if thou wilt, remember; and if thou wilt, forget

Rocky Horror is turning 50 next month and people still act like being gay was invented by Ellen in 1997

But honestly! Renowned French poet Théophile de Viau wrote the poetic ode to King James titled "The Duke of Buckingham," containing the immortal lines "One man fucks Monsieur le Grand de Bellegarde/Another fucks the Comte de Tonnerre/And it is well known that the King of England/Fucks the Duke of Buckingham" exactly 400 years ago and people still act like being gay was invented by Oscar Wilde in 1890

Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep were buried together in the 25th century BC and people still act like being gay was invented by renowned French poet Théophile de Viau 400 years ago

King Gilgamesh ruled in the 27th century BC and did not have his lover Enkidu die in epic poetry to have people act like being gay was invented 4500 years ago.

birds can be gay which means dinosaurs, do you see where I'm going with this.

no language should be mocked other than french

Birds is “oiseaux” in French.

No letter is pronunced the way it should.

And there are seven of them.

ITS PRONOUNCED “WAZO” AND YES, I WILL DIE MAD ABOUT IT

oiseaux hits every vowel in the french alphabet and manages to only be pronounced with 2 goddamn syllables

got vowels coming out the oiseaux

if duolingo is going to insist on having a whole cinematic universe for its characters they should at least provide a chart establishing who addresses whom with the formal you because right now i’m having all of them use informal you to everyone in all relevant exercises and it feels. wrong

if i was a bite-sized child addressing an ill-tempered talking bear i would be using Sie. i would call that thing 您 i would use the most formal register of language available even if the bear said i didn’t have to and i don’t like that duolingo doesn’t account for this

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.

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Life makes a lot more sense once you realize that practically everyone you meet is engaged in a decades-long argument with someone who is not present.]

oh fuck I thought the intro to today's Money Stuff was going to be a metaphor for some crypto bullshit but no an actual metals futures market was backed by actual bags of rocks.

Ea Nasir Bullshit

THEY LITERALLY VAGUE EA-NASIR IN THE ARTICLE ITSELF ASDFGGHKGJKLSH

TIL in 1915, San Diego hired a “rain maker” who used a secret mix of chemicals to “attract rain” for $10,000, payable if he filled their reservoir. It rained for most of January, destroying bridges, dams, and causing 20 deaths.

via reddit.com

that was the Devil

I mean they wanted rain

His name was Charles Hatfield and I’m not saying that you shouldn’t make a deal with him, but I am saying that you should be very clear about the terms and conditions

I think we need to fully appreciate the fact that the reason he “looks like the Devil” is that many depictions of the Devil in American popular media are specifically caricatures of this guy. Like, imagine being a con man and fucking up your hustle so badly that for more than a century afterwards people start drawing the Devil to look like you.

The "Might as Well" principle for people with ADHD means leaning into your urge to take care of needs immediately when you notice them, and take that task-hopping tendency as an opportunity to "clean as you go".

You were probably raised to think there's only 1 "right" way to be productive. This is false. You don't need to (and honestly you CAN'T) become neurotypical, but you've probably spent a lot of your life striving to achieve success in a neurotypical way. This can be detrimental to your mental health. You have to learn what works best for YOU.

You don't need to feel guilty for not keeping a strict routine and an aesthetically pleasing home. Your goal should be keeping your environment (minimally) livable and safe.

This principle is intended to help with chore struggles, but it can also apply to personal care, and other areas of the ADHD struggle.

Please feel free to add more!!

Waiting for the microwave to beep, or the pasta water to boil? Might as well see if you can get a few dishes done. You can’t empty a full sink in two minutes, but you can set the dirty stuff soaking, or wipe and rise some of the stuff that was already soaking.

Sometimes this leads me to actually finish cleaning the kitchen, sometimes it doesn’t, either way I have a few less dirty dishes in my life.

This is really the only way I manage to clean the bathroom most of the time.

I call this ‘doing things inside of other things’ and it works. 

“Holy shit! I followed this person back in the day on LiveJournal!”

-an actual thing I said about a tumblr interaction in 2023.

Tumblr :

okay ive been doing something......Petty. The last few weeks.

I read a negative review of the Imperial Radch series, I don't remember for which book specifically (but either Sword or Mercy), that among other things said it was unreasonable and unrealistic that the characters would reuse tea leaves. That you're not supposed to do that, that the tea will taste gross if you do.

So I've spent the last three weeks or so reusing my tea leaves because if I'm going to tell someone theyre wrong, I'm going to have evidence to back it up (sometimes. If I'm petty enough. I'm petty enough for this.)

This is ignoring tea that is meant to be resteeped, like blooming tea, because thats expensive and seems a little too obvious to point out. I used loose leaf jasmine green tea, because its delicious and I do agree that resteeped tea BAGS are gross.

SO. It's fine! Like I thought! In fact! I almost prefer the resteeped tea taste because it's a lighter flavor! I left my tea strainer unattended for ten minutes (thanks adhd) which SHOULD have made it taste bitter and gross, but it was FINE! Delicious even!

I've resteeped over the course of 48 hours only because every time I try to leave the leaves alone, my mom goes "ew what is this" and throws it out lmao which. Fair. (she doesnt Get why I did this but momther I got my pettiness from you so this is your own doing.)

