Art by Sidney Sime (1867 - 1941)
fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out
I just saw a post that made fun of eating raw veggies, so fuck it, here is a poll for raw veggie lovers:
Inge Bjørn, who turns 98 today, is a Danish textile artist. She worked for 40 years at Askov Højskole, and has woven tapestries based on works by Asger Jorn and others.
Above: Tæt på Havet, 2007 - silk, linen, and wool (Galleri Tom Christoffersen, København)
Leslie Feinberg and Minnie Bruce Pratt in Jersey City | 1993 | ph: Robert Giard
I am so sad to announce Minnie Bruce Pratt has passed. May the memory of Minnie Bruce and her fierce writing and activism always be a blessing
1946 — 2023
fun fact: any policy on drugs that isn’t harm reduction is going to cause addicts to suffer and die
fun fact: Drug addiction is a public health issue, and approaching it as if it were a law enforcement issue is prejudicial to addicts and will result in their suffering and death
if you just assume addiction is a method of self-medicating, you’ll pretty much never be wrong.
now, not everything people self-medicate for actually has a proper treatment. i’m pretty sure the reason my uncle made sure to be slightly drunk at all times ‘to round the sharp corners off of things’ was sensory processing disorder. i have that too, and i just kind of accept that i’m going to randomly get my brain sandpapered from time to time. there is no medication for that. all you can do is dull your senses. i’ve chosen not to, but i can’t blame him for his decisions. when a ringing phone feels like getting hit upside the head with a frying pan, liver damage sounds like a fair price to pay.
anyway, it seems really self-evident to me that people don’t enjoy living the life of an addict, they do it because the alternative looks worse. people don’t get addicted to substances just for funsies. they start making a habit of taking something because of insomnia, or grief, or headaches, or depression, or seething undirected rage and terror they can’t put a name to – something that they can’t ignore or shrug off. and for whatever reason – lack of access, lack of knowlege, lack of money, or it just plain doesn’t exist – they aren’t able to apply the Approved Correct Remedy. they use what they can get.
addicts aren’t some weird otherfolk who inexplicably just Do Drugs because they’re Bad. addicts are you with a problem you can’t solve.
mourner
Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt, France ca. 1230
BnF, Français 19093, fol. 23v
Anonymous asked:
Tips for learning Russian?
i shall bookend this with cop-out non-answers:
- it really depends on your level and what background you're coming from! also what you want to learn and what exactly you intend your knowledge of russian to be put toward!
- do a little bit every day even when you dont feel like it. 15 minutes a day is (scientifically, demonstrably) better than studying it for 2 hours once a week and not touching it for 6 more days between then. frequency counts. even looking over (relatively newly learned) material you already are pretty confident with is better than nothing, you dont have to learn brand new vocab/grammar every day.
- (sub-note of the above): this is why duolingo streaks are helpful, if you make an honor-bound agreement with yourself that you wont just do a review of an easy lesson you already recently did to get the xp and keep your streak and stay in your league.
- regardless of what anybody tells u, learn to write and read cursive. i dont care if you only see russian in print or digitally for whatever purposes you're learning it. learn to read and write in cyrillic cursive, period.
- people vastly underestimate the impact of copying conjugation and declension tables [triple especially common irregulars] by hand several times. it is tedious and doesn't feel like much when you're doing it, but when you do it and you're making sure you're copying it exactly correctly, after enough times (i'd say 10 is a good number in one session, though you hand will hurt lmao) it will REALLY stick. by the last couple times of copying you won't even need to look at the reference, and that's the point.
- final bookend: you won't get good at this unless you really want to. ask yourself why you want to learn it and what timetables are set both intrinsically and extrinsically. its #valid to learn to speak russian to proficient level for a job, but if that's your ONLY motivator then it will be hard to keep it up.
#i'd like to add that watching youtubers for russian learners of like the b levels (russian with max; russian with dasha; etc.) very consist#ently has helped my conjugation/declension come so much more naturally than when i#was not getting that exposure but just drilling it on my own all the time; although tbf maybe that's just time
“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.”
— Glennon Doyle Melton (via 89words)
i guess tumblr thought my name was too long and shortened it in this reblog notification i’m cryinf
pl…eep
i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing
sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!
What’s better than a vampire? What’s better than a horse. A Vampire Horse, of course. I made this comic a few months ago.
