huh

"how would YOU fix the medical system then 😡" im 17 years old

like i dont need to be a carpenter to see that your ikea chair that impales everyone that sits on it and then shatters was put together wrong but that doesnt mean i know how to fix it

happy electric feel friday

happy electric feel friday

i don't know if the reddit refugees are real but if any are reading this: most of the advice you'll see in 'welcome to tumblr' posts are just some guy's opinion. feel free to ignore it. yes, this post included.

Reactionary 9/11 is happening to this guy rn because chick fil a might have a pride version of their avatar this June

chick fil a: we here at chick fil a are sorry for donating 100 billion dollars to every homophobe around the world. our bad. we wont stop btw

this guy: oh great. now they're putting semen in the waffle fries.

apparently europeans have the impression that US Americans never learn the metric system.

like our science curriculum from day one is entirely done in the metric system. we just don't use metric in our day to day lives.

yeah actually we kinda just do it for the bit :)

I have had people try to gently and kindly explain to me the workings of the metric system, as if Americans are having trouble with the concept of a base ten system. like no. we get it. we were taught this when we were like eight. it's just that like. we don't really wanna do it that way. for the bit.

no no it's for the bit it's for the bit !!! it's for the bit!!!!!

the thing is that saying 'Ao3 should moderate their website' is like saying 'dunkin donuts should end usamerican imperialism' in that it's just like not a thing that party is capable of doing so arguing about it is just a totally abstract moral hypothetical divorced from anything that happens in the real world

you say that but a dunkin-led New England secession movement could strike a devastating blow to america’s naval forces

After watching Shiny Happy People (the Amazon docuseries on the Duggars) I am once again struck by the absolute gall of conservatives to accuse gay and trans people of being "groomers" when one of the largest christian conservative organizations in the country is essentially devoted entirely to producing multiple generations of girls who will grow up to be grooming victims and boys who will grow up to be incestuous pedophiles like good fucking lord every accusation truly is a confession

Conservatives only level these accusations because they cannot imagine why anyone else would “compete” for “ownership” of their “property.”

Self determination is a mystery to them, and they cannot imagine it for their children or peers or even themselves. They only see predation from cradle to grave.

It would be sad if they were not such dangerous, evil freaks

For most of recorded history, Finland was one of the poorest corners of Europe, a backcountry inhabited by peasants who weren't merely illiterate, but whose spoken language did not even have a written form. People kept cattle and grew barley, oats, wheat and rye, and if the weather destroyed your crops you just starved. And if the weather destroyed everyone's crops, famine wiped out entire villages and foreign kings did not care.

During times of famine people made bread out of pettu, dried-up strips of pine trees' cambium and pholem - so the bit between the wood and the bark - ground up and either mixed into the scarce flour that was still left, or substituting flour altogether. It doesn't digest well, you can't eat it quite like bread - but it has more fibre than rye flour and actually fairly good content of some vitamins, and about a quarter of the caloric energy value.

Due to the last few, apparently pettu flour is actually sold in some herbalist shops along with other fancy luxury item natural products like seaweed and kombucha, and it's way fucking more expensive than regular flour. You can't harvest it yourself, either, since you can't scrape it out without injuring the tree and therefore it isn't covered by the free foraging law.

Modern well-fed, non-land owning millenials can't afford their ancestors' bleakest famine bread.

goodreads reviewers aren't human

metamorphosis

literally wasnt even going to post it bc it made me so infuriated but the joys of making fun of someone together online won over. check this out. from the #1 RATED GOODREADS REVIEWER

there are no words.

When someone changes their URL and I don't recognize it anymore but they still post the same stuff it's like my friend mysteriously disappeared the day before I met my new friend who looks suspiciously like my old friend wearing Groucho Marx glasses

It actually is totally fucking revolting that Tumblr will deactivate your account if you share vital medical information that might literally save trans lives in a time where our access to medication is very precarious, and at the same time run ads on their site for scam pills that tell you they'll either make your ass fatter (but just your ass) or disintegrate fat the instant you take it (but only in the exact areas you want to lose fat).

Queerest place on the internet my tranny ass.

Everyone gets “The 90s” look wrong so let’s fix it

If you weren’t here for part one, lemme sum it up real fast:

Okay, all up to speed? We’re being served 80s throwback stuff with the serial numbers scratched off, re-labeled as yo totally 90s. What we’ve got now isn’t completely wrong, but I’m telling you, there’s so much gold left unmined.

As we saw in part one with Memphis Milano, these things get messy. Trends don’t start and end neatly every ten years. The first wave of 90s throwback attempts focused on the early part of the decade, and nobody since really pushed to represent the other seven years. Well, if you really wanna do something, I guess you gotta do it yourself.

I have suggestions. Get your flannel ready, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

Analog Grunge

SURRRRRRRGE or uh, Grunge, is probably the look that defines the decade best. The big kickoff point here is Nirvana - after a shiny pop-dominated music scene in the 80s, Nevermind was like a breath of fresh smog.

Your design has to look like it survived a nuclear blast, then was run over by your parents’ Buick a couple of times.

If there’s a Comic Sans for the 90s, it’s “distressed typewriter font.” Seriously, it’s mandatory. When I pulled images for this post I could not escape typewriter fonts. I don’t think you couldn’t call yourself a respectable designer without it. Just look at how much mileage old-timey typewriters and label makers got:

Hell, it’s the giant X in The X Files!

