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I had to find a picture of this 2017 article again because it's just so iconic.

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Here is the article. And this besides the above is my favorite from it lol

@forcesensitiveaurawielder

Best “graffiti” i’ve ever come across in a practice room

there aren't any pumpkin patches in houston I might as well be dead I hate it here

Everybody get out of Texas... I need to be alone...

I can’t believe there are people who don’t hear “The Spanish Flu” and immediately think “that’s what killed Edward Cullen”

some of us where busy immediately thinking “it didn’t originate in Spain Spain was just neutral in WWI so they were the only ones allowed to talk about it at first we don’t know for sure where it originated but the prevailing theory is an army base in kansas”

Please never accuse me of being a twilight fan ever again. I may run a twilight blog but I’m no fan

wow, okay. Unfollowing. He was so nice giving me a pair of silver candlesticks, but I had no idea he would claim my life for God above lmao

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

And the next step…

https://teezyli.com/

Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now

Oh my god

Anyway, I just emailed tips@disneyantipiracy.com to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.

I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.

Holy fucking shit

I’m DYING.

More accurately

I had to find a picture of this 2017 article again because it's just so iconic.

for the rest of this article.

Here is the article. And this besides the above is my favorite from it lol

@forcesensitiveaurawielder

Thank you little gay people in my phone

the best way to support libraries is to use libraries. go get a card, check something out. not a big reader? they got movies. they got games. yes, like botw and fallout and let’s go eevee. they also have cds that yes, we workers know you take home and rip to your computer. we also do it. 

if you have a well funded library you might even have access to maker spaces that have 3D printers. or video/audio recording equipment. libraries aren’t these tomb silent homes for books any more. they’re community spaces. they’re full of life and things. 

put a middle finger up at jeffrey bezos and support your local library

did i mention we have printing services that are significantly cheaper than anywhere else? printers are evil, let us handle them for you.

Library worker here and can confirm all of these! I’m at a small-to-medium library and we offer ALL of this:

- wifi hotspots that can be checked out for weeks so you can have internet on the go or at home

- CDs, DVDs, blurays including usually multiple copies of new stuff

- A tech lab with a 3d printer, computers for graphic design and game dev focus, VR headsets, and a soundbooth for recording

- Study rooms for solo or groups

- Printers, copiers, faxes, and scanners for just about anything you need taken care of.

- Including a new printer big enough to make giant posters, maps, and business-grade ads.

- A seed library, both floral and food-related.

- A computer lab programed to erase your data and reading history so you’re never at risk while visiting sites like domestic abuse hotlines

- Laptops pre-programmed with Adobe and Office software so you don’t have to buy them

- Monthly author visits

- Ebooks including comics on tons of various platforms

- Classes for those who want to learn how to or better their computer skills

- Art you can check out to hang on your wall for as long as it’s available, including the work of local artists who get paid for their art, especially if it gets popular and we want even more of their stuff.

- Monthly papers ranging from local newspapers to multi-national magazines on just about any topic you can imagine.

- We used to offer food and drink at a loss but You Know ©

- Notaries with extensive legal knowledge including renters rights, getting you in contact with immigration protection, and contacts with pro-bono lawyers.

- A connection with all the libraries in the state, so if we don’t have something, we can have it shipped to you within a matter of days.

- Books translated into multiple languages

- A donation bin for old books/DVDs/VHSes that often turn around and get sold for two or less dollars

- A food donation site for local food banks

- A “suggest a purchase” section on our site where you can support your favorite indie writers/musicians by suggesting their work if we don’t already have it

- We’re growing butterflies this year, and in prior years we hatched chickens! \o/

- An outreach program for the elderly and disabled who hand-deliver almost everything I’ve just mentioned

That’s a huge list and again I have to stress that I work at a library that’s not considered to be very large. And one of the biggest things we get rated by is not how many books we own but by how many people use all of those services I mentioned. They exist for YOU! Use them!

my public library even has guitars and other instruments and a recording room including multiple expensive software licenses. LOVE public libraries!!

The Hollywood creation of "Castle Frankenstein" as the place where Victor creates the Creature is really a shame, as it prevents the wider public from knowing the hilarity of the fact that Victor made his fucked up homunculus in his student housing at the college in Ingolstadt. Imagine you're trying to get your bachelor's degree and the chem major down the hall has created a crime against god in his fucking dorm room AND THEN HE LEAVES IT THERE. The creature has to make his own damn way off campus somehow!!!

OK but now I need a College AU where the rest of the dorm sees Adam stumble out of that one really annoying chem Major's room and just go.

