein instead, except tomatoes are super high in those (i guess cuz theyre mostly water and not calorie or protein dense). also, sustainable meat is still more carbon intensive than plant protein
pulled over to give a homeless guy some cash on the side of the road today and he pointed to my bigfoot air freshener and asked if i believed in ‘that guy’ and no, i don’t, i have the air freshener because my last car before this one (the pt cruiser) belonged to a woman named tracy who loved bigfoot and had a whole collection of bigfoot stuff including the air freshener and she died of cancer which is why her husband was selling me her car and i figured, hey, might as well keep the air freshener in her honor. and then when i had to junk the last car i couldnt bring myself to get rid of it. so now it’s just hanging off my rear view mirror again. which is probably a worse reason to have an air freshener than believing in bigfoot.
This is the meanest shit you’ve ever said to me Bob
if you own k distinct colors of sock, you can draw k+1 arbitrary socks from your sock drawer and, by the pigeonhole principle, be guaranteed at least one matching pair. this is the only known application of combinatorics to the real world
Cat finger ring
Faïence
New Kingdom Egypt, 18th Dynasty, c. 1390 B.C.E.
Art Institute of Chicago
#ancientEgypt #catmagick
it’s weird to think how many mental disorders are diagnosed less by what the person actually does and more by how others respond to that person. like how in hysterionic personality disorder (off to a great start) a literal diagnostic criteria is the person’s emotions don’t seem convincing, which is obviously going to depend hugely upon a doctor’s personal bias. and in bpd, though it isn’t a criteria, you hear about clinicians diagnosing people based on the “meat grinder sensation” (feeling like their own insides are being ground up while talking to their patient), and with autism based on the “wall of glass phenomenon” (feeling like there is a barrier in reaching the person). they’re such weird ways to talk about people especially when the clinician’s own biases are rarely taken into account.
Your posts about internet privacy have encouraged me to take more control over these things, mainly switching to firefox and goduckgo. Thank you!! Do you have any recommendations to keep making progress on protecting myself on the internet? This isn't really where my skills/knowledge is, so there's a LOT I don't understand, so simple is truly best. Again, thank you for your hard work maintaining this page and helping people develop skills and hope and community; it's been really valuable to me!
If you want to go a step further the best way is with Tor browser! Tor is a type of proxy system that redirects your traffic through 3 other Tor user’s computers under 3 nesting layers of encryption before it arrives at its destination (Tor stands for The Onion Router, and that’s why). That way the sites you’re visiting only know the IP of the final node in the line, and have no way of determining who you really are (provided you’re careful with the information you send them). A lot of money has been poured into cracking the anonymity of Tor users, but no reliable way exists, and there have been many high-profile uses of it by hackers, whistleblowers, and so on
Since you say you’re not that techy, you should keep Firefox installed just in case you run into a problem with Tor. Many sites can tell it’s being used and block your traffic, so it’s good to have a backup - though my biggest problem using it has been with youtube, which can be easily fixed by swapping youtube.com in the URL for invidio.us (and that’s a lot more secure anyway). It’s really not a hassle to use though, 90% of the time if you’re having trouble all you have to do is click the i icon in the address bar and create a new Tor circuit. And another 9% of the time you can fix it by clicking the “new identity” button to completely reload the browser (this even fools youtube)
Also, once you have Tor browser installed, you can start going to .onion sites, which add an extra layer of security. For instance, you can change your default search engine to https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion, which is DuckDuckGo’s Tor site! Invidious also has several instances that use .onion, though my computer’s too slow to run them reliably. And get this - even Facebook has a .onion domain, for some unimaginable reason
[Image description: a tweet from Alysse Dalessandro @ReadyToStare that says, "Today, I launched Secondhand Stare, a plus size vintage and resale shop that carries sizes large - 7X and most everything is under $40. This is a full circle moment for me and here's why."
Attached is a graphic with the store's name in a funky, 70s style font. The background is a black and white racing flag pattern, with rainbows in the top left and bottom right corners.
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Wow, this is amazing! I haven’t bought anything from this shop yet since it literally just opened, but here’s some quick facts about the shop for anyone who wants more information:
Here’s also a video by the owner explaining some of the background about the shop. The video features the models as well as brief footage of the website’s layout. (Her YouTube channel I just found through this is actually updated pretty often with videos about fatshion and traveling to different places around the world as a fat person, so I might watch some of her other videos too.)
Thank you @fatgirldangerousworld for this great information!
-Mod Worthy
Althea Keaton, The Only Words I Know Are More, More, and More, 2008
All the scene and emo kids of the 2000’s
RISE FROM THE ASHES!!!!!