IN CONCLUSION not only is it perfectly fine and reasonable for the average person with access to fresh tea to resteep loose leaves, but it's even more believable that PEOPLE ON A SPACEHIP IN DEEP SPACE WHO WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE TO RATION THEIR FOOD to resteep tea as much as possible and get as much tea out of it as they can.

Makes even more sense if said people on said spaceship see tea as a very important part of their culture and it would be disruptive if they had to go without.

thank you for coming to my TEA talk

I drink a lot of loose leaf and it's not uncommon to reuse the leaves since some teas as you resteep them change in flavor/aroma. Puerh is one that mellows out over reuses. The tea that they are probably using on radch ships are probably bricks or cakes because it's easier to store and divy up among the people.

I think you may like the gongfu method of tea brewing since it involves resteeping to enjoy the tea to the fullest

How to tell me you’ve only had colonizer tea without telling me you’ve only had colonizer tea ... 

I will straight up say it: believing there’s some universal dictum against reusing tea leaves is racist.

THE BEST GREEN, OOLONG, AND PU-ERH TEA FLAVORS ARE FROM THE SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, ETC. INFUSIONS. THEY ARE LITERALLY MEANT TO BE USED MORE THAN ONCE. 

To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

fun fact about this painting, the subject is a disabled woman named Anna Christina Olson who could not walk with her legs. she liked to get around the Olson family property by crawling, and did so quite a lot - it was her preferred mode of travel actually, since she hated using a chair. She is not helpless in this painting, and the field was part of her home - a place she would go regularly, not an insurmountable obstacle. the mortifying ordeal of being known is part and parcel of the comfort of love and that's not at all something to fear or revile. that's part of your home.

[id: The painting “Christina’s World” with text edited over it. In the foreground, Christina is labeled “me,” and in the background the farmhouse is labeled “the comfort of love.” the field in between Christina and the house is labeled “the mortifying ordeal of being known.” end id]

thank you so much for this context. i remember being told as a kid that the “correct interpretation” of this painting was that Christina was isolated and alone because of her disability. that she was locked in her own world and couldn’t reach the house where other people were. as a disabled kid, i remember having some Feelings about that.

but that’s not the whole story? she isn’t stuck there? she CHOSE to move around in the fields that way, in a way that worked for her. and she knows she can go back to the house when she’s ready, on her own terms, using her body the way she chooses. fuck, that really hits different.

we can crawl in the fields and still go home afterwards.

A 10 000 Kilometer Galactic Bridge : With this creative astro-collaboration you can follow the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy as it bridges northern and southern hemisphere skies. To construct the expansive composite nightscape, skies over Observatorio El Sauce in Chile (top) were imaged on the same date but 6 hours later than the skies over the Saint-Veran observatory in the French Alps. The 6 hour time-lag allowed Earth’s rotation to align the Milky Way above domes at the two sites. All exposures were made with similar cameras and lenses mounted on simple tripods. A faint greenish airglow is visible in the dark Chilean sky that also features the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds near the observatory dome. In the French Alps light pollution is apparent, but the distant Andromeda Galaxy can still be spotted near the horizon in the northern night. On planet Earth the two observatories are separated by about 10,000 kilometers. via NASA

no but tumblr is just what human beings are like when just allowed to be. middle school class on a school trip energy mixed with neolitic village around the fire at dusk energy mixed with hippie commune energy mixed with archaic greek aural epos energy mixed with

You are not hiding this in the tags.

Btw if we're mutuals and you feel like you always have to start the conversation I'm really sorry, my ADHD means I'm really bad at keeping track of people that aren't literally in front of me so it's very hard for me to keep up with Internet friends, even the ones I love the most cuz I'm either like "oh I wonder how they're doing?" and then do nothing about it or I'm like "oh so and so is messaging me yay! I wonder what's happened in the couple days since we last spoke!!" and they're like "so how was your summer" and I'm like "what?" and the last time we spoke was April.

Tl:dr; please don't read my lack of initiation as lack of caring, I'm just very bad at friendship maintenance skills like time management and task initiation

Don't be like this, you're not bothering me I just have adhd

Don’t be like this, you’re

not bothering me I just

have adhd

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Shut up I'm not crying. Also behold the rewards of research and sensitivity!! That's practically a fable - like the lion decided out of true generosity of spirit to research mice and discovered it actually WAS a mouse and that was why being a lion was so goddamn difficult ... the analogy needs work but you get it. Anyway go and see Everything Everywhere All At Once. People said it was what ADHD feels like and going in I was like "if it gives normal people ADHD glasses then how will I, an ADHD person, even be able to distinguish that" ... and then there were scenes like "The protagonist is having an extremely fraught conversation about her taxes. She is simultaneously, in another reality having a very fraught conversation about saving the universe. In both, she is scolded for not paying enough attention although in one her interlocutor should KNOW exactly why this is difficult." And the line "I never know what is going on but I have a feeling it's my fault!" ... and I was all OK yes this is in fact what ADHD feels like.

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING BRB NEED TO REWATCH WITH INTENT. 

I bought my parents a copy of this to make sure they’d watch it and ... a lot of things are making more sense now, ok?

Yeah we did and it slapped

im obsessed with the color palette of this movie. and also his drip