"Well, you're not brewing sulphiric acid or calling us idiots for not being into Astrology or whatever. You wanna go to the rager?"

And turns out he's a little twitchy around fire but hey that means he won't get high and burn his mattress in the hall, DAVE. So Adam goes to Victor's classes and gets on the football team and rushes a frat house and his New Bros think he's just swell so they... kind a help The Creature take over Victor's Identity. Get a Student ID with his picture on it. Go to finance office and 'get that paperwork straightened out'. Introduce him at Networking events where he does GREAT, because nobody forgets a dude with Presence like that.

When Victor comes back from his little temper tantrum, he discovers that, as far as everyone at the university is concerned, The Monster IS Frankenstein.

the ultimate reverse weekend at bernies

what if instead of wedding dresses spending 20 years in a dry cleaning bag in the closet, we made it tradition to have them shortened & tailored after the wedding? into simpler formal dresses, so people can keep wearing them.

spending $$$$ on a wedding dress you get to wear once is such a con job. if it’s the most expensive & sentimental piece of clothing you own, you should be able to wear it to special occasions for years to come, not just the one day.

I 100% agree with this. Having something only for the sake of having it is just hoarding. If you won’t get any further use out of something that brought you joy, why not sell or donate it so that it can bring other people joy?

See I agree with the principle, but this isn’t an instance of hoarding. The wedding dress industry is fairly unique. It’s greedy & terrible brilliant from a capitalist’s perspective: You’ve got a product that in any other circumstance is perfect for resale:

sounds a lot like the textbook industry, right? But people reselling products means lower profit for the manufacturers. The same way textbook publishers try to force students into paying top price for ‘updated’ versions, the wedding industry has built a whole culture emotionally manipulating training people from a young age not to consider buying pre-owned wedding dress, despite the obvious benefits. This is a fairly new custom (wonder why)–until relatively recently western brides simply wore whatever was their best dress, which would go on to be used for other occasions. 

We’re also encouraged to attach very personal sentimental value to these super-expensive-items-we-only-get-to-use-once, and to feel obligated to preserve them. My mom didn’t even like her wedding dress. It was the only one in their budget at the time, she was pretty bummed. But she kept it for 30 years anyway, until eventually she decided to take back the closet space.

Look, your wedding day is gonna be pretty damn special, bc it’s your wedding. Remove the idea that the objects from that day have to be preserved in the back of the closet. Take lots of pictures–they age better anyway. I promise you’ll spend a lot more time pouring over those photos than digging out a dress you don’t plan to wear. 

Always take a look at your pre-owned dress options, even if you have reservations:  I guarantee you’ll see some beautiful pieces at a fraction of the sticker price. It’s a lot of money– maybe spend the difference on your honeymoon, reception, property down payment etc.

Also, consider renting

My mom’s dress is still the most expensive piece of clothing she owns - but she wears it for Halloween when she wants to be a princess, so I’ve seen her use it more than ten times in the past. I don’t think she’d ever consider selling it, but it always makes me happy when she dresses up as a princess again to hand out candy. She even has a tiara for it now :) she’s told me before that she doesn’t wear it out because she doesn’t want to upstage anyone, but she loves wearing it and doesn’t want it to sit and go yellow and never be worn again. I plan to do the same thing if I get married/if I get married in a dress.

I got married in a blue bridesmaid's dress that was on clearance & I did that specifically so I could wear it again if I ever needed a fancy dress & bc blue is my favorite color & it was actually really pretty.

I only ended up wearing it the once bc I gained weight. I think I donated it sometime after my divorce so it probably took up space in my closet for about 5 years

yes please tell the olympic gold medalist how she’s shooting wrong

“In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. In ten days, thanks to a competition it had started, Māori speakers across New Zealand had recorded over 300 hours of annotated audio in their mother tongue. It was enough data to build language tech for te reo Māori, the Māori language – including automatic speech recognition and speech-to-text.

The small staff of Māori language broadcasters and one engineer were about to become pioneers in Indigenous speech recognition technology. But building the tools was only half the battle. Te Hiku soon found itself fending off corporate entities trying to develop their own indigenous data sets and resisting detrimental western approaches to data sharing. Guarding their data became the priority because the only people truly interested in revitalising the Māori language were the Māori people, themselves.”

“‘They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents,’ Jones says. ‘And now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.’”

…

“It would mean entrusting data scientists with no connection to the language to develop the very tools that will shape the future of the language. And worst of all, it would mean that Māori would miss out on the economic opportunities created using the language that belongs to them, much like they didn’t see the economic benefits of the land that belonged to them.”

in case you ever wanted to know what mambo number 5 sounds like with all the instruments (including the drums) replaced with bike horns 

it sounds like the song is going to kill you and it’s perfect

i smiled through the whole thing because i just don’t understand what would compell someone to do this but thanks

i cannojt bretahe

I…I cannot describe the emotion I’m feeling right now.

i cant. breath hhhhhhhhhh

Clown Orgy

I’m not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.

