eternally true

That's a reaction to their cooking that anyone likes to see. :-)

It's a fine-looking stew, the bread looks grand, and everything is entirely right and proper - even to the seaweed, see "dulse / dillisk" - although Irish cabbage is a lot less perky than kimchee.

And a nap on the sofa afterwards?

Yup. Absolutely... :->

beautifully said. 💜

original

haters will put a sheet over your cage to try to make you think it's bedtime

"Illustrations From A Gay Fantasia" - Joe Eason 2023

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I've had so much fun working on these over the past week (unemployment ftw!) Thank you for all the love, I will have to make a master post of all my favourite tags at some point, y'all are wild. I'm taking some time off to rest my slightly swollen drawing hand and visit my boyfriend, but I'm hoping to get back to work soon (my head is full of sapphic medieval fantasy pairings...). Take care. Joe x

M2B by Kylie Paintain, featured in the zine Unapologetic: The Journal of Irresponsible Gender (1997)

The rest of the article!

@chainmail-butch hiii idk if you've already seen this but i think you would like this post

I hadn't seen this before, thank you for tagging me!

A scrimshawed whale bone pocket globe with compass and sundial inside, (parts of it have been restored), 19th century

THIS. This is how you support trans people.

I love this, except that the government will pay for the services, .Yes I think it’s wonderful that they will be covered but I hope that everyone gets the medical treatment they need too. I don’t want some people getting more care than others paid for by the government. If someone wants extra care they should pay for it themselves.

hi! healthcare is free and universal here actually!state pays for everything as long as it’s health related.

i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said “i am going to take a photograph of this”

i hope wherever they are now that everyone involved in the taking of this photograph knows how much joy it is bringing me 80-100 years later

Never before published images of men in love between 1850 and 1950 by Dee Swan, Hugh Nini andNeal Treadwell (Washington Post)

Reblogging this again because please, please click the link and look at the other photos but more importantly read the words written by the owners of the collection because it’s so touching and heart-warming

I've just started a Mastodon -- @neilhimself@mastodon.social -- and at https://mastodon.social/@neilhimself/109311529508538895 I posted a photo from yesterday's GOOD OMENS 2 recording session in Kingston...

And while Neil Gaiman famously has no social media, here's an invitation to Mastodon for anyone who wants it...

The Really Big Studying Masterpost

I couldn’t get it together enough to do a graphic or anything, so here goes. Sorry this is massively long but hopefully it will be helpful!

Studying

Memorization

Last minute studying

Finals/exams

Standardized testing

Focus and productivity

Burnout / motivation / procrastination

Mental health

Self care

+ self promotion (bc everyone seems to be doing this)

Heyo it’s back to school time and here’s a research tip from your friendly neighborhood academic librarian.When searching for any topic on the internet just type in the word ‘libguide’ after your topic and tada like magic there will be several  beautifully curated lists of books, journals, articles, or other resources dealing with your subject. Librarians create these guides to help with folks’ informational needs, so please go find one and make a librarian happy today!!

this is the BEST advice, and there are so many options, both if you’re doing academic research, or just curious and looking for information!

It’s so interesting what you can find!

Dime novels, mystery & detective fiction, adulting (not academic, but still), D&D guide, citation libguides, comics, graphic novels, and manga, German language & literature, differentiating fake news, firefighting, body autonomy for kids and young adults, interfaith women advocates for social justice, cooking (nonacademic)/food culture and cuisine/food & cooking.

Thank you for excellent additions and very much agre ewith you that cooking libguides are the best!! Have you seen all the ones from the Culinary Institute of America??

Oh! Building on your notes I figured I should mention to everyone that most academic institutions with a library are going to have a page with the research guides the librarians have made for their patrons. This will include basic topic guides on things like how to use the library or how to create citations. There will also be subject guides for areas of study like philosophy or biology. As well as specific course guides to assist classes that are being taught like FM 114: Introduction to the Fashion Industry or BME6938: Nanoparticle Nanomedicines.

If any of y’all have started university totally check out the ones your librarians have put up! There’s a ton up to help you along your research journey. And if you aren’t at university check them out too!! Some of the resources won’t be accessible but there’s loads of information you’ll still be able to use and get to.

Hello, fellow academic librarian specializing in instruction! Many libraries also include guides orientations on how to properly utilize non-subject specific databases. Watch those before diving into your first research project so you understand the tools and features available to you to make your life easier. Many universities subscribe to ProQuest or EBSCO and there are MANY tutorials that will teach you how to use them in less than 5 mins.

Believe me, you will save yourself A LOT of headache with both LibGuides and orientations. Good luck and happy hunting!

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

remember that tcw episode where they sent cody and rex on some kind of inspection run to the rishi outpost and rex gave cody a tension migraine by doing the worst impression of a commando droid known to mankind? give me more. give me a spin-off series or a whole book or anything about the cool but unhinged captain of the 501st who picked up one too many personality traits from anakin going on stupid irrelevant missions with the freaking marshal commander of half the damn army, who's also unhinged but slightly more collected about it. let rex make questionable decisions even though he's literally not even in charge and let cody make deadpan comments about them. give me that. please.