I think another component to Grunge is sort of an anti-digital, pro-analog message. My pet theory is home computers went from being a semi-common novelty in 1990 to an essential gotta-have-it purchase in every American home by ‘99. Desktop publishing apps made it almost too easy to make pixel-perfect, clean, uniform designs. Digital photography and scanners meant you could now publish full color photographs with ease.

But digital perfection is the enemy of Grunge. Analog means authenticity.

So you had a whole gaggle of designers running in the other direction. Sure you could use a computer, but your work absolutely had to look like it didn’t come from one. As much as possible, incorporate hand-drawn artwork, scribbles, dust and splotches. Write text with chicken scratch if you have to. As much as you could make your multimillion dollar ad campaign look like it came from the margins of some high schoolers’ math homework, the better.

Factory Pomo

Not everyone was running away from digital, though. Many designers were embracing computer apps - and I think that’s where Factory Pomo first came into being. Coined by designer Froyo Tam (that’s their logo up above!) Factory Pomo is one of those things that once you see an example, you can’t stop seeing it.

Want your logo to look futuristic and modern? Stick it in a circle and put some triangles around. Invert half the colors, then another half.

Max Krieger has a great writeup on the probable inflection point: Tomorrowland. As the story goes, Tomorrowland at Disney - the part of the park meant to look like it’s from the future - would very quickly look very outdated each time they tried to update it. Instead, in 1994 they decided to own being outdated. They came up with a ridiculously fun “timeless” futuristic look, mixing industrial design with Jules Verne. Factory Pomo’s signature was all over the blueprints.

The look quickly escaped the theme park and was especially prevalent in the booming mid 90s home computer market. It’s the Packard Bell cyborg, it’s the logo in Video Toaster. If you caught that The X Files logo earlier is both Factory Pomo with the tall type and X in a ring AND Grunge with the typewriter X in the background, you win 5 bonus Pogs. 

And it’s a stretch, but one could draw a line between Factory Pomo’s inverted black and whites and the Ska movement’s two-tone checkerboards. Maybe. Possibly. I’d have to call Tony Hawk to double check. 

Back to Froyo Tam for a second, but that bit about them coining the term? That was in 2017. “Factory Pomo” didn’t have a name for like… 25 years. How’s that possible, you may wonder? Weren’t designers following a defined style? Well, yes and no. I think people were designing stuff to look a certain way, but it’s less a game of “this is what the aesthetic looks like” and more like a game of telephone.

If you do an architecture tour in a major city, you’ll learn that every building and skyscraper is classified to a specific architectural movement. Every building that is but ones built in the last 20-30 years. Newer buildings have to wait a few decades for official classification. Historians need time and perspective to figure out what emerging trends in architecture are going on, whose work influenced who, that sort of thing.

Designing a logo for Slim Jims or Cherry Coke takes considerably less time than constructing a skyscraper, but I think the same principle holds true. It’s really difficult to tell what’s a trend and what’s a fad when you’re living in the moment. I couldn’t tell you what’s the defining aesthetic for the 2020s right now. It’ll be obvious in 2053, but right now, no clue.

Enough time has passed between the nineties and today that we can pick this stuff apart easily. Maybe if you’re lucky, you can be the first to classify these design movements, too.

Working on a part three! I’ll look into a few other trends and address the big question– Is the Y2K aesthetic actually a 90s thing? More to come.

*A ton of these examples above are from the CARI Institute, which you should totally check out, they’ve been cataloging this stuff for years.

"Parent's rights" is as much of a red flag to me as "Family values". When you examine what people actually mean by these terms it always boils down to the usual "the family is a system of domination and many parents want even more control and violence within it".

It is very much like when people say they support "State's rights" (to slavery), as some in the notes have pointed out.

rest in piss you hateful old cunt

why is it making that face

i have to stop looking at dogs on wikipedia

One of my favorite tricks for designing alien species/cultures is to take a real animal with an interesting lifecycle and think about what that biology would translate to if they had human intelligence

Example: silk moths as a base species

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

Between mating seasons, their culture is extremely food-oriented, because everyone is growing and silkworms eat nigh constantly. They spend most of their lives outdoors but sleep and shelter from bad weather in large family dwellings made from wood and the remains of the silk cocoons of prior generations.

everyone is really vibing with the silkworm aliens I see

I AM SO ANGRY AMETHYST IS RESISTENT TO THE OCCASIONAL BATH BUT THE GEODE CRUST CERTAINLY ISN’T LITERALLY MINERALS BREAKING DOWN BY BEING PULVERIZED WITH HOT WATER IS HOW GEODES FUCKING CRYSTALIZES IN THE FIRST PLACE AND YOUR TAKING A GEODE THAT BIG AND TURNING IT INTO THE PERMANANT WATER CONTAMINATE AND BACTERIAL CESS POOL THAT IS A SINK WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU NEVER GONNA USE TOOTHPASTE OR FUCKING SOAP SO IT DOESN’T EAT A HOLE THRU THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FUCKING SINK YOU GODDAMN GOON WHY DON’T YOU JUST MAKE A STOVE OUT OF CARDBOARD OR A DOOR OUT OF TISSUE PAPER??? WHY DONT YOU MAKE PIPES OUT OF FUCKING SMARTIES CANDY OR TABLE LEGS OUT OF PLAY DOUGH FUCK YOU BUDDY IF I WALKED INTO A PLACE AND HAD TO CLEAN A BATHROOM AND SAW THAT SHIT I WOULD BREAK YOUR FUCKING SKULL OPEN WITH A STEEL PIPE

I’m guessing you’re a geologist?