What really fucks me up about a 40 hour work week and I’ve tried to explain to people over and over is that like of you do the math you have maybe 3 hours every day to just like. Rest and be with your family. And that’s kind of it

Like the average adult needs about 8 hours of sleep every night, so that cuts your 24 hours to 16 right off the bat.

You’re working for 8 hours, so 8 left.

But you actually work 8 to 5 at most offices, not 9 to 5, and that lunch is basically just long enough to retrieve food and eat. 7.

It took you 20 minutes to shower this morning, 10 to get dressed, and 45 to make a bowl of oatmeal and eat it. We’ll say 15 to get your stuff together and out to your car. 5 and a half.

You get home and have to cook dinner, 30 minutes min for that, probably more like an hour, so somewhere between 5 and 4.5 hrs left. And then you’ve got to eat it, 30 minutes if you’re being healthy about it.

So at best you’ve MAYBE got 4/4.5 hours left every week day and that’s assuming you ran exactly zero errands, didn’t stop by the gym after work, didn’t have to stay late, have a wicked fast transition time between tasks AND a commute of like 5 minutes by car. If you have to go to the store after a quick run at the gym, pick your kids up from soccer across town, and you factor in a 30 minute commute both ways, you’ve got enough free time for like one episode of show Monday through Friday. And weekends have got to be for cleaning the house and going to visit your mom for a few hours.

When do you write, or paint, or read or sew or go on hikes? When do you go on spur of the moment adventures with your wife and try to perfect your grandma’s soda bread? What happens when it rains on Saturday after being sunny all the rest of the week so you can’t go to the zoo that day and you don’t have enough money for the museum? Why are we all just content to postpone our whole lives, put off “happy” and “healthy” for a miniscule amount of extra value we’re producing for someone else?

And it’s also a thing that fascinates me about hustle culture like. When do y'all rest? When do sleep and food happen? How do you make 3 different jobs work without dying?

Idk idk like I said I’m real fucked up about it. It amazes me that more office workers aren’t great big socialists because we have this miserable job where we’re monitored constantly and just have to sit. Still. And maintain focus on ONE THING for EIGHT HOURS in a BORING GRAY ROOM with exactly two short breaks at designated times and I just?? How does that not suck for literally everyone else?? You said yourself, Angie, you’re useless after 3 pm so just?? Organize with me and negotiate for shorter days??? Like you’re literally already only producing 6 hours of value, you don’t need to be sitting there for longer than that.

…then add the Neurodivergent Tax of taking more time to do these things and recovery time afterward, and you’re looking at a deficit that has to come from somewhere

I saw a discussion of this on Twitter and honestly people defending hustle culture blow my mind. There were so many responses along the lines of “who needs 45 minutes for a bowl of oatmeal?!” and just… missing the point.

Of course you don’t need to take 45 minutes to cook a basic meal and eat it. You could hustle it. You could, say, “optimise” your lifestyle by taking time once a week to cook a batch of nutritious paste or whatever and just grab it out of the fridge each morning and stuff it into your mouth, chew while getting dressed, and be out the door in five minutes.

But is that any way to live? Did we, as a species, spend thousands of years developing the culinary arts and recipes so that most of the population could eat nutripaste each day?

Cooking is an art and a social activity, eating food is a social activity.

Hustle culture defenders are so ready to speedrun every aspect of their lives that doesn’t relate to work and it’s honestly horrifying. Why are you all content to just… not live?

i hate aspects of this site but i’m also way less insensitive, ignorant, and prejudiced because of the time i’ve spent here. i came here for humor and ended up exposed to minority voices & POVs I wasn’t even looking for. 

which was awesome, bc while most of us know we should be learning these things, most of us don’t associate it with something we’d spend our leisure time pursuing & enjoying. minority representation in media, in fun and popular media that people want to view, is so important for exactly this reason. 

anyway, curate your online experience. make it fun, make it inclusive, fill in your blind spots & unlearn your prejudices while laughing off your ass.  

There it is. You put it into words. This is really it, this is why I’m here. I’ve been thinking this for so long, unable to articulate the exact feeling for me remaining here. Thank you I am at peace now

This is a really nice message that I also relate to but it’s a little tainted by the fact that the post I saw just before this was the toothbrush and toothpaste having sex

ah yes the OTHER reason we’re still on tumblr