OH MY GOD

By @fake.disney.facts on tiktok

BRUH IM CACKLING why is this so damn accurate

WAIT- He really do be right 

Holy Cow.

BRUH–

cohmac & orla!! 😤

Cause of death:  Leia’s little hand reaching out to Obi-Wan and the way he reaches back, a little surprised at someone being there during a time of grief, and the way he gently looks at her and strokes her hand back.  It’s only a moment, but he truly got to be her Uncle Ben in that moment and I am DEAD AND IN PAIN.

Did you have to dig me up just to murder me a second time with this??

*cracks up*

Anakin: I’m so worried about something. I should probably keep my feelings to myself and attempt to solve my problems by working with Palpatine. He seems like he has my best interests at heart.

Music: DUN DUN DUN, DUN DA-DUN, DUN DA-DUN!

Anakin: [pauses] [looks around] Uh…OK. I mean, I’ll…go talk to Obi-Wan?

Music: [hopeful woodwind instruments]

Anakin: …and be open and honest about my life and what is bothering me, and try to work out a non-violent resolution to my problems?

Music: [Force Theme plays]

Anakin: [smiles] All right! Huh. This is helpful. 

Positive reinforcement at its finest. ;D

#lol#i’m just imagining the force throwing its metaphysical hands in the air like ‘subtlety obviously isn’t working with this one so have a whole#symphony of hints young reckless one’ (via @likealeafonthewind)

I’m crying from laughter, this is beautiful.

Anakin: *fucks up*

The Force: Son, please… Guess I’m gonna enable the hints menu.

THE HINTS MENU. *dies* 

Maybe Obi-Wan hears the music, too, and then the day is saved. 

Obi-Wan: [walking away] Welp, guess it’s off to kill Grievous I’m sure Anakin will be fi – 

Music: [Duel of the Fates] 

Obi-Wan: OMG not this shit again [runs back down the hall towards Anakin]

Anakin: [running back towards Obi-Wan] Obi-Wan I just heard that Ominous Music again and also I secretly married Padme and she’s pregnant and I haven’t slept in 6 days and I keep thinking she’s going to die and I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT and if you leave I will 100% end up killing everyone and –

Obi-Wan: – oh my God! OK…it’s OK, I heard my own ominous music a second ago when I was getting ready to leave and so I won’t and we’ll fix th – 

Anakin: – I heard mine when I thought about maybe talking to the Chancellor instead of y–

Palpatine: [sidling up behind them smugly] Everything all right, gentlemen?

Music: [scary ass music from the opera scene] 

Anakin and Obi-Wan: AHHHH

I randomly thought of this post again today and it made me laugh 

For the record in that last line I always pictured them clinging to each other in fear like Shaggy and Scooby: 

ACCURATE OH MY GOD

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

I would so read this.

@forcearama

Palpatine’s face is killing me. 

I can’t breathe oh my god this is fucking funny

I say yes, it’s just that it’s hard to think of it as such because we’re so used to seeing people with glasses and we can hide that we need lenses by wearing contacts and so on. But without our lenses we are some variation of blind. I’m not at the point yet where I would be considered legally blind without my glasses (and I think you get that designation if your vision can’t be corrected to 20/20 or to within a particular range near that or something similar) but every time I need new ones I can see it happening eventually. (It probably won’t. I’m old enough now that I’ll probably need bifocals or something first.)

Glasses are technically Assistive Technology. This means that they are a piece of technology that we use to help us manage a disability. They are not biologically a part of us, but they might as well be for how strongly we depend on them. They are just as legitimately Assistive Technology as wheelchairs, crutches, iPads, DynaMytes, PECS books, hearing aids, and white canes are.

I actually think glasses and contact lenses are a really good example of how disability and Assistive Technology can become normalized over time. Eventually it can be something people don’t really worry about or think about; it’s almost expected. And so people who use corrective lenses don’t face as much ableism as other disabled people do, because society has accepted and accommodated this particular type/degree of disability. (Note that people who are legally blind don’t benefit from this normalization; according to the social model of disability, if corrective lenses work for you then you aren’t disabled anymore but if they don’t then you definitely are. And this is part of why the social model isn’t 100% accurate; if I take off my glasses, I can’t see, and the world really isn’t set up to deal with me unless I’m wearing them. I am objectively disabled if I don’t have the Assistive Technology in place, and no amount of acceptance of my poor vision is going to fix that.)

Now if they could just make it so that 3D films would actually work for me (and my astigmatism), and if only wearing two pairs of glasses at such movies wasn’t so ridiculous.

(Also, sorry to get into disability theory here. It’s a thing I feel is way overly simplified.)

No. That would not be a disability if your vision is correctable. That would be an impairment, but society is set up to deal with you. It deals with you by giving you glasses. Problem solved.

A disability is a mismatch between the society and the person. In this society, most glasses-wearers are not disabled.

(If your vision isn’t fully correctable, that’s different.)

^ This. Also, I regularly go without my contacts because I’m often too lazy to put them in. I can do this easily without many problems, and my vision is pretty bad. I also think calling one’s vision without glasses/contacts “some variation of blind” is pretty problematic. It’s not comparable to blindness or even low vision. Our lived experiences are completely different, both in terms of how society treats us and what our eyes can do. I think we need to be careful what we call a disability. I saw a post a while back that compared taking someone’s glasses off of them, putting them on, and saying, “Wow, you have really bad vision,” to knocking someone out of their wheelchair, sitting in it, and saying, “Wow, you have really bad legs.” (This is all paraphrased, and I may be remembering some of it wrong, but that’s the gist of it.) They also said that people “wouldn’t” do the latter, when ableist violence is clearly fucking rampant. So I found that post incredibly problematic and thought it illustrated how trivial most people think ableism is (as shitty as it is to do that to someone who wears glasses, it’s not comparable to ableism, and it’s not on the level of ableist violence). Anyway, I feel like referring to people who need glasses/contacts as disabled opens the door for that kind of thing, which I really do not want to see more of. Another thing is that people who wear glasses/contacts never identify as disabled due to that fact, in my experience (they may identify as disabled for other reasons, of course). And the reason why comes back to the social model of disability: No one/nothing is constantly reminding them they’re disabled and pressuring them to make their disability a central part of their identity. There is no ableism for them to internalize, it’s just a matter of a lack of utility/necessity. And how many other assistive devices (which I agree glasses are) can be considered “cool” by abled people in a non-fetishizing way? (Or as a prop, like canes in some performances.) None that I know of. Disability= inherently uncool and ugly. Glasses= depends. I could give more examples, but you get the idea. I’m really pretty shocked that anyone is even suggesting this. At some point in history, I’m sure near/far-sightedness was a disability, but just because it was then doesn’t mean it is now. Oppressive systems are constantly changing who can and cannot fully assimilate over time.

Well, crap. I obviously buggered that up. I think I got off on a tangent before I even got started (that’s a new record for me, usually it takes at least a paragraph).

I definitely did NOT mean to imply that people who require corrective lenses should start claiming “disabled” as a label for themselves! That would be ridiculous. There are things we have to deal with regularly that we shouldn’t, like insurance not covering the full cost of our glasses (I wear $400 on my face every single day, and my insurance only pays for the eye exam and $250 of the glasses, every two years), but that is not really comparable to the daily systemic oppression of people with disabilities. We just aren’t considered disabled by society now, and honestly that’s okay with me. (Everyone should get eye exams regularly, by the way, not just people who need lenses; it’s important for your eye health.)

What I was trying to say, in the end, was that glasses and poor-but-correctable vision  are an example of disability becoming normalized and accepted over time. (And I realize that this is not actually answering the original question. That’s what I mean by “I got off on a tangent before I even got started.”)

I stand by my statement that without our lenses we are disabled, though. If all the corrective lenses disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow, I would not be able to see well enough to drive. I’m still good enough that I can read if I get the words close enough to my eyes, and I could probably manage cooking if I stuck to recipes I know by heart. I am by no means legally blind. (And if there’s a better term for the “some variation of blind” that I used in my original response, let me know! I love words and learning better terms for things!)

I take issue with the concept of “impairment” vs “disability” because “impairment” implies that something is less of a problem. The social model of disability states that we are only disabled by society, not by our physical or mental limitations. Here’s the thing about that, though: I have severe ADHD that disables me even with the modifications I have made to my life, even when I was taking medication, even with the systems and techniques I have in place to keep me on track. I’m not disabled by society when I’m sitting at home stuck in executive dysfunction related inertia, and that’s not an “impairment” either. It’s a full-on disability that I cannot do the things I want to do when I want to do them because my ADHD makes that impossible. That has nothing to do with society’s expectations of me. And ADHD isn’t even really a thing that can be accommodated by general society, so what, we’re only disabled if we’re in school or working a regular job outside the home (and only then if we require accommodations)? I call bullshit on that.

It’s also relevant to note that many people cannot afford glasses, and need them. Are they then considered disabled only because their lack of money makes them that way in that they cannot afford corrective lenses? I think that’s ridiculous.

I’m not fully well read on disability being a societally induced status, as I think “disability” can and does exist outside of any societal structure. For instance, regardless of whether I choose to go outside of my house and interact with others, I still have many conditions that impair and severely affect my ability to function within my own space, body, and mind. With or without assistance, these conditions still exist in my life. Assistive technology does not make one’s conditions disappear, it makes them easier to deal with. This means that the status of “disability” does not go away with assistance. To assume it does seems odd and illogical to me. I’m willing to listen and learn more about this viewpoint, though.